thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--COVID-19 Lockdowns Are in Lockstep with the ‘Great Reset’

When Covid-19 coincidentally emerged from Wuhan two months later , scientists were rushing to generate similar alarmist forecasts using a variety of questionable scientific models .
Researchers from the Imperial College London , for instance , approximated death tolls of 500,000 in the UK and two million in the US by October this year .
In October 2019 , a pandemic simulation exercise called Event 201 – a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security , the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – concluded that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up killing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 18 months of an outbreak .
Who benefits from lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society ?
Look no further than the emerging global oligarchy .
While scientific models are admittedly fallible , one would nonetheless be hard-pressed to justify the endless string of contradictions , discrepancies and wilful amnesia in the global pandemic narrative .
Was it the science of mass-mediated hysteria ?
There are many troubling questions yet unanswered .
Perhaps what we are really dealing with is a case of mass “ coronapsychosis ” as Belarus ’ President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefits from global lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society ?
The following four “ great ” undercurrents may provide a clue .
As this author has warned for more than a decade , the world is staring at a confluence of risk overloads , socioeconomic meltdowns and a Second Great Depression .
For the ruling classes , Covid-19 is fortuitously deflecting public attention away from the disastrous consequences of decades of economic mismanagement and wealth fractionation .
The consolidation of Big Tech with Big Media has created an Orwellian world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bogeymen like Russia to those who disagree with the pandemic narrative .
We have entered a “ new normal ” where Pyongyang , North Korea affords more ambulatory freedom than Melbourne , Australia .
While rioting and mass demonstrations by assorted radicals are given a free pass – even encouraged by leaders in the West – Facebook posts questioning lockdowns are deemed subversive .
This is a world where Australian Blueshirts beat up women , manhandle a pregnant woman in her own home and perform wolf pack policing on an elderly lady in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Australian state of Victoria remains unfazed by the unflattering moniker of Kim Jong Dan .
The corona-totalitarianism is unsurprisingly most pronounced in the Anglosphere and its dependencies .
After all , these nations are staring at socioeconomic bankruptcies of unprecedented proportions vis-a-vis their counterparts .
Even their own governments are being systematically undermined from within .
The US Department of Homeland Security , created in the aftermath of 9/11 to combat terrorism , is now providing $ 10 million in grants to organizations which supposedly combat “ far-right extremism and white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ malcontents who are razing down US cities and its economies in the name of social justice .
There is however a curious rationale behind this inane policy as the following section illustrates .
While the circus continues , the bread is thinning out , except for the top 0.001 % .
Instead of bankruptcy , as recent trends indicated , Silicon Valley and affiliated monopolies are notching up record profits along with record social media censorships .
US billionaires raked in $ 434 billion in the first two months of the lockdown alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more the wealth accrued to the techno-elite .
As tens of millions of individuals and small businesses face bankruptcy by Christmas , the remote work revolution is gifting multibillion dollar jackpots to the likes of Jeff Bezos ( Amazon ) and Mark Zuckerberg ( Facebook ) .
Azure ( Microsoft ) and AWS ( Amazon ) cloud ecosystems , among others , have expanded by 50 percent since the beginning of the pandemic .
In the face of such runaway wealth fractionation , panoptic contact tracing tools from Big Tech are increasingly employed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , to prevent a second , third or nth wave of Covid-19 for our collective good !
In the meantime , Big Banks , Big Pharma , Big Tech and other monopolies are getting lavish central bank bailouts or “ stimulus packages ” to gobble up struggling smaller enterprises .
Covid-19 is a gift that never stops giving to a select few .
But how will the techno-oligarchy maintain a degree of social credibility and control in an impoverished and tumultuous world ?
Oligarchic philanthropy will be a dominant feature of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ambiguity ) decade .
According to a recent Guardian report , philanthropic foundations have multiplied exponentially in the past two decades , controlling a war chest worth more than $ 1.5 trillion .
That is sufficient to bankroll a horde of experts , NGOs , industry lobbies , media and fact-checkers worldwide .
Large sums can also be distributed rapidly to undermine governments .
The laws governing scientific empiricism are no longer static and immutable : they must dance in tandem with the funding .
Those who scream fake news are usually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another “ new normal ” which had predated Covid-19 by years .
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF ) is a prime example of how oligarchic philanthropy works .
Since 2000 , it has donated more than $ 45 billion to “ charitable causes , ” and a chunk of this is designed to control the global media narrative .
As for the BMGF ’ s alleged success in eradicating polio , officials now fear that a dangerous new strain could soon “ jump continents.
” After spending $ 16 billion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ international health bodies – which work closely with BMGF – have “ accidentally ” reintroduced the disease to Afghanistan , Iraq and Pakistan .
Poverty , hunger and desperation will spawn a tangible degree of public gratitude despite elite philanthropy ’ s entrenched bias towards elite institutions and causes .
By the Guardian ’ s own admission , “ British millionaires gave £1.04bn to the arts , and just £222m to alleviating poverty ” in the 10-year period to 2017 .
Contrast this with the annual $ 10 billion earmarked by the philanthropic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US alone.
” The rabble is worth their weight only for the potential havoc they can wreak .
There is enough money floating around to reduce our cities into bedlams of anarchy , as seen in the United States today .
The crumbs left over can be delegated to threadbare charities .
One only needs to reflect on soup kitchens in the post-1929 Weimar Republic .
The most popular ones were organized by the Nazi party and funded by wealthy patrons .
The march towards a new order has a familiar historical meme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terrorise citizens for not wearing masks , for not being locked down in their pens , and for simply supporting a political candidate of choice .
Even children are not spared !
A great pruning will inevitably occur in the mega-billionaire club as whatever remains of the global corona-economy is systematically cannibalized .
The club will get smaller but wealthier , and will attempt to sway our collective destiny .
Control over education , healthcare , means of communications and basic social provisions is being increasingly ceded by governments to the global elite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normal ” will sooner or later face the ire of distressed masses .
Politicians and assorted “ social justice warriors ” will be scapegoated once they have outlived their usefulness .
In this cauldron , the century-old technocratic dream of replacing politicians , electoral processes and businesses with societies run by scientists and technical experts may emerge – thanks to advances in panoptic technologies .
It will be an age for the “ rational science of production ” and “ scientific collectivism.
” The latter is eerily redolent of the Soviet sharaska ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and supply of goods will be coordinated by a central directorate , led not by elected representatives ( whose roles , where they exist , will be nominal anyway ) but by technocrat factotums .
Perhaps this is what the World Economic Forum refers to as the Great Reset .
In reality though , this idea smacks of a global Gosplan ( ER : this was the central committee for economic planning in the Soviet era ) minus the Doctor Sausages for the innumerable many .
( Some emerging economies like Malaysia and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infusion of greater technical expertise into an extant bureaucracy .
This is a misinterpretation of technocracy ’ s long-standing means and goals ) .
