21stcenturywire--2020-04-25--CORONAVIRUS: Perspectives from on the ground in Sweden

As Europe and North America continue to descent into economic and social chaos after imposing ‘ Lockdown ’ on their populations , other countries have opted to keep their economies and societies open with no lockdown .
One example is the relative success of Scandanavian country of Sweden .
While countries like the UK and US continue to see unusually large death tolls , alongside record unemployment and financial devastation – Sweden has suffered only moderately , achieving equal or better medical results than most European lockdown states – without all of the last economy damage and conflict between a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
By avoiding the experimental lockdown approach , Sweden is now well underway to achieving natural herd immunity .
Unlike most other countries , Sweden is not enforcing any strict quarantine measures to combat COVID-19 , nor has it closed any of its borders .
Rather , Swedish health authorities have issued “ guidelines ” for social distancing and other common sense measures on hygiene , travel , public gatherings , and protecting the vulnerable , as well as keeping all pre-schools , primary and secondary schools open , while closing college and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Is Donald Trump right to characterize Sweden as a ‘ disaster ’ ?
Why are the western media so determined to see Sweden fail ?
Gothenberg residents Evan Thomas ( American ) and Julia Rose ( Swedish ) discussing their perspective on the the COVID-19 crisis in Sweden .
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As Europe and North America continue to descent into economic and social chaos after imposing ‘Lockdown’ on their populations, other countries have opted to keep their economies and societies open with no lockdown. One example is the relative success of the Scandinavian country of Sweden. While countries like the UK and US continue to see unusually large death tolls, alongside record unemployment and financial devastation – Sweden has suffered only moderately, achieving equal or better medical results than most European lockdown states – without all of the economy damage and conflict between a suffering public and their increasingly remote governments. By avoiding the experimental lockdown approach, Sweden is now well underway to achieving natural herd immunity.
Unlike most other countries, Sweden is not enforcing any strict quarantine measures to combat COVID-19, nor has it closed any of its borders. Rather, Swedish health authorities have issued “guidelines” for social distancing and other common sense measures on hygiene, travel, public gatherings, and protecting the vulnerable, as well as keeping all pre-schools, primary and secondary schools open, while closing college and universities who have resumed online lessons. Is Donald Trump right to characterize Sweden as a ‘disaster’? Why are the western media so determined to see Sweden fail?
Gothenberg residents Evan Thomas (American) and Julia Rose (Swedish) discussing their perspective on the the COVID-19 crisis in Sweden. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-26--SUNDAY SCREENING: Diplomatic Viruses (2018)

Our weekly documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE .
There is a new arms race on , @ @ @ @ @ and with the United States and China at the center .
This investigative documentary begins @ @ @ @ @ to Tbilisi who are involved in the trafficking of frozen human blood and pathogens under @ @ @ @ @ for a secret Pentagon-funded military program .
Internal documents , leaked to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana @ @ @ @ @ implicate US scientists in the transportation of and experimenting on pathogens under diplomatic cover .
@ @ @ @ @ Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and have been given diplomatic @ @ @ @ @ and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia ’ s @ @ @ @ @ facility is just one of the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world @ @ @ @ @ SUNDAY SCREENINGS HERE

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Our weekly documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.
There is a new arms race on, between East and West, and with the United States and China at the center. This investigative documentary begins its journey at US Embassy to Tbilisi who are involved in the trafficking of frozen human blood and pathogens under the guise of diplomatic cargo for a secret Pentagon-funded military program. Internal documents, leaked to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva by Georgian insiders, implicate US scientists in the transportation of and experimenting on pathogens under diplomatic cover. According to these documents, Pentagon scientists have been deployed to the Republic of Georgia and have been given diplomatic immunity to research deadly diseases and biting insects at the Lugar Center – the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. The military facility is just one of the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world. Watch:
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Run time: 27 min
Writer and Director: Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Narration: Patrick Henningsen
Broadcast on Al Mayadeen TV (2018)
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-26--Episode #324 – ‘Lockdown Folly: Part Deux’ with special guests

Episode # 324 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on April 26 , 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen , broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network ( ACR ) … 5pm-8pm UK Time | 12pm-3pm EST ( US ) | 9am-12pm PST ( US ) This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covering the top stories in the US , Europe and internationally .
This week we continue our coverage of the Western world ’ s experimental Medieval-style , draconian ‘ lockdown ’ measures , featuring the voluntary implosion of participating countries ’ economies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of democracy as we once knew it – all in reaction to the presence of a novel Coronavirus COVID-19 infection .
We ’ ll also look at the situation in the non-lockdown nation of Sweden and how they managed to pull through the crisis without flattening their society and economy .
In the final segment we ’ ll also talk with SUNDAY WIRE Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport , Basil Valentine and ACR ’ s Hesher , on the latest government meltdown over whether or not the “ end the lockdown ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All this and much , much more .
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Episode #324 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on April 26, 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen, broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR)…
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This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR with host Patrick Henningsen covering the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. This week we continue our coverage of the Western world’s experimental Medieval-style, draconian ‘lockdown’ measures, featuring the voluntary implosion of participating countries’ economies, societies along with the indefinite suspension of democracy as we once knew it – all in reaction to the presence of a novel Coronavirus COVID-19 infection. We’ll also look at the situation in the non-lockdown nation of Sweden and how they managed to pull through the crisis without flattening their society and economy. In the final segment we’ll also talk with SUNDAY WIRE Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport, Basil Valentine and ACR’s Hesher, on the latest government meltdown over whether or not the “end the lockdown” as the coronavirus crisis rolls on. All this and much, much more. Enjoy the show…
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-27--COVID SCIENCE: A Challenge to the Discovery of the Virus

