pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Pensacola Jihadi  who opened fire at Naval Air Station had ties to al-Qaeda dating back to 2015, FBI

Pensacola Jihadi  who opened fire at Naval Air Station had ties to al-Qaeda dating back to 2015, FBI says

The FBI has determined Alshamrani spent years preparing for the attack on NAS Pensacola and that he communicated with members of the al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula , or AQAP , who encouraged the attacks .
Federal investigators have determined the gunman who carried out a deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola last year was in contact with al-Qaeda prior to the attack .
Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani , a Saudi-born aviation student enrolled in the international military training program , opened fire in a Navy educational facility the morning of Dec. 6 , 2019 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ eight others before he was shot and killed by responding law enforcemennt .
There are no lone wolves in the global jihad .
Each and every soldier fights in the cause of Allah .
1 ) BREAKING : # AQAP releases video claiming responsibility for December ’ s shooting at Naval Air Station # Pensacola , Florida , providing the will of attacker Muhammad al-Shamrani , which was written in September 2019 , three months prior to attack .
pic.twitter.com/pVbGO2HUvF Saudi pilot who killed US Navy sailors on FL base was Al Qaeda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Saudi gunman who opened fire on Dec. 6 , 2019 inside a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola on before one of the deputies killed him .
( FBI/Released ) | The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Navy Boulevard in Pensacola , Fla. ( U.S. Navy photo by Patrick Nichols ) The Royal Saudi Air Force member behind the December 2019 shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola had “ significant ties ” to the terror group Al Qaeda for years before conducting the deadly attack that killed three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Monday morning press conference , Attorney General Bill Barr said Mohammed Alshamrani ’ s phones “ contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes Alshamrani ’ s significant ties to Al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula not only before the attack , but before he even arrived in the United States.
” Alshamrani ’ s two iPhones were recently unlocked by federal technicians after months of attempts and refusals from Apple to assist in the process .
Barr said that the recently obtained information from Alshamrani ’ s phones has led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s overseas associates in Yemen , and revealed significant information about the terrorist himself .
ADVERTISING FBI Director Christopher Wray said the Navy base attack was a “ brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation.
” “ We now know enough to see Alshamrani for what he was — a determined AQAP [ Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ] terrorist who spent years preparing to attack us.
” – ADVERTISEMENT – Wray said the investigators uncovered evidence showing Alshamrani had been radicalized as far back as 2015 – long before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and had maintained contact with terrorist operatives ever since .
“ Alshamrani described a desire to learn about flying years ago around the same time he talked about attending the Saudi Air Force academy to carry out what he called a ‘ special operation.
’ He then pressed his plan forward , joining the Air Force and bringing his plot here to America.
” “ We now know that Alshamrani continued to associate with AQAP even while living in Texas and in Florida , and in the months before the attack while he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with AQAP about his plans and tactics , taking advantage of the information he acquired here to assess how many people he could try to kill.
” Part of Alshamrani ’ s thorough planning included casing out the Navy base ’ s classroom building , making videos inside the building , and wrote out a will on his cell phone that described his motives for the attack .
That same will was released by Al Qaeda after the attack when they publicly claimed responsibility .
“ He wasn ’ t just coordinating with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was helping the organization make the most it could out of his murders , and he continued to confer with his AQAP associates right up until the end — the very night before he started shooting.
” Barr had concluded in January that the attack “ was an act of terrorism ” and Alshamrani was “ motivated by jihadist ideology.
” Investigators previously revealed that Alshamrani posted a message to his social media account on Sept. 11 , 2019 that said , “ the countdown has begun.
” He had also posted other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ messages on social media , and did so two hours before his attack at the naval base.
” Alshamrani had used a Glock 9mm handgun in the attack , which he was not authorized to possess on base .
“ Weapons are not authorized on base .
You can not bring a weapon on base unless you ’ re a member of the security forces , ” NAS Pensacola commanding officer Capt .
Timothy F. Kinsella Jr. had said after the attack .
Alshamrani had used a loophole in the U.S. gun laws @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a gun if they possessed a hunting license , among a few other possible criteria .
Alshamrnai had indeed obtained a hunting license on July 11 , 2019 , and purchased his handgun just days later , the Wall Street Journal reported in December .
Hundreds of foreign military personnel from all over the world routinely attended NAS Pensacola for training .
However , after the attack , the Pentagon changed its policy to temporarily ban and expel all Saudi pilots during the course of the investigation .
A month and a half @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Pentagon gave the okay for Saudi pilots to resume training in the U.S. After the press conference on Monday , Secretary of Defense Mark .
Esper issued a statement saying vowing additional measures in response to the attack .
“ The Department of Defense is incredibly grateful for the diligent work by the FBI team investigating this horrific attack that took the lives of three American patriots .
Based on the FBI findings , and in addition to already executed protective measures , the Department will take further prudent and effective measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .

The FBI has determined Alshamrani spent years preparing for the attack on NAS Pensacola and that he communicated with members of the al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, who encouraged the attacks.
Federal investigators have determined the gunman who carried out a deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola last year was in contact with al-Qaeda prior to the attack.
Saudi Air Force 2nd Lt. Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi-born aviation student enrolled in the international military training program, opened fire in a Navy educational facility the morning of Dec. 6, 2019. The gunman killed three people and wounded eight others before he was shot and killed by responding law enforcemennt.
There are no lone wolves in the global jihad. Each and every soldier fights in the cause of Allah.
1) BREAKING: #AQAP releases video claiming responsibility for December’s shooting at Naval Air Station #Pensacola, Florida, providing the will of attacker Muhammad al-Shamrani, which was written in September 2019, three months prior to attack. pic.twitter.com/pVbGO2HUvF — Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) February 2, 2020
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Saudi pilot who killed US Navy sailors on FL base was Al Qaeda terrorist and spent years planning Mohammed Alshamrani, the Saudi gunman who opened fire on Dec. 6, 2019 inside a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola on before one of the deputies killed him. (FBI/Released) | The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Navy Boulevard in Pensacola, Fla. (U.S. Navy photo by Patrick Nichols) May 18, 2020 Laura Widener The Royal Saudi Air Force member behind the December 2019 shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola had “significant ties” to the terror group Al Qaeda for years before conducting the deadly attack that killed three victims and injured eight others. During a Monday morning press conference, Attorney General Bill Barr said Mohammed Alshamrani’s phones “contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes Alshamrani’s significant ties to Al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula not only before the attack, but before he even arrived in the United States.” Alshamrani’s two iPhones were recently unlocked by federal technicians after months of attempts and refusals from Apple to assist in the process. Barr said that the recently obtained information from Alshamrani’s phones has led to counterterrorism operations against one of Alshamrani’s overseas associates in Yemen, and revealed significant information about the terrorist himself.
ADVERTISING FBI Director Christopher Wray said the Navy base attack was a “brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation.” “We now know enough to see Alshamrani for what he was — a determined AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] terrorist who spent years preparing to attack us.”
– ADVERTISEMENT – Wray said the investigators uncovered evidence showing Alshamrani had been radicalized as far back as 2015 – long before he began training in the U.S. – and had maintained contact with terrorist operatives ever since. “Alshamrani described a desire to learn about flying years ago around the same time he talked about attending the Saudi Air Force academy to carry out what he called a ‘special operation.’ He then pressed his plan forward, joining the Air Force and bringing his plot here to America.” “We now know that Alshamrani continued to associate with AQAP even while living in Texas and in Florida, and in the months before the attack while he was here among us, he talked with AQAP about his plans and tactics, taking advantage of the information he acquired here to assess how many people he could try to kill.” Part of Alshamrani’s thorough planning included casing out the Navy base’s classroom building, making videos inside the building, and wrote out a will on his cell phone that described his motives for the attack. That same will was released by Al Qaeda after the attack when they publicly claimed responsibility. “He wasn’t just coordinating with them about planning and tactics, he was helping the organization make the most it could out of his murders, and he continued to confer with his AQAP associates right up until the end — the very night before he started shooting.” Barr had concluded in January that the attack “was an act of terrorism” and Alshamrani was “motivated by jihadist ideology.” Investigators previously revealed that Alshamrani posted a message to his social media account on Sept. 11, 2019 that said, “the countdown has begun.” He had also posted other “anti-American, anti-Israeli, and jihadi messages on social media, and did so two hours before his attack at the naval base.” Alshamrani had used a Glock 9mm handgun in the attack, which he was not authorized to possess on base. “Weapons are not authorized on base. You cannot bring a weapon on base unless you’re a member of the security forces,” NAS Pensacola commanding officer Capt. Timothy F. Kinsella Jr. had said after the attack. Alshamrani had used a loophole in the U.S. gun laws that permitted foreign nationals to legally purchase a gun if they possessed a hunting license, among a few other possible criteria. Alshamrnai had indeed obtained a hunting license on July 11, 2019, and purchased his handgun just days later, the Wall Street Journal reported in December. Hundreds of foreign military personnel from all over the world routinely attended NAS Pensacola for training. However, after the attack, the Pentagon changed its policy to temporarily ban and expel all Saudi pilots during the course of the investigation. A month and a half after the attack in late January, the Pentagon gave the okay for Saudi pilots to resume training in the U.S. After the press conference on Monday, Secretary of Defense Mark. Esper issued a statement saying vowing additional measures in response to the attack. “The Department of Defense is incredibly grateful for the diligent work by the FBI team investigating this horrific attack that took the lives of three American patriots. Based on the FBI findings, and in addition to already executed protective measures, the Department will take further prudent and effective measures to safeguard our people,” Esper said.
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Ramadan in India: Two Muslims poison river that is only water source for people in area