One intractable problem remains : will the emerging global oligarchy tolerate the existence of various ‘ deep states ’ worldwide ?
Initially , both groupings may cooperate to their mutual benefit , but their respective raisons d ’ être are too contradictory to be reconciled .
One thrives on an “ open society ” run by obedient hirelings who will administer a global Ministry of Truth while the other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national sovereignty to justify its existence .
Surveillance technologies ushered in by the ongoing “ coronapsychosis ” may end up being the deciding factor .

When Covid-19 coincidentally emerged from Wuhan two months later, scientists were rushing to generate similar alarmist forecasts using a variety of questionable scientific models. Researchers from the Imperial College London, for instance, approximated death tolls of 500,000 in the UK and two million in the US by October this year.
In October 2019, a pandemic simulation exercise called Event 201 – a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – concluded that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up killing at least 65 million people worldwide within 18 months of an outbreak.
Who benefits from lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? Look no further than the emerging global oligarchy.
While scientific models are admittedly fallible, one would nonetheless be hard-pressed to justify the endless string of contradictions, discrepancies and wilful amnesia in the global pandemic narrative. Was it the science of mass-mediated hysteria? There are many troubling questions yet unanswered.
Perhaps what we are really dealing with is a case of mass “coronapsychosis” as Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko aptly called it. Who benefits from global lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? The following four “great” undercurrents may provide a clue.
The Great Deflection
As this author has warned for more than a decade, the world is staring at a confluence of risk overloads, socioeconomic meltdowns and a Second Great Depression. For the ruling classes, Covid-19 is fortuitously deflecting public attention away from the disastrous consequences of decades of economic mismanagement and wealth fractionation. The consolidation of Big Tech with Big Media has created an Orwellian world where collective hysteria is shifting loci from bogeymen like Russia to those who disagree with the pandemic narrative.
We have entered a “new normal” where Pyongyang, North Korea affords more ambulatory freedom than Melbourne, Australia. While rioting and mass demonstrations by assorted radicals are given a free pass – even encouraged by leaders in the West – Facebook posts questioning lockdowns are deemed subversive. This is a world where Australian Blueshirts beat up women, manhandle a pregnant woman in her own home and perform wolf pack policing on an elderly lady in a park. Yet, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria remains unfazed by the unflattering moniker of Kim Jong Dan.
The corona-totalitarianism is unsurprisingly most pronounced in the Anglosphere and its dependencies. After all, these nations are staring at socioeconomic bankruptcies of unprecedented proportions vis-a-vis their counterparts. Even their own governments are being systematically undermined from within. The US Department of Homeland Security, created in the aftermath of 9/11 to combat terrorism, is now providing $10 million in grants to organizations which supposedly combat “far-right extremism and white supremacy.” This will further radicalize leftist malcontents who are razing down US cities and its economies in the name of social justice. There is however a curious rationale behind this inane policy as the following section illustrates.
The Great Wealth Transfer
While the circus continues, the bread is thinning out, except for the top 0.001%. Instead of bankruptcy, as recent trends indicated, Silicon Valley and affiliated monopolies are notching up record profits along with record social media censorships. US billionaires raked in $434 billion in the first two months of the lockdown alone. The more the lockdowns, the more the wealth accrued to the techno-elite. As tens of millions of individuals and small businesses face bankruptcy by Christmas, the remote work revolution is gifting multibillion dollar jackpots to the likes of Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Azure (Microsoft) and AWS (Amazon) cloud ecosystems, among others, have expanded by 50 percent since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the face of such runaway wealth fractionation, panoptic contact tracing tools from Big Tech are increasingly employed to pacify restive populations. And of course, to prevent a second, third or nth wave of Covid-19 for our collective good!
In the meantime, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Tech and other monopolies are getting lavish central bank bailouts or “stimulus packages” to gobble up struggling smaller enterprises. Covid-19 is a gift that never stops giving to a select few.
But how will the techno-oligarchy maintain a degree of social credibility and control in an impoverished and tumultuous world?
The Great Philanthropy
Oligarchic philanthropy will be a dominant feature of this VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) decade.
According to a recent Guardian report, philanthropic foundations have multiplied exponentially in the past two decades, controlling a war chest worth more than $1.5 trillion. That is sufficient to bankroll a horde of experts, NGOs, industry lobbies, media and fact-checkers worldwide. Large sums can also be distributed rapidly to undermine governments.
The laws governing scientific empiricism are no longer static and immutable: they must dance in tandem with the funding. Those who scream fake news are usually its foremost peddlers. This is yet another “new normal” which had predated Covid-19 by years.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a prime example of how oligarchic philanthropy works. Since 2000, it has donated more than $45 billion to “charitable causes,” and a chunk of this is designed to control the global media narrative. As for the BMGF’s alleged success in eradicating polio, officials now fear that a dangerous new strain could soon “jump continents.” After spending $16 billion over 30 years to eradicate polio, international health bodies – which work closely with BMGF – have “accidentally” reintroduced the disease to Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.
Poverty, hunger and desperation will spawn a tangible degree of public gratitude despite elite philanthropy’s entrenched bias towards elite institutions and causes. By the Guardian’s own admission, “British millionaires gave £1.04bn to the arts, and just £222m to alleviating poverty” in the 10-year period to 2017. Contrast this with the annual $10 billion earmarked by the philanthropic pool for “ideological persuasion in the US alone.” The rabble is worth their weight only for the potential havoc they can wreak.
There is enough money floating around to reduce our cities into bedlams of anarchy, as seen in the United States today. The crumbs left over can be delegated to threadbare charities. One only needs to reflect on soup kitchens in the post-1929 Weimar Republic. The most popular ones were organized by the Nazi party and funded by wealthy patrons. The march towards a new order has a familiar historical meme. The new Brownshirts are those who terrorise citizens for not wearing masks, for not being locked down in their pens, and for simply supporting a political candidate of choice.
Even children are not spared!
The Great Reset
A great pruning will inevitably occur in the mega-billionaire club as whatever remains of the global corona-economy is systematically cannibalized. The club will get smaller but wealthier, and will attempt to sway our collective destiny. Control over education, healthcare, means of communications and basic social provisions is being increasingly ceded by governments to the global elite. Governments colluding in the “new normal” will sooner or later face the ire of distressed masses. Politicians and assorted “social justice warriors” will be scapegoated once they have outlived their usefulness.
In this cauldron, the century-old technocratic dream of replacing politicians, electoral processes and businesses with societies run by scientists and technical experts may emerge – thanks to advances in panoptic technologies. It will be an age for the “rational science of production” and “scientific collectivism.” The latter is eerily redolent of the Soviet sharaska (prison labs) system.