Is it possible that the entire coronavirus narrative is a house of cards ?
21WIRE has already been asking questions concerning flawed statistics such as case fatality ratios , irregularities in how deaths are recorded , and the dubious wisdom of lockdown measures .
We have also been covering the growing chorus of experts suggesting that COVID-19 may not be as deadly as feared .
However , factors such as the number of COVID deaths and whether lockdowns work are totally dependent on other , more fundamental questions : How accurate are the tests being used ?
What do they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven that this virus causes this disease ?
It may yet emerge that the very foundations of the MSM/government narrative — that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a disease called COVID-19 , and that tests for the virus will tell if you ’ re sick or not — have yet to be proven .
Consider all that has happened since the beginning of this crisis : projections of millions dead , entire countries quarantined , unprecedented economic carnage , civil liberties tossed aside , the public in fear .
We are told there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ salvation lies in contact tracing ( total surveillance ) , biometric immunity passports , and experimental vaccines currently being developed in great haste .
The total cost of this crisis will be at the very least tens of trillions of dollars , but the actual amount is in fact incalculable , and much of what will be lost can not be measured in dollars anyway .
Considering such a price tag , would it not be a good idea to prove the virus to be the cause of the disease first ?
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a number of gaping holes in it , and a few voices are questioning the underlying assumptions upon which the entire coronavirus crisis is based .
The following article by Jon Rappoport looks at a scientific paper by researcher David Crowe that does just that .
Our political leaders say they are “ guided by the science ” , but talk is cheap .
Until these fundamental questions are answered , whatever those leaders are doing is not based on sound science .
More on this from Jon Rappoport… Canadian author and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spent several decades analyzing and torpedoing SPECIFICS of conventional medical research .
At the deepest level .
I ’ m talking about , for example , the mainstream claims of discovering new viruses .
Crowe doesn ’ t lay on vague brushstrokes .
He goes to the core of fabrications and exposes them , chapter and verse .
His new paper , which he continues to update and expand , is : “ Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory ” .
Here I quote from the section of his paper where he takes up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new virus which they assert is the cause of a new pandemic , COVID-19 ?
At the end of this article , I list the published papers Crowe refers to by number , as he takes apart the very basis of the COVID illusion .
David Crowe : “ Scientists are detecting novel RNA in multiple patients with pneumonia-like conditions , and are assuming that the detection of RNA ( which is believed to be wrapped in proteins to form an RNA virus , as coronaviruses are believed to be ) is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is not , and one of the groups of scientists was honest enough to admit this ” : “ ’ we did not perform tests for detecting infectious virus in blood ’ ” [ 2 ] “ But , despite this admission , earlier in the paper they repeatedly referred to the 41 cases ( out of 59 similar cases ) that tested positive for this RNA as , ‘ 41 patients…confirmed to be infected with 2019-nCoV ’ .
” “ Koch ’ s postulates , first stated by the great German @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , can simply be stated as ” : “ * Purify the pathogen ( e.g .
virus ) from many cases with a particular illness .
* Expose susceptible animals ( obviously not humans ) to the pathogen .
* Verify that the same illness is produced .
* Some add that you should also re-purify the pathogen , just to be sure that it really is creating the illness.
” “ Famous virologist Thomas Rivers stated in a 1936 speech , ‘ It is obvious that Koch ’ s postulates have not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That was a long time ago , but the same problem still continues .
None of the papers referenced in this article have even attempted to purify the virus .
And the word ‘ isolation ’ has been so debased by virologists it means nothing ( e.g .
adding impure materials to a cell culture and seeing cell death is ‘ isolation ’ ) .
” “ Reference [ 1 ] did publish electron [ microscope ] micrographs , but it can clearly be seen in the lesser magnified photo , that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purified as the quantity of material that is cellular is much greater .
The paper notes that the photos are from ‘ human airway epithelial cells ’ .
Also consider that the photo included in the article will certainly be the ‘ best ’ photo , i.e .
the one with the greatest number of particles .
Lab technicians may be encouraged to spend hours to look around to find the most photogenic image , the one that most looks like pure virus.
” “ There is no way to tell that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PCR test is found in those particles seen under the electron micrograph .
There is no connection between the test , and the particles , and no proof that the particles are viral.
” “ A similar situation was revealed in March 1997 concerning HIV , when two papers published in the same issue of the journal ‘ Virology ’ revealed that the vast majority of what had previously been called ‘ pure HIV ’ was impurities that were clearly not HIV , and the mixture also included microvesicles that look very similar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but are of cellular origin.
” [ 5 ] [ 6 ] 1 .
Zhu N et al .
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China , 2019 .
N Engl J Med .
2020 Jan 14 .
* https : //www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017 2 .
Huang C et al .
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan , China .
Lancet.2020 Jan 24 .
* https : //www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736 ( 20 ) 30183-5/fulltext 3 .
Chan J F-W et al .
A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a study of a family cluster .
Lancet .
2020 Jan 24 .
* https : //www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736 ( 20 ) 30154-9/fulltext 5 .
Gluschankof P et al .
Cell membrane vesicles are a major contaminant of gradient-enriched human immunodeficiency virus type-1 preparations .
Virology .
1997 Mar 31 ; 230 ( 1 ) : 125- 133 .
* http : //davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/papers/277-Microvesicles-Gluschankof.pdf 6 .
Bess JW et al .
Microvesicles Are a Source of Contaminating Cellular Proteins Found in Purified HIV-1 Preparations .
Virology .
1997 Mar 31 ; 230 ( 1 ) : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In a half-sane world , David Crowe ’ s analysis would provoke an open honest discussion and debate among all sorts of scientists and researchers , and the repressed truth would tumble out and be confirmed .
Of course , we do not live in that world .
Instead , we have mistake-prone researchers and outright liars welcomed into the hallowed pages of medical journals .
They are enabled by editors who look the other way .
The consequences , of course , aren ’ t merely academic .
A planet can be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need to say this at this late date—without the discovery of an actual disease-causing virus , the whole “ pandemic ” falls apart .
The whole “ spreading virus ” assertion falls apart .
Jon Rappoport The author of three explosive collections , THE MATRIX REVEALED , EXIT FROM THE MATRIX , and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX , Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California .
He maintains a consulting practice for private clients , the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years , writing articles on politics , medicine , and health for CBS Healthwatch , LA Weekly , Spin Magazine , Stern , and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe .
Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics , health , logic , and creative power to audiences around the world .
You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here .

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3D image of a coronavirus (Image: scientificanimations.com. Source: Wikicommons)
Is it possible that the entire coronavirus narrative is a house of cards? 21WIRE has already been asking questions concerning flawed statistics such as case fatality ratios, irregularities in how deaths are recorded, and the dubious wisdom of lockdown measures. We have also been covering the growing chorus of experts suggesting that COVID-19 may not be as deadly as feared. However, factors such as the number of COVID deaths and whether lockdowns work are totally dependent on other, more fundamental questions: How accurate are the tests being used? What do they actually determine? Has it even been proven that this virus causes this disease?
It may yet emerge that the very foundations of the MSM/government narrative — that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a disease called COVID-19, and that tests for the virus will tell if you’re sick or not — have yet to be proven.
Consider all that has happened since the beginning of this crisis: projections of millions dead, entire countries quarantined, unprecedented economic carnage, civil liberties tossed aside, the public in fear. We are told there is a “new normal” and our salvation lies in contact tracing (total surveillance), biometric immunity passports, and experimental vaccines currently being developed in great haste.
The total cost of this crisis will be at the very least tens of trillions of dollars, but the actual amount is in fact incalculable, and much of what will be lost cannot be measured in dollars anyway. Considering such a price tag, would it not be a good idea to prove the virus to be the cause of the disease first?
There is increasing awareness that the overall narrative has a number of gaping holes in it, and a few voices are questioning the underlying assumptions upon which the entire coronavirus crisis is based. The following article by Jon Rappoport looks at a scientific paper by researcher David Crowe that does just that. Our political leaders say they are “guided by the science”, but talk is cheap. Until these fundamental questions are answered, whatever those leaders are doing is not based on sound science.
More on this from Jon Rappoport…
Canadian author and independent researcher, David Crowe, has spent several decades analyzing and torpedoing SPECIFICS of conventional medical research. At the deepest level.
I’m talking about, for example, the mainstream claims of discovering new viruses.
Crowe doesn’t lay on vague brushstrokes. He goes to the core of fabrications and exposes them, chapter and verse.
His new paper, which he continues to update and expand, is: “Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory”.
Here I quote from the section of his paper where he takes up the question of discovery—have researchers actually found a new virus which they assert is the cause of a new pandemic, COVID-19?
At the end of this article, I list the published papers Crowe refers to by number, as he takes apart the very basis of the COVID illusion.
David Crowe: “Scientists are detecting novel RNA in multiple patients with pneumonia-like conditions, and are assuming that the detection of RNA (which is believed to be wrapped in proteins to form an RNA virus, as coronaviruses are believed to be) is equivalent to isolation of the virus. It is not, and one of the groups of scientists was honest enough to admit this”:
“’we did not perform tests for detecting infectious virus in blood’” [2]
“But, despite this admission, earlier in the paper they repeatedly referred to the 41 cases (out of 59 similar cases) that tested positive for this RNA as, ‘41 patients…confirmed to be infected with 2019-nCoV’.”
“Another paper quietly admitted that”:
“’our study does not fulfill Koch’s postulates’” [1]
“Koch’s postulates, first stated by the great German bacteriologist Robert Koch in the late 1800s, can simply be stated as”:
* Purify the pathogen (e.g. virus) from many cases with a particular illness.
* Expose susceptible animals (obviously not humans) to the pathogen.
* Verify that the same illness is produced.
* Some add that you should also re-purify the pathogen, just to be sure that it really is creating the illness.
“Famous virologist Thomas Rivers stated in a 1936 speech, ‘It is obvious that Koch’s postulates have not been satisfied in viral diseases’. That was a long time ago, but the same problem still continues. None of the papers referenced in this article have even attempted to purify the virus. And the word ‘isolation’ has been so debased by virologists it means nothing (e.g. adding impure materials to a cell culture and seeing cell death is ‘isolation’).”
“Reference [1] did publish electron [microscope] micrographs, but it can clearly be seen in the lesser magnified photo, that the particles believed to be coronavirus are not purified as the quantity of material that is cellular is much greater. The paper notes that the photos are from ‘human airway epithelial cells’. Also consider that the photo included in the article will certainly be the ‘best’ photo, i.e. the one with the greatest number of particles. Lab technicians may be encouraged to spend hours to look around to find the most photogenic image, the one that most looks like pure virus.”
“There is no way to tell that the RNA being used in the new coronavirus PCR test is found in those particles seen under the electron micrograph. There is no connection between the test, and the particles, and no proof that the particles are viral.”
“A similar situation was revealed in March 1997 concerning HIV, when two papers published in the same issue of the journal ‘Virology’ revealed that the vast majority of what had previously been called ‘pure HIV’ was impurities that were clearly not HIV, and the mixture also included microvesicles that look very similar to HIV under an electron microscope, but are of cellular origin.” [5][6]
References:
1. Zhu N et al. A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019. N Engl J Med. 2020 Jan 14.
* https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017
2. Huang C et al. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Lancet.2020 Jan 24.
* https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext
3. Chan J F-W et al. A familial cluster of pneumonia associated with the 2019 novel coronavirus indicating person-to-person transmission: a study of a family cluster. Lancet. 2020 Jan 24.
* https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30154-9/fulltext
4. Rivers TM. Viruses and Koch’s Postulates. J Bacteriol. 1937 Jan; 33(1): 1-12.
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545348/
5. Gluschankof P et al. Cell membrane vesicles are a major contaminant of gradient-enriched human immunodeficiency virus type-1 preparations. Virology. 1997 Mar 31; 230(1): 125- 133.
* http://davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/papers/277-Microvesicles-Gluschankof.pdf
6. Bess JW et al. Microvesicles Are a Source of Contaminating Cellular Proteins Found in Purified HIV-1 Preparations. Virology. 1997 Mar 31; 230(1): 134- 44.
* http://davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/papers/278
—end of Crowe article excerpt—
In a half-sane world, David Crowe’s analysis would provoke an open honest discussion and debate among all sorts of scientists and researchers, and the repressed truth would tumble out and be confirmed.
Of course, we do not live in that world.
Instead, we have mistake-prone researchers and outright liars welcomed into the hallowed pages of medical journals. They are enabled by editors who look the other way.
The consequences, of course, aren’t merely academic.
A planet can be placed on lockdown.
Do I really need to say this at this late date—without the discovery of an actual disease-causing virus, the whole “pandemic” falls apart. The whole “spreading virus” assertion falls apart.
Jon Rappoport – The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-28--Gold, Goats & Guns talks with Patrick Henningsen on COVID, Lockdown and Civilization

