pamelagellerreport--2020-05-16--Cleveland Clinic: FBI Arrests Chinese Doctors with Undisclosed Ties  to CCP for $3.6 Million Fraud R

Cleveland Clinic: FBI Arrests Chinese Doctors with Undisclosed Ties  to CCP for $3.6 Million Fraud Received from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Stealing American Scientific Advances

A Chinese-born former employee of the Cleveland Clinic was arrested on fraud charges related to US $ 3.6 million in federal grants , the FBI said on Thursday , in a move to stop China from their flagrant stealing of American scientific advances .
US investigators say China and its citizens and operatives have long made extensive and aggressive efforts to steal unclassified American technology , ranging from military materiel to medical research , but US agencies only launched a broad effort to stop alleged Chinese espionage in the United States in 2018 .
Prosecutors said Dr. Qing Wang accepted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without disclosing that he was serving at same time as dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology .
That was a violation of the terms of the grants , they said .
By : FBI , May 20202 ( thanks to Christian ) A former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested Wednesday , May 13 , 2020 , without incident by law enforcement .
Dr. Qing Wang is being charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $ 3.6 million in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research group at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation ( CCF ) received from the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) .
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation , along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services , Office of Inspector General , conducted law enforcement activity at Dr. Qing Wang ’ s residence in Shaker Heights , Ohio .
Dr. Wang was placed into custody at approximately 12:30 p.m. “ As this case demonstrates , Chinese government-supported talent plans continue to encourage people , regardless of nationality , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obtain U.S. taxpayer-funded research , ” said Robert R. Wells , acting assistant director of the FBI ’ s Counterintelligence Division .
“ The FBI and our partners will continue to rigorously investigate these illegal activities to protect our government , educational , and research institutions.
” “ This is not a case of simple omission , ” said FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith .
“ Dr .
Wang deliberately failed to disclose his Chinese grants and foreign positions and even engaged in a pervasive pattern of fraud to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the FBI , HHS-OIG , and Cleveland Clinic officials demonstrate our commitment to hold those like Dr. Wang accountable.
” “ As alleged in the complaint , this defendant misled the National Institutes of Health about support he received and research he conducted in the People ’ s Republic of China , ” said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio .
“ Federal law enforcement remains vigilant to fraudulent claims for grant support from any researcher who fails to disclose support from foreign governments and competing research interests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cooperation of this defendant ’ s former employer , the Cleveland Clinic , in the investigation and highlight the important partnerships between federal agencies , law enforcement , and the private sector demonstrated in this case.
” According to the criminal complaint , Dr. Wang knowingly failed to disclose to NIH that he held an affiliation and the position of dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology ( HUST ) and received multiple grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific research funded by the NIH grant .
As a result , Dr. Wang ’ s false representations and promises led NIH to approve and fund grants to Dr. Wang and his research group at CCF .
It is also alleged Dr. Wang participated in the Thousand Talents Program , a program established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with access to or knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property .
As a result of his admission into the TTP , China provided $ 3 million in research support to enhance the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at HUST .
Dr. Wang received free travel and lodging for his trips to China , to include a three-bedroom apartment on campus for his personal use .
This also occurred at the time Dr. Wang was receiving NIH grant funds yet failed to disclose this affiliation to the NIH .
This case was investigated by the Cleveland Division of the FBI , the United States Department of Health and Human Services , Office of Inspector General , with assistance from Cleveland Clinic officials .
The case is being prosecuted by the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ District of Ohio .
A charge is not evidence of guilt .
A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government ’ s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt .
FBI Arrests Two Chinese Scientists Working in U.S. for ‘ Undisclosed Ties ’ to Beijing Government On May 12 , the FBI arrested 63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang , a Chinese engineering professor who has taught at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville since 1988 , and who was also a recipient of a grant from NASA .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he “ had close ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies , ” which he was required to do in order to receive NASA grant money .
These “ false representations , ” the FBI charged , “ resulted in numerous wires to be sent and received that facilitated Ang ’ s scheme to defraud.
” Ang was also a scholar in China ’ s Thousand Talents program .
While the FBI claims that isn ’ t a crime in itself , the FBI website states that its investigations “ have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to transfer to China the research they conduct in the United States , as well as other proprietary information to which they can gain access , and remain a significant threat to the United States .
