revolutionradio--2020-05-08--Virologists are LYING about the origins of coronavirus: Yes, the coronavirus contains gain-of-functi

Virologists are LYING about the origins of coronavirus: Yes, the coronavirus contains gain-of-function gene sequences that were INSERTED into the virus

For months , the establishment has been dishing out a narrative claiming that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) is a natural , albeit mysterious and unexplained , phenomenon that probably originated at a Chinese meat market .
But contrary evidence continues to surface suggesting that the virus actually originated inside a Chinese laboratory and research center .
Many virologists continue to deny this , of course , claiming that there is no evidence to support the notion that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) might in any way be unnatural .
But the genetic hallmarks they are looking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as previously believed because modern genetic engineering can be done without leaving a trace .
Believe it or not , a Swiss research team was able to create a synthetic clone of the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) in less than a month .
And they did this by inserting genetic fragments in such a way that , unless a scientist knows exactly what to look for , would not necessarily be apparent .
Over the past 15-20 years , researchers have been actively studying , dissecting , reconstructing and otherwise tampering with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) , which one scientific researcher describes as an “ obvious chimera , ” meaning it is a combination of at least two pre-existing viruses .
This scientist , who goes by the name of Yuri Deigin and edits the Open Longevity journal both in Russian and English , says that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) is based on an ancestral bat strain of coronavirus known as RaTG13 , but with a replaced receptor binding motif ( RBM ) in its spike protein .
The Wuhan coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stretch of four different amino acids that he says were inserted into the virus , creating a furin cleavage site “ that , as virologists have previously established , significantly expands the ‘ repertoire ’ of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate.
” Because of this , Deigin speculates , the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) was probably able to mutate and jump species , leaving its original host and infecting humans .
And it just so happens that this very type of research was taking place at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , China , which is where the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) originated .
Virologists like Shi Zhengli , Deigin points out , have “ done many similar things in the past , ” including replacing the RBM in one type of virus with the RBM of another .
They have also added new furin sites to coronaviruses , creating new artificial species-specific coronaviruses that borrow from other coronaviruses in their ability to do new things .
Now this does not necessarily mean that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) was an intentional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s view .
It could be that it was an experiment gone wrong rather than an intentional effort at plunging the entire world into a pandemic .
At the same time , it does seem clear that the virus did , in fact , come from a lab , and probably from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
Teams led by Shi Zhengli have created at least eight artificial chimeric coronaviruses over the years , and received money from NIH Deigin uncovered that between the years of 2007 and 2017 , Shi Zhengli @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chimeric coronaviruses with a variety of RBMs .
And in 2019 , the United States National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) actually gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology $ 3.7 million as part of a grant entitled , Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence .
That same year , Shi Zhengli co-authored a paper calling for continued research into these and other synthetic viruses , both in vitro and in vivo , arguing that there are “ no clinical treatments or prevention strategies ” currently available with regard to human coronaviruses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , seeing as how 2019 was the very same year that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) first emerged in China , and in the same city where Shi Zhengli and colleagues were working on similar coronaviruses .
There is little doubt that this chimeric virus originated in that lab , despite continued denial by the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) .
But it no longer matters what the CCP claims as people all over the world are figuring out the truth on their own .
It is at least apparent that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this virus , and it is possible that whatever happened was intentional .
Deigin lays out the details from Shi Zhengli ’ s 2019 paper about the relative ease with which even a graduate student in the field could create such a virus .
He also spells out the detailed biology of the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) as evidence that it definitely matches the type of thing that Shi Zhengli describes .
Based on the evidence he puts forth , which you can peruse in its entirety at this link , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) is genetically modified and came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology .
He also traces the origins of the RaTG13 strain from which the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) was derived .
Amazingly , Shi Zhengli admitted just this year that she was the one who isolated RaTG13 back in 2013 from Yunnan horseshoe bats of the Rhinolophus affinis variety .
None of this was known , however , until January 2020 when the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) first started arriving in the U.S. All of this absolutely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this global pandemic , not to mention the NIH that helped to fund this type of research .
Heads need to roll , and those who have been victimized by this thing – including everyone who has been forced into lockdown – deserves a full measure of justice .
Bioweapon or not , the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) is a product of China , as well as a product of our own federal government .
And both entities need to be held accountable for the roles they played in scourging the planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other hand , if it was all just an accident as Deigin believes was probably the case , then those involved need to fess up and admit their error rather than continue to claim that this is all just some wild conspiracy theory .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 2:11 pm and is filed under BioWeapon , China , Conspiracy , Corruption , God Help Us , Government Evil .
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by: Ethan Huff
NaturalNews.com
Friday, May 08, 2020
For months, the establishment has been dishing out a narrative claiming that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is a natural, albeit mysterious and unexplained, phenomenon that probably originated at a Chinese meat market. But contrary evidence continues to surface suggesting that the virus actually originated inside a Chinese laboratory and research center.
Many virologists continue to deny this, of course, claiming that there is no evidence to support the notion that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) might in any way be unnatural. But the genetic hallmarks they are looking for as proof may not be as evident as previously believed because modern genetic engineering can be done without leaving a trace.
Believe it or not, a Swiss research team was able to create a synthetic clone of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) in less than a month. And they did this by inserting genetic fragments in such a way that, unless a scientist knows exactly what to look for, would not necessarily be apparent.
Over the past 15-20 years, researchers have been actively studying, dissecting, reconstructing and otherwise tampering with coronaviruses of various types. This includes the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), which one scientific researcher describes as an “obvious chimera,” meaning it is a combination of at least two pre-existing viruses.
This scientist, who goes by the name of Yuri Deigin and edits the Open Longevity journal both in Russian and English, says that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is based on an ancestral bat strain of coronavirus known as RaTG13, but with a replaced receptor binding motif (RBM) in its spike protein.
The Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) also contains an added stretch of four different amino acids that he says were inserted into the virus, creating a furin cleavage site “that, as virologists have previously established, significantly expands the ‘repertoire’ of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate.”
Because of this, Deigin speculates, the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was probably able to mutate and jump species, leaving its original host and infecting humans. And it just so happens that this very type of research was taking place at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, which is where the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) originated.
Virologists like Shi Zhengli, Deigin points out, have “done many similar things in the past,” including replacing the RBM in one type of virus with the RBM of another. They have also added new furin sites to coronaviruses, creating new artificial species-specific coronaviruses that borrow from other coronaviruses in their ability to do new things.
Now this does not necessarily mean that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was an intentional bioweapon, at least in Deigin’s view. It could be that it was an experiment gone wrong rather than an intentional effort at plunging the entire world into a pandemic. At the same time, it does seem clear that the virus did, in fact, come from a lab, and probably from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Teams led by Shi Zhengli have created at least eight artificial chimeric coronaviruses over the years, and received money from NIH
Deigin uncovered that between the years of 2007 and 2017, Shi Zhengli and colleagues created at least eight new chimeric coronaviruses with a variety of RBMs. And in 2019, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) actually gave the Wuhan Institute of Virology $3.7 million as part of a grant entitled, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.
That same year, Shi Zhengli co-authored a paper calling for continued research into these and other synthetic viruses, both in vitro and in vivo, arguing that there are “no clinical treatments or prevention strategies” currently available with regard to human coronaviruses.
All of this is highly suspicious, seeing as how 2019 was the very same year that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) first emerged in China, and in the same city where Shi Zhengli and colleagues were working on similar coronaviruses. There is little doubt that this chimeric virus originated in that lab, despite continued denial by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
But it no longer matters what the CCP claims as people all over the world are figuring out the truth on their own. It is at least apparent that something went amiss with the containment of this virus, and it is possible that whatever happened was intentional.
Deigin lays out the details from Shi Zhengli’s 2019 paper about the relative ease with which even a graduate student in the field could create such a virus. He also spells out the detailed biology of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) as evidence that it definitely matches the type of thing that Shi Zhengli describes.
Based on the evidence he puts forth, which you can peruse in its entirety at this link, the only logical conclusion is that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is genetically modified and came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He also traces the origins of the RaTG13 strain from which the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was derived.
Amazingly, Shi Zhengli admitted just this year that she was the one who isolated RaTG13 back in 2013 from Yunnan horseshoe bats of the Rhinolophus affinis variety. None of this was known, however, until January 2020 when the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) first started arriving in the U.S.
All of this absolutely implicates communist China in the unleashing of this global pandemic, not to mention the NIH that helped to fund this type of research. Heads need to roll, and those who have been victimized by this thing – including everyone who has been forced into lockdown – deserves a full measure of justice.
Bioweapon or not, the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is a product of China, as well as a product of our own federal government. And both entities need to be held accountable for the roles they played in scourging the planet with this invisible beast.
On the other hand, if it was all just an accident as Deigin believes was probably the case, then those involved need to fess up and admit their error rather than continue to claim that this is all just some wild conspiracy theory.


revolutionradio--2020-05-08--“It’s Bad” – Massive Earnings Downside Surprises Send Recovery Hope Into 2021 At Best

