wnd--2020-05-05--Patients dying while governments hoard coronavirus drugs

Local governments are hoarding more than 100 million doses of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , which studies worldwide show to be an effective early treatment of coronavirus patients , according to the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons .
`` Medication is not doing anyone any good sitting in a government warehouse , '' said AAPS executive director Dr. Jane Orient .
`` This hoarding by government means that most of that medication will probably expire without ever being used . ''
The organization said that in nursing homes , victims of COVID-19 are still unable to access hydroxychloroquine .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brennan should get death penalty Pharmaceutical companies donated tens of millions of doses the drug to federal and state governments .
At least 14.4 million doses have been distributed to 14 city governments , the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently said .
`` Yet virtually none of this has gone for early treatment of COVID-19 victims .
Many governors and other officials have impeded the availability of HCQ to millions of Americans , including front-line medical personnel in hospitals , COVID-19 patients ’ caregivers , and others exposed to the virus , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States have died from COVID-19 , and AAPS said very few have received any treatment with hydroxychloroquine .
It likely would have helped , the association said .
`` Reports to date of results in more than 2,300 persons who received HCQ show that more than 90 percent experienced clinical improvement or did not become ill , '' the group said .
Nevada 's governor has banned use of the treatment on patients in his state , a move the AAPS called `` so egregious that he is being sued by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in other states also have imposed restrictions .
`` New York refuses to make its enormous stockpile of HCQ available outside a clinical trial . ''
In other countries , it 's being used successfully as a prophylaxis for medical workers , first responders , household contacts and others .
`` The COVID-19 mortality rate in India is only one per million in population , compared with more than 200 per million in the U.S. , '' AAPS said .

Local governments are hoarding more than 100 million doses of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which studies worldwide show to be an effective early treatment of coronavirus patients, according to the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons.
"Medication is not doing anyone any good sitting in a government warehouse," said AAPS executive director Dr. Jane Orient. "This hoarding by government means that most of that medication will probably expire without ever being used."
The organization said that in nursing homes, victims of COVID-19 are still unable to access hydroxychloroquine.
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Pharmaceutical companies donated tens of millions of doses the drug to federal and state governments. At least 14.4 million doses have been distributed to 14 city governments, the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently said.
"Yet virtually none of this has gone for early treatment of COVID-19 victims. Many governors and other officials have impeded the availability of HCQ to millions of Americans, including front-line medical personnel in hospitals, COVID-19 patients’ caregivers, and others exposed to the virus," APPS said.
Some 65,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19, and AAPS said very few have received any treatment with hydroxychloroquine.
It likely would have helped, the association said.
"Reports to date of results in more than 2,300 persons who received HCQ show that more than 90 percent experienced clinical improvement or did not become ill," the group said.
Nevada's governor has banned use of the treatment on patients in his state, a move the AAPS called "so egregious that he is being sued by a group of physicians."
Officials in other states also have imposed restrictions.
"New York refuses to make its enormous stockpile of HCQ available outside a clinical trial."
In other countries, it's being used successfully as a prophylaxis for medical workers, first responders, household contacts and others.
"The COVID-19 mortality rate in India is only one per million in population, compared with more than 200 per million in the U.S.," AAPS said.


wnd--2020-05-05--Socialist official in U.S. city wants Amazon 'taken into public ownership'

A socialist member of the Seattle City Council wants a takeover of Seattle-based Amazon .
Not by another company or by the government , but by the people .
She wants the digital retail giant to become a `` social good '' run by workers .
TRENDING : Ex-CIA operative : Comey and Brennan should get death penalty MyNorthwest reported she called for a militant mass movement `` to publicly take over Amazon . ''
Her tweet came after she pushed to rally anti-Amazon council members to pass an `` Amazon tax '' that would target local businesses .
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believes businesses should be publicly owned and operated by the workforce , even if the workforce has no business acumen .
Sawant , who lacks business acumen , previously tried to rally workers to overthrow Boeing management and build buses .
That didn ’ t work .
So she ’ s sticking to her message , this time with a Seattle-based company , '' the report said .
`` If she can ’ t destroy Amazon with her tax , then she ’ ll aim to destroy it with a 'militant ' takeover @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a desperate ideologue running out of ways to try to hoodwink the council and constituency . ''
The report noted Sawant 's language had been growing more hostile and `` dehumanizing . ''
It 's not the first time she has called for `` militant resistance . ''
She previously protested a travel ban by President Donald Trump .
She also called for `` peaceful & militant mass resistance '' against Trump .

A socialist member of the Seattle City Council wants a takeover of Seattle-based Amazon.
Not by another company or by the government, but by the people.
She wants the digital retail giant to become a "social good" run by workers.
Yes, corporations like Amazon need to be taken into democratic public ownership, to be run by workers for social good. We will need militant mass movements, strike actions at workplaces, to begin to fight to win this. Because it will be a political strike against billionaires. — Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) May 3, 2020
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MyNorthwest reported she called for a militant mass movement "to publicly take over Amazon."
Her tweet came after she pushed to rally anti-Amazon council members to pass an "Amazon tax" that would target local businesses.
"It’s no secret that Sawant believes businesses should be publicly owned and operated by the workforce, even if the workforce has no business acumen. Sawant, who lacks business acumen, previously tried to rally workers to overthrow Boeing management and build buses. That didn’t work. So she’s sticking to her message, this time with a Seattle-based company," the report said.
"If she can’t destroy Amazon with her tax, then she’ll aim to destroy it with a 'militant' takeover. It’s the move of a desperate ideologue running out of ways to try to hoodwink the council and constituency."
The report noted Sawant's language had been growing more hostile and "dehumanizing."
It's not the first time she has called for "militant resistance."
She previously protested a travel ban by President Donald Trump. She also called for "peaceful & militant mass resistance" against Trump.


wnd--2020-05-05--Nobel Prize winner: Data shows lockdowns were 'huge mistake'

After careful study since January , a Nobel Prize-winning scientist believes the spread of the coronavirus follows a similar pattern , regardless of social-distancing practices .
`` There is no doubt in my mind , that when we come to look back on this , the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor , '' said Michael Levitt , professor of structural biology at the Stanford School of Medicine , in an interview with Freddie Sayers of the U.K. publication UnHerd .
The winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chemical systems , '' he acknowledges he is not an epidemiologist .
But Levitt argues that much of modern science is about statistics , and he is an expert in that field .
TRENDING : Ex-CIA operative : Comey and Brennan should get death penalty Sayers noted that when Levitt first spoke out in early February , he accurately predicted the number of cases and deaths in Hubei province , where the coronavirus originated , would top out at around 3,250 deaths .
Levitt has found in every area where the coronavirus breaks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pattern , regardless of government interventions .
After two weeks of exponential growth of cases and , subsequently , deaths , the curve becomes `` sub-exponential . ''
The scenarios modeled by the Imperial College that spurred governments to action -- predicting 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. and 500,000 in Britain -- relied on a presumption of continued exponential growth .
But Levitt hasn ’ t seen that happen anywhere , even in countries that have been relatively lax in their responses .
He pointed out the Imperial College study led by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % for six days .
`` Now I had looked at China and had never seen exponential growth that wasn ’ t decaying rapidly , '' Levitt said .
He 's unconvinced that the lower rate of growth can be explained by social distancing and lockdowns .
In China , South Korea , Iran and Italy , he said , `` the beginning of the epidemics showed a slowing down , and it was very hard for me to believe that those three countries could practise social distancing as well as China .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ prior immunity and large numbers of asymptomatic cases are important factors .
He 's found the total number of deaths in places as diverse as New York City , parts of England , parts of France and Northern Italy all seem to level out at a similar fraction of the total population .
`` Are they all practicing equally good social distancing ?
I don ’ t think so , '' he said .
The indiscriminate lockdown measures are `` a huge mistake , '' he said , calling instead for a `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elderly people .
`` I think the policy of herd immunity is the right policy .
I think Britain was on exactly the right track before they were fed wrong numbers , '' he said .
`` And they made a huge mistake . ''
The `` winners , '' he said , are Germany and Sweden , which `` didn ’ t practice too much lockdown and they got enough people sick to get some herd immunity . ''
`` I see the standout losers as countries like Austria , Australia and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ didn ’ t have many cases , '' he said .
`` They have damaged their economies , caused massive social damage , damaged the educational year of their children , but not obtained any herd immunity . ''