In some cases , this has resulted in violations of U.S. laws , including economic espionage , theft of trade secrets and grant fraud.
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A Chinese-born former employee of the Cleveland Clinic was arrested on fraud charges related to US$3.6 million in federal grants, the FBI said on Thursday, in a move to stop China from their flagrant stealing of American scientific advances.
#BREAKING: A former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested and is being charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $3.6 million in grant funding that he and his research group received from the National Institutes of Health. https://t.co/AkTgv22Qyk pic.twitter.com/oeZBHF9DAj — FBI (@FBI) May 14, 2020
US investigators say China and its citizens and operatives have long made extensive and aggressive efforts to steal unclassified American technology, ranging from military materiel to medical research, but US agencies only launched a broad effort to stop alleged Chinese espionage in the United States in 2018.
Prosecutors said Dr. Qing Wang accepted grants from the National Institutes of Health without disclosing that he was serving at same time as dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. That was a violation of the terms of the grants, they said.
Former Cleveland Clinic Employee Arrested By: FBI, May 20202 (thanks to Christian) A former Cleveland Clinic employee was arrested Wednesday, May 13, 2020, without incident by law enforcement. Dr. Qing Wang is being charged with false claims and wire fraud related to more than $3.6 million in grant funding that Dr. Wang and his research group at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, conducted law enforcement activity at Dr. Qing Wang’s residence in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Dr. Wang was placed into custody at approximately 12:30 p.m. “As this case demonstrates, Chinese government-supported talent plans continue to encourage people, regardless of nationality, to commit crimes, such as fraud to obtain U.S. taxpayer-funded research,” said Robert R. Wells, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “The FBI and our partners will continue to rigorously investigate these illegal activities to protect our government, educational, and research institutions.” “This is not a case of simple omission,” said FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith. “Dr. Wang deliberately failed to disclose his Chinese grants and foreign positions and even engaged in a pervasive pattern of fraud to avoid criminal culpability. The collective efforts of the FBI, HHS-OIG, and Cleveland Clinic officials demonstrate our commitment to hold those like Dr. Wang accountable.” “As alleged in the complaint, this defendant misled the National Institutes of Health about support he received and research he conducted in the People’s Republic of China,” said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio. “Federal law enforcement remains vigilant to fraudulent claims for grant support from any researcher who fails to disclose support from foreign governments and competing research interests in other countries. We appreciate the cooperation of this defendant’s former employer, the Cleveland Clinic, in the investigation and highlight the important partnerships between federal agencies, law enforcement, and the private sector demonstrated in this case.” According to the criminal complaint, Dr. Wang knowingly failed to disclose to NIH that he held an affiliation and the position of dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and received multiple grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (CNSF) for some of the same scientific research funded by the NIH grant. As a result, Dr. Wang’s false representations and promises led NIH to approve and fund grants to Dr. Wang and his research group at CCF. It is also alleged Dr. Wang participated in the Thousand Talents Program, a program established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with access to or knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property. As a result of his admission into the TTP, China provided $3 million in research support to enhance the facilities and operations at the Key Lab at HUST. Dr. Wang received free travel and lodging for his trips to China, to include a three-bedroom apartment on campus for his personal use. This also occurred at the time Dr. Wang was receiving NIH grant funds yet failed to disclose this affiliation to the NIH. This case was investigated by the Cleveland Division of the FBI, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, with assistance from Cleveland Clinic officials. The case is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio. A charge is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Also this:
FBI Arrests Two Chinese Scientists Working in U.S. for ‘Undisclosed Ties’ to Beijing Government On May 12, the FBI arrested 63-year-old Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a Chinese engineering professor who has taught at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville since 1988, and who was also a recipient of a grant from NASA. He is charged with failing to reveal that he “had close ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies,” which he was required to do in order to receive NASA grant money. These “false representations,” the FBI charged, “resulted in numerous wires to be sent and received that facilitated Ang’s scheme to defraud.” Ang was also a scholar in China’s Thousand Talents program. While the FBI claims that isn’t a crime in itself, the FBI website states that its investigations “have revealed that the participants are often incentivized to transfer to China the research they conduct in the United States, as well as other proprietary information to which they can gain access, and remain a significant threat to the United States. In some cases, this has resulted in violations of U.S. laws, including economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and grant fraud.”