“ Overall , earnings delivery continues to surprise to the downside versus consensus estimates , across all regions , ” says JPMorgan strategist Mislav Matejka , noting Europe ’ s earnings-per-share growth for the first quarter is now down 25 % year-on-year , while sales growth is 6 % lower .
Simply put , it ’ s bad !
… and not set to get any better anytime soon .
As Bloomberg notes , with a majority of companies having now reported earnings in Europe and the U.S. , the figures have been poorer than expected ; and the second @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given the lockdowns , and a recovery in the rest of the year isn ’ t obvious .
Things could get worse for cyclicals , which are more dependent on the economy , according to Citigroup Inc. strategist Robert Buckland .
He expects global EPS to fall at least 50 % this year , split between cyclicals down 65 % and defensives 10 % to 15 % lower .
Overall , investors ’ reactions to earnings misses have been relatively muted , according to Barclays Plc strategist Emmanuel Cau , adding that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then so has the ubiquitous Powell Put .
“ The progressive end of lockdowns and the retention of some social-distancing measures is setting up only a moderate economic rebound in the second half and pushing an earnings recovery to the first quarter of 2021 , when the comparison base will be much lower ” according to Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Laurent Douillet and Tim Craighead .
With futures forecasting The Fed to cut rates to minus-40bps in Dec 2020 , is it any surprise that analysts are pushing off recovery hopes ?
If the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that low ( and most critically negative ) how can stocks be where they are now… ?
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Conspiracy , Corruption , Economics , God Help Us .
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by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Fri, 05/08/2020
“Overall, earnings delivery continues to surprise to the downside versus consensus estimates, across all regions,” says JPMorgan strategist Mislav Matejka, noting Europe’s earnings-per-share growth for the first quarter is now down 25% year-on-year, while sales growth is 6% lower.
Simply put, it’s bad! … and not set to get any better anytime soon.
As Bloomberg notes, with a majority of companies having now reported earnings in Europe and the U.S., the figures have been poorer than expected; and the second quarter will likely be even worse, given the lockdowns, and a recovery in the rest of the year isn’t obvious.
Things could get worse for cyclicals, which are more dependent on the economy, according to Citigroup Inc. strategist Robert Buckland. He expects global EPS to fall at least 50% this year, split between cyclicals down 65% and defensives 10% to 15% lower.
Overall, investors’ reactions to earnings misses have been relatively muted, according to Barclays Plc strategist Emmanuel Cau, adding that the low positioning has likely helped, but then so has the ubiquitous Powell Put.
“The progressive end of lockdowns and the retention of some social-distancing measures is setting up only a moderate economic rebound in the second half and pushing an earnings recovery to the first quarter of 2021, when the comparison base will be much lower” according to Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Laurent Douillet and Tim Craighead.
With futures forecasting The Fed to cut rates to minus-40bps in Dec 2020, is it any surprise that analysts are pushing off recovery hopes?
If the market is expecting rates to be cut that low (and most critically negative) how can stocks be where they are now…?


revolutionradio--2020-05-08--MUST SEE: Family Practice Dr. Jeff Barke Grabs Microphone — Unloads on Disastrous Coronavirus Rules

MUST SEE: Family Practice Dr. Jeff Barke Grabs Microphone — Unloads on Disastrous Coronavirus Rules Promoted by Liberal Media

Dr. Jeff Barke , a family practice physician based in Newport Beach , California , spoke out recently on the COVID-19 rules during a rally in Riverside , California .
The rally was held on May 5 , 2020 .
Dr. Barke represents thousands of physicians like him that are being silenced by Big Tech , YouTube , Facebook , the liberal mainstream media and so-called government experts .
Dr. Jeff Barke : What if the experts are wrong .
What if quarantining the healthy doesn ’ t actually save lives .
What if wearing a mask in public is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jeff Barke and I ’ m here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don ’ t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do .
Never in the history of this great republic have we quarantined the healthy .
Never in the history of this great republic did we tell churchgoers that it ’ s illegal for you to exercise your First Amendment right of freedom of religion yet at the same time it ’ s essential to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s good to hear practicing physicians push back against the very questionable policies pushed by elitist doctors based on garbage models .
Today we have 20.5 million Americans unemployed because America ’ s top doctors believed a ridiculous and garbage model by questionable UK researchers .
Thank you , Dr. Barke for speaking out .
It ’ s time for less panicking and more common sense .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 1:47 pm and is filed under Conspiracy , Corruption , Government Evil , Media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed .

By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com
May 8, 2020
Dr. Jeff Barke, a family practice physician based in Newport Beach, California, spoke out recently on the COVID-19 rules during a rally in Riverside, California. The rally was held on May 5, 2020.
Dr. Barke represents thousands of physicians like him that are being silenced by Big Tech, YouTube, Facebook, the liberal mainstream media and so-called government experts.
Dr. Jeff Barke: What if the experts are wrong. What if quarantining the healthy doesn’t actually save lives. What if wearing a mask in public is not effective. My name is Dr. Jeff Barke and I’m here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don’t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do. Never in the history of this great republic have we quarantined the healthy. Never in the history of this great republic did we tell churchgoers that it’s illegal for you to exercise your First Amendment right of freedom of religion yet at the same time it’s essential to keep pot dispensaries open.
It’s good to hear practicing physicians push back against the very questionable policies pushed by elitist doctors based on garbage models.
Today we have 20.5 million Americans unemployed because America’s top doctors believed a ridiculous and garbage model by questionable UK researchers.
Thank you, Dr. Barke for speaking out.
It’s time for less panicking and more common sense.


revolutionradio--2020-05-08--10 Churches, 20 Pastors Sue Oregon Governor Kate Brown Over Religious Gathering Ban

Religious groups are standing up to the anti-Constitutional orders of Oregon governor Kate Brown .
They filed an injunctive relief lawsuit against the state , seeking to reopen their churches in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown orders .
A group of Oregon churches and individuals , including as lead plaintiff the Elkhorn Baptist Church in Baker City , is suing Gov .
Kate Brown claiming her executive orders imposing restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic are unconstitutional .
The plaintiffs filed the suit in Baker County Circuit Court on Wednesday .
They are represented by attorney Ray D. Hacke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Hacke said the Institute is a nonprofit law firm that defends religious liberty .
It opened its Salem office about 2 years ago .
The plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the governor from enforcing the executive orders .
Hacke said Thursday afternoon that he also filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order that would prevent the governor from imposing terms of the executive order , including the prohibition on gatherings of people if participants can ’ t maintain social distancing .
Although religious freedom is an aspect of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legal issue is the governor ’ s authority under the Oregon Constitution .
In the lawsuit he cites the section of the Constitution — Article X-A — that authorizes the governor to declare a state of emergency due to a public health crisis .
Hacke said the plaintiffs don ’ t dispute that Brown has such authority due to the pandemic .
The governor declared the state of emergency on March 8 .
But Hacke points to a section in Article X-A which states that the governor ’ s emergency powers can extend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Legislature , on at least a three-fifths vote of both the House and the Senate , agrees to extend the governor ’ s emergency powers .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 1:39 pm and is filed under Civil Unrest , Communists , Government Evil , Religion .
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By Brock Simmons
TheGatewayPundit.com
May 8, 2020
Religious groups are standing up to the anti-Constitutional orders of Oregon governor Kate Brown. They filed an injunctive relief lawsuit against the state, seeking to reopen their churches in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown orders.
Baker City Herald reports:
A group of Oregon churches and individuals, including as lead plaintiff the Elkhorn Baptist Church in Baker City, is suing Gov. Kate Brown claiming her executive orders imposing restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic are unconstitutional.
The plaintiffs filed the suit in Baker County Circuit Court on Wednesday.
They are represented by attorney Ray D. Hacke of the Pacific Justice Institute in Salem. Hacke said the Institute is a nonprofit law firm that defends religious liberty. It opened its Salem office about 2 years ago.
The plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the governor from enforcing the executive orders.
Hacke said Thursday afternoon that he also filed a motion seeking a temporary restraining order that would prevent the governor from imposing terms of the executive order, including the prohibition on gatherings of people if participants can’t maintain social distancing.
Although religious freedom is an aspect of the lawsuit, Hacke said the chief legal issue is the governor’s authority under the Oregon Constitution.
In the lawsuit he cites the section of the Constitution — Article X-A — that authorizes the governor to declare a state of emergency due to a public health crisis.
Hacke said the plaintiffs don’t dispute that Brown has such authority due to the pandemic. The governor declared the state of emergency on March 8.
But Hacke points to a section in Article X-A which states that the governor’s emergency powers can extend for no more than 30 days unless the Legislature, on at least a three-fifths vote of both the House and the Senate, agrees to extend the governor’s emergency powers.
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revolutionradio--2020-05-08--America Has Become A Powder Keg That Is Ready To Explode At Any Time

