theduran--2020-03-25--Trump Pushes Back Against Green New Deal and Shut Down Folly of U.S. Economy

President Trump has demonstrated a dramatic about-face on his support for a total shutdown of America during a Virtual Town Hall meeting on March 24 which comes in the wake of the President ’ s attacks on Pompeo ’ s State Department ( which Trump referred to as Pompeo ’ s “ Deep State Department ” on March 20 ) .
During his March 24 Virtual Town Hall event , Trump not only called for an end to the economic shutdown which has crippled America ’ s economy , but also described how he was backed into a wall by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it impossible for him to avoid declaring a state of emergency on March 13 .
This crisis not only ground America ’ s economy to a halt , while unleashing trillions of dollars to bailout failing banks and corporations .
When asked by Fox News how he reacted to the expert assessment that the whole nation must be shut down to manage Coronavirus , and if he pushed back , the President said : “ We have had flus where we have lost 36 000 .
We have lost as many as 78 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they came in and they said to me ‘ sir , we ’ re gon na have to close the country.
’ I said ‘ what are you talking about ?
’ ‘ Well we have a virus and its coming in ’ .
Well I knew that and I made the early decision with China , so I already closed it off to China and that was along time before they came in .
But they came in ( experts ) and said ‘ we ’ re going to have to close @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve never closed the country before .
This never happened before .
We are going to take this country that ’ s fully employed .
Where we have 160 million people working , and you ’ re telling me we have to close it ?
!
And people are gon na go out of business and they are gon na go bankrupt and they ’ re not gon na have jobs ?
What are we talking about here ?
We ’ ve had flus before .
We ’ ve had viruses before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this is why I say… look I gave it two weeks… and we ’ ll assess at that time , and we ’ ll give it a little more time if we need a little more time but we have to open this country up !
” Again comparing the several hundred COVID-19 deaths in America to the 36 000 annual deaths caused by the flu , President Trump ridiculed those who believe that it is worth risking thousands or even millions of lives by unleashing chaos and depression , saying : One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President exposed the nefarious agenda of the Green New Dealers who have tried to use this crisis to take over the $ 2 Trillion emergency spending bill which he had rejected the night before saying : “ I cancelled the deal last night .
I said ‘ I ’ m not going to sign that deal ’ .
Because Nancy Pelosi came in and put a lot of things in the deal that had nothing to do with the workers , that had to do with an agenda that they ’ ve been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
And I came in and said… there ’ s no way I ’ m signing that deal… we almost had a deal the day before… All of a sudden they start throwing all of the little Green New Deal stuff in right ?
‘ We want green energy and let ’ s stop drilling oil ’ .
They had things in there that were terrible .
Windmills all over the place and all sorts of credits .
Windmills .
They kill the birds and ruin the real estate right ?
There were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I ’ m not signing this deal ” .
The Green New Deal and Financial Collapse : Two Sides of the Same Agenda As this author has reported for years , the Green New Deal and the oncoming economic collapse are two sides of the same coin and both have been carefully planned for many decades as part of a “ problem ” reaction solution formula currently being promoted by such technocratic zombies as the Bank of England ’ s Mark Carney , billionaire Green New Dealing Corporatist Michael Bloomberg and their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Banking financiers .
In December 2019 , Carney , still acting as governor of the Bank of England , called for a new green financial system tied to a new set of values that offers monetary incentives to any action which lowers the world carbon emissions ( and implicitly human population ) .
Michael Bloomberg who acted as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action until Carney replaced him in that role in December , also played a strange role alongside Bill Gates and other billionaires of the World Economic Forum co-sponsoring the now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks before Carney call for a new economic order .
Event 201 was designed explicitly to prepare the world for new global government organizations to solve the “ hypothetical ” spread of a “ novel coronavirus ” .
It should come as no surprise that the recent calls by the Federal Reserve and Bank of England to unleash unlimited Quantitative Easing to bailout the multi quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble are not designed to resolve the crisis at all , but only unleash the predicted mass chaos and systemic meltdown that Trump warned about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physical economic system in place to rebuild the world as was the case with FDR ’ s brilliant 1933 struggle , the only sort of “ solution ” left available looks more like the sort which was shoved on Germany in 1933 .
Although it may appear a bit bleak to read this sort of thing , one must find a glimmer of hope that America ’ s President ( for all his problems ) has demonstrated a capacity to think for himself and resist the enormous pressures of the Malthusian Deep State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deep state ’ s incessant attempts to spark wars with China , Iran and Middle East more generally .
We can only hope that Trump has the wits and capacity to manoeuvre America into a position of partnership with China , Russia and other nations of the Multipolar Alliance before it is too late .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
In 2019 he co-founded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be reached at [ email protected ]

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
President Trump has demonstrated a dramatic about-face on his support for a total shutdown of America during a Virtual Town Hall meeting on March 24 which comes in the wake of the President’s attacks on Pompeo’s State Department (which Trump referred to as Pompeo’s “Deep State Department” on March 20).
During his March 24 Virtual Town Hall event, Trump not only called for an end to the economic shutdown which has crippled America’s economy, but also described how he was backed into a wall by teams of “experts” who made it impossible for him to avoid declaring a state of emergency on March 13. This crisis not only ground America’s economy to a halt, while unleashing trillions of dollars to bailout failing banks and corporations.
When asked by Fox News how he reacted to the expert assessment that the whole nation must be shut down to manage Coronavirus, and if he pushed back, the President said:
“We have had flus where we have lost 36 000. We have lost as many as 78 000 people in one year. And they came in and they said to me ‘sir, we’re gonna have to close the country.’ I said ‘what are you talking about?’ ‘Well we have a virus and its coming in’. Well I knew that and I made the early decision with China, so I already closed it off to China and that was along time before they came in. But they came in (experts) and said ‘we’re going to have to close the country’. I said we’ve never closed the country before. This never happened before. We are going to take this country that’s fully employed. Where we have 160 million people working, and you’re telling me we have to close it?! And people are gonna go out of business and they are gonna go bankrupt and they’re not gonna have jobs? What are we talking about here? We’ve had flus before. We’ve had viruses before, so this is something new and this is why I say… look I gave it two weeks… and we’ll assess at that time, and we’ll give it a little more time if we need a little more time but we have to open this country up!”
Again comparing the several hundred COVID-19 deaths in America to the 36 000 annual deaths caused by the flu, President Trump ridiculed those who believe that it is worth risking thousands or even millions of lives by unleashing chaos and depression, saying:
“Look, you’re gonna lose some people to the flu, but you could loose many more people by putting the country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose many people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands you’re going to have all sorts of things happen. You’re going to have massive instability. You can’t just say let’s close up the United States of America.”
One of the most impressive remarks, the President exposed the nefarious agenda of the Green New Dealers who have tried to use this crisis to take over the $2 Trillion emergency spending bill which he had rejected the night before saying:
“I cancelled the deal last night. I said ‘I’m not going to sign that deal’. Because Nancy Pelosi came in and put a lot of things in the deal that had nothing to do with the workers, that had to do with an agenda that they’ve been trying to get passed for ten years! And I came in and said… there’s no way I’m signing that deal… we almost had a deal the day before… All of a sudden they start throwing all of the little Green New Deal stuff in right? ‘We want green energy and let’s stop drilling oil’. They had things in there that were terrible. Windmills all over the place and all sorts of credits. Windmills. They kill the birds and ruin the real estate right? There were a lot of problems and I said “I’m not signing this deal”.
The Green New Deal and Financial Collapse: Two Sides of the Same Agenda
As this author has reported for years, the Green New Deal and the oncoming economic collapse are two sides of the same coin and both have been carefully planned for many decades as part of a “problem” reaction solution formula currently being promoted by such technocratic zombies as the Bank of England’s Mark Carney, billionaire Green New Dealing Corporatist Michael Bloomberg and their networks of Open Society institutions and Central Banking financiers. In December 2019, Carney, still acting as governor of the Bank of England, called for a new green financial system tied to a new set of values that offers monetary incentives to any action which lowers the world carbon emissions (and implicitly human population). Michael Bloomberg who acted as UN Special Envoy for Climate Action until Carney replaced him in that role in December, also played a strange role alongside Bill Gates and other billionaires of the World Economic Forum co-sponsoring the now infamous Event 201 Global Pandemic exercise just weeks before Carney call for a new economic order. Event 201 was designed explicitly to prepare the world for new global government organizations to solve the “hypothetical” spread of a “novel coronavirus”.
It should come as no surprise that the recent calls by the Federal Reserve and Bank of England to unleash unlimited Quantitative Easing to bailout the multi quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble are not designed to resolve the crisis at all, but only unleash the predicted mass chaos and systemic meltdown that Trump warned about in his public address. With no physical economic system in place to rebuild the world as was the case with FDR’s brilliant 1933 struggle, the only sort of “solution” left available looks more like the sort which was shoved on Germany in 1933.