After careful study since January, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist believes the spread of the coronavirus follows a similar pattern, regardless of social-distancing practices.
"There is no doubt in my mind, that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor," said Michael Levitt, professor of structural biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, in an interview with Freddie Sayers of the U.K. publication UnHerd.
The winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems," he acknowledges he is not an epidemiologist. But Levitt argues that much of modern science is about statistics, and he is an expert in that field.
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Sayers noted that when Levitt first spoke out in early February, he accurately predicted the number of cases and deaths in Hubei province, where the coronavirus originated, would top out at around 3,250 deaths.
Levitt has found in every area where the coronavirus breaks out, there is a similar mathematical pattern, regardless of government interventions.
After two weeks of exponential growth of cases and, subsequently, deaths, the curve becomes "sub-exponential."
The implications are profound.
The scenarios modeled by the Imperial College that spurred governments to action -- predicting 2.2 million deaths in the U.S. and 500,000 in Britain -- relied on a presumption of continued exponential growth.
But Levitt hasn’t seen that happen anywhere, even in countries that have been relatively lax in their responses.
He pointed out the Imperial College study led by Neil Ferguson assumed exponential growth of 15% for six days.
"Now I had looked at China and had never seen exponential growth that wasn’t decaying rapidly," Levitt said.
He's unconvinced that the lower rate of growth can be explained by
social distancing and lockdowns.
In China, South Korea, Iran and Italy, he said, "the beginning of the epidemics showed a slowing down, and it was very hard for me to believe that those three countries could practise social distancing as well as China."
He believes that some degree of prior immunity and large numbers of asymptomatic cases are important factors.
He's found the total number of deaths in places as diverse as New York City, parts of England, parts of France and Northern Italy all seem to level out at a similar fraction of the total population.
"Are they all practicing equally good social distancing? I don’t think so," he said.
'Huge mistake'
The indiscriminate lockdown measures are "a huge mistake," he said, calling instead for a "smart lockdown" policy focused on protecting elderly people.
"I think the policy of herd immunity is the right policy. I think Britain was on exactly the right track before they were fed wrong numbers," he said. "And they made a huge mistake."
The "winners," he said, are Germany and Sweden, which "didn’t practice too much lockdown and they got enough people sick to get some herd immunity."
"I see the standout losers as countries like Austria, Australia and Israel that had very strict lockdown but didn’t have many cases," he said.
"They have damaged their economies, caused massive social damage, damaged the educational year of their children, but not obtained any herd immunity."


wnd--2020-05-04--Author of '2.2 million dead' study bankrolled by Big Pharma

The man behind the dire coronavirus death forecast that prompted the strict lockdowns in the United States and the United Kingdom has a history of conflicts of interest , including ties to the pharmaceutical industry .
Ferguson led the team at the Imperial College of London that published a report March 16 forecasting 2.2 million deaths in the United States and 500,000 in Britain from the coronavirus .
However , just 10 days later , he told a parliamentary committee that the U.K. death toll is unlikely to exceed 20,000 and could be much lower .
And more than half @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the end of the year , because of their age and underlying illnesses , he told the panel .
The current U.K. figure is more than 28,000 while the U.S. has recorded more than 65,000 deaths .
The Express of London noted Ferguson 's models in the fight against the swine flu a decade ago also were way off .
He predicted 65,000 people in the U.K. would die .
But only 457 succumbed to the disease .
Ferguson at the time was advising the World Health Organization while he had ties with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operative : Comey and Brennan should get death penalty The Express noted the 2018 documentary `` TrustWHO '' found Ferguson was drawing consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline , Baxter and Roche .
The companies were manufacturers of the swine flu vaccines and medications , but that was `` not a problem for the WHO , '' the documentary said .
In an interview at the time with the pharmaceutical publication Scrip , Ferguson explained his ties .
`` I chose to end the relationship with GSK and Roche in 2007 due to the mounting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work , and because I wanted to pursue advisory work with public bodies which is more easily done without current relationships with commercial companies , '' he said .
`` I think it would be difficult to find a true expert on influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs who has not worked at some time with pharma companies .
He explained the development of such products is `` undertaken by commercial companies , they have the data , and they are interested in research which relates to their products . ''
`` I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and commercial research , as does the quality of scientific advice offered to public health agencies , '' he argued .
The Express noted the swine flu outbreak proved a perfect financial opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry .
JPMorgan estimated some $ 7-10 billion was made off 2009 vaccine profits alone .
When contacted by the Express , Ferguson said he had no conflicts of interest in relation to the coronavirus pandemic .
See `` Louder with Crowder '' segment on Ferguson 's predictions : As WND reported March 26 , Ferguson 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House , Downing Street and other governments in their decisions to implement unprecendented `` social distancing '' measures .
On March 26 , the day after Ferguson testimony to a parliamentary committee , White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx mentioned the dramatic downgrade of his estimate .
She said the predictions of models also `` do n't match the reality on the ground in either China , South Korea or Italy . ''
`` Models are models .
There 's enough data now of the real experience with the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make these predictions much more sound , '' said Birx .
`` So when people start talking about 20 % of a population getting infected , it 's very scary , '' she said .
`` But we do n't have data that matches that . ''
Ferguson issued a clarification later that day via Twitter , arguing his evidence to Parliament `` referred to the deaths we assess might occur in the UK in the presence of the very intensive social distancing and other public health interventions now in place . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ remains that the UK would see the scale of deaths reported in our study ( namely , up to approximately 500 thousand ) , '' he wrote .
However , no one in the U.S. or the U.K. was advocating at the time that no measures be taken to control the spread of the virus , points out Powerline blogger Paul Mirengoff .
`` Some degree of social distancing and complete isolation of the sick were almost universally viewed as appropriate and , indeed , necessary , '' he wrote .
`` Yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the basis , not just for social distancing and isolation of the sick , but for imposing lockdown style measures in some jurisdictions . ''
And Ferguson acknowledged in an interview with the New York Times that a comprehensive lockdown is what he wanted .
`` Based on our estimates and other teams ' , there 's really no option but follow in China 's footsteps and suppress , '' he said .
Mirengoff commented : `` Perhaps this is why Ferguson waited so long to make it clear that , at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forecast that garnered so much attention from policy makers was a strawman . ''
In fact , New York Democratic Gov .
Andrew Cuomo , who is managing the country 's most severe outbreak , was questioning the comprehensive lockdown strategy at the time .
`` We closed everything down .
That was our public health strategy , '' Cuomo said March 26 .
`` If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy , I do n't know that you would say , 'Quarantine everyone . '
'' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy may be backfiring by confining vulnerable older people with younger family members .
`` I do n't even know that that was the best public health policy .
Young people then quarantined with older people , [ it ] was probably not the best public health strategy , '' he said .
`` The younger people could have been exposing the older people to an infection . ''

The man behind the dire coronavirus death forecast that prompted the strict lockdowns in the United States and the United Kingdom has a history of conflicts of interest, including ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Ferguson led the team at the Imperial College of London that published a report March 16 forecasting 2.2 million deaths in the United States and 500,000 in Britain from the coronavirus. However, just 10 days later, he told a parliamentary committee that the U.K. death toll is unlikely to exceed 20,000 and could be much lower. And more than half that number would have died anyway by the end of the year, because of their age and underlying illnesses, he told the panel. The current U.K. figure is more than 28,000 while the U.S. has recorded more than 65,000 deaths.
The Express of London noted Ferguson's models in the fight against the swine flu a decade ago also were way off. He predicted 65,000 people in the U.K. would die. But only 457 succumbed to the disease.
Ferguson at the time was advising the World Health Organization while he had ties with the pharmaceutical industry.
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The Express noted the 2018 documentary "TrustWHO" found Ferguson was drawing consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Baxter and Roche.
The companies were manufacturers of the swine flu vaccines and medications, but that was "not a problem for the WHO," the documentary said.
In an interview at the time with the pharmaceutical publication Scrip, Ferguson explained his ties.
"I chose to end the relationship with GSK and Roche in 2007 due to the mounting pressures of other (more important) work, and because I wanted to pursue advisory work with public bodies which is more easily done without current relationships with commercial companies," he said.
"I think it would be difficult to find a true expert on influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs who has not worked at some time with pharma companies.
He explained the development of such products is "undertaken by commercial companies, they have the data, and they are interested in research which relates to their products."
"I think science generally benefits from links between academic and commercial research, as does the quality of scientific advice offered to public health agencies," he argued.
The Express noted the swine flu outbreak proved a perfect financial opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry.
JPMorgan estimated some $7-10 billion was made off 2009 vaccine profits alone.
When contacted by the Express, Ferguson said he had no conflicts of interest in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
See "Louder with Crowder" segment on Ferguson's predictions:
As WND reported March 26, Ferguson's coronavirus study was cited by the White House, Downing Street and other governments in their decisions to implement unprecedented "social distancing" measures.
On March 26, the day after Ferguson's testimony to a parliamentary committee, White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx mentioned the dramatic downgrade of his estimate.
She said the predictions of models also "don't match the reality on the ground in either China, South Korea or Italy."
"Models are models. There's enough data now of the real experience with the coronavirus on the ground, really, to make these predictions much more sound," said Birx.
"So when people start talking about 20% of a population getting infected, it's very scary," she said. "But we don't have data that matches that."
Ferguson clarifies
Ferguson issued a clarification later that day via Twitter, arguing his evidence to Parliament "referred to the deaths we assess might occur in the UK in the presence of the very intensive social distancing and other public health interventions now in place."
"Without those controls, our assessment remains that the UK would see the scale of deaths reported in our study (namely, up to approximately 500 thousand)," he wrote.
However, no one in the U.S. or the U.K. was advocating at the time that no measures be taken to control the spread of the virus, points out Powerline blogger Paul Mirengoff.
"Some degree of social distancing and complete isolation of the sick were almost universally viewed as appropriate and, indeed, necessary," he wrote.
"Yet, Ferguson's projection became part of the basis, not just for social distancing and isolation of the sick, but for imposing lockdown style measures in some jurisdictions."
And Ferguson acknowledged in an interview with the New York Times that a comprehensive lockdown is what he wanted.
"Based on our estimates and other teams', there's really no option but follow in China's footsteps and suppress," he said.
Mirengoff commented: "Perhaps this is why Ferguson waited so long to make it clear that, at least in the U.S., the Imperial College forecast that garnered so much attention from policy makers was a strawman."
In fact, New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is managing the country's most severe outbreak, was questioning the comprehensive lockdown strategy at the time.
"We closed everything down. That was our public health strategy," Cuomo said March 26. "If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don't know that you would say, 'Quarantine everyone.'"
On Wednesday, he said the shelter-in-place policy may be backfiring by confining vulnerable older people with younger family members.
"I don't even know that that was the best public health policy. Young people then quarantined with older people, [it] was probably not the best public health strategy," he said. "The younger people could have been exposing the older people to an infection."