Jihadis have long wanted to poison the water supply .
As far back as 2002 , the feds arrested two jihadis who were carrying plans about how to poison water supplies .
In 2003 , al-Qaeda threatened to poison water supplies in Western countries .
In 2011 , a jihadi in Spain likewise planned to poison water supplies .
And in May 2013 , seven Muslim “ chemical engineers ” were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir , a key supply of water for Boston , after midnight .
Only months later and indirectly did we hear that it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later , locks were cut at the aqueduct that supplies water to Greater Boston .
Also in May 2013 , jihadists were caught in Canada who had considered poisoning air and water to murder up to 100,000 people .
In October 2013 , the FBI was investigating a possible water supply threat in Wichita .
In January 2014 , a Muslim broke into a water treatment plant in New Jersey .
In September 2018 in Lebanon , a Muslim was arrested for two jihad mass poisoning plots , one of the Lebanese army @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Two youths Haneef and Irshad arrested for poisoning Phalguni river , thousands of fish die , ” by Abhinav Singh , TFI Post , May 7 , 2020 : A rather shocking incident has come into light from the southern state of Karnataka where thousands of fish have been killed and the entire aquatic ecosystem disrupted after two youths were found to have poisoned the Phalguni River at Dadelu in Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district .
According to a Deccan Herald report—on April 30 , thousands of fish were found floating dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that water had been poisoned .
As a result the entire area reeked of a nauseating smell .
The Phalguni River is not only the life-source of the residents of the area but the hundreds of cattle , livestocks , birds and the entire delicate ecosystem .
“ Poisoning of water body is an unpardonable offence .
The issue should be considered seriously by the police , Forest and Revenue department officials.
” the Zilla Panchayat member Dharanendra Kumar had demanded when the news came out .
The police was quick in its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ named Mohammad Hanif and Mohammad Irshad who are believed to be the mastermind behind the poisoning of the river… .

Jihadis have long wanted to poison the water supply. As far back as 2002, the feds arrested two jihadis who were carrying plans about how to poison water supplies. In 2003, al-Qaeda threatened to poison water supplies in Western countries. In 2011, a jihadi in Spain likewise planned to poison water supplies.
And in May 2013, seven Muslim “chemical engineers” were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir, a key supply of water for Boston, after midnight. Only months later and indirectly did we hear that it was a “criminal matter.” A month later, locks were cut at the aqueduct that supplies water to Greater Boston.
Also in May 2013, jihadists were caught in Canada who had considered poisoning air and water to murder up to 100,000 people. In October 2013, the FBI was investigating a possible water supply threat in Wichita. In January 2014, a Muslim broke into a water treatment plant in New Jersey. In September 2018 in Lebanon, a Muslim was arrested for two jihad mass poisoning plots, one of the Lebanese army’s water supply.
“Karnataka: Two youths Haneef and Irshad arrested for poisoning Phalguni river, thousands of fish die,” by Abhinav Singh, TFI Post, May 7, 2020:


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Water SS: Wilhelm de Blasio says anyone who tries to swim at a NYC beach will be ‘taken right out of

Water SS: Wilhelm de Blasio says anyone who tries to swim at a NYC beach will be ‘taken right out of the water’

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that if any beach rule-breakers will be forcibly removed from the water if they defy his coronavirus lockdown orders .
De Blasio issued the stark warning during his COVID-19 press briefing on Monday , saying the city was getting fencing ready while NYPD and and the Parks Department would monitor the situation .
“ Anyone tries to get in the water they ’ ll be taken right out of the water , ” the mayor warned reporters on Monday morning , as state beaches in New York , Delaware , Connecticut and New Jersey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be putting up police barriers on NYC beaches just yet to give people a chance to comply with the rules .
He reiterated that “ no swimming , no lifeguards , no parties , no BBQs ” and no sports were allowed on the sand , where social distancing rules would still apply .
“ It ’ s a dangerous situation to ever go in the water if there are no lifeguards present , ” de Blasio noted , saying city officials wanted to avoid a situation where people took public transport @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said only residents of beach communities would be allowed to go to the beach as “ just open space you can walk on ” — but everyone else should steer clear of it at this time .
“ The first half of June is the first opportunity to relax anything , ” de Blasio added , saying officials didn ’ t want to use the available fencing to block off entry points as a result of rule-breakers .
“ [ If ] we don ’ t see the right thing , we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said , adding that there would be more enforcement if necessary .
But de Blasio said he wouldn ’ t rule out loosening some of these restrictions as the season goes on if there was more progress in the Big Apple .