Although it may appear a bit bleak to read this sort of thing, one must find a glimmer of hope that America’s President (for all his problems) has demonstrated a capacity to think for himself and resist the enormous pressures of the Malthusian Deep State on this important topic not to mention the deep state’s incessant attempts to spark wars with China, Iran and Middle East more generally. We can only hope that Trump has the wits and capacity to manoeuvre America into a position of partnership with China, Russia and other nations of the Multipolar Alliance before it is too late.
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
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theduran--2020-03-26--Saudi Arabia faces double budget hit from oil prices & corona

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how Saudi Arabia ’ s oil price war is bringing the Kingdom to its knees .
OilPrice.com reports ( ) At $ 30 a Brent barrel , the Saudi wealth fund will deplete fast and reduced government spending will stall projects , and the already suffering private non-oil sector will suffer further .
That ’ s the near-term damage .
The longer-term damage is the lack of funds for the ambitious Vision 2030 plan of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman , which was already going downhill even before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multibillion foreign investment and Saudi investment in “ diversifying away from oil ” weren ’ t exactly flowing to the Kingdom .
“ I think we are beginning to see that the vision 2030 is not going well , ” Jean-François Seznec , Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council , said on an Atlantic Council press call last week .
There is a growing amount of tension among the population , even among the crown prince ’ s main supporters , Seznec said .
“ But he needs to make a big impact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to force the Russians to give up and agree to the cuts , and if at the same time it destroys the U.S. shale industry so much the better , ” Seznec noted .
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Saudi Arabia could book a budget deficit of as much as $ 61 billion this year under the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and the global oil glut , research from financial firm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ represent almost 8 percent of the Kingdom ’ s GDP , Arabian Business reported , adding that the budget revenue for the year will be a bit lower than what the government projected in its budget draft , at $ 210 billion ( 791 billion riyals ) .
Spending , on the other hand , will come in at $ 270 billion ( 1.02 trillion riyals ) .
“ Overall , it is worth noting that , at this moment in time , the range of potential effects of Covid-19 on the kingdom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the Saudi firm said as quoted by Arabian Business .
Some 511 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed so far in the Kingdom .
According to Jadwa , as negative as the pandemic is for oil prices , there is space for optimism , mostly because governments are pledging fiscal stimulus and other support measures for national economies .
According to the Saudi company , this should lead to a rebound in oil demand and this , in turn , will help Saudi Arabia achieve significant economic growth , from 0.3 percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent .
How realistic this is remains to be seen , as many analysts expect crude oil price to fall even further , not least because of Saudi Arabia ’ s commitment to boost production past the 12-million-bpd mark starting next month .
Under the weight of the combination between a pandemic and a rising supply of oil , Brent and West Texas Intermediate have both dropped below $ 30 a barrel , with Brent at $ 28.52 and WTI at $ 22.84 a barrel at the time of writing .
Meanwhile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is filling up and this could push prices further down , possibly as low as $ 10 a barrel .
There are some 750 million barrels of oil in storage globally , according to calculations from data analytics company OilX , and this could rise to 1 billion barrels .

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how Saudi Arabia’s oil price war is bringing the Kingdom to its knees.
OilPrice.com reports (https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Saudi-Arabias-Oil-Price-War-Is-Backfiring.html) At $30 a Brent barrel, the Saudi wealth fund will deplete fast and reduced government spending will stall projects, and the already suffering private non-oil sector will suffer further. That’s the near-term damage.
The longer-term damage is the lack of funds for the ambitious Vision 2030 plan of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, which was already going downhill even before the oil price collapse as the promised multibillion foreign investment and Saudi investment in “diversifying away from oil” weren’t exactly flowing to the Kingdom. “I think we are beginning to see that the vision 2030 is not going well,” Jean-François Seznec, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, said on an Atlantic Council press call last week. There is a growing amount of tension among the population, even among the crown prince’s main supporters, Seznec said. “But he needs to make a big impact. Now, his big impact is to force the Russians to give up and agree to the cuts, and if at the same time it destroys the U.S. shale industry so much the better,” Seznec noted.
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Saudi Arabia could book a budget deficit of as much as $61 billion this year under the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and the global oil glut, research from financial firm Jadwa Investments has suggested.
This would represent almost 8 percent of the Kingdom’s GDP, Arabian Business reported, adding that the budget revenue for the year will be a bit lower than what the government projected in its budget draft, at $210 billion (791 billion riyals).
Spending, on the other hand, will come in at $270 billion (1.02 trillion riyals).
“Overall, it is worth noting that, at this moment in time, the range of potential effects of Covid-19 on the kingdom’s economy are highly uncertain,” the Saudi firm said as quoted by Arabian Business.
Some 511 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed so far in the Kingdom. According to Jadwa, as negative as the pandemic is for oil prices, there is space for optimism, mostly because governments are pledging fiscal stimulus and other support measures for national economies. According to the Saudi company, this should lead to a rebound in oil demand and this, in turn, will help Saudi Arabia achieve significant economic growth, from 0.3 percent for 2019 to as much as 6.3 percent.
How realistic this is remains to be seen, as many analysts expect crude oil price to fall even further, not least because of Saudi Arabia’s commitment to boost production past the 12-million-bpd mark starting next month. Under the weight of the combination between a pandemic and a rising supply of oil, Brent and West Texas Intermediate have both dropped below $30 a barrel, with Brent at $28.52 and WTI at $22.84 a barrel at the time of writing.
Meanwhile, analysts are warning that global oil storage is filling up and this could push prices further down, possibly as low as $10 a barrel. There are some 750 million barrels of oil in storage globally, according to calculations from data analytics company OilX, and this could rise to 1 billion barrels.
By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com
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theduran--2020-03-26--America’s Last Revolution or Renaissance

The American situation is this .
Social unrest and civil war in America are weeks away .
Anyone who denies this is a coward , a fool , or a liar ; and certainly not aware of American ’ s sense of identity and destiny .
Let us remember the California Rodney King riots which occurred in the 1990 ’ s when a group of police officers were videotaped beating-up a black man who refused to submit to orders .
This very same scenario could easily unfold if the police forget this lesson and are recorded physically harassing or abusing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay at home ” or are caught sitting outside a coffee shop or are seen playing with their kids at a park .
This would be a disaster for the police , spark an uprising , and quite possibly create a civil war unlike anything America has ever seen .
In fact it could change America forever .
Here ’ s how .
The moment Americans begin to feel their personal suffering and loss is no longer tolerable , is the moment they will no longer tolerate any police officer , national guardsman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay home , stagnate , and die of hunger or boredom .
It is the moment citizens begin to push back ; and if the police rise-up or flex their muscle to intimidate , bully or crackdown on this impulse in citizens to liberate themselves , the citizens will enter a frame of mind not seen since 1776 , and revolution and civil war will result .
This means the deaths of hundreds of police , military personnel , and actors turned politicians trying to oppress them .
Anyone who doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the true nature of the American mind and soul .
Statecraft is not stagecraft .
Governor Newsom would be well advised to silence himself about his new “ nation-state ” and temper his reliance on disordered advice from Mr. Perez and Ms. Pelosi .
Essentially there are only two paths for Trump to follow : 1 ) empower and strengthen every aspect of American life while defeating his political enemies ; or 2 ) empower and strengthen his political enemies by increasing the absolute power and control of the American government .
Either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus outbreak and economic domino effect has essentially branded China a diseased danger to the rest of the world and dishonest business partner .
However , this does not translate into American domestic tranquility .
As much as Americans may quietly like the idea of China being severely punished and defeated for its decades of intellectual property theft , slave labor , sex slavery and organ harvesting of religious minorities like Falun Gong or Falun Dafa , Christians , Uyghurs , fentanyl invasions of the United States , and as much as Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ return to the United States , the only thing that will pacify Americans is the immediate return of all their liberties , rights , and personal freedoms to travel , work , assemble , and worship .
Historically the self-imposed authoritarian police-state is fueled by uncertainty which gradually sours and grows into fear , and then like a cancer , eventually—sometimes taking many decades—kills the entire body politic and the police-state itself—which is essentially what happened to the Soviet Union in 1989 , albeit a quiet death for communism .
Americans are becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closure of businesses and restriction of their Constitutional rights and movement and assembly is absolutely unconstitutional , and that no “ State of Emergency ” avoids and evades the Constitution .
They are simply tolerating it for a short time , but this time is ending quickly with each passing day .
A recent poll indicated the majority of Americans approved and supported President Trump ’ s management of the United States in response to the alleged Corona Virus infection crisis .
But make no mistake , this will change , and it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explosively the moment people ’ s emotions , spirits , and bodies feel real hunger pangs , and then view the police and government as preventing them from nourishing themselves .