Little did we know , coronavirus entered into the perfect storm in the arch of history of western civilization .
@ @ @ @ @ & Guns host Tom Luongo sits down with journalist and radio host Patrick Heningsen of @ @ @ @ @ civilizational effects of the COVID-19 ‘ lock down ’ policy and why it has gone @ @ @ @ @ They bring a breath of needed fresh air into the debate on the efficacy of @ @ @ @ @ , while also attempting to bridge the gap to understand the economic and psychological devastation @ @ @ @ @ Listen :

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Little did we know, coronavirus entered into the perfect storm in the arch of history of western civilization.
This week Gold, Goats & Guns host Tom Luongo sits down with journalist and radio host Patrick Heningsen of 21st Century Wire about the civilizational effects of the COVID-19 ‘lock down’ policy and why it has gone on far too long. They bring a breath of needed fresh air into the debate on the efficacy of locking people in their homes, while also attempting to bridge the gap to understand the economic and psychological devastation the policy has engendered. Listen:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-28--Victor Davis Hanson: On Corona, California, and the Classical World

It turns out that history has much to teach us about people , plagues and pestilence .
In the episode of Uncommon Knowledge , author , classic scholar and farmer , Victor Davis Hanson , lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California , shares his observations of government , and scientific and medical communities amid the COVID-19 crisis , as well as discusses the current situation in detail , including the difficulties encountered by farmers , by research scientists , doctors and government officials , and why some areas of the country are affected more than others .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump has performed during the coronavirus crisis .
Davis , a conservative , calls this “ the perfect storm ” which has led America into a potential disaster driven by a media-induced mass panic , and also talks about what plagues of the ancient world can teach us about how to best manage and get past the situation the entire world finds itself in .
He also argues that it ’ s possible the Chinese might be responsible for the ‘ accidental ’ release of the coronavirus , and blames the Chinese leadership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus via air travel .
Has a New Cold War begun now ?
Hanson also gives his predictions on the 2020 election between Biden , Trump and a surprise Democratic candidate .
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It turns out that history has much to teach us about people, plagues and pestilence.
In the episode of Uncommon Knowledge, author, classic scholar and farmer, Victor Davis Hanson, lives in the San Joaquin Valley of California, shares his observations of government, and scientific and medical communities amid the COVID-19 crisis, as well as discusses the current situation in detail, including the difficulties encountered by farmers, by research scientists, doctors and government officials, and why some areas of the country are affected more than others. It’s still unclear exactly how Donald Trump has performed during the coronavirus crisis. Hanson, a conservative, calls this “the perfect storm” which has led America into a potential disaster driven by a media-induced mass panic, and also talks about what plagues of the ancient world can teach us about how to best manage and get past the situation the entire world finds itself in. Hanson also argues a highly controversial and contentious claim that it’s possible the Chinese might be responsible for the ‘accidental’ release of the coronavirus, and blames the Chinese leadership for being irresponsible and helping to spread the virus via air travel. Has a New Cold War begun now? Hanson also gives his predictions on the 2020 election between Biden, Trump and a surprise Democratic candidate. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-28--Hitchens: ‘In many people’s eyes, the UK’s Lockdown is already over’

Talk Radio host Mike Graham speaks to journalist and author Peter Hitchens for round four of their now seemingly weekly @ @ @ @ @ effects of lockdown .
Peter Hitchens says , “ the country has simultaneously been having @ @ @ @ @ stroke during lockdown ” as he expresses concerns over long term economic damage already done @ @ @ @ @ policy .
Seems now that government actions were akin to derailing a speeding train to @ @ @ @ @ the line .
Hitchens highlights the point that the lockdown in the eyes of many @ @ @ @ @ Watch :

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Talk Radio host Mike Graham speaks to journalist and author Peter Hitchens for round four of their now seemingly weekly clash over coronavirus and the effects of lockdown. Peter Hitchens says, “the country has simultaneously been having a heart attack and a stroke during lockdown” as he expresses concerns over long term economic damage already done as a result of lockdown policy. Seems now that government actions were akin to derailing a speeding train to save one person stood on the line. Hitchens highlights the point that the lockdown in the eyes of many people is effectively over. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-29--UKC News: Boris is Back – Wants More Lockdown, as Does Sturgeon in Scotland

UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson has finally reappeared after his extended sick leave , only to deliver his best Winston @ @ @ @ @ convince the public that another month of economic and social devastation is necessary to ‘ @ @ @ @ @ invisible enemy.
’ Standing shoulder to shoulder with the PM is Nippy Sturgeon north of @ @ @ @ @ , the government is repositioning itself for a huge public backlash to what is an @ @ @ @ @ destructive policy .
All this and much more .
Co-hosts Brian Gerrish and Mike Robinson @ @ @ @ @ for this week ’ s key Coronavirus ( this episode was broadcast live on April @ @ @ @ @

