thelibertybeacon--2020-12-07--Perpetual Debt Slaves: This Is the True Face of the EU

Over the summer , while the U.S. was mired in the worst kind of color revolution with race riots , economic shutdowns and the worst kind of divisive politics , the European Union was celebrating its great achievement .
A seven-year budget and COVID-19 bailout package that was heralded as German Chancellor Angela Merkel ’ s “ Alexander Hamilton Moment.
” Because that legislation , meant to be the cornerstone of Germany ’ s six-month stint as the president of the European Council , finally granted the European Commission the ability to issue debt , collect taxes and disburse funds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 relief funds would be raised and distributed .
It was the first moment of fiscal integration under a central EU body that would bypass the individual member states as the means by which to raise capital .
It would be the first step in the process of consolidating debt issuance and euro creation under the control of Brussels , rather than continuing to carry out the fiction of individual sovereign debt .
The euro is a fatally flawed currency because of this and , if it is to survive deeper into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of it , the EU itself via the European Commission and the European Central Bank , one aggregated risk profile ( interest rate ) is necessary .
The current leadership of the EU was put in place to make this happen on powerful Germany ’ s watch .
And in July it looked like it was done .
The markets loved it .
The media hailed Merkel as the great leader of Europe .
Some countries balked , the so-called Frugal Five , but eventually they signed off on the draft legislation once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hook for any more wealth transfers from them to perpetual problem children like Italy , Greece and Spain .
But lurking in the background were the cultural sovereigntists , the Visegrads , most notably Poland and Hungary .
Forgotten in all the media hoopla but known to keen observers of the situation , Hungary and Poland only signed off on the deal if there were to be no tying of funds to what the EU calls “ rule of law ” violations .
Merkel assured Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the final @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and provisionally he signed off on it as well as Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki .
Now , anyone who is a regular observer of Merkel knows that her promises are about as reliable as a mail-in ballot from Pennsylvania .
When the final legislation came before the European Council for ratification , there was an explicit tie of funds to member states being in compliance with the EU ’ s vaguely-worded standards on internal law .
This meant that the EU could withhold funds if it felt that Hungary or Poland or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on its books that was ‘ anti-EU behavior ’ – they could be sanctioned .
Merkel calculated like she always does that pressure would win her the day in the final moment .
After all , everyone always caves to the EU ’ s power .
Except this time it didn ’ t work , and Orban and Morawiecki very publicly vetoed this because if they didn ’ t it would mean the end of their countries .
Now Merkel ’ s Hamiltonian Moment is gone .
Hungary and Poland , like the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last year , finally said that ’ s it .
Further negotiation with you is tantamount to surrender .
I talked about this in a recent article in more detail .
The lesson of 2020 to this point has been that negotiation is no longer an option .
There can be no settlement on fishing for the Brits , the rule-of-law for EU member states .
For Americans , all that negotiating has achieved is a terminally corrupt central government running sham elections with a compliant and hostile media telling them they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to accept the results because they said so .
Um , yeah , no .
The only way to accept the current reality is to believe the very people who you wouldn ’ t buy a used couch from , no less lead your government , are telling you the unvarnished truth .
Accepting any version of the narrative that this was a close election in the U.S. is the most pathetic form of negotiating your own surrender I ’ ve seen in quite a long time .
This is the unbridgeable gap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infinite gulf between surrender and negotiating with terrorists .
What ’ s funny is the stunned silence from the EU and its cheerleaders since this happened .
Orban and Morawiecki did something extraordinary and all the EU could do is beg them back to the table .
But they know there is no coming back to the table on this point .
Both of these countries have already suffered the wrath of Merkel on points of internal politics , where she even invoked Article 7 against them to try and remove their voices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There comes a point where threats are meaningless .
Neither Hungary nor Poland want to leave the EU but , at the same time , neither of them signed up for a new form of Soviet Union either .
Orban makes no bones about this in his speeches and especially in his reasoning for this veto , likening ‘ anti-EU ’ standards to ‘ anti-Soviet ’ ones .
What ’ s clear is that if pressure could have worked on Orban and Morawiecki , they would never have vetoed the bill in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next ?
Pulling an end run around them , of course .
Enter George Soros dusting off not only his constant call for perpetual bonds to pay for rebuilding Europe on someone else ’ s dime , but now encouraging individual groups of EU states to band together to issue them and exclude Hungary and Poland from the mix .
But doesn ’ t that signal exactly the wrong thing to the markets ?
Doesn ’ t that undermine the whole fiscal and financial integration argument ?
Isn ’ t this just more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into regional tribes and not a more perfect union ?
What Soros is proposing is , of course , a massive perpetual wealth transfer from the working class , who pay the lion ’ s share of the taxes , to the ‘ long-term ’ investor like his Davos Crowd oligarch friends who need a constant stream of income for doing nothing The worst part about this proposal , of course , is that with a perpetual bond , there is no repayment of principal .
You simply pay the interest in perpetuity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ll be the middle-class shop owner in Frankfurt or Milan buying these perpetual bonds ?
Or will it be people like him who made billions scamming off the rigged game of the hyper-financialized casino ?
It ’ s not like any of this wealth was earned through building anything .
So giving it up for a 3-5 % perpetual income stream off the labor of the serfs is all gravy .
Of course Soros wants this to happen .
It ’ s the path to perpetual debt slavery .
So , given all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Poland ( joined most likely by Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Slovakia and the Baltics ) have in even remaining in the EU at all ?
And with the tumult in the U.S. and the likelihood that Joe Biden Kamala Harris will be the next president , no help will be coming their way either as the restoration of the globalist oligarchy in the U.S. will see U.S./EU relations restored .
Orban and Morawiecki opened up a big can of worms with this veto .
They have to see the bigger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where his potential allies are – Russia .
Unfortunately , the Poles haven ’ t shown one iota of a clue on this front .
Once Biden is inaugurated ( yes gods , I hope not ! )
we may finally see them come to their senses .
They ’ ve started this process .
2021 will see a lot of elections – Italy , Germany in particular – that could support them if they continue to hold out and the EU doesn ’ t negotiate .
But for now , the next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ false one – a version of the USSR reborn with a German and French flavor , or perpetual debt slavery .
Both choices lead to the other happening .
I guess the real choice is only in the order of operations .
Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

TOM LUONGO
Over the summer, while the U.S. was mired in the worst kind of color revolution with race riots, economic shutdowns and the worst kind of divisive politics, the European Union was celebrating its great achievement.
A seven-year budget and COVID-19 bailout package that was heralded as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Alexander Hamilton Moment.” Because that legislation, meant to be the cornerstone of Germany’s six-month stint as the president of the European Council, finally granted the European Commission the ability to issue debt, collect taxes and disburse funds.
That would be the way the COVID-19 relief funds would be raised and distributed. It was the first moment of fiscal integration under a central EU body that would bypass the individual member states as the means by which to raise capital.
It would be the first step in the process of consolidating debt issuance and euro creation under the control of Brussels, rather than continuing to carry out the fiction of individual sovereign debt.
The euro is a fatally flawed currency because of this and, if it is to survive deeper into the 21st century having only one central issuer of it, the EU itself via the European Commission and the European Central Bank, one aggregated risk profile (interest rate) is necessary.
The current leadership of the EU was put in place to make this happen on powerful Germany’s watch. And in July it looked like it was done. The markets loved it. The media hailed Merkel as the great leader of Europe. Some countries balked, the so-called Frugal Five, but eventually they signed off on the draft legislation once they were no longer directly on the hook for any more wealth transfers from them to perpetual problem children like Italy, Greece and Spain.
But lurking in the background were the cultural sovereigntists, the Visegrads, most notably Poland and Hungary.
Forgotten in all the media hoopla but known to keen observers of the situation, Hungary and Poland only signed off on the deal if there were to be no tying of funds to what the EU calls “rule of law” violations.
Merkel assured Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the final legislation would be free of this requirement and provisionally he signed off on it as well as Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Now, anyone who is a regular observer of Merkel knows that her promises are about as reliable as a mail-in ballot from Pennsylvania. When the final legislation came before the European Council for ratification, there was an explicit tie of funds to member states being in compliance with the EU’s vaguely-worded standards on internal law.
This meant that the EU could withhold funds if it felt that Hungary or Poland or any other country had a national law on its books that was ‘anti-EU behavior’ – they could be sanctioned. Merkel calculated like she always does that pressure would win her the day in the final moment.
After all, everyone always caves to the EU’s power.
Except this time it didn’t work, and Orban and Morawiecki very publicly vetoed this because if they didn’t it would mean the end of their countries. Now Merkel’s Hamiltonian Moment is gone.
Hungary and Poland, like the Brits voting for Brexit a second time last year, finally said that’s it. Further negotiation with you is tantamount to surrender. I talked about this in a recent article in more detail.
The lesson of 2020 to this point has been that negotiation is no longer an option. There can be no settlement on fishing for the Brits, the rule-of-law for EU member states. For Americans, all that negotiating has achieved is a terminally corrupt central government running sham elections with a compliant and hostile media telling them they are deplorable scum. We are now expected to accept the results because they said so. Um, yeah, no. The only way to accept the current reality is to believe the very people who you wouldn’t buy a used couch from, no less lead your government, are telling you the unvarnished truth. Accepting any version of the narrative that this was a close election in the U.S. is the most pathetic form of negotiating your own surrender I’ve seen in quite a long time. This is the unbridgeable gap of modern politics. It is the infinite gulf between surrender and negotiating with terrorists.
What’s funny is the stunned silence from the EU and its cheerleaders since this happened. Orban and Morawiecki did something extraordinary and all the EU could do is beg them back to the table. But they know there is no coming back to the table on this point.
Both of these countries have already suffered the wrath of Merkel on points of internal politics, where she even invoked Article 7 against them to try and remove their voices from the wholly irrelevant European Parliament.
There comes a point where threats are meaningless. Neither Hungary nor Poland want to leave the EU but, at the same time, neither of them signed up for a new form of Soviet Union either.
Orban makes no bones about this in his speeches and especially in his reasoning for this veto, likening ‘anti-EU’ standards to ‘anti-Soviet’ ones.
What’s clear is that if pressure could have worked on Orban and Morawiecki, they would never have vetoed the bill in the first place. So, what comes next?
Pulling an end run around them, of course. Enter George Soros dusting off not only his constant call for perpetual bonds to pay for rebuilding Europe on someone else’s dime, but now encouraging individual groups of EU states to band together to issue them and exclude Hungary and Poland from the mix.
It turns out that there is an easy way to overcome the veto: employ the so-called enhanced cooperation procedure. It was formalized in the Lisbon Treaty with the express purpose of creating a legal basis for further eurozone integration, but it was never used for that purpose. Its great merit is that it can be used for fiscal purposes. A sub-group of member states can set a budget and agree on a way to fund it – say, through a joint bond. At this point, perpetual bonds could come in very useful. They would be issued by member states, whose continued existence would be readily accepted by long-term investors such as life-insurance companies.
But doesn’t that signal exactly the wrong thing to the markets? Doesn’t that undermine the whole fiscal and financial integration argument? Isn’t this just more of the same balkanization of the EU into regional tribes and not a more perfect union?
What Soros is proposing is, of course, a massive perpetual wealth transfer from the working class, who pay the lion’s share of the taxes, to the ‘long-term’ investor like his Davos Crowd oligarch friends who need a constant stream of income for doing nothing
The worst part about this proposal, of course, is that with a perpetual bond, there is no repayment of principal. You simply pay the interest in perpetuity. Do you really think it’ll be the middle-class shop owner in Frankfurt or Milan buying these perpetual bonds?
Or will it be people like him who made billions scamming off the rigged game of the hyper-financialized casino? It’s not like any of this wealth was earned through building anything. So giving it up for a 3-5% perpetual income stream off the labor of the serfs is all gravy.
Of course Soros wants this to happen. It’s the path to perpetual debt slavery.
So, given all of that, what incentive would Hungary and Poland (joined most likely by Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltics) have in even remaining in the EU at all?
And with the tumult in the U.S. and the likelihood that Joe Biden Kamala Harris will be the next president, no help will be coming their way either as the restoration of the globalist oligarchy in the U.S. will see U.S./EU relations restored.
Orban and Morawiecki opened up a big can of worms with this veto. They have to see the bigger picture here. I know Orban understands where his potential allies are – Russia. Unfortunately, the Poles haven’t shown one iota of a clue on this front. Once Biden is inaugurated (yes gods, I hope not!) we may finally see them come to their senses.