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-16--States That Reopened Do Not Have More COVID-19 Infections Than Ones That Stayed Closed

Another major news story ignored by the scamdemic media .
States That Reopened Do Not Have More COVID-19 Infections Than Ones That Stayed Closed Governors who started opening up sooner haven ’ t seen dramatic increases in deaths .
By : Kim Coulter , The National File , May 14 , 2020 Many governors , including Governor Brian Kemp ( R , GA ) who started reopening their states have not seen dramatic increases in coronavirus deaths as critics suggested .
According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation report from May 12 , the rates of infection would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a day up into the thousands by June and well into August of this year .
Now that Georgia has had shelter-in-place lifted for 14 days and they are a month into the reopening of the state , new IHME predictions fall dramatically short of prior predictions .
The latest IHME model show dramatic updates on the projected number of new cases per day .
As of yesterday , the state of Georgia is looking at no new COVID-19 cases by August and 367 daily cases by June .
Media outlets that came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governors who reopened their states earlier have not retracted or corrected their original stories suggesting massive death tolls and overwhelmed hospitals .
According to a summary written by Erick Erickson , conservative blogger and radio host , after both publications of projections for COVID-19 IHME reports that such reporting caused angry media inquiries demanding explanations from Kemp , while after the model showing updated and dramatically lower data was released , Kemp did not receive such coverage .
Erickson , who says he got this information from someone “ in the know ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voices have expressed since yesterday ’ s updated IHME report .
When will people like Governor Kemp and others who opened their states early get an apology ?

Another major news story ignored by the scamdemic media.
States That Reopened Do Not Have More COVID-19 Infections Than Ones That Stayed Closed Governors who started opening up sooner haven’t seen dramatic increases in deaths. By: Kim Coulter, The National File, May 14, 2020 Many governors, including Governor Brian Kemp (R,GA) who started reopening their states have not seen dramatic increases in coronavirus deaths as critics suggested. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation report from May 12, the rates of infection would dramatically spike from hundreds of new cases a day up into the thousands by June and well into August of this year. Now that Georgia has had shelter-in-place lifted for 14 days and they are a month into the reopening of the state, new IHME predictions fall dramatically short of prior predictions. The latest IHME model show dramatic updates on the projected number of new cases per day. As of yesterday, the state of Georgia is looking at no new COVID-19 cases by August and 367 daily cases by June. Media outlets that came after Kemp as well as the other governors who reopened their states earlier have not retracted or corrected their original stories suggesting massive death tolls and overwhelmed hospitals. According to a summary written by Erick Erickson, conservative blogger and radio host, after both publications of projections for COVID-19 IHME reports that such reporting caused angry media inquiries demanding explanations from Kemp, while after the model showing updated and dramatically lower data was released, Kemp did not receive such coverage. Erickson, who says he got this information from someone “in the know” poises a question that many other conservative voices have expressed since yesterday’s updated IHME report. When will people like Governor Kemp and others who opened their states early get an apology?
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-17--Trump says he would consider bringing Michael Flynn back into the administration

Do it , Mr. President !
Pardon Michael Flynn , and bring him back into your administration .
That would be real justice .
Trump says he would consider bringing Michael Flynn back into the administration President Trump said he would be open to bringing former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn back to the White Houise as questions emerge about how he was treated by the FBI .
“ I would certainly consider it , ” he told reporters at the White House on Thursday .
Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements in a charge brought by then-Special Counsel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ released FBI communications they say suggest he was set up to lie when questioned three years ago about his contacts with Russian officials .
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Do it, Mr. President! Pardon Michael Flynn, and bring him back into your administration. That would be real justice.
If you care about liberty, freedom, or corruption at the highest levels of the government, you have to care about Gen. Flynn’s story. The fact that FBI/DOJ leadership conspired against an American hero is unbelievable.https://t.co/TOgoBiSZuS — Rep. Chris Stewart (@RepChrisStewart) April 30, 2020
Trump says he would consider bringing Michael Flynn back into the administration By MSN, April 30, 2020: President Trump said he would be open to bringing former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn back to the White Houise as questions emerge about how he was treated by the FBI. “I would certainly consider it,” he told reporters at the White House on Thursday. Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements in a charge brought by then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller. On Wednesday his lawyers released FBI communications they say suggest he was set up to lie when questioned three years ago about his contacts with Russian officials.