Have you noticed that people are a lot more emotional these days ?
People are angry about the lockdowns , people are angry because others are not “ properly ” observing the social distancing rules , people are angry about losing their jobs , people are angry about the shortages in the stores , and more than anything else people are angry at our politicians .
Even before COVID-19 came along , I was repeatedly warning my readers that anger was rising to a very dangerous level in this country , and now this pandemic has made things far worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ log on to Facebook and read some of the “ discussions ” that people are having about this coronavirus .
Many of those “ discussions ” rapidly devolve into venom spewing contests , and sometimes this is still true even if people are theoretically on the same side .
There is so much anger and frustration out there right now , and it is only going to get worse the closer that we get to election day .
Thankfully , so far we don ’ t have the sort of widespread civil unrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nations , but the stage is certainly being set for it .
The American people don ’ t like being forced to put their lives on hold , they don ’ t like all of the new rules that have been forced upon them because of this pandemic , and they are deeply frustrated with our politicians for being unable to instantly fix things .
Of course there aren ’ t going to be any easy answers .
The U.S. economy has already lost 33 million jobs , and millions more will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , more than 76,000 Americans have already died from the coronavirus , and the overall death toll in this country is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands .
In an environment such as this , people are going to have shorter fuses than usual , and it isn ’ t going to take much to get people to lash out in frustration .
One of the most prominent examples of this that we have witnessed lately occurred in Austin , Texas… Austin police have arrested a man who allegedly pushed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incident occurred on Thursday at Commons Ford , a public park that is home to Lake Austin , and was captured on a video posted on social media .
In the video , a park ranger is seen standing near the lake ’ s edge telling a crowd of people to stand six feet apart when a man pushes the ranger into the water and falls in himself .
It is quite foolish to push a law enforcement officer into a lake , but the social distancing restrictions are frustrating people so much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rationally .
And in this environment it certainly isn ’ t going to take much to push law enforcement officials over the edge either .
Americans were stunned when video footage emerged of New Jersey police officers relentlessly beating young men with their batons for violating the social distancing rules… Footage from a street fight on Tuesday afternoon shows a Jersey City police officer – who is white – repeatedly hitting a man – who is African American – while he ’ s pinned to the ground , and now activists are calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The clip filmed by a witness captured the man trying to raise his arms to protect his face as the law enforcement officer strikes him over and over again .
Sadly , I expect to see a lot more wild scenes in our streets like that in the months ahead .
Right now , virtually the entire country is in a really bad mood , and unfortunately some people will choose to resort to violence .
And it can happen in places that you might not expect .
For instance , an argument @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s in Oklahoma resulted in three people getting shot… Three workers at an Oklahoma City McDonald ’ s were injured Wednesday by gunfire and a scuffle that appeared to have started because the restaurant ’ s dining area was closed for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic , police said .
I ’ ll never understand why people commit these sorts of acts of senseless violence .
But as our world gets even crazier , more people than ever are going to be going off the deep end .
Our nation is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anger and hatred are becoming increasingly common .
So many Americans are willing to “ shoot first and ask questions later ” , and the shooting of a 25-year-old African-American man in Georgia is causing a national uproar… Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while running in a neighborhood after a former police officer and his son chased the 25-year-old man down , telling officers later that they thought he looked like the suspect in a series of recent break-ins in the area , authorities said .
On Thursday , we learned that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been arrested .
But even though they have been arrested now , it appears that this case will deepen the very deep racial tensions that already exist in this country .
I truly wish that we could all learn how to love one another , but instead I continue to see hatred rise all over America .
Needless to say , one of the big reasons why Americans hate one another these days is because of politics .
November is right around the corner , and we will likely see tremendous outbursts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the election .
Meanwhile , economic conditions will continue to deteriorate , and millions of Americans will become increasingly desperate .
Already , meat shortages are making headlines all over the nation… Farmers and ranchers have hogs , cattle and chicken that they feed , but can ’ t sell .
Meatpacking plants don ’ t have enough workers as they get sick and have heightened anxiety .
And grocery shoppers and restaurants can ’ t get their typical cuts or supply of meat .
Major grocers , including Kroger and Costco @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meat to prevent hoarding and help keep it in stock .
Nearly a fifth of Wendy ’ s U.S. restaurants removed hamburgers and other beef products from their online menus , according to Stephens Inc. And another chain , Shake Shack , said rising beef prices have taken a bite into its profits .
Many Americans can deal with short-term shortages , but if these shortages stretch into the summer months a whole lot of people are going to become extremely frustrated .
Overall , I have never seen so much anger and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire lifetime , and it is truly a recipe for disaster .
Unfortunately , I expect anger and frustration to continue to grow in the months ahead , and we could be building up to a very dangerous crescendo later in the year .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 1:34 pm and is filed under Civil Unrest .
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by Michael Snyder
EndOfTheAmericanDream.com
May 7, 2020
Have you noticed that people are a lot more emotional these days? People are angry about the lockdowns, people are angry because others are not “properly” observing the social distancing rules, people are angry about losing their jobs, people are angry about the shortages in the stores, and more than anything else people are angry at our politicians. Even before COVID-19 came along, I was repeatedly warning my readers that anger was rising to a very dangerous level in this country, and now this pandemic has made things far worse. If you doubt this, just log on to Facebook and read some of the “discussions” that people are having about this coronavirus. Many of those “discussions” rapidly devolve into venom spewing contests, and sometimes this is still true even if people are theoretically on the same side. There is so much anger and frustration out there right now, and it is only going to get worse the closer that we get to election day.
Thankfully, so far we don’t have the sort of widespread civil unrest that we are already seeing in other nations, but the stage is certainly being set for it. The American people don’t like being forced to put their lives on hold, they don’t like all of the new rules that have been forced upon them because of this pandemic, and they are deeply frustrated with our politicians for being unable to instantly fix things.
Of course there aren’t going to be any easy answers. The U.S. economy has already lost 33 million jobs, and millions more will be lost in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile, more than 76,000 Americans have already died from the coronavirus, and the overall death toll in this country is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands.
In an environment such as this, people are going to have shorter fuses than usual, and it isn’t going to take much to get people to lash out in frustration. One of the most prominent examples of this that we have witnessed lately occurred in Austin, Texas…
Austin police have arrested a man who allegedly pushed a park ranger into a lake.
The incident occurred on Thursday at Commons Ford, a public park that is home to Lake Austin, and was captured on a video posted on social media. In the video, a park ranger is seen standing near the lake’s edge telling a crowd of people to stand six feet apart when a man pushes the ranger into the water and falls in himself.
It is quite foolish to push a law enforcement officer into a lake, but the social distancing restrictions are frustrating people so much that many of them are not thinking rationally.
And in this environment it certainly isn’t going to take much to push law enforcement officials over the edge either. Americans were stunned when video footage emerged of New Jersey police officers relentlessly beating young men with their batons for violating the social distancing rules…
Footage from a street fight on Tuesday afternoon shows a Jersey City police officer – who is white – repeatedly hitting a man – who is African American – while he’s pinned to the ground, and now activists are calling for the cops to be fired.
The clip filmed by a witness captured the man trying to raise his arms to protect his face as the law enforcement officer strikes him over and over again.
Sadly, I expect to see a lot more wild scenes in our streets like that in the months ahead.
Right now, virtually the entire country is in a really bad mood, and unfortunately some people will choose to resort to violence.
And it can happen in places that you might not expect. For instance, an argument over social distancing rules at a McDonald’s in Oklahoma resulted in three people getting shot…
Three workers at an Oklahoma City McDonald’s were injured Wednesday by gunfire and a scuffle that appeared to have started because the restaurant’s dining area was closed for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, police said.
I’ll never understand why people commit these sorts of acts of senseless violence.
But as our world gets even crazier, more people than ever are going to be going off the deep end.
Our nation is so deeply divided, and explosions of anger and hatred are becoming increasingly common. So many Americans are willing to “shoot first and ask questions later”, and the shooting of a 25-year-old African-American man in Georgia is causing a national uproar…
Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while running in a neighborhood after a former police officer and his son chased the 25-year-old man down, telling officers later that they thought he looked like the suspect in a series of recent break-ins in the area, authorities said.
On Thursday, we learned that the father and son that chased Arbery down have been arrested. But even though they have been arrested now, it appears that this case will deepen the very deep racial tensions that already exist in this country.
I truly wish that we could all learn how to love one another, but instead I continue to see hatred rise all over America.
Needless to say, one of the big reasons why Americans hate one another these days is because of politics. November is right around the corner, and we will likely see tremendous outbursts of anger and frustration both before and after the election.
Meanwhile, economic conditions will continue to deteriorate, and millions of Americans will become increasingly desperate.
Already, meat shortages are making headlines all over the nation…
Farmers and ranchers have hogs, cattle and chicken that they feed, but can’t sell. Meatpacking plants don’t have enough workers as they get sick and have heightened anxiety. And grocery shoppers and restaurants can’t get their typical cuts or supply of meat.
Major grocers, including Kroger and Costco, added purchase limits this week for meat to prevent hoarding and help keep it in stock. Nearly a fifth of Wendy’s U.S. restaurants removed hamburgers and other beef products from their online menus, according to Stephens Inc. And another chain, Shake Shack, said rising beef prices have taken a bite into its profits.
Many Americans can deal with short-term shortages, but if these shortages stretch into the summer months a whole lot of people are going to become extremely frustrated.
Overall, I have never seen so much anger and frustration in the United States in my entire lifetime, and it is truly a recipe for disaster.
Unfortunately, I expect anger and frustration to continue to grow in the months ahead, and we could be building up to a very dangerous crescendo later in the year.


revolutionradio--2020-05-08--Truck Drivers Suffer Largest Job Loss On Record After April Bloodbath Leaves 88,300 Unemployed