They’ve started this process. 2021 will see a lot of elections – Italy, Germany in particular – that could support them if they continue to hold out and the EU doesn’t negotiate.
But for now, the next choice on the European continent is a false one – a version of the USSR reborn with a German and French flavor, or perpetual debt slavery. Both choices lead to the other happening. I guess the real choice is only in the order of operations.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-07--Scientists have discovered COVID19 causes brain damage!

Scientists leading drive to push back the boundaries of common sense and discover new and improved ways to make people wet themselves have made an unexpected discovery .
It has now been established beyond reasonable thought that COVID19 causes brain damage in Ministers , members of Parliament and other people with a weakened personality .
Worse than this is the revelation that , although COVID19 is known to be dangerous for people over 85 and other trouble makers , the brain damage threat appears to strike government ministers with a mental age as low as 12 .
Symptoms of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the following : * An obsession with protecting people who are not in any danger .
* A shaky grip on reality causing a general weakening and/or yellowing of the backbone .
* Sufferer becomes disorientated and confused as to what planet he is living on and/or what century he is living in .
In order to stop the spread of the virus to any more brains , the government is to act on the best medical advice from millions of doctors , nurses , shop keepers , publicans , bus drivers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and submit to a full quarantine of no less than five years .
Shockwaves of relief are reported to have reverberated across the nation at the news .
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Scientists leading drive to push back the boundaries of common sense and discover new and improved ways to make people wet themselves have made an unexpected discovery.
It has now been established beyond reasonable thought that COVID19 causes brain damage in Ministers, members of Parliament and other people with a weakened personality.
Worse than this is the revelation that, although COVID19 is known to be dangerous for people over 85 and other trouble makers, the brain damage threat appears to strike government ministers with a mental age as low as 12.
Symptoms of the infection have crossed the brain/integrity barrier include the following:
* An obsession with protecting people who are not in any danger.
* A shaky grip on reality causing a general weakening and/or yellowing of the backbone.
* Loss of chin.
* Forking of the tongue.
* Sufferer becomes disorientated and confused as to what planet he is living on and/or what century he is living in.
* Hair (and libido) becomes unmanageable.
* Speeches become incoherent
* Inability to answer a straight question
* Sufferer develops the dead eyes of a shark.
In order to stop the spread of the virus to any more brains, the government is to act on the best medical advice from millions of doctors, nurses, shop keepers, publicans, bus drivers, plumbers, housewives and other experts, and submit to a full quarantine of no less than five years.
Shockwaves of relief are reported to have reverberated across the nation at the news.
Steve Cook writes and edits The Daily Scare,
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-08--California faces new Covid-19 lockdowns, Gov. Newsom announces $80Mil billboard campaign [Video]

‘ This is insanity ’ : As California faces new Covid-19 lockdowns , Gov .
Newsom announces $ 80mn ‘ public health ’ billboard campaign California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing major backlash over his decision to spend more than $ 80 million to “ educate ” the public about Covid-19 , primarily through billboards , while businesses struggle with harsh lockdowns .
Newsom announced the “ public education campaign ” during a Monday press conference and unveiled some of the billboards , which include messages about remaining six feet apart and wearing masks .
“ I wanted to connect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Newsom said , adding over $ 80 million has gone into this campaign and more than 1,000 billboards will be erected in the state .
Newsom has faced serious criticisms over his leadership during the pandemic to date , especially lockdown orders in California which have kept many small businesses closed , but allowed other operations such as film and television production to continue .
“ If @ GavinNewsom is not deliberately destroying capitalism in CA , then he is a complete idiot .
He ’ s not stupid .
He is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nick Searcy tweeted about Newsom ’ s new campaign .
“ $ 80 million to ‘ educate ’ you on why you have to close the only source of income you have for the holidays even though the government has no plans to send you back some of your own money to help you traverse the closures .
This is not policy , ” RedState editor-at-large Kira Davis added .
“ This is insanity .
Ignore it all.
” “ Journalists – this is not hard .
The follow up questions are : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billboards ?
Is there a media commission involved ?
Are the large billboard vendors donors or otherwise tied to the Governor/Dem machine ?
In fact legislators in both parties should ask too , ” California attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted .
Newsom came under fire recently for breaking his own Covid-19 restrictions when he attended a dinner that included multiple households , something he has advised people against during the holiday season .
Photos from the event also showed those in attendance not social distancing or wearing masks .
In a video posted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for all the haters .
Please share the logic .
Sorry , haven ’ t had a haircut since March , ” the fed up Gruel said he ’ d been getting slammed online for keeping his restaurant open and said : “ I ’ ve got everybody blowing up my replies saying I ’ m a grandmother killer so I ’ m just gon na address it all right here.
” The frustrated small business owner continued , saying : “ Here ’ s the situation – do we take the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Am I saying we shouldn ’ t close outdoor dining ?
Yes , I am .
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More about Newsom from The Liberty Beacon : “ Lockdowns For Thee , But Not For Me ” Burn That Mask !
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‘This is insanity’: As California faces new Covid-19 lockdowns, Gov. Newsom announces $80mn ‘public health’ billboard campaign
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing major backlash over his decision to spend more than $80 million to “educate” the public about Covid-19, primarily through billboards, while businesses struggle with harsh lockdowns.
© REUTERS/Gabriela Bhaskar/File Photo
Newsom announced the “public education campaign” during a Monday press conference and unveiled some of the billboards, which include messages about remaining six feet apart and wearing masks.
New billboards coming to CA—1000 of them, says @GavinNewsom—as he says the state is going to be “more smashmouth” and blunt in its messaging to get people to wear masks and stop the spread of #COVID19. Here’s one set: pic.twitter.com/ENfbTFoUQZ — SovernNation (@SovernNation) December 7, 2020
“I wanted to connect more to the cause of education,” Newsom said, adding over $80 million has gone into this campaign and more than 1,000 billboards will be erected in the state.
Newsom has faced serious criticisms over his leadership during the pandemic to date, especially lockdown orders in California which have kept many small businesses closed, but allowed other operations such as film and television production to continue.
Quotations from Tweets
“If @GavinNewsom is not deliberately destroying capitalism in CA, then he is a complete idiot. He’s not stupid. He is evil,” filmmaker and outspoken conservative Nick Searcy tweeted about Newsom’s new campaign.