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-17--Corrupt auto workers union betray it’s members by endorsing Biden in presidential race

Shame on these political hacks .
Under the Obama/Biden administration the American auto industry was decimated , most especially in Ohio , Michigan , and Wisconsin .
Factories were being closed and jobs were being lost ( here , here , here , here , here ) to China .
President Trump revitalized the auto industry in the United States ( here , here , here , here ) by reversing the Obama/Biden administrations policies of appeasement of China .
Yet the corrupt leaders of the UAW chose to endorse the presidential candidate who will lead to the demise of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fortunately this shameful endorsement wont make a difference .
President Trump will obtain significant support from America ’ s auto workers , as he did in 2016 despite the UAW endorsing Hillary Clinton .
# Trump2020 !
`` In these dangerous and difficult times , the country needs a president who will demonstrate clear , stable leadership , less partisan acrimony and more balance to the rights and protections of working Americans . ''
– UAW President Rory Gamble The United Auto Workers – one of the nation ’ s largest and influential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Joe Biden ’ s White House bid .
In backing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , UAW President Rory Gamble said Tuesday that “ in these dangerous and difficult times , the country needs a president who will demonstrate clear , stable leadership , less partisan acrimony and more balance to the rights and protections of working Americans.
” The union represents roughly 400,000 workers nationwide but has an outsized influence in the crucial general election battleground state of Michigan – as it represents some 150,000 workers with Detroit ’ s three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factory workers in other industries as well as nurses , casino workers , and university graduate assistants .
The UAW ’ s backing is the latest for Biden by a major organized labor group .
The presumptive Democratic nominee ’ s long touted his working-class roots in Pennsylvania and his decades of support for the unions .
Biden ’ s also highlighted the 2009 auto bailouts that saved General Motors and Chrysler from slipping into bankruptcy and that he championed as vice president in the Obama administration .
The UAW usually backs Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2016 .
But its workers don ’ t always vote as a monolithic bloc and plenty of the rank and file voted for Donald Trump four years ago .
Trump narrowly flipped Michigan as well as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – two other states with a smaller percentage of UAW members – from blue to red in 2016 , helping him win the White House .
The president ’ s continued to court auto workers since his 2016 election .
The union ’ s currently negotiating with General Motors , Ford , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past month due to the coronavirus pandemic .
“ This issue demonstrates the need for presidential leadership to follow the guidance of science and give workers a seat in discussions over their safety and well-being , ” the union ’ s statement said .

Shame on these political hacks. Under the Obama/Biden administration the American auto industry was decimated, most especially in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Factories were being closed and jobs were being lost (here, here, here, here, here) to China. President Trump revitalized the auto industry in the United States (here, here, here, here) by reversing the Obama/Biden administrations policies of appeasement of China. Yet the corrupt leaders of the UAW chose to endorse the presidential candidate who will lead to the demise of the auto workers that they represent. Fortunately this shameful endorsement wont make a difference. President Trump will obtain significant support from America’s auto workers, as he did in 2016 despite the UAW endorsing Hillary Clinton. #Trump2020!
"In these dangerous and difficult times, the country needs a president who will demonstrate clear, stable leadership, less partisan acrimony and more balance to the rights and protections of working Americans." – UAW President Rory Gamble Read more >>> https://t.co/yIcrtQF3CT pic.twitter.com/fEtCQDQGg7 — UAW (@UAW) April 21, 2020
Auto workers union backs Biden in presidential race By Fox News, April 22, 2020 The United Auto Workers – one of the nation’s largest and influential unions – on Tuesday endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House bid. In backing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, UAW President Rory Gamble said Tuesday that “in these dangerous and difficult times, the country needs a president who will demonstrate clear, stable leadership, less partisan acrimony and more balance to the rights and protections of working Americans.” The union represents roughly 400,000 workers nationwide but has an outsized influence in the crucial general election battleground state of Michigan – as it represents some 150,000 workers with Detroit’s three major automakers. The UAW also represents factory workers in other industries as well as nurses, casino workers, and university graduate assistants. The UAW’s backing is the latest for Biden by a major organized labor group. The presumptive Democratic nominee’s long touted his working-class roots in Pennsylvania and his decades of support for the unions. Biden’s also highlighted the 2009 auto bailouts that saved General Motors and Chrysler from slipping into bankruptcy and that he championed as vice president in the Obama administration. The UAW usually backs Democrats in presidential elections – including Hillary Clinton in 2016. But its workers don’t always vote as a monolithic bloc and plenty of the rank and file voted for Donald Trump four years ago. Trump narrowly flipped Michigan as well as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – two other states with a smaller percentage of UAW members – from blue to red in 2016, helping him win the White House. The president’s continued to court auto workers since his 2016 election. The union’s currently negotiating with General Motors, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler to restart factories shut during the past month due to the coronavirus pandemic. “This issue demonstrates the need for presidential leadership to follow the guidance of science and give workers a seat in discussions over their safety and well-being,” the union’s statement said.
