thelibertybeacon--2020-12-31--EPI TOWN CRIER: We The Deplorables … Saving America

As you read this show preface … please ask yourself what it should be called when a political organization choreographs the stealing of an election , depriving We The People of our power and voice in this ( supposed ) Republic .
And intentionally doing this in a fashion that can only be defined as massive fraud … YUP TREASON !
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But as we draw closer to January 6th 2021 , the day of election reckoning for America , we are seeing an awakening across this nation like we have not seen in most of our lifetimes … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to our engagement in WWII following the attack on Pearl Harbor .
This is in response to what can only be considered an … Many patriots have the opportunity to attend the Trump support rally scheduled for January 6th , which promises to literally flood Washington D.C. with millions of We The People ( Deplorables ) intent on ensuring a constitution path forward for America … instead of the Technocratic future to be enforced upon us against our choice or will .
They will only accomplished this by literally destroying any confidence in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority … our vote .
What follows is another important and pointed discussion focused on the most vital question … ‘ What will America be ’ … after January 6th 2021 … ?
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• None What is The Liberty Beacon Project • None Why did Trump run for President • None Why Trump ’ s ego is good for America • None Who would Harris pick for VP • None Ukraine Officials tearing the Biden ’ s a new one ( Video ) • None If not legal treason … then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never actually be president … • None The only real solution must come from ‘ We The People ’ • None What can the Jan 6th Trump Rally accomplish • None Does the MSM even live on this planet • None Pence … the most powerful person in the USA on January 6th • None How many votes did Trump actually get NOW would anyone like to ask me WHAT I REALLY THINK … ?
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About the Author : Roger Landry ( TLB ) spent about three decades of his adult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the military , with about two decades working directly for the Military Industrial Complex facilitating DOD contracts .
His awakening to Political , Economic , and Health realities was less than ten short years ago .
Since that time he has founded The Liberty Beacon Project ( TLB ) consisting of a half dozen proprietary global websites , media projects and partner websites across the planet .
He contributes regularly to multiple forums both in and outside of TLB Project .
Most of his work can be found on the TLB Flagship website @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful and excited !
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ERADICATING PROGRAMMED IGNORANCE – TOWN CRIER: We The Deplorables … Saving America
LISTEN TO RECORDED SHOW BELOW INTRO ARTICLE
By: Roger Landry (TLB)
As you read this show preface … please ask yourself what it should be called when a political organization choreographs the stealing of an election, depriving We The People of our power and voice in this (supposed) Republic. And intentionally doing this in a fashion that can only be defined as massive fraud … YUP TREASON !!!
But as we draw closer to January 6th 2021, the day of election reckoning for America, we are seeing an awakening across this nation like we have not seen in most of our lifetimes … Probably since the patriotic upsurge just prior to our engagement in WWII following the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is in response to what can only be considered an …
Many patriots have the opportunity to attend the Trump support rally scheduled for January 6th, which promises to literally flood Washington D.C. with millions of We The People (Deplorables) intent on ensuring a constitution path forward for America … instead of the Technocratic future to be enforced upon us against our choice or will. They will only accomplished this by literally destroying any confidence in our constitutional mechanism of control … our authority … our vote.
What follows is another important and pointed discussion focused on the most vital question … ‘What will America be’ … after January 6th 2021 … ???
Show talking points (in order):
Trump Rally in DC on Jan 6th
Who is Roger Landry
What is The Liberty Beacon Project
Why American needs Donald J. Trump
Why did Trump run for President
Why Trump’s ego is good for America
A President Biden will be removed by Dems ASAP
Who would Harris pick for VP
Ukraine Officials tearing the Biden’s a new one (Video)
MSM NOT broadcasting Trump addressing the Nation
If not legal treason … then moral treason
Crazy Joe will never actually be president …
Falling into the abyss
The only real solution must come from ‘We The People’
What can the Jan 6th Trump Rally accomplish
Congressional Debate over Electors on January 6 th
Does the MSM even live on this planet
Pence … the most powerful person in the USA on January 6 th
12th Amendment
Thousands of sworn affidavits proving election fraud
Ukraine corruption on steroids
Biden outright lies about Ukraine and China involvement
How many votes did Trump actually get
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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. Nothing is too small. We thank you for all your support and your considerations … (TLB)
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-31--“A Criminal Like Trump”: Federal Judge shows Bias In Public Interview

President Donald Trump has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike for his recent spate of pardons , including corrupt ex-congressmen and the father of Jared Kushner .
I was one of those who immediately criticized those pardons as manifestly unjustified and inimical to our legal system .
However , none of that makes the comments of senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa any less troubling .
Judge Pratt gave an interview slamming the pardons in a departure from judicial ethics rules barring jurists from engaging in such political commentary .
Pratt was discussing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chairman Jesse Benton and campaign manager John Tate , who were convicted at trial of concealing $ 73,000 in payments that went to a state senator .
Again , my concern with the comments is not the merits but the messenger .
Pratt was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and remains an active judge on a reduced docket as a senior status judge .
As such , he remains subject to the Code of Judicial Ethics .
State judges have been sanctioned for yielding to such temptations to vent their opposition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however have engaged in such public commentary without sanctions .
Pratt ’ s comments raise serious questions under three of the most basic canons of judicial ethics barring judges from engaging in political activities and positions : CANON 1 A judge shall uphold and promote the independence , integrity , and impartiality of the judiciary , and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety .
CANON 3 A judge shall conduct the judge ’ s personal and extrajudicial activities to minimize the risk of conflict with the obligations of judicial office .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ judicial office shall not engage in political or campaign activity that is inconsistent with the independence , integrity , or impartiality of the judiciary .
Calling the President of the United States a criminal and denouncing pardons would seem overtly engaging in a political commentary or activity .
It is a troubling dismissal of the long-standing avoidance of such commentary by judges to preserve judicial impartiality .
Making it worse is the fact that Pratt was involved in Sorenson ’ s case .
He sentenced him to 15 months in prison in 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ probation of the prosecutors due to Sorenson ’ s guilty plea and cooperation .
Indeed , Sorenson helped convict Benton , Tate and former Paul deputy campaign manager Dimitri Kesari .
His sentencing was troubling for many of us in the defense bar because the recommendation for probation was consistent with past cooperation cases .
Pratt ’ s sentence was not .
Nevertheless , the sentence was within his discretion .
A federal judge has every right to sentence defendants harshly for conduct that they believe warrant added punishment .
However , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role .
They are not grand inquisitors who continue to hound or condemn defendants .
They are certainly not appropriate figures to denounce such individuals if they secure commutations or pardons .
This is not a personal vendetta and judges should not be seen as wiping up public sentiments against previously sentenced defendants .
Even once a judge leaves the bench , I would argue for continued reticence in making such public comments .
However , Pratt has not left the bench .
He is still hearing cases while engaging in political commentary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of his final order to condemn former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn , this is a gratuitous and injudicious act .
Indeed , Pratt is more troubling than Sullivan ’ s as commentary outside of the courtroom .
Republicans and even Trump associates could well come before Pratt in future cases — facing a jurist who gives public interviews to denounce Trump as a criminal .
Not surprisingly , there has been little beyond praise for Pratt .
Call it another example of Trumpunity in our age of rage and hypocrisy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the breaking point to support actions against Republican lawyers for filing election challenges .