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that if any beach rule-breakers will be forcibly removed from the water if they defy his coronavirus lockdown orders.
De Blasio issued the stark warning during his COVID-19 press briefing on Monday, saying the city was getting fencing ready while NYPD and and the Parks Department would monitor the situation.
De Blasio said people would be taken out of the water
De Blasio urged New Yorkers who don’t live in a beach community to stay away from the sand
An NYPD School Safety officer passes out protective face masks on the boardwalk as a date to open up the beaches has not been set yet due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in Coney Island on SundayCredit: Alamy Live News
“Anyone tries to get in the water they’ll be taken right out of the water,” the mayor warned reporters on Monday morning, as state beaches in New York, Delaware, Connecticut and New Jersey reopen.
The mayor explained officials would not be putting up police barriers on NYC beaches just yet to give people a chance to comply with the rules.
He reiterated that “no swimming, no lifeguards, no parties, no BBQs” and no sports were allowed on the sand, where social distancing rules would still apply.
“It’s a dangerous situation to ever go in the water if there are no lifeguards present,” de Blasio noted, saying city officials wanted to avoid a situation where people took public transport to get to the beach.
He said only residents of beach communities would be allowed to go to the beach as “just open space you can walk on” — but everyone else should steer clear of it at this time.
“The first half of June is the first opportunity to relax anything,” de Blasio added, saying officials didn’t want to use the available fencing to block off entry points as a result of rule-breakers.
“[If] we don’t see the right thing, we’ll have to be stricter,” he said, adding that there would be more enforcement if necessary.
But de Blasio said he wouldn’t rule out loosening some of these restrictions as the season goes on if there was more progress in the Big Apple.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--People flock to NYC-area bars, beaches as ‘quarantine fatigue’ intensifies as de Blasio clamps down

Here ’ s the thing : New Yorkers were out and about this weekend .
Clearly it depends on the neighborhood but Murray Hill , the West Village , downtown , Central Park were poppin ’ .
Popping !
But everyone will return to their homes and their lockdowns and not go back to work .
And somehow this is OK ?
Related : WATER POLICE Bill de Blasio says anyone who tries to swim at a NYC beach will be ‘ taken right out of the water ’ and fences may go up “ They don ’ t care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 72 , of Manhattan , on Saturday .
His mask dangled below his chin as he stood outside the Upper East Side ’ s popular Dorrian ’ s Red Hand bar — where crowds exceeding three dozen people , nearly all unmasked , were found in the early evenings of Friday and Saturday .
“ How are you going to drink with a mask on ?
” one reveler , hairdresser Akeem Kelley , told The Post .
Outside popular bars on the Upper East Side , the Upper West Side , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Greenpoint , Brooklyn , The Post found booze hounds arriving for the takeout cocktails and then staying — and staying — to sip drinks on packed sidewalks and soak up the lively scenes .
“ The line for beach badges was like four non-socially distanced blocks long , ” tweeted Jarrett Seidler , who described the boardwalk as “ obscenely packed.
” Huge crowds waited shoulder-to-shoulder on the boardwalk for their turn to buy beach badges .
Yet the city ’ s COVID-be-damned attitude was nothing compared with the scene in Belmar , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islanders and Brooklynites .
[ 72 year old An Trent should stay at home .
Expecting young people to give up their jobs , livelihoods , futures – their very lives – because seniors are vulnerable to this flu is the height of selfishness . ]
She sat on a bench at the west end of the Brooklyn Bridge as a steady stream of mask-free sightseers and bicyclists passed her by , and she mused , “ What happened to all of us protecting everyone else ?
” The crowds , which enjoyed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 76 degrees on Saturday , apparently had forgotten that they live in the epicenter of the pandemic .
Outside the East Village Social on St. Marks Place , two guitarists helped kick off the weekend ’ s festivities Friday night by plugging into a portable amplifier and jamming for tips from the gathered crowd .
“ Obviously too many people , ” one bartender conceded to The Post on Saturday .
Most of the bar-hopping social-distance scofflaws who were observed Friday and Saturday were young — and many chose not to wear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who chairs the Health Committee , blamed the recklessness on “ quarantine fatigue ” and said he feared it might lead to a rebound in COVID-19 deaths .
The virus killed 100 people in the city during the 24 hours ending 2 p.m. Saturday , according to official stats .
But at the height of the city ’ s outbreak in mid-April , some 500 died in a single 24-hour period .
“ It ’ s only going to get worse as we head into a hot New York City summer , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urged Mayor de Blasio to plan now for the safe outdoor use of streets , beaches , playgrounds and parks — “ or we will drive noncompliance underground.
” The result will be massive indoor house parties , swimming without lifeguards and neighborhoods “ busting open fire hydrants , ” he warned .
Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch noted that cops can ’ t be responsible for policing every scofflaw in every corner of the city .
“ As the weather heats up , the situation is only going to get worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy that continues to deploy police officers to enforce social distancing is not only bound to fail , it is putting cops in dangerous situations with no support.
” An NYPD spokesperson said there will be no crackdown — and if social-distance violations increase , cops will continue issuing summonses as a last resort .
Asked about the crowds , a spokeswoman for Mayor de Blasio praised the current NYPD enforcement efforts but urged that it ’ s up to New Yorkers themselves “ to protect themselves , their neighbors and the essential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safe.
” Gov .
Cuomo , meanwhile , urged New Yorkers not to ease up on social distancing , despite improving data .
“ We just want to make sure we don ’ t go back to the hell that we ’ ve gone through , ” he said from Albany during his daily press briefing .
Statewide , the daily death toll as of Saturday afternoon was 157 , up from the 132 reported the day before , for a new total of 22,459 COVID-19 fatalities .
The slow , steady decrease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown relaxations in half of the state ’ s regions , all upstate , Cuomo said .
And in another step toward a better , new normal , horse and car racing will resume across the state next month , albeit with less noise , as spectators are banned from the stands , the governor said .
Racetracks and the Watkins Glen International car track will reopen as early as June 1 .
And Major League Baseball may be next — also without fans .
“ If it works economically , that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lockdown frustration led to several dozen protesters gathering in front of the state Capitol in Albany on Saturday , holding American flags and signs demanding that businesses be allowed to reopen .
Michelle Fusco , a resident of rural Knox who had been a waitress for 33 years , said she has been out of work since March 16 .
“ I don ’ t know what ’ s going to happen to me in the coming years , ” she said .
“ I like to think I was essential .
”

Lockdown-weary New Yorkers ditched the distancing to get social instead this weekend — transforming parts of the Big Apple into a raucous, late-season Mardi Gras.
Yet the city’s COVID-be-damned attitude was nothing compared with the scene in Belmar, NJ, a beach popular with Staten Islanders and Brooklynites.
Huge crowds waited shoulder-to-shoulder on the boardwalk for their turn to buy beach badges.
“The line for beach badges was like four non-socially distanced blocks long,” tweeted Jarrett Seidler, who described the boardwalk as “obscenely packed.”
Outside popular bars on the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, the East and West Villages and in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, The Post found booze hounds arriving for the takeout cocktails and then staying — and staying — to sip drinks on packed sidewalks and soak up the lively scenes.
“How are you going to drink with a mask on?” one reveler, hairdresser Akeem Kelley, told The Post.
His mask dangled below his chin as he stood outside the Upper East Side’s popular Dorrian’s Red Hand bar — where crowds exceeding three dozen people, nearly all unmasked, were found in the early evenings of Friday and Saturday.
“They don’t care about us,” said Ann Trent, 72, of Manhattan, on Saturday.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--President Trump slams Obama: “The most incompetent and corrupt administration US history.”