The production and supply of goods will be coordinated by a central directorate, led not by elected representatives (whose roles, where they exist, will be nominal anyway) but by technocrat factotums. Perhaps this is what the World Economic Forum refers to as the Great Reset. In reality though, this idea smacks of a global Gosplan (ER: this was the central committee for economic planning in the Soviet era) minus the Doctor Sausages for the innumerable many. (Some emerging economies like Malaysia and India casually refer to technocracy as an infusion of greater technical expertise into an extant bureaucracy. This is a misinterpretation of technocracy’s long-standing means and goals).
One intractable problem remains: will the emerging global oligarchy tolerate the existence of various ‘deep states’ worldwide? Initially, both groupings may cooperate to their mutual benefit, but their respective raisons d’être are too contradictory to be reconciled. One thrives on an “open society” run by obedient hirelings who will administer a global Ministry of Truth while the other depends on secrecy and a degree of national sovereignty to justify its existence.
Surveillance technologies ushered in by the ongoing “coronapsychosis” may end up being the deciding factor.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--World Doctors Alliance is Launched Under ACU2020 Banner [VIDEO]

ER Editor : This video is from October 10 , 2020 when Dr. Heiko Schoning of ACU2020 ( along with Drs .
Bodo Schiffmann , Martin Haditsch and lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich ) launched the World Doctors Alliance .
Here we ’ ll encounter some people we already know , such as Prof. Dolores Cahill from Ireland and Dr. Mohammad Adil from England .
They also have a banker on board , a former Goldman Sachs employee .
We will be paying attention to this economic theme .
Here are some key statements made by four of the participants : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and peace activists and we ’ re all saying together that this Covid affair is just not true.
’ ‘ The hospitals are not full , the people are not ill .
They are tested , but the tests that are provided don ’ t work as they should .
So we have to get this out to the public.
’ ‘ We will arrange a new Nuremburg trial , hopefully in Nuremburg , to litigate against all the criminals behind this hoax.
’ ‘ I would like to ask the German Medical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where is your evidence that we still have an ongoing deadly infectious disease that could justify all the restrictions that you implemented on us during the last year ?
Please share this information … ’ Prof. Dolores Cahill delivers a very fulsome , comprehensive message from 14:00 to 16:30 mins .
We see no evidence of a medical pandemic , so it looks like a plandemic … Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate , and for this we are grateful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be practical .
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ER Editor: This video is from October 10, 2020 when Dr. Heiko Schoning of ACU2020 (along with Drs. Bodo Schiffmann, Martin Haditsch and lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich) launched the World Doctors Alliance. Here we’ll encounter some people we already know, such as Prof. Dolores Cahill from Ireland and Dr. Mohammad Adil from England.
They also have a banker on board, a former Goldman Sachs employee. We will be paying attention to this economic theme.
Here are some key statements made by four of the participants:
‘We are all doctors, scientists and peace activists and we’re all saying together that this Covid affair is just not true.’
‘The hospitals are not full, the people are not ill. They are tested, but the tests that are provided don’t work as they should. So we have to get this out to the public.’
‘We will arrange a new Nuremburg trial, hopefully in Nuremburg, to litigate against all the criminals behind this hoax.’
‘I would like to ask the German Medical Council and our Centre for Disease Control where is your evidence that we still have an ongoing deadly infectious disease that could justify all the restrictions that you implemented on us during the last year? Please share this information …’
Prof. Dolores Cahill delivers a very fulsome, comprehensive message from 14:00 to 16:30 mins.
We see no evidence of a medical pandemic, so it looks like a plandemic …
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--Survey reveals hardly anyone trusts Commissar Boris

Hardly anybody trusts the government of Commissar Boris according to the results of a survey reported in the Mail ( see below ) It is hardly surprising .
The British people do not take kindly to being shafted .
Trust has to be earned .
To be honest , I am faintly surprised the percentage of people who trust the government is as high as 15 % .
From talking to a lot of people , I ’ d have put it at around 10 % Still , 15 % is pretty encouraging .
It means that the citizenry is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and mendacity of our political “ elite ” than said liars and con men would like .
It is difficult to be a conman and maintain a successful scam when the vast and ever-growing majority of your would-be marks are well aware that to are a deceitful scumbag .
On the other hand , on a sane , well-run planet that is not a mismanaged mess , people SHOULD be able to trust their government .
You actually can ’ t have a sane well-run civilisation without it .
Which is why sane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through Man ’ s as yet brief history .
Still , we are as a species still learning and there is no reason or law says we can not take on board the lessons of Now and build a much-improved Tomorrow .
It all starts with a decision .
So our task in the Freedom Movement is to figure out how to usher in an era where people CAN safely trust their government because ( and this is the ONLY way to obtain it ) their government is worthy of that trust by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , when we manage to bring about an Age of Honest Government , we will have brought into being a new , much-improved civilisation .
Striving for that is a game well worth playing and beats the hell of the game called Docile Herd , the game on offer from our chums in the Globalist crime syndicate .
Majority of Britons do NOT trust the government : Survey reveals ‘ record lows ’ in confidence with 15 % of people saying they have faith in Boris and Co .
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INTRO:
by Boudicca
Hardly anybody trusts the government of Commissar Boris according to the results of a survey reported in the Mail (see below)
It is hardly surprising.
The British people do not take kindly to being shafted. Trust has to be earned.
The globalist front group masquerading as our government has been caught out lying time and again and the lies used to justify a suppression of production the like of which would have been considered an act of war had it been perpetrated by an external rather than internal foe
To be honest, I am faintly surprised the percentage of people who trust the government is as high as 15%. From talking to a lot of people, I’d have put it at around 10%
Still, 15% is pretty encouraging. It means that the citizenry is a lot more aware of the slipperiness and mendacity of our political “elite” than said liars and con men would like. It is difficult to be a conman and maintain a successful scam when the vast and ever-growing majority of your would-be marks are well aware that to are a deceitful scumbag.
On the other hand, on a sane, well-run planet that is not a mismanaged mess, people SHOULD be able to trust their government. You actually can’t have a sane well-run civilisation without it. Which is why sane, well-run civilisations have been pretty rare through Man’s as yet brief history.
Still, we are as a species still learning and there is no reason or law says we cannot take on board the lessons of Now and build a much-improved Tomorrow. It all starts with a decision.
So our task in the Freedom Movement is to figure out how to usher in an era where people CAN safely trust their government because (and this is the ONLY way to obtain it) their government is worthy of that trust by being honest and sincere.
Of course, when we manage to bring about an Age of Honest Government, we will have brought into being a new, much-improved civilisation. Striving for that is a game well worth playing and beats the hell of the game called Docile Herd, the game on offer from our chums in the Globalist crime syndicate. Feel free to join in.
THE ARTICLE:
Majority of Britons do NOT trust the government: Survey reveals ‘record lows’ in confidence with 15% of people saying they have faith in Boris and Co.