wnd--2020-05-04--Jim Jordan: FBI chief 'owes an explanation' about agency misconduct

In the wake of new evidence confirming their previous claims , top House Republicans are increasing pressure on FBI Director Chris Wray to explain the FBI 's actions in the Russia investigation .
`` There is so much underneath the surface of the ocean , this iceberg that we have n't even seen yet , '' Rep. Andy Biggs , R-Ariz. , a House Judiciary Committee member and chairman of the influential Freedom Caucus , told Just the News .
`` And when you get back to Christopher Wray , that is part of my frustration .
... More has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jordan , R-Ohio , said Wray `` owes the American people an explanation about the FBI ’ s misconduct . ''
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In addition , FBI agents wanted to close the Flynn probe for lack @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter Stzrok insisted on keeping it open .
Weeks later , the FBI conducted a surprise White House interview with Flynn that led to perjury charges .
Flynn pleaded guilty but has rescinded his plea , claiming he was framed .
In 2018 , Wray rebuked then-House Intelligence Committe Chairman Rep. Devin Nune , R-Calif. , for his memo concluding that the FBI under James Comey abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in its effort to spy on the Trump campaign .
But Nunes was vindicated by the DOJ inspector general report of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agents .
And newly declassified information confirms the FBI should have doubted the Steele dossier , the primary evidence submitted to the FISA court to obtain surveillance warrants .
A new IG report found 29 of 29 FISA applications , most under Wray 's tenure , `` contained significant flaws that violated the bureau ’ s own rules designed to ensure the accuracy of evidence submitted to the courts . ''
Jordan warned that what the FBI did to the president and his advisers can be done `` to any of us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice and Congress , and we do n't know what else , '' she said .

In the wake of new evidence confirming their previous claims, top House Republicans are increasing pressure on FBI Director Chris Wray to explain the FBI's actions in the Russia investigation.
"There is so much underneath the surface of the ocean, this iceberg that we haven't even seen yet," Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a House Judiciary Committee member and chairman of the influential Freedom Caucus, told Just the News.
"And when you get back to Christopher Wray, that is part of my frustration. ... More has to be declassified."
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Wray "owes the American people an explanation about the FBI’s misconduct."
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Last week, exculpatory evidence was unsealed in the case against Michael Flynn showing FBI agents discussed how to "catch" the former national security adviser "in a lie so that he could be charged with a crime or removed from his position." In addition, FBI agents wanted to close the Flynn probe for lack of evidence, but lead bureau investigator Peter Stzrok insisted on keeping it open. Weeks later, the FBI conducted a surprise White House interview with Flynn that led to perjury charges. Flynn pleaded guilty but has rescinded his plea, claiming he was framed.
In 2018, Wray rebuked then-House Intelligence Committe Chairman Rep. Devin Nune, R-Calif., for his memo concluding that the FBI under James Comey abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in its effort to spy on the Trump campaign.
But Nunes was vindicated by the DOJ inspector general report of "systematic FISA abuses" by government agents.
And newly declassified information confirms the FBI should have doubted the Steele dossier, the primary evidence submitted to the FISA court to obtain surveillance warrants.
A new IG report found 29 of 29 FISA applications, most under Wray's tenure, "contained significant flaws that violated the bureau’s own rules designed to ensure the accuracy of evidence submitted to the courts."
Jordan warned that what the FBI did to the president and his advisers can be done "to any of us."
Flynn's lawyer, Sidney Powell, accused Wray of a cover-up.
"It would appear he was part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice and Congress, and we don't know what else," she said.


wnd--2020-05-04--The 'new normal' and the emerging Beast government

After reading Cherie Zaslawsky 's great article `` Beware the New Normal '' yesterday on Canada Free Press , it suddenly struck me that the dystopian `` new normal '' of COVID-19 really IS normal from the perspective of the leftist elites , and all these blue-state governors and blue-city mayors reveling in their new dictatorial powers truly do n't have a clue what normal is for average Americans .
They live in an ideological fantasy world where good is evil and evil good , family configurations are arbitrary , and people who disagree are witless boobs needing reeducation .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ true morality , natural society and freedom of thought by a cocoon of comprehensive cradle-to-grave government provision ( or their own `` legacy wealth '' ) – so completely separated from the `` old normal '' that they ca n't even connect the dots between the tax revenue they gorge themselves upon and the taxpayers who provide it .
Case in point is the tyrant Gavin Newsom whose response to the citizens ' defiant pursuit of healing sunlight and saltwater at California beaches – one of the healthiest disease-suppressing environments available anywhere – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But a separate Newsom dictate is even more revealing : the announcement that public schools will open `` in weeks not months , '' but Christian churches must wait `` months not weeks . ''
To the leftist mind public schools are essential because they help to separate children emotionally and ideologically from their Neanderthal parents , while Bible-believing churches do the opposite .
And especially critical for the `` new normal '' is helping the children put the COVID-19 crisis in proper context : They must be helped to recognize it as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerously incompetent mismanagement of the Trump administration , and second , the adult generation 's denial of the biggest crisis of all – `` climate change . ''
This reminds me of ( my wife Anne 's favorite ) culture analyst Peter Jones ' contention that the new religion for the masses is actually not a variation on any of the old-world religions , or even Marxist Humanism ( as I have argued ) but a form of Romantic Paganism .
That 's the theology the kids and young adults have been indoctrinated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to `` Harry Potter '' to `` Game of Thrones '' : a theology of mysticism in which mortals with the right attitude and training can wield supernatural powers .
It is reminiscent of the pre-Gutenberg serfs of the Middle Ages , when only the Roman Catholic elites had the Bible , and the masses interpreted the Latin ritual of the Eucharist `` Hoc est enim corpus meum '' ( the body of Christ ) as `` Hocus Pocus '' – a magic trick .
And is n't it interesting that Pope Francis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's 2030 Agenda ( yes , the very globalist agenda ) is the one who blamed COVID-19 on climate change denial ( the revenge of Mother Earth ) .
To be sure , the elites themselves are mostly high-church Marxist Humanists , but the secularized `` common people '' now have the less intellectual and more emotional religion of the earth and its `` familiar spirits , '' while the true believers in the `` old gods '' ( Jesus , Muhammad , et al . )
are kept busy fighting each other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and North America ) through the `` open borders '' strategy .
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I suggested above that they ca n't connect the dots between taxpayers and tax revenue , but that 's not really true .
They may be psychopathic , but they 're not stupid .
So why would these despots kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ?
Could it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new financial order being readied for implementation – one perhaps requiring the collapse of the old ?
Is is mere coincidence that so many CEOs of the elite strata – such as Bill Gates and Michael Eisner – resigned just before the COVID-19 stock market crash ?
My guess is the new system is ready to roll out like a new company `` going public '' with an Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) in which the insider elites , as always , already hold generous portions in their shiny new Beast-Market portfolios @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initiated with a `` Global Debt Jubilee '' – in which all preexisting debts of any kind are wiped clean worldwide , but only for those who accept membership in the new system ( with a mark on their hand or forehead ? )
, and those who do not are blamed for all the problems caused by not being able to `` close the books '' on the old system – leading to severe persecution ( even from fellow `` believers '' ) for those who refuse to `` take the mark @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth-perpetuated caste system in the `` free world '' ; it 's how the elites have remained the elites , while pushing socialism on the rest of us .
Tucker Carlson did a great commentary on this theme recently , asking first how the dull-witted Chris Cuomo managed to get into Yale to then expose the larger conspiracy of elite schools routinely admitting the merit-less children of mostly Democrat politicians .
The super-rich set themselves apart from the rest of us and steer the policies of the world system to suit themselves .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in my recent lecture for the Salt and Light network : `` Marxism , Eugenics and Transhumanism . ''
As depressing at it may be to think we may never recover pre-COVID-19 America , it is even more disturbing to realize we now consider that `` old normal '' a good one by comparison .
I suppose all things are relative when it comes to this fallen world .
But we who are in Christ are not of this world .
He told us in John 17 to be in it , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American is to fight like Patrick Henry to restore the earthly kingdom God has blessed us with , while keeping the wins and losses in perspective like Paul the Apostle in the time of the Romans .
And just as God allows us aging humans to experience increasing aches and pains as we are prepared for leaving our earthly bodies , He has warned us of tribulation before His second coming , when we will receive glorified spiritual bodies .
That 's the `` new normal '' I 'm yearning for !