On Thursday we noted that April orders for class 8 heavy trucks fell a staggering 73 % year over year , and 44 % from March – the worst order numbers on record as coronavirus shutdowns have put the trucking industry on the cusp of a “ freight cliff ” according to a FEMA report obtained by Politico .
Unsurprisingly , truck drivers have suffered an absolute bloodbath – losing approximately 88,300 jobs in April alone , according to Business Insider , which notes that it ’ s the largest single-month loss of trucking jobs on record ( with records @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wiped out all trucking employments gained during the past five years and a half years [ sic ] , bringing the industry back to its employment numbers in November 2014 .
The rest of the April jobs report , which was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on May 8 , was similarly jarring .
Some 20.5 million payrolls were cut in April , which is 25 times larger than the worst monthly decline seen during the recession in the late 2000s .
-Business Insider And while truck drivers are considered “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a collapse in freight volumes – of which nearly 75 % of are moved by truck – has resulted in the devastating loss of jobs as the economy remains at a standstill .
Nationwide , the unemployment rate is now 14.7 % – the highest since the Great Depression as BI notes .
Problems were already there According to industry data from Broughton Capital , the trucking industry was already in bad shape – with around 640 companies going bankrupt in the first half of 2019 , an increase of more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to the Institute of Supply Management , the 2019 trucking recession was due to the decline in manufacturing , which had contracted for several months last year .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 1:28 pm and is filed under Economics , God Help Us .
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by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Fri, 05/08/2020
On Thursday we noted that April orders for class 8 heavy trucks fell a staggering 73% year over year, and 44% from March – the worst order numbers on record as coronavirus shutdowns have put the trucking industry on the cusp of a “freight cliff” according to a FEMA report obtained by Politico.
Unsurprisingly, truck drivers have suffered an absolute bloodbath – losing approximately 88,300 jobs in April alone, according to Business Insider, which notes that it’s the largest single-month loss of trucking jobs on record (with records going back to 1990).
April wiped out all trucking employments gained during the past five years and a half years [sic], bringing the industry back to its employment numbers in November 2014.
The rest of the April jobs report, which was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on May 8, was similarly jarring. Some 20.5 million payrolls were cut in April, which is 25 times larger than the worst monthly decline seen during the recession in the late 2000s. -Business Insider
And while truck drivers are considered “essential” workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, a collapse in freight volumes – of which nearly 75% of are moved by truck – has resulted in the devastating loss of jobs as the economy remains at a standstill.
Nationwide, the unemployment rate is now 14.7% – the highest since the Great Depression as BI notes.
Problems were already there
According to industry data from Broughton Capital, the trucking industry was already in bad shape – with around 640 companies going bankrupt in the first half of 2019, an increase of more than 300% over 2018’s bankruptcies. According to the Institute of Supply Management, the 2019 trucking recession was due to the decline in manufacturing, which had contracted for several months last year.


revolutionradio--2020-05-08--We Are Witnessing Economic Carnage Like We Have Never Seen Before, And The Economy Is Going To Conti

We Are Witnessing Economic Carnage Like We Have Never Seen Before, And The Economy Is Going To Continue To Bleed Jobs

Now we are up to 33.5 million jobs lost .
In just 7 weeks , the U.S. economy has been completely turned upside down , and the numbers are unlike anything that we have ever seen before .
On Thursday , the Labor Department announced that 3.17 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week .
That brings the grand total for this crisis up to 33.5 million , and that figure absolutely dwarfs what we witnessed during the last recession .
And as I discussed yesterday , even the mainstream media is now admitting that millions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yes , some Americans will be going back to work now that the lockdowns are being ended , but for now it is being projected that the job losses will continue to surpass any gains that are made by workers that are returning to their old jobs .
In fact , one prominent economist told CNBC that it will likely take until mid-June before the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits each week falls below a million… At the current pace , the week claims numbers should fall below 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Shepherdson , chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics .
“ We ’ re very hopeful that June will see the beginnings of a rebound as states begin to reopen , ” Shepherdson said .
To put that in perspective , prior to this year the all-time record for a single week was just 695,000 .
So even when we get down to a million new claims each week , that will still be a catastrophic level .
And the truth is that these numbers don ’ t even tell the entire story .
Because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there are vast numbers of unemployed Americans that still have not been able to successfully file claims .
One of those unemployed Americans is Florida resident Roselande Guerrier… Roselande Guerrier lies in bed each night , waiting for her cellphone to display 7:30 a.m. – when the Florida unemployment office opens – and calls , aching for answers , searching for help .
“ All night , my eyes are open , ” she said .
“ Five o ’ clock , my eyes are open .
I call at 6 o @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I call at 7:30 and boom , ‘ All lines are busy.
’ Every number they give me , I try , but they ’ re always busy.
“ She has been trying day after day , and she still hasn ’ t been successful .
So for now she doesn ’ t have a single penny coming in , and she has three hungry kids to feed… Guerrier , 36 , has spent 13 years changing sheets , picking up dirty towels and scrubbing bathrooms as a housekeeper at the Fontainebleau @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
At night , she would do the same at the Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club , an art deco resort a few blocks away .
Both those jobs vanished on March 23 when the hotels were forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic .
With three children to care for , she hasn ’ t seen a nickel of unemployment benefits or federal relief money .
Could you imagine being in her situation ?
When you have little ones depending on you , it can be absolutely soul crushing to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job losses just continue to roll on .
This week , several more big companies have publicly announced layoffs… The layoff announcements by larger companies continue on a daily basis .
Yesterday , Uber announced that it would lay off 3,700 people ; Haliburton announced that it would lay off 1,000 people at its corporate headquarters , after having already laid of thousands of people elsewhere ; the Natural History Museum in New York City announced it would lay off 450 people ; etc .
etc .
It ’ s a loud and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are laying off people without media attention .
If you were assuming that the U.S. economy would just bounce back to where it was before , you can forget about that right now .
In fact , Bob Michele told Bloomberg that it may be more than a decade before U.S. employment returns to the levels that we saw prior to this pandemic… J.P. Morgan Chief Investment Officer Bob Michele predicted it will take 10-12 years after the pandemic for U.S. employment to get back to its pre-coronavirus level , insisting it won @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economy back on .
“ No , it ’ s not that simple … it ’ s going to take years , or longer to get back to where we are , or where we were , ” Michele said on Bloomberg when asked if reopening would be as simple as “ turning on the lights.
” Ladies and gentlemen , this is what an economic depression looks like , and it is going to be with us for the foreseeable future .
Of course Congress certainly didn ’ t help matters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ juicy incentive for people to stay unemployed .
As Zero Hedge reminds us , millions of unemployed workers are now bringing home a lot more money than when they were actually working… Worse still , the final numbers will likely be hurt even more due to the bailout itself : as a reminder , the Coronavirus Aid , Relief , and Economic Security ( CARES ) Act , passed on March 27 , could contribute to new records being reached in coming weeks as it increases eligibility for jobless claims to self-employed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of weeks that one can receive benefits , and provides an additional $ 600 per week until July 31 .
A recent WSJ article noted that this has created incentives for some businesses to temporarily furlough their employees , knowing that they will be covered financially as the economy is shutdown .
Meanwhile , those making below $ 50k will generally be made whole and possibly be better off on unemployment benefits .
I certainly don ’ t understand why Congress would do such a thing .
If only we had elected at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brought some common sense to that institution… Getting back to the economy , we continue to get more evidence that we are in the midst of a complete and utter economic implosion with each passing day .
For example , we just learned that orders for Class 8 trucks in April were down a whopping 73 percent compared to a year ago… The misery in Class 8 heavy duty truck orders continues .
Still struggling with the remnants of an order backlog that started almost two years ago with record orders in August @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find an equilibrium prior to the coronavirus pandemic .
Orders were sluggish and we noted numerous trucking companies that closed up shop altogether in 2019 .
Post-pandemic , things look even more helpless .
In April , the industry posted its worst order number on record as the economy ground to a halt as a result of the nationwide lockdown .
Only 4,000 Class 8 orders were made last month , which is down 73 % year over year and 44 % from March .
Virtually every corner of the economy is dramatically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to force more layoffs in the months ahead .
As I discussed yesterday , one survey just found that 52 percent of all small business owners expect to be out of business in the next six months .
Traditionally , small businesses are the primary engine of job growth in this country , but now they are going to be failing at an unprecedented rate .
One of those small businesses that is in the process of failing belongs to wedding invitation designer Emily Rose Asher… Wedding plans nationwide have been shot to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But Chicago-based calligrapher and wedding invitation designer Emily Rose Asher still has some work creating “ save the NEW date ” cards that couples are now sending to guests when they decide to reschedule their big event .
Still , Asher said , whereas she used to earn thousands of dollars during wedding season , she ’ s now earning hundreds .
And the fact that she still has any income at all likely will disqualify her for unemployment benefits .
But she did apply for a PPP loan at the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conflicting guidance from two accountants about her eligibility .
I have such respect for people that create a business out of nothing and slowly nurture it into a success .
But now fear of COVID-19 threatens to kill millions of such businesses .
In other words , millions of hard working Americans are about to see their dreams go up in smoke right in front of their eyes .
It is a tragedy of almost unimaginable proportions , and I wish that it wasn ’ t happening .
But it is happening , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of this could have been avoided if we had made much different choices .
This entry was posted on Friday , May 8th , 2020 at 1:24 pm and is filed under Economics , God Help Us .
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by Michael Snyder
TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
May 7, 2020
Now we are up to 33.5 million jobs lost. In just 7 weeks, the U.S. economy has been completely turned upside down, and the numbers are unlike anything that we have ever seen before. On Thursday, the Labor Department announced that 3.17 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week. That brings the grand total for this crisis up to 33.5 million, and that figure absolutely dwarfs what we witnessed during the last recession. And as I discussed yesterday, even the mainstream media is now admitting that millions of those jobs are never coming back.
Yes, some Americans will be going back to work now that the lockdowns are being ended, but for now it is being projected that the job losses will continue to surpass any gains that are made by workers that are returning to their old jobs.
In fact, one prominent economist told CNBC that it will likely take until mid-June before the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits each week falls below a million…
At the current pace, the week claims numbers should fall below 1 million by mid-June, according to Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “We’re very hopeful that June will see the beginnings of a rebound as states begin to reopen,” Shepherdson said.
To put that in perspective, prior to this year the all-time record for a single week was just 695,000.
So even when we get down to a million new claims each week, that will still be a catastrophic level.
And the truth is that these numbers don’t even tell the entire story. Because state unemployment websites have been so overwhelmed, there are vast numbers of unemployed Americans that still have not been able to successfully file claims.
One of those unemployed Americans is Florida resident Roselande Guerrier…
Roselande Guerrier lies in bed each night, waiting for her cellphone to display 7:30 a.m. – when the Florida unemployment office opens – and calls, aching for answers, searching for help.
“All night, my eyes are open,” she said. “Five o’clock, my eyes are open. I call at 6 o’clock and the office is closed. I call at 7:30 and boom, ‘All lines are busy.’ Every number they give me, I try, but they’re always busy.“
She has been trying day after day, and she still hasn’t been successful.
So for now she doesn’t have a single penny coming in, and she has three hungry kids to feed…
Guerrier, 36, has spent 13 years changing sheets, picking up dirty towels and scrubbing bathrooms as a housekeeper at the Fontainebleau hotel, the iconic Miami Beach resort. At night, she would do the same at the Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club, an art deco resort a few blocks away.
Both those jobs vanished on March 23 when the hotels were forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With three children to care for, she hasn’t seen a nickel of unemployment benefits or federal relief money.
Could you imagine being in her situation?
When you have little ones depending on you, it can be absolutely soul crushing to have nothing to provide.
Sadly, the job losses just continue to roll on. This week, several more big companies have publicly announced layoffs…
The layoff announcements by larger companies continue on a daily basis. Yesterday, Uber announced that it would lay off 3,700 people; Haliburton announced that it would lay off 1,000 people at its corporate headquarters, after having already laid of thousands of people elsewhere; the Natural History Museum in New York City announced it would lay off 450 people; etc. etc. It’s a loud and terrible drumbeat. Thousands of smaller companies are laying off people without media attention.
If you were assuming that the U.S. economy would just bounce back to where it was before, you can forget about that right now.
In fact, Bob Michele told Bloomberg that it may be more than a decade before U.S. employment returns to the levels that we saw prior to this pandemic…
J.P. Morgan Chief Investment Officer Bob Michele predicted it will take 10-12 years after the pandemic for U.S. employment to get back to its pre-coronavirus level, insisting it won’t be as simple as turning the economy back on.
“No, it’s not that simple … it’s going to take years, or longer to get back to where we are, or where we were,” Michele said on Bloomberg when asked if reopening would be as simple as “turning on the lights.”
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what an economic depression looks like, and it is going to be with us for the foreseeable future.
Of course Congress certainly didn’t help matters when they created a big, fat juicy incentive for people to stay unemployed. As Zero Hedge reminds us, millions of unemployed workers are now bringing home a lot more money than when they were actually working…
Worse still, the final numbers will likely be hurt even more due to the bailout itself: as a reminder, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, passed on March 27, could contribute to new records being reached in coming weeks as it increases eligibility for jobless claims to self-employed and gig workers, extends the maximum number of weeks that one can receive benefits, and provides an additional $600 per week until July 31. A recent WSJ article noted that this has created incentives for some businesses to temporarily furlough their employees, knowing that they will be covered financially as the economy is shutdown. Meanwhile, those making below $50k will generally be made whole and possibly be better off on unemployment benefits.
I certainly don’t understand why Congress would do such a thing.
If only we had elected at least a few people that could have brought some common sense to that institution…
Getting back to the economy, we continue to get more evidence that we are in the midst of a complete and utter economic implosion with each passing day.
For example, we just learned that orders for Class 8 trucks in April were down a whopping 73 percent compared to a year ago…
The misery in Class 8 heavy duty truck orders continues. Still struggling with the remnants of an order backlog that started almost two years ago with record orders in August 2018, the industry was unable to find an equilibrium prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Orders were sluggish and we noted numerous trucking companies that closed up shop altogether in 2019.
Post-pandemic, things look even more helpless. In April, the industry posted its worst order number on record as the economy ground to a halt as a result of the nationwide lockdown. Only 4,000 Class 8 orders were made last month, which is down 73% year over year and 44% from March.
Virtually every corner of the economy is dramatically slowing down, and that is going to force more layoffs in the months ahead.
As I discussed yesterday, one survey just found that 52 percent of all small business owners expect to be out of business in the next six months. Traditionally, small businesses are the primary engine of job growth in this country, but now they are going to be failing at an unprecedented rate.
One of those small businesses that is in the process of failing belongs to wedding invitation designer Emily Rose Asher…
Wedding plans nationwide have been shot to hell in this age of social distancing. But Chicago-based calligrapher and wedding invitation designer Emily Rose Asher still has some work creating “save the NEW date” cards that couples are now sending to guests when they decide to reschedule their big event.
Still, Asher said, whereas she used to earn thousands of dollars during wedding season, she’s now earning hundreds. And the fact that she still has any income at all likely will disqualify her for unemployment benefits. But she did apply for a PPP loan at the end of April after trying to sort through conflicting guidance from two accountants about her eligibility.
I have such respect for people that create a business out of nothing and slowly nurture it into a success.
But now fear of COVID-19 threatens to kill millions of such businesses.
In other words, millions of hard working Americans are about to see their dreams go up in smoke right in front of their eyes.
It is a tragedy of almost unimaginable proportions, and I wish that it wasn’t happening.
But it is happening, and what is truly sad is that all of this could have been avoided if we had made much different choices.