British Social Attitudes poll found confidence among lowest levels ever recorded
Around 34 per cent said that they ‘almost never’ trust the political system
It is thought that trust in government has ‘fallen away significantly’ since 2016 Read the rest of the article here First published on UK Reloaded
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--Trump comments about Biden story on Social Media & NY Post

US President Donald Trump has taken notice of the social media crackdown on the New York Post over a story about his challenger Joe Biden ’ s son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine , urging a crackdown on platforms instead .
( RT-USA News ) “ So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘ Smoking Gun ’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son , Hunter , in the [ New York Post ] , ” Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening .
“ REPEAL SECTION 230 !
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” the president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Communications Decency Act shielding social media platforms from legal liability if they act “ in good faith ” to remove objectionable content posted by users .
A Facebook executive who previously worked for Senate Democrats has openly admitted the New York Post article would be suppressed even before “ independent fact-checkers ” could look at it , while Twitter outright blocked the link to the story from being shared , claiming it was “ potentially harmful.
” It was a drastic reaction to a story citing emails found on a laptop left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to show communications between Hunter Biden and executives of Burisma , a gas company in Ukraine that hired the son of Barack Obama ’ s vice president in 2014 , supposedly as protection from extortion by the US-backed government in Kiev .
“ It is only the beginning for them .
There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician , ” Trump said cryptically in his tweet , suggesting more information is forthcoming .
Shortly thereafter , his son Donald Trump Junior said it was “ time to break up Big Tech .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ information can ’ t stand in America.
” Meanwhile , Senate Republicans tweeted “ See you [ Jack ] , ” along with a video of unsuccessfully trying to share the New York Post story .
It was aimed at the company ’ s CEO Jack Dorsey , ahead of the October 28 Commerce Committee hearing about censorship where he is scheduled to testify .
( TLB ) published this article from RT-USA News with our appreciation for the coverage .
Joe Biden defense of his son ’ s overseas business deals conflicts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Be Off-Limits In Debates ?
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Trump comments on Twitter, Facebook censoring story about Hunter Biden
‘Repeal section 230!’
US President Donald Trump has taken notice of the social media crackdown on the New York Post over a story about his challenger Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his business dealings in Ukraine, urging a crackdown on platforms instead.
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(RT-USA News) “So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the [New York Post],” Trump tweeted on Wednesday evening.
So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of “Smoking Gun” emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost. It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician. REPEAL SECTION 230!!! https://t.co/g1RJFpIVUZ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2020
“REPEAL SECTION 230!!!” the president added, referring to the provision in the Communications Decency Act shielding social media platforms from legal liability if they act “in good faith” to remove objectionable content posted by users.
Since then, Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet and others have invoked it as grounds to police any content they deem inappropriate – including the ever-shifting definitions of “potential harm” and “election interference.”
A Facebook executive who previously worked for Senate Democrats has openly admitted the New York Post article would be suppressed even before “independent fact-checkers” could look at it, while Twitter outright blocked the link to the story from being shared, claiming it was “potentially harmful.”
It was a drastic reaction to a story citing emails found on a laptop left at a Delaware repair shop, purporting to show communications between Hunter Biden and executives of Burisma, a gas company in Ukraine that hired the son of Barack Obama’s vice president in 2014, supposedly as protection from extortion by the US-backed government in Kiev.
“It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician,” Trump said cryptically in his tweet, suggesting more information is forthcoming.
Shortly thereafter, his son Donald Trump Junior said it was “time to break up Big Tech. Their total bias and flagrant suppression of information can’t stand in America.”
It’s time to break up Big Tech. Their total bias and flagrant suppression of information can’t stand in America. Their display today is more reminiscent of dictatorial Communist China than anything ever seen in the United States before. — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 14, 2020
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans tweeted “See you [Jack],” along with a video of unsuccessfully trying to share the New York Post story. It was aimed at the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey, ahead of the October 28 Commerce Committee hearing about censorship where he is scheduled to testify.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--Paul Manafort’s ex-partner Rick Gates breaks silence on Mueller probe

In his first lengthy public interview since pleading guilty to federal charges in Robert Mueller ’ s now-discredited Trump-Russia collusion probe , Rick Gates slammed that investigation in blunt and unequivocal terms , calling it “ an absolute travesty of justice ” that “ should never happen to any president or any American citizen ” ever again .
Gates , who served in President Trump ’ s 2016 campaign and later plead guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges related to his work in Ukraine , said in an interview on the latest episode of the John Solomon Reports podcast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way our justice system can be weaponized against so many different people.
” ( Gates/CNBC screen shot ) The former political consultant stated bluntly that the tactics used by the Mueller investigation indicated that “ there was no question that they were trying to get to the president.
” Gates suggested the investigation itself was largely political , an affair in which Mueller was reportedly little more than a figurehead .
“ Robert Mueller was literally nonexistent during my almost 1,000 hours of cooperation with his office , ” Gates told John Solomon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just that he was nonexistent in his physical presence … He was rarely mentioned in any of the interviews .
There was no discussion of needing , you know , to talk to Bob Mueller , or anything by the prosecutors.
” ( Mueller/credit/REUTERS/Joshua Roberts ) Instead , Gates said , the investigation seemed to be run largely by Andrew Weissmann .
A former FBI general counsel and former chief of the criminal fraud division at the Justice Department , Weissmann joined Mueller , his old boss at the FBI , as his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ He seemed to be calling the shots , ” Gates said .
“ He seemed to be leading the charge.
” Weissmann , it became known last month , was among the numerous agents whose phones were allegedly accidentally wiped before being surrendered to the DOJ inspector general ’ s office .
Gates in his interview referred to the investigator as “ partisan.
” ( Weissmann/picture credit/News Break.com ) Gates , who was sentenced to 45 days in prison on charges of lying to the FBI — offenses that were ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — urged listeners to refrain from simply “ mov [ ing ] on ” from the controversy and scandal surrounding the Mueller investigation .
“ [ We could ] actually stop and think what all this has done , not just to our country , but how our adversaries have used our own device in this against us , ” he said .
He further argued against anger and hatred as a response to the affair .
“ Hatred corrodes the container that carries it , ” Gates added , quoting former Wyoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really do think that we have an opportunity here to learn , ” he said , “ if we allow ourselves to do that.
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Paul Manafort’s ex-partner Rick Gates breaks silence on Mueller probe
‘Absolute Travesty:’ The Russia probe ‘should never happen to any president or any American citizen’ ever again, former Trump aide says.
By Daniel Payne
In his first lengthy public interview since pleading guilty to federal charges in Robert Mueller’s now-discredited Trump-Russia collusion probe, Rick Gates slammed that investigation in blunt and unequivocal terms, calling it “an absolute travesty of justice” that “should never happen to any president or any American citizen” ever again.
Gates, who served in President Trump’s 2016 campaign and later plead guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges related to his work in Ukraine, said in an interview on the latest episode of the John Solomon Reports podcast that his experience taught him “the way our justice system can be weaponized against so many different people.” (Gates/CNBC screen shot)
The former political consultant stated bluntly that the tactics used by the Mueller investigation indicated that “there was no question that they were trying to get to the president.”