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UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson has finally reappeared after his extended sick leave, only to deliver his best Winston Churchill impression to try and convince the public that another month of economic and social devastation is necessary to ‘win this war against the invisible enemy.’ Standing shoulder to shoulder with the PM is Nippy Sturgeon north of the border. In reality, the government is repositioning itself for a huge public backlash to what is an increasingly unpopular authoritarian and highly destructive policy. All this and much more.
Co-hosts Brian Gerrish and Mike Robinson, with guest David Scott for this week’s key Coronavirus (this episode was broadcast live on April 27th). Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoRB4BUDPw
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-29--The Massive Inflatable Crisis That is COVID-19

By all accounts and from the very beginning it was clear to some that Coronavirus Disease 2019 ( Covid-19 ) was at the very most a little more dangerous than the seasonal flu – but was being deliberately hyped to stampede the public into an increasingly tangled web of bad policies .
As early as last month , cooler-headed experts had warned that hyped death rates spread by politicians , the Western corporate media , other various panic-mongers , and even World Health Organization ( WHO ) officials would give way to much , much lower death rates as more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have had the virus , most of whom showed little to no symptoms .
The numbers of infections versus deaths in Iceland ( where no ‘ lockdown ’ took place ) where testing has been the most widespread shows a death rate of about 0.5 % , though only 5 % of the population has been tested .
Roughly 50 % of those tested showed no symptoms at all – meaning that many , many more Icelanders likely had the virus , overcame it with ease without ever visiting a doctor or hospital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make into national Covid-19 statistics .
Senate leader Mitch McConnell stages yet another bizarre ‘ social distancing ’ press event on Capitol Hill .
Another study conducted in the United States by Stanford University found that the infection rate was likely 50 to 85 times higher than reported – meaning the death rate was astronomically lower than previously reported , and really sat at around 0.2 % to as low as 0.12 % – certainly nothing near the 3-4 % claimed by the World Health Organization .
In other words : in terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more dangerous or deadly than the annual flu .
But it has been hyped as such by Western politicians , the Western corporate media , and even international institutions like WHO – a deliberate deception accompanied by coordinated theater including government briefings with reporters comically spaced out in “ fear ” of contracting Covid-19 .
Other props used to panic the public into imprisoning themselves at home and accepting the immense socioeconomic damage “ lockdowns ” are causing included showing misleading exponential graphs of infections seemingly rising straight up with no end in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ graphs in context – say , perhaps next to annual flu infection curves – the public would notice they are virtually identical and simply represent the way the flu , colds , and Covid-19 which is related to both – work their way through populations .
The same goes for total deaths .
Should the media present Covid-19 deaths in the context of and in comparison to annual deaths from the flu , Americans – for example – would see that versus the 2019 flu season , Covid-19 is actually 30,000-40,000 deaths short @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying nothing of living up to the hype and hysteria that the government and media have deliberately created around Covid-19 to justify its ‘ lockdown ’ policies .
So why have governments around the globe crippled their economies , put millions out of work , and placed draconian measures in place to , in essence , imprison their populations at home ?
Those with power and money seek to keep what they have and to take what little is left in the hands of others .
During the manufactured “ War on Terror @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across society to justify draconian police powers at home and endless wars abroad – pouring ultimately trillions into the accounts of defense contractors and the financial institutions invested in them .
During a manufactured health crisis like the 2009 H1N1 “ Swine Flu ” outbreak , the unfounded fear of an uncontrollable pathogen ravaging the population helped justify the centralizing of control over people ’ s health and lifestyle while pumping billions in pubic funding into the coffers of Big Pharma .
And here we are again with the very same interests who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ above , doing it again , but on a much larger and more destructive scale and creating socioeconomic havoc virtually no one will escape completely .
If the Covid-19 hoax ( indeed , there are so many aspects of this which are by definition a hoax ) doesn ’ t convince you to divest from the politicians and the corporations they serve – including divesting from big-business ’ goods and services – nothing will .
Special interests have just beta-tested turning entire nations into virtual prisons .
If people allow it this time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to an even greater and more disruptive degree is all but guaranteed .
*** Author Tony Cartalucci , Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher , writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire .
See more of his work at Tony ’ s archive .
Over the last decade , his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites , and also on the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” .
Also , you can follow him on VK here .

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Tony Cartalucci
21st Century Wire
By all accounts and from the very beginning it was clear to some that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) was at the very most a little more dangerous than the seasonal flu – but was being deliberately hyped to stampede the public into an increasingly tangled web of bad policies.
As early as last month, cooler-headed experts had warned that hyped death rates spread by politicians, the Western corporate media, other various panic-mongers, and even World Health Organization (WHO) officials would give way to much, much lower death rates as more people were tested and were found to have had the virus, most of whom showed little to no symptoms.
The numbers of infections versus deaths in Iceland (where no ‘lockdown’ took place) where testing has been the most widespread shows a death rate of about 0.5%, though only 5% of the population has been tested. Roughly 50% of those tested showed no symptoms at all – meaning that many, many more Icelanders likely had the virus, overcame it with ease without ever visiting a doctor or hospital to avail themselves for testing or to make into national Covid-19 statistics.
Senate leader Mitch McConnell stages yet another bizarre ‘social distancing’ press event on Capitol Hill.
Another study conducted in the United States by Stanford University found that the infection rate was likely 50 to 85 times higher than reported – meaning the death rate was astronomically lower than previously reported, and really sat at around 0.2% to as low as 0.12% – certainly nothing near the 3-4% claimed by the World Health Organization.
In other words: in terms of fatalities rates, Covid-19 is no more dangerous or deadly than the annual flu. But it has been hyped as such by Western politicians, the Western corporate media, and even international institutions like WHO – a deliberate deception accompanied by coordinated theater including government briefings with reporters comically spaced out in “fear” of contracting Covid-19.
Other props used to panic the public into imprisoning themselves at home and accepting the immense socioeconomic damage “lockdowns” are causing included showing misleading exponential graphs of infections seemingly rising straight up with no end in sight.
If responsible journalists put these graphs in context – say, perhaps next to annual flu infection curves – the public would notice they are virtually identical and simply represent the way the flu, colds, and Covid-19 which is related to both – work their way through populations.
The same goes for total deaths. Should the media present Covid-19 deaths in the context of and in comparison to annual deaths from the flu, Americans – for example – would see that versus the 2019 flu season, Covid-19 is actually 30,000-40,000 deaths short of just matching the common flu – saying nothing of living up to the hype and hysteria that the government and media have deliberately created around Covid-19 to justify its ‘lockdown’ policies.
So why have governments around the globe crippled their economies, put millions out of work, and placed draconian measures in place to, in essence, imprison their populations at home?
Those with power and money seek to keep what they have and to take what little is left in the hands of others. During the manufactured “War on Terror,” similar hysteria was deliberately spread across society to justify draconian police powers at home and endless wars abroad – pouring ultimately trillions into the accounts of defense contractors and the financial institutions invested in them.
During a manufactured health crisis like the 2009 H1N1 “Swine Flu” outbreak, the unfounded fear of an uncontrollable pathogen ravaging the population helped justify the centralizing of control over people’s health and lifestyle while pumping billions in pubic funding into the coffers of Big Pharma.
And here we are again with the very same interests who lied to us about all of the above, doing it again, but on a much larger and more destructive scale and creating socioeconomic havoc virtually no one will escape completely.
If the Covid-19 hoax (indeed, there are so many aspects of this which are by definition a hoax) doesn’t convince you to divest from the politicians and the corporations they serve – including divesting from big-business’ goods and services – nothing will.
Special interests have just beta-tested turning entire nations into virtual prisons.
If people allow it this time, their ability to do it again and to an even greater and more disruptive degree is all but guaranteed.
***
Author Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher, writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire. See more of his work at Tony’s archive. Over the last decade, his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites, and also on the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”. Also, you can follow him on VK here.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-29--77 Brigade: Is British Military Waging an Information War on Its Own Population?