revolutionradio--2020-05-09--U.S. Faces Meat Shortages as Pork, Other Protein Exports to China Soar

The coronavirus outbreak has impacted the U.S. food supply chain , including the disease infecting workers at meat processing plants , causing operations to shut down and resulting in slaughtering of livestock that can ’ t be processed and shipped to retailers .
Some restaurant chains are also facing shortages , including Wendy ’ s , which announced it had run out of beef for burgers .
But at the same time the U.S. is facing meat and protein shortages , pork and other exports to China have soared .
Reuters published an analysis on the parallel phenomenon : Meatpackers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have spent at least a year adjusting to the surge in business to China , which has faced a severe pork shortage in the wake of its battle against African swine fever .
But now , as the United States is on the brink of its own meat crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic , American pork supplies are being shipped off to China at a breakneck pace , creating the perfect recipe for additional U.S.-China tensions .
For some American consumers , the optics of this situation might be poor given how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year .
But record U.S. meat exports to China have been the plan all along , to satisfy both China ’ s needs and to lift U.S. business .
The Chinese connection is tied to trade deals with the United States , one of the main pillars of the Trump administration agenda , and agreements that pre-date the coronavirus outbreak , the Associated Press ( AP ) reported : The two governments have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other ’ s imports since 2018 in a fight over Beijing ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Under the January agreement , Washington agreed to reduce some tariff hikes and postpone others in exchange for what Trump said was a Chinese commitment to buy American farm goods and other exports worth $ 200 billion .
Beijing has resumed purchases of American soybeans but has yet to confirm the size of any commitment .
On Sunday , Trump told Fox News , “ If they don ’ t buy , we ’ ll terminate the deal .
Very simple.
” AP reported that Chinese and U.S. officials spoke by phone on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outlet Xinhua .
Chief Chinese envoy , Vice Premier Liu He , U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer , and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agreed to “ create a favorable atmosphere and conditions ” for implementing the “ phase one ” agreement signed in January .
The Reuters analysis said : The U.S. meat shortage and the Phase 1 goals of increasing exports to China seem to be opposing forces , raising the question of whether sales and shipments will or should be limited .
Some restrictions would not be surprising given U.S. President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in his recent comments on trade with China .
Trump also last week ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect U.S. meat supply , but this has sparked some backlash from unions and lawmakers over the safety of workers , and it is not clear if the mandate will have the desired effect on production .
The Reuters piece said the preliminary U.S. export data for April “ suggests that pork exports to China were comparable with March while beef shipments were likely higher ” and that most of the sales and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meat shortage spiked .
“ The value of all U.S. pork , beef , poultry and products exported to China in the first three months of 2020 totaled $ 781 million , ” the Reuters analysis reported .
This entry was posted on Saturday , May 9th , 2020 at 5:49 am and is filed under China , Food Wars .
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by PENNY STARR
BREITBART.COM
8 May 2020
The coronavirus outbreak has impacted the U.S. food supply chain, including the disease infecting workers at meat processing plants, causing operations to shut down and resulting in slaughtering of livestock that can’t be processed and shipped to retailers.
Some restaurant chains are also facing shortages, including Wendy’s, which announced it had run out of beef for burgers.
But at the same time the U.S. is facing meat and protein shortages, pork and other exports to China have soared.
Reuters published an analysis on the parallel phenomenon:
Meatpackers and livestock producers in the United States have spent at least a year adjusting to the surge in business to China, which has faced a severe pork shortage in the wake of its battle against African swine fever.
But now, as the United States is on the brink of its own meat crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic, American pork supplies are being shipped off to China at a breakneck pace, creating the perfect recipe for additional U.S.-China tensions.
For some American consumers, the optics of this situation might be poor given how the virus originated in China late last year. But record U.S. meat exports to China have been the plan all along, to satisfy both China’s needs and to lift U.S. business.
The Chinese connection is tied to trade deals with the United States, one of the main pillars of the Trump administration agenda, and agreements that pre-date the coronavirus outbreak, the Associated Press (AP) reported:
The two governments have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s imports since 2018 in a fight over Beijing’s trade surplus and technology ambitions. Under the January agreement, Washington agreed to reduce some tariff hikes and postpone others in exchange for what Trump said was a Chinese commitment to buy American farm goods and other exports worth $200 billion. Beijing has resumed purchases of American soybeans but has yet to confirm the size of any commitment.
On Sunday, Trump told Fox News, “If they don’t buy, we’ll terminate the deal. Very simple.”
AP reported that Chinese and U.S. officials spoke by phone on Friday, according to the Chinese news outlet Xinhua.
Chief Chinese envoy, Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agreed to “create a favorable atmosphere and conditions” for implementing the “phase one” agreement signed in January. The Reuters analysis said:
The U.S. meat shortage and the Phase 1 goals of increasing exports to China seem to be opposing forces, raising the question of whether sales and shipments will or should be limited. Some restrictions would not be surprising given U.S. President Donald Trump’s more combative tone in his recent comments on trade with China. Trump also last week ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect U.S. meat supply, but this has sparked some backlash from unions and lawmakers over the safety of workers, and it is not clear if the mandate will have the desired effect on production.
The Reuters piece said the preliminary U.S. export data for April “suggests that pork exports to China were comparable with March while beef shipments were likely higher” and that most of the sales and exports to China accumulated before the U.S. meat shortage spiked.
“The value of all U.S. pork, beef, poultry and products exported to China in the first three months of 2020 totaled $781 million,” the Reuters analysis reported.