Mueller ‘rarely mentioned’ during investigation
Gates suggested the investigation itself was largely political, an affair in which Mueller was reportedly little more than a figurehead.
“Robert Mueller was literally nonexistent during my almost 1,000 hours of cooperation with his office,” Gates told John Solomon. “And it wasn’t just that he was nonexistent in his physical presence … He was rarely mentioned in any of the interviews. There was no discussion of needing, you know, to talk to Bob Mueller, or anything by the prosecutors.” (Mueller/credit/REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
Instead, Gates said, the investigation seemed to be run largely by Andrew Weissmann. A former FBI general counsel and former chief of the criminal fraud division at the Justice Department, Weissmann joined Mueller, his old boss at the FBI, as his key lieutenant in the special counsel investigation.
“He seemed to be calling the shots,” Gates said. “He seemed to be leading the charge.”
Weissmann, it became known last month, was among the numerous agents whose phones were allegedly accidentally wiped before being surrendered to the DOJ inspector general’s office. Gates in his interview referred to the investigator as “partisan.” (Weissmann/picture credit/News Break.com)
Gates, who was sentenced to 45 days in prison on charges of lying to the FBI — offenses that were ultimately unrelated to the now-debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory — urged listeners to refrain from simply “mov[ing] on” from the controversy and scandal surrounding the Mueller investigation.
“[We could] actually stop and think what all this has done, not just to our country, but how our adversaries have used our own device in this against us,” he said.
“This is not just, you know, one or two bad apples, inside the DOJ or the FBI,” he stressed. “It is clear that it is a group of people that felt the president should not be president, and they had a better sense of how the country needed to be led, than the over 60 million people that duly elected Donald Trump president.”
He further argued against anger and hatred as a response to the affair. “Hatred corrodes the container that carries it,” Gates added, quoting former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson.
“I really do think that we have an opportunity here to learn,” he said, “if we allow ourselves to do that.”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--WHO Europe Dir. Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns [Video]

WHO Europe Director Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns The World Health Organization ’ s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge says governments should stop enforcing lockdowns , unless as a “ last resort , ” because the impact on other areas of health and mental well-being is more damaging .
In an interview with Euro News , Kluge cautioned against the imposition of more lockdowns unless they are “ absolutely necessary.
” “ He says damage to other health areas , mental health , domestic violence , schools and cancer treatment is too great , ” tweeted reporter Darren @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that of the WHO ’ s special envoy on COVID-19 , Dr David Nabarro , who recently told the Spectator in an interview that world leaders should stop imposing lockdowns as a reflex reaction because they are making “ poor people an awful lot poorer.
” It also resonates with numerous other experts who have desperately tried to warn governments that lockdowns will end up killing more people than the virus itself , but have been largely ignored .
Germany ’ s Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development , Gerd Muller , recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ one of the biggest ” hunger and poverty crises in history .
“ We expect an additional 400,000 deaths from malaria and HIV this year on the African continent alone , ” Muller said , adding that “ half a million more will die from tuberculosis.
” Muller ’ s comments arrived months after a leaked study from inside the German Ministry of the Interior revealed that the impact of the country ’ s lockdown could end up killing more people than the coronavirus due to victims of other serious illnesses not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdowns will conservatively “ destroy at least seven times more years of human life ” than they save .
Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people ’ s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of the lockdown .
His comments were echoed by Peter Nilsson , a Swedish professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University , who said , “ It ’ s so important to understand that the deaths of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined.
” According to Professor Karol Sikora , an NHS consultant oncologist , there could be 50,000 excess deaths from cancer as a result of routine screenings being suspended during the lockdown in the UK .
Experts have also warned that there will be 1.4 million deaths globally from untreated TB infections due to the lockdown .
As we further previously highlighted , a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country ’ s lockdown will lead to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus itself .
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WHO Europe Director Says Governments Should Stop Enforcing Lockdowns
Impact on other areas of physical and mental health too damaging.
by Paul Joseph Watson
The World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge says governments should stop enforcing lockdowns, unless as a “last resort,” because the impact on other areas of health and mental well-being is more damaging.
In an interview with Euro News, Kluge cautioned against the imposition of more lockdowns unless they are “absolutely necessary.”
NEW: WHO Europe Director, Hans Kluge tells me, no government should enforce another national lockdown unless it is absolutely necessary, a last resort He says damage to other health areas, mental health, domestic violence, schools and cancer treatment is too great pic.twitter.com/jzbh9YbH7z — Darren McCaffrey (@DarrenEuronews) October 13, 2020
“He says damage to other health areas, mental health, domestic violence, schools and cancer treatment is too great,” tweeted reporter Darren McCaffrey.
Kluge’s warning matches that of the WHO’s special envoy on COVID-19, Dr David Nabarro, who recently told the Spectator in an interview that world leaders should stop imposing lockdowns as a reflex reaction because they are making “poor people an awful lot poorer.”
WATCH: Dr David Nabarro, the WHO’s Special Envoy on Covid-19, tells Andrew Neil: ‘We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method’. Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/XLdaedsKVS #SpectatorTV @afneil | @davidnabarro pic.twitter.com/1M4xf3VnXQ — The Spectator (@spectator) October 9, 2020
It also resonates with numerous other experts who have desperately tried to warn governments that lockdowns will end up killing more people than the virus itself, but have been largely ignored.
Germany’s Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Gerd Muller, recently warned that COVID-19 lockdowns will result in “one of the biggest” hunger and poverty crises in history.
“We expect an additional 400,000 deaths from malaria and HIV this year on the African continent alone,” Muller said, adding that “half a million more will die from tuberculosis.”
Muller’s comments arrived months after a leaked study from inside the German Ministry of the Interior revealed that the impact of the country’s lockdown could end up killing more people than the coronavirus due to victims of other serious illnesses not receiving treatment.
Another study found that lockdowns will conservatively “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than they save.
Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people’s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of the lockdown.
His comments were echoed by Peter Nilsson, a Swedish professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University, who said, “It’s so important to understand that the deaths of COVID-19 will be far less than the deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined.”
According to Professor Karol Sikora, an NHS consultant oncologist, there could be 50,000 excess deaths from cancer as a result of routine screenings being suspended during the lockdown in the UK.
Experts have also warned that there will be 1.4 million deaths globally from untreated TB infections due to the lockdown.
As we further previously highlighted, a data analyst consortium in South Africa found that the economic consequences of the country’s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-15--Judge Barrett floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee [She has Confirmation Votes]

( TLB ) Editor : With the following article as a backdrop we give you this update on Judge Barret and her prospects of filling a seat on the SCOTUS .
( ZeroHedge ) Majority Leader McConnell Says Barrett Has Votes For Senate Confirmation .
“ I felt a great disturbance in the farce , as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced .
I fear something terrible has happened.
” We suspect that is the feeling across the liberalati after three days of fear-mongering by Democrats during the Senate confirmation hearings of Judge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ McConnell just told reporters that “ we have the votes ” for Senate confirmation .
McConnell says he expects Barrett ’ s nomination will clear the Judiciary Committee Oct. 22 and be on the Senate Floor on October 23rd ( obviously before the election ) .
Sen , Lindsey Graham pushed past Democratic objections to set the panel ’ s Oct. 22 vote on recommending her confirmation even before final witnesses testify before and against her nomination .
( AP reports ) In the minority , Democrats acknowledge there is little they can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservative majority on the court for years to come .
The shift would cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court If you missed the two dozen hours of questions Supreme Court nominee Amy Barrett endured during her confirmation hearing this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee , it might be best summed up in one single moment .
A couple hours into her Day 2 cross-examination from angry Democrats and friendly Republicans , Sen. John Cornyn ( R-Texas ) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit judge about what notes she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on numerous complex legal rulings .
“ Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books , things like that in front of us , ” Cornyn said .
“ Can you hold up what you ’ ve been referring to in answering our questions ?
” At that point , with a charmed smile , Barrett held up a notepad .
“ Is there anything on it ?
” Cornyn said .
“ The letterhead that says United States Senate , ” the judge said .
The rest was blank .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ single thing , didn ’ t have a set of notebooks arrayed on the table to peruse as she answered .
It was all her brain .
That is , in a nutshell , the summation of the three days of hearings .
Barrett extemporaneously expounded on endless rulings , explaining not just her own legal philosophy but pontificating on intricate precedents set by the highest court in the land — always setting them in layman ’ s terms .
Barrett , by all measures , appears set to sail through confirmation and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , who died last month at 89 .
But remember , for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Brett Kavanaugh , the fireworks didn ’ t begin until they had cleared the Judiciary Committee and their nominations went to the full Senate .
So stay tuned .
Still , the current nominee escaped the committee hearing nearly unscathed , despite the deep desire of Democrats to ding her up , as they did with Thomas and Kavanaugh , whom they hit with unsubstantiated charges of sexual misconduct .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including two black children adopted from Haiti , proved a nearly unhittable target , a veritable Muhammed Ali .
While senators — who literally talk for a living and often believe they ’ re the smartest person in the room — Barrett , like the great boxer , was able to float like a butterfly , sting like a bee .
Without the standard fallback of sexual allegations , Democrats were left with targeting Barrett over the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ) — not exactly a sexy topic .
Throughout the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whom they claimed would suffer greatly if the program known as Obamacare were repealed .
A case on the ACA is set to come before the nation ’ s high court on Nov. 10 , and Democrat after Democrat accused Barrett of being prepared to kill the act .
The judge shot that down in one deft answer .
She said that stripping away a single tenet of the act — as is at issue on Nov. 10 — need not invalidate the entire ACA .
Citing “ severability ” — which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without invalidating the entire law — Barrett invoked her mentor , the late Justice Antonin Scalia , for whom she clerked at the Supreme Court .
As background , before Amy Coney Barrett was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit , she was a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School , where she taught civil procedure , constitutional law , and statutory interpretation .
That means that she spent her days with curious law students , turning eye-glazing legalese into understandable terms .
She did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , without a single note .
And she did it , again , using the game Jenga to explain Obamacare .
“ I think the doctrine of severability , as it ’ s been described by the court , serves a valuable function of trying not to undo your work when you wouldn ’ t want a court to undo your work , ” Barrett said .
“ Severability strives to look at a statute as a whole and say , would Congress have considered this provision so vital that kind of in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Congress wouldn ’ t want the statute anymore ?
” Barrett was so impressive that her nomination was widely hailed .
“ Voters support Judge Amy Coney Barrett ’ s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court by a 17-point margin , and a slim majority believe she should be confirmed before the election , a new Morning Consult poll finds , ” Forbes reported .
And that was even before the hearings began .
Near the end of Day 3 , one Republican senator summed up the proceedings .
“ As we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I ’ ve heard a number of my colleagues bring up descriptive words to describe you , ” Sen. Joni Ernst , Iowa Republican , told Barrett .
“ I would like to review a few of those right now.
” “ Respect , intellect , character , jurisprudence , clarity , demeanor , humility , dignity , independent , exceptional , ” Ernst said .
“ I think that you are exactly what we should embrace , and as I look at future generations of men and women who might want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I hope that they will espouse those attributions as well.
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(TLB) Editor: With the following article as a backdrop we give you this update on Judge Barret and her prospects of filling a seat on the SCOTUS.
(ZeroHedge) Majority Leader McConnell Says Barrett Has Votes For Senate Confirmation.
“I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
We suspect that is the feeling across the liberalati after three days of fear-mongering by Democrats during the Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just told reporters that “we have the votes” for Senate confirmation.
McConnell says he expects Barrett’s nomination will clear the Judiciary Committee Oct. 22 and be on the Senate Floor on October 23rd (obviously before the election).
Sen, Lindsey Graham pushed past Democratic objections to set the panel’s Oct. 22 vote on recommending her confirmation even before final witnesses testify before and against her nomination.
“This is a sham,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.
(AP reports) In the minority, Democrats acknowledge there is little they can do to stop them from locking a conservative majority on the court for years to come. The shift would cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court
Judge Barrett floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee
Mother of seven disarms even her staunchest adversaries
By Joseph Curl
If you missed the two dozen hours of questions Supreme Court nominee Amy Barrett endured during her confirmation hearing this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it might be best summed up in one single moment.
A couple hours into her Day 2 cross-examination from angry Democrats and friendly Republicans, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit judge about what notes she was using to deliver her expansive answers on numerous complex legal rulings.
“Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books, things like that in front of us,” Cornyn said. “Can you hold up what you’ve been referring to in answering our questions?”
At that point, with a charmed smile, Barrett held up a notepad.
“Is there anything on it?” Cornyn said.
“The letterhead that says United States Senate,” the judge said. The rest was blank. She hadn’t written down a single thing, didn’t have a set of notebooks arrayed on the table to peruse as she answered. It was all her brain.
“That’s impressive,” Cornyn said.
That is, in a nutshell, the summation of the three days of hearings. Barrett extemporaneously expounded on endless rulings, explaining not just her own legal philosophy but pontificating on intricate precedents set by the highest court in the land — always setting them in layman’s terms.
Barrett, by all measures, appears set to sail through confirmation and take the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month at 89. But remember, for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the fireworks didn’t begin until they had cleared the Judiciary Committee and their nominations went to the full Senate. So stay tuned.
Still, the current nominee escaped the committee hearing nearly unscathed, despite the deep desire of Democrats to ding her up, as they did with Thomas and Kavanaugh, whom they hit with unsubstantiated charges of sexual misconduct.