This is the “ fight or flight ” moment , the “ rebel or submit ” moment , and the moment of choice when pride , adrenaline , fears , and desires all mix , combine , complement , and then combust into action—and this action could be deadly for the police and others perceived as trying to deny citizens their right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is called a “ flashpoint ” , and it is unpredictable and often revolutionary , and it is violent , which is why many political manipulators take advantage and manipulate this flashpoint to create a domino effect in other areas of society .
This moment , this day of reckoning is coming , and President Trump needs to understand this .
He also must understand that his political honeymoon will end soon , most likely in less than 2-4 weeks , and his window of transforming this into a political victory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Leftists and the media have known this since the outbreak , and have been trying to drag it out and endlessly extend this crisis in order to grow a cancer of fear that will trigger the erection of a police state to brand Trump a tyrant and blame the consequent anger , resentment , and violence in American society entirely on Trump and the republicans .
Watch this script unfold at the Democrat National Convention like a stew or a dish for disaster , scripted no less by the machinations of Tom Perez @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humming a march with Pelosi appearing to be in the lead acting in her role as his front man .
Additionally , the Democrats and their minions like the Macbeth witches of ABC ’ s The View , and HBO political talk show host Bill Maher have shamelessly admitted that they want an economic downturn in order to create public suffering that they can then blame on Trump , and manipulate public aggression against him .
As narcissistic , reprehensible and vicious as this is , make no mistake , the Democrats and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what they mean .
As former Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said , “ Never let a crisis go to waste.
” What Rahm was really saying was use a crisis to usher in changes—such as gun laws—that can radically change society by using the violence and force inherent in government and law .
So Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats and the mainstream media will be trying to exploit and pervert this Corona virus situation into a state of socio-political schizophrenia , and use it to trigger an economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Democrats and the media are inveterate and shameless liars , frauds and backstabbers , and like the Aesop ’ s fable of the scorpion riding the frog across the river , they will politely clap and smile if the President follows their advice , but then stick the blade into him in an effort to cripple his re-election .
The only thing Democrats may have that President Trump should use are the “ fireside chats ” which President Franklin D. Roosevelt utilized to calm and encourage the American people during the 1930 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to use this Corona virus situation as an opportunity to deliver his own personalized “ fireside chats ” to reassure Americans and the world ; and to reinvent the American economy in ways that ostracize the unions for being filled with fraud and crime , taking worker ’ s wages for their own profit , cigars , and prostitutes .
For this reason , as soon as possible , Trump needs to open and unleash the floodgates of the American economy and by executive order establish long term tax cuts and financial incentives—economically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in our military budget—and finance and invest in an American Renaissance while also initiating an economic jubilee year , where debts of all kinds are forgiven .
The amazing ingenuity of Americans has made them competitive on the shale oil industry , and America no longer needs Saudi Arabia , as it is oil independent .
America also does not need Saudi Arabia ’ s Wahhabi fanaticism that fuels endless hatred and terrorism , but that ’ s another story .
The best thing the President has done so far is taking the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for the first time , even sitting behind his desk in the oval office .
He should get a new speech writer as well .
Instead of standing at a podium deflecting darts of antagonistic journalists , or bellowing loudly against the wind as he prepares to board his presidential helicopter , President Trump is calming fears and promising to end the siege and shutdown of American life .
Indeed this was the reason many people for the first time , saw him as Presidential .
Remember , like it or not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be the leader of the Free World , and he is the President of our Nation .
In a White House Press Conference on March 23 , 2020 , Trump described how he was intending to re-open the American economy sooner than previously reported , most likely in a matter of weeks .
Trump stated : “ We have to get our country back to work… Our country wants to go back to work .
Suicides from depression will be ‘ FAR GREATER ’ than coronavirus deaths unless America reopens for business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be doing something relatively quickly… we have to do things to get our country open…people are suffering fantastic depression because they had a fantastic job and now they don ’ t know what ’ s happening… ” , and , “ I ’ d like to be able to bounce back to where we were…We can ’ t let this continue to go on… this two week period has been good….it has been this incredible learning process , this will go into the future , we are going to be watching New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we will be quarantining many people in these areas .
Why would we shut down 100 % of the country ?
To close the New York stock exchange and NASDAQ , we don ’ t want to be doing that .
We can do two things simultaneously… I think they ( the American people ) are ok with it , and I am ok with it…Because of the magnitude of our economy .
You have 160 million jobs in this country .
So we can ’ t turn that off and think that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There will be tremendous death because of turning off the economy.
” Additionally , President Trump has promised the American people that he will not “ make the cure worse than the problem itself ” —which is ironically the very same phrase I ’ ve been using for the past several weeks on our radio shows .
Interesting .
The government has essentially turned off the power and shut down the entire economic and social life of Americans , while allowing the government sectors—the police , the post office , the military , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resent this because to them it feels like regular , working class Americans are being disrespected and dominated and put under the control of police and government types .
In other words , average Americans are beginning to feel like they are being treated like criminals and prisoners .
This is extremely dangerous because it smacks of fascism , and nowhere is fascism more hated than in suburbs , rural areas and in our small towns .
Just remember the patriotic feelings and clamoring for battle instincts that arose when you first saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dawn.
” This could very easily be re-discovered in real life if flyers and leaflets with the words “ WOLVERINE ” on them are advertised around every major and minor town and city in America .
Life sometimes imitates fiction .
President Trump has some very bad advisors around him that justify their position with campaign contributions or legacies of mediocrity .
He needs new ones .
I know , I saw them all the time when I worked in Washington for 15 years .
Dismiss the timid , embrace visionaries .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs to remember he ’ s the Commander-in-Chief , not a whiteboard for political advisors or cabinet members to draw their own careers on .
Trump must remember that political advisors are interested only in capitalizing on socio-political events , trends , fads , and issues in order to grow their influence , careers , and wealth .
Contrary to their advice , political advisors are not looking to serve , but rather are parasites looking for opportunities .
Trump should also remember that the vast majority of the American people , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be wives and mothers—ignore politics for the most part and pay attention to their families—or their ability to form future families—and defend their ability to flourish and prosper .
It is natural , it is instinctive , it is the American way .
Trump should also remember that because of the past four years of the Democrat media ’ s shameless propaganda about Russian election meddling , the Mueller Investigation and political prosecution of Trump volunteers , the Ukraine-Biden bribery , and political hypocrisy , the American people—and indeed most of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; and subsequently developed a healthy distrust and scorn for the mainstream media ( excluding channels like Russia Today , Sputnik , Press TV , Al Jazeera , and others outside the CIA-MI6-Mossad influence ) .
Trump needs to weaponize this distrust for the media and pre-emptively communicate to the American people and the world that despite the fear-porn the media will try and sell , they should ignore them , go back to work , exercise caution , take health supplements and immune boosting nutrients , and resurrect their lives and America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and remember it come election day in November .
In the horror film , A Quiet Place we see a story which has similarities to our national story today .
The film is the story of an American family living isolated in the country in a lonely farmhouse , surrounded by wilderness , and who speak only in sign language and make no sounds .
Soon we discover it ’ s because of man-eating aliens who track humans by their sounds .
Aside from being similar to the many other science fiction and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Walking Dead , or The Happening , or Cloverfield , or War of the Worlds , depicting human society being hunted , eaten , or under siege from invading monsters , this film is a kind of similar glimpse in to the current life Americans may be feeling under siege of the corona virus , with Americans being ordered to “ shelter at home ” —which is a polite way fascists say you are confined to home imprisonment .
This social isolation of Americans is more dangerous than Democrat socialists and the media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and altruism is forced out of the human social language in preference for survival , civilization is not easily re-learned , and the media and government bureaucrats are seen for what they are…discarded relics of a lost world .
Scott Bennett is am author and former U.S. Army Special Operations Officer ( 11th Psychological Operations Battalion , Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command ) , and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst , formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton .
His website is : www.shellgamewhistleblower.com He held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information ( TS/SCI ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Snowden in the highest levels of international counterterrorism and developed and managed psychological warfare theories , products , and operations for U.S. Special Operations Command , U.S. Central Command , the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism , and other government agencies .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Authored by Scott Bennett, via Shellgame Whistleblower…
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The American situation is this. Social unrest and civil war in America are weeks away. Anyone who denies this is a coward, a fool, or a liar; and certainly not aware of American’s sense of identity and destiny. Let us remember the California Rodney King riots which occurred in the 1990’s when a group of police officers were videotaped beating-up a black man who refused to submit to orders. This very same scenario could easily unfold if the police forget this lesson and are recorded physically harassing or abusing or arresting citizens who refuse to “stay at home” or are caught sitting outside a coffee shop or are seen playing with their kids at a park. This would be a disaster for the police, spark an uprising, and quite possibly create a civil war unlike anything America has ever seen. In fact it could change America forever. Here’s how.