Yet , they are again conspicuously silent on these controversy .
Indeed , many Democrats recently denounced public comments by Justice Samuel Alito but have no criticism of Pratt or liberal jurists like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in far more serious public comments .
Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law .
He has written over three dozen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ variety of leading law journals at Cornell , Duke , Georgetown , Harvard , Northwestern , University of Chicago , and other schools .
After a stint at Tulane Law School , Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and , in 1998 , was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law , the youngest chaired professor in the school ’ s history .
In addition to his extensive publications , Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personnel , judges , members of Congress , and a wide range of other clients .

President Donald Trump has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike for his recent spate of pardons, including corrupt ex-congressmen and the father of Jared Kushner. I was one of those who immediately criticized those pardons as manifestly unjustified and inimical to our legal system. However, none of that makes the comments of senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa any less troubling. Judge Pratt gave an interview slamming the pardons in a departure from judicial ethics rules barring jurists from engaging in such political commentary.
“It’s not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals. But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey.”
Pratt was discussing pardons that included former Ron Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton and campaign manager John Tate, who were convicted at trial of concealing $73,000 in payments that went to a state senator. Again, my concern with the comments is not the merits but the messenger.
Pratt was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and remains an active judge on a reduced docket as a senior status judge.
As such, he remains subject to the Code of Judicial Ethics.
State judges have been sanctioned for yielding to such temptations to vent their opposition or criticism to Trump. Federal judges however have engaged in such public commentary without sanctions.
Pratt’s comments raise serious questions under three of the most basic canons of judicial ethics barring judges from engaging in political activities and positions:
CANON 1
A judge shall uphold and promote the independence, integrity, and impartiality of the judiciary, and shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. CANON 3
A judge shall conduct the judge’s personal and extrajudicial activities to minimize the risk of conflict with the obligations of judicial office. CANON 4
A judge or candidate for judicial office shall not engage in political or campaign activity that is inconsistent with the independence, integrity, or impartiality of the judiciary.
Calling the President of the United States a criminal and denouncing pardons would seem overtly engaging in a political commentary or activity. It is a troubling dismissal of the long-standing avoidance of such commentary by judges to preserve judicial impartiality.
Making it worse is the fact that Pratt was involved in Sorenson’s case. He sentenced him to 15 months in prison in 2017 – a surprising departure from the recommended probation of the prosecutors due to Sorenson’s guilty plea and cooperation. Indeed, Sorenson helped convict Benton, Tate and former Paul deputy campaign manager Dimitri Kesari. His sentencing was troubling for many of us in the defense bar because the recommendation for probation was consistent with past cooperation cases. Pratt’s sentence was not. Nevertheless, the sentence was within his discretion.
A federal judge has every right to sentence defendants harshly for conduct that they believe warrant added punishment. However, that should be the full extent of their role. They are not grand inquisitors who continue to hound or condemn defendants. They are certainly not appropriate figures to denounce such individuals if they secure commutations or pardons. This is not a personal vendetta and judges should not be seen as wiping up public sentiments against previously sentenced defendants. Even once a judge leaves the bench, I would argue for continued reticence in making such public comments. However, Pratt has not left the bench. He is still hearing cases while engaging in political commentary.
Much like Judge Sullivan’s use of his final order to condemn former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, this is a gratuitous and injudicious act. Indeed, Pratt is more troubling than Sullivan’s as commentary outside of the courtroom. Republicans and even Trump associates could well come before Pratt in future cases — facing a jurist who gives public interviews to denounce Trump as a criminal.
Not surprisingly, there has been little beyond praise for Pratt. Call it another example of Trumpunity in our age of rage and hypocrisy. Legal ethicists and experts stretched ethical rules to the breaking point to support actions against Republican lawyers for filing election challenges. Yet, they are again conspicuously silent on these controversy. Indeed, many Democrats recently denounced public comments by Justice Samuel Alito but have no criticism of Pratt or liberal jurists like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in far more serious public comments.
What Pratt said publicly was wrong. It undermines not just his credibility but that of his court and his other colleagues.
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Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and other schools.
After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, the youngest chaired professor in the school’s history. In addition to his extensive publications, Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, members of Congress, and a wide range of other clients.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-31--Trump wants Americans to hear about Fraud Evidence in 2020 election

Trump campaign wants to air evidence to Americans before Congress certifies election Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller during an interview on Newsmax TV expressed the hope that evidence pertaining to election-related issues will be shared directly with the American people next week .
If a minimum of one member of each congressional chamber objects to the electoral vote returns of a state during a joint session of Congress presided over by the vice president on Jan. 6 , each chamber will separately debate for up to two hours and then vote on the objection , according to the Congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a state ’ s electoral vote must be approved by both houses in order for any contested votes to be excluded.
” During the interview Miller mentioned a lawsuit Rep. Louie Gohmert is involved in that Miller said argues that it “ should be the vice president overseeing the Senate that should have the final say if a slate of electors are chosen .
And so we hope that Congressman Gohmert will be successful in this and that we ’ re gon na actually have a chance in front of the American people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all these evidences of fraud and really go and make sure that the American people see it so we can have full confidence in our elections , ” Miller said .
Miller mentioned during the interview multiple examples of election-related concerns .
“ These are the specific types of evidence that we want to be able to present to the American public on the national stage and not allow local politicians to sweep it under the rug , ” he said .
President Trump has not conceded to Joe Biden in the 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .
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Trump campaign wants to air evidence to Americans before Congress certifies election
“These are the specific types of evidence that we want to be able to present to the American public on the national stage and not allow local politicians to sweep it under the rug” ~Jason Miller
By Alex Nitzberg
Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller during an interview on Newsmax TV expressed the hope that evidence pertaining to election-related issues will be shared directly with the American people next week.
If a minimum of one member of each congressional chamber objects to the electoral vote returns of a state during a joint session of Congress presided over by the vice president on Jan. 6, each chamber will separately debate for up to two hours and then vote on the objection, according to the Congressional Research Service: “An objection to a state’s electoral vote must be approved by both houses in order for any contested votes to be excluded.”
Jason Miller (John Sciulli/Getty Images for Politicon)
During the interview Miller mentioned a lawsuit Rep. Louie Gohmert is involved in that Miller said argues that it “should be the vice president overseeing the Senate that should have the final say if a slate of electors are chosen. And so we hope that Congressman Gohmert will be successful in this and that we’re gonna actually have a chance in front of the American people next week to present these cases, all these evidences of fraud and really go and make sure that the American people see it so we can have full confidence in our elections,” Miller said.
Miller mentioned during the interview multiple examples of election-related concerns. “These are the specific types of evidence that we want to be able to present to the American public on the national stage and not allow local politicians to sweep it under the rug,” he said.
President Trump has not conceded to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election contest.
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THE FACTS INSIDE OUR REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
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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. Nothing is too small. We thank you for all your support and your considerations … (TLB)
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-30--Time To Remove Pelosi From Congress So Work Gets Done [Video]

Time To Remove Pelosi From Congress So Work Gets Done If ever there was a person that developed the fine art of doing nothing , and making sure others did nothing , it would be Nancy Pelosi .
Especially when it comes to taking care of our Nations Business !
She has also developed the fine art of calling a Press Conference and using words and phrases that no one can understand .
Our favorite is , even when she is reading a tele-prompter or written notes , she begins the paragraph… leaves out the middle… then finishes what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point .