Barrett, a 48-year-old mother of seven, including two black children adopted from Haiti, proved a nearly unhittable target, a veritable Muhammed Ali. While senators — who literally talk for a living and often believe they’re the smartest person in the room — Barrett, like the great boxer, was able to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Without the standard fallback of sexual allegations, Democrats were left with targeting Barrett over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — not exactly a sexy topic. Throughout the hearing, Democrats displayed photos of constituents, whom they claimed would suffer greatly if the program known as Obamacare were repealed.
A case on the ACA is set to come before the nation’s high court on Nov. 10, and Democrat after Democrat accused Barrett of being prepared to kill the act.
The judge shot that down in one deft answer. She said that stripping away a single tenet of the act — as is at issue on Nov. 10 — need not invalidate the entire ACA. Citing “severability” — which means invalidating one part of a law without invalidating the entire law — Barrett invoked her mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she clerked at the Supreme Court.
As background, before Amy Coney Barrett was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she was a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where she taught civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. That means that she spent her days with curious law students, turning eye-glazing legalese into understandable terms. She did the same throughout her hearing — again, without a single note.
And she did it, again, using the game Jenga to explain Obamacare.
“I think the doctrine of severability, as it’s been described by the court, serves a valuable function of trying not to undo your work when you wouldn’t want a court to undo your work,” Barrett said. “Severability strives to look at a statute as a whole and say, would Congress have considered this provision so vital that kind of in the Jenga game, pulling it out, Congress wouldn’t want the statute anymore?”
“I’m really impressed, thank you,” Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told Barrett.
Barrett was so impressive that her nomination was widely hailed. “Voters support Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court by a 17-point margin, and a slim majority believe she should be confirmed before the election, a new Morning Consult poll finds,” Forbes reported. And that was even before the hearings began.
Near the end of Day 3, one Republican senator summed up the proceedings.
“As we have been sitting through these these discussions, I’ve heard a number of my colleagues bring up descriptive words to describe you,” Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, told Barrett. “I would like to review a few of those right now.”
“Respect, intellect, character, jurisprudence, clarity, demeanor, humility, dignity, independent, exceptional,” Ernst said. “I think that you are exactly what we should embrace, and as I look at future generations of men and women who might want to serve on our Supreme Court, I hope that they will espouse those attributions as well.”
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Reaping What Big Government Has Sown

In an earlier article , I explained that the euthanasia of America ’ s proprietor class did not bode well for political moderation this election cycle and so far extremism has indeed carried the conversation .
Since then , I ’ ve been musing about why “ Big Business ” did not clamor for a quick end to lockdowns and “ mostly peaceful ” protests .
Indubitably , some big corporations benefited from bailouts and being labelled “ essential ” businesses .
Some think Democrats will give them even more cash .
A few probably relished the opportunity to blame @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that would have been necessary sooner or later anyway .
But something else must be going on for corporations to donate so much to Black Lives Matter and Goldman Sachs to endorse Joe Biden on economic grounds .
A facile analysis would suggest that they simply think Biden will win and want to be on the right side of the administration and of “ history.
” But investment bankers and other top corporate executives did not reach the top by placing simplistic bets they could lose .
What they must have calculated is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persecuting them for being on the wrong side is greater than the probability of Trump winning and persecuting them .
This thought struck me while reading one of Milton Friedman ’ s lesser-known productions , “ The Fragility of Freedom , ” [ Brigham Young University Studies 16 , 4 ( Summer 1976 ) : 561-74 : ] , which he presented at Brigham Young University as a double bicentennial talk about the relationship between the United States and Adam Smith ’ s Wealth of Nations .
Old Milt was trying to figure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York City ’ s disastrous fiscal policies and , more broadly , why they did not criticize obviously dumb government policies like President Ford ’ s silly WIN ( Whip Inflation Now ) program .
Given what has happened ( and not happened ) this year , his analysis is prescient : “ If you were a businessman at the head of a great corporation you would think three times before you spoke out on a major issue .
You would look over your left shoulder and see the IRS getting ready @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you would look over your right shoulder and see the Department of Justice standing only too ready to launch an antitrust suit against you .
And then , if you had more shoulders than two , you would ask what is the FTC going to do about my advertising ; and what is the FDA going to do about the products I produce ; and what is the Safety Council going to do about this , that and the other thing ?
You are not free to speak if you are in that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Emphases added . ]
Talk to any Left-leaning person , as I often have to do ( an occupational hazard of being a college professor in 21st Century America ) , and you ’ ll learn that they assume that big businesses run the country until the masses can be stirred to oppose them .
That might have made sense when Karl Marx ’ s specter still roamed the earth and US X , General Y , and Standard Z appeared an even match for Uncle Sam .
But what company today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , if not for breaking Law A , then for running afoul of Regulation B , or tax provision C , D , E , or F ?
Both major parties have evinced the right to use the power of the state to punish political opponents .
The difference is that a victorious ( or lame duck ) Trump , an economic nationalist if nothing else , would be much more likely to use the federal government ’ s power to go after foreign corporations , like Huawei and TikTok , than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for his children by taking revenge on Big Banks or Big Tech .
The Obama-Biden administration , by contrast , used federal bureaucracies to thwart domestic nonprofits that espoused “ dangerous ” views , like the virtues of slowing the growth of the national debt ( the nerve of the Tea Party ! )
, and a President Biden will not likely be any less vindictive .
Then Friedman ’ s little talk turned from prescient to eerily prescient and very relevant to the Great Barrington Declaration : Note that Friedman is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ popular these days , that every X that gets some $ from Y will be beholden to Y .
He is arguing that the government provides such a large percentage of the funding of medical scientists that most of them will not speak out against it because it holds , in the parlance of Adam Smith ’ s day , “ the power of the purse.
” In addition to withholding future funding , Uncle Sam could also unleash its regulatory and tax minions on any medical scientist daft enough to defy him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ score scientists spoken out about the irrationality of Covid lockdown policies ?
Friedman explains that too !
: “ About the only people who now have full freedom of speech are people in the fortunate position I am in — a tenured professor at a major institution on the verge of retirement ” ( p. 567 ) .
Note that almost all of the most vocal scientific critics of lockdowns are senior professors at big universities , or already retired !
Friedman then warns his university audience that universities will reap as they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be ruled from Washington soon enough , and will deserve it because they “ have been in the forefront in persuading the public at large that the doctrine of individual responsibility is a false doctrine ; that the source of all good things is Big Brother in Washington ” ( p. 567 ) .
Well , Big Brother is here , along with doublethink , thoughtcrime , unpersons , 2+2 = 5 , and newspeak/doublespeak .
A quick visit to the local supermarket and Twitter will provide ample evidence that 2020 is actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is if all of us Winstons will profess our love of Big Brother in the end or if our dystopian year ends in a Brave New World or at Fahrenheit 451 .
But maybe our tribulations will induce us to reap the seeds that Friedman sowed in 1976 and embrace his full-throated vision of Public Choice theory ?