After reading Cherie Zaslawsky's great article "Beware the New Normal" yesterday on Canada Free Press, it suddenly struck me that the dystopian "new normal" of COVID-19 really IS normal from the perspective of the leftist elites, and all these blue-state governors and blue-city mayors reveling in their new dictatorial powers truly don't have a clue what normal is for average Americans. They live in an ideological fantasy world where good is evil and evil good, family configurations are arbitrary, and people who disagree are witless boobs needing reeducation. They are sheltered from the reality of true morality, natural society and freedom of thought by a cocoon of comprehensive cradle-to-grave government provision (or their own "legacy wealth") – so completely separated from the "old normal" that they can't even connect the dots between the tax revenue they gorge themselves upon and the taxpayers who provide it.
Case in point is the tyrant Gavin Newsom whose response to the citizens' defiant pursuit of healing sunlight and saltwater at California beaches – one of the healthiest disease-suppressing environments available anywhere – is the iron fist of reprisal. But a separate Newsom dictate is even more revealing: the announcement that public schools will open "in weeks not months," but Christian churches must wait "months not weeks."
To the leftist mind public schools are essential because they help to separate children emotionally and ideologically from their Neanderthal parents, while Bible-believing churches do the opposite. And especially critical for the "new normal" is helping the children put the COVID-19 crisis in proper context: They must be helped to recognize it as a consequence of, first, the dangerously incompetent mismanagement of the Trump administration, and second, the adult generation's denial of the biggest crisis of all – "climate change."
This reminds me of (my wife Anne's favorite) culture analyst Peter Jones' contention that the new religion for the masses is actually not a variation on any of the old-world religions, or even Marxist Humanism (as I have argued) but a form of Romantic Paganism. That's the theology the kids and young adults have been indoctrinated with – from "Star Wars" to "Harry Potter" to "Game of Thrones": a theology of mysticism in which mortals with the right attitude and training can wield supernatural powers. It is reminiscent of the pre-Gutenberg serfs of the Middle Ages, when only the Roman Catholic elites had the Bible, and the masses interpreted the Latin ritual of the Eucharist "Hoc est enim corpus meum" (the body of Christ) as "Hocus Pocus" – a magic trick. And isn't it interesting that Pope Francis, whose speech kicked off the U.N.'s 2030 Agenda (yes, the very globalist agenda) is the one who blamed COVID-19 on climate change denial (the revenge of Mother Earth).
To be sure, the elites themselves are mostly high-church Marxist Humanists, but the secularized "common people" now have the less intellectual and more emotional religion of the earth and its "familiar spirits," while the true believers in the "old gods" (Jesus, Muhammad, et al.) are kept busy fighting each other for turf (especially in Christian Europe and North America) through the "open borders" strategy.
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Now, back to Gavin Newsom and the other principalities and powers of the "new normal." I suggested above that they can't connect the dots between taxpayers and tax revenue, but that's not really true. They may be psychopathic, but they're not stupid. So why would these despots kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? Could it be that they have foreknowledge of a new financial order being readied for implementation – one perhaps requiring the collapse of the old? Is is mere coincidence that so many CEOs of the elite strata – such as Bill Gates and Michael Eisner – resigned just before the COVID-19 stock market crash?
My guess is the new system is ready to roll out like a new company "going public" with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in which the insider elites, as always, already hold generous portions in their shiny new Beast-Market portfolios. I'm guessing it will be initiated with a "Global Debt Jubilee" – in which all preexisting debts of any kind are wiped clean worldwide, but only for those who accept membership in the new system (with a mark on their hand or forehead?), and those who do not are blamed for all the problems caused by not being able to "close the books" on the old system – leading to severe persecution (even from fellow "believers") for those who refuse to "take the mark."
We've long endued a wealth-perpetuated caste system in the "free world"; it's how the elites have remained the elites, while pushing socialism on the rest of us. Tucker Carlson did a great commentary on this theme recently, asking first how the dull-witted Chris Cuomo managed to get into Yale to then expose the larger conspiracy of elite schools routinely admitting the merit-less children of mostly Democrat politicians. The super-rich set themselves apart from the rest of us and steer the policies of the world system to suit themselves. That's a point I expounded upon in my recent lecture for the Salt and Light network: "Marxism, Eugenics and Transhumanism."
As depressing at it may be to think we may never recover pre-COVID-19 America, it is even more disturbing to realize we now consider that "old normal" a good one by comparison. I suppose all things are relative when it comes to this fallen world.
But we who are in Christ are not of this world. He told us in John 17 to be in it, but not of it. Our duty as American is to fight like Patrick Henry to restore the earthly kingdom God has blessed us with, while keeping the wins and losses in perspective like Paul the Apostle in the time of the Romans.
And just as God allows us aging humans to experience increasing aches and pains as we are prepared for leaving our earthly bodies, He has warned us of tribulation before His second coming, when we will receive glorified spiritual bodies. That's the "new normal" I'm yearning for!


wnd--2020-05-04--Text message in Mueller report expensive for former Trump partner