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--BRILLIANT: President Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc daily

Trump admits he ’ s taking the plaquinyl and zinc daily for prophylaxis .
President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he ’ s been taking hydroxychloroquine , the anti-malaria drug he ’ s touted as a possible “ game changer ” treatment for COVID-19 .
He said he asked the White House doctor if he could take the treatment despite having no symptoms , adding he ’ s been taking a pill a day for about a week-and-a-half .
“ I ’ m still fine , ” he said , referring to possible dangerous side effects .
The FDA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ outside of a hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.
” “ I asked him , ‘ What do you think ?
’ He said , ’ Well if you ’ d like it . '
” I said , ‘ Yeah I ’ d like it .
I ’ d like to take it .
A lot of people to take it a lot of frontline workers are taking hydroxychloroquine.
” Trump claimed .
“ So , I ’ m taking the zinc and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you is , so far I seem to be okay.
” The president said he ’ s received “ a lot of positive letters ” offering good feedback of hydroxychloroquine and insisted even if it ’ s not effective , he claimed , “ You ’ re not going to get sick or die.
” “ And it seems to have an impact — and maybe it does , maybe it doesn ’ t — but if it doesn ’ t , you ’ re not going to get sick or die .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s been used for a long time for 30 , 40 years on the malaria and or lupus to , and even on arthritis I guess from what I understand , so it ’ s been heavily tested in terms of , ” Trump said .
“ What do you have to lose , ” Trump said .
When surprised reporters asked if he were taking it because he ’ s exhibited symptoms , the president replied , “ Zero symptoms.
” The president told them that he was “ just waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I said this , ” adding he had taken it for about a week and a half — “ and I ’ m still here .
I ’ m still here can you explain to you .
”

Trump admits he’s taking the plaquinyl and zinc daily for prophylaxis.
President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he’s touted as a possible “game changer” treatment for COVID-19.
He said he asked the White House doctor if he could take the treatment despite having no symptoms, adding he’s been taking a pill a day for about a week-and-a-half.
“I’m still fine,” he said, referring to possible dangerous side effects.
The FDA last month specifically warned against taking hydroxychloroquine “outside of a hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.”
“I asked him, ‘What do you think?’ He said,’Well if you’d like it.'” I said, ‘Yeah I’d like it. I’d like to take it. A lot of people to take it a lot of frontline workers are taking hydroxychloroquine.” Trump claimed. “So, I’m taking the zinc and the hydroxy. And all I can tell you is, so far I seem to be okay.”
The president said he’s received “a lot of positive letters” offering good feedback of hydroxychloroquine and insisted even if it’s not effective, he claimed, “You’re not going to get sick or die.”
“And it seems to have an impact — and maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t — but if it doesn’t, you’re not going to get sick or die. This is a, a pill that’s been used for a long time for 30, 40 years on the malaria and or lupus to, and even on arthritis I guess from what I understand, so it’s been heavily tested in terms of,” Trump said.
“What do you have to lose,” Trump said.
When surprised reporters asked if he were taking it because he’s exhibited symptoms, the president replied, “Zero symptoms.”
The president told them that he was “just waiting to see your eyes light up when I said this,” adding he had taken it for about a week and a half — “and I’m still here. I’m still here can you explain to you.”


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Despotic de Blasio:  City’won’t come back,’  Feds must give us billions

The Democrats raped the city .
Now they are keeping it closed until September .
That ’ s why the city won ’ t come back .
People are fleeing – and they will not return .
The longer the lockdown , the bigger the exodus .
It is immoral and unethical to force hard working Americans to pay for mismanaged , grossly negligent blue state socialist failures .