revolutionradio--2020-05-09--Beware Of Plans To “Build Back Better”

Beware Of Plans To “Build Back Better”

Central planners the world over disdain the free exchange of goods and services .
They believe they can better shape the world around them according to their wishes .
This fatal conceit compels them to intervene in destructive ways .
Some central planners , like Fed Chair Jay Powell , think they ’ re saving the world economy by cranking up the printing press .
Others , like AOC , could care less about the economy…so long as they can mediate the redistribution of wealth more to their liking .
The mess wrought by extreme government intervention has been magnified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bad situation and made it dramatically worse .
They destroyed the economy so they could ‘ build back batter.
’ First the shutdown was ordered to flatten the curve , resulting in over 33.5 million new claims for unemployment in just seven weeks .
Then the big bailouts of big business were rolled out to counteract the breakdown of financial markets .
Token checks were also sent out to the broad populace .
And that ’ s just the beginning .
Central planners , no doubt , love this kind of stuff @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
What ’ s more , it makes them feel smart…especially when they can use fake models and fake science to support their decrees… Guided by Garbage On March 18 , British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson and his cohorts at Imperial College in the United Kingdom used scientific models to project 2.2 million deaths in the United States from coronavirus .
The central planners took these scientific models as the cornerstone truth and commanded shelter in place and social distancing orders .
Yet it was all based on a crock !
For example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK .
The final figure was below 500 .
And during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak , Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die .
In the end , 200 people died .
Similarly , Ferguson estimated a potential death toll of 200 million people during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak .
The real number was in the low hundreds .
What ’ s going on ?
Here , we ’ ll turn to Charles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inventing the first mechanical computer , to better understand Ferguson ’ s deal .
From his 1864 work , Passages from the Life of a Philosopher : “ On two occasions I have been asked [ by members of Parliament ] , ‘ Pray , Mr. Babbage , if you put into the machine the wrong figures , will the right answers come out ?
’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
” In other words , garbage in garbage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , computer outputs are only as good as the data that are input .
If garbage data is input the resulting outputs are garbage .
“ Some of the major assumptions and estimates that are built in the calculations [ of Ferguson ’ s models ] seem to be substantially inflated.
” That was the assessment of John Ioannidis , a professor of disease prevention from Stanford University .
The point is , the response by central planners to the coronavirus outbreak was guided by garbage .
The economy has been wrecked .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy will further destabilize it .
But why stop now ?
For central planners this is their golden opportunity to ‘ build back better ’ … Beware of Plans to Build Back Better This week , for example , Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and several other economic interventionists published a paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy calling for green stimulus .
The paper ’ s title asks the question , “ Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change ?
Without government intervention , say the authors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that we will leap from the COVID frying pan into the climate fire.
” The paper includes a survey of 231 central bankers , G20 finance ministers , and top academics from across 53 countries to subjectively assess the economic and climate impact potential of 25 stimulus policy archetypes .
One important – unequivocal – conclusion is that the world ’ s leading central planners are onboard with stimulus that reduces carbon emissions .
The policy archetype of no stimulus and no intervention was not considered , as far as we can tell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of colorful exhibits that appear to be a cross between scatter plot charts and dove entrails .
The purpose of the exhibits is to graphically display the various experts ’ perceptions of the desirability of various stimulus policies .
Is a policy of high positive potential climate impact or high negative potential climate impact ?
And what is its long-run multiplier ?
Like Ferguson ’ s death models , the study is contrived nonsense .
But it ’ s just the sort of thing the central planners can point to as they flatter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next wave of fiscal stimulus intervention .
Per Cameron Hepburn , lead author : “ The COVID-19-initiated emissions reduction could be short-lived .
But this report shows we can choose to build back better , keeping many of the recent improvements we ’ ve seen in cleaner air , returning nature and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
” For the central planners , building back better means pumping stimulus into clean energy research and infrastructure , disaster preparedness , and zero-carbon transportation .
Alas , for the 33.5 million recently unemployed , there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who cares when Class 8 heavy duty truck orders crashed to a 25 year low in April ?
Better to keep those diesel burning smoke belchers off the road .
This entry was posted on Saturday , May 9th , 2020 at 5:42 am and is filed under Government Evil , New World Order .
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by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com,
ZeroHedge.com
Fri, 05/08/2020
Central planners the world over disdain the free exchange of goods and services. They believe they can better shape the world around them according to their wishes. This fatal conceit compels them to intervene in destructive ways.
Some central planners, like Fed Chair Jay Powell, think they’re saving the world economy by cranking up the printing press. Others, like AOC, could care less about the economy…so long as they can mediate the redistribution of wealth more to their liking.
The mess wrought by extreme government intervention has been magnified by coronavirus. The central planners took a bad situation and made it dramatically worse. They destroyed the economy so they could ‘build back batter.’
First the shutdown was ordered to flatten the curve, resulting in over 33.5 million new claims for unemployment in just seven weeks. Then the big bailouts of big business were rolled out to counteract the breakdown of financial markets. Token checks were also sent out to the broad populace. And that’s just the beginning.
Central planners, no doubt, love this kind of stuff. They find meaning and purpose in it. What’s more, it makes them feel smart…especially when they can use fake models and fake science to support their decrees…
Guided by Garbage
On March 18, British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson and his cohorts at Imperial College in the United Kingdom used scientific models to project 2.2 million deaths in the United States from coronavirus. The central planners took these scientific models as the cornerstone truth and commanded shelter in place and social distancing orders. Yet it was all based on a crock!
For example, in 2009, one of Ferguson’s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK. The final figure was below 500. And during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak, Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die. In the end, 200 people died.
Similarly, Ferguson estimated a potential death toll of 200 million people during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak. The real number was in the low hundreds. What’s going on?
Here, we’ll turn to Charles Babbage, the English polymath credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, to better understand Ferguson’s deal. From his 1864 work, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher:
“On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine the wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
In other words, garbage in garbage out (GIGO). By this, computer outputs are only as good as the data that are input. If garbage data is input the resulting outputs are garbage.
“Some of the major assumptions and estimates that are built in the calculations [of Ferguson’s models] seem to be substantially inflated.”
That was the assessment of John Ioannidis, a professor of disease prevention from Stanford University. The point is, the response by central planners to the coronavirus outbreak was guided by garbage. The economy has been wrecked. Moreover, the programs to save the economy will further destabilize it. But why stop now?
For central planners this is their golden opportunity to ‘build back better’…
Beware of Plans to Build Back Better
This week, for example, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and several other economic interventionists published a paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy calling for green stimulus. The paper’s title asks the question, “Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?
Without government intervention, say the authors, “There are reasons to fear that we will leap from the COVID frying pan into the climate fire.”
The paper includes a survey of 231 central bankers, G20 finance ministers, and top academics from across 53 countries to subjectively assess the economic and climate impact potential of 25 stimulus policy archetypes. One important – unequivocal – conclusion is that the world’s leading central planners are onboard with stimulus that reduces carbon emissions.
The policy archetype of no stimulus and no intervention was not considered, as far as we can tell. But the paper is chock full of colorful exhibits that appear to be a cross between scatter plot charts and dove entrails.
The purpose of the exhibits is to graphically display the various experts’ perceptions of the desirability of various stimulus policies. Is a policy of high positive potential climate impact or high negative potential climate impact? And what is its long-run multiplier?
Like Ferguson’s death models, the study is contrived nonsense. But it’s just the sort of thing the central planners can point to as they flatter their egos and double down with the next wave of fiscal stimulus intervention. Per Cameron Hepburn, lead author:
“The COVID-19-initiated emissions reduction could be short-lived. But this report shows we can choose to build back better, keeping many of the recent improvements we’ve seen in cleaner air, returning nature and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.”
For the central planners, building back better means pumping stimulus into clean energy research and infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and zero-carbon transportation. Alas, for the 33.5 million recently unemployed, there’s no booty in it.
But who cares when Class 8 heavy duty truck orders crashed to a 25 year low in April? Better to keep those diesel burning smoke belchers off the road.