The moment Americans begin to feel their personal suffering and loss is no longer tolerable, is the moment they will no longer tolerate any police officer, national guardsman, or government bureaucrat ordering them to stay home, stagnate, and die of hunger or boredom. It is the moment citizens begin to push back; and if the police rise-up or flex their muscle to intimidate, bully or crackdown on this impulse in citizens to liberate themselves, the citizens will enter a frame of mind not seen since 1776, and revolution and civil war will result. This means the deaths of hundreds of police, military personnel, and actors turned politicians trying to oppress them. Anyone who doesn’t believe this, doesn’t understand the true nature of the American mind and soul. Statecraft is not stagecraft. Governor Newsom would be well advised to silence himself about his new “nation-state” and temper his reliance on disordered advice from Mr. Perez and Ms. Pelosi.
Essentially there are only two paths for Trump to follow: 1) empower and strengthen every aspect of American life while defeating his political enemies; or 2) empower and strengthen his political enemies by increasing the absolute power and control of the American government.
Either by design or accident, the Corona virus outbreak and economic domino effect has essentially branded China a diseased danger to the rest of the world and dishonest business partner. However, this does not translate into American domestic tranquility. As much as Americans may quietly like the idea of China being severely punished and defeated for its decades of intellectual property theft, slave labor, sex slavery and organ harvesting of religious minorities like Falun Gong or Falun Dafa, Christians, Uyghurs, fentanyl invasions of the United States, and as much as Americans want to see their manufacturing industry jobs return to the United States, the only thing that will pacify Americans is the immediate return of all their liberties, rights, and personal freedoms to travel, work, assemble, and worship.
Historically the self-imposed authoritarian police-state is fueled by uncertainty which gradually sours and grows into fear, and then like a cancer, eventually—sometimes taking many decades—kills the entire body politic and the police-state itself—which is essentially what happened to the Soviet Union in 1989, albeit a quiet death for communism.
Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the closure of businesses and restriction of their Constitutional rights and movement and assembly is absolutely unconstitutional, and that no “State of Emergency” avoids and evades the Constitution. They are simply tolerating it for a short time, but this time is ending quickly with each passing day.
THE HONEYMOON OF PUBLIC OPINION:
A recent poll indicated the majority of Americans approved and supported President Trump’s management of the United States in response to the alleged Corona Virus infection crisis. But make no mistake, this will change, and it will change quickly, radically, and explosively the moment people’s emotions, spirits, and bodies feel real hunger pangs, and then view the police and government as preventing them from nourishing themselves. This is the “fight or flight” moment, the “rebel or submit” moment, and the moment of choice when pride, adrenaline, fears, and desires all mix, combine, complement, and then combust into action—and this action could be deadly for the police and others perceived as trying to deny citizens their right to live, move, and assemble. This is called a “flashpoint”, and it is unpredictable and often revolutionary, and it is violent, which is why many political manipulators take advantage and manipulate this flashpoint to create a domino effect in other areas of society. This moment, this day of reckoning is coming, and President Trump needs to understand this.
He also must understand that his political honeymoon will end soon, most likely in less than 2-4 weeks, and his window of transforming this into a political victory is rapidly closing.
The Democrats and Leftists and the media have known this since the outbreak, and have been trying to drag it out and endlessly extend this crisis in order to grow a cancer of fear that will trigger the erection of a police state to brand Trump a tyrant and blame the consequent anger, resentment, and violence in American society entirely on Trump and the republicans. Watch this script unfold at the Democrat National Convention like a stew or a dish for disaster, scripted no less by the machinations of Tom Perez, an ardent adherent of labor, humming a march with Pelosi appearing to be in the lead acting in her role as his front man.
Additionally, the Democrats and their minions like the Macbeth witches of ABC’s The View, and HBO political talk show host Bill Maher have shamelessly admitted that they want an economic downturn in order to create public suffering that they can then blame on Trump, and manipulate public aggression against him. As narcissistic, reprehensible and vicious as this is, make no mistake, the Democrats and media mean what they say and say what they mean. As former Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” What Rahm was really saying was use a crisis to usher in changes—such as gun laws—that can radically change society by using the violence and force inherent in government and law. So Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats and the mainstream media will be trying to exploit and pervert this Corona virus situation into a state of socio-political schizophrenia, and use it to trigger an economic downturn or depression. Make no mistake, Democrats and the media are inveterate and shameless liars, frauds and backstabbers, and like the Aesop’s fable of the scorpion riding the frog across the river, they will politely clap and smile if the President follows their advice, but then stick the blade into him in an effort to cripple his re-election. The only thing Democrats may have that President Trump should use are the “fireside chats” which President Franklin D. Roosevelt utilized to calm and encourage the American people during the 1930’s economic depression. Trump needs to use this Corona virus situation as an opportunity to deliver his own personalized “fireside chats” to reassure Americans and the world; and to reinvent the American economy in ways that ostracize the unions for being filled with fraud and crime, taking worker’s wages for their own profit, cigars, and prostitutes.
For this reason, as soon as possible, Trump needs to open and unleash the floodgates of the American economy and by executive order establish long term tax cuts and financial incentives—economically and efficiently trimming the fraud and waste in our military budget—and finance and invest in an American Renaissance while also initiating an economic jubilee year, where debts of all kinds are forgiven. The amazing ingenuity of Americans has made them competitive on the shale oil industry, and America no longer needs Saudi Arabia, as it is oil independent. America also does not need Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi fanaticism that fuels endless hatred and terrorism, but that’s another story.
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSES:
The best thing the President has done so far is taking the time to give long press conferences and, for the first time, even sitting behind his desk in the oval office. He should get a new speech writer as well. Instead of standing at a podium deflecting darts of antagonistic journalists, or bellowing loudly against the wind as he prepares to board his presidential helicopter, President Trump is calming fears and promising to end the siege and shutdown of American life. Indeed this was the reason many people for the first time, saw him as Presidential. Remember, like it or not, he is perceived by most peoples to be the leader of the Free World, and he is the President of our Nation.
In a White House Press Conference on March 23, 2020, Trump described how he was intending to re-open the American economy sooner than previously reported, most likely in a matter of weeks. Trump stated:
“We have to get our country back to work… Our country wants to go back to work. Suicides from depression will be ‘FAR GREATER’ than coronavirus deaths unless America reopens for business ‘soon’… We’ll be doing something relatively quickly… we have to do things to get our country open…people are suffering fantastic depression because they had a fantastic job and now they don’t know what’s happening…”, and, “I’d like to be able to bounce back to where we were…We can’t let this continue to go on… this two week period has been good….it has been this incredible learning process, this will go into the future, we are going to be watching New York, CA, Washington…We may quarantine, we will be quarantining many people in these areas. Why would we shut down 100 % of the country? To close the New York stock exchange and NASDAQ, we don’t want to be doing that. We can do two things simultaneously… I think they (the American people) are ok with it, and I am ok with it…Because of the magnitude of our economy. You have 160 million jobs in this country. So we can’t turn that off and think that it is going to be wonderful. There will be tremendous death because of turning off the economy.”
Additionally, President Trump has promised the American people that he will not “make the cure worse than the problem itself”—which is ironically the very same phrase I’ve been using for the past several weeks on our radio shows. Interesting.
CONCLUSION
The government has essentially turned off the power and shut down the entire economic and social life of Americans, while allowing the government sectors—the police, the post office, the military, the emergency services—to continue. Americans instinctively resent this because to them it feels like regular, working class Americans are being disrespected and dominated and put under the control of police and government types. In other words, average Americans are beginning to feel like they are being treated like criminals and prisoners.
This is extremely dangerous because it smacks of fascism, and nowhere is fascism more hated than in suburbs, rural areas and in our small towns. Just remember the patriotic feelings and clamoring for battle instincts that arose when you first saw the 1980’s film “Red Dawn.” This could very easily be re-discovered in real life if flyers and leaflets with the words “WOLVERINE” on them are advertised around every major and minor town and city in America. Life sometimes imitates fiction.
President Trump has some very bad advisors around him that justify their position with campaign contributions or legacies of mediocrity. He needs new ones. I know, I saw them all the time when I worked in Washington for 15 years. Dismiss the timid, embrace visionaries. They are not hard to find. Trump needs to remember he’s the Commander-in-Chief, not a whiteboard for political advisors or cabinet members to draw their own careers on. Trump must remember that political advisors are interested only in capitalizing on socio-political events, trends, fads, and issues in order to grow their influence, careers, and wealth. Contrary to their advice, political advisors are not looking to serve, but rather are parasites looking for opportunities. Trump should also remember that the vast majority of the American people, especially women who are wives and mothers—or desire to be wives and mothers—ignore politics for the most part and pay attention to their families—or their ability to form future families—and defend their ability to flourish and prosper. It is natural, it is instinctive, it is the American way.