Giorgi Rtskhiladze ’ s text message to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen days before the 2016 election has been an expensive one .
The Georgian-American businessman says he has spent more than $ 100,000 on legal fees , on top of the damage to his reputation and businesses , as a result of the Oct. 30 , 2016 text message to Cohen .
The message is quoted in the special counsel ’ s report , and was interpreted by President Trump ’ s critics as a possible reference to the Steele dossier ’ s most salacious allegation : that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prostitutes in Moscow .
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Just so u know , ” Rtskhiladze wrote in the text message cited in the special counsel ’ s report .
While liberal commentators like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow seized on the text message , Rtskhiladze says that he had no direct knowledge of Trump-related tapes and that his full exchange with Cohen shows it .
“ It would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devastating for me and my family , ” Rtskhiladze told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a phone interview .
“ Although I had nothing to do with the Steele dossier , the Mueller team connected my isolated text message about some gossip I heard from a friend in Moscow about some tapes I ’ ve never seen or believed ever existed and built the case against me , tainting my name forever.
” Rtskhiladze is now waging a reputation rehabilitation campaign .
He ’ s out with a memoir , “ Kompromat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigrant from Georgia , his partnership with the Trump Organization , and his interactions with the special counsel over his text message .
He ’ s also calling on Attorney General William Barr to formally apologize over the descriptions of him in Special Counsel Robert Mueller ’ s report of the Russia probe .
“ I demand an official apology and correction to the Mueller Report .
I deserve nothing less , ” he wrote to Barr in a letter on April 21 shared with the DCNF .
The report refers to Rtskhiladze @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considers a slight to his Georgian heritage .
Rtskhiladze also asserts that the full exchange he had with Cohen shows that he did not have any direct knowledge of Trump tapes .
After Rtskhiladze mentioned tapes to Cohen , the Trump lawyer replied : “ Tapes of what ?
” “ Not sure of the content but person in Moscow was bragging [ that he ] had tapes from Russia trip , ” Rtskhiladze said .
“ Will try to dial you tomorrow but wanted to be aware .
I ’ m sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but there are lots of stupid people.
” Rtskhiladze was prompted to send the letter to Barr after the Senate Intelligence Committee reached out to his attorneys in late February with follow up questions regarding his interactions with the person who told him the sex tape rumor .
Rtskhiladze ’ s lawyers disclosed the identity of the source in a letter to the Senate panel on Sept. 16 , 2019 .
The letter , which has not previously been reported , said that Rtskhiladze ’ s friend and former business partner , Sergey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after he overheard someone at a restaurant in Moscow discussing a Trump tape .
Rtskhiladze ’ s lawyers said that Khokhlov , who was affiliated with a company called The Leader Group , was not part of the group discussing the alleged tapes .
“ The conversation that followed this dinner between Mr. Khokhlov and Mr. Rtskhiladze where Mr. Khokhlov informed Mr. Rtskhiladze of what he overheard occurred three years ago and the conversation was brief , ” the letter says .
“ Mr .
Rtskhiladze does not have any information about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the table next to Mr. Khokhlov , ” Rtskhiladze ’ s lawyers added .
Rtskhiladze says he met Khokhlov in 2004 and has maintained sporadic contact with his over the years .
They last met in person in 2009 , Rtskhiladze ’ s lawyers told the Senate , but they speak by phone or text message every six months or so .
Rtskhiladze partnered with the Trump Organization in 2011 on a licensing deal for a Trump Tower in Georgia .
He worked with Cohen in 2015 on a deal to build @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that project did not materialize .
Rtskhiladze writes in “ Kompromat , ” his memoir , that he contacted Cohen about the rumored tapes because he was concerned about his business deals with Trump Organization .
Weeks earlier , a tape of Trump from a 2005 “ Access Hollywood ” interview had been released in which the real estate mogul was recorded bragging about accosting women .
Rtskhiladze says that he contacted Cohen after hearing the rumor of a Russian tape , in part because of his own business dealings with the Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I didn ’ t believe for a second that the bragging should be taken seriously , or even that there were any tapes — because honestly , it was hard for me to imagine Trump putting himself in such a position in a foreign land , ” Rtskhiladze writes in his book .
“ But given that the Access Hollywood tapes had just been released , the rumor of such a tape concerned me .
Even an unproven rumor can be a dangerous thing.
” The DCNF was unable to contact Khokhlov .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Committee has contacted him .
A spokesperson for Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr , the chairman of the committee , did not respond to a request for comment .
The Steele dossier has come under intense scrutiny since the release of the special counsel ’ s report .
In the first memo of the dossier , dated June 20 , 2016 , Christopher Steele wrote that a “ former senior Russian intelligence official ” said the Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump in the form of a tape of him in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence of the tape has surfaced in the three years since the dossier was published .
Trump has vehemently denied the allegation , and former Trump associates who were with him during his trip to Moscow have said that he was alone for only a few hours during his trip to Russia , which centered around the 2013 Miss Universe pageant .
A Justice Department inspector general ’ s report released on Dec. 9 said that Steele ’ s primary source of information disputed how the sex tape rumor is described in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not able to confirm that the Kremlin videotaped Trump , and that Trump ’ s tryst with prostitutes was “ rumor and speculation.
” Footnotes from the IG report declassified last month said that the FBI received evidence in February 2017 that the allegation may have been fed to Steele as part of a Russian disinformation campaign .
Lawyers for Senate Intelligence reached out to Rtskhiladze ’ s attorneys on Feb. 21 inquiring about a text message that Rtskhiladze sent to Cohen on Jan. 2 , 2017 .
Cohen had asked Rtskhiladze @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his daughter to the birthday party at St. Barts for Roman Abramovitch , the Russian billionaire .
Rtskhiladze said that he tried to help Cohen by contacting Khokhlov .
“ Ugh…I even had Sergey Khokhlov call Roman , Rosbanks major shareholder , he ’ s with me , ” Rtskhiladze wrote Cohen .
The Senate sought clarification about whether Rtskhiladze was physically with Khokhlov , since he had previously said he had not met with his friend since 2009 .
“ He meant that Mr. Khokhlov was with him in helping to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ St. Barts , not ‘ with him ’ in the physical sense , ” the lawyers said .
Rtskhiladze expressed frustration at the Senate ’ s renewed interest in him .
“ The Senate seems to be going exactly same direction where Mueller went to , and they hit the wall with me for hours and hours of crazy investigation , interrogation , and grand jury , ” he told the DCNF .
“ This is done first to resuscitate the debunked Steele dossier , and to create a perception of collusion between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation .
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By Chuck Ross
Daily Caller News Foundation
Giorgi Rtskhiladze’s text message to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen days before the 2016 election has been an expensive one.
The Georgian-American businessman says he has spent more than $100,000 on legal fees, on top of the damage to his reputation and businesses, as a result of the Oct. 30, 2016 text message to Cohen.
The message is quoted in the special counsel’s report, and was interpreted by President Trump’s critics as a possible reference to the Steele dossier’s most salacious allegation: that the Kremlin has video tapes of Trump with prostitutes in Moscow.
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“Stopped flow of some tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so u know,” Rtskhiladze wrote in the text message cited in the special counsel’s report.
While liberal commentators like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow seized on the text message, Rtskhiladze says that he had no direct knowledge of Trump-related tapes and that his full exchange with Cohen shows it.
“It would be laughable if it wasn’t devastating for me and my family,” Rtskhiladze told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a phone interview.
“Although I had nothing to do with the Steele dossier, the Mueller team connected my isolated text message about some gossip I heard from a friend in Moscow about some tapes I’ve never seen or believed ever existed and built the case against me, tainting my name forever.”
Rtskhiladze is now waging a reputation rehabilitation campaign. He’s out with a memoir, “Kompromat,” detailing his life as an immigrant from Georgia, his partnership with the Trump Organization, and his interactions with the special counsel over his text message.
He’s also calling on Attorney General William Barr to formally apologize over the descriptions of him in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report of the Russia probe.
“I demand an official apology and correction to the Mueller Report. I deserve nothing less,” he wrote to Barr in a letter on April 21 shared with the DCNF.
The report refers to Rtskhiladze as a Russian businessman, which he considers a slight to his Georgian heritage. Rtskhiladze also asserts that the full exchange he had with Cohen shows that he did not have any direct knowledge of Trump tapes.
After Rtskhiladze mentioned tapes to Cohen, the Trump lawyer replied: “Tapes of what?”
“Not sure of the content but person in Moscow was bragging [that he] had tapes from Russia trip,” Rtskhiladze said. “Will try to dial you tomorrow but wanted to be aware. I’m sure it’s not a big deal but there are lots of stupid people.”
“You have no idea,” Cohen wrote.
Rtskhiladze was prompted to send the letter to Barr after the Senate Intelligence Committee reached out to his attorneys in late February with follow up questions regarding his interactions with the person who told him the sex tape rumor.
Rtskhiladze’s lawyers disclosed the identity of the source in a letter to the Senate panel on Sept. 16, 2019.
The letter, which has not previously been reported, said that Rtskhiladze’s friend and former business partner, Sergey Khokhlov, contacted him in October 2016 after he overheard someone at a restaurant in Moscow discussing a Trump tape.
Rtskhiladze’s lawyers said that Khokhlov, who was affiliated with a company called The Leader Group, was not part of the group discussing the alleged tapes.
“The conversation that followed this dinner between Mr. Khokhlov and Mr. Rtskhiladze where Mr. Khokhlov informed Mr. Rtskhiladze of what he overheard occurred three years ago and the conversation was brief,” the letter says.
“Mr. Rtskhiladze does not have any information about the location of this dinner or the individuals at the table next to Mr. Khokhlov,” Rtskhiladze’s lawyers added.
Rtskhiladze says he met Khokhlov in 2004 and has maintained sporadic contact with his over the years. They last met in person in 2009, Rtskhiladze’s lawyers told the Senate, but they speak by phone or text message every six months or so.
Rtskhiladze partnered with the Trump Organization in 2011 on a licensing deal for a Trump Tower in Georgia. He worked with Cohen in 2015 on a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, but that project did not materialize.
Rtskhiladze writes in “Kompromat,” his memoir, that he contacted Cohen about the rumored tapes because he was concerned about his business deals with Trump Organization. Weeks earlier, a tape of Trump from a 2005 “Access Hollywood” interview had been released in which the real estate mogul was recorded bragging about accosting women.
Rtskhiladze says that he contacted Cohen after hearing the rumor of a Russian tape, in part because of his own business dealings with the Trump Organization.
“In this case, I didn’t believe for a second that the bragging should be taken seriously, or even that there were any tapes — because honestly, it was hard for me to imagine Trump putting himself in such a position in a foreign land,” Rtskhiladze writes in his book.
“But given that the Access Hollywood tapes had just been released, the rumor of such a tape concerned me. Even an unproven rumor can be a dangerous thing.”
The DCNF was unable to contact Khokhlov. It is unclear if the Senate Intelligence Committee has contacted him. A spokesperson for Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the committee, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Steele dossier has come under intense scrutiny since the release of the special counsel’s report. In the first memo of the dossier, dated June 20, 2016, Christopher Steele wrote that a “former senior Russian intelligence official” said the Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump in the form of a tape of him in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes.
No evidence of the tape has surfaced in the three years since the dossier was published. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation, and former Trump associates who were with him during his trip to Moscow have said that he was alone for only a few hours during his trip to Russia, which centered around the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
A Justice Department inspector general’s report released on Dec. 9 said that Steele’s primary source of information disputed how the sex tape rumor is described in the dossier. The source said that he was not able to confirm that the Kremlin videotaped Trump, and that Trump’s tryst with prostitutes was “rumor and speculation.”
Footnotes from the IG report declassified last month said that the FBI received evidence in February 2017 that the allegation may have been fed to Steele as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Lawyers for Senate Intelligence reached out to Rtskhiladze’s attorneys on Feb. 21 inquiring about a text message that Rtskhiladze sent to Cohen on Jan. 2, 2017.
Cohen had asked Rtskhiladze to help his secure an invitation for his daughter to the birthday party at St. Barts for Roman Abramovitch, the Russian billionaire.
Rtskhiladze said that he tried to help Cohen by contacting Khokhlov.
“Ugh…I even had Sergey Khokhlov call Roman, Rosbanks major shareholder, he’s with me,” Rtskhiladze wrote Cohen.
The Senate sought clarification about whether Rtskhiladze was physically with Khokhlov, since he had previously said he had not met with his friend since 2009.
“He meant that Mr. Khokhlov was with him in helping to get Mr. Cohen access to a party in St. Barts, not ‘with him’ in the physical sense,” the lawyers said.
Rtskhiladze expressed frustration at the Senate’s renewed interest in him.
“The Senate seems to be going exactly same direction where Mueller went to, and they hit the wall with me for hours and hours of crazy investigation, interrogation, and grand jury,” he told the DCNF.
“This is done first to resuscitate the debunked Steele dossier, and to create a perception of collusion between the Trump team and Russia.”
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].