“$80 million to ‘educate’ you on why you have to close the only source of income you have for the holidays even though the government has no plans to send you back some of your own money to help you traverse the closures. This is not policy,” RedState editor-at-large Kira Davis added. “This is insanity. Ignore it all.”
“Journalists – this is not hard. The follow up questions are: who is getting paid to design the billboards? Is there a media commission involved? Are the large billboard vendors donors or otherwise tied to the Governor/Dem machine? In fact legislators in both parties should ask too,” California attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted.
Newsom came under fire recently for breaking his own Covid-19 restrictions when he attended a dinner that included multiple households, something he has advised people against during the holiday season. Photos from the event also showed those in attendance not social distancing or wearing masks.
His ‘education’ announcement also comes on the heels of new stay-at-home orders being put in place for the San Joaquin Valley and much of Southern California, including Los Angeles.
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A (TLB) X-tra: California chef Andrew Gruel refuses to close restaurants, calls Newsom an ‘a—hole’
In a video posted to Twitter, noting “My message for all the haters. Please share the logic. Sorry, haven’t had a haircut since March,” the fed up Gruel said he’d been getting slammed online for keeping his restaurant open and said: “I’ve got everybody blowing up my replies saying I’m a grandmother killer so I’m just gonna address it all right here.”
The frustrated small business owner continued, saying: “Here’s the situation – do we take the pandemic seriously? Of course we do! Am I saying we shouldn’t close outdoor dining? Yes, I am. “
My message for all the haters. Please share the logic. Sorry, haven’t had a haircut since March. pic.twitter.com/SOjy3bt4l5 — Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) December 3, 2020
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-07--Tactics Used by the MSM to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy

Tactics Used by the MSM to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy The Mainstream Media ( MSM ) is in its death throws as more of the American public … and in fact the global population awaken to the misdirection , redirection and disinformation being dumped on us continuously .
This is now the purveyor of our new norm , what permeates all of what we are supposed to believe and understand .
Today we suffer not only the tyranny of a hostile shadow government or deep state ( Plandemic & Violent Riots ) , but also the massive corruption and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the MSM or the Press .
In modern history the press has failed us miserably , aligning themselves with those who would subvert our freedoms and liberties for the benefit of a few elitist oligarchs , or would-be emperors .
This has never been so blatantly apparent as what we saw in the farce we witnessed during the last Presidential election , and the current civil unrest .
Information perversion by the media , its challenge of the voice of “ We The People ” , the major push to overturn our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election recounts , skewed polls , and now misrepresented COVID-19 facts and outright BLM and Antifa lies ( peaceful protests ) , all unprecedented in American history .
Today We The People suffer constant lies , hidden truths , and agenda far beyond anything that benefits us , all trumpeted or parroted by a totally subservient MSM , or The Fourth Estate .
This is not a guess and we can see the goals of past CIA Director William Casey … … being supported and advanced by this complicit Mainstream Media ( MSM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unaware and compliant citizenry , fully realizing the benefits of this reality for their masters ( Oligarchs ) .
Some of the above preface is an excerpt from : • All Governments Lie : The Death Throes of the 4th Estate ( MSM ) • The Fourth Estate : Traitors to We The People • The Twenty Five Rules Of Disinformation What follows was originally written in 2014 … about six years ago , but is so profoundly on target that we felt it important that it be revisited .
If anything the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recent years as the MSM ’ s allegiance to the Deep State or Shadow Government is laid bare for all the world to see !
11 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance .
Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance , the ‘ major ’ outlets of news , which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations , serve the purpose of misleading the public on important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the oligarchs .
The public is still largely numb to this reality , and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man , many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them .
The tide is turning , however , and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 11 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus , divide , conquer , ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – What is not on the nightly news ?
This is the most important question to ask when consuming mainstream media .
The average hour long broadcast consists of 48 minutes or less of actual news programming , minus , of course , the chit-chatting , the expensive motion graphics and the bumpers , highlights and story recaps .
With a formula like this , full of pomp and grandstanding , the impression given is that if does not make it on the nightly news , the it is not of significance .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ mainstream media manufactures consent for policy makers and advertisers is by omitting from the news reel those stories and perspectives which may compromise the broadcasters agenda , whatever that may be .
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Controlling the Debate – Who is arguing , and for what cause ?
News programs are businesses just like anything else , and as such news executives keep a go-to list of contacts to fulfill any necessary role in a program or segment .
If the government needs credibility , they roll out an ex-president and remind you that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military industrial complex needs a voice , then they roll out a familiar think-tanker to interject in a debate with a common-sense perspective in favor of national security .
If something is too complicated for public consumption , then they open the rolodex to the ‘ experts ’ page and shuffle some know-it-all in front of the camera .
The media is laden with groomed pundits , so-called opinion leaders , and commentators , and each one has a definite reputation , each one resonates with a specific target audience , and each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conversation .
Program guests are very well vetted , and news is a science , a very lucrative science that excels in giving the impression of a diversity in ideas while keeping the debate sequestered in a very well constructed box .
The characters in this box make all the difference .
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Selecting the Right Anchors , Casters and Presenters – Our lives have been pegged to the dollar , and as such , a ‘ good job ’ is valued above many genuine virtues .
People like to keep their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news casters , and since news is , again , a business , the voices and faces on news programs are hired to perform a role , a job description , a task .
They are not employed to pursue morally driven journalism for the benefit of society .
If they perform as they are required , they advance and gain more exposure .
If they rock the boat , there are a thousand other hungry job-seekers chomping at the bit to replace them and do exactly they are hired to do .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ else , and those at the forefront are the best at playing the role .
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Scripting and Synchronizing News – One of the creepier and more blatant efforts to homogenize thought and manufacture consent is to script the news at high level , then distribute these scripts to many different locales and anchors to read verbatim , while they feign authenticity .
This is partially a result of the business decision to save money by employing as few actual news gatherers as possible , but is also a key part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of different backgrounds and interests .
The government has also been known to interject itself into the chain of command for selecting which news scripts are to be disseminated to the public .
This is the most fundamental characteristic of propaganda , and is rather embarrassing to witness once you realize just how disingenuous your local news presenters are and just how easily duped most people are .
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Politicizing Everything – Language is the greatest weapon of social control , and with mainstream media , powerfully debilitating language is pushed into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vs. Liberal .
Democrat vs. Republican .
Right-winger vs. Left-winger .
Good vs. Bad .