Bravo , President Trump .
The most corrupt and anti-America POTUS in history is not accustomed to being hit back .
Obama is perfectly aware that the walls are closing in on him very rapidly .
This is why he is panicking .
This is also why he is going to be campaigning vigorously for Joe Biden this fall .
Related – Obama Homeland Security IG Arrested On 16 Counts of Conspiracy To Defraud The US , Destruction of Records ‘ Grossly incompetent ’ : Trump fires back at Obama for criticism of coronavirus response President Trump called his predecessor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ graduates that the Trump administration botched its response to the coronavirus .
Former President Barack Obama delivered virtual commencement speeches Saturday to graduates at historically black colleges and universities , during which he slammed his successor ’ s handling of the pandemic .
“ Doing what feels good , what ’ s convenient , what ’ s easy — that ’ s how little kids think .
Unfortunately , a lot of so-called grown-ups , including some with fancy titles and important jobs , still think that way — which is why things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
The former president also said , “ More than anything , this pandemic has fully , finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they ’ re doing .
A lot of them aren ’ t even pretending to be in charge.
” rump , who said he had not yet heard the comments , hit back at Obama outside the White House on Sunday .
“ Look , he was an incompetent president .
That ’ s all I can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told reporters .
Other members of the Trump administration also responded to Obama ’ s comments on Sunday morning shows , including White House trade adviser Peter Navarro , who joked during an interview with ABC ’ s George Stephanopoulos that he ’ s glad the former president has a “ new job ” as press secretary for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden .
“ I ’ m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden ’ s press secretary , ” Navarro said .
“ As far as I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to China.
” The Truth Must be Told Please take a moment to consider this .
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But advertising revenues have all but disappeared .
Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us .
Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts .
But we wo n't put up a paywall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needed independent journalism more .
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media wo n't .
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We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left 's war on freedom .
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Bravo, President Trump. The most corrupt and anti-America POTUS in history is not accustomed to being hit back. Obama is perfectly aware that the walls are closing in on him very rapidly. This is why he is panicking. This is also why he is going to be campaigning vigorously for Joe Biden this fall.
Related – Obama Homeland Security IG Arrested On 16 Counts of Conspiracy To Defraud The US, Destruction of Records
The most incompetent and corrupt administration in U.S. history! https://t.co/NhmfQoOKS8 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2020
The Obama Administration is turning out to be one of the most corrupt and incompetent in U.S. history. Remember, he and Sleepy Joe are the reasons I am in the White House!!! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 17, 2020
‘Grossly incompetent’: Trump fires back at Obama for criticism of coronavirus response By Washington Examiner, May 17, 2020 President Trump called his predecessor “grossly incompetent” for telling recent graduates that the Trump administration botched its response to the coronavirus. Former President Barack Obama delivered virtual commencement speeches Saturday to graduates at historically black colleges and universities, during which he slammed his successor’s handling of the pandemic. “Doing what feels good, what’s convenient, what’s easy — that’s how little kids think. Unfortunately, a lot of so-called grown-ups, including some with fancy titles and important jobs, still think that way — which is why things are so screwed up,” he said. The former president also said, “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.” rump, who said he had not yet heard the comments, hit back at Obama outside the White House on Sunday. “Look, he was an incompetent president. That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent,” he told reporters. Other members of the Trump administration also responded to Obama’s comments on Sunday morning shows, including White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who joked during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he’s glad the former president has a “new job” as press secretary for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “I’m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary,” Navarro said. “As far as I’m concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to China.”
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--WATCH: Eric Trump Reacts To ‘Creepy’ Biden: ‘Not A Parent In America Would Find This Behavior Accep

Eric Trump is right .
This behavior by Joe Biden is inappropriate and grotesque to say the least .
But why does he get a pass from the mainstream media ?
Because he is a Democrat running for POTUS .
If President Trump behaved this way with children , the MSM would be calling for his arrest .
WATCH : Eric Trump Reacts To ‘ Creepy ’ Biden : ‘ Not A Parent In America Would Find This Behavior Acceptable ’ President Donald Trump ’ s son , Eric Trump , posted a video of 2020 Democrat presumptive nominee former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creepily interacting with children .
“ There is not a parent in America who would find this behavior , toward their child , acceptable .
# CreepyJoeBiden , ” Eric wrote .
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Eric Trump is right. This behavior by Joe Biden is inappropriate and grotesque to say the least. But why does he get a pass from the mainstream media? Because he is a Democrat running for POTUS. If President Trump behaved this way with children, the MSM would be calling for his arrest.
WATCH: Eric Trump Reacts To ‘Creepy’ Biden: ‘Not A Parent In America Would Find This Behavior Acceptable’ By Red Cooper, May 17, 2020 President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, posted a video of 2020 Democrat presumptive nominee former Vice President “creepy” Joe Biden creepily interacting with children. “There is not a parent in America who would find this behavior, toward their child, acceptable. #CreepyJoeBiden,” Eric wrote.
There is not a parent in America who would find this behavior, toward their child, acceptable. #CreepyJoeBiden pic.twitter.com/7f8SmRQscr — Eric Trump (@EricTrump) May 17, 2020
The @nytimes is right. There’s NOTHING CREEPY at all about how @JoeBiden interacts with the kids in this 4+ min long video. All the touching & hair sniffing is TOTALLY APPROPRIATE & 100% NORMAL. Everyone does it! I'm a bad person for mocking him & thinking it's disgusting!!!???? pic.twitter.com/DgQOnaK8q6 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 16, 2020
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--California Town Declares Itself a ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ FOR BUSINESSES to Operate During Quarantine

California Town Declares Itself a ‘ Sanctuary City ’ for Businesses to Operate During Quarantine Gov .
Gavin Newsom made the announcement last week that the reopening would begin slowly , with only some businesses being allowed to open their doors .
“ We are entering into the next phase this week … with modifications , we will allow retail to start operating across the spectrum , ” Newsom said during a press conference last week .
“ This is a very positive sign , and it has happened only for one reason : The data says it can happen.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ through phase two , and that includes the prospect of restaurants with modifications opening , hospitality more broadly opening , again , with modification , ” Newsom added .
The city of Atwater is not willing to abide by Newsom ’ s arbitrary re-opening plans .
They are blazing the trail and showing that the governor does not have the discretionary power to turn the economy on or off .
Big League Politics has reported on the intense protests in California against quarantine policies and how Newsom has attempted to stop them : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the State Capitol against the quarantine , the state has now banned similar protests , according to an announcement from the California Highway Patrol ( CHP ) .
“ Permits are issued to provide safe environments for demonstrators to express their views , ” the CHP said in a statement .
“ In this case , the permit for the convoy was issued with the understanding that the protest would be conducted in a manner consistent with the state ’ s public health guidance.
” “ That is not what occurred , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when considering permits for this or any other group , ” they added .
On Monday , individuals convened in the downtown area for an “ Operation Gridlock ” protest , based off of last week ’ s wildly successful demonstration in Michigan against anti-Trump Governor Gretchen Whitmer , whose lockdown policies are among the most strict in the nation .
California Governor Gavin Newsom might be giving Whitmer some competition , as his state bureaucrats have arbitrarily banned a certain type of rally .
It is unknown whether they plan to lock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ edict .
“ In the interest of public safety and the health of all Californians during the COVID-19 pandemic , effective immediately the California Highway Patrol will deny any permit requests for events or activities at all state facilities , to include the State Capitol , until public health officials have determined it is safe to gather again , ” the CHP said .