IMAGE : General Sir Nick Carter , head of the British Armed Forces , at Downing Street COVID-19 briefing .
Last Wednesday , during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream , the head of the British Army , General Sir Nick Carter , bragged : To understand the implications of this statement , we have to go back to 2018 , when Carter gave a speech to the Royal United Services Institute .
“ In our 77th Brigade , ” he said , “ … we have got some remarkable talent when it comes to social media , production design @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sorts of skills we can ’ t afford to retain in the Regular component but they are the means of us delivering capability in a much more imaginative way than we might have been able to do in the past.
” Previously known as the ‘ Security Assistance Group ’ , 77th Brigade was stood up in 2015 as part of ‘ Army 2020 ’ .
The Security Assistance Group had been established following the amalgamation of the Media Operations Group , 15 Psychological Operations Group , Security Capacity Building Team , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 77th Brigade is described on their website as being about ‘ information and outreach ’ .
But what does that mean ?
General Carter again : It is in this context , then , that Carter ’ s words from last week ’ s livestream should be viewed .
Carter has acknowledged that the British military is waging war on a section of its own population .
Carter mentioned working with the Cabinet Office ’ s ‘ Rapid Response Unit ’ .
Established in April 2018 and also known as the ‘ fake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Unit was given an initial six months ’ funding .
It brought together a “ team of analysts , data scientists and media and digital experts , ” armed with cutting-edge software , to “ work round the clock to monitor online breaking news stories and social media discussion.
” According to the RRU ’ s head , Alex Aiken : The unit ’ s round the clock monitoring service has identified several stories of concern during the pilot , ranging from the chemical weapons attack in Syria to domestic stories relating to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , following the Syria airstrikes , the unit identified that a number of false narratives from alternative news sources were gaining traction online .
These “ alt-news ” sources are biased and rely on sensationalism rather than facts to pique readers ’ interest .
Due to the way that search engine algorithms work , when people searched for information on the strikes , these unreliable sources were appearing above official UK government information .
In fact , no government information was appearing on the first 15 pages of Google results .
We know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intention .
It can reflect bias in information received from elsewhere .
The unit therefore ensured those using search terms that indicated bias – such as ‘ false flag ’ – were presented with factual information on the UK ’ s response .
The RRU improved the ranking from below 200 to number 1 within a matter of hours .
The Rapid Response Unit was given permanent funding in February 2019 .
Three months following the establishment of the Rapid Response Unit , Theresa May attended the G7 summit in Quebec , Canada @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ a new Rapid Response Mechanism “ , following Britain ’ s proposal for “ a new , more formalised approach to tackling foreign interference across the G7 ” at the G7 Foreign Minister ’ s meeting the previous month .
The agreement sends “ a strong message that interference by Russia and other foreign states would not be tolerated , ” she said .
“ The Rapid Response Mechanism , ” she continued , “ will support preventative and protective cooperation between G7 countries , as well as post-incident responses ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rapid Response , then , is to create international agreement on a common narrative ( via the ‘ mechanism ’ ) , and then wage an information war on its own people to make sure that narrative is protected in the media ( via the ‘ unit ’ ) .
During Carter ’ s 2018 RUSI speech , he explained the role of the mainstream press in “ setting up a well-informed public debate ” .
He spoke about “ political warfare ” being war by other means , and he said that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fusion ” approach .
Here , he is referring to the Fusion Doctrine , which was launched during the Theresa May regime , as part of the 2015 National Security Capability Review .
“ Many capabilities , ” it said , “ that can contribute to national security lie outside traditional national security departments and so we need stronger partnerships across government and with the private and third sectors.
” It should come as no surprise , then , that the Cabinet Office ’ s Rapid Response Unit is not only working with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but is “ leading on the ‘ rebuttal of false narratives ’ as part of the unit … [ that also ] involves the Home Office , DCMS , Number 10 and other agencies.
” General Carter said his 77th Brigade is “ helping to quash rumours from misinformation , but also to counter disinformation.
” What misinformation and disinformation is 77th Brigade helping to quash ?
How much of the ‘ disinformation ’ originates from 77th Brigade in the first place ?
They not only ‘ counter ’ disinformation , but also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including their own , spreads ; mapping the internet and the networks of people sharing content between each other .
And for that , they have thousands deployed , and tens of thousands in reserve , not only in 77th Brigade directly , but right across government and the third sector .
*** Author Mike Robinson is news presenter and editor at independent media organisation UK Column .

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IMAGE: General Sir Nick Carter, head of the British Armed Forces, at Downing Street COVID-19 briefing.
Mike Robinson
UK Column
Last Wednesday, during the daily UK Government Coronavirus livestream, the head of the British Army, General Sir Nick Carter, bragged:
We’ve been involved with the Cabinet Office Rapid Response Unit, with our 77th Brigade helping to quash rumours from misinformation, but also to counter disinformation. Between three and four thousand of our people have been involved, with around twenty thousand available the whole time at high readiness.
To understand the implications of this statement, we have to go back to 2018, when Carter gave a speech to the Royal United Services Institute.
“In our 77th Brigade,” he said, “… we have got some remarkable talent when it comes to social media, production design, and indeed Arabic poetry. Those sorts of skills we can’t afford to retain in the Regular component but they are the means of us delivering capability in a much more imaginative way than we might have been able to do in the past.”
77th Brigade
Previously known as the ‘Security Assistance Group’, 77th Brigade was stood up in 2015 as part of ‘Army 2020’. The Security Assistance Group had been established following the amalgamation of the Media Operations Group, 15 Psychological Operations Group, Security Capacity Building Team, and the Military Stabilisation and Support Group.
77th Brigade is described on their website as being about ‘information and outreach’. But what does that mean? General Carter again:
We also, though, need to continue to improve our ability to fight on this new battlefield, and I think it’s important that we build on the excellent foundation we’ve created for Information Warfare through our 77th Brigade, which is now giving us the capability to compete in the war of narratives at the tactical level. [Emphasis mine]
It is in this context, then, that Carter’s words from last week’s livestream should be viewed. Carter has acknowledged that the British military is waging war on a section of its own population.
‘Rapid Response Unit’
Carter mentioned working with the Cabinet Office’s ‘Rapid Response Unit’. Established in April 2018 and also known as the ‘fake news unit’, the Rapid Response Unit was given an initial six months’ funding. It brought together a “team of analysts, data scientists and media and digital experts,” armed with cutting-edge software, to “work round the clock to monitor online breaking news stories and social media discussion.”
According to the RRU’s head, Alex Aiken:
The unit’s round the clock monitoring service has identified several stories of concern during the pilot, ranging from the chemical weapons attack in Syria to domestic stories relating to the NHS and crime. For example, following the Syria airstrikes, the unit identified that a number of false narratives from alternative news sources were gaining traction online. These “alt-news” sources are biased and rely on sensationalism rather than facts to pique readers’ interest. Due to the way that search engine algorithms work, when people searched for information on the strikes, these unreliable sources were appearing above official UK government information. In fact, no government information was appearing on the first 15 pages of Google results. We know that search is an excellent indicator of intention. It can reflect bias in information received from elsewhere. The unit therefore ensured those using search terms that indicated bias – such as ‘false flag’ – were presented with factual information on the UK’s response. The RRU improved the ranking from below 200 to number 1 within a matter of hours.
The Rapid Response Unit was given permanent funding in February 2019.
Three months following the establishment of the Rapid Response Unit, Theresa May attended the G7 summit in Quebec, Canada.
There she announced the establishment of “a new Rapid Response Mechanism“, following Britain’s proposal for “a new, more formalised approach to tackling foreign interference across the G7” at the G7 Foreign Minister’s meeting the previous month.
The agreement sends “a strong message that interference by Russia and other foreign states would not be tolerated,” she said.
“The Rapid Response Mechanism,” she continued, “will support preventative and protective cooperation between G7 countries, as well as post-incident responses”, including:
Co-ordinated attribution of hostile activity
Joint work to assert a common narrative and response
The UK government’s Rapid Response, then, is to create international agreement on a common narrative (via the ‘mechanism’), and then wage an information war on its own people to make sure that narrative is protected in the media (via the ‘unit’).
Fusion
During Carter’s 2018 RUSI speech, he explained the role of the mainstream press in “setting up a well-informed public debate”. He spoke about “political warfare” being war by other means, and he said that winning that war would require a “fusion” approach.
Here, he is referring to the Fusion Doctrine, which was launched during the Theresa May regime, as part of the 2015 National Security Capability Review.
“Many capabilities,” it said, “that can contribute to national security lie outside traditional national security departments and so we need stronger partnerships across government and with the private and third sectors.”
It should come as no surprise, then, that the Cabinet Office’s Rapid Response Unit is not only working with the military’s 77th Brigade, but is “leading on the ‘rebuttal of false narratives’ as part of the unit … [that also] involves the Home Office, DCMS, Number 10 and other agencies.”
The Corona-Narrative
General Carter said his 77th Brigade is “helping to quash rumours from misinformation, but also to counter disinformation.”
What misinformation and disinformation is 77th Brigade helping to quash? How much of the ‘disinformation’ originates from 77th Brigade in the first place?
Part of 77th Brigade’s role is:
‘Monitoring and evaluating the information environment within boundaries or operational area’
They not only ‘counter’ disinformation, but also watch social media, analysing how disinformation, including their own, spreads; mapping the internet and the networks of people sharing content between each other.
And for that, they have thousands deployed, and tens of thousands in reserve, not only in 77th Brigade directly, but right across government and the third sector.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-30--Elon Musk: US Lockdown Measures Are ‘Fascist’ – Calls to Restore Constitutional Rights