Left vs .
Right .
Right vs. Wrong .
White vs. Black .
The truth is that ideas and opinions are as vastly different as grains of sand on a beach , yet the media intentionally frames every issue in terms of a phony left-right paradigm that has been constructed to pigeon hole complex ideas and interests into a cheapened thought prison .
No unorthodox idea or point of view can reach critical mass because everything is automatically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against us ’ mindset , turning people against each other for no reason other than to appeal to our desire to be on the winning team .
The mainstream media is the chief party responsible for creating the constructs of ‘ left ’ and ‘ right , ’ which have been tightly integrated into our social consciousness as a means of achieving divisiveness and disagreement among the populace .
This is the chief tactic of divide and conquer , and when people are compelled on any issue to ‘ pick a team ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s bitter end , many opportunities for true progress are lost and the populace is easily goaded into a position favorable to the elite .
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Using the Language of Separation and Labels – Sometime in the 1990 ’ s , the mainstream media stopped referring to people as ‘ people ’ or even as ‘ citizens ’ and began calling everyone ‘ consumers.
’ Once again , language is important to shaping reality , and as ‘ consumers ’ our role in the affairs of business and state are reduced to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choose and reject , not interject and affect .
We ’ ve all heard the label ‘ conspiracy theorist , ’ which is the most popular label used when an idea or story is unfavorable to the mainstream media and the interests that back them up .
You are a ‘ conspiracy theorist ’ if you ask questions , assimilate facts in a logical manner , or pursue justice outside of the main flow of public discourse on a popular issue .
This type of language is also part of the process of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people in accordance with their country of origin , religion , skin color , economic class , or whatever else , more wedges of division are driven into the populace , deflating our inherent power in numbers .
News is a commodity just like everything else these days , and although many still believe the point of news is to inform , it is important to accept the hard truth that the purpose of the news is really just to sell something , be it a product , an idea , a candidate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or whatever .
For this , the mainstream media is focused on first deciding which issues are to be discussed in the public forum , then by using a bagful of tricks to shape people ’ s perceptions of an issue , the media divides us and pits us against each other while leading us into consent for an underlying and hidden agenda .

Tactics Used by the MSM to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy
By: Roger Landry (TLB)
The Mainstream Media (MSM) is in its death throws as more of the American public … and in fact the global population awaken to the misdirection, redirection and disinformation being dumped on us continuously. This is now the purveyor of our new norm, what permeates all of what we are supposed to believe and understand.
Today we suffer not only the tyranny of a hostile shadow government or deep state (Plandemic & Violent Riots), but also the massive corruption and complicity of The Fourth Estate otherwise identified as the MSM or the Press.
In modern history the press has failed us miserably, aligning themselves with those who would subvert our freedoms and liberties for the benefit of a few elitist oligarchs, or would-be emperors. This has never been so blatantly apparent as what we saw in the farce we witnessed during the last Presidential election, and the current and growing unrest. Information perversion by the media, its challenge of the voice of “We The People”, the major push to overturn our voices via, forced election recounts, skewed polls, and now misrepresented COVID-19 facts and outright BLM and Antifa lies (peaceful protests), all unprecedented in American history.
Today We The People suffer constant lies, hidden truths, and agenda far beyond anything that benefits us, all trumpeted or parroted by a totally subservient MSM, or The Fourth Estate. This is not a guess and we can see the goals of past CIA Director William Casey …
We will know our program of disinformation has succeeded when everything the American people believe is … FALSE …
… being supported and advanced by this complicit Mainstream Media (MSM) in an attempt to facilitate an unaware and compliant citizenry, fully realizing the benefits of this reality for their masters (Oligarchs).
Some of the above preface is an excerpt from:
Also see:
What follows was originally written in 2014 … about six years ago, but is so profoundly on target that we felt it important that it be revisited. If anything the eleven points have been severely exacerbated in recent years as the MSM’s allegiance to the Deep State or Shadow Government is laid bare for all the world to see!
Please read and heed …
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11 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy
By: Sigmund Fraud
The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the ‘major’ outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and manufacturing consent for government and the oligarchs.
The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them. The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 11 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world.
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1. Lying by Omission – What is not on the nightly news? This is the most important question to ask when consuming mainstream media. The average hour long broadcast consists of 48 minutes or less of actual news programming, minus, of course, the chit-chatting, the expensive motion graphics and the bumpers, highlights and story recaps. With a formula like this, full of pomp and grandstanding, the impression given is that if does not make it on the nightly news, the it is not of significance. The most obvious way in which the mainstream media manufactures consent for policy makers and advertisers is by omitting from the news reel those stories and perspectives which may compromise the broadcasters agenda, whatever that may be.
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2. Controlling the Debate – Who is arguing, and for what cause? News programs are businesses just like anything else, and as such news executives keep a go-to list of contacts to fulfill any necessary role in a program or segment. If the government needs credibility, they roll out an ex-president and remind you that he has ‘gravitas.’ If the military industrial complex needs a voice, then they roll out a familiar think-tanker to interject in a debate with a common-sense perspective in favor of national security. If something is too complicated for public consumption, then they open the rolodex to the ‘experts’ page and shuffle some know-it-all in front of the camera. The media is laden with groomed pundits, so-called opinion leaders, and commentators, and each one has a definite reputation, each one resonates with a specific target audience, and each one fills a predictable role in a conversation. Program guests are very well vetted, and news is a science, a very lucrative science that excels in giving the impression of a diversity in ideas while keeping the debate sequestered in a very well constructed box. The characters in this box make all the difference.
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3. Selecting the Right Anchors, Casters and Presenters – Our lives have been pegged to the dollar, and as such, a ‘good job’ is valued above many genuine virtues. People like to keep their jobs, as do news anchors and news casters, and since news is, again, a business, the voices and faces on news programs are hired to perform a role, a job description, a task. They are not employed to pursue morally driven journalism for the benefit of society. If they perform as they are required, they advance and gain more exposure. If they rock the boat, there are a thousand other hungry job-seekers chomping at the bit to replace them and do exactly they are hired to do. News anchoring is a job like anything else, and those at the forefront are the best at playing the role.