Brilliant.
California Town Declares Itself a ‘Sanctuary City’ for Businesses to Operate During Quarantine
Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement last week that the reopening would begin slowly, with only some businesses being allowed to open their doors.
“We are entering into the next phase this week … with modifications, we will allow retail to start operating across the spectrum,” Newsom said during a press conference last week. “This is a very positive sign, and it has happened only for one reason: The data says it can happen.”
“We will allow additional movement through phase two, and that includes the prospect of restaurants with modifications opening, hospitality more broadly opening, again, with modification,” Newsom added.
The city of Atwater is not willing to abide by Newsom’s arbitrary re-opening plans. They are blazing the trail and showing that the governor does not have the discretionary power to turn the economy on or off.
Big League Politics has reported on the intense protests in California against quarantine policies and how Newsom has attempted to stop them:


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--NYC shootings up nearly 200%, Shootings, burglaries and auto theft surging in public housings during

NYC shootings up nearly 200%, Shootings, burglaries and auto theft surging in public housings during lockdown

But the Mayor ’ s top priority is building fences to keep New Yorkers off beaches .
NYC shootings up nearly 200 % compared to same time last year Shootings , burglaries and auto theft surging in NYCHA complexes during lockdown By Dean Balsamini and Sara Dorn , NY Post , May 16 , 2020 : Shootings , burglaries and auto thefts at New York ’ s public housing complexes have skyrocketed during the coronavirus lockdown .
Auto thefts surged 38 % in the four weeks ending May 10 , and shootings and burglaries each increased 17 % .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murder , rape , robbery , grand larceny and felony assault — held steady or fell , and the total number of serious crimes in the NYCHA network plummeted nearly a third .
The NYPD has logged 55 shootings in the projects so far this year , compared with 50 reported in the same period in 2019 — a 10 % uptick .
The James Weldon Johnson Houses and and King Towers , located three blocks apart in Harlem , had no shootings last year but each already had two through May 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Johnson Houses , Richard Robayo , 44 , was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Feb. 19 .
The NYPD is still looking for the killer .
An NYPD source previously told The Post that the department attributed rising auto thefts — a 63 % citywide increase — to bail reforms enacted this year that reduce the penalty for stealing cars to a “ desk appearance ticket.
” NYCHA has seen a 5 % percent increase in robberies so far this year , compared to 10 % across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delivery driver , 21 , outside of East New York ’ s Pink Houses in February .
The man was run over by a car when the two attackers knocked him to the ground in a a struggle over a pizza .

But the Mayor’s top priority is building fences to keep New Yorkers off beaches.
NYC shootings up nearly 200% compared to same time last year
Car theft up 63% in NYC amid coronavirus lockdown
Shootings, burglaries and auto theft surging in NYCHA complexes during lockdown
By Dean Balsamini and Sara Dorn, NY Post, May 16, 2020:
Shootings, burglaries and auto thefts at New York’s public housing complexes have skyrocketed during the coronavirus lockdown.
Auto thefts surged 38% in the four weeks ending May 10, and shootings and burglaries each increased 17%.
But the other five serious crime categories — murder, rape, robbery, grand larceny and felony assault — held steady or fell, and the total number of serious crimes in the NYCHA network plummeted nearly a third.
The NYPD has logged 55 shootings in the projects so far this year, compared with 50 reported in the same period in 2019 — a 10% uptick.
The James Weldon Johnson Houses and and King Towers, located three blocks apart in Harlem, had no shootings last year but each already had two through May 10.
In one of the shootings at the Johnson Houses, Richard Robayo, 44, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head Feb. 19. The NYPD is still looking for the killer.
An NYPD source previously told The Post that the department attributed rising auto thefts — a 63% citywide increase — to bail reforms enacted this year that reduce the penalty for stealing cars to a “desk appearance ticket.”
NYCHA has seen a 5% percent increase in robberies so far this year, compared to 10% across the city.
One mugging involved a pizza delivery driver, 21, outside of East New York’s Pink Houses in February. The man was run over by a car when the two attackers knocked him to the ground in a a struggle over a pizza.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--‘We could open up again and forget the whole thing,’ Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, Chief of epidemiology a

‘We could open up again and forget the whole thing,’ Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, Chief of epidemiology and research at Rockefeller University

