thelibertybeacon--2020-12-23--Christmas Panto: Fauci’s Dangerous Media Performance Artistry [Video]

Back in July , the mainstream media went into an apoplectic fit after President Trump launched a barrage of tweets calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a “ fraud ” , because of Fauci and his National Institute for Health ( NIH ) were suppressing affordable non-patented therapeutics like the antimalarial drug Hydroxychloroquine , and the anti-viral drug Ivermectin .
Trump contented that Fauci and the Big Pharma lobby had “ misled the public on many issues.
” This was followed by calls for Twitter to remove the President ’ s tweets from their platform .
The clown ’ s mask further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took to CNN last week , telling hapless American children that , “ I vaccinated Santa Claus myself , ” egotistically exclaiming how he himself saved Christmas this year , after he traveled to the North Pole and vaccinated Santa Claus so that he can “ safely deliver ” presents to kids .
Sunday Wire host Patrick Henningsen explains why this should be grounds to ‘ Cancel Fauci ’ here : A number of prominent academics and professionals in the medical and scientific community have also coming out strongly against Fauci – calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very little for the American people during the alleged ‘ pandemic , ’ but has instead helped to line the deep pockets of a transnational corporate Pharmaceutical cartel , and helped to realize the globalist objectives of the UN , World Economic Forum ( WEF ) in Davos , and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
In a recent segment with US media , Fauci is slammed by economist Jeffrey Tucker , who called the NIH director a “ performance artist ” obsessed with his daily media opportunities , constantly flip-flopping on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and who is only interested in “ pleasing his benefactors.
” Tucker also point to the fraudulent misuse of the PCR Test by public health officials as the single biggest scandal of the entire ‘ pandemic ’ debacle .
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Christmas Panto: Fauci’s Dangerous Media Performance Artistry
Back in July, the mainstream media went into an apoplectic fit after President Trump launched a barrage of tweets calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a “fraud”, because of Fauci and his National Institute for Health (NIH) were suppressing affordable non-patented therapeutics like the antimalarial drug Hydroxychloroquine, and the anti-viral drug Ivermectin.
Trump contented that Fauci and the Big Pharma lobby had “misled the public on many issues.” This was followed by calls for Twitter to remove the President’s tweets from their platform.
That was then. Fast-forward six months and it seems Trump is no longer a lone voice in the condemnation of Fauci and his Big Pharma syndicate – a very visible cartel of interests which has come into public view during 9 months of the alleged ‘pandemic.’
The clown’s mask further merged with the man after Dr. Fauci took to CNN last week, telling hapless American children that, “I vaccinated Santa Claus myself,” egotistically exclaiming how he himself saved Christmas this year, after he traveled to the North Pole and vaccinated Santa Claus so that he can “safely deliver” presents to kids. Sunday Wire host Patrick Henningsen explains why this should be grounds to ‘Cancel Fauci’ here:
A number of prominent academics and professionals in the medical and scientific community have also coming out strongly against Fauci – calling him an institutional gatekeeper who has done very little for the American people during the alleged ‘pandemic,’ but has instead helped to line the deep pockets of a transnational corporate Pharmaceutical cartel, and helped to realize the globalist objectives of the UN, World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In a recent segment with US media, Fauci is slammed by economist Jeffrey Tucker, who called the NIH director a “performance artist” obsessed with his daily media opportunities, constantly flip-flopping on his own ‘science’ statements, and who is only interested in “pleasing his benefactors.”
Tucker also point to the fraudulent misuse of the PCR Test by public health officials as the single biggest scandal of the entire ‘pandemic’ debacle. Watch:
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-23--The Top ‘Owners’ Of America’s President-Elect Joe Biden [Video]

Post by Tyler Durden | Written by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation Some of the top owners of America ’ s President-Elect Joe Biden are entirely secret because a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court , in the infamous 2010 Citizens United case , encouraged not only corruption but corruption that ’ s entirely secret or “ dark money.
” However , most of the individuals who purchased Biden to become the U.S. President did so under the previously existing laws , which require public reporting of their dark money .
Here , then , are the top ten publicly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but these are all via some sort of Political Action Committee or PAC , and therefore most are in conjunction with other billionaires and centi-millionaires , instead of entirely solo donations : The 11th-largest ( which will now be shown ) happens to be not Democratic billionaires but Republican billionaires .
However , Michael Bloomberg , the former Republican Mayor of NYC , was Biden ’ s largest donor , and therefore could also be considered to be a Republican donor to Biden ’ s campaign .
In other words : the distinction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no longer quite clear .
Although the manicured PR for each of the two major Parties accentuates the ideological differences between the two , those differences have greatly decreased , except that on the U.S. Supreme Court the Republican ‘ Justices ’ are far-right ( extremist conservatives ) whereas the Democratic ‘ Justices ’ are centrist ( liberals ) .
None are , at all , progressives .
Progressives don ’ t exist on that Court .
The numbers and natures of that Court ’ s unanimous decisions make clear that no leftist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there .
Whereas some billionaires are centrist and others are far-right , none are any sort of leftist .
Nor does any leftist candidate for national political office receive any donation from any billionaire but only from poor and middle-class donors .
Both of America ’ s Parties represent mainly the interests of billionaires , and this has been documented in the only scientific studies that have been done of the subject .
America is an aristocracy not a democracy .
In addition to those and other donations that were made either entirely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s campaign utilized “ bundlers , ” or well-connected wealthy individuals who invited other well-connected wealthy individuals to their private fund-raising parties for Biden ’ s campaign ; and the list that the Biden campaign assembled of all its bundlers who raised at least $ 100,000 for the campaign will be presented here .
However , first will be noted the hostile reader-comments reactions when the early version of this list – which then was of bundlers who had raised at least $ 25,000 for the campaign – was made public at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and run by Taegan Goddard , “ Political Wire , ” which headlined on 27 December 2019 , prior even to the earliest of all the state primaries and caucuses , “ Biden Discloses His Bundlers ” , and the 36 reader-comments there were overwhelmingly hostile , such as “ Gee Taegan , could you make it seem any more suspicious and improper ?
” Those readers were angry that a Democratic Party news-site would publish an indication that their Party utilizes the same corrupt practices that the Republican billionaires ’ Party does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the non-partisan information they had just received , but wanted it not to have been made public .
No other news-site did publish it — only Goddard ’ s site did .
And , when , at the end of all of the campaigns the Biden organization issued its legally obligatory final financial reports , on 1 November 2020 , neither Goddard nor any other news-site published it : “ Once burned , twice shy , ” and Goddard didn ’ t want to get “ burned ” again .
On 27 November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Town Hall .
A brief clip from that was posted online… Here ’ s my transcription from what I consider to be the most revealing ( about Biden ’ s values ) part of it : ( 0:40- ) “ People who accept money [ from lobbyists ] aren ’ t bad people .
But it ’ s human nature .