Yesterday during his company ’ s quarterly shareholder meeting , Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit-out against government COVID-19 ‘ shelter-in-place ’ rules as “ fascist , ” and noted that state guidelines were being used to “ forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.
” “ To say that they can not leave their house and they ’ ll be arrested if they do ?
This is fascist , ” said Musk said .
“ This is not democratic , this is not freedom .
Give people back their goddamn freedom.
” “ I think the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about this and are very angry , ” he added , while announcing his company ’ s $ 16 million quarterly profit .
“ What the fuck , ” exclaimed Musk , who continued to rail against draconian ‘ lockdown ’ orders which he believes are “ breaking people ’ s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong , and not why people came to America or built this country.
” “ It will cause great harm not just to Tesla , but to many companies .
And while Tesla will weather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies that will not.
” Musk also posted a series of provocative tweets calling to “ FREE AMERICA NOW ” which gained massive traction online .
“ Yes , reopen with care & appropriate protection , but don ’ t put everyone under de facto house arrest , ” tweeted Musk late Wednesday .
Meanwhile , many US officials including Anthony Fauci , Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) , backed by tech billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates , are still telling Americans to stay at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ supposedly to prevent a ‘ second wave of the virus.
’ However , some experts are now stating that stoking fears of a “ second peak ” may be unwarranted .
According to renowned microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington , such a devastating second wave of coronavirus cases this year is “ very unlikely.
” When asked whether a second wave was inevitable , Prof Pennington said , “ No , I ’ m not sure where this ‘ second peak ’ idea comes from .
“ Except , well , I know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from flu .
Because when we have a flu pandemic we always get a second peak , and sometimes we get a third peak.
” He added , “ Now , why we should get one with this virus , I don ’ t quite understand.
” According to the World-O-Meter open source public data website , the United States is the world leader in both recorded COVID-19 cases and fatalities , with 1,064,572 infections and 61,669 deaths .

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Yesterday during his company’s quarterly shareholder meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit-out against government COVID-19 ‘shelter-in-place’ rules as “fascist,” and noted that state guidelines were being used to “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.”
“To say that they cannot leave their house and they’ll be arrested if they do? This is fascist,” said Musk said. “This is not democratic, this is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.”
“I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry,” he added, while announcing his company’s $16 million quarterly profit.
“What the fuck,” exclaimed Musk, who continued to rail against draconian ‘lockdown’ orders which he believes are “breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong, and not why people came to America or built this country.”
“It will cause great harm not just to Tesla, but to many companies. And while Tesla will weather the storm, there are many small companies that will not.”
Musk also posted a series of provocative tweets calling to “FREE AMERICA NOW” which gained massive traction online.
FREE AMERICA NOW — Elon Musk, the 2nd (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
“Yes, reopen with care & appropriate protection, but don’t put everyone under de facto house arrest,” tweeted Musk late Wednesday.
Meanwhile, many US officials including Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), backed by tech billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, are still telling Americans to stay at home and maintain ‘social distancing’ supposedly to prevent a ‘second wave of the virus.’
However, some experts are now stating that stoking fears of a “second peak” may be unwarranted. According to renowned microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington, such a devastating second wave of coronavirus cases this year is “very unlikely.”
When asked whether a second wave was inevitable, Prof Pennington said, “No, I’m not sure where this ‘second peak’ idea comes from.
“Except, well, I know where it comes from, it comes from flu. Because when we have a flu pandemic we always get a second peak, and sometimes we get a third peak.” He added, “Now, why we should get one with this virus, I don’t quite understand.”
According to the World-O-Meter open source public data website, the United States is the world leader in both recorded COVID-19 cases and fatalities, with 1,064,572 infections and 61,669 deaths.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-30--Hitchens COVID Warning: ‘Freedoms Taken Away May Not Be Restored’

IMAGE : Masked officers patrolling the semi-rural are near Christchurch ( Photo : Dorset Police ) British journalist Peter Hitchens @ @ @ @ @ few dissenting voices from early on in the COVD-19 crisis , pushing back against government @ @ @ @ @ turned out to be a disastrous ‘ lockdown ’ policy .
“ The most vitally @ @ @ @ @ discover whether the government ’ s policy was right or justified , ” says Hitchens @ @ @ @ @ stark warning and lesson from recent history regarding the emergency powers legislation .
On this @ @ @ @ @ ” I never trust any promise that freedoms taken away will be restored.
” Watch @ @ @ @ @ Agenda Show :

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IMAGE: Masked officers patrolling the semi-rural are near Christchurch (Photo: Dorset Police)
British journalist Peter Hitchens has been one of the few dissenting voices from early on in the COVD-19 crisis, pushing back against government overreach in instituting what has turned out to be a disastrous ‘lockdown’ policy.
“The most vitally important thing is that we discover whether the government’s policy was right or justified,” says Hitchens.
He also issues a stark warning and lesson from recent history regarding the emergency powers legislation. On this point, he states,”I never trust any promise that freedoms taken away will be restored.”
Watch this interview with the Hidden Agenda Show:
https://youtu.be/VyCY0Gtn7dE
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-30--Exercise Cygnus: UK Gov’t Response Was Modified Before COVID-19 Event