‘ We could open up again and forget the whole thing ’ Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on the deadly consequences of lockdown .
Governments around the world say they are following ‘ The Science ’ with their draconian measures to stem the spread of the virus .
But the science around Covid-19 is bitterly contested .
Many experts have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the measures , and argue that our outsized fears of Covid-19 are not justified .
Knut Wittkowski is one such expert who has long argued for a change of course .
For 20 years , Wittkowski @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Research Design at The Rockefeller University ’ s Center for Clinical and Translational Science .
spiked spoke to him to find out Knut Wittkowski : No , unless you have age-related severe comorbidities .
So if you are in a nursing home because you can not live by yourself anymore , then getting infected is dangerous .
Wittkowski : It is over in China .
It is over in South Korea .
It is substantially down in most of Europe and down a bit everywhere , even in the UK .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ so you do not see exactly what you are seeing in continental Europe .
But everywhere in Europe , the number of cases is substantially declining .
We had the other extreme in Switzerland , which was hit pretty hard .
There was one child that died .
People believed that this child was born in 2011 .
In fact , it was born in 1911 , and that was the only child that died .
It was a mere coding error .
Somebody with the age 108 was coded as aged eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have too much of an impact because it most likely made the situation worse .
The intervention was to ‘ flatten the curve ’ .
That means that there would be the same number of cases but spread out over a longer period of time , because otherwise the hospitals would not have enough capacity .
Wittkowski : When the whole thing started , there was one reason given for the lockdown and that was to prevent hospitals from becoming overloaded .
There is no indication that hospitals could ever have become overloaded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So we could open up again , and forget the whole thing .
How long can you do that for ?
For three weeks , that is possible .
For 18 months , it is not .
The flattening of the curve , the prolongation of the epidemic , makes it more difficult to protect the elderly , who are at risk .
More of the elderly people become infected , and we have more deaths .
Now , as we know , children and young adults do not end up in hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both elderly and have comorbidities that do .
Therefore you have to protect the elderly and the nursing homes .
The ideal approach would be to simply shut the door of the nursing homes and keep the personnel and the elderly locked in for a certain amount of time , and pay the staff overtime to stay there for 24 hours per day .
Wittkowski : Firstly , we have the direct consequences : suicides , domestic violence and other social consequences leading to death .
And then we have people who are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for other problems like strokes or heart attacks .
So people stay away from hospitals because of the Covid fear .
And then they die .
Wittkowski : Germany had 8,000 deaths in a population of 85million .
They had 20,000 to 30,000 hospitalisations .
In Germany , that is nothing .
It does not even show up as a blip in the hospital statistics .
In Britain , the highest hospital utilisation was about 60 per cent , if I am not mistaken .
In New York City , it was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was turned into a field hospital with 3,000 beds .
It treated just 1,000 patients in all .
The Navy ship sent to New York by President Trump had 179 patients but it was sent back because it was not needed .
New York is the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States , and even here at the epicenter , hospital utilisation was only up a bit .
Nothing dramatic .
Nothing out of the ordinary .
That is what happens during the flu season .
People have the flu , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hospitals than there otherwise would be .
Wittkowski : All the studies that have been done have shown that we already have at least 25 per cent of the population who are immune .
That gives us a nice cushion .
If 25 per cent of the population are already immune , we are very quickly getting to the 50 per cent that we need to have what is called herd immunity .
We will actually get a bit higher than that .
So we have flattened what otherwise would have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ let it run , even if the number of cases would increase a bit , it would not get as high as it was , because we already have enough immune people in the population .
So it is not going to spread as fast as it could have spread in the beginning .
Wittkowski : This is an invention to justify a policy that politicians are afraid of reversing .
Wittkowski : Why ?
What is the justification for that ?
People need to ask the government for an explanation .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not have to ask me for justification .
There is no justification .
It is the government that has to justify what it is doing .
Sorry , but that is how it is .
spiked : How did we get this so wrong ?
Wittkowski : Governments did not have an open discussion , including economists , biologists and epidemiologists , to hear different voices .
In Britain , it was the voice of one person – Neil Ferguson – who has a history of coming up with projections that are a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convene a meeting with people who have different ideas , different projections , to discuss his projection .
If it had done that , it could have seen where the fundamental flaw was in the so-called models used by Neil Ferguson .
His paper was published eventually , in medRxiv .
The assumption was that one per cent of all people who became infected would die .
There is no justification anywhere for that .
Let us say the epidemic runs with a basic reproduction rate of around two .
Eventually 80 per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because they have been infected at some point in time .
Eighty per cent of the British population would be something like 50million .
One per cent of them dying is 500,000 .
That is where Ferguson ’ s number came from .
But we knew from the very beginning that neither in Wuhan nor in South Korea did one per cent of all people infected die .
South Korea has 60million people .
It is about the same size as the UK .
How many deaths were in South Korea ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ The South Korean government was extremely proud to have resisted pressure to drop the very basic concepts of democracy .
The epidemic in South Korea was over by March , the number of cases was down by 13 March .
In Wuhan they also did not shut down the economy .
Wuhan had restricted travel out of the city .
They stopped train services and blocked the roads .
They did not restrict anything social within the city until very late .
We have seen , then , in Wuhan and South Korea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the epidemic is over in three weeks .
Knowing that the epidemic would be over in three weeks , and the number of people dying would be minor , just like a normal flu , the governments started shutting down in mid-March .
Why ?
Because somebody pulled it out of his head that one per cent of all infected would die .
One could argue that maybe one per cent of all cases would die .
But one per cent of all people infected does not make any sense .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spiked : Just to clarify , cases are different from people infected ?
Wittkowski : Cases means people who have symptoms that are serious enough for them to go to a hospital or get treated .
Most people have no symptoms at all .
But waking up with a sore throat one day is not a case .
A case means that someone showed up in a hospital .
spiked : The UK government was also heavily influenced by the situation in Italy .
Why did that go so wrong ?
Wittkowski : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus was hitting those who were both old and had comorbidities , so lots of people died .
But the median age of those who died in Italy was around 81 years .
It is not that children or working people were dying .
It was the elderly in nursing homes – not even the elderly living by themselves mostly .
We saw lots of deaths and that scared people .
But then , Italy did an illogical thing .
It closed schools so that the schoolchildren were isolated and did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead , the virus spread almost exclusively among the old , causing more deaths and a higher utilisation of hospitals .
And that is mind-boggling .
Very early on , we knew from China and we knew from South Korea that this is an epidemic that runs its course , and there was nothing special about it .
But when it hit Italy , we stopped thinking about it as an age-stratified problem , and instead lumped everyone all together .
The idea that if we did not shut down the schools @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not make any sense .
I frankly still can not fully understand how our governments can be so stupid .
spiked : Governments say they are following the science .
Is that really true ?
Wittkowski : They have the scientists on their side that depend on government funding .
One scientist in Germany just got $ 500million from the government , because he always says what the government wants to hear .
Scientists are in a very strange situation .
They now depend on government funding , which is a trend that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Before that , when you were a professor at a university , you had your salary and you had your freedom .
Now , the university gives you a desk and access to the library .
And then you have to ask for government money and write grant applications .
If you are known to criticise the government , what does that do to your chance of getting funded ?
It creates a huge conflict of interest .
The people who are speaking out in Germany and Switzerland are all independent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spiked : Did the Swedish scientists get it right ?
Wittkowski : Sweden did the right thing .
And they had to take a lot of heat for it .
Now compare Sweden and the UK .
The only difference is that Sweden did fine .
They did have a problem .
They had a relatively high number of deaths among the nursing homes.They decided to keep society open and they forgot to close nursing homes .
Remarkably , the politicians acknowledged that it was a mistake to extend that open concept to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been isolated to protect the elderly who are at high risk .
But I think the Swedish government is doing well to even acknowledge that mistake .
The first death in the United States was in a nursing home in Seattle .
And that was by the end of February .
So everybody knew that we were expecting the same thing that we had seen in Italy – an epidemic that hits the elderly .
But until just this week in New York State , the government told the nursing homes that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from hospitals , they would lose their funding .
So they would have to import the virus from the hospitals .
One third of all deaths in New York State were in nursing homes .
One could have prevented 20,000 deaths in the United States by just isolating the nursing homes .
After three or four weeks , they could have reopened and everybody would be happy .
That would have been a reasonable strategy .
But shutting down schools , driving the economy against the wall – there was no reason for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nonsense now goes on and on , and people are inventing things like this ‘ second wave ’ , which is going to force us to change society and never live again , is that the politicians are afraid of admitting an error .
spiked : Is this easier to see in hindsight ?
Wittkowski : What I am talking about is not hindsight .
The epidemics in Wuhan and South Korea were over in mid-March .
In March , I submitted a paper to medRxiv , summarising all of that .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the data was there , and everybody who wanted to learn from it could .
On 17 April , Robert Redfield , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , presented data at the coronavirus presidential briefing at the White House .
And there was one plot that he presented .
And I looked at it and asked why people were not jumping to their feet .
Why were people not understanding what they were looking at ?
The plot was the data from the ILINet .
For 15 years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up with an influenza-like illness – fever , coughing , whatever .
There were three spikes in the 2019-2020 flu season .
The first was in late December – influenza B .
The next was in late January – an influenza A epidemic .
And then there was one that had a peak in hospital visits around 8 March – Covid-19 .
For the peak to happen on that day , those patients have to go through a seven-day incubation period and then have symptoms .
But they do not go to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it gets worse over three days , only then do they go to a hospital .
Four weeks later , on 8 April , the number of new infections was already down .
In time for Easter , our governments should have acknowledged they were overly cautious .
People would have accepted that .
Two weeks ’ shutdown would not have been the end of the world .
We would not have what we have now – 30million people unemployed in the United States , for example .
Companies do not go bankrupt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a very different story .
If you have to pay rent for two months for a restaurant in New York with no income , you will go bankrupt .
We see unemployment , we see bankruptcies , we see a lot of money wasted for economic-rescue packages – trillions of dollars in the United States .
We see more deaths and illness than we would otherwise have had .
And it is going on and on and on , just because governments are afraid of admitting an error .
They are trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to do things slowly , and that they have ‘ avoided 500,000 deaths ’ in the UK .
But that was an absurd number that had no justification .
The person presenting it pretended it was based on a model .
It was not a model .
It was the number of one per cent of all people infected dying .
And nobody was questioning it .
And that is the basic problem .
spiked : People will say that the interventions in South Korea – like contact tracing – were more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of magnitude , take us from 500,000 to 256 , the number of deaths in South Korea ?
To have that kind of effect you would have to put everybody in the UK into a negative pressure room .
It is totally unrealistic to even consider a reduction from 500,000 to 256 .