New York City needs a Republican in charge .
What ’ s the next New York City ?
It depends on what Wall Street does .
De Blasio : NYC needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ won ’ t come back ’ Mayor de Blasio : New York City will likely see more revenue losses without a stimulus New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses why the state needs over $ 7 billion in the coronavirus stimulus package on ‘ Sunday Morning Futures.
’ New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed that his city requires $ 7.5 billion in federal aid to get back on track after being crippled by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of residents and shut down much of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other Republican leaders have resisted handing out too much aid out of concern state and local leaders are hoping to be bailed out of economic trouble that began well before COVID-19 ravaged the nation .
De Blasio insisted on Fox News ’ “ Sunday Morning Futures ” that this is not the case for his city , which needs the money to recoup losses needed to pay city workers .
NYC COUNCILMAN CALLS OUT CUOMO , DE BLASIO , ASKS FOR ‘ URGENCY ’ AND ‘ REASONABLE GUIDELINES ’ IN REOPENING “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gone that pays for cops , firefighters , teachers , sanitation workers , it ’ s gone , ” de Blasio said .
“ And there ’ s no way I ’ m going to get it back.
” De Blasio said he expects even greater losses , and that the city ’ s economy “ won ’ t come back without a stimulus.
” He claimed that the money would not be going to fix past financial errors , insisting that before the pandemic , the city was doing better than ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has happened in the city in recent years .
Right before this pandemic , the highest level of employment in our history , booming economy , lowest crime since the 1950s , more and more kids graduating on time in our public schools than ever in our history , you name it , this city was moving forward.
” When confronted with a recent spike in shootings that have gone up 200 percent in the past week compared to the same time last year , de Blasio said , “ the NYPD will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to overall reductions in crime during his time in office .
New York has been especially hard when it comes to deaths in nursing home facilities , and Gov .
Andrew Cuomo has faced criticism for policies that resulted in patients who tested positive for coronavirus returning to their nursing homes and spreading the virus .
“ We all have to do better , there ’ s no question , ” de Blasio said about the nursing home situation .
“ We ’ ve been providing protective equipment to those nursing homes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can , this is a horrible human crisis.
” The mayor said that it is the state government , not the city , which “ has the regulatory role ” in that situation , but said , “ we ’ re all going to work together to fix this problem because we owe it to the people in those nursing homes and their families.
” Gov .
Cuomo is allowing beaches in New York to reopen in time for the Memorial Day holiday later this month , but de Blasio will not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be open to the public , except for locals looking to walk .
The mayor said that to avoid overcrowding , there will be no swimming permitted , no lifeguards on duty , and fencing may be put in place to keep people away .

The Democrats raped the city. Now they are keeping it closed until September. That’s why the city won’t come back. People are fleeing – and they will not return. The longer the lockdown, the bigger the exodus.
It is immoral and unethical to force hardworking Americans to pay for mismanaged, grossly negligent blue state socialist failures.
New York City needs a Republican in charge.
What’s the next New York City? It depends on what Wall Street does.
De Blasio: NYC needs billions in federal aid or city economy ‘won’t come back’ By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News May 18, 2020: Mayor de Blasio: New York City will likely see more revenue losses without a stimulus New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses why the state needs over $7 billion in the coronavirus stimulus package on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed that his city requires $7.5 billion in federal aid to get back on track after being crippled by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands of residents and shut down much of the city’s economy. President Trump and other Republican leaders have resisted handing out too much aid out of concern state and local leaders are hoping to be bailed out of economic trouble that began well before COVID-19 ravaged the nation. De Blasio insisted on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that this is not the case for his city, which needs the money to recoup losses needed to pay city workers. NYC COUNCILMAN CALLS OUT CUOMO, DE BLASIO, ASKS FOR ‘URGENCY’ AND ‘REASONABLE GUIDELINES’ IN REOPENING “That’s revenue that’s gone that pays for cops, firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, it’s gone,” de Blasio said. “And there’s no way I’m going to get it back.” De Blasio said he expects even greater losses, and that the city’s economy “won’t come back without a stimulus.” He claimed that the money would not be going to fix past financial errors, insisting that before the pandemic, the city was doing better than ever. “You’ve seen what has happened in the city in recent years. Right before this pandemic, the highest level of employment in our history, booming economy, lowest crime since the 1950s, more and more kids graduating on time in our public schools than ever in our history, you name it, this city was moving forward.” When confronted with a recent spike in shootings that have gone up 200 percent in the past week compared to the same time last year, de Blasio said, “the NYPD will fight it back,” and pointed to overall reductions in crime during his time in office. New York has been especially hard when it comes to deaths in nursing home facilities, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced criticism for policies that resulted in patients who tested positive for coronavirus returning to their nursing homes and spreading the virus. “We all have to do better, there’s no question,” de Blasio said about the nursing home situation. “We’ve been providing protective equipment to those nursing homes. We’re going to do everything we can, this is a horrible human crisis.” The mayor said that it is the state government, not the city, which “has the regulatory role” in that situation, but said, “we’re all going to work together to fix this problem because we owe it to the people in those nursing homes and their families.” Gov. Cuomo is allowing beaches in New York to reopen in time for the Memorial Day holiday later this month, but de Blasio will not be permitting beaches in the city to be open to the public, except for locals looking to walk. The mayor said that to avoid overcrowding, there will be no swimming permitted, no lifeguards on duty, and fencing may be put in place to keep people away.