Trump should also remember that because of the past four years of the Democrat media’s shameless propaganda about Russian election meddling, the Mueller Investigation and political prosecution of Trump volunteers, the Ukraine-Biden bribery, and political hypocrisy, the American people—and indeed most of the truth seeking world—have become sensitive to lies; and subsequently developed a healthy distrust and scorn for the mainstream media (excluding channels like Russia Today, Sputnik, Press TV, Al Jazeera, and others outside the CIA-MI6-Mossad influence). Trump needs to weaponize this distrust for the media and pre-emptively communicate to the American people and the world that despite the fear-porn the media will try and sell, they should ignore them, go back to work, exercise caution, take health supplements and immune boosting nutrients, and resurrect their lives and America. They will follow his advice, and remember it come election day in November.
In the horror film, A Quiet Place we see a story which has similarities to our national story today. The film is the story of an American family living isolated in the country in a lonely farmhouse, surrounded by wilderness, and who speak only in sign language and make no sounds. Soon we discover it’s because of man-eating aliens who track humans by their sounds. Aside from being similar to the many other science fiction and horror films and television such as the Walking Dead, or The Happening, or Cloverfield, or War of the Worlds, depicting human society being hunted, eaten, or under siege from invading monsters, this film is a kind of similar glimpse in to the current life Americans may be feeling under siege of the corona virus, with Americans being ordered to “shelter at home”—which is a polite way fascists say you are confined to home imprisonment. This social isolation of Americans is more dangerous than Democrat socialists and the media think, because often when civilized behavior and altruism is forced out of the human social language in preference for survival, civilization is not easily re-learned, and the media and government bureaucrats are seen for what they are…discarded relics of a lost world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Scott Bennett is am author and former U.S. Army Special Operations Officer (11th Psychological Operations Battalion, Civil Affairs-Psychological Operations Command), and a global psychological warfare-counterterrorism analyst, formerly with defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. His website is: www.shellgamewhistleblower.com
He held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) security clearance, and worked with Edward Snowden in the highest levels of international counterterrorism and developed and managed psychological warfare theories, products, and operations for U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Central Command, the State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, and other government agencies.
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theduran--2020-03-26--As the world turns its attention to the pandemic, Israel is moving forward with military raids

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Lucas Leiroz , research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro… The West Bank situation is becoming increasingly complicated amid the coronavirus pandemic and territorial disputes between Palestinians and Israelis .
At first , the Palestinian Authority and Israel showed signs of cooperation in combating the pandemic .
A few weeks ago , joint measures were announced between both sides to contain the epidemic of the new coronavirus in the region .
The measures include distribution of cleaning and personal hygiene materials , in addition to virus testing kits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Tel Aviv , the total closure of the West Bank was promoted , allowing , however , access for Palestinian workers involved in the construction and agriculture sectors to the Jewish state , which is why the proposal was well accepted by Ramallah .
On the part of the Palestinians , the West Bank has also been blocked , but only partially and for two weeks , since last Sunday ( March 22 ) , in addition to the implementation of a series of control and quarantine measures .
However , efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israeli incursions into the region , which have increased recently .
Ibrahim Melhim , a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority , acknowledged Israeli efforts to contain the coronavirus in the country and in Palestine , but criticized the unstoppable incursions against the Palestinians .
“ We have very strong round-the-clock coordination with the Israeli side to prevent the coronavirus from spreading ( … ) At the same time , Israel continues to operate in the Palestinian Territories as if there is no coronavirus crisis ( … ) They [ Israeli forces ] continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arresting people and confiscating lands , and that harms the existing coordination between the PA and Israel putting an additional burden on the Palestinian Authority , ” said the spokesman .
Apparently , Israel pretends to collaborate with Palestine to stop the pandemic , when , in fact , it freely promotes its military maneuvers in the region , which go unnoticed by the mainstream media , strongly focused on covering the viral tragedy .
In addition , Tel Aviv ’ s own collaboration to control COVID-19 in the region seems extremely limited @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for example , for doctors from the “ Physicians for Human Rights ” ( an Israeli NGO that serves Palestinians free of charge ) to move alongside the West Bank , clearly hampering medical care in the region .
Mention should also be made of the fact that Israel , not Palestine , is the major focus of infections by the new coronavirus in the region .
Israel has already more than 1.000 officially reported cases of the disease , in addition to one death , and several suspicions .
In contrast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is clear from these data that the most stringent containment measures should come exclusively from Ramallah , since the Israeli military presence in the region itself poses a serious risk to Palestinian public health .
According to a survey by the Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 63 % of Israelis say Israel must help Palestinians during the coronavirus crisis .
Vered Vinitsky-Serousse , president of the Institute , said that “ the majority of Israelis believe that , when necessary , the government should devise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 epidemic.
” The big problem , however , is how these joint maneuvers are conducted .
Perhaps the first step to be taken in establishing joint measures is the definitive and immediate end to military incursions in the region , which constantly bring insecurity and terror to the Palestinian people .
The situation of tensions in the region must still be read in the context of the so-called “ Deal of the Century ” , the “ peace ” proposal for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians announced by American President Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ celebrated unilaterally by the Washigton-Tel Aviv axis , with no participation of Palestinians , which is why it was rejected by the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League .
The document foresaw the annexation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank , leaving around 70 % of the region under Palestinian rule – a figure much lower than that proposed by all previous attempts to resolve the conflict .
Everything indicates that Israel will not stop its attempts to occupy that territory as much as possible .
It is in this context that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Palestinians must be analyzed with skepticism and suspicion .
Are these pandemic containment measures really good , even when behind them the Israeli army expands its occupation in the region with increasingly aggressive incursions ?
Also , to what extent does Palestine benefit from the help of these joint actions when Israel has an absurdly greater number of infected people ?
Would Israel be able to help the Palestinians ?
Or would that aid be a mask for such military incursions ?
All of these are valid questions .
It is also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at the end of February , Israel announced the construction of more than 2.000 new settlements in Palestinian territories – and on the same occasion , Netanyahu authorized the construction of other 7.000 units in the East Jerusalem region .
These data mean that Israel ’ s aggressiveness against the Palestinians was increasing recently .
Did this aggression really disappear from Tel Aviv ’ s plans in the face of a “ commotion ” with public health in Palestine ( which is much better than the situation in Israel ) ?
Perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ observers should divide their attention between the coronavirus and the conflict in Palestine , before more serious clashes erupt .

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Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro…
The West Bank situation is becoming increasingly complicated amid the coronavirus pandemic and territorial disputes between Palestinians and Israelis. At first, the Palestinian Authority and Israel showed signs of cooperation in combating the pandemic. A few weeks ago, joint measures were announced between both sides to contain the epidemic of the new coronavirus in the region. The measures include distribution of cleaning and personal hygiene materials, in addition to virus testing kits and medical equipment.
On the part of Tel Aviv, the total closure of the West Bank was promoted, allowing, however, access for Palestinian workers involved in the construction and agriculture sectors to the Jewish state, which is why the proposal was well accepted by Ramallah. On the part of the Palestinians, the West Bank has also been blocked, but only partially and for two weeks, since last Sunday (March 22), in addition to the implementation of a series of control and quarantine measures.
However, efforts to contain the pandemic have not prevented Israeli incursions into the region, which have increased recently. Ibrahim Melhim, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, acknowledged Israeli efforts to contain the coronavirus in the country and in Palestine, but criticized the unstoppable incursions against the Palestinians. “We have very strong round-the-clock coordination with the Israeli side to prevent the coronavirus from spreading (…) At the same time, Israel continues to operate in the Palestinian Territories as if there is no coronavirus crisis (…) They [Israeli forces] continue their raids across the West Bank, arresting people and confiscating lands, and that harms the existing coordination between the PA and Israel putting an additional burden on the Palestinian Authority,” said the spokesman.
Apparently, Israel pretends to collaborate with Palestine to stop the pandemic, when, in fact, it freely promotes its military maneuvers in the region, which go unnoticed by the mainstream media, strongly focused on covering the viral tragedy. In addition, Tel Aviv’s own collaboration to control COVID-19 in the region seems extremely limited. The blocking measures made it impossible, for example, for doctors from the “Physicians for Human Rights” (an Israeli NGO that serves Palestinians free of charge) to move alongside the West Bank, clearly hampering medical care in the region.
Mention should also be made of the fact that Israel, not Palestine, is the major focus of infections by the new coronavirus in the region. Israel has already more than 1.000 officially reported cases of the disease, in addition to one death, and several suspicions. In contrast, Palestine has around 60 infected people. It is clear from these data that the most stringent containment measures should come exclusively from Ramallah, since the Israeli military presence in the region itself poses a serious risk to Palestinian public health.