You go out and bundle $ 250,000 for me , all legal , and then you call me after I am elected , and say “ I would like to come and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t buy me , but it ’ s human nature , you helped me .
I ’ m going to say , “ Sure , come on in.
” … What it does mean , it means that the front of the line is always filled by people whose pockets are filled , people who are special interests .
Most of you are no part of any special interest.
” He went on there to promise that if elected President he will change that , by campaigning constantly ( AFTER winning the Presidency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system which had made him President .
He thinks that his audience will believe in the tooth-fairy , if only he tells them that the tooth-fairy exists and that he ’ s it .
The deceptive irrelevant line from all of the corrupt candidates is the same : “ I ’ m the most electable one !
” But corrupt people constantly lie , and nobody is actually certain whom the “ most electable ” one is ; but that ’ s really not even the question here .
What the Democratic primaries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beating Trump .
He ’ s not even a candidate in the Democratic primaries .
They ’ re not about ‘ beating Donald Trump ’ , but instead about whom the person will be that ’ s going to be running against Trump in the general election .
The primaries won ’ t be selecting the next President .
They will only narrow the field of contenders , to two .
Which two ?
That ’ s the question here .
Of course , lots of Democrats think that any Democrat will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Republicans believe that Trump is better than any Democrat .
Biden was talking there regarding not the billionaires but the merely wealthy and well-connected individuals who had raised in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for him — each one of them .
The billionaires aren ’ t in “ the front of the line , ” nor even in any “ line ” ; they are instead maybe visitors for private meetings with the President , or else on the phone with him , or else ( if the matter is illegal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agent to meet privately with that billionaire ’ s private agent .
This is how the business of the U.S. Government — the business of America ’ s ‘ democracy ’ — is getting done , nowadays .
My own guess is that the two biggest owners of Joe Biden now are Michael Bloomberg ( representing mainly the financial industries or “ Wall Street ” ) and Bernard Schwartz ( representing mainly the military industries or “ MIC ” ) .
As for any mere voter , that person gets his or her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ owned by and/or serve the billionaires ( such as Bloomberg or Schwartz or Bezos or Musk or etc . )
, and gets his or her views from that ‘ news ’ , so is less than being a pawn on the American chessboard , where that aristocracy are the ‘ king ’ .
The country is jointly controlled by the Republican billionaires and the Democratic billionaires .
A reasonable expectation would be that Biden will serve the billionaires , though his rhetoric will be phrased to be acceptable to the voters .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ change .
America will remain an aristocracy , no democracy .
( TLB ) published this article Post by Tyler Durden | Written by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation with our sincere appreciation for this perspective .
Politics & Big Money … Oligarchical Rule ( A perspective by ( TLB ) Founder Roger Landry from 2016 .
Timely then , Timely NOW .

The Top ‘Owners’ Of America’s President-Elect Joe Biden
Post by Tyler Durden | Written by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation
Some of the top owners of America’s President-Elect Joe Biden are entirely secret because a corrupt U.S. Supreme Court, in the infamous 2010 Citizens United case, encouraged not only corruption but corruption that’s entirely secret or “dark money.”
However, most of the individuals who purchased Biden to become the U.S. President did so under the previously existing laws, which require public reporting of their dark money.
Here, then, are the top ten publicly known donors to the Biden campaign, but these are all via some sort of Political Action Committee or PAC, and therefore most are in conjunction with other billionaires and centi-millionaires, instead of entirely solo donations:
Top Contributors, federal election data for Joe Biden, 2020 cycle
Totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
Source: OpenSecrets
The 11th-largest (which will now be shown) happens to be not Democratic billionaires but Republican billionaires. However, Michael Bloomberg, the former Republican Mayor of NYC, was Biden’s largest donor, and therefore could also be considered to be a Republican donor to Biden’s campaign.
In other words: the distinction between Republican billionaires and Democratic billionaires is no longer quite clear. Although the manicured PR for each of the two major Parties accentuates the ideological differences between the two, those differences have greatly decreased, except that on the U.S. Supreme Court the Republican ‘Justices’ are far-right (extremist conservatives) whereas the Democratic ‘Justices’ are centrist (liberals). None are, at all, progressives. Progressives don’t exist on that Court. The numbers and natures of that Court’s unanimous decisions make clear that no leftist jurist (progressive or otherwise) sits there. Whereas some billionaires are centrist and others are far-right, none are any sort of leftist. Nor does any leftist candidate for national political office receive any donation from any billionaire but only from poor and middle-class donors. Both of America’s Parties represent mainly the interests of billionaires, and this has been documented in the only scientific studies that have been done of the subject. America is an aristocracy not a democracy.
In addition to those and other donations that were made either entirely or mainly by particular billionaires, Biden’s campaign utilized “bundlers,” or well-connected wealthy individuals who invited other well-connected wealthy individuals to their private fund-raising parties for Biden’s campaign; and the list that the Biden campaign assembled of all its bundlers who raised at least $100,000 for the campaign will be presented here.
However, first will be noted the hostile reader-comments reactions when the early version of this list – which then was of bundlers who had raised at least $25,000 for the campaign – was made public at the Democratic Party website which is written and run by Taegan Goddard, “Political Wire,” which headlined on 27 December 2019, prior even to the earliest of all the state primaries and caucuses, “Biden Discloses His Bundlers”, and the 36 reader-comments there were overwhelmingly hostile, such as “Gee Taegan, could you make it seem any more suspicious and improper?”
Those readers were angry that a Democratic Party news-site would publish an indication that their Party utilizes the same corrupt practices that the Republican billionaires’ Party does. They weren’t grateful for the non-partisan information they had just received, but wanted it not to have been made public. No other news-site did publish it — only Goddard’s site did.
And, when, at the end of all of the campaigns the Biden organization issued its legally obligatory final financial reports, on 1 November 2020, neither Goddard nor any other news-site published it: “Once burned, twice shy,” and Goddard didn’t want to get “burned” again.
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On 27 November 2007, C-Span showed a Joe Biden Town Hall. A brief clip from that was posted online…
YouTube clip insert by (TLB)
Here’s my transcription from what I consider to be the most revealing (about Biden’s values) part of it:
27 November 2007, Iowa Town Hall (0:40-) “People who accept money [from lobbyists] aren’t bad people. But it’s human nature. You go out and bundle $250,000 for me, all legal, and then you call me after I am elected, and say “I would like to come and talk about something.” You didn’t buy me, but it’s human nature, you helped me. I’m going to say, “Sure, come on in.” … What it does mean, it means that the front of the line is always filled by people whose pockets are filled, people who are special interests. Most of you are no part of any special interest.” He went on there to promise that if elected President he will change that, by campaigning constantly (AFTER winning the Presidency — not BEFORE) against the corrupt system which had made him President. He thinks that his audience will believe in the tooth-fairy, if only he tells them that the tooth-fairy exists and that he’s it. The deceptive irrelevant line from all of the corrupt candidates is the same: “I’m the most electable one!” But corrupt people constantly lie, and nobody is actually certain whom the “most electable” one is; but that’s really not even the question here. What the Democratic primaries are actually about isn’t about beating Trump. He’s not even a candidate in the Democratic primaries. They’re not about ‘beating Donald Trump’, but instead about whom the person will be that’s going to be running against Trump in the general election. The primaries won’t be selecting the next President. They will only narrow the field of contenders, to two. Which two? That’s the question here. Of course, lots of Democrats think that any Democrat will be better than Trump. And lots of Republicans believe that Trump is better than any Democrat.