revolutionradio--2020-05-09--Authoritarianism In The Age Of Pseudoscience

Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson ( exposure to Monsanto ’ s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient , glyphosate , caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma ) , attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference : The corruption of science , the falsification of science , and we saw all those things happen here .
This is a company ( Monsanto ) that used all of the plays in the playbook developed over 60 years by the tobacco industry to escape the consequences of killing one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used those strategies… ” Johnson ’ s lawyers argued over the course of the month-long trial in 2018 that Monsanto had “ fought science ” for years and targeted academics who spoke up about possible health risks of the herbicide product .
Long before the Johnson case , critics of Monsanto were already aware of the practices the company had engaged in for decades to undermine science .
At the same time , Monsanto and its lobbyists had called anyone who questioned the company ’ s ‘ science ’ as engaging in pseudoscience @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We need look no further than the current coronavirus issue to understand how vested interests are set to profit by spinning the crisis a certain way and how questionable science is again being used to pursue policies that are essentially ‘ unscientific ’ – governments , the police and the corporate media have become the arbiters of ‘ truth ’ .
We also see anyone challenging the policies and the ‘ science ’ being censored on social media or not being given a platform on TV and accused of engaging in ‘ misinformation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old playbook .
The case-fatality ratio for COVID-19 is so low as to make the lockdown response wholly disproportionate .
Yet we are asked to blindly accept government narratives and the policies based on them .
Making an entire country go home and stay home has immense , incalculable costs in terms of well-being and livelihoods .
This itself has created a pervasive sense of panic and crisis and is largely a result of the measures taken against the ‘ pandemic ’ and not of the virus itself .
Certain epidemiologists have said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ base lockdown policies on , but this has not prevented politicians from acting as if everything they say or do is based on solid science .
The lockdown would not be merited if we were to genuinely adopt a knowledge-based approach .
If we look at early projections by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in the UK , he had grossly overstated the number of possible deaths resulting from the coronavirus and has now backtracked substantially .
Ferguson has a chequered track record , which led UK newspaper The Telegraph to run a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science that led to lockdown ?
’ The article outlines Ferguson ’ s previous flawed predictions about infectious diseases and a number of experts raise serious questions about the modelling that led to lockdown in the UK .
Ferguson ’ s previous modelling for the spread of epidemics was so off the mark that it may beggar believe that anyone could have faith in anything he says , yet he remains part of the UK government ’ s scientific advisory group .
Officials are now talking of ‘ easing ’ lockdowns , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will only be lifted once a vaccine for COVID-19 has been found .
It raises the question : when will Ferguson be held to account for his current and previously flawed work and his exaggerated predictions ?
Because , on the basis of his modelling , the UK has been in lockdown for many weeks , the results of which are taking a toll on the livelihoods and well-being of the population which are and will continue to far outweigh the effects of COVID-19 .
According to a 1982 academic study , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be associated with 37,000 deaths [ including 20,000 heart attacks , 920 suicides , 650 homicides ] , 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions .
Consider that by 30 April , in the US alone , 30 million had filed for unemployment benefit since the lockdown began .
Between 23 and 30 April , some 3.8 million filed for unemployment benefit .
Prior to the current crisis , the unemployment rate was 3.5 % .
Some predict it could eventually reach 30 % .
Ferguson – whose model @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addition to the UK – is as much to blame as anyone for the current situation .
And it is a situation that has been fuelled by a government and media promoted fear narrative that has had members of the public so afraid of the virus that many have been demanding further restrictions of their liberty by the state in order to ‘ save ’ them .
Even with the promise of easing the lockdown , people seem to be fearful of venturing out in the near future thanks to the fear campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of encouraging more diverse , informed and objective opinions in the mainstream , we too often see money and power forcing the issue , not least in the form of Bill Gates who tells the world ‘ normality ’ may not return for another 18 months – until he and his close associates in the pharmaceuticals industry find a vaccine and we are all vaccinated .
In the UK , the population is constantly subjected via their TV screens to clap for NHS workers , support the NHS and to stay home and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data and policies .
Emotive stuff taking place under a ruling Conservative Party that has cut thousands of hospital beds , frozen staff pay , placed workers on zero-hour contracts and demonised junior doctors .
It is also using the current crisis to accelerate the privatisation of state health care .
In recent weeks , ministers have used special powers to bypass normal tendering and award a string of contracts to private companies and management consultants without open competition .
But if cheap propaganda stunts do not secure the compliance , open threats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US , city mayors and local politicians have threatened to ‘ hunt down ’ , monitor social media and jail those who break lockdown rules .
Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson asks who gave these people the authority to tear up the US constitution ; what gives them the right to threaten voters while they themselves or their families have been exposed as having little regard for lockdown norms .
As overhead drones bark out orders to residents , Carlson wonders how the US – almost overnight – transformed into a totalitarian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to hold tyrannical officials to account , Carlson ’ s concerns mirror those of Lionel Shriver in the UK , writing in The Spectator , who declares that the supine capitulation of Britain to a de facto police state has been one of the most depressing spectacles he has ever witnessed .
Under the pretext of tracking and tracing the spread of the virus , the UK government is rolling out an app which will let the likes of Apple and Google monitor a person ’ s every location visited and every physical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oversight in terms of privacy .
The contact-tracing app has opted for a centralised model of data collection : all the contact-tracing data is not to be deleted but anonymized and kept under one roof in one central government database for ‘ research purposes ’ .
We may think back to Cambridge Analytica ’ s harvesting of Facebook data to appreciate the potential for data misuse .
But privacy is the least concern for governments and the global tech giants in an age where ‘ data ’ has become monetized as a saleable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the second biggest in the world and valued at over a billion pounds in 2018 .
Paranoia is usually the ever-present bedfellow of fear and many people have been very keen to inform the authorities that their neighbours may have been breaking social distancing rules .
Moreover , although any such opinion poll can not be taken at face value and could be regarded as part of the mainstream fear narrative itself , a recent survey suggests that only 20 % of Britons are in favour of reopening restaurants , schools , pubs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the new ‘ normal ’ , whereby fear , mistrust , division and suspicion are internalized throughout society ?
In an age of fear and paranoia , are we all to be ‘ contact traced ’ and regarded by others as a ‘ risk ’ until we prove ourselves by wearing face masks and by voluntarily subjecting ourselves to virus tests at the entrances to stores or in airports ?
And if we refuse or test positive , are we to be shamed , isolated and forced to comply by being ‘ medicated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Is this the type of world that ’ s soon to be regarded as ‘ normal ’ ?
A world in which liberty and fundamental rights mean nothing .
A world dominated by shaming and spurious notions of personal responsibility that are little more than ideological constructs of a hegemonic narrative which labels rational thinking people as ‘ anti-science ’ – a world in which the scourge of authoritarianism reigns supreme .
As this article was going to press , it was announced that Neil Ferguson is resigning from his role as science @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the wake of the allegations he has broken the lockdown rules he himself recommended in order to meet his girlfriend .
This entry was posted on Saturday , May 9th , 2020 at 5:33 am and is filed under Conspiracy , Corruption , Government Evil .
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by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org,
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 05/09/2020
Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference:
The corruption of science, the falsification of science, and we saw all those things happen here. This is a company (Monsanto) that used all of the plays in the playbook developed over 60 years by the tobacco industry to escape the consequences of killing one of every five of its customers… Monsanto… has used those strategies…”
Johnson’s lawyers argued over the course of the month-long trial in 2018 that Monsanto had “fought science” for years and targeted academics who spoke up about possible health risks of the herbicide product.
Long before the Johnson case, critics of Monsanto were already aware of the practices the company had engaged in for decades to undermine science. At the same time, Monsanto and its lobbyists had called anyone who questioned the company’s ‘science’ as engaging in pseudoscience and labelled them ‘anti-science’.
We need look no further than the current coronavirus issue to understand how vested interests are set to profit by spinning the crisis a certain way and how questionable science is again being used to pursue policies that are essentially ‘unscientific’ – governments, the police and the corporate media have become the arbiters of ‘truth’.
We also see anyone challenging the policies and the ‘science’ being censored on social media or not being given a platform on TV and accused of engaging in ‘misinformation’.
It’s the same old playbook.
The case-fatality ratio for COVID-19 is so low as to make the lockdown response wholly disproportionate. Yet we are asked to blindly accept government narratives and the policies based on them.
Making an entire country go home and stay home has immense, incalculable costs in terms of well-being and livelihoods. This itself has created a pervasive sense of panic and crisis and is largely a result of the measures taken against the ‘pandemic’ and not of the virus itself.
Certain epidemiologists have said there is very little sturdy evidence to base lockdown policies on, but this has not prevented politicians from acting as if everything they say or do is based on solid science.
The lockdown would not be merited if we were to genuinely adopt a knowledge-based approach. If we look at early projections by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College in the UK, he had grossly overstated the number of possible deaths resulting from the coronavirus and has now backtracked substantially.
Ferguson has a chequered track record, which led UK newspaper The Telegraph to run a piece entitled ‘How accurate was the science that led to lockdown?’ The article outlines Ferguson’s previous flawed predictions about infectious diseases and a number of experts raise serious questions about the modelling that led to lockdown in the UK.
Ferguson’s previous modelling for the spread of epidemics was so off the mark that it may beggar believe that anyone could have faith in anything he says, yet he remains part of the UK government’s scientific advisory group. Officials are now talking of ‘easing’ lockdowns, but Ferguson warns that lockdown in the UK will only be lifted once a vaccine for COVID-19 has been found.
It raises the question: when will Ferguson be held to account for his current and previously flawed work and his exaggerated predictions? Because, on the basis of his modelling, the UK has been in lockdown for many weeks, the results of which are taking a toll on the livelihoods and well-being of the population which are and will continue to far outweigh the effects of COVID-19.
According to a 1982 academic study, a 1% increase in the unemployment rate will be associated with 37,000 deaths [including 20,000 heart attacks, 920 suicides, 650 homicides], 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions.
Consider that by 30 April, in the US alone, 30 million had filed for unemployment benefit since the lockdown began. Between 23 and 30 April, some 3.8 million filed for unemployment benefit. Prior to the current crisis, the unemployment rate was 3.5%. Some predict it could eventually reach 30%.
Ferguson – whose model was the basis for policies elsewhere in addition to the UK – is as much to blame as anyone for the current situation. And it is a situation that has been fuelled by a government and media promoted fear narrative that has had members of the public so afraid of the virus that many have been demanding further restrictions of their liberty by the state in order to ‘save’ them.
Even with the promise of easing the lockdown, people seem to be fearful of venturing out in the near future thanks to the fear campaign they have been subjected to.
nstead of encouraging more diverse, informed and objective opinions in the mainstream, we too often see money and power forcing the issue, not least in the form of Bill Gates who tells the world ‘normality’ may not return for another 18 months – until he and his close associates in the pharmaceuticals industry find a vaccine and we are all vaccinated.
In the UK, the population is constantly subjected via their TV screens to clap for NHS workers, support the NHS and to stay home and save lives on the basis of questionable data and policies. Emotive stuff taking place under a ruling Conservative Party that has cut thousands of hospital beds, frozen staff pay, placed workers on zero-hour contracts and demonised junior doctors.
It is also using the current crisis to accelerate the privatisation of state health care.
In recent weeks, ministers have used special powers to bypass normal tendering and award a string of contracts to private companies and management consultants without open competition.
But if cheap propaganda stunts do not secure the compliance, open threats will suffice. For instance, in the US, city mayors and local politicians have threatened to ‘hunt down’, monitor social media and jail those who break lockdown rules.
Prominent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson asks who gave these people the authority to tear up the US constitution; what gives them the right to threaten voters while they themselves or their families have been exposed as having little regard for lockdown norms. As overhead drones bark out orders to residents, Carlson wonders how the US – almost overnight – transformed into a totalitarian state.
With a compliant media failing to hold tyrannical officials to account, Carlson’s concerns mirror those of Lionel Shriver in the UK, writing in The Spectator, who declares that the supine capitulation of Britain to a de facto police state has been one of the most depressing spectacles he has ever witnessed.
Under the pretext of tracking and tracing the spread of the virus, the UK government is rolling out an app which will let the likes of Apple and Google monitor a person’s every location visited and every physical contact. There seems to be little oversight in terms of privacy.
The contact-tracing app has opted for a centralised model of data collection: all the contact-tracing data is not to be deleted but anonymized and kept under one roof in one central government database for ‘research purposes’.
We may think back to Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of Facebook data to appreciate the potential for data misuse. But privacy is the least concern for governments and the global tech giants in an age where ‘data’ has become monetized as a saleable commodity, with the UK data market the second biggest in the world and valued at over a billion pounds in 2018.
Paranoia is usually the ever-present bedfellow of fear and many people have been very keen to inform the authorities that their neighbours may have been breaking social distancing rules.
Moreover, although any such opinion poll cannot be taken at face value and could be regarded as part of the mainstream fear narrative itself, a recent survey suggests that only 20% of Britons are in favour of reopening restaurants, schools, pubs and stadiums.
Is this to be the new ‘normal’, whereby fear, mistrust, division and suspicion are internalized throughout society? In an age of fear and paranoia, are we all to be ‘contact traced’ and regarded by others as a ‘risk’ until we prove ourselves by wearing face masks and by voluntarily subjecting ourselves to virus tests at the entrances to stores or in airports?
And if we refuse or test positive, are we to be shamed, isolated and forced to comply by being ‘medicated’ (vaccinated and chipped)?
Is this the type of world that’s soon to be regarded as ‘normal’?
A world in which liberty and fundamental rights mean nothing. A world dominated by shaming and spurious notions of personal responsibility that are little more than ideological constructs of a hegemonic narrative which labels rational thinking people as ‘anti-science’ – a world in which the scourge of authoritarianism reigns supreme.
* * *
As this article was going to press, it was announced that Neil Ferguson is resigning from his role as science advisor to Boris Johnson’s government, in the wake of the allegations he has broken the lockdown rules he himself recommended in order to meet his girlfriend .