According to a survey by the Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 63% of Israelis say Israel must help Palestinians during the coronavirus crisis. Vered Vinitsky-Serousse, president of the Institute, said that “the majority of Israelis believe that, when necessary, the government should devise preventive measures to help Palestinians during the Covid-19 epidemic.” The big problem, however, is how these joint maneuvers are conducted. Perhaps the first step to be taken in establishing joint measures is the definitive and immediate end to military incursions in the region, which constantly bring insecurity and terror to the Palestinian people.
The situation of tensions in the region must still be read in the context of the so-called “Deal of the Century”, the “peace” proposal for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians announced by American President Donald Trump. The “agreement” was celebrated unilaterally by the Washigton-Tel Aviv axis, with no participation of Palestinians, which is why it was rejected by the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League. The document foresaw the annexation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, leaving around 70% of the region under Palestinian rule – a figure much lower than that proposed by all previous attempts to resolve the conflict. Everything indicates that Israel will not stop its attempts to occupy that territory as much as possible.
It is in this context that the “joint” actions between Israelis and Palestinians must be analyzed with skepticism and suspicion. Are these pandemic containment measures really good, even when behind them the Israeli army expands its occupation in the region with increasingly aggressive incursions? Also, to what extent does Palestine benefit from the help of these joint actions when Israel has an absurdly greater number of infected people? Would Israel be able to help the Palestinians? Or would that aid be a mask for such military incursions? All of these are valid questions.
It is also worth remembering that a few weeks ago, at the end of February, Israel announced the construction of more than 2.000 new settlements in Palestinian territories – and on the same occasion, Netanyahu authorized the construction of other 7.000 units in the East Jerusalem region. These data mean that Israel’s aggressiveness against the Palestinians was increasing recently. Did this aggression really disappear from Tel Aviv’s plans in the face of a “commotion” with public health in Palestine (which is much better than the situation in Israel)? Perhaps, the mainstream media and Human Rights observers should divide their attention between the coronavirus and the conflict in Palestine, before more serious clashes erupt.
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theduran--2020-03-26--Bolsonaro Needs Help to overcome Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Loyalty to Trump

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Paul Antonopoulos , Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies… Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after weeks of downplaying the potential seriousness of the coronavirus is beginning to lose popularity for his irrationality , especially since describing the coronavirus as a “ fantasy ” and a “ minor flu.
” While all South American countries , with the exception of fellow neoliberal Chile , have taken drastic measures to fight against coronavirus , Bolsonaro has been inactive , allowing the infection rate in Brazil to more than quadruple in only a week to over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for many in the middle classes that were crucial to his election as the country ’ s presidency in 2018 .
For days now , many in the middle class have led protests from their home balconies by banging on saucepans loudly .
Some in Brazil are even speculating whether he is allowing coronavirus to get out of control as a reason to cancel the municipality elections scheduled for October this year – this at a time when his popularity continues to tumble .
Bolsonaro fell out with the Governor of São Paulo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ lunatic ” and accused of “ creating terror ” for implementing quarantine in the most populous state and financially important state of Brazil .
São Paulo is the most infected state and highest death count .
The conservative governor of Rio , second most populous state in Brazil , Wilson Witzel , said “ The lack of dialogue and sanity is unacceptable .
I never thought that I would experience this in a democracy.
” Effectively the most important states of Brazil are defying the Federal government feeling that Bolsonaro is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pandemic .
According to public opinion institutes , Bolsonaro ’ s popularity is crumbling .
In a Datafolha survey , 35 % of Brazilians believe Bolsonaro is handling the pandemic in a good manner while 33 % thought it was poor .
Although it may seem insignificant , this would overlook the immense popularity that Bolsonaro once had , and in his stronghold of São Paulo , it is especially telling how much his popularity is falling .
In an IBOPE survey , 48 % of people in São Paulo found his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lousy , and 25 % of people believed it was optimal and good .
These figures will only continue to get worse for Bolsonaro as the Center for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases of the London School of Tropical Medicine , estimates that the underreporting of those infected in Brazil is enormous and that there would be at least nine times more than the 2,200 detected so far .
One of Bolsonaro ’ s ideas to deal with the economic fallback of the pandemic was to suspend work contracts and therefore workers ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to back down in the face of massive opposition from all social strata , which was especially expected since 21 % of Brazilians live in poverty .
Bolsonaro is of course protecting ultra-capitalist interests in Brazil , as he openly said he would before his election , where he was dubbed “ Tropical Trump.
” This moniker continues to be proven true as Bolsonaro follows every step of U.S. President Donald Trump , who yesterday expressed his ambition to end American lockdowns by Easter .
Bolsonaro following shortly after Trump announced that Brazil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his country will be back open for business .
However , this will prove to be a catastrophic move as Brazil ’ s fragile healthcare system will inevitably be overwhelmed and the country will not be able to conduct business ‘ as usual.
’ At a time when the U.S. has shown self-interest during this pandemic by abandoning its closest NATO allies , Bolsonaro ’ s son Eduardo created a diplomatic crisis between Brazil and China by saying on Twitter that “ China is to blame [ for the coronavirus ] and freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Embassy hit back , saying : “ His words are extremely irresponsible and sound familiar .
They are still an imitation of your dear friends .
Upon returning from Miami , he unfortunately contracted a mental virus , which is infecting friendships among our peoples.
” Brazil ’ s Foreign Minister then ludicrously demanded that China apologize for the insult .
Bolsonaro had to call Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday to affirm Brazil ’ s “ friendship ” with China and reverse the damage made by his son and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Cuban assistance to fight against coronavirus as Washington has abandoned its European NATO allies , isolated itself and refused to help the hardest hit countries such as Spain and Italy .
And unsurprisingly , the U.S. has shown a complete disinterest to assist Brazil .
Bolsonaro has already had to humiliate itself by getting Brazilian Secretary of Health João Gabbardo to request Cuba to send back doctors who were expelled by him so they can help prevent the country ’ s health system from collapsing .
Although Bolsonaro does everything he can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , Cuba and other states , it is these very states that Brazil must cooperate with so that it can navigate through this pandemic .
Bolsonaro must now have a serious relook at his foreign policy in light of this fact .

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Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Paul Antonopoulos, Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after weeks of downplaying the potential seriousness of the coronavirus is beginning to lose popularity for his irrationality, especially since describing the coronavirus as a “fantasy” and a “minor flu.” While all South American countries, with the exception of fellow neoliberal Chile, have taken drastic measures to fight against coronavirus, Bolsonaro has been inactive, allowing the infection rate in Brazil to more than quadruple in only a week to over 2,200 people. This has caused angst for many in the middle classes that were crucial to his election as the country’s presidency in 2018. For days now, many in the middle class have led protests from their home balconies by banging on saucepans loudly. Some in Brazil are even speculating whether he is allowing coronavirus to get out of control as a reason to cancel the municipality elections scheduled for October this year – this at a time when his popularity continues to tumble.
Bolsonaro fell out with the Governor of São Paulo, João Doria, whom he called a “lunatic” and accused of “creating terror” for implementing quarantine in the most populous state and financially important state of Brazil. São Paulo is the most infected state and highest death count. The conservative governor of Rio, second most populous state in Brazil, Wilson Witzel, said “The lack of dialogue and sanity is unacceptable. I never thought that I would experience this in a democracy.” Effectively the most important states of Brazil are defying the Federal government feeling that Bolsonaro is doing next to nothing to deal with the pandemic.
According to public opinion institutes, Bolsonaro’s popularity is crumbling. In a Datafolha survey, 35% of Brazilians believe Bolsonaro is handling the pandemic in a good manner while 33% thought it was poor. Although it may seem insignificant, this would overlook the immense popularity that Bolsonaro once had, and in his stronghold of São Paulo, it is especially telling how much his popularity is falling. In an IBOPE survey, 48% of people in São Paulo found his handling of the pandemic as bad and lousy, and 25% of people believed it was optimal and good. These figures will only continue to get worse for Bolsonaro as the Center for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases of the London School of Tropical Medicine, estimates that the underreporting of those infected in Brazil is enormous and that there would be at least nine times more than the 2,200 detected so far.
One of Bolsonaro’s ideas to deal with the economic fallback of the pandemic was to suspend work contracts and therefore workers’ wages for four months. He had to back down in the face of massive opposition from all social strata, which was especially expected since 21% of Brazilians live in poverty. Bolsonaro is of course protecting ultra-capitalist interests in Brazil, as he openly said he would before his election, where he was dubbed “Tropical Trump.”
This moniker continues to be proven true as Bolsonaro follows every step of U.S. President Donald Trump, who yesterday expressed his ambition to end American lockdowns by Easter. Bolsonaro following shortly after Trump announced that Brazil’s lockdown measures are exaggerated and his country will be back open for business. However, this will prove to be a catastrophic move as Brazil’s fragile healthcare system will inevitably be overwhelmed and the country will not be able to conduct business ‘as usual.’