‘We could open up again and forget the whole thing’
Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski on the deadly consequences of lockdown.
By: Spiked, 15th May 2020:
Governments around the world say they are following ‘The Science’ with their draconian measures to stem the spread of the virus. But the science around Covid-19 is bitterly contested. Many experts have serious doubts about the effectiveness of the measures, and argue that our outsized fears of Covid-19 are not justified. Knut Wittkowski is one such expert who has long argued for a change of course. For 20 years, Wittkowski was the head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science. spiked spoke to him to find out
spiked: Is Covid-19 dangerous?
Knut Wittkowski: No, unless you have age-related severe comorbidities. So if you are in a nursing home because you cannot live by yourself anymore, then getting infected is dangerous.
Wittkowski: It is over in China. It is over in South Korea. It is substantially down in most of Europe and down a bit everywhere, even in the UK. The UK and Belarus are latecomers, so you do not see exactly what you are seeing in continental Europe. But everywhere in Europe, the number of cases is substantially declining.
We had the other extreme in Switzerland, which was hit pretty hard. There was one child that died. People believed that this child was born in 2011. In fact, it was born in 1911, and that was the only child that died. It was a mere coding error. Somebody with the age 108 was coded as aged eight.
I hope the intervention did not have too much of an impact because it most likely made the situation worse. The intervention was to ‘flatten the curve’. That means that there would be the same number of cases but spread out over a longer period of time, because otherwise the hospitals would not have enough capacity.
Wittkowski: When the whole thing started, there was one reason given for the lockdown and that was to prevent hospitals from becoming overloaded. There is no indication that hospitals could ever have become overloaded, irrespective of what we did. So we could open up again, and forget the whole thing.
How long can you do that for? For three weeks, that is possible. For 18 months, it is not. The flattening of the curve, the prolongation of the epidemic, makes it more difficult to protect the elderly, who are at risk. More of the elderly people become infected, and we have more deaths.
Now, as we know, children and young adults do not end up in hospitals. It is only those who are both elderly and have comorbidities that do. Therefore you have to protect the elderly and the nursing homes. The ideal approach would be to simply shut the door of the nursing homes and keep the personnel and the elderly locked in for a certain amount of time, and pay the staff overtime to stay there for 24 hours per day.
Wittkowski: Firstly, we have the direct consequences: suicides, domestic violence and other social consequences leading to death. And then we have people who are too scared to go to the hospitals for other problems like strokes or heart attacks. So people stay away from hospitals because of the Covid fear. And then they die.
Wittkowski: Germany had 8,000 deaths in a population of 85million. They had 20,000 to 30,000 hospitalisations. In Germany, that is nothing. It does not even show up as a blip in the hospital statistics. In Britain, the highest hospital utilisation was about 60 per cent, if I am not mistaken.
In New York City, it was a bit higher. The Javits Congress Center was turned into a field hospital with 3,000 beds. It treated just 1,000 patients in all. The Navy ship sent to New York by President Trump had 179 patients but it was sent back because it was not needed. New York is the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, and even here at the epicenter, hospital utilisation was only up a bit. Nothing dramatic. Nothing out of the ordinary. That is what happens during the flu season. People have the flu, and then there are more patients in the hospitals than there otherwise would be.
Wittkowski: All the studies that have been done have shown that we already have at least 25 per cent of the population who are immune. That gives us a nice cushion. If 25 per cent of the population are already immune, we are very quickly getting to the 50 per cent that we need to have what is called herd immunity. We will actually get a bit higher than that. So we have flattened what otherwise would have been a peak, and if we now let it run, even if the number of cases would increase a bit, it would not get as high as it was, because we already have enough immune people in the population. So it is not going to spread as fast as it could have spread in the beginning.
Wittkowski: This is an invention to justify a policy that politicians are afraid of reversing.
spiked: Should people practice social distancing?
Wittkowski: No.
spiked: Why not?
Wittkowski: Why? What is the justification for that? People need to ask the government for an explanation. The government is restricting freedom. You do not have to ask me for justification. There is no justification. It is the government that has to justify what it is doing. Sorry, but that is how it is.
spiked: How did we get this so wrong?
Wittkowski: Governments did not have an open discussion, including economists, biologists and epidemiologists, to hear different voices. In Britain, it was the voice of one person – Neil Ferguson – who has a history of coming up with projections that are a bit odd. The government did not convene a meeting with people who have different ideas, different projections, to discuss his projection. If it had done that, it could have seen where the fundamental flaw was in the so-called models used by Neil Ferguson. His paper was published eventually, in medRxiv. The assumption was that one per cent of all people who became infected would die. There is no justification anywhere for that.
Let us say the epidemic runs with a basic reproduction rate of around two. Eventually 80 per cent of the population will be immune, because they have been infected at some point in time. Eighty per cent of the British population would be something like 50million. One per cent of them dying is 500,000. That is where Ferguson’s number came from.
But we knew from the very beginning that neither in Wuhan nor in South Korea did one per cent of all people infected die. South Korea has 60million people. It is about the same size as the UK. How many deaths were in South Korea? Did they shut down? No. The South Korean government was extremely proud to have resisted pressure to drop the very basic concepts of democracy.
The epidemic in South Korea was over by March, the number of cases was down by 13 March. In Wuhan they also did not shut down the economy. Wuhan had restricted travel out of the city. They stopped train services and blocked the roads. They did not restrict anything social within the city until very late. We have seen, then, in Wuhan and South Korea, if you do not do anything, the epidemic is over in three weeks.
Knowing that the epidemic would be over in three weeks, and the number of people dying would be minor, just like a normal flu, the governments started shutting down in mid-March. Why? Because somebody pulled it out of his head that one per cent of all infected would die. One could argue that maybe one per cent of all cases would die. But one per cent of all people infected does not make any sense. And we had that evidence by mid-March.
spiked: Just to clarify, cases are different from people infected?
Wittkowski: Cases means people who have symptoms that are serious enough for them to go to a hospital or get treated. Most people have no symptoms at all. But waking up with a sore throat one day is not a case. A case means that someone showed up in a hospital.
spiked: The UK government was also heavily influenced by the situation in Italy. Why did that go so wrong?
Wittkowski: What we saw in Italy was that the virus was hitting those who were both old and had comorbidities, so lots of people died. But the median age of those who died in Italy was around 81 years. It is not that children or working people were dying. It was the elderly in nursing homes – not even the elderly living by themselves mostly. We saw lots of deaths and that scared people. But then, Italy did an illogical thing. It closed schools so that the schoolchildren were isolated and did not get infected and did not become immune. Instead, the virus spread almost exclusively among the old, causing more deaths and a higher utilisation of hospitals. And that is mind-boggling.
Very early on, we knew from China and we knew from South Korea that this is an epidemic that runs its course, and there was nothing special about it. But when it hit Italy, we stopped thinking about it as an age-stratified problem, and instead lumped everyone all together. The idea that if we did not shut down the schools the hospitals would have been overwhelmed does not make any sense. I frankly still cannot fully understand how our governments can be so stupid.
spiked: Governments say they are following the science. Is that really true?
Wittkowski: They have the scientists on their side that depend on government funding. One scientist in Germany just got $500million from the government, because he always says what the government wants to hear.
Scientists are in a very strange situation. They now depend on government funding, which is a trend that has developed over the past 40 years. Before that, when you were a professor at a university, you had your salary and you had your freedom. Now, the university gives you a desk and access to the library. And then you have to ask for government money and write grant applications. If you are known to criticise the government, what does that do to your chance of getting funded? It creates a huge conflict of interest. The people who are speaking out in Germany and Switzerland are all independent of government money because they are retired.
spiked: Did the Swedish scientists get it right?
Wittkowski: Sweden did the right thing. And they had to take a lot of heat for it. Now compare Sweden and the UK. The only difference is that Sweden did fine. They did have a problem. They had a relatively high number of deaths among the nursing homes.They decided to keep society open and they forgot to close nursing homes. Remarkably, the politicians acknowledged that it was a mistake to extend that open concept to nursing homes. The nursing homes should have been isolated to protect the elderly who are at high risk. But I think the Swedish government is doing well to even acknowledge that mistake.
The first death in the United States was in a nursing home in Seattle. And that was by the end of February. So everybody knew that we were expecting the same thing that we had seen in Italy – an epidemic that hits the elderly. But until just this week in New York State, the government told the nursing homes that if they did not take in patients from hospitals, they would lose their funding. So they would have to import the virus from the hospitals.
One third of all deaths in New York State were in nursing homes. One could have prevented 20,000 deaths in the United States by just isolating the nursing homes. After three or four weeks, they could have reopened and everybody would be happy.
That would have been a reasonable strategy. But shutting down schools, driving the economy against the wall – there was no reason for it. The only reason that this nonsense now goes on and on, and people are inventing things like this ‘second wave’, which is going to force us to change society and never live again, is that the politicians are afraid of admitting an error.
spiked: Is this easier to see in hindsight?
Wittkowski: What I am talking about is not hindsight. The epidemics in Wuhan and South Korea were over in mid-March. In March, I submitted a paper to medRxiv, summarising all of that. At least towards the end of March, the data was there, and everybody who wanted to learn from it could.
On 17 April, Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, presented data at the coronavirus presidential briefing at the White House. And there was one plot that he presented. And I looked at it and asked why people were not jumping to their feet. Why were people not understanding what they were looking at? The plot was the data from the ILINet. For 15 years, hospitals have counted every person who shows up with an influenza-like illness – fever, coughing, whatever. There were three spikes in the 2019-2020 flu season. The first was in late December – influenza B. The next was in late January – an influenza A epidemic. And then there was one that had a peak in hospital visits around 8 March – Covid-19. For the peak to happen on that day, those patients have to go through a seven-day incubation period and then have symptoms. But they do not go to the hospital with the first symptoms. If it gets worse over three days, only then do they go to a hospital.
Four weeks later, on 8 April, the number of new infections was already down. In time for Easter, our governments should have acknowledged they were overly cautious. People would have accepted that. Two weeks’ shutdown would not have been the end of the world. We would not have what we have now – 30million people unemployed in the United States, for example. Companies do not go bankrupt over a two-week period. Two months is a very different story. If you have to pay rent for two months for a restaurant in New York with no income, you will go bankrupt. We see unemployment, we see bankruptcies, we see a lot of money wasted for economic-rescue packages – trillions of dollars in the United States. We see more deaths and illness than we would otherwise have had.
And it is going on and on and on, just because governments are afraid of admitting an error. They are trying to find excuses. They say they have to do things slowly, and that they have ‘avoided 500,000 deaths’ in the UK. But that was an absurd number that had no justification. The person presenting it pretended it was based on a model. It was not a model. It was the number of one per cent of all people infected dying. And nobody was questioning it. And that is the basic problem.
spiked: People will say that the interventions in South Korea – like contact tracing – were more effective.
Wittkowski: How many orders of magnitude, take us from 500,000 to 256, the number of deaths in South Korea? To have that kind of effect you would have to put everybody in the UK into a negative pressure room. It is totally unrealistic to even consider a reduction from 500,000 to 256.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Dems Latest Rule Change Shreds Constitution, ‘Attendance Optional’ For Lawmakers