Next she looks at the cameras , pans the reporters in the room with a look on her face that ask , “ Did you all get that ?
” Then just in case , she repeats her last few words over and over three or four times .
We need an investigation Investigation is the War Cry now from Pelosi when President Trumps ’ name comes up in relation to any action POTUS is or is not taking .
Boy , all of House Investigations of the last few years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Right ?
The word delusional comes to mind .
( Reminds us of the guy that keeps hitting himself in the head with a hammer to stop the pain . )
We might want an investigation into why Nancy does the following : What others are saying/Nancy playing the Blame Game On Sunday , during an interview with CNN ’ s Jake Tapper , Rep. Nancy Pelosi ( because I refuse to call her Speaker of the House ) sharpened her criticism of President Trump ’ s early dismissal of the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Pelosi said that “ His denial at the beginning was deadly.
” OF COURSE , PELOSI IS GOING TO TAKE THIS APPROACH That ’ s really what Democrats did and as usual , she ’ s blaming Trump for something she ’ s guilty of .
Where was she at the beginning ?
I mean the district she governs , is in the worst shape of all , so she has to blame someone else causes hey elections are coming .
I don ’ t have to say how much more ignorant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deaths of Americans as a political weapon .
I think if someone looks in the right place and asks the right questions , you ’ re going to find an ugly truth about what was really behind this virus pandemic starting and whose responsible .
WHAT HAS PELOSI DONE DURING THIS CRISIS ?
Zip , she has done absolutely nothing but rips Trump , scare and divide Americans .
Even when Trump banned travel from China – Pelosi blasted Trump for over-reacting .
Now All health experts agree that the travel ban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I don ’ t know what the scientist said to him , ” Pelosi told CNN ’ s Jake Tapper .
“ When did the president know about this and what did he know ?
What did he know and when did he know it ?
That ’ s for an after-action review .
But as the president fiddles , people are dying and we just have to take every precaution.
” Pelosi ’ s mention of an after-action review suggests the Democrats may already be mulling their next impeachment witch hunt .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on impeaching the president when the coronavirus first made its way over to America said the president ’ s “ denial ” at the beginning of the outbreak was “ deadly.
” GOP Senator Lindsey Graham ( SC ) called Pelosi ’ s comments “ the most shameful , disgusting , statement by any politician in modern history.
” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attacked President Trump over his response to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. , calling it “ deadly , ” and suggesting he could be investigated over it when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have testing , testing , testing .
That ’ s what we said from the start before we can evaluate what the nature of it is in some of these other regions as well .
I don ’ t know what the purpose of that is .
I don ’ t know what the scientists are saying to him .
I don ’ t know what the scientists said to him , when did this president know about this , and what did he know ?
What did he know , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s for an after-action review .
But as the president fiddles , people are dying.
” Nancy goes home to SFO by the bay .
~ ( TLB ) ed .
Nancy Pelosi paying visit to San Francisco ’ s Chinatown to allay fears over coronavirus Watch the Vicar on the right as he continues to nod his head up and down as well as some of the other Pelosi faithfuls follow his example .
It reminds us of the Bobble Head Dolls bouncing around the rear windows of many cars in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TLB ) ed .
Let ’ s see if we can help Nancy out… .
If only it was from her Capitol Office and not a Chinatown Bakery… .
( TLB ) 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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 )

Time To Remove Pelosi From Congress So Work Gets Done
If ever there was a person that developed the fine art of doing nothing, and making sure others did nothing, it would be Nancy Pelosi. Especially when it comes to taking care of our Nations Business!
It doesn’t stop there
She has also developed the fine art of calling a Press Conference and using words and phrases that no one can understand. Our favorite is, even when she is reading a tele-prompter or written notes, she begins the paragraph… leaves out the middle… then finishes what is written as if she has made a point. Next she looks at the cameras, pans the reporters in the room with a look on her face that ask, “Did you all get that?” Then just in case, she repeats her last few words over and over three or four times.
We need an investigation
Investigation is the War Cry now from Pelosi when President Trumps’ name comes up in relation to any action POTUS is or is not taking. Boy, all of those House Investigations over the last few years has yielded so much hard core information, Right? The word delusional comes to mind. (Reminds us of the guy that keeps hitting himself in the head with a hammer to stop the pain.)
We might want an investigation into why Nancy does the following:
Trump takes action- Pelosi says he should have stayed out of it or he didn’t do enough. Trump takes no action- Pelosi says it’s his duty to take action and starts talking Impeachment again.
What others are saying/Nancy playing the Blame Game
(Wayne Dupree of The Political Insider)
On Sunday, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (because I refuse to call her Speaker of the House) sharpened her criticism of President Trump’s early dismissal of the coronavirus, saying the delay cost American lives.
Pelosi said that “His denial at the beginning was deadly.”
OF COURSE, PELOSI IS GOING TO TAKE THIS APPROACH
That’s really what Democrats did and as usual, she’s blaming Trump for something she’s guilty of. Where was she at the beginning? I mean the district she governs, is in the worst shape of all, so she has to blame someone else causes hey elections are coming.
I don’t have to say how much more ignorant it is to use this virus and the deaths of Americans as a political weapon. I think if someone looks in the right place and asks the right questions, you’re going to find an ugly truth about what was really behind this virus pandemic starting and whose responsible.
WHAT HAS PELOSI DONE DURING THIS CRISIS?
Zip, she has done absolutely nothing but rips Trump, scare and divide Americans. Even when Trump banned travel from China – Pelosi blasted Trump for over-reacting. Now All health experts agree that the travel ban saves thousands of US lives.
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“I don’t know what the scientist said to him,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “When did the president know about this and what did he know? What did he know and when did he know it? That’s for an after-action review. But as the president fiddles, people are dying and we just have to take every precaution.”
Pelosi’s mention of an after-action review suggests the Democrats may already be mulling their next impeachment witch hunt. The same speaker who was singularly focused on impeaching the president when the coronavirus first made its way over to America said the president’s “denial” at the beginning of the outbreak was “deadly.”
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GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (SC) called Pelosi’s comments “the most shameful, disgusting, statement by any politician in modern history.”
Lindsey Graham calls out Pelosi’s finger-pointing as a “shameful, disgusting statement.” “She is the one that held up the package in the Senate for days to get the Green New Deal put in a recovery package.” pic.twitter.com/MIKO44RcI8 — Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) March 29, 2020
Pelosi Doubles Down Again
(CitizenFreePress)
Shut your pie hole, Madame Speaker…
.@SpeakerPelosi says the President downplaying the severity of #coronavirus is “deadly.” “As the President fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/y8bFNbaPJy — State of the Union (@CNNSotu) March 29, 2020
Pelosi suggests the House will investigate Trumps response
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attacked President Trump over his response to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., calling it “deadly,” and suggesting he could be investigated over it when the pandemic is over.
“We have to have testing, testing, testing. That’s what we said from the start before we can evaluate what the nature of it is in some of these other regions as well. I don’t know what the purpose of that is. I don’t know what the scientists are saying to him. I don’t know what the scientists said to him, when did this president know about this, and what did he know? What did he know, and when did he know it? That’s for an after-action review. But as the president fiddles, people are dying.”
Nancy goes home to SFO by the bay. ~(TLB) ed.