At a time when the U.S. has shown self-interest during this pandemic by abandoning its closest NATO allies, Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo created a diplomatic crisis between Brazil and China by saying on Twitter that “China is to blame [for the coronavirus] and freedom would be the solution.” The Chinese Embassy hit back, saying: “His words are extremely irresponsible and sound familiar. They are still an imitation of your dear friends. Upon returning from Miami, he unfortunately contracted a mental virus, which is infecting friendships among our peoples.” Brazil’s Foreign Minister then ludicrously demanded that China apologize for the insult. Bolsonaro had to call Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday to affirm Brazil’s “friendship” with China and reverse the damage made by his son and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo.
Many Europeans appreciate Russian, Chinese and Cuban assistance to fight against coronavirus as Washington has abandoned its European NATO allies, isolated itself and refused to help the hardest hit countries such as Spain and Italy. And unsurprisingly, the U.S. has shown a complete disinterest to assist Brazil. Bolsonaro has already had to humiliate itself by getting Brazilian Secretary of Health João Gabbardo to request Cuba to send back doctors who were expelled by him so they can help prevent the country’s health system from collapsing. Although Bolsonaro does everything he can to serve Trump’s agenda against China, Cuba and other states, it is these very states that Brazil must cooperate with so that it can navigate through this pandemic. Bolsonaro must now have a serious relook at his foreign policy in light of this fact.
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theduran--2020-03-26--Time To Separate Capitalism From Finance

What is the difference between the laws of nature and the laws of economics ?
If you don ’ t know the answer to that question , it is that the laws of nature are immutable while the laws of economics are not .
In other words , the laws of economics are not really laws , they are statements about the human condition that are flexible .
For example , Say ’ s Law states that production creates its own demand .
That is true up to a point , but only if a manufacturer is producing a product @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generally accepted that something is physically possible only if it is financially possible .
This may be true for individuals and corporations , and indeed for governments subject to one big and two smaller exceptions .
These are war , large scale disasters , and crime .
The big one is war .
As Professor Quigley pointed out in his magnum opus at page 316 : “ Wars , as events have proved since , are not fought with gold or even with money , but by the proper organization of real resources…The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1914 , found the British banking system insolvent in the sense that its funds , created by the banking system for profit and rented out to the economic system to permit it to operate…could not be liquidated rapidly .
Accordingly , the bankers secretly devised a scheme by which their obligations could be met by fiat money…but , as soon as that crisis was over , they then insisted that the government must pay for the war without recourse to fiat money…but by taxation and by borrowing at high interest rates from bankers.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ technically bankrupt at the outbreak of World War One , yet somehow it managed not just to fight but win what was at that time the bloodiest war in history .
More generally , no nation ever lost a war because it ran out of money .
During war-time , the laws of economics are miraculously suspended .
During the so-called English riots of August 2011 , a totally shameful scenario , the courts worked overtime to process offenders .
In the early 1980s , there was a shortage of prison places in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in police stations .
Money was never a bar to locking people up .
Finally , disasters , usually large scale natural disasters , always see similarly large scale efforts by the nation or many nations to bring shelter , clean water , blankets , food…to those affected .
No one ever says “ we can ’ t afford to help these people ” .
It is simply done .
Although the current coronavirus pandemic is a natural disaster , it is affecting more or less the entire world , so it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And what has been happening ?
On both sides of the Atlantic , governments have been producing money out of thin air to keep the economy running including especially for those in need , hospitals , etc .
It can be done , and will be done , but after it is over we must not allow the banks to do what they did in the wake of World War One .
There must be no punitive taxation , no increased taxation at all .
Although it is called Federal , the Creature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ private corporation along with all the other central banks of the world .
With the very small exceptions of the coin and note issues , and the still nascent digital currencies like Bitcoin , central banks have what the great Major Douglas called the monopoly of credit .
The Trump Administration is in effect bypassing the Federal Reserve at present , which means in future it will not be needed and can be abolished .
The power to create credit for the United States Government should be vested in Congress so it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , if governments could simply print money during a crisis , poverty would have been abolished before any of us was born , but no one should be intimidated by that old canard about hyperinflation .
Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods .
Do you know anyone who claims to have too much money ?
Under normal circumstances , there is indeed a shortage of money ; the shops are full of goods , individuals and organisations are offering services , but we have people sleeping on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The current situation is slightly different because the shops are running out of goods due entirely to panic buying ; our governments need to pump more money into circulation , both to stimulate production and to tide over those who are currently unable to work due to the shutdown of restaurants and many other businesses .
The provision of goods and services largely by the private sector is what is known as capitalism , true capitalism ; the provision and often the manipulation of funds for the sake of it , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people who work in your high street are contributing to the economy , most fund managers are not .
True , there are managed funds that specialise in investing in start-ups , but as the financial journalist Tony Levene points out in his classic 1987 monograph The Shares Game : “ For every correct decision made in the stockmarket , there has to be a wrong one ” .
Levene ’ s conclusion is that unless they get lucky , professional fund managers can ’ t beat the market because they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a managed fund there are fund managers and other staff to be paid , rents , rates , advertising and more , and that before you or any other investor sees a penny profit .
The best way to invest in shares is to do so directly .
Buy your shares and hold onto them .
A quarter of a century after The Shares Game was published , the author was vindicated in spectacular fashion when an experiment in South Korea left so-called professional investors embarrassed .
There were ten humans and one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shares with its beak .
And came third !
When ordinary people rail at capitalism they don ’ t generally mean bona fide capitalists , rather they mean fund managers and professional so-called investors , men and increasingly women who contribute little or nothing to creating real wealth .
In the United States , the Democrats are trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to pass a raft of absurd legislation that would have no impact on the crisis but would simply promote their own dangerous agenda .
The Trump Administration and governments worldwide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from finance , to make finance the servant of the people in the same way as is the free market .
The very first step in this process is to strip the banks of their power to create money out of thin air .
It will be interesting to see how many people who profess socialism support this proposition , and how many , undoubtedly a far greater number , who oppose it .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
What is the difference between the laws of nature and the laws of economics?
If you don’t know the answer to that question, it is that the laws of nature are immutable while the laws of economics are not. In other words, the laws of economics are not really laws, they are statements about the human condition that are flexible.
For example, Say’s Law states that production creates its own demand. That is true up to a point, but only if a manufacturer is producing a product someone wants to buy.
It is generally accepted that something is physically possible only if it is financially possible. This may be true for individuals and corporations, and indeed for governments subject to one big and two smaller exceptions. These are war, large scale disasters, and crime.
The big one is war. As Professor Quigley pointed out in his magnum opus at page 316:
“Wars, as events have proved since, are not fought with gold or even with money, but by the proper organization of real resources…The outbreak of war on August 4, 1914, found the British banking system insolvent in the sense that its funds, created by the banking system for profit and rented out to the economic system to permit it to operate…could not be liquidated rapidly. Accordingly, the bankers secretly devised a scheme by which their obligations could be met by fiat money…but, as soon as that crisis was over, they then insisted that the government must pay for the war without recourse to fiat money…but by taxation and by borrowing at high interest rates from bankers.”
In other words, England was technically bankrupt at the outbreak of World War One, yet somehow it managed not just to fight but win what was at that time the bloodiest war in history. More generally, no nation ever lost a war because it ran out of money. During war-time, the laws of economics are miraculously suspended.
During the so-called English riots of August 2011, a totally shameful scenario, the courts worked overtime to process offenders. In the early 1980s, there was a shortage of prison places in England which resulted in prisoners being held in police stations. Money was never a bar to locking people up.
Finally, disasters, usually large scale natural disasters, always see similarly large scale efforts by the nation or many nations to bring shelter, clean water, blankets, food…to those affected. No one ever says “we can’t afford to help these people”. It is simply done.
Although the current coronavirus pandemic is a natural disaster, it is affecting more or less the entire world, so it can be considered the one big exception. And what has been happening? On both sides of the Atlantic, governments have been producing money out of thin air to keep the economy running including especially for those in need, hospitals, etc. It can be done, and will be done, but after it is over we must not allow the banks to do what they did in the wake of World War One. There must be no punitive taxation, no increased taxation at all.
Although it is called Federal, the Creature from Jekyll Island is a de facto private corporation along with all the other central banks of the world. With the very small exceptions of the coin and note issues, and the still nascent digital currencies like Bitcoin, central banks have what the great Major Douglas called the monopoly of credit. The Trump Administration is in effect bypassing the Federal Reserve at present, which means in future it will not be needed and can be abolished. The power to create credit for the United States Government should be vested in Congress so it can print its money debt-free. Of course, if governments could simply print money during a crisis, poverty would have been abolished before any of us was born, but no one should be intimidated by that old canard about hyperinflation. Inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods. Do you know anyone who claims to have too much money?