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Who will fight for your rights?

Who will fight for your rights?

This article best articulates the fight against corona tyranny .
Who will fight for your rights ?
We are no longer fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion , we ’ ve arrived .
It is the stage of which every would-be dictator dreams , where his whims are absolute , and everything everyone else says , does , or thinks must comport with those whims , even—impossible though it would be—when they are contradictory .
Science is anti-whim .
Nature , as Francis Bacon observed , to be commanded must be obeyed .
Nothing illustrates the ultimate inversion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its leaders ’ assault on science in the name of their “ science.
” Doctors have been discouraged or prohibited from administering hydroxychloroquine , by itself or in conjunction with other medications , vitamins , and zinc compounds , to treat Covid-19 .
They have observed and documented the effectiveness of such remedies—mitigation or elimination of the disease ’ s symptoms—but their observation and documentation are dismissed .
Only the validation procedure mandated by the medical bureaucracy—the expensive and complex multistage tests required of new drugs to establish their efficacy and safety—will suffice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what their “ science ” demands of a cheap and seemingly effective remedy that ’ s been on the market for years as a treatment for lupus , rheumatoid arthritis , and malaria .
So where were the tests and control-group studies for the pandemic models , lockdowns , social distancing , masks , flattening the curve , closing businesses , and contact tracing that have been the official coronavirus responses ?
Projections are hypotheses , but only one class of hypotheses was officially accepted—disaster scenarios that fed panic and paved the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The doomsday models have been discredited ; cases and deaths have been orders of magnitude less than projected .
Countries that haven ’ t instituted lockdowns have fared no worse than countries that have .
Andrew Cuomo , governor of hard-hit New York , recently expressed surprise that two-thirds of hospitalized coronavirus patients had been sheltering in place .
As if locking people down—often families under close quarters—in apartment buildings that can ’ t control cockroaches would somehow protect dwellers against a microscopic , easily spread , fast replicating , and virtually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supports social distancing ; six-feet is an arbitrary construct ( i.e.
, whim ) of some medical would-be dictator .
Masks force the rebreathing of your own respiratory waste , weakening your immune system for the dubious benefit of that all-powerful totem : public health .
The health you ’ re supposedly protecting is certainly not your own .
It ’ s like eating your own feces or drinking your own urine for a purported public benefit .
Flattening the curve to ensure adequate hospital space for the wave of coronavirus patients that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitals , leading to empty rooms and wards and layoffs for medical workers .
Bankruptcies will follow .
Lost jobs and shuttered businesses are just collateral damage for our would-be emperors , who have waged senseless wars and inflicted grievous collateral damage on other countries for decades .
Now the devastation and misery they ’ ve left in their wake have come home .
Americans who ’ ve never asked themselves how it felt to be a victim of their government ’ s senseless wars are now victims of their government ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unsustainable debt-propelled respite , the Greater Depression has resumed ( it started in 2008 ) and will last for years .
Its poverty and devastation will sicken and kill multiples of the people who will ultimately be afflicted by the coronavirus .
All this supposedly guided by “ science , ” yet its proponents commit the most unscientific offense—they corrupt their own data .