Biden was talking there regarding not the billionaires but the merely wealthy and well-connected individuals who had raised in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for him — each one of them.
The billionaires aren’t in “the front of the line,” nor even in any “line”; they are instead maybe visitors for private meetings with the President, or else on the phone with him, or else (if the matter is illegal) maybe sending one’s private agent to meet privately with that billionaire’s private agent. This is how the business of the U.S. Government — the business of America’s ‘democracy’ — is getting done, nowadays. My own guess is that the two biggest owners of Joe Biden now are Michael Bloomberg (representing mainly the financial industries or “Wall Street”) and Bernard Schwartz (representing mainly the military industries or “MIC”).
As for any mere voter, that person gets his or her ‘news’ from corporations that are owned by and/or serve the billionaires (such as Bloomberg or Schwartz or Bezos or Musk or etc.), and gets his or her views from that ‘news’, so is less than being a pawn on the American chessboard, where that aristocracy are the ‘king’. The country is jointly controlled by the Republican billionaires and the Democratic billionaires.
A reasonable expectation would be that Biden will serve the billionaires, though his rhetoric will be phrased to be acceptable to the voters. So, that will be no basic change. America will remain an aristocracy, no democracy.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-23--Lockdowns Don’t Control Coronavirus: The Evidence

Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus : The Evidence The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent .
It has been a science experiment in real time , with most of the human population used as lab rats .
The costs are legion .
The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable .
Based on the following studies , the answer is no and for a variety of reasons : bad data , no correlations , no causal demonstration , anomalous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is no relationship between lockdowns ( or whatever else people want to call them to mask their true nature ) and virus control .
Perhaps this is a shocking revelation , given that universal social and economic controls are becoming the new orthodoxy .
In a saner world , the burden of proof really should belong to the lockdowners , since it is they who overthrew 100 years of public-health wisdom and replaced it with an untested , top-down imposition on freedom and human rights .
They never accepted that burden .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could be intimidated and frightened by credentials , edicts , speeches , and masked gendarmes .
The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin , and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models , and then merely positing that stringencies and “ non-pharmaceutical interventions ” account for the difference between the fictionalized vs. the real outcome .
The anti-lockdown studies , on the other hand , are evidence-based , robust , and thorough , grappling with the data we have ( with all its flaws ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ controls on the population .
Much of the following list has been put together by data engineer Ivor Cummins , who has waged a year-long educational effort to upend intellectual support for lockdowns .
AIER has added its own and the summaries .
The upshot is that the virus is going to do as viruses do , same as always in the history of infectious disease .
We have extremely limited control over them , and that which we do have is bound up with time and place .
Fear , panic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ managing viruses .
Intelligence and medical therapeutics fare much better .
9 .
“ Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe ” by Marco Colombo , Joseph Mellor , Helen M Colhoun , M. Gabriela M. Gomes , Paul M McKeigue .
MedRxiv Pre-print .
Posted September 28 , 2020 .
“ The classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model formulated by Kermack and McKendrick assumes that all individuals in the population are equally susceptible to infection .
From fitting such a model to the trajectory of mortality from COVID-19 in 11 European countries up to 4 May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ major non-pharmaceutical interventions — and lockdowns in particular — have had a large effect on reducing transmission ’ .
We show that relaxing the assumption of homogeneity to allow for individual variation in susceptibility or connectivity gives a model that has better fit to the data and more accurate 14-day forward prediction of mortality .
Allowing for heterogeneity reduces the estimate of ‘ counterfactual ’ deaths that would have occurred if there had been no interventions from 3.2 million to 262,000 , implying that most of the slowing and reversal of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ herd immunity .
The estimate of the herd immunity threshold depends on the value specified for the infection fatality ratio ( IFR ) : a value of 0.3 % for the IFR gives 15 % for the average herd immunity threshold.
” 13 .
“ Smart Thinking , Lockdown and COVID-19 : Implications for Public Policy ” by Morris Altman .
Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy , 2020 .
“ The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much of the world ’ s economies in order to minimize death rates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of COVID-19 .
I argue that such policy is too often de-contextualized as it ignores policy externalities , assumes death rate calculations are appropriately accurate and , and as well , assumes focusing on direct Covid-19 effects to maximize human welfare is appropriate .
As a result of this approach current policy can be misdirected and with highly negative effects on human welfare .
Moreover , such policies can inadvertently result in not minimizing death rates ( incorporating externalities ) at all , especially in the long run .
Such misdirected and sub-optimal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using inappropriate mental models which are lacking in a number of key areas ; the failure to take a more comprehensive macro perspective to address the virus , using bad heuristics or decision-making tools , relatedly not recognizing the differential effects of the virus , and adopting herding strategy ( follow-the-leader ) when developing policy .
Improving the decision-making environment , inclusive of providing more comprehensive governance and improving mental models could have lockdowns throughout the world thus yielding much higher levels of human welfare.
” 19 .
“ Exploring inter-country coronavirus mortality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Nick Hudson .
Pandata , July 7 , 2020 .
“ For each country put forward as an example , usually in some pairwise comparison and with an attendant single cause explanation , there are a host of countries that fail the expectation .
We set out to model the disease with every expectation of failure .
In choosing variables it was obvious from the outset that there would be contradictory outcomes in the real world .
But there were certain variables that appeared to be reliable markers as they had surfaced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ papers .
These included age , co-morbidity prevalence and the seemingly light population mortality rates in poorer countries than that in richer countries .
Even the worst among developing nations—a clutch of countries in equatorial Latin America—have seen lighter overall population mortality than the developed world .
Our aim therefore was not to develop the final answer , rather to seek common cause variables that would go some way to providing an explanation and stimulating discussion .
There are some very obvious outliers in this theory , not the least of these being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the popular notions that lockdowns with their attendant social distancing and various other NPIs confer protection.
” 23 .
“ Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line ” by Michael Levitt , Andrea Scaiewicz , Francesco Zonta .
MedRxiv , Pre-print , June 30 , 2020 .
“ Comparison of locations with over 50 deaths shows all outbreaks have a common feature : H ( t ) defined as loge ( X ( t ) /X ( t-1 ) ) decreases linearly on a log scale , where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of Cases or Deaths on day , t ( we use ln for loge ) .
The downward slopes vary by about a factor of three with time constants ( 1/slope ) of between 1 and 3 weeks ; this suggests it may be possible to predict when an outbreak will end .
Is it possible to go beyond this and perform early prediction of the outcome in terms of the eventual plateau number of total confirmed cases or deaths ?