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4. Scripting and Synchronizing News – One of the creepier and more blatant efforts to homogenize thought and manufacture consent is to script the news at high level, then distribute these scripts to many different locales and anchors to read verbatim, while they feign authenticity. This is partially a result of the business decision to save money by employing as few actual news gatherers as possible, but is also a key part of the strategy to achieve conformity amongst people of different backgrounds and interests. The government has also been known to interject itself into the chain of command for selecting which news scripts are to be disseminated to the public. This is the most fundamental characteristic of propaganda, and is rather embarrassing to witness once you realize just how disingenuous your local news presenters are and just how easily duped most people are.
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5. Politicizing Everything – Language is the greatest weapon of social control, and with mainstream media, powerfully debilitating language is pushed into every corner of our consciousness. Conservative vs. Liberal. Democrat vs. Republican. Right-winger vs. Left-winger. Good vs. Bad. Left vs. Right. Right vs. Wrong. White vs. Black. And so on. Ad nauseam. The truth is that ideas and opinions are as vastly different as grains of sand on a beach, yet the media intentionally frames every issue in terms of a phony left-right paradigm that has been constructed to pigeon hole complex ideas and interests into a cheapened thought prison. No unorthodox idea or point of view can reach critical mass because everything is automatically framed in a ‘with us or against us’ mindset, turning people against each other for no reason other than to appeal to our desire to be on the winning team. The mainstream media is the chief party responsible for creating the constructs of ‘left’ and ‘right,’ which have been tightly integrated into our social consciousness as a means of achieving divisiveness and disagreement among the populace. This is the chief tactic of divide and conquer, and when people are compelled on any issue to ‘pick a team’ and fight the rivalry to it’s bitter end, many opportunities for true progress are lost and the populace is easily goaded into a position favorable to the elite.
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6. Using the Language of Separation and Labels – Sometime in the 1990’s, the mainstream media stopped referring to people as ‘people’ or even as ‘citizens’ and began calling everyone ‘consumers.’ Once again, language is important to shaping reality, and as ‘consumers’ our role in the affairs of business and state are reduced to hapless bystanders whose job it is to choose and reject, not interject and affect. We’ve all heard the label ‘conspiracy theorist,’ which is the most popular label used when an idea or story is unfavorable to the mainstream media and the interests that back them up. You are a ‘conspiracy theorist’ if you ask questions, assimilate facts in a logical manner, or pursue justice outside of the main flow of public discourse on a popular issue. This type of language is also part of the process of politicizing everything, and by also labeling people in accordance with their country of origin, religion, skin color, economic class, or whatever else, more wedges of division are driven into the populace, deflating our inherent power in numbers.
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7. Asking the Wrong Questions – Press access to ‘important’ people in our society is tightly regulated, and the powers that be don’t like to be confronted with unexpected and hard questions. For this, the mainstream media dutifully uses its access to people in high places to ask softball, trivial, nonsensical, ignorant questions about irrelevant and superfluous issues. Independent media is winning the long race against corporate/fascist propagandized media because people are naturally inclined to resonate with common sense and truth, which is not at all what corporate mainline media is involved with. White house correspondents shouldn’t waste our time and insult our intelligence by asking a war time president about his pet dog or a recent golfing trip. But they do, all the time.
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8. Closing the Book Too Soon – Moving an important or complicated issue from the front page as quickly as possible is a common strategy to remove touchy subjects from the public conversation. Sadly, our national attention span is at an all time low, mostly because we’ve been trained to move from issue to issue with lightening speed, never soaking up any one thing for too long. With such a short term memory, it is easy to protect a politician, forget a genocide, ignore the long-term effects of a bank bailout, and so on, just by moving onto to something new. Once the media has signaled that a story has been resolved or adequately discussed, then any after thought, individual investigation, or further inquiry is labeled as extremist and ignored.
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9. Triviality and Distraction – With all of the important decisions being made daily by powerful people, decisions that genuinely affect quality of life for many people, the news outlets are steadfastly devoted to engaging in gossip, entertainment, murders and acts of violence, car accidents, disasters and other pablum. The body politic is kept confused by celebrity happenings, endless sports contests and other such pageantry, and the media uses these many forms of distractions to fill time and brain space so that important issues are seen as a drag or as a downer, and never given proper reflection. This is so ubiquitous in our society nowadays that there really is no escape.
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10. Outright Lying – When all else fails, just lie, make it up as you go along, sell your air time to the highest bidder, and never look back. In the internet age, people are pretty keen on fact checking, rebutting, arguing, and gathering stats, and there are enough facts available to prove any side to any story. In fact, this has become an art form for major media, and the ability to gather facts in accordance with an agenda is a profitable skill for the mainstream media. Lying has always worked, and the bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed.
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11. Bonus – Eye Candy and Mind Melting – This one is a bonus and part of the new era of network news. Rather than employ virtuous gumshoes and hardcore reporters of truth, mainstream media instead invests in graphic artists to make each frame of the broadcast an over-designed motion collage of brain-melting info overload. Staying focused on what the anchor or guest is actually saying is impossible. By design, the news is presented in a mad shotgun blast of competing signals, and your attention is split in ten directions with tickers, bubbles, stock footage, gyrating lights and special effects. The point here is to exhaust the mind with over-stimulation so that the brain cannot function methodically and cannot process an issue beyond the shallow surface. This is also known as hypnotism, or mind-control.
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Conclusion
News is a commodity just like everything else these days, and although many still believe the point of news is to inform, it is important to accept the hard truth that the purpose of the news is really just to sell something, be it a product, an idea, a candidate, a public image, a war, or whatever. For this, the mainstream media is focused on first deciding which issues are to be discussed in the public forum, then by using a bagful of tricks to shape people’s perceptions of an issue, the media divides us and pits us against each other while leading us into consent for an underlying and hidden agenda.
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About the Author: Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he indulges in the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-07--Facts – Not Fear – Will Stop the ‘Pandemic’

Facts – Not Fear – Will Stop the Pandemic The media relish negative news .
“ If it bleeds it leads ” still holds , and perhaps it ’ s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era .
Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims .
And yet , much of the media does not pay sufficient attention to the good news regarding improved treatments and survival of patients with the coronavirus .
In contrast with the international media , the American press has been unrelentingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when there is good news to tell .
That negativity is part of what fuels a culture of fear that affects local , state and federal politicians and the decisions they make .
But there is a lot of good news to tell .
The case fatality rate from the virus has dropped sharply since March .
The infection survival rate is 99.95 percent for people under 70 and 95 percent for people over 70 .