wnd--2020-05-04--Obesity makes blacks susceptible: Fat prof is exhibit No. 1

I remember my late mother 's saying : `` Give a monkey a show , and it will always perform . ''
There 's a mountain of truth in her timeless axiom – especially when it comes to Brittney Cooper , who proves you can be as undesirable as a fat , greasy pig at a Muslim dinner party and still get a paycheck from Rutgers University .
It used to be that basket weaving was the most meaningless course one could take in higher education .
During my undergraduate and graduate years , we laughingly referred to certain degree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was n't worth the paper the ink was printed on .
Today basket weaving has been replaced by degrees in women 's and gender studies , equally as useless as basket weaving unless , of course , the so-called professor teaching same is a wannabe commie loser enjoined to a plexus of hatred , crafted and controlled by parathion neo-Leninists .
If I were a black woman who was supposedly `` down with the struggle '' and committed to `` keeping it real , '' the last area of academia I would seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gender studies .
It 's a more worthless curriculum of study than afro-centrism and pan-Africanism .
It 's a degree program for women , specifically black women , who are uncouth and intellectually incapable of pursuing real academic curricula .
Women 's studies on its most basic level is the equivalent of 1960s girls ' health class .
Gender studies amounts to little more than a course validating sexual perversion and/or the butchering of one 's body in the misguided pursuit of attempting to be something other than one was born .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ healthcare not classroom validation ; but I digress .
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She maintains credentialing based upon skin-color affirmative action and the lack of propriety that bigoted , white liberals expect and applaud from their in-house simians .
Having achieved a few minutes of on-air media presence after claiming that black women suffered from obesity because of President Trump 's policies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inches from home plate in her effort to knock it out of the park .
When Cooper was blaming President Trump for black women being obese , she should have been challenged pursuant to whether said claim was born out of jealousy for the countless number of beautiful black women who have the magnificent figure she does not .
Perhaps she was just angry that someone did n't tell her to put down the box of Twinkies and step back from the cupcake aisle .
I can understand a person being embarrassed about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she wears what appears to be a 6X clothing and has jowls that cover her neck and the top of her chest , she does n't get a pass to blame her appearance on President Trump .
A fact often overlooked regarding professorial positions in universities is that they earn recognition based upon the frequency they 're quoted in print and/or appear as an on-air guest .
In an attempt to curry favor from those who own her cage back at Rutgers University , Cooper has determined to insert herself into the blacks-are-dying-disproportionately-from-COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disproportionately from COVID-10 ; they 're dying disproportionately because , like Cooper , those who are morbidly obese are more inclined to suffer from other respiratory ailments in addition to diabetes , which are gateways to premature death from any influenza or serious bronchial cold .
As I have long argued , bigoted Alinskyites parade out blacks like Cooper , who hold entitlement positions at academic institutions , to espouse jejune arguments of feigned racism because they hold weak , indefensible positions .
We see this practiced by homosexual activists .
In order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the narrative was slanted to comparisons with civil rights for blacks .
Blacks not voting for Obama were attacked as not being black .
People who evaluated Obama 's record and political agenda and determined him unfit to be elected were call racists .
COVID-19 is no different .
COVID-19 ultimately will be looked back upon as the gateway for what is biblically prophesized to come .
With that said , in the moment COVID-19 is a hard sell for those of us who are of sound mind and capable of thinking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ promote the agenda of forced vaccination and social monitoring , which will usher in the zeitgeist necessary for the antichrist to thrive , there must be victims who fit into the Hegelian Dialectics bag of tricks skillfully deployed by Fabian Democratic Socialists .
In 2015 I wrote : `` There is certainly no better example of the Democrats ' strategic use of Hegelian Dialectics than Obamacare .
… Obama … used the lies created by Carter and Hillary Clinton to manufacture a problem for which the public supposedly demanded a resolution , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ depriving citizens of their right to self-determination . ''
( `` The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans , '' mychal-massie.com , Aug. 4 , 2015 . )
Cooper is nothing more than a tool in the employ of nefarious globalists and population-control Lucifarians .
I could pity her ; because the one chance she has to find completeness and value she has blasphemed , calling God a white supremacist driven by patriarchy .
She has railed that `` God [ Almighty ] is n't the God [ she ] serves . ''
Speaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He might be 'biblical ' but he 's also an a**hole . ''
( `` Reopening U.S. is about killing black people , says college prof , '' Joe Kovacs , WND.com , April 29 , 2020 . )
Healthy people , including and specifically those blacks who are healthy , suffer no more threat from the COVID flu virus than whites or anyone else .
But , as I have stated many times , when evil activists attempt to implement their satanic agendas they can find no better blind accomplices than small-minded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a snowstorm at the North Pole .
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I remember my late mother's saying: "Give a monkey a show, and it will always perform." There's a mountain of truth in her timeless axiom – especially when it comes to Brittney Cooper, who proves you can be as undesirable as a fat, greasy pig at a Muslim dinner party and still get a paycheck from Rutgers University.
It used to be that basket weaving was the most meaningless course one could take in higher education. During my undergraduate and graduate years, we laughingly referred to certain degree pursuits as being such because the degree wasn't worth the paper the ink was printed on.
Today basket weaving has been replaced by degrees in women's and gender studies, equally as useless as basket weaving unless, of course, the so-called professor teaching same is a wannabe commie loser enjoined to a plexus of hatred, crafted and controlled by parathion neo-Leninists.
If I were a black woman who was supposedly "down with the struggle" and committed to "keeping it real," the last area of academia I would seek degree in would be women's and gender studies. It's a more worthless curriculum of study than afro-centrism and pan-Africanism. It's a degree program for women, specifically black women, who are uncouth and intellectually incapable of pursuing real academic curricula.
Women's studies on its most basic level is the equivalent of 1960s girls' health class. Gender studies amounts to little more than a course validating sexual perversion and/or the butchering of one's body in the misguided pursuit of attempting to be something other than one was born. The latter is a dysphoria that requires mental healthcare not classroom validation; but I digress.
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Cooper has proven time and again that she's only marginally qualified to have a career in those areas of academic idiocy. She maintains credentialing based upon skin-color affirmative action and the lack of propriety that bigoted, white liberals expect and applaud from their in-house simians.
Having achieved a few minutes of on-air media presence after claiming that black women suffered from obesity because of President Trump's policies, Cooper once again smashed the ball inches from home plate in her effort to knock it out of the park.
When Cooper was blaming President Trump for black women being obese, she should have been challenged pursuant to whether said claim was born out of jealousy for the countless number of beautiful black women who have the magnificent figure she does not.
Perhaps she was just angry that someone didn't tell her to put down the box of Twinkies and step back from the cupcake aisle. I can understand a person being embarrassed about being overweight. But, just because she wears what appears to be a 6X clothing and has jowls that cover her neck and the top of her chest, she doesn't get a pass to blame her appearance on President Trump.
A fact often overlooked regarding professorial positions in universities is that they earn recognition based upon the frequency they're quoted in print and/or appear as an on-air guest.
In an attempt to curry favor from those who own her cage back at Rutgers University, Cooper has determined to insert herself into the blacks-are-dying-disproportionately-from-COVID-19 lie.
Black people aren't dying disproportionately from COVID-10; they're dying disproportionately because, like Cooper, those who are morbidly obese are more inclined to suffer from other respiratory ailments in addition to diabetes, which are gateways to premature death from any influenza or serious bronchial cold.
As I have long argued, bigoted Alinskyites parade out blacks like Cooper, who hold entitlement positions at academic institutions, to espouse jejune arguments of feigned racism because they hold weak, indefensible positions.
We see this practiced by homosexual activists. In order to promote homosexual marriage as normal, the narrative was slanted to comparisons with civil rights for blacks. Blacks not voting for Obama were attacked as not being black. People who evaluated Obama's record and political agenda and determined him unfit to be elected were call racists. COVID-19 is no different.
COVID-19 ultimately will be looked back upon as the gateway for what is biblically prophesized to come. With that said, in the moment COVID-19 is a hard sell for those of us who are of sound mind and capable of thinking for ourselves.
However, in order to promote the agenda of forced vaccination and social monitoring, which will usher in the zeitgeist necessary for the antichrist to thrive, there must be victims who fit into the Hegelian Dialectics bag of tricks skillfully deployed by Fabian Democratic Socialists.
In 2015 I wrote: "There is certainly no better example of the Democrats' strategic use of Hegelian Dialectics than Obamacare. … Obama … used the lies created by Carter and Hillary Clinton to manufacture a problem for which the public supposedly demanded a resolution, which led to Obama and the Supreme Court depriving citizens of their right to self-determination." ("The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans," mychal-massie.com, Aug. 4, 2015.)
Cooper is nothing more than a tool in the employ of nefarious globalists and population-control Lucifarians. I could pity her; because the one chance she has to find completeness and value she has blasphemed, calling God a white supremacist driven by patriarchy. She has railed that "God [Almighty] isn't the God [she] serves." Speaking of Jehovah, she said: "He might be 'biblical' but he's also an a**hole." ("Reopening U.S. is about killing black people, says college prof," Joe Kovacs, WND.com, April 29, 2020.)
Healthy people, including and specifically those blacks who are healthy, suffer no more threat from the COVID flu virus than whites or anyone else. But, as I have stated many times, when evil activists attempt to implement their satanic agendas they can find no better blind accomplices than small-minded, unintelligent blacks who could find racism in a snowstorm at the North Pole.
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wnd--2020-05-04--The China Syndrome: 2020