It ’ s April 2020 , and since March , the UK has swiftly commissioned and built vast , temporary , intensive care hospitals , in readiness for a predicted epidemic number of severe COVID-19 cases .
They are called NHS Nightingale Hospitals , and to date there are seven of them , either open or planned .
The first one was announced on 24 March by the Health Secretary , Matt Hancock , and was opened almost immediately on 3 April at the London Excel Centre .
It has a capacity of some 4,000 beds .
The other temporary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Birmingham , Glasgow , Bristol , Exeter , Harrogate , and Washington .
Additionally , over the last month , some 8,000 beds in private hospitals have been re-assigned for Covid-19 use , along with other NHS beds in hospitals all over the UK .
By the beginning of April , one third of all non-ICU NHS beds had been converted into potential ICU beds for possible Covid-19 patients .
Yet , by 12 April , the London Nightingale had treated just 19 patients , and to date , only 41 patients have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both unusual and unprecedented .
We regularly have seasonal infectious illnesses spread throughout the population ; in fact in recent years , some of these epidemic diseases were also predicted well in advance .
Yet no new mega-hospitals , temporary or otherwise , were ever built to cope with them , nor were they seen to be needed .
Why now ?
According to the King ’ s Fund , over the last thirty years , the number of ICU beds has declined , at a time when the population has risen .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of general and critical care beds in England have been lost .
Peter Donaghy , an independent data analyst , reports that the UK now comes near the bottom of the world league in the number of hospital beds per head of population : in 2019 , and across the four UK nations , he found that there are about 5.7 ICU beds per 100,000 of the population [ interpolation of his figures mine ] .
Cyprus has double that number , Germany has 29 , the USA 34 , and even Kazakhstan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Bed shortages are not news , however .
In 2008 , it was revealed that 32,000 beds of all types had been cut in the decade since 1997 , when , ironically , the Blair government came into power on a ticket of increasing the number of hospital beds .
Between 2010 and 2017 there were 70,000 fewer intensive care beds in the UK : In 2016 , the Royal College of Surgeons had complained of chronic bed shortages , so much so that the occupancy rates had gone beyond 89 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maximum safe level .
This complaint was made just before the British Medical Association chimed in , reporting on the shortage of beds being more severe than in other Western countries , and that such overcrowding can lead to the spread of infections .
And in 2018 , the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine ( FICM ) astonishingly reported that across the UK , 80 % of intensive care units were sending patients to other hospitals , either because of a lack of beds or a shortage of staff , particularly nurses .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it was being reported by the British Medical Association that ICU beds had begun to be used for patients recovering from routine operations , and that when more emergency beds were needed , a policy of “ escalation beds ” came into force .
The BMA drily reported that there was “ little sign of this practice ending ” .
When one thinks of the NHS , intensive care is at the heart of most people ’ s perceptions of it .
Yet the decline in the number of ICU beds over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it ’ s as if some monster deus ex machina has intervened and decided not only that the general numbers of hospital beds are of little import , but that intensive care beds are even more expendable .
But whatever the case , in the event of a mass epidemic , the consequences of ICU bed shortages were indeed grim prior to 2020 .
What official policies have the post-Blair governments been maintaining throughout this decline in the number of ICU beds ?
To get a general feel , looking back to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Paper , outlining what the official response to a hypothetical pandemic should be .
This paper appears to have been written largely in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak .
Its precautionary approach stresses that actions following the emergence of a pandemic , which could occur suddenly at any time : • be proportional to the level of threat • emergency powers must last no longer than 30 days Significantly , it states that during any pandemic , it should be “ business as usual ” and notes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an earlier , 2007 , National Framework paper ’ s “ defence in depth ” approach to a pandemic .
The Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Paper also makes clear that military personnel are not to be redeployed during a pandemic , but must remain on their normal defence duties .
So of course , this means that they were not to be used to help build vast temporary hospitals , transport patients , or manage the public .
In fact , the paper is silent on any hospital bed policies ; it takes it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UK ICU beds for the treatment of pandemic disease patients – for in 2009 ’ s H1N1 swine flu outbreak , generally , hospitals may have just coped with finding enough beds for acute H1N1 patients .
There were 540,000 cases of swine flu in England , and 138 fatalities at the time , or 0.026 % of those infected .
Following the publication of the 2011 preparedness paper , however , the number of ICU beds continued to fall .
Then , five years later , government held an unusual and secretive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all government departments , all local authorities , and the NHS , right across the UK .
Its report has not been published for “ national security reasons ” and so as not to “ frighten the public ” .
However , according to those with first-hand knowledge of the operation , Cygnus ’ script contained a scenario of a patent lack of capacity in ICU beds and personal protective equipment .
Based on its given hypotheses , it predicted that thousands more critical care beds would be required , large parts of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off to redeploy staff , frail patients would be denied care , and mortuaries would be overwhelmed .
Was this just an experiment to see how the public sector actors involved would react to each other , like some kind of Grand Guignol ?
Did the exercise take its inspiration from the memorably twisted 2012 London Olympics ceremony , in which rows of thousands of NHS patients in hospital beds , in a dark auditorium looking like a Nightingale Hospital , were danced around by strange beasts and actors wearing scrubs ?
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ College , London , under the aegis of Neil Ferguson , who is also now doing the modelling of Covid-19 .
Tellingly , it is said that last month ’ s Coronavirus Act , the emergency legislation which underpins the lockdown , is based on his modelling in Exercise Cygnus .
Ferguson ’ s involvement in the Coronavirus crisis does raise other questions – for further coverage see Vanessa Beeley ’ s article : Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19 ?
Outside of the strange artificial world of Exercise Cygnus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ College of Surgeons continued to complain about bed shortages .
So why was there no turnaround policy introduced at least by 2016 after these professional outcries ?
The Health Secretary at the time was Jeremy Hunt .
Simon Stevens was Chief of NHS England .
Both had been involved in cutting bed numbers .
Yet , since 2016 , and prior to the COVID-19 outbreak , with Sir Simon Stevens still at the helm , there appears to have been no general improvement in ICU bed capacity .
Following Exercise Cygnus , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ short internal paper called Emergency Preparedness , Resilience and Response ( EPRR ) .
Its approach is centred on three Acts of Parliament : the Civil Contingencies Act ( 2004 ) , the NHS Act ( 2006 ) , and the Health and Social Care Act ( 2012 ) .
Drawn up by Director of Operations and Information for the NHS Board , Matthew Swindells ( sic ) , it asks the Board to agree that progress had been made in EPRR over the last year , and that the NHS was in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was rubber stamped , but as we have seen above , the somewhat rosy , self-congratulatory picture that was approved by the NHS Board was shown to be completely incorrect by Statista in 2017 , and later , by the Faculty of Intensive Care in 2018 , the BMA in 2019 , and Peter Donaghy in 2020 .
Back to Exercise Cygnus .
This was supposed to be merely a computer simulation .
So why would it be an issue of “ national security ” ?
Why would it “ frighten the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to change the real world into its simulated image ?
It ’ s an uncanny coincidence that , after the Coronavirus pandemic was declared , it was announced that there were not enough ICU beds or personal protective equipment , that NHS staff have been redeployed to other areas , that hospitalised elderly patients have been denied care through the use of “ Do Not Resuscitate ” orders , and large , temporary , mortuaries have also been built up and down the country , just as in the simulation .
Since the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been non-stop media coverage propagandising the numbers of cases and deaths , and its threat .
All the while , there have been regular reports that many ICU beds are empty , that beds of other sorts are empty , and that although accident and emergency visits are down , people with serious conditions telephoning the NHS advice and triage number , are being told to “ Stay at home – Save the NHS – Save Lives ” .
Many of these callers have then died for lack of care .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ registration have been lowered by the government , and that there has been encouragement to register anyone who dies , of any underlying condition , as a Covid-19 death .
There need be no objective verification of the existence of Covid-19 to register a death as being caused by it .
Despite these efforts to inflate the death rate , actual mortality rates since the beginning of this crisis do not show that we are in the middle of a pandemic , and actual critical case numbers are not overwhelming the NHS ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that regard , Covid-19 is not mirroring Exercise Cygnus ’ computer-generated scenario .
The government response , however , seems to match it exactly .