MSM conveniently forgets Nancy’s visit to Chinatown…
Nancy Pelosi paying a visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown to allay fears over coronavirus
Watch the Vicar on the right as he continues to nod his head up and down as well as some of the other Pelosi faithfuls follow his example. It reminds us of the Bobble Head Dolls bouncing around the rear windows of many cars in the 1960’s. ~(TLB) ed.
It was a pleasure to try my hand at making fortune cookies at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory (with a little guidance from owner Kevin Chan, of course). The message inside? “United We Stand.” pic.twitter.com/3piGq4yKXq — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) February 25, 2020
Here’s a fantastic message for Nancy…
Let’s see if we can help Nancy out…. If only it was from her Capitol Office and not a Chinatown Bakery…. (TLB)
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-30--We Are All Totalitarians Now

We Are All Totalitarians Now

The nations making up the European Union are highly illustrative in this respect .
For starters , there was no unified European response .
Each nation having its own police and media/consciousness , each one adopted their measures in a haphazard and uncoordinated manner , although all tended towards a gradual escalation .
Admittedly that was two weeks ago and since then , the Europeans have made some progress in getting their act together .
The European Central Bank ( ECB ) is perhaps the EU ’ s only truly federal and sovereign entity , in some respects more powerful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no pan-European political counterpart to counterbalance it .
A few days after making the faux pas of declaring that the Bank ’ s job did not involve policing interest rate spreads , ECB President Christine Lagarde reversed her position and declared her institution would lend €750 billion to stabilize the European economy .
I am always left in awe of this spectacle : while European officials and lobbyists are locked in a perpetual struggle of niggardly Kuhhandel ( ER : reference to a boardgame , we believe ) in Brussels over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ summon up five times the annual budget with a snap of her fingers .
Corona really does work miracles .
Things that were declared “ impossible ” have become the norm .
The parks of Western European cities are finally being cleared of migrants , now that these have been declared a sanitary hazard ( being a criminal one was apparently not enough ) .
The European Parliament ’ s meetings in Strasbourg – a traveling circus which costs taxpayers €100 million per years – have been suspended .
The EU ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so hard to impose over the last decades , has been thrown out the window .
Each State is to borrow as it pleases to bail out businesses and provide welfare , at least for the duration of the national lockdowns .
Individual liberty has been put indefinitely on hold .
In Italy , the number of cases and dead continues to steadily rise .
As of 27 March , over 9,000 have died , including almost 1,000 just in the past day .
Overwhelmed medical professionals have been forced to institute the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concentrate on those individuals who have the best chance of survival and leaving many of the elderly to die .
Mankind only learns the hard way : one funeral at a time .
A month ago , the mayor of Florence urged his fellow citizens to “ hug a Chinese ” in order to fight racism and xenophobia .
Now Italian mayors are verbally abusing their residents to stay indoors in classic national style .
European States have adopted genuinely totalitarian levels of social control , affecting all citizens ’ daily lives .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ into the street without a written declaration of your particular reason for being outside .
Our countries have adopted a basically Mussolinian notion of collective liberty .
As the Duce himself argued in his Doctrine of Fascism : And , in truth , Western Europeans have by and large embraced the new measures .
Huge majorities of over 85 % support the national lockdowns in Spain , Italy , France , and Britain .
With a typical “ rally-around-the-flag ” effect , leading politicians have also regained in popularity .
French President Emmanuel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rating , a figure not seen since July 2017 , while confidence in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe has jumped by over 10 points since the start of the crisis , reaching 51 % .
( ER : it has to be said that Emmanuel Macron is utterly detested by online groups of Gilets Jaunes , etc.
, especially since it seems he and his government have suddenly contrived a situation in which chloroquine , normally available at a cheap price , is being restricted at exactly the moment certain people need it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a healthy suspicion about what is really going on . )
Our liberal democracies found their legitimacy on the sacrosanct equality and liberty of the individual , that is to say .
Such doctrines and practices certainly thrive in peacetime but as soon as there is a real threat of death – an early death for millions of elderly Westerners , in this case – these notions melt away like snow in the morning sun .
In the face of genuine danger , the natural social condition effortlessly reasserts itself .
Liberty , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man ” naturally give way to the imperative of collective survival : Every man at his post !
In truth , collective organization in the face of imminent danger has been the norm throughout human history .
Social prescription went far beyond mere politics to being part of something much deeper : custom .
There is a curious contradiction running across Western societies today .
Over the last two-and-a-half centuries , we have seen the individual rebel more and more forcefully against the formal strictures of the group , against formal inequalities and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for instance , buggery , harlotry , and spinsterdom ) .
Any attempt to take action to reverse Western nations ’ decline and save their ethnic and genetic identity is considered a “ human rights violation.
” At the same time , in practice , our citizens tolerate and often outright expect massive curtailment of their liberties , usually in the name of security .
The fascist critique of liberal-democratic ethics basically boiled down to a denunciation of selfishness and hypocrisy .
As Ezra Pound complained in 1938 : “ In our time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom save freedom to commit acts contrary to the general good.
” Indeed , Pound noted that as people had only known “ the loose waftiness of demoliberal ideology , ” one needed “ sharp speech ” to open minds .
Many have warned of the dangers of making individual entitlement the moral yardstick of nations .
Gandhi , Heinlein , Solzhenitsyn , to name only a few , all tried to make the point their own way .
Here is a lesser-known example , the Romanian anti-communist Petre Țuțea , who in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ceaușescu confused his freedom-hungry interlocutors by saying : It ’ s all well and good to understand that such a thing as civic virtue exists in times of crisis : that we are all in this together and must behave accordingly .
But why does such Hellenic good sense not extend to peacetime ?
Already today , civic virtue is highly unevenly distributed among the “ French ” population .
Videos are circulating on social media of Africans and Muslims in France blatantly ignoring the confinement and social-distancing measures .
According to Le @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responded by instituting “ confinement lite ” among this decidedly sensitive population .
This crisis is also an opportunity to reflect on the slow death of the Italian nation .
I was raised near Italy and frequently visited the country growing up , gaining a real fondness for Italians and Italian culture .
For me , crossing the Alps was like entering a different world , a different rhythm of existence .
Today of course , with the Internet and the euro , the difference does not feel so great , yet still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country .
Today , over 22 % of the Italian population is over 65 .
The fertility rate of 1.32 per woman is among the lowest in Europe and is in continuous decline .
While the Italians do not practice birthright citizenship and have not made it easy for non-European migrants to settle , there is still enormous pressure on the country from a continuous flow of illegals from Africa and the Middle East .
We can ask : What will be left of Italy in 100 years ?
Not much , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great tragedy and a great crime .
There do not seem to be ten thousand ways of preventing the death of a nation .
Italy ’ s former Fascist regime fought for the country ’ s birthrate , power , stability , and economic independence .
Emil Cioran – suspending his usual manic-depressive hyperbole – gave this qualified praise : “ Overpopulation and Mussolini ’ s political genius have obviously raised [ Italy ’ s ] historical level [ .
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Through Fascism , Italy suggested to itself that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : she has succeeded in attracting the world ’ s serious interest .
Nothing more.
” The citizens of the postwar Italian republic , that byword for the sleazy corruption of parliamentary politicians , have certainly enjoyed the fruits of consumerism .
In the meantime , the country has steadily dwindled in significance , childless and aging , being reduced to a kind of debt colony of the European Union and international high finance .