We test this hypothesis by showing that the trajectory of cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ converted into a straight line .
Specifically Y ( t ) ≡−ln ( ln ( N/X ( t ) ) , is a straight line for the correct plateau value N , which is determined by a new method , Best-Line Fitting ( BLF ) .
BLF involves a straight-line facilitation extrapolation needed for prediction ; it is blindingly fast and amenable to optimization .
We find that in some locations that entire trajectory can be predicted early , whereas others take longer to follow this simple functional form .
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Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence
By: AIER Staff
The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The costs are legion.
The question is whether lockdowns worked to control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable. Based on the following studies, the answer is no and for a variety of reasons: bad data, no correlations, no causal demonstration, anomalous exceptions, and so on. There is no relationship between lockdowns (or whatever else people want to call them to mask their true nature) and virus control.
Perhaps this is a shocking revelation, given that universal social and economic controls are becoming the new orthodoxy. In a saner world, the burden of proof really should belong to the lockdowners, since it is they who overthrew 100 years of public-health wisdom and replaced it with an untested, top-down imposition on freedom and human rights. They never accepted that burden. They took it as axiomatic that a virus could be intimidated and frightened by credentials, edicts, speeches, and masked gendarmes.
The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models, and then merely positing that stringencies and “non-pharmaceutical interventions” account for the difference between the fictionalized vs. the real outcome. The anti-lockdown studies, on the other hand, are evidence-based, robust, and thorough, grappling with the data we have (with all its flaws) and looking at the results in light of controls on the population.
Much of the following list has been put together by data engineer Ivor Cummins, who has waged a year-long educational effort to upend intellectual support for lockdowns. AIER has added its own and the summaries. The upshot is that the virus is going to do as viruses do, same as always in the history of infectious disease. We have extremely limited control over them, and that which we do have is bound up with time and place. Fear, panic, and coercion are not ideal strategies for managing viruses. Intelligence and medical therapeutics fare much better.
(These studies are focused only on lockdown and their relationship to virus control. They do not get into the myriad associated issues that have vexed the world such as mask mandates, PCR-testing issues, death misclassification problem, or any particular issues associated with travel restrictions, restaurant closures, and hundreds of other particulars about which whole libraries will be written in the future.)
1. “A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes” by Rabail Chaudhry, George Dranitsaris, Talha Mubashir, Justyna Bartoszko, Sheila Riazi. EClinicalMedicine 25 (2020) 100464. “[F]ull lockdowns and wide-spread COVID-19 testing were not associated with reductions in the number of critical cases or overall mortality.”
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2. “Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary?” by Christof Kuhbandner, Stefan Homburg, Harald Walach, Stefan Hockertz. Advance: Sage Preprint, June 23, 2020. “Official data from Germany’s RKI agency suggest strongly that the spread of the coronavirus in Germany receded autonomously, before any interventions became effective. Several reasons for such an autonomous decline have been suggested. One is that differences in host susceptibility and behavior can result in herd immunity at a relatively low prevalence level. Accounting for individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to the coronavirus yields a maximum of 17% to 20% of the population that needs to be infected to reach herd immunity, an estimate that is empirically supported by the cohort of the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Another reason is that seasonality may also play an important role in dissipation.”
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3. “Estimation of the current development of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Germany” by Matthias an der Heiden, Osamah Hamouda. Robert Koch-Institut, April 22, 2020. “In general, however, not all infected people develop symptoms, not all those who develop symptoms go to a doctor’s office, not all who go to the doctor are tested and not all who test positive are also recorded in a data collection system. In addition, there is a certain amount of time between all these individual steps, so that no survey system, no matter how good, can make a statement about the current infection process without additional assumptions and calculations.”
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4. Did COVID-19 infections decline before UK lockdown? by Simon N. Wood. Cornell University pre-print, August 8, 2020. “A Bayesian inverse problem approach applied to UK data on COVID-19 deaths and the disease duration distribution suggests that infections were in decline before full UK lockdown (24 March 2020), and that infections in Sweden started to decline only a day or two later. An analysis of UK data using the model of Flaxman et al. (2020, Nature 584) gives the same result under relaxation of its prior assumptions on R.”
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5. “Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020): The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe” by Stefan Homburg and Christof Kuhbandner. June 17, 2020. Advance, Sage Pre-Print. “In a recent article, Flaxman et al. allege that non-pharmaceutical interventions imposed by 11 European countries saved millions of lives. We show that their methods involve circular reasoning. The purported effects are pure artefacts, which contradict the data. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.”
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6. Professor Ben Israel’s Analysis of virus transmission. April 16, 2020. “Some may claim that the decline in the number of additional patients every day is a result of the tight lockdown imposed by the government and health authorities. Examining the data of different countries around the world casts a heavy question mark on the above statement. It turns out that a similar pattern – rapid increase in infections that reaches a peak in the sixth week and declines from the eighth week – is common to all countries in which the disease was discovered, regardless of their response policies: some imposed a severe and immediate lockdown that included not only ‘social distancing’ and banning crowding, but also shutout of economy (like Israel); some ‘ignored’ the infection and continued almost a normal life (such as Taiwan, Korea or Sweden), and some initially adopted a lenient policy but soon reversed to a complete lockdown (such as Italy or the State of New York). Nonetheless, the data shows similar time constants amongst all these countries in regard to the initial rapid growth and the decline of the disease.”
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7. “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: a quasi-experimental study” by Paul Raymond Hunter, Felipe Colon-Gonzalez, Julii Suzanne Brainard, Steve Rushton. MedRxiv Pre-print May 1, 2020. “The current epidemic of COVID-19 is unparalleled in recent history as are the social distancing interventions that have led to a significant halt on the economic and social life of so many countries. However, there is very little empirical evidence about which social distancing measures have the most impact… From both sets of modelling, we found that closure of education facilities, prohibiting mass gatherings and closure of some non-essential businesses were associated with reduced incidence whereas stay at home orders and closure of all non-businesses was not associated with any independent additional impact.”
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8. “Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic” by Thomas Meunier. MedRxiv Pre-print May 1, 2020. “This phenomenological study assesses the impacts of full lockdown strategies applied in Italy, France, Spain and United Kingdom, on the slowdown of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Comparing the trajectory of the epidemic before and after the lockdown, we find no evidence of any discontinuity in the growth rate, doubling time, and reproduction number trends. Extrapolating pre-lockdown growth rate trends, we provide estimates of the death toll in the absence of any lockdown policies, and show that these strategies might not have saved any life in western Europe. We also show that neighboring countries applying less restrictive social distancing measures (as opposed to police-enforced home containment) experience a very similar time evolution of the epidemic.”