Hospitals are much better equipped to handle patients , with improved ventilator protocols , improved management of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ relief and recoveries .
Moreover , thanks to multiple ongoing clinical trials around the world , there may soon be a safe and effective vaccine .
By contrast with their focus on COVID deaths , the media have paid scant attention to the enormous medical and psychological harms from the lockdowns in use to slow the pandemic .
Despite the enormous collateral damage lockdowns have caused , England , France , Germany , Spain and other European countries are all intensifying their lockdowns once again .
By lockdowns , we mean the all-too-familiar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and parks , silent churches and bankrupt stores and businesses that have become emblematic of American civic life these past months .
The relative dearth of reporting on the harms caused by lockdowns is odd , since lives lost from lockdown are no less important than lives lost from COVID infection .
But they ’ ve received much less media attention .
The harms from lockdown have been catastrophic .
Consider the psychological harm .
Reader , since you ’ re reading this in lockdown , you can undoubtedly relate to the isolation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by shutting down typical channels for social interaction .
In June , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) estimated that one in four young adults had seriously considered suicide .
Opioid and other drug related deaths are on a sharp and unsurprising upswing .
The burden of these policies falls disproportionately on some of the most vulnerable .
For example , isolation led to a 20 percent increase in dementia-related deaths among our elderly population .
Moreover , retrospective analysis of the lockdown in the United States shows that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , diabetes management visits and even treatment for heart attacks .
Internationally , the lockdowns have placed 130 million people on the brink of starvation , 80 million children at risk for diphtheria , measles and polio , and 1.8 million patients at risk of death from tuberculosis .
The lockdowns in developed countries have devastated the poor in poor countries .
The World Economic Forum estimates that the lockdowns will cause an additional 150 million people to fall into extreme poverty , 125 times as many people as have died from COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of lockdown harms , the media have not paid the same attention to it as they have to COVID deaths .
If there is a COVID-death tracker , there should be side-by-side with it a lockdown-death tracker .
The lack of balanced media attention towards the good news about the virus and the costs of lockdowns comes with its own cost .
Without a balanced approach to COVID news , the public can not make informed choices about COVID policy , such as school closures .
Even a diligent citizen can not make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continuing lockdowns if only their benefits are emphasized and their costs downplayed .
The media have an obligation to show both .
Finally , the neglect of the good COVID news breeds panic and fear , which is never a good public health strategy .
The public should know that the pandemic will not be here forever .
While these are challenging times – and , for many families , life-changing times – like every other pandemic in human history , the COVID-19 pandemic will end .
With wise and informed policy choices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of death and human misery .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nothing is too small .
We thank you for all your support and your considerations … ( TLB ) Disclaimer : TLB websites contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner .
We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of “ fair use ” in an effort to advance a better understanding of political , health , economic and social issues .
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Facts – Not Fear – Will Stop the Pandemic
By: Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya
The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era. Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims.
And yet, much of the media does not pay sufficient attention to the good news regarding improved treatments and survival of patients with the coronavirus. In contrast with the international media, the American press has been unrelentingly negative in its COVID coverage, even when there is good news to tell. That negativity is part of what fuels a culture of fear that affects local, state and federal politicians and the decisions they make.
But there is a lot of good news to tell. The case fatality rate from the virus has dropped sharply since March. The infection survival rate is 99.95 percent for people under 70 and 95 percent for people over 70. Hospitals are much better equipped to handle patients, with improved ventilator protocols, improved management of outpatients and new therapeutic strategies to provide relief and recoveries. Moreover, thanks to multiple ongoing clinical trials around the world, there may soon be a safe and effective vaccine.
By contrast with their focus on COVID deaths, the media have paid scant attention to the enormous medical and psychological harms from the lockdowns in use to slow the pandemic. Despite the enormous collateral damage lockdowns have caused, England, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries are all intensifying their lockdowns once again.
By lockdowns, we mean the all-too-familiar shuttered schools and universities, closed playgrounds and parks, silent churches and bankrupt stores and businesses that have become emblematic of American civic life these past months. The relative dearth of reporting on the harms caused by lockdowns is odd, since lives lost from lockdown are no less important than lives lost from COVID infection. But they’ve received much less media attention.
The harms from lockdown have been catastrophic. Consider the psychological harm. Reader, since you’re reading this in lockdown, you can undoubtedly relate to the isolation and loneliness that these policies can cause by shutting down typical channels for social interaction. In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that one in four young adults had seriously considered suicide. Opioid and other drug related deaths are on a sharp and unsurprising upswing.
The burden of these policies falls disproportionately on some of the most vulnerable. For example, isolation led to a 20 percent increase in dementia-related deaths among our elderly population. Moreover, retrospective analysis of the lockdown in the United States shows that patients skipped cancer screenings, childhood immunizations, diabetes management visits and even treatment for heart attacks.
Internationally, the lockdowns have placed 130 million people on the brink of starvation, 80 million children at risk for diphtheria, measles and polio, and 1.8 million patients at risk of death from tuberculosis. The lockdowns in developed countries have devastated the poor in poor countries. The World Economic Forum estimates that the lockdowns will cause an additional 150 million people to fall into extreme poverty, 125 times as many people as have died from COVID.
Though there has been some coverage of lockdown harms, the media have not paid the same attention to it as they have to COVID deaths. If there is a COVID-death tracker, there should be side-by-side with it a lockdown-death tracker.
The lack of balanced media attention towards the good news about the virus and the costs of lockdowns comes with its own cost. Without a balanced approach to COVID news, the public cannot make informed choices about COVID policy, such as school closures. Even a diligent citizen cannot make an informed judgment about the wisdom of continuing lockdowns if only their benefits are emphasized and their costs downplayed. The media have an obligation to show both.
Finally, the neglect of the good COVID news breeds panic and fear, which is never a good public health strategy. The public should know that the pandemic will not be here forever. While these are challenging times – and, for many families, life-changing times – like every other pandemic in human history, the COVID-19 pandemic will end. With wise and informed policy choices, we can reduce its ultimate toll of death and human misery.
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About the Author: Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. Contact him by Email: [email protected]
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thelibertybeacon--2020-12-07--Fraud & the Democrats’ Suspicious Conduct

Scott Adams has evolved a simple measurement to determine whether the Democrats used fraud to push Biden ahead in the election : Were Democrat vote counters acting as if they were committing election fraud ?