The current polls still indicate a certain unpopularity for the Italian government , with a majority supporting a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the nationalist parties Lega Nord and Fratelli d ’ Italia ( Brothers of Italy ) .
The European financial system – that pyramid scheme of pyramid schemes – will emerge extraordinarily weakened from this crisis , as all the highly-uneven gains of recent years are lost with piling-ups of debt and reduced growth due to the coronavirus response .
There are sure to be more crises .
Many globalists are afraid of what is to come .
Joseph Borrell , the EU ’ s top diplomat , is worried China ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He opined on the European External Action Service ’ s blog : Personally , I ’ m not too worried about Chinese soft power .
If Westerners look bad in comparison , that is only because of their own incompetence rather than the nefariousness of the Chinese .
The Chinese State wants to make deals .
The globalists want something much dearer : they want to bribe you into losing your national soul , your traditional values , your fighting spirit .
This crisis may come to be seen as the moment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ West was geopolitically overtaken by a confident and organized national-authoritarian China .
If so , we can also expect other countries may be tempted to change their political models .
For us Westerners , I ’ d argue we don ’ t need to go so far afield for inspiration .
Apologies for getting technical : the infamous “ spread ” refers to how much a given European government pays for interest on new loans as compared with Germany ( which is lower ) .
The spread is an indicator of markets ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peripheral Eurozone countries – notably Greece , Italy , Portugal , and Spain – to repay their national debt .
When the spreads increase , a vicious cycle ensues as countries become unable to refinance their existing debt , thus making default more likely .
The ECB seeks to prevent this by directly or indirectly lending to governments , more or less in violation of its mandate , which is the source of huge controversy in northern Europe , who don ’ t want their taxpayers to be on the hook for southern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an element of financial speculation in the periodic rise and fall of the spreads , to the benefit of Goldman Sachs and the like .
Ezra Pound , Guide to Kulchur ( New York : New Direction , 1970 [ 1938 ] ) , p. 254 .

The nations making up the European Union are highly illustrative in this respect. For starters, there was no unified European response. Each nation having its own police and media/consciousness, each one adopted their measures in a haphazard and uncoordinated manner, although all tended towards a gradual escalation.
Jean Quatremer, Libération’s euro-federalist correspondent in Brussels, lamented:
“Up to now, it has been every man for himself. Italy, the epicenter of the European epidemic, was abandoned; Germany and France even went so far as to forbid the export of medical equipment, with no regard for solidarity.”
Admittedly that was two weeks ago and since then, the Europeans have made some progress in getting their act together.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is perhaps the EU’s only truly federal and sovereign entity, in some respects more powerful than the U.S. Federal Reserve, because there is no pan-European political counterpart to counterbalance it. A few days after making the faux pas of declaring that the Bank’s job did not involve policing interest rate spreads, ECB President Christine Lagarde reversed her position and declared her institution would lend €750 billion to stabilize the European economy.
I am always left in awe of this spectacle: while European officials and lobbyists are locked in a perpetual struggle of niggardly Kuhhandel (ER: reference to a boardgame, we believe) in Brussels over the pork-laden EU budget, Lagarde can summon up five times the annual budget with a snap of her fingers.
Corona really does work miracles. Things that were declared “impossible” have become the norm. The parks of Western European cities are finally being cleared of migrants, now that these have been declared a sanitary hazard (being a criminal one was apparently not enough).
The European Parliament’s meetings in Strasbourg – a traveling circus which costs taxpayers €100 million per years – have been suspended. The EU’s balanced-budget rulebook, which the Germans fought so hard to impose over the last decades, has been thrown out the window. Each State is to borrow as it pleases to bail out businesses and provide welfare, at least for the duration of the national lockdowns. Individual liberty has been put indefinitely on hold.
In Italy, the number of cases and dead continues to steadily rise. As of 27 March, over 9,000 have died, including almost 1,000 just in the past day. Overwhelmed medical professionals have been forced to institute the grim practice of triage, choosing to concentrate on those individuals who have the best chance of survival and leaving many of the elderly to die.
Mankind only learns the hard way: one funeral at a time. A month ago, the mayor of Florence urged his fellow citizens to “hug a Chinese” in order to fight racism and xenophobia. Now Italian mayors are verbally abusing their residents to stay indoors in classic national style.
European States have adopted genuinely totalitarian levels of social control, affecting all citizens’ daily lives. In France, you cannot go into the street without a written declaration of your particular reason for being outside. Our countries have adopted a basically Mussolinian notion of collective liberty. As the Duce himself argued in his Doctrine of Fascism:
[Fascism] is opposed to classical liberalism, which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. [. . .] And if liberty is to be the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State.
And, in truth, Western Europeans have by and large embraced the new measures. Huge majorities of over 85% support the national lockdowns in Spain, Italy, France, and Britain. With a typical “rally-around-the-flag” effect, leading politicians have also regained in popularity. French President Emmanuel Macron now has a 44% approval rating, a figure not seen since July 2017, while confidence in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe has jumped by over 10 points since the start of the crisis, reaching 51%. (ER: it has to be said that Emmanuel Macron is utterly detested by online groups of Gilets Jaunes, etc., especially since it seems he and his government have suddenly contrived a situation in which chloroquine, normally available at a cheap price, is being restricted at exactly the moment certain people need it. In fact, there is indication of a healthy suspicion about what is really going on.)
Our liberal democracies found their legitimacy on the sacrosanct equality and liberty of the individual, that is to say. Such doctrines and practices certainly thrive in peacetime but as soon as there is a real threat of death – an early death for millions of elderly Westerners, in this case – these notions melt away like snow in the morning sun.
In the face of genuine danger, the natural social condition effortlessly reasserts itself. Liberty, equality, and the “rights of man” naturally give way to the imperative of collective survival: Every man at his post!
In truth, collective organization in the face of imminent danger has been the norm throughout human history. Social prescription went far beyond mere politics to being part of something much deeper: custom.
There is a curious contradiction running across Western societies today. Over the last two-and-a-half centuries, we have seen the individual rebel more and more forcefully against the formal strictures of the group, against formal inequalities and restrictions on “private” liberty (for instance, buggery, harlotry, and spinsterdom). Any attempt to take action to reverse Western nations’ decline and save their ethnic and genetic identity is considered a “human rights violation.” At the same time, in practice, our citizens tolerate and often outright expect massive curtailment of their liberties, usually in the name of security.
The fascist critique of liberal-democratic ethics basically boiled down to a denunciation of selfishness and hypocrisy. As Ezra Pound complained in 1938: “In our time the liberal has asked for almost no freedom save freedom to commit acts contrary to the general good.” Indeed, Pound noted that as people had only known “the loose waftiness of demoliberal ideology,” one needed “sharp speech” to open minds.
Many have warned of the dangers of making individual entitlement the moral yardstick of nations. Gandhi, Heinlein, Solzhenitsyn, to name only a few, all tried to make the point their own way. Here is a lesser-known example, the Romanian anti-communist Petre Țuțea, who in the first years after the fall of Ceaușescu confused his freedom-hungry interlocutors by saying:
Communist totalitarianism is a contradiction in terms. Totalitarians can only be those people who from start from the whole to go to the part – according to the Aristotelian formula. [. . .] The [Communist] Manifesto’s end is final anarchy [. . .]. By their end, communists are anarchists. Fascists, Hitlerians, and the Catholic Church are totalitarian, because they start from the Aristotelian principle: the whole comes before the part. These are totalitarians. A journalist told me: You can’t say that, you are confusing the youth! I can’t broadcast that if everyone considers communists to be totalitarian . . . But me […] I cannot take it back. I cannot lie.