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9. “Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe” by Marco Colombo, Joseph Mellor, Helen M Colhoun, M. Gabriela M. Gomes, Paul M McKeigue. MedRxiv Pre-print. Posted September 28, 2020. “The classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model formulated by Kermack and McKendrick assumes that all individuals in the population are equally susceptible to infection. From fitting such a model to the trajectory of mortality from COVID-19 in 11 European countries up to 4 May 2020 Flaxman et al. concluded that ‘major non-pharmaceutical interventions — and lockdowns in particular — have had a large effect on reducing transmission’. We show that relaxing the assumption of homogeneity to allow for individual variation in susceptibility or connectivity gives a model that has better fit to the data and more accurate 14-day forward prediction of mortality. Allowing for heterogeneity reduces the estimate of ‘counterfactual’ deaths that would have occurred if there had been no interventions from 3.2 million to 262,000, implying that most of the slowing and reversal of COVID-19 mortality is explained by the build-up of herd immunity. The estimate of the herd immunity threshold depends on the value specified for the infection fatality ratio (IFR): a value of 0.3% for the IFR gives 15% for the average herd immunity threshold.”
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10. “Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions” by Ken Rice, Ben Wynne, Victoria Martin, Graeme J Ackland. British Medical Journal, September 15, 2020. “The findings of this study suggest that prompt interventions were shown to be highly effective at reducing peak demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds but also prolong the epidemic, in some cases resulting in more deaths long term. This happens because covid-19 related mortality is highly skewed towards older age groups. In the absence of an effective vaccination programme, none of the proposed mitigation strategies in the UK would reduce the predicted total number of deaths below 200 000.”
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11. “Modeling social distancing strategies to prevent SARS-CoV2 spread in Israel- A Cost-effectiveness analysis” by Amir Shlomai, Ari Leshno, Ella H Sklan, Moshe Leshno. MedRxiv Pre-Print. September 20, 2020. “A nationwide lockdown is expected to save on average 274 (median 124, interquartile range (IQR): 71-221) lives compared to the ‘testing, tracing, and isolation’ approach. However, the ICER will be on average $45,104,156 (median $ 49.6 million, IQR: 22.7-220.1) to prevent one case of death. Conclusions: A national lockdown has a moderate advantage in saving lives with tremendous costs and possible overwhelming economic effects. These findings should assist decision-makers in dealing with additional waves of this pandemic.”
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12. Too Little of a Good Thing A Paradox of Moderate Infection Control, by Ted Cohen and Marc Lipsitch. Epidemiology. 2008 Jul; 19(4): 588–589. “The link between limiting pathogen exposure and improving public health is not always so straightforward. Reducing the risk that each member of a community will be exposed to a pathogen has the attendant effect of increasing the average age at which infections occur. For pathogens that inflict greater morbidity at older ages, interventions that reduce but do not eliminate exposure can paradoxically increase the number of cases of severe disease by shifting the burden of infection toward older individuals.”
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13. “Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy” by Morris Altman. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2020. “The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much of the world’s economies in order to minimize death rates as well as the immediate negative effects of COVID-19. I argue that such policy is too often de-contextualized as it ignores policy externalities, assumes death rate calculations are appropriately accurate and, and as well, assumes focusing on direct Covid-19 effects to maximize human welfare is appropriate. As a result of this approach current policy can be misdirected and with highly negative effects on human welfare. Moreover, such policies can inadvertently result in not minimizing death rates (incorporating externalities) at all, especially in the long run. Such misdirected and sub-optimal policy is a product of policy makers using inappropriate mental models which are lacking in a number of key areas; the failure to take a more comprehensive macro perspective to address the virus, using bad heuristics or decision-making tools, relatedly not recognizing the differential effects of the virus, and adopting herding strategy (follow-the-leader) when developing policy. Improving the decision-making environment, inclusive of providing more comprehensive governance and improving mental models could have lockdowns throughout the world thus yielding much higher levels of human welfare.”
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14. “SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution” by Levan Djaparidze and Federico Lois. MedRxiv pre-print, October 23, 2020. “We found that 180-day of mandatory isolations to healthy <60 (i.e. schools and workplaces closed) produces more final deaths if the vaccination date is later than (Madrid: Feb 23 2021; Catalonia: Dec 28 2020; Paris: Jan 14 2021; London: Jan 22 2021). We also modeled how average isolation levels change the probability of getting infected for a single individual that isolates differently than average. That led us to realize disease damages to third parties due to virus spreading can be calculated and to postulate that an individual has the right to avoid isolation during epidemics (SARS-CoV-2 or any other).”
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15. “Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison” by Christian Bjørnskov. SSRN working paper, August 2, 2020. “The lockdowns in most Western countries have thrown the world into the most severe recession since World War II and the most rapidly developing recession ever seen in mature market economies. They have also caused an erosion of fundamental rights and the separation of powers in a large part of the world as both democratic and autocratic regimes have misused their emergency powers and ignored constitutional limits to policy-making (Bjørnskov and Voigt, 2020). It is therefore important to evaluate whether and to which extent the lockdowns have worked as officially intended: to suppress the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevent deaths associated with it. Comparing weekly mortality in 24 European countries, the findings in this paper suggest that more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended.”
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16.”Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19” (alt-link) by Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky, and Tao Zha. NBER working paper 27719, August 2020. “One of the central policy questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic is the question of which non-pharmeceutical interventions governments might use to influence the transmission of the disease. Our ability to identify empirically which NPI’s have what impact on disease transmission depends on there being enough independent variation in both NPI’s and disease transmission across locations as well as our having robust procedures for controlling for other observed and unobserved factors that might be influencing disease transmission. The facts that we document in this paper cast doubt on this premise…. The existing literature has concluded that NPI policy and social distancing have been essential to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and the number of deaths due to this deadly pandemic. The stylized facts established in this paper challenge this conclusion.”
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17. “How does Belarus have one of the lowest death rates in Europe?” by Kata Karáth. British Medical Journal, September 15, 2020. “Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade. Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases.”
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18. “Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England” by Harriet Forbes, Caroline E Morton, Seb Bacon et al., by MedRxiv, November 2, 2020. “Among 9,157,814 adults ≤65 years, living with children 0-11 years was not associated with increased risks of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 related hospital or ICU admission but was associated with reduced risk of COVID-19 death (HR 0.75, 95%CI 0.62-0.92). Living with children aged 12-18 years was associated with a small increased risk of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection (HR 1.08, 95%CI 1.03-1.13), but not associated with other COVID-19 outcomes. Living with children of any age was also associated with lower risk of dying from non-COVID-19 causes. Among 2,567,671 adults >65 years there was no association between living with children and outcomes related to SARS-CoV-2. We observed no consistent changes in risk following school closure.”