The answer to that question is “ yes.
” When you combine that with the law ’ s acceptance that people ’ s suspicious conduct is useful evidence to prove that they committed a crime , you ’ ve got one more legal cudgel against the Democrats .
American criminal law has long recognized suspicious conduct as one link in the chain bringing a criminal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have the right to act if they reasonably believe someone is behaving suspiciously .
For example , in United States v. Trullo , 809 F.2d 108 , 112 ( 1st Cir .
1987 ) , a case involving cocaine distribution , it was not error to defer to a police officer ’ s conclusion that the defendant was acting suspiciously when he had a chat with a third party who got into the car , the two drove to a deserted street , and then , after a short chat , the third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walked right back to his starting point .
If it looks like a drug deal , that ’ s sufficient on-the-ground evidence to arrest someone .
The law tracks well with common sense .
You don ’ t need to have extraordinary sensibility or experience to recognize that when someone is desperately hiding an activity , he ’ s either planning a surprise party for you or he ’ s engaged in conduct that ’ s illegal or embarrassing – and I think we can rule out a surprise party at the vote-counting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adams has taken note of the correlation between suspicious behavior and criminal activity .
In one of his videos , he made the point that , when bullying poll workers in Democrat precincts chase out Republican witnesses , those poll workers have essentially admitted that they are cheating .
Someone took that video footage and spliced it with footage of the behavior Adams was describing .
The resulting video is short and powerful : We can apply this Scott Adams principle to situations other than those in which poll workers physically barred election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ applies to Georgia vote counters dishonestly saying that they were shutting down vote counting for the evening , only to resume counting after the observers left the building .
Once the observers left in reliance upon this fraudulent representation ( which is itself guilty conduct indicative of cheating ) , the real counting began .
And what counting it was !
Someone at Gateway Pundit with sharp eyes caught one campaign worker repeatedly feeding the same ballots into a computer counter : It was surely no coincidence that , by the time Fulton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counting stopped , Biden had benefited from a mathematically impossible spike !
Of course , if you want truly suspicious behavior , there ’ s the fact that , in every state that pushed Biden over the top ( Wisconsin , Michigan , Pennsylvania , North Carolina , Georgia , and Nevada ) , the counting stopped abruptly when Trump was ahead by enormous margins .
Before last month , stopping the vote count had never happened before in America .
However , stopping vote counts is common in corrupt nations so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enough ballots to ensure an incumbent victory .
And indeed , in Detroit , 130,000 ballots suddenly arrived while the counting was paused .
Scott Adams is right .
Along with all the evidence about faked ballots , statistical anomalies , dead voters , felons voting , illegal aliens voting , computer cheating , etc.
, you need to add highly suspicious human behavior to your evidentiary list proving massive fraud in the 2020 election .
The whole thing can be summed up this way : If a poll worker walks like he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s cheating , is a good bet that he ’ s cheating – and all of his fellow poll workers are too .

Scott Adams has evolved a simple measurement to determine whether the Democrats used fraud to push Biden ahead in the election: Were Democrat vote counters acting as if they were committing election fraud? The answer to that question is “yes.” When you combine that with the law’s acceptance that people’s suspicious conduct is useful evidence to prove that they committed a crime, you’ve got one more legal cudgel against the Democrats.
American criminal law has long recognized suspicious conduct as one link in the chain bringing a criminal to justice. Thus, law officers have the right to act if they reasonably believe someone is behaving suspiciously.
For example, in United States v. Trullo, 809 F.2d 108, 112 (1st Cir. 1987), a case involving cocaine distribution, it was not error to defer to a police officer’s conclusion that the defendant was acting suspiciously when he had a chat with a third party who got into the car, the two drove to a deserted street, and then, after a short chat, the third party got out of the car and walked right back to his starting point. If it looks like a drug deal, that’s sufficient on-the-ground evidence to arrest someone.
The law tracks well with common sense. You don’t need to have extraordinary sensibility or experience to recognize that when someone is desperately hiding an activity, he’s either planning a surprise party for you or he’s engaged in conduct that’s illegal or embarrassing – and I think we can rule out a surprise party at the vote-counting headquarters in the contested states.
Scott Adams has taken note of the correlation between suspicious behavior and criminal activity. In one of his videos, he made the point that, when bullying poll workers in Democrat precincts chase out Republican witnesses, those poll workers have essentially admitted that they are cheating. Someone took that video footage and spliced it with footage of the behavior Adams was describing. The resulting video is short and powerful:
We can apply this Scott Adams principle to situations other than those in which poll workers physically barred election observers. For example, the principle applies to Georgia vote counters dishonestly saying that they were shutting down vote counting for the evening, only to resume counting after the observers left the building.
Here’s how you know Democrats’ lying “fact check” is a bunch of garbage. Fulton County falsely reported it *sent the ballot counters* home on election night. Then how was ballot counting after that point caught on video ‘normal’? Don’t believe a single word they say. Period.🔻 pic.twitter.com/xoHIc3a1T4 — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 4, 2020
Once the observers left in reliance upon this fraudulent representation (which is itself guilty conduct indicative of cheating), the real counting began.
And what counting it was! Someone at Gateway Pundit with sharp eyes caught one campaign worker repeatedly feeding the same ballots into a computer counter:
It was surely no coincidence that, by the time Fulton County’s secretive, highly suspicious counting stopped, Biden had benefited from a mathematically impossible spike!
Of course, if you want truly suspicious behavior, there’s the fact that, in every state that pushed Biden over the top (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada), the counting stopped abruptly when Trump was ahead by enormous margins. Before last month, stopping the vote count had never happened before in America.
However, stopping vote counts is common in corrupt nations so that the incumbent can have time to generate enough ballots to ensure an incumbent victory. And indeed, in Detroit, 130,000 ballots suddenly arrived while the counting was paused.
(If you want a comprehensive database of all the evidence supporting fraud in the election, I recommend both Every Legal Vote and Here Is The Evidence.)
Scott Adams is right. Along with all the evidence about faked ballots, statistical anomalies, dead voters, felons voting, illegal aliens voting, computer cheating, etc., you need to add highly suspicious human behavior to your evidentiary list proving massive fraud in the 2020 election. The whole thing can be summed up this way: If a poll worker walks like he’s cheating, and talks like he’s cheating, is a good bet that he’s cheating – and all of his fellow poll workers are too.
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