The China Syndrome: 2020

The price of an education is extracted in many ways .
Lessons learned can be beneficial or painful , and this recent exposure to the dereliction by one of the world 's leading powers is one to be recognized , observed , analyzed and remembered .
The people , and businesses , of this country have forgotten the basic tenet of the People 's Republic of China : The Chinese Communist Party .
They are Communists .
Hardcore , in power for life , abusive , inhumane , anti-freedom Communists willing to destroy anyone for power and dominance .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communism and fascism , Marxism , socialism and tyranny around the world : Germany , the Soviet Union , Cuba , Italy , et al.
, and now … we trade with them .
We support them .
We 're in debt to them .
TRENDING : Ex-CIA operative : Comey and Brennan should get death penalty In the case of China , for some reason the ignorance of their politics is acceptable for those seeking not only domestic profits , but global brand expansion .
Facebook , Google , Apple , Boeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feet of this tyrannical regime .
They seek increased profits and rising stock evaluations , and the almighty dollar is more important than national security , corporate ethics and even Americans .
Citizens dependent on jobs and a future to survive are left to wane in importance .
McKenzie & Company long ago promoted the idea of `` outsourcing '' as a viable , long-term path to increased profits .
Companies jumped onboard sending jobs , processes and trade secrets to our enemies while the path here was filled with domestic neglect , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vigilant veneer of a viral subversion spread not only through neighborhoods and hospitals , but through the greedy halls of our nation 's biggest companies , and this should not be overlooked by patriotic consumers .
We 're laid open to abuse and control by one who would deny us our economic independence and stability , held hostage by profiteers while our own supply chains are disrupted , in jeopardy .
We are susceptible to the shortages of vital medical equipment and devices at a time when the very lives of our citizenry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have charged an economic and military adversary with the task of manufacturing `` Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients '' ?
Ill-conceived , irresponsible and a threat to our national security and health .
The COVID-19 occurrence has brought to the forefront an awareness , a paroxysm of potential problems few imagined months ago .
The secrecy , deception , lying and cover up of facts and fantasy compounded our lack of understanding and ability to respond to a potential worldwide disaster .
This dossier discusses China 's `` deadly denial of human-to-human transmission , '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctors and scientists who spoke out , the destruction of evidence of the virus .
Read and understand our enemy and the price we pay .
`` Patient Zero '' is still unknown – and the origin ?
As mysterious as the true reason this virus even exists .
And it should be noted that while the Chinese were allowing millions to leave China from ground zero , some 7,000-plus domestic flights were canceled ; flights from Wuhan into major population areas such as Honk Kong , Beijing Capital , Guangzhou , Shanghai @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spalding ( an expert on China , senior director for Strategic Planning , National Security Council the White House , and special assistant to the vice chief of staff , U.S. Air Force , the Pentagon ) recently told me : '' Ron , on the origin of the virus – we still have no way of knowing . ''
`` On the spread of the pandemic – they [ China ] are definitely responsible since they knew about human-to-human transmission and let 5 million people leave Wuhan to all corners of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government to the U.S. has been pronounced and perfected through several scenarios .
Not just this viral invasion , but through many well-conceived , well-executed insertions into our society .
As laid out by Brig .
Gen. Spalding in his recent writing , `` Stealth War , '' he reminds us of their intrusive behavior : 1 .
Economy – `` The CCP [ Chinese Communist Party ] has a predatory and parasitic economy that seeks to consistently undermine and consume the innovation , technology , talent , and capital of free economies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ free trade . ''
2.Military – `` The CCP seeks to use its relationships with other rogue regimes as proxies to keep the U.S. perpetually pinned down in conflicts .
It steals U.S. military technology to preclude a big R & D budget .
Finally , it used the fact that the U.S. was a signatory to the INF treaty to ensure it had access . ''
3 .
Diplomacy – `` The CCP diplomats feign acceptance of international rules and norms while simultaneously working to undermine them . ''
4 .
Technology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strategy to completely dominate the high technology areas of the future .
They want indigenous production of all the areas that drive the 21st century . ''
5 .
Education – `` The CCP uses the education system to both acquire information and promote its narrative everywhere . ''
6 .
Infrastructure – `` The CCP uses the Belt and Road Initiative to promote its political power beyond its borders . ''
Starting to see the pattern ?
China , through this intense incursion and its many actions , or inactions , continues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vulnerable America , increasing the cost of our `` education of this enemy , '' both abroad and domestically .
Our openness , our cultural inclusiveness , our profit-seeking – we ca n't afford .
The 2020 China Syndrome ?
The price is too high .
We must be aware and vigilant in the protection of our country .
We must never give up control of our own destinies , for to do so will ultimately deny us our freedom , our rights , our existence .
Virus or no virus , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and breathe free and independent .
Ron Boat is a veteran and corporate marketing and media producer/writer for his own production company .
He also writes social commentary and interviews with top military , intelligence and government officials .
He can be contacted through [ email protected ] .

By Ron Boat
At what cost profits?
The price of an education is extracted in many ways. Lessons learned can be beneficial or painful, and this recent exposure to the dereliction by one of the world's leading powers is one to be recognized, observed, analyzed and remembered.
The people, and businesses, of this country have forgotten the basic tenet of the People's Republic of China: The Chinese Communist Party. They are Communists. Hardcore, in power for life, abusive, inhumane, anti-freedom Communists willing to destroy anyone for power and dominance.
In one way or another we have fought communism and fascism, Marxism, socialism and tyranny around the world: Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Italy, et al., and now … we trade with them. We support them. We're in debt to them.
TRENDING: Is this the 'Final Battle'?
In the case of China, for some reason the ignorance of their politics is acceptable for those seeking not only domestic profits, but global brand expansion. Facebook, Google, Apple, Boeing, Starbucks and others bow at the feet of this tyrannical regime. They seek increased profits and rising stock valuations, and the almighty dollar is more important than national security, corporate ethics and even Americans. Citizens dependent on jobs and a future to survive are left to wane in importance.
McKenzie & Company long ago promoted the idea of "outsourcing" as a viable, long-term path to increased profits. Companies jumped onboard sending jobs, processes and trade secrets to our enemies while the path here was filled with domestic neglect, downsizing, disappointment, despair.
This vigilant veneer of a viral subversion spread not only through neighborhoods and hospitals, but through the greedy halls of our nation's biggest companies, and this should not be overlooked by patriotic consumers.
We're laid open to abuse and control by one who would deny us our economic independence and stability, held hostage by profiteers while our own supply chains are disrupted, in jeopardy. We are susceptible to the shortages of vital medical equipment and devices at a time when the very lives of our citizenry oscillate in the balance. And to have charged an economic and military adversary with the task of manufacturing "Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients"? Ill-conceived, irresponsible and a threat to our national security and health.
The COVID-19 occurrence has brought to the forefront an awareness, a paroxysm of potential problems few imagined months ago. The secrecy, deception, lying and cover up of facts and fantasy compounded our lack of understanding and ability to respond to a potential worldwide disaster.
This dossier discusses China's "deadly denial of human-to-human transmission," the silencing or "disappearing" of doctors and scientists who spoke out, the destruction of evidence of the virus. Read and understand our enemy and the price we pay.
"Patient Zero" is still unknown – and the origin? As mysterious as the true reason this virus even exists.
And it should be noted that while the Chinese were allowing millions to leave China from ground zero, some 7,000-plus domestic flights were canceled; flights from Wuhan into major population areas such as Honk Kong, Beijing Capital, Guangzhou, Shanghai and others.
Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding (an expert on China, senior director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council the White House, and special assistant to the vice chief of staff, U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon) recently told me:
"Ron, on the origin of the virus – we still have no way of knowing."
"On the spread of the pandemic – they [China] are definitely responsible since they knew about human-to-human transmission and let 5 million people leave Wuhan to all corners of the earth."
The danger of this government to the U.S. has been pronounced and perfected through several scenarios. Not just this viral invasion, but through many well-conceived, well-executed insertions into our society. As laid out by Brig. Gen. Spalding in his recent writing, "Stealth War," he reminds us of their intrusive behavior:
1. Economy – "The CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has a predatory and parasitic economy that seeks to consistently undermine and consume the innovation, technology, talent, and capital of free economies. The CCP does not believe in free trade."
2.Military – "The CCP seeks to use its relationships with other rogue regimes as proxies to keep the U.S. perpetually pinned down in conflicts. It steals U.S. military technology to preclude a big R&D budget. Finally, it used the fact that the U.S. was a signatory to the INF treaty to ensure it had access."
3. Diplomacy – "The CCP diplomats feign acceptance of international rules and norms while simultaneously working to undermine them."
4. Technology – "The CCP has designed a strategy to completely dominate the high technology areas of the future. They want indigenous production of all the areas that drive the 21st century."
5. Education – "The CCP uses the education system to both acquire information and promote its narrative everywhere."
6. Infrastructure – "The CCP uses the Belt and Road Initiative to promote its political power beyond its borders."
Starting to see the pattern?
China, through this intense incursion and its many actions, or inactions, continues to advance toward a weaker, more vulnerable America, increasing the cost of our "education of this enemy," both abroad and domestically. Our openness, our cultural inclusiveness, our profit-seeking – we can't afford.
The 2020 China Syndrome? The price is too high.
We must be aware and vigilant in the protection of our country. We must never give up control of our own destinies, for to do so will ultimately deny us our freedom, our rights, our existence.
Virus or no virus, we are Americans first and need to live and breathe free and independent.
Ron Boat is a veteran and corporate marketing and media producer/writer for his own production company. He also writes social commentary and interviews with top military, intelligence and government officials. He can be contacted through [email protected].