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19. “Exploring inter-country coronavirus mortality“ By Trevor Nell, Ian McGorian, Nick Hudson. Pandata, July 7, 2020. “For each country put forward as an example, usually in some pairwise comparison and with an attendant single cause explanation, there are a host of countries that fail the expectation. We set out to model the disease with every expectation of failure. In choosing variables it was obvious from the outset that there would be contradictory outcomes in the real world. But there were certain variables that appeared to be reliable markers as they had surfaced in much of the media and pre-print papers. These included age, co-morbidity prevalence and the seemingly light population mortality rates in poorer countries than that in richer countries. Even the worst among developing nations—a clutch of countries in equatorial Latin America—have seen lighter overall population mortality than the developed world. Our aim therefore was not to develop the final answer, rather to seek common cause variables that would go some way to providing an explanation and stimulating discussion. There are some very obvious outliers in this theory, not the least of these being Japan. We test and find wanting the popular notions that lockdowns with their attendant social distancing and various other NPIs confer protection.”
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20. “Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation” by Quentin De Larochelambert, Andy Marc, Juliana Antero, Eric Le Bourg, and Jean-François Toussaint. Frontiers in Public Health, 19 November 2020. “Higher Covid death rates are observed in the [25/65°] latitude and in the [−35/−125°] longitude ranges. The national criteria most associated with death rate are life expectancy and its slowdown, public health context (metabolic and non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden vs. infectious diseases prevalence), economy (growth national product, financial support), and environment (temperature, ultra-violet index). Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate. Countries that already experienced a stagnation or regression of life expectancy, with high income and NCD rates, had the highest price to pay. This burden was not alleviated by more stringent public decisions. Inherent factors have predetermined the Covid-19 mortality: understanding them may improve prevention strategies by increasing population resilience through better physical fitness and immunity.”
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21. “States with the Fewest Coronavirus Restrictions” by Adam McCann. WalletHub, Oct 6, 2020. This study assesses and ranks stringencies in the United States by states. The results are plotted against deaths per capita and unemployment. The graphics reveal no relationship in stringency level as it relates to the death rates, but finds a clear relationship between stringency and unemployment.
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22. The Mystery of Taiwan: Commentary on the Lancet Study of Taiwan and New Zealand, by Amelia Janaskie. American Institute for Economic Research, November 2, 2020. “The Taiwanese case reveals something extraordinary about pandemic response. As much as public-health authorities imagine that the trajectory of a new virus can be influenced or even controlled by policies and responses, the current and past experiences of coronavirus illustrate a different point. The severity of a new virus might have far more to do with endogenous factors within a population rather than the political response. According to the lockdown narrative, Taiwan did almost everything ‘wrong’ but generated what might in fact be the best results in terms of public health of any country in the world.”
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23. “Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line” by Michael Levitt, Andrea Scaiewicz, Francesco Zonta. MedRxiv, Pre-print, June 30, 2020. “Comparison of locations with over 50 deaths shows all outbreaks have a common feature: H(t) defined as loge(X(t)/X(t-1)) decreases linearly on a log scale, where X(t) is the total number of Cases or Deaths on day, t (we use ln for loge). The downward slopes vary by about a factor of three with time constants (1/slope) of between 1 and 3 weeks; this suggests it may be possible to predict when an outbreak will end. Is it possible to go beyond this and perform early prediction of the outcome in terms of the eventual plateau number of total confirmed cases or deaths? We test this hypothesis by showing that the trajectory of cases or deaths in any outbreak can be converted into a straight line. Specifically Y(t)≡−ln(ln(N/X(t)),is a straight line for the correct plateau value N, which is determined by a new method, Best-Line Fitting (BLF). BLF involves a straight-line facilitation extrapolation needed for prediction; it is blindingly fast and amenable to optimization. We find that in some locations that entire trajectory can be predicted early, whereas others take longer to follow this simple functional form.”
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24. “Government mandated lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths: implications for evaluating the stringent New Zealand response” by John Gibson. New Zealand Economic Papers, August 25, 2020. “The New Zealand policy response to Coronavirus was the most stringent in the world during the Level 4 lockdown. Up to 10 billion dollars of output (≈3.3% of GDP) was lost in moving to Level 4 rather than staying at Level 2, according to Treasury calculations. For lockdown to be optimal requires large health benefits to offset this output loss. Forecast deaths from epidemiological models are not valid counterfactuals, due to poor identification. Instead, I use empirical data, based on variation amongst United States counties, over one-fifth of which just had social distancing rather than lockdown. Political drivers of lockdown provide identification. Lockdowns do not reduce Covid-19 deaths. This pattern is visible on each date that key lockdown decisions were made in New Zealand. The apparent ineffectiveness of lockdowns suggests that New Zealand suffered large economic costs for little benefit in terms of lives saved.”
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All About Smartmatic

American Thinker published my article about Smartmatic voting systems in Venezuela on Sept. 5 , 2017 , titled How the Venezuelan Elections Were Rigged .
The other day Andrea Widburg published an article citing the “ irregularities ” that were experienced in the Nov. 3 , 2020 elections with Dominion Voting Systems that use Smartmatic software .
What happened in Venezuela is highly relevant to what is happening here and now , so this is how it happened there : On July 30 , 2017 , President Nicolas Maduro conjured up a vote to replace the National Assembly ( where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by opposition representatives ) with a new Constituent Assembly whose representatives would be handpicked by Maduro .
The fix was in prior to the vote .
The president and co-founder of Smartmatic , Antonio Mugica , told the press from his office in London three years ago that his company noticed irregularities in voting during Venezuelan national elections three years ago , amounting to about one million ballots cast over the number of actual voters .
( The Wall Street Journal reported how that played out on the ground , here ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ released until the Smartmatic people left Venezuela .
Why would Mugica stir this up ?
Well , most likely , it was because he had not been paid .
He had vast contracts with the Venezuelan government , and Maduro wasn ’ t paying his bills .
The press noise died down shortly thereafter since he was finally paid by Maduro .
Mugica ’ s associate co-founder of Smartmatic , Alfredo Anzola , is worthy of mention , too .
Anzola was a passionate supporter of then-President Hugo Chavez .
When Chavez faced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Chavez needed to act quickly to ensure his Bolivarian revolution would continue .
First , Chavez stalled through his reconfigured Supreme Court ( think court-packing comments if Democrats gain control ) stating that signatures collected for the recall vote were invalid .
As Chavez continued his electoral kabuki dance , he engaged a company , SBC , to devise computerized voting systems to be used in national elections for the first time .
SBC was comprised of Smartmatic , a Venezuelan-owned computer company based in Boca Raton , Florida and Sunnyvale , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of seven people , based in Caracas ; and CANTV , the Chavez government ’ s partially owned telecommunications company , with 28 % stake .
The August 2004 recall referendum , held a year late , resulted in a startling victory for Chavez , garnering 58 % of the vote to have him stay , versus exit polling from Penn , Schoen & Berland which showed the exact opposite .
Oddly enough , the computerized voting systems sold and managed by Smartmatic were “ bidirectionally networked ” to communicate with CANTV ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Smartmatic ) .
Basic Boolean algebra was that a “ 1 ” became a “ 0 ” and vice versa at the central server .
Local printers showed people how they had actually voted .
Yet there was no collusion , according to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter , who witnessed the voting on behalf of the U.S.-appointed observer , the Carter Center , and then stated that there were less than 0.1 % irregularities .