revolutionradio--2020-05-09--EPIC! Matt Gaetz Tosses Trey Gowdy Under the Bus with Paul Ryan for Blocking GOP Subpoenas of Deep S

EPIC! Matt Gaetz Tosses Trey Gowdy Under the Bus with Paul Ryan for Blocking GOP Subpoenas of Deep State Operatives (VIDEO)

Rep. Matt Gaetz , attorney-author Alan Dershowitz and investigative journalist John Solomon joined Sean Hannity Friday night to discuss the latest House Intelligence Committee document release that proves the Obama administration had nothing on Trump and Russia .
It was all a hoax and they pushed forward with their investigations anyway .
During the segment Rep. Gaetz tossed former Rep. Trey Gowdy under the bus for blocking the subpoenas of deep state operatives .
Matt Gaetz : Devin Nunes is a patriot .
And I ’ m glad you went through Trey Gowdy ’ s exquisite questions in 2017 to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions Sean would be why was it then in late May in 2018 that Trey Gowdy went on Martha MacCallum ’ s show and said the FBI did exactly as all of our fellow Americans would have wanted them to do and that it had nothing to do with Donald Trump .
Both of those things have now been proven to be untrue and it seems that Gowdy ’ s brilliant lawyering back in 2017 that we ’ re only able to see now proves those statements untrue .
The number one question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no one has gone to jail and is held accountable .
Unfortunately , when Nunes and Meadows and Jordan and I wanted subpoena power it was Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy that wouldn ’ t give us that subpoena power .
Democrats sent out hundreds of subpoenas .
When we had control and could have run this to ground in 2017 we didn ’ t send out a single subpoena .
Not one .
And that ’ s a failure of our Republican leadership .
As we have reported for years here at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of deep state operatives .
So did Gowdy .
Mark Levin addressed concerns with “ Slip and Fall ” Lawyer Trey Gowdy in the past as well .
This entry was posted on Saturday , May 9th , 2020 at 5:18 am and is filed under Conspiracy , Corruption , Government Evil , New World Order .
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By Jim Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com
May 8, 2020
Rep. Matt Gaetz, attorney-author Alan Dershowitz and investigative journalist John Solomon joined Sean Hannity Friday night to discuss the latest House Intelligence Committee document release that proves the Obama administration had nothing on Trump and Russia. It was all a hoax and they pushed forward with their investigations anyway.
During the segment Rep. Gaetz tossed former Rep. Trey Gowdy under the bus for blocking the subpoenas of deep state operatives.
Matt Gaetz: Devin Nunes is a patriot. And I’m glad you went through Trey Gowdy’s exquisite questions in 2017 to these corrupt officials. I guess my questions Sean would be why was it then in late May in 2018 that Trey Gowdy went on Martha MacCallum’s show and said the FBI did exactly as all of our fellow Americans would have wanted them to do and that it had nothing to do with Donald Trump. Both of those things have now been proven to be untrue and it seems that Gowdy’s brilliant lawyering back in 2017 that we’re only able to see now proves those statements untrue. The number one question I get asked from Americans is why no one has gone to jail and is held accountable. Unfortunately, when Nunes and Meadows and Jordan and I wanted subpoena power it was Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy that wouldn’t give us that subpoena power. Democrats sent out hundreds of subpoenas. When we had control and could have run this to ground in 2017 we didn’t send out a single subpoena. Not one. And that’s a failure of our Republican leadership.
Good for Matt Gaetz!
As we have reported for years here at The Gateway Pundit Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of deep state operatives.
So did Gowdy.
Via Hannity:
Mark Levin addressed concerns with “Slip and Fall” Lawyer Trey Gowdy in the past as well.