“ The fundamental difference between the political market and the economic market , ” he explained , “ is that in the political market there is very little relation between what you vote for and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ market you get what you vote for ” ( p. 569 ) .
Future generations , if there are any , will look back at 2020 and wonder why anyone thought themselves a member of a “ democratic society ” simply because they could cast a ballot every now and again .
The people ( demos ) do not rule , self-interested government officials do .
Big government , Friedman understood , is inherently authoritarian because it dictates how two of every five dollars of economic value is spent .
Only by returning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and self-reliance can Americans reject this dystopian year and return to , not utopia , but happiness , which the nation ’ s Founders understood as prosperity mixed promiscuously with liberty .

Reaping What Big Government Sowed
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” — Galatians 6:7, King James Version
By: Robert E. Wright
In an earlier article, I explained that the euthanasia of America’s proprietor class did not bode well for political moderation this election cycle and so far extremism has indeed carried the conversation.
Since then, I’ve been musing about why “Big Business” did not clamor for a quick end to lockdowns and “mostly peaceful” protests. Indubitably, some big corporations benefited from bailouts and being labelled “essential” businesses. Some think Democrats will give them even more cash. A few probably relished the opportunity to blame the Covid catastrophe for “restructurings” that would have been necessary sooner or later anyway.
But something else must be going on for corporations to donate so much to Black Lives Matter and Goldman Sachs to endorse Joe Biden on economic grounds. A facile analysis would suggest that they simply think Biden will win and want to be on the right side of the administration and of “history.” But investment bankers and other top corporate executives did not reach the top by placing simplistic bets they could lose. What they must have calculated is that the probability of Biden winning and persecuting them for being on the wrong side is greater than the probability of Trump winning and persecuting them.
This thought struck me while reading one of Milton Friedman’s lesser-known productions, “The Fragility of Freedom,” [Brigham Young University Studies 16, 4 (Summer 1976): 561-74:], which he presented at Brigham Young University as a double bicentennial talk about the relationship between the United States and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Old Milt was trying to figure out why big businesses put up with New York City’s disastrous fiscal policies and, more broadly, why they did not criticize obviously dumb government policies like President Ford’s silly WIN (Whip Inflation Now) program.
Given what has happened (and not happened) this year, his analysis is prescient:
“If you were a businessman at the head of a great corporation you would think three times before you spoke out on a major issue. You would look over your left shoulder and see the IRS getting ready to come and audit your accounts and you would look over your right shoulder and see the Department of Justice standing only too ready to launch an antitrust suit against you. And then, if you had more shoulders than two, you would ask what is the FTC going to do about my advertising; and what is the FDA going to do about the products I produce; and what is the Safety Council going to do about this, that and the other thing? You are not free to speak if you are in that position” (p. 566 ). [Emphases added.]
Talk to any Left-leaning person, as I often have to do (an occupational hazard of being a college professor in 21st Century America), and you’ll learn that they assume that big businesses run the country until the masses can be stirred to oppose them. That might have made sense when Karl Marx’s specter still roamed the earth and US X, General Y, and Standard Z appeared an even match for Uncle Sam. But what company today does not know that Washington can crush it, if not for breaking Law A, then for running afoul of Regulation B, or tax provision C, D, E, or F?
Both major parties have evinced the right to use the power of the state to punish political opponents. The difference is that a victorious (or lame duck) Trump, an economic nationalist if nothing else, would be much more likely to use the federal government’s power to go after foreign corporations, like Huawei and TikTok, than to poison Wall Street or Silicon Valley for his children by taking revenge on Big Banks or Big Tech. The Obama-Biden administration, by contrast, used federal bureaucracies to thwart domestic nonprofits that espoused “dangerous” views, like the virtues of slowing the growth of the national debt (the nerve of the Tea Party!), and a President Biden will not likely be any less vindictive.
Then Friedman’s little talk turned from prescient to eerily prescient and very relevant to the Great Barrington Declaration:
“I ask myself whether the professors who teach medicine at any medical school in this country, most of whose research is being financed by the National Institutes of Health, whether they are really free to speak out against socialized medicine and against further involvement of the government in medicine. Some of them obviously will. But is there the slightest doubt, to use the famous words of the Supreme Court, that their dependence for the major source of their financing on the Federal Government has a ‘chilling effect’ on the freedom of speech?” (pp. 566-67). [Emphasis added.]
Note that Friedman is not making the silly argument, all too popular these days, that every X that gets some $ from Y will be beholden to Y. He is arguing that the government provides such a large percentage of the funding of medical scientists that most of them will not speak out against it because it holds, in the parlance of Adam Smith’s day, “the power of the purse.” In addition to withholding future funding, Uncle Sam could also unleash its regulatory and tax minions on any medical scientist daft enough to defy him.
So why have only a few score scientists spoken out about the irrationality of Covid lockdown policies? Friedman explains that too!: “About the only people who now have full freedom of speech are people in the fortunate position I am in — a tenured professor at a major institution on the verge of retirement” (p. 567). Note that almost all of the most vocal scientific critics of lockdowns are senior professors at big universities, or already retired!
(Other major sources of opposition, like the AIER and Reason, are independent nonprofit organizations established long ago and funded from pots of dead donor money and numerous small ongoing donations, none of which is big enough to influence editorial policy one iota. Such organizations sell Truth as they see it and if you want to pitch in, that is great, but your donation will not buy you a say in what they say.)
Friedman then warns his university audience that universities will reap as they sowed, accurately predicting that they will be ruled from Washington soon enough, and will deserve it because they “have been in the forefront in persuading the public at large that the doctrine of individual responsibility is a false doctrine; that the source of all good things is Big Brother in Washington” (p. 567).
Well, Big Brother is here, along with doublethink, thoughtcrime, unpersons, 2+2 = 5, and newspeak/doublespeak. A quick visit to the local supermarket and Twitter will provide ample evidence that 2020 is actually 1984. What remains to be seen is if all of us Winstons will profess our love of Big Brother in the end or if our dystopian year ends in a Brave New World or at Fahrenheit 451.
But maybe our tribulations will induce us to reap the seeds that Friedman sowed in 1976 and embrace his full-throated vision of Public Choice theory? “The fundamental difference between the political market and the economic market,” he explained, “is that in the political market there is very little relation between what you vote for and what you get. In the economic market you get what you vote for” (p. 569).
Future generations, if there are any, will look back at 2020 and wonder why anyone thought themselves a member of a “democratic society” simply because they could cast a ballot every now and again. The people (demos) do not rule, self-interested government officials do. Big government, Friedman understood, is inherently authoritarian because it dictates how two of every five dollars of economic value is spent. Only by returning to limited government, voluntary association, and self-reliance can Americans reject this dystopian year and return to, not utopia, but happiness, which the nation’s Founders understood as prosperity mixed promiscuously with liberty.
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