Carter “ applauded ” ( his own words ) Venezuela ’ s use of electronic voting but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them back .
In early 2008 , Alfredo Anzola was getting a new contract with the CNE ( National Electoral Council ) from his paramour ’ s brother , then-CNE President Jorge Rodriguez .
In April 2008 , he complained openly about irregularities in his contracted scope of work including software changes .
Shortly after , Anzola was involved in a small plane crash in Catia La Mar .
He was rushed to a hospital where the Rodriguez ’ s and Chavez buddy , Diosdado Cabello ( considered the most powerful man in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over him while he died .
Cabello presided over the National Assembly with Chavez ’ s initial constitutional change .
He has since been credibly accused by the U.S. Treasury of international drug trafficking as kingpin of the “ Sun Cartel.
“ As an aside , do you remember the health director who approved the release of President Obama ’ s birth certificate who died in a plane crash in December 2013 ?
Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft she was travelling on went down shortly after leaving Kalaupapa Airport @ @ @ @ @ @ @ local time ( 10:15 a.m .
ET ) on Dec. 11 , 2013 .
The other eight people on board were rescued , according to Richard Schuman , president of Makani Kai Air , adding that that there was no indication as to why the plane had crashed .
My interest in Venezuela is obvious once one knows that my wife was born in Venezuela .
One of her many Venezuelan friends who lives in San Diego , California , is thankful that her family was rescued from that hellhole .
Her friend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another Venezuelan who has been in the news lately , a former Smartmatic employee .
Both studied computer science .
Heider Garcia was hired in Texas as the Tarrant County Elections Administrator in 2018 .
In 2019 , Tarrant County got new computerized voting machines .
And with Garcia at the helm , Tarrant County , for the first time since 1964 , voted “ blue.
” Garcia worked for Smartmatic for 12 years .
See the Gateway Pundit article about Garcia here Texas County Goes Blue for the First Time Since 1964 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elections Administrator .
It sickens me to my soul to see the outright dishonesty , deceit , whatever you want to call it by the lamestream media , Big Tech and Democrats in general regarding fraud perpetrated in this election .
I used to believe in the rule of law .
About the only things I believe Joe Biden to have said that are true are these statements : • “ We ’ re in a situation where we have put together , and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put together , I think , the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics , ” October 2020 .
• Biden threatened to withhold $ 1 billion in aid to Ukraine if Special Prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma ’ s shady dealings , was fired .
Hunter Biden , with zero experience in Burisma ’ s main work , energy development , or in Ukraine for that matter , was on their Board receiving upwards of $ 83,000 per month .
“ …and son of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thank you for all your support and your considerations … ( TLB )

All About Smartmatic
By: Brian Tomlinson
American Thinker published my article about Smartmatic voting systems in Venezuela on Sept. 5, 2017, titled How the Venezuelan Elections Were Rigged.
The other day Andrea Widburg published an article citing the “irregularities” that were experienced in the Nov. 3, 2020 elections with Dominion Voting Systems that use Smartmatic software.
What happened in Venezuela is highly relevant to what is happening here and now, so this is how it happened there:
On July 30, 2017, President Nicolas Maduro conjured up a vote to replace the National Assembly (where 67% of the seats were held by opposition representatives) with a new Constituent Assembly whose representatives would be handpicked by Maduro. The fix was in prior to the vote. The president and co-founder of Smartmatic, Antonio Mugica, told the press from his office in London three years ago that his company noticed irregularities in voting during Venezuelan national elections three years ago, amounting to about one million ballots cast over the number of actual voters. (The Wall Street Journal reported how that played out on the ground, here). Of course, this message was not released until the Smartmatic people left Venezuela.
Why would Mugica stir this up? Well, most likely, it was because he had not been paid. He had vast contracts with the Venezuelan government, and Maduro wasn’t paying his bills. The press noise died down shortly thereafter since he was finally paid by Maduro.
Mugica’s associate co-founder of Smartmatic, Alfredo Anzola, is worthy of mention, too. Anzola was a passionate supporter of then-President Hugo Chavez. When Chavez faced his first recall referendum vote in 2003, Chavez needed to act quickly to ensure his Bolivarian revolution would continue.
First, Chavez stalled through his reconfigured Supreme Court (think court-packing comments if Democrats gain control) stating that signatures collected for the recall vote were invalid. As Chavez continued his electoral kabuki dance, he engaged a company, SBC, to devise computerized voting systems to be used in national elections for the first time. SBC was comprised of Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-owned computer company based in Boca Raton, Florida and Sunnyvale, California; Bizta, a Venezuelan company of seven people, based in Caracas; and CANTV, the Chavez government’s partially owned telecommunications company, with 28% stake.
The August 2004 recall referendum, held a year late, resulted in a startling victory for Chavez, garnering 58% of the vote to have him stay, versus exit polling from Penn, Schoen & Berland which showed the exact opposite. Oddly enough, the computerized voting systems sold and managed by Smartmatic were “bidirectionally networked” to communicate with CANTV (the government-controlled telecommunications company and partner of Smartmatic). Basic Boolean algebra was that a “1” became a “0” and vice versa at the central server. Local printers showed people how they had actually voted.
Yet there was no collusion, according to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who witnessed the voting on behalf of the U.S.-appointed observer, the Carter Center, and then stated that there were less than 0.1% irregularities. Carter “applauded” (his own words) Venezuela’s use of electronic voting but in recent years has tried to walk them back.
In early 2008, Alfredo Anzola was getting a new contract with the CNE (National Electoral Council) from his paramour’s brother, then-CNE President Jorge Rodriguez. In April 2008, he complained openly about irregularities in his contracted scope of work including software changes. Shortly after, Anzola was involved in a small plane crash in Catia La Mar. He was rushed to a hospital where the Rodriguez’s and Chavez buddy, Diosdado Cabello (considered the most powerful man in Venezuela, after Chavez), looked over him while he died.
Cabello presided over the National Assembly with Chavez’s initial constitutional change. He has since been credibly accused by the U.S. Treasury of international drug trafficking as kingpin of the “Sun Cartel.“
As an aside, do you remember the health director who approved the release of President Obama’s birth certificate who died in a plane crash in December 2013? Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft she was travelling on went down shortly after leaving Kalaupapa Airport (Molokai) at around 3:15 p.m. local time (10:15 a.m. ET) on Dec. 11, 2013. The other eight people on board were rescued, according to Richard Schuman, president of Makani Kai Air, adding that that there was no indication as to why the plane had crashed.
My interest in Venezuela is obvious once one knows that my wife was born in Venezuela. One of her many Venezuelan friends who lives in San Diego, California, is thankful that her family was rescued from that hellhole. Her friend’s husband went to university with another Venezuelan who has been in the news lately, a former Smartmatic employee. Both studied computer science.
Heider Garcia was hired in Texas as the Tarrant County Elections Administrator in 2018.