It’s all well and good to understand that such a thing as civic virtue exists in times of crisis: that we are all in this together and must behave accordingly. But why does such Hellenic good sense not extend to peacetime?
Already today, civic virtue is highly unevenly distributed among the “French” population. Videos are circulating on social media of Africans and Muslims in France blatantly ignoring the confinement and social-distancing measures. According to Le Canard Enchaîné newspaper, the Interior Ministry responded by instituting “confinement lite” among this decidedly sensitive population.
This crisis is also an opportunity to reflect on the slow death of the Italian nation. I was raised near Italy and frequently visited the country growing up, gaining a real fondness for Italians and Italian culture. For me, crossing the Alps was like entering a different world, a different rhythm of existence. Today of course, with the Internet and the euro, the difference does not feel so great, yet still I love every second spent in the country.
Today, over 22% of the Italian population is over 65. The fertility rate of 1.32 per woman is among the lowest in Europe and is in continuous decline. While the Italians do not practice birthright citizenship and have not made it easy for non-European migrants to settle, there is still enormous pressure on the country from a continuous flow of illegals from Africa and the Middle East. We can ask: What will be left of Italy in 100 years? Not much, it seems, and that would be a great tragedy and a great crime.
There do not seem to be ten thousand ways of preventing the death of a nation.
Italy’s former Fascist regime fought for the country’s birthrate, power, stability, and economic independence. Emil Cioran – suspending his usual manic-depressive hyperbole – gave this qualified praise: “Overpopulation and Mussolini’s political genius have obviously raised [Italy’s] historical level [. . .]. Through Fascism, Italy suggested to itself that it become a great power. The result: she has succeeded in attracting the world’s serious interest. Nothing more.”
The citizens of the postwar Italian republic, that byword for the sleazy corruption of parliamentary politicians, have certainly enjoyed the fruits of consumerism. In the meantime, the country has steadily dwindled in significance, childless and aging, being reduced to a kind of debt colony of the European Union and international high finance.
The current polls still indicate a certain unpopularity for the Italian government, with a majority supporting a Right-wing coalition including conservatives and, especially, the nationalist parties Lega Nord and Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy).
The European financial system – that pyramid scheme of pyramid schemes – will emerge extraordinarily weakened from this crisis, as all the highly-uneven gains of recent years are lost with piling-ups of debt and reduced growth due to the coronavirus response. There are sure to be more crises.
Many globalists are afraid of what is to come. Joseph Borrell, the EU’s top diplomat, is worried China’s authoritarian competence will make Europe look bad. He opined on the European External Action Service’s blog:
There is a global battle of narratives going on in which timing is a crucial factor. [. . .] China has brought down local new infections to single figures – and it is now sending equipment and doctors to Europe, as others do as well. China is aggressively pushing the message that, unlike the US, it is a responsible and reliable partner. In the battle of narratives we have also seen attempts to discredit the EU as such and some instances where Europeans have been stigmatised as if all were carriers of the virus. [. . .] But we must be aware there is a geo-political component including a struggle for influence through spinning and the ‘politics of generosity’. Armed with facts, we need to defend Europe against its detractors.
Personally, I’m not too worried about Chinese soft power. If Westerners look bad in comparison, that is only because of their own incompetence rather than the nefariousness of the Chinese. The Chinese State wants to make deals. The globalists want something much dearer: they want to bribe you into losing your national soul, your traditional values, your fighting spirit.
This crisis may come to be seen as the moment in which a declining and incoherent liberal-globalist West was geopolitically overtaken by a confident and organized national-authoritarian China. If so, we can also expect other countries may be tempted to change their political models.
For us Westerners, I’d argue we don’t need to go so far afield for inspiration.
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Notes
Apologies for getting technical: the infamous “spread” refers to how much a given European government pays for interest on new loans as compared with Germany (which is lower). The spread is an indicator of markets’ lack of faith in the ability of peripheral Eurozone countries – notably Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain – to repay their national debt. When the spreads increase, a vicious cycle ensues as countries become unable to refinance their existing debt, thus making default more likely. The ECB seeks to prevent this by directly or indirectly lending to governments, more or less in violation of its mandate, which is the source of huge controversy in northern Europe, who don’t want their taxpayers to be on the hook for southern profligacy. There also appears to be an element of financial speculation in the periodic rise and fall of the spreads, to the benefit of Goldman Sachs and the like.
Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur (New York: New Direction, 1970 [1938]), p. 254.
Ibid., p. 26.
Petre Țuțea, 322 de vorbe memorabile (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2009 [1993]), p. 33-34.


thelibertybeacon--2020-03-30--Manipulated Covid-19 Numbers Are Fueling Hysteria & Lock Downs

In announcing the most far-reaching restrictions on personal freedom in the history of our nation , Boris Johnson resolutely followed the scientific advice that he had been given .
The advisers to the government seem calm and collected , with a solid consensus among them .
In the face of a new viral threat , with numbers of cases surging daily , I ’ m not sure that any prime minister would have acted very differently .
But I ’ d like to raise some perspectives that have hardly been aired in the past weeks , and which point to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from that which the government is acting on .
I ’ m a recently-retired Professor of Pathology and NHS consultant pathologist , and have spent most of my adult life in healthcare and science – fields which , all too often , are characterised by doubt rather than certainty .
There is room for different interpretations of the current data .
If some of these other interpretations are correct , or at least nearer to the truth , then conclusions about the actions required will change correspondingly .
The simplest way to judge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to look at the death rates .
Are more people dying than we would expect to die anyway in a given week or month ?
Statistically , we would expect about 51,000 to die in Britain this month .
At the time of writing , 422 deaths are linked to Covid-19 — so 0.8 per cent of that expected total .
On a global basis , we ’ d expect 14 million to die over the first three months of the year .
The world ’ s 18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figures might shoot up but they are , right now , lower than other infectious diseases that we live with ( such as flu ) .
Not figures that would , in and of themselves , cause drastic global reactions .
Initial reported figures from China and Italy suggested a death rate of 5 per cent to 15 percent , similar to Spanish flu .
Given that cases were increasing exponentially , this raised the prospect of death rates that no healthcare system in the world would be able to cope with .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the justification for measures being implemented : the Spanish flu is believed to have infected about one in four of the world ’ s population between 1918 and 1920 , or roughly 500 million people with 50 million deaths .
We developed pandemic emergency plans , ready to snap into action in case this happened again .
At the time of writing , the UK ’ s 422 deaths and 8,077 known cases give an apparent death rate of 5 per cent .
This is often cited as a cause for concern , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flu , which is estimated at about 0.1 per cent .
But we ought to look very carefully at the data .
Are these figures really comparable ?
Most of the UK testing has been in hospitals , where there is a high concentration of patients susceptible to the effects of any infection .
As anyone who has worked with sick people will know , any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will over-estimate the virulence of an infection .
Also , we ’ re only dealing with those Covid-19 cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worried enough to get tested .
There will be many more unaware that they have the virus , with either no symptoms , or mild ones .