More perfidy from the dirty Dems .
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the most corrupt speaker of our lifetime .
Maybe ever .
Nancy Pelosi and her party must be voted out of office in November .
There is no other choice .
# GOP2020 !
Related – Democrats Block Motion to Bar Illegal Immigrants from Getting Stimulus Payments On Friday evening , the House voted on a fundamental change to how the U.S. House of Representatives votes and conducts business .
I voted no because it would severely harm the House as an institution , in an affront to what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I appreciate that these are unprecedented times , but House Democrats are using the current crisis to undermine our Constitution by letting House members vote by proxy .
Several weeks ago , Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats were rushing forward with a partisan approach on proxy voting .
House Republicans convinced them to establish an ad hoc bipartisan committee to discuss these issues .
But then , despite the establishment of this committee , we voted Friday on a change to House rules that has never been seen in our nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have untold consequences for years to come .
Let ’ s start with the most preposterous part of this change — it allows for a quorum to be established by proxy .
That ’ s as nonsensical as it is inane .
A quorum is required to allow the proceedings to move forward .
To establish a quorum is to have a certain number of members physically present in the chamber .
To be marked as present , one must actually be present .
House Democrats disagree , and they point to their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ committees as a precedent .
But this argument fails .
Even when proxy voting was allowed in committee , a physical quorum of members was required in order to conduct committee business .
Proxies were only allowed to cast committee votes , not to establish a committee quorum .
There is a good reason why proxy voting , and especially proxy quorum voting , has never been allowed on the House floor .
Article 1 , Section 5 , of the U.S. Constitution states : “ A Majority of each [ chamber , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Quorum to do Business ; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day , and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members , in such Manner , and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
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More perfidy from the dirty Dems. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the most corrupt speaker of our lifetime. Maybe ever. Nancy Pelosi and her party must be voted out of office in November. There is no other choice. #GOP2020!
Related – Democrats Block Motion to Bar Illegal Immigrants from Getting Stimulus Payments
Agreed, @GOPLeader ⬇ The U.S. Constitution doesn’t just disappear because we’re in the midst of a pandemic. Our Founders would be ashamed. https://t.co/y7fVNlERx6 — Rep. Roger Williams (@RepRWilliams) May 15, 2020
During my time in Harrisburg and in Congress, I have never seen such a partisan piece of legislation actually receive a vote. Far from addressing the very real and serious impacts of COVID-19, the "HEROES Act" is simply a giveaway to liberal special interests. pic.twitter.com/VvFu3c6DIi — Congressman Fred Keller (@RepFredKeller) May 15, 2020
Democrats’ House rule change undermines the Constitution By Washington Examiner, May 16, 2020 On Friday evening, the House voted on a fundamental change to how the U.S. House of Representatives votes and conducts business. I voted no because it would severely harm the House as an institution, in an affront to what the Founders of our nation intended. I appreciate that these are unprecedented times, but House Democrats are using the current crisis to undermine our Constitution by letting House members vote by proxy. Several weeks ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats were rushing forward with a partisan approach on proxy voting. House Republicans convinced them to establish an ad hoc bipartisan committee to discuss these issues. But then, despite the establishment of this committee, we voted Friday on a change to House rules that has never been seen in our nation’s history. This rule change may have untold consequences for years to come. Let’s start with the most preposterous part of this change — it allows for a quorum to be established by proxy. That’s as nonsensical as it is inane. A quorum is required to allow the proceedings to move forward. To establish a quorum is to have a certain number of members physically present in the chamber. To be marked as present, one must actually be present. House Democrats disagree, and they point to their own past policy of proxy voting on committees as a precedent. But this argument fails. Even when proxy voting was allowed in committee, a physical quorum of members was required in order to conduct committee business. Proxies were only allowed to cast committee votes, not to establish a committee quorum. There is a good reason why proxy voting, and especially proxy quorum voting, has never been allowed on the House floor. Article 1, Section 5, of the U.S. Constitution states: “A Majority of each [chamber, House and Senate] shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.”
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