In 2019, Tarrant County got new computerized voting machines. And with Garcia at the helm, Tarrant County, for the first time since 1964, voted “blue.”
Garcia worked for Smartmatic for 12 years. See the Gateway Pundit article about Garcia here Texas County Goes Blue for the First Time Since 1964 After Hiring former Executive with Smartmatic as Elections Administrator.
It sickens me to my soul to see the outright dishonesty, deceit, whatever you want to call it by the lamestream media, Big Tech and Democrats in general regarding fraud perpetrated in this election. I used to believe in the rule of law. About the only things I believe Joe Biden to have said that are true are these statements:
“We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” October 2020.
Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine if Special Prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma’s shady dealings, was fired. Hunter Biden, with zero experience in Burisma’s main work, energy development, or in Ukraine for that matter, was on their Board receiving upwards of $83,000 per month. “…and son of a B, they did it…”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-23--As thick as two short politicians – the government that never learns

So the gov ’ s latest wheeze in an effort to breathe more life into its dying terror campaign has been to respond to “ advice ” from “ experts ” that it should be “ worried ” and “ concerned ” the COVID9 bug has developed a mysterious “ variant ” that has caused it to accelerate the rate at which it is spreading .
Having received their stimuli , Boris and Co have duly reacted in the manner of Pavlov ’ s dogs , turned up the dictatorship another notch and launched WEDs ( Weapons of Economic Destruction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its Mayor , Genghis Khan .
This is all being done according to the scientific methodology known as MSU ( Making Sh*t Up ) so favoured by oppressive regimes the length and breadth of the United Kingdom .
In line with MSU ’ s compulsory voluntary guidelines there ’ s no actual scientific evidence produced unless you count “ advice ” from faceless subversives , and “ concern ” or “ worry ” or Barmy Boris looking mental on TV ( or Hatt Mancock looking shifty ) as scientific evidence .
The government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it is “ following the science ” is enough science , especially as science can be inconvenient and time-consuming if you have to spend days or weeks rigging the results or faking the stats – the time after all can be better spent panicking or grinding down small businesses and other government programs .
So what we apparently have is a government “ concerned ” about an accelerated spread of the bug because of “ advice ” it has received from somebody or other whose identities must remain secret for reasons of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least enough evidence to justify bypassing Parliament ( yet again ) attacking London and turning various screws ( social , economic , Yuletide , patience etc ) on the populace .
And who are these freakin ’ experts on whose puppet strings Barmy Boris and the rest of his intellectually challenged crew of nation wreckers are so happy to dance ?
We are going to leave aside the fact that , by the way , the statistical evidence for the spread of the disease is derived from the ruddy PCR test .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it than Boris ’ haircut .
One of these is the minor technical point that it does not establish and never has established the existence in anyone who tests positive ( even in the minuscule percentage of cases where the positive is not false ) of a live infectious virus .
Because of this ( along with a host of other reasons ) relying on the PCR test to “ prove ” the spread of the virus is about as sound as referring to the movie “ Independence Day ” to prove there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You can find out more on why the PCR test is a total fraud here So who are those very wise but anonymous people with brains the size of a planet ?
Well , professor Neil Ferguson for one , as the following article from the Spectator explains .
Leaving aside the fact that he is still advising the government when the government ( in YET ANOTHER lie ) said he would not be , why the hell does the government insist on using this bloke whose mathematical predictions ( not to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , abysmally , horribly , blatantly , glaringly indisputably and undeniably wrong ?
With the resources of the entire scientific community at its disposal , virologists , epidemiologists , mathematicians , statisticians and so forth , the gov is still taking advice from Ferguson ?
Is this indicative of the standards it will accept when the well being of the country is at stake ?
Another , deeper , mystery in back of all this of course is this : Why are we letting ourselves be governed to destruction by people so bereft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , honesty or even an interest in the survival of our country ?
The Spectator at least has sided with the People and its article is well worth a read .
Find it here .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of websites and projects we represent .
So we have just installed donation buttons on our 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 )

by Steve Cook
So the gov’s latest wheeze in an effort to breathe more life into its dying terror campaign has been to respond to “advice” from “experts” that it should be “worried” and “concerned” the COVID9 bug has developed a mysterious “variant” that has caused it to accelerate the rate at which it is spreading.
Having received their stimuli, Boris and Co have duly reacted in the manner of Pavlov’s dogs, turned up the dictatorship another notch and launched WEDs (Weapons of Economic Destruction) against London, ably assisted by its Mayor, Genghis Khan.
This is all being done according to the scientific methodology known as MSU (Making Sh*t Up) so favoured by oppressive regimes the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.
In line with MSU’s compulsory voluntary guidelines there’s no actual scientific evidence produced unless you count “advice” from faceless subversives, and “concern” or “worry” or Barmy Boris looking mental on TV (or Hatt Mancock looking shifty) as scientific evidence.
The government of course feels that telling everybody repeatedly that it is “following the science” is enough science, especially as science can be inconvenient and time-consuming if you have to spend days or weeks rigging the results or faking the stats – the time after all can be better spent panicking or grinding down small businesses and other government programs.
So what we apparently have is a government “concerned” about an accelerated spread of the bug because of “advice”it has received from somebody or other whose identities must remain secret for reasons of state secrecy.
That’s evidence is it?
Apparently it is at least enough evidence to justify bypassing Parliament (yet again) attacking London and turning various screws (social, economic, Yuletide, patience etc) on the populace.
And who are these freakin’ experts on whose puppet strings Barmy Boris and the rest of his intellectually challenged crew of nation wreckers are so happy to dance?
We are going to leave aside the fact that, by the way, the statistical evidence for the spread of the disease is derived from the ruddy PCR test.
The PCR test has more things wrong with it than Boris’ haircut. One of these is the minor technical point that it does not establish and never has established the existence in anyone who tests positive (even in the minuscule percentage of cases where the positive is not false) of a live infectious virus.
Because of this (along with a host of other reasons) relying on the PCR test to “prove” the spread of the virus is about as sound as referring to the movie “Independence Day” to prove there’s a threat of alien invasion.
You can find out more on why the PCR test is a total fraud here
So who are those very wise but anonymous people with brains the size of a planet?
Well, professor Neil Ferguson for one, as the following article from the Spectator explains.
Leaving aside the fact that he is still advising the government when the government (in YET ANOTHER lie) said he would not be, why the hell does the government insist on using this bloke whose mathematical predictions (not to mention his personal ethics) were utterly, abysmally, horribly, blatantly, glaringly indisputably and undeniably wrong?
With the resources of the entire scientific community at its disposal, virologists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, statisticians and so forth, the gov is still taking advice from Ferguson? Is this indicative of the standards it will accept when the well being of the country is at stake?
Another, deeper, mystery in back of all this of course is this:
Why are we letting ourselves be governed to destruction by people so bereft of common sense, competence, sanity, honesty or even an interest in the survival of our country?
The Spectator at least has sided with the People and its article is well worth a read. Find it here.
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