wnd--2020-05-05--The worldwide lockdown: Likely the greatest mistake in history

The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many – including world leaders ; most scientists , especially health officials , doctors and epidemiologists ; those who work in major news media ; opinion writers in those media ; and the hundreds of millions , if not billions , of people who put their faith in these people – as so preposterous as to be immoral .
Timothy Egan of The New York Times described Republicans who wish to enable their states to open up as `` the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way it is today on planet Earth , where deceit , cowardice and immaturity now dominate almost all societies because the elites are deceitful , cowardly and immature .
But for those open to reading thoughts they may differ with , here is the case for why the worldwide lockdown is not only a mistake but also , possibly , the worst mistake the world has ever made .
And for those intellectually challenged by the English language and/or logic , `` mistake '' and `` evil '' are not synonyms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Holocaust , slavery , communism , fascism , etc.
, were evils .
Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools ; massive evils are committed by evil people .
The forcible prevention of Americans from doing anything except what politicians deem `` essential '' has led to the worst economy in American history since the Great Depression of the 1930s .
It is panic and hysteria , not the coronavirus , that created this catastrophe .
And the consequences in much of the world will be more horrible than in America .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the WFP , states that by the end of the year , more than 260 million people will face starvation – double last year 's figures .
According to WFP director David Beasley on April 21 : `` We could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries .
… There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself '' ( italics added ) .
TRENDING : Trump wants investigation of network anchor over death of intern That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown as a deathly error .
But there is much more .
If global GDP declines by 5 % , another 147 million people could be plunged into extreme poverty , according to the International Food Policy Research Institute .
Foreign Policy magazine reports that , according to the International Monetary Fund , the global economy will shrink by 3 % in 2020 , marking the biggest downturn since the Great Depression , and the U.S. , the eurozone and Japan will contract by 5.9 % , 7.5 % and 5.2 % , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as of a month ago , tens of millions were already `` struggling to put food on the table . ''
Again , all because of the lockdowns , not the virus .
In one particularly incomprehensible act , the government of India , a poor country of 1.3 billion people , locked down its people .
As Quartz India reported on April 22 , `` Coronavirus has killed only around 700 Indians … a small number still compared to the 450,000 TB and 10,000-odd malaria deaths recorded every year . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ workers protesting the lockdown in Bangladesh understands the situation better than almost any health official in the world : `` We are starving .
If we do n't have food in our stomach , what 's the use of observing this lockdown ? ''
But concern for that Bangladeshi worker among the world 's elites seems nonexistent .
The lockdown is `` possibly even more catastrophic ( than the virus ) in its outcome : the collapse of global food-supply systems and widespread human starvation '' ( italics added ) .
That was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which , nevertheless , enthusiastically supports lockdowns .
But the American left cares as much about the millions of non-Americans reduced to hunger and starvation because of the lockdown as it does about the people of upstate New York who have no incomes , despite the minuscule number of coronavirus deaths there .
Or about the citizens of Oregon , whose governor has just announced the state will remain locked down until July 6 .
As of this writing , a total of 109 people have died of the coronavirus in Oregon .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is in worldwide suffering is made abundantly clear in a front-page `` prayer '' by a left-wing Christian in the current issue of The Nation : `` May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those whose lives are at stake . ''
`` Merely inconvenienced '' is how the Rev .
Dr. William J. Barber II , a Protestant minister and president of the North Carolina NAACP , describes the tens of millions of Americans rendered destitute , not to mention the hundreds of millions around the world rendered not only penniless but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most of the elites , it is Barber who is `` merely inconvenienced . ''
Indeed , the American battle today is between the merely inconvenienced and the rest of America .
Michael Levitt , professor of structural biology at Stanford Medical School and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry , recently stated , `` There is no doubt in my mind that when we come to look back on this , the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor . ''
To the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is driven by preference for money over lives .
Typical of the left 's moral shallowness is this headline on Salon this week : '' It 's Time To Reject the Gods of Commerce : America Is a Society , Not an 'Economy , ' '' with the subhead reading , `` America Is About People , Not Profit Margins . ''
And , of course , to smug editors and writers of The Atlantic , in article after repetitive article , the fault lies not with the lockdown but with President Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Atlantic this week is titled `` The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump . ''
The elites can afford to laugh at whatever they want .
Meanwhile , the less fortunate – that is , most people – are crying .

The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many – including world leaders; most scientists, especially health officials, doctors and epidemiologists; those who work in major news media; opinion writers in those media; and the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people who put their faith in these people – as so preposterous as to be immoral. Timothy Egan of the New York Times described Republicans who wish to enable their states to open up as "the party of death."
That's the way it is today on planet Earth, where deceit, cowardice and immaturity now dominate almost all societies because the elites are deceitful, cowardly and immature.
But for those open to reading thoughts they may differ with, here is the case for why the worldwide lockdown is not only a mistake but also, possibly, the worst mistake the world has ever made. And for those intellectually challenged by the English language and/or logic, "mistake" and "evil" are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.
The forcible prevention of Americans from doing anything except what politicians deem "essential" has led to the worst economy in American history since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus, that created this catastrophe. And the consequences in much of the world will be more horrible than in America.
TRENDING: Is this the 'Final Battle'?
The United Nations World Food Programme, or the WFP, states that by the end of the year, more than 260 million people will face starvation – double last year's figures. According to WFP director David Beasley on April 21: "We could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries. … There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself" (italics added).
That would be enough to characterize the worldwide lockdown as a deathly error. But there is much more. If global GDP declines by 5%, another 147 million people could be plunged into extreme poverty, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Foreign Policy magazine reports that, according to the International Monetary Fund, the global economy will shrink by 3% in 2020, marking the biggest downturn since the Great Depression, and the U.S., the eurozone and Japan will contract by 5.9%, 7.5% and 5.2%, respectively. Meanwhile, across South Asia, as of a month ago, tens of millions were already "struggling to put food on the table." Again, all because of the lockdowns, not the virus.
In one particularly incomprehensible act, the government of India, a poor country of 1.3 billion people, locked down its people. As Quartz India reported on April 22, "Coronavirus has killed only around 700 Indians … a small number still compared to the 450,000 TB and 10,000-odd malaria deaths recorded every year."
One of the thousands of unpaid garment workers protesting the lockdown in Bangladesh understands the situation better than almost any health official in the world: "We are starving. If we don't have food in our stomach, what's the use of observing this lockdown?" But concern for that Bangladeshi worker among the world's elites seems nonexistent.
The lockdown is "possibly even more catastrophic (than the virus) in its outcome: the collapse of global food-supply systems and widespread human starvation" (italics added). That was published in the left-wing The Nation, which, nevertheless, enthusiastically supports lockdowns. But the American left cares as much about the millions of non-Americans reduced to hunger and starvation because of the lockdown as it does about the people of upstate New York who have no incomes, despite the minuscule number of coronavirus deaths there. Or about the citizens of Oregon, whose governor has just announced the state will remain locked down until July 6. As of this writing, a total of 109 people have died of the coronavirus in Oregon.
An example of how disinterested the left is in worldwide suffering is made abundantly clear in a front-page "prayer" by a left-wing Christian in the current issue of The Nation: "May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those whose lives are at stake."
"Merely inconvenienced" is how the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, a Protestant minister and president of the North Carolina NAACP, describes the tens of millions of Americans rendered destitute, not to mention the hundreds of millions around the world rendered not only penniless but hungry. The truth is, like most of the elites, it is Barber who is "merely inconvenienced." Indeed, the American battle today is between the merely inconvenienced and the rest of America.
Michael Levitt, professor of structural biology at Stanford Medical School and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, recently stated, "There is no doubt in my mind that when we come to look back on this, the damage done by lockdown will exceed any saving of lives by a huge factor."
To the left, anyone who questions the lockdown is driven by preference for money over lives. Typical of the left's moral shallowness is this headline on Salon this week:
"It's Time To Reject the Gods of Commerce: America Is a Society, Not an 'Economy,'" with the subhead reading, "America Is About People, Not Profit Margins."
And, of course, to smug editors and writers of The Atlantic, in article after repetitive article, the fault lies not with the lockdown but with President Donald Trump. The most popular article in The Atlantic this week is titled "The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump." The elites can afford to laugh at whatever they want. Meanwhile, the less fortunate – that is, most people – are crying.