Any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will overestimate the virulence of an infection .
That ’ s why , when Britain had 590 diagnosed cases , Sir Patrick Vallance , the government ’ s chief scientific adviser , suggested that the real figure was probably between 5,000 and 10,000 cases , ten to 20 times higher .
If he ’ s right , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus is likely to be ten to 20 times lower , say 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent .
That puts the Covid-19 mortality rate in the range associated with infections like flu .
But there ’ s another , potentially even more serious problem : the way that deaths are recorded .
If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK , the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded , unless the illness is a rare ‘ notifiable disease ’ .
So the vast majority of respiratory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bronchopneumonia , pneumonia , old age or a similar designation .
We don ’ t really test for flu , or other seasonal infections .
If the patient has , say , cancer , motor neurone disease or another serious disease , this will be recorded as the cause of death , even if the final illness was a respiratory infection .
This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections .
Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19 .
The list of notifiable diseases has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as containing smallpox ( which has been extinct for many years ) and conditions such as anthrax , brucellosis , plague and rabies ( which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers ) — has now been amended to include Covid-19 .
But not flu .
That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified , in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections .
In the current climate , anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any of these patients dies , staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate — contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind .
There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death , and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes .
Making Covid-19 notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths , whether this is true or not .
It might appear far more of a killer than flu , simply because of the way deaths are recorded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reduce the incidence of Covid-19 , it follows that the deaths will also go down .
We risk being convinced that we have averted something that was never really going to be as severe as we feared .
This unusual way of reporting Covid-19 deaths explains the clear finding that most of its victims have underlying conditions — and would normally be susceptible to other seasonal viruses , which are virtually never recorded as a specific cause of death .
Let us also consider the Covid-19 graphs , showing an exponential rise in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look alarming .
But if we tracked flu or other seasonal viruses in the same way , we would also see an exponential increase .
We would also see some countries behind others , and striking fatality rates .
The United States Centers for Disease Control , for example , publishes weekly estimates of flu cases .
The latest figures show that since September , flu has infected 38 million Americans , hospitalised 390,000 and killed 23,000 .
This does not cause public alarm because flu is familiar .
The data on Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Look at the figures for Italy and Germany .
At the time of writing , Italy has 69,176 recorded cases and 6,820 deaths , a rate of 9.9 per cent .
Germany has 32,986 cases and 157 deaths , a rate of 0.5 per cent .
Do we think that the strain of virus is so different in these nearby countries as to virtually represent different diseases ?
Or that the populations are so different in their susceptibility to the virus that the death rate can vary more than twentyfold ?
If not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that the Covid-19 data we are seeing from different countries is not directly comparable .
Look at other rates : Spain 7.1 per cent , US 1.3 per cent , Switzerland 1.3 per cent , France 4.3 per cent , South Korea 1.3 per cent , Iran 7.8 per cent .
We may very well be comparing apples with oranges .
Recording cases where there was a positive test for the virus is a very different thing to recording the virus as the main cause of death .
Early evidence from Iceland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ organisation for wide testing within the population , suggests that as many as 50 per cent of infections are almost completely asymptomatic .
Most of the rest are relatively minor .
In fact , Iceland ’ s figures , 648 cases and two attributed deaths , give a death rate of 0.3 per cent .
As population testing becomes more widespread elsewhere in the world , we will find a greater and greater proportion of cases where infections have already occurred and caused only mild effects .
In fact , as time goes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too , because most infections tend to decrease in virulence as an epidemic progresses .
One pretty clear indicator is death .
If a new infection is causing many extra people to die ( as opposed to an infection present in people who would have died anyway ) then it will cause an increase in the overall death rate .
But we have yet to see any statistical evidence for excess deaths , in any part of the world .
-19 can clearly cause serious respiratory tract compromise in some patients , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are probably more at risk , as they are for infections of any kind .
The average age of those dying in Italy is 78.5 years , with almost nine in ten fatalities among the over-70s .
The life expectancy in Italy — that is , the number of years you can expect to live to from birth , all things being equal — is 82.5 years .
But all things are not equal when a new seasonal virus goes around .
It certainly seems reasonable , now , that a degree of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while , especially for the elderly and the immune-suppressed .
But when drastic measures are introduced , they should be based on clear evidence .
In the case of Covid-19 , the evidence is not clear .
The UK ’ s lock down has been informed by modelling of what might happen .
More needs to be known about these models .
Do they correct for age , pre-existing conditions , changing virulence , the effects of death certification and other factors ?
Tweak any of these assumptions and the outcome ( and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Much of the response to Covid-19 seems explained by the fact that we are watching this virus in a way that no virus has been watched before .
The scenes from the Italian hospitals have been shocking , and make for grim television .
But television is not science .
Clearly , the various lock downs will slow the spread of Covid-19 so there will be fewer cases .
When we relax the measures , there will be more cases again .
But this need not be a reason to keep the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is only something to fear if we are dealing with an unusually lethal virus .
That ’ s why the way we record data will be hugely important .
Unless we tighten criteria for recording death due only to the virus ( as opposed to it being present in those who died from other conditions ) , the official figures may show a lot more deaths apparently caused by the virus than is actually the case .
What then ?
How do we measure the health consequences of taking people ’ s lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from them to protect them from an anticipated threat ?
Which causes least harm ?
The moral debate is not lives vs money .
It is lives vs lives .
It will take months , perhaps years , if ever , before we can assess the wider implications of what we are doing .
The damage to children ’ s education , the excess suicides , the increase in mental health problems , the taking away of resources from other health problems that we were dealing with effectively .
Those who need medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , or might not be offered it .
And what about the effects on food production and global commerce , that will have unquantifiable consequences for people of all ages , perhaps especially in developing economies ?
Governments everywhere say they are responding to the science .
The policies in the UK are not the government ’ s fault .
They are trying to act responsibly based on the scientific advice given .
But governments must remember that rushed science is almost always bad science .
We have decided on policies of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harm already occurring , and without proper scrutiny of the science used to justify them .
In the next few days and weeks , we must continue to look critically and dispassionately at the Covid-19 evidence as it comes in .
Above all else , we must keep an open mind — and look for what is , not for what we fear might be .

Manipulated Covid-19 Numbers Are Fueling Hysteria and Lock Downs
By: John Lee, MD
In announcing the most far-reaching restrictions on personal freedom in the history of our nation, Boris Johnson resolutely followed the scientific advice that he had been given. The advisers to the government seem calm and collected, with a solid consensus among them. In the face of a new viral threat, with numbers of cases surging daily, I’m not sure that any prime minister would have acted very differently.
But I’d like to raise some perspectives that have hardly been aired in the past weeks, and which point to an interpretation of the figures rather different from that which the government is acting on. I’m a recently-retired Professor of Pathology and NHS consultant pathologist, and have spent most of my adult life in healthcare and science – fields which, all too often, are characterised by doubt rather than certainty. There is room for different interpretations of the current data. If some of these other interpretations are correct, or at least nearer to the truth, then conclusions about the actions required will change correspondingly.
The simplest way to judge whether we have an exceptionally lethal disease is to look at the death rates. Are more people dying than we would expect to die anyway in a given week or month?
Statistically, we would expect about 51,000 to die in Britain this month. At the time of writing, 422 deaths are linked to Covid-19 — so 0.8 per cent of that expected total.