By
Robin Kayser
UK Column
It’s April 2020, and since March, the UK has swiftly commissioned and built vast, temporary, intensive care hospitals, in readiness for a predicted epidemic number of severe COVID-19 cases.
They are called NHS Nightingale Hospitals, and to date there are seven of them, either open or planned. The first one was announced on 24 March by the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, and was opened almost immediately on 3 April at the London Excel Centre. It has a capacity of some 4,000 beds. The other temporary field hospital sites are in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Exeter, Harrogate, and Washington.
Additionally, over the last month, some 8,000 beds in private hospitals have been re-assigned for Covid-19 use, along with other NHS beds in hospitals all over the UK. By the beginning of April, one third of all non-ICU NHS beds had been converted into potential ICU beds for possible Covid-19 patients. Yet, by 12 April, the London Nightingale had treated just 19 patients, and to date, only 41 patients have been treated.
This sudden blitz is both unusual and unprecedented. We regularly have seasonal infectious illnesses spread throughout the population; in fact in recent years, some of these epidemic diseases were also predicted well in advance. Yet no new mega-hospitals, temporary or otherwise, were ever built to cope with them, nor were they seen to be needed. Why now?
According to the King’s Fund, over the last thirty years, the number of ICU beds has declined, at a time when the population has risen. Over that period, around 34% of general and critical care beds in England have been lost.
Peter Donaghy, an independent data analyst, reports that the UK now comes near the bottom of the world league in the number of hospital beds per head of population: in 2019, and across the four UK nations, he found that there are about 5.7 ICU beds per 100,000 of the population [interpolation of his figures mine]. Cyprus has double that number, Germany has 29, the USA 34, and even Kazakhstan and Mongolia do better than the UK.
Bed shortages are not news, however. In 2008, it was revealed that 32,000 beds of all types had been cut in the decade since 1997, when, ironically, the Blair government came into power on a ticket of increasing the number of hospital beds.
Between 2010 and 2017 there were 70,000 fewer intensive care beds in the UK:
In 2016, the Royal College of Surgeons had complained of chronic bed shortages, so much so that the occupancy rates had gone beyond 89%, when 85% is considered the maximum safe level. This complaint was made just before the British Medical Association chimed in, reporting on the shortage of beds being more severe than in other Western countries, and that such overcrowding can lead to the spread of infections.
And in 2018, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) astonishingly reported that across the UK, 80% of intensive care units were sending patients to other hospitals, either because of a lack of beds or a shortage of staff, particularly nurses.
To cap things off, by 2019, it was being reported by the British Medical Association that ICU beds had begun to be used for patients recovering from routine operations, and that when more emergency beds were needed, a policy of “escalation beds” came into force. The BMA drily reported that there was “little sign of this practice ending”.
When one thinks of the NHS, intensive care is at the heart of most people’s perceptions of it. Yet the decline in the number of ICU beds over the last 30 years is so counterintuitive that it’s as if some monster deus ex machina has intervened and decided not only that the general numbers of hospital beds are of little import, but that intensive care beds are even more expendable. But whatever the case, in the event of a mass epidemic, the consequences of ICU bed shortages were indeed grim prior to 2020.
What official policies have the post-Blair governments been maintaining throughout this decline in the number of ICU beds?
To get a general feel, looking back to 2011, the government published the UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Paper, outlining what the official response to a hypothetical pandemic should be.
This paper appears to have been written largely in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. Its precautionary approach stresses that actions following the emergence of a pandemic, which could occur suddenly at any time:
must be evidence based
be proportional to the level of threat
be flexible
be based on ethical principles.
emergency powers must last no longer than 30 days
Significantly, it states that during any pandemic, it should be “business as usual” and notes that its recommendations are in line with an earlier, 2007, National Framework paper’s “defence in depth” approach to a pandemic.
The Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Paper also makes clear that military personnel are not to be redeployed during a pandemic, but must remain on their normal defence duties. So of course, this means that they were not to be used to help build vast temporary hospitals, transport patients, or manage the public.
In fact, the paper is silent on any hospital bed policies; it takes it as read that there would be enough UK ICU beds for the treatment of pandemic disease patients – for in 2009’s H1N1 swine flu outbreak, generally, hospitals may have just coped with finding enough beds for acute H1N1 patients. There were 540,000 cases of swine flu in England, and 138 fatalities at the time, or 0.026% of those infected.
Exercise Cygnus
Following the publication of the 2011 preparedness paper, however, the number of ICU beds continued to fall. Then, five years later, government held an unusual and secretive event called Exercise Cygnus.
It involved all government departments, all local authorities, and the NHS, right across the UK. Its report has not been published for “national security reasons” and so as not to “frighten the public”. However, according to those with first-hand knowledge of the operation, Cygnus’ script contained a scenario of a patent lack of capacity in ICU beds and personal protective equipment.
Based on its given hypotheses, it predicted that thousands more critical care beds would be required, large parts of the NHS would need to be switched off to redeploy staff, frail patients would be denied care, and mortuaries would be overwhelmed.
Was this just an experiment to see how the public sector actors involved would react to each other, like some kind of Grand Guignol? Did the exercise take its inspiration from the memorably twisted 2012 London Olympics ceremony, in which rows of thousands of NHS patients in hospital beds, in a dark auditorium looking like a Nightingale Hospital, were danced around by strange beasts and actors wearing scrubs?
The modelling of Cygnus was done by Imperial College, London, under the aegis of Neil Ferguson, who is also now doing the modelling of Covid-19.
Tellingly, it is said that last month’s Coronavirus Act, the emergency legislation which underpins the lockdown, is based on his modelling in Exercise Cygnus. Ferguson’s involvement in the Coronavirus crisis does raise other questions – for further coverage see Vanessa Beeley’s article: Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19?
Outside of the strange artificial world of Exercise Cygnus, the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Surgeons continued to complain about bed shortages. So why was there no turnaround policy introduced at least by 2016 after these professional outcries?
The Health Secretary at the time was Jeremy Hunt. Simon Stevens was Chief of NHS England. Both had been involved in cutting bed numbers. Yet, since 2016, and prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, with Sir Simon Stevens still at the helm, there appears to have been no general improvement in ICU bed capacity.
Following Exercise Cygnus, in 2017, the NHS Board published a short internal paper called Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR). Its approach is centred on three Acts of Parliament: the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), the NHS Act (2006), and the Health and Social Care Act (2012).
Drawn up by Director of Operations and Information for the NHS Board, Matthew Swindells (sic), it asks the Board to agree that progress had been made in EPRR over the last year, and that the NHS was in a state of pandemic readiness. EPRR was rubber stamped, but as we have seen above, the somewhat rosy, self-congratulatory picture that was approved by the NHS Board was shown to be completely incorrect by Statista in 2017, and later, by the Faculty of Intensive Care in 2018, the BMA in 2019, and Peter Donaghy in 2020.
Back to Exercise Cygnus. This was supposed to be merely a computer simulation. So why would it be an issue of “national security”? Why would it “frighten the public”? Perhaps because it was intended to change the real world into its simulated image?
It’s an uncanny coincidence that, after the Coronavirus pandemic was declared, it was announced that there were not enough ICU beds or personal protective equipment, that NHS staff have been redeployed to other areas, that hospitalised elderly patients have been denied care through the use of “Do Not Resuscitate” orders, and large, temporary, mortuaries have also been built up and down the country, just as in the simulation.
Since the first reported UK Covid-19 case, there has been non-stop media coverage propagandising the numbers of cases and deaths, and its threat. All the while, there have been regular reports that many ICU beds are empty, that beds of other sorts are empty, and that although accident and emergency visits are down, people with serious conditions telephoning the NHS advice and triage number, are being told to “Stay at home – Save the NHS – Save Lives”. Many of these callers have then died for lack of care.
It has also emerged that standards in death registration have been lowered by the government, and that there has been encouragement to register anyone who dies, of any underlying condition, as a Covid-19 death. There need be no objective verification of the existence of Covid-19 to register a death as being caused by it.
Despite these efforts to inflate the death rate, actual mortality rates since the beginning of this crisis do not show that we are in the middle of a pandemic, and actual critical case numbers are not overwhelming the NHS’s depleted intensive care units. In that regard, Covid-19 is not mirroring Exercise Cygnus’ computer-generated scenario.
The government response, however, seems to match it exactly.
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