Under normal circumstances, there is indeed a shortage of money; the shops are full of goods, individuals and organisations are offering services, but we have people sleeping on the streets of the wealthiest nations on Earth. The current situation is slightly different because the shops are running out of goods due entirely to panic buying; our governments need to pump more money into circulation, both to stimulate production and to tide over those who are currently unable to work due to the shutdown of restaurants and many other businesses.
The provision of goods and services largely by the private sector is what is known as capitalism, true capitalism; the provision and often the manipulation of funds for the sake of it, is what is known as finance. While the people who work in your high street are contributing to the economy, most fund managers are not. True, there are managed funds that specialise in investing in start-ups, but as the financial journalist Tony Levene points out in his classic 1987 monograph The Shares Game: “For every correct decision made in the stockmarket, there has to be a wrong one”.
Levene’s conclusion is that unless they get lucky, professional fund managers can’t beat the market because they are the market. When you invest in a managed fund there are fund managers and other staff to be paid, rents, rates, advertising and more, and that before you or any other investor sees a penny profit. The best way to invest in shares is to do so directly. Buy your shares and hold onto them.
A quarter of a century after The Shares Game was published, the author was vindicated in spectacular fashion when an experiment in South Korea left so-called professional investors embarrassed. There were ten humans and one parrot involved. The parrot picked out shares with its beak. And came third!
When ordinary people rail at capitalism they don’t generally mean bona fide capitalists, rather they mean fund managers and professional so-called investors, men and increasingly women who contribute little or nothing to creating real wealth. In the United States, the Democrats are trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to pass a raft of absurd legislation that would have no impact on the crisis but would simply promote their own dangerous agenda. The Trump Administration and governments worldwide need to take steps to separate capitalism from finance, to make finance the servant of the people in the same way as is the free market. The very first step in this process is to strip the banks of their power to create money out of thin air. It will be interesting to see how many people who profess socialism support this proposition, and how many, undoubtedly a far greater number, who oppose it.
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The Michael Jackson Innocence Projects

The entertainer Michael Jackson will have been dead eleven years this June .
In death as in life , there are people who have no inhibitions about trashing his reputation .
And in death as in life , there are those who are willing to take them on .
On the face of it , it ’ s easy to believe Michael Jackson was a serial paedophile .
There were the Chandler allegations in 1993 which were resolved with a massive out-of-court settlement , then there was the 2005 criminal trial that saw him cleared of all charges , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offences be totally innocent ?
That is the way Gloria Allred thinks , which is why she incited so many women to falsely accuse Bill Cosby , but that ’ s another story .
The simple fact is that any famous person – female as well as male – can and surely will be accused of some outrageous crime at some point in this age of social media .
Think about it , YouTube alone has a billion plus subscribers .
Are all these people legal , decent , honest and truthful ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ this is the fact that Michael Jackson was both super-weird and extremely gullible .
The claim he invited young boys into his bedroom sounds sinister , until you realise his bedroom was two storeys , and that there were young girls around too , and staff , and bodyguards , and parents , and CCTV .
Two of Jackson ’ s staunchest supporters at the time of his legal troubles were the child actor Macaulay Culkin and the choreographer Wade Robson , ( pictured with Jackson above ) .
Culkin is still a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Robson appeared alongside another recent Jackson accuser Jimmy Safechuck in a long , boring and factually inaccurate documentary called Leaving Neverland , named of course after Jackson ’ s California estate .
Five months later , Lies Of Leaving Neverland was uploaded to YouTube .
It was around an eighth of the length of its target , and totally destroyed it .
Lies Of Leaving Neverland may be accurately described as a short rebuttal to the prolix , dishonest and demonstrably false pseudo-documentary .
Little space is given to Safechuck , instead It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by juxtaposing his videoed deposition in civil proceedings against the Michael Jackson Estate with his earlier claims , when the artist was alive , and in the wake of his death .
Leaving Neverland was thrust onto the world with some fanfare , but Jackson fans and others with concern for historical truth had already demolished it before it was released .
Indeed , the lies were so blatant that it had to be severely edited before being screened in the UK .
Although in some sense superfluous , Lies Of Leaving Neverland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the lie of Michael Jackson celebrity paedophile .
That won ’ t stop morons like Jessica Valenti believing such a colossal fiction , but there is no arguing with revealed truth .
It ’ s a pity Oprah Winfrey didn ’ t reserve her judgment before endorsing the shameless lies of Robson and Safechuck , because she has herself recently been targeted by outrageous rumours of involvement in child sex trafficking .
Though the people behind Lies Of Leaving Neverland do not identify themselves , Michael Jackson fans and defenders are anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actually two websites dedicated to exposing the lies about Jackson : the MJInnocent Campaign and the Michael Jackson Innocent Project .
There is also the Michael Jackson Estate which recently donated $ 300,000 – $ 100,000 each – to three organisations as part of targeted aid to those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak in the US .
This is entirely in the spirit of Michael Jackson , and totally unlike those who seek to fill their own pockets at his expense .
While Safechuck is almost certainly motivated purely by money , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serious issues .
He appears to have turned against Jackson in 2012 when he was rejected as director of a show about him by the Michael Jackson Estate .
Shortly after that , he began shopping around a book detailing the alleged sexual abuse he had suffered .
Publishers were not interested , and to their credit respectable publishers are still not .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
The entertainer Michael Jackson will have been dead eleven years this June. In death as in life, there are people who have no inhibitions about trashing his reputation. And in death as in life, there are those who are willing to take them on.
On the face of it, it’s easy to believe Michael Jackson was a serial paedophile. There were the Chandler allegations in 1993 which were resolved with a massive out-of-court settlement, then there was the 2005 criminal trial that saw him cleared of all charges, but how can anyone accused of so many offences be totally innocent?
That is the way Gloria Allred thinks, which is why she incited so many women to falsely accuse Bill Cosby, but that’s another story.
The simple fact is that any famous person – female as well as male – can and surely will be accused of some outrageous crime at some point in this age of social media. Think about it, YouTube alone has a billion plus subscribers. Are all these people legal, decent, honest and truthful? Are they all sane? Coupled with this is the fact that Michael Jackson was both super-weird and extremely gullible. The claim he invited young boys into his bedroom sounds sinister, until you realise his bedroom was two storeys, and that there were young girls around too, and staff, and bodyguards, and parents, and CCTV.
Two of Jackson’s staunchest supporters at the time of his legal troubles were the child actor Macaulay Culkin and the choreographer Wade Robson, (pictured with Jackson above). Culkin is still a Jackson supporter, but last year, Robson appeared alongside another recent Jackson accuser Jimmy Safechuck in a long, boring and factually inaccurate documentary called Leaving Neverland, named of course after Jackson’s California estate. Five months later, Lies Of Leaving Neverland was uploaded to YouTube. It was around an eighth of the length of its target, and totally destroyed it.
Lies Of Leaving Neverland may be accurately described as a short rebuttal to the prolix, dishonest and demonstrably false pseudo-documentary. Little space is given to Safechuck, instead It concentrates on Robson, exposing his lies by juxtaposing his videoed deposition in civil proceedings against the Michael Jackson Estate with his earlier claims, when the artist was alive, and in the wake of his death.
Leaving Neverland was thrust onto the world with some fanfare, but Jackson fans and others with concern for historical truth had already demolished it before it was released. Indeed, the lies were so blatant that it had to be severely edited before being screened in the UK. Although in some sense superfluous, Lies Of Leaving Neverland is yet another nail in the coffin of the lie of Michael Jackson celebrity paedophile. That won’t stop morons like Jessica Valenti believing such a colossal fiction, but there is no arguing with revealed truth.
It’s a pity Oprah Winfrey didn’t reserve her judgment before endorsing the shameless lies of Robson and Safechuck, because she has herself recently been targeted by outrageous rumours of involvement in child sex trafficking.
Though the people behind Lies Of Leaving Neverland do not identify themselves, Michael Jackson fans and defenders are anything but anonymous. In fact there are actually two websites dedicated to exposing the lies about Jackson: the MJInnocent Campaign and the Michael Jackson Innocent Project. There is also the Michael Jackson Estate which recently donated $300,000 – $100,000 each – to three organisations as part of targeted aid to those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak in the US. This is entirely in the spirit of Michael Jackson, and totally unlike those who seek to fill their own pockets at his expense.
While Safechuck is almost certainly motivated purely by money, Robson is clearly a man who has serious issues. He appears to have turned against Jackson in 2012 when he was rejected as director of a show about him by the Michael Jackson Estate. Shortly after that, he began shopping around a book detailing the alleged sexual abuse he had suffered. Publishers were not interested, and to their credit respectable publishers are still not.
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