On a global basis, we’d expect 14 million to die over the first three months of the year. The world’s 18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of that total.
These figures might shoot up but they are, right now, lower than other infectious diseases that we live with (such as flu). Not figures that would, in and of themselves, cause drastic global reactions.
Initial reported figures from China and Italy suggested a death rate of 5 per cent to 15 percent, similar to Spanish flu. Given that cases were increasing exponentially, this raised the prospect of death rates that no healthcare system in the world would be able to cope with. The need to avoid this scenario is the justification for measures being implemented: the Spanish flu is believed to have infected about one in four of the world’s population between 1918 and 1920, or roughly 500 million people with 50 million deaths. We developed pandemic emergency plans, ready to snap into action in case this happened again.
At the time of writing, the UK’s 422 deaths and 8,077 known cases give an apparent death rate of 5 per cent. This is often cited as a cause for concern, contrasted with the mortality rate of seasonal flu, which is estimated at about 0.1 per cent. But we ought to look very carefully at the data. Are these figures really comparable?
Most of the UK testing has been in hospitals, where there is a high concentration of patients susceptible to the effects of any infection.
As anyone who has worked with sick people will know, any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will over-estimate the virulence of an infection. Also, we’re only dealing with those Covid-19 cases that have made people sick enough or worried enough to get tested. There will be many more unaware that they have the virus, with either no symptoms, or mild ones.
Any testing regime that is based only in hospitals will overestimate the virulence of an infection.
That’s why, when Britain had 590 diagnosed cases, Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, suggested that the real figure was probably between 5,000 and 10,000 cases, ten to 20 times higher. If he’s right, the headline death rate due to this virus is likely to be ten to 20 times lower, say 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. That puts the Covid-19 mortality rate in the range associated with infections like flu.
But there’s another, potentially even more serious problem: the way that deaths are recorded. If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare ‘notifiable disease’. So the vast majority of respiratory deaths in the UK are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation. We don’t really test for flu, or other seasonal infections. If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection. This means UK certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections.
Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19. The list of notifiable diseases has been updated. This list — as well as containing smallpox (which has been extinct for many years) and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most UK doctors will never see in their entire careers) — has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu. That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections.
In the current climate, anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate — contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind.
There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes. Making Covid-19 notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths, whether this is true or not. It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded.
If we take drastic measures to reduce the incidence of Covid-19, it follows that the deaths will also go down. We risk being convinced that we have averted something that was never really going to be as severe as we feared.
This unusual way of reporting Covid-19 deaths explains the clear finding that most of its victims have underlying conditions — and would normally be susceptible to other seasonal viruses, which are virtually never recorded as a specific cause of death.
Let us also consider the Covid-19 graphs, showing an exponential rise in cases — and deaths. They can look alarming. But if we tracked flu or other seasonal viruses in the same way, we would also see an exponential increase. We would also see some countries behind others, and striking fatality rates. The United States Centers for Disease Control, for example, publishes weekly estimates of flu cases. The latest figures show that since September, flu has infected 38 million Americans, hospitalised 390,000 and killed 23,000. This does not cause public alarm because flu is familiar.
The data on Covid-19 differs wildly from country to country. Look at the figures for Italy and Germany. At the time of writing, Italy has 69,176 recorded cases and 6,820 deaths, a rate of 9.9 per cent. Germany has 32,986 cases and 157 deaths, a rate of 0.5 per cent. Do we think that the strain of virus is so different in these nearby countries as to virtually represent different diseases? Or that the populations are so different in their susceptibility to the virus that the death rate can vary more than twentyfold? If not, we ought to suspect systematic error, that the Covid-19 data we are seeing from different countries is not directly comparable.
Look at other rates: Spain 7.1 per cent, US 1.3 per cent, Switzerland 1.3 per cent, France 4.3 per cent, South Korea 1.3 per cent, Iran 7.8 per cent. We may very well be comparing apples with oranges. Recording cases where there was a positive test for the virus is a very different thing to recording the virus as the main cause of death.
Early evidence from Iceland, a country with a very strong organisation for wide testing within the population, suggests that as many as 50 per cent of infections are almost completely asymptomatic. Most of the rest are relatively minor. In fact, Iceland’s figures, 648 cases and two attributed deaths, give a death rate of 0.3 per cent. As population testing becomes more widespread elsewhere in the world, we will find a greater and greater proportion of cases where infections have already occurred and caused only mild effects. In fact, as time goes on, this will become generally truer too, because most infections tend to decrease in virulence as an epidemic progresses.
One pretty clear indicator is death. If a new infection is causing many extra people to die (as opposed to an infection present in people who would have died anyway) then it will cause an increase in the overall death rate. But we have yet to see any statistical evidence for excess deaths, in any part of the world.
-19 can clearly cause serious respiratory tract compromise in some patients, especially those with chest issues. The elderly are probably more at risk, as they are for infections of any kind. The average age of those dying in Italy is 78.5 years, with almost nine in ten fatalities among the over-70s. The life expectancy in Italy — that is, the number of years you can expect to live to from birth, all things being equal — is 82.5 years. But all things are not equal when a new seasonal virus goes around.
It certainly seems reasonable, now, that a degree of social distancing should be maintained for a while, especially for the elderly and the immune-suppressed. But when drastic measures are introduced, they should be based on clear evidence. In the case of Covid-19, the evidence is not clear. The UK’s lock down has been informed by modelling of what might happen. More needs to be known about these models. Do they correct for age, pre-existing conditions, changing virulence, the effects of death certification and other factors? Tweak any of these assumptions and the outcome (and predicted death toll) can change radically.
Much of the response to Covid-19 seems explained by the fact that we are watching this virus in a way that no virus has been watched before. The scenes from the Italian hospitals have been shocking, and make for grim television. But television is not science.
Clearly, the various lock downs will slow the spread of Covid-19 so there will be fewer cases. When we relax the measures, there will be more cases again. But this need not be a reason to keep the lock down: the spread of cases is only something to fear if we are dealing with an unusually lethal virus. That’s why the way we record data will be hugely important. Unless we tighten criteria for recording death due only to the virus (as opposed to it being present in those who died from other conditions), the official figures may show a lot more deaths apparently caused by the virus than is actually the case. What then? How do we measure the health consequences of taking people’s lives, jobs, leisure and purpose away from them to protect them from an anticipated threat? Which causes least harm?
The moral debate is not lives vs money. It is lives vs lives. It will take months, perhaps years, if ever, before we can assess the wider implications of what we are doing. The damage to children’s education, the excess suicides, the increase in mental health problems, the taking away of resources from other health problems that we were dealing with effectively. Those who need medical help now but won’t seek it, or might not be offered it. And what about the effects on food production and global commerce, that will have unquantifiable consequences for people of all ages, perhaps especially in developing economies?
Governments everywhere say they are responding to the science. The policies in the UK are not the government’s fault. They are trying to act responsibly based on the scientific advice given. But governments must remember that rushed science is almost always bad science.
We have decided on policies of extraordinary magnitude without concrete evidence of excess harm already occurring, and without proper scrutiny of the science used to justify them.
In the next few days and weeks, we must continue to look critically and dispassionately at the Covid-19 evidence as it comes in. Above all else, we must keep an open mind — and look for what is, not for what we fear might be.
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About the articles Author: John Lee is a recently retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant pathologist.
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