By their own admission the tests they use give both false negatives and false positives .
By their own admission they ’ re corrupting the death count .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a cause of death if the deceased had any of the symptoms associated with Covid-19 , even though those symptoms characterize a number of other diseases that singly or in combination kill people , especially people with compromised immune systems .
Hospitals have a financial incentive to perpetuate this fraud .
They receive $ 13,000 from Medicare for each Covid-19 patient and $ 39,000 for each patient put on a ventilator ( Links here and here ) .
The coronavirus tyranny has nothing to do with science , medicine , or health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ultimate inversion : the government is free to do anything it pleases , while the citizens may act only by permission .
These past few weeks we ’ ve seen how our rulers attempted to discard the last fig leaf—democracy—covering their creeping , now galloping , totalitarianism and complete lack of legitimacy .
A camarilla within the nation ’ s intelligence services , the Department of Justice , and members of the previous administration , including Barack Obama , attempted to depose the democratically elected president of the United States .
Such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in banana republics that make no pretense of observing or protecting rights , where might alone makes right .
The United States has gone full banana—the stage of rule by brute force .
Democracy is tyranny of the majority , a system that inevitably destroys individual rights .
For the history-challenged , individual rights were the still revolutionary concept on which the idea—although not always the reality—of the United States was established .
The logical consequence of the full protection of individual rights is the freedom to live your life as you see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t abridge the rights of others .
Society or any other group of people has no rights apart from the rights of the individuals that comprise it .
Governments have no rights , only the duty to protect the rights of individuals to live peaceably and freely .
Government must be the servant , not the master , of its citizens .
( See the Ayn Rand Appendix cited above , “ The Nature of Government , ” for a more detailed exposition of the proper role of government . )
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Individuals must receive permission to , among other things , leave their homes , hold a job , assemble with other individuals , attend houses of worship , visit parks and beaches , or patronize businesses .
The governor of my state , Michelle Lujan Grisham , just decreed that masks must be worn by everyone outside of their own dwellings ( I wrote STOP MLG ’ S TYRANNY on mine ) .
Breathing fresh air is now at the sufferance of our overlords .
Civilly disobedient soul that I am , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Don ’ t think sheep don ’ t get angry—I get murderous looks from mask-wearers .
With every decree issued since this repression began , those who advocate for their individual rights or actually exercise them by violating the decree are denounced , shamed , censored , and in some cases arrested .
Anyone who disagrees by word or deed is “ selfish , ” unwilling to sacrifice for the common good .
What do they mean by selfish ?
Is it selfish to fight for your rights ?
Is it selfish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Is it selfish to be more concerned with your own welfare and the welfare of your family and friends than with the welfare of strangers , the public , or the government that supposedly represents that public ?
Is your desire for freedom selfish ?
There are those who will tie themselves in intellectual knots answering those questions in the negative , but nevertheless asserting that individual rights and their exercise—free expression , free inquiry , free production , and free exchange—can all be justified as conferring the greatest public good .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with those pushing collectivized notions of the public good .
When might makes right , the public good is whatever the collective ’ s masters say it is—argument over .
Fighting for one ’ s freedom and all that flows from it is selfish , profoundly so .
If you don ’ t fight for that which is yours—the individual rights that are the essential condition of your existence—who ’ s going to do it for you ?
Anthony Fauci ?
Bill Gates ?
Nancy Pelosi ?
President Trump ?
Joe Biden ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Schiff ?
Mark Zuckerberg ?
Eric Schmidt ?
Santa Claus ?
The Tooth Fairy ?
When was the last time you even heard the term “ individual rights ” in polite , mainstream discourse ?
When individual rights are mentioned at all , they ’ re treated as a quaint anachronism .
And what do they mean by sacrifice ?
They mean that instead of selfishly fighting for your rights and freedom , you are to unselfishly place them on the sacrificial altar known as the public good .
You ’ re selfish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is rightfully yours , but those collecting what is not rightfully theirs are selfless saints .
If you voluntarily board that cattle car , you ’ ll secure your spot in the Unselfish Hall of Fame , along with millions of others who have lost their property , happiness , freedom , and lives without selfish protest or resistance .
You might even be designated a Hero of the Public Good , posthumously of course .
If you find the world ’ s descent into evil unfathomable , it ’ s time to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the good and the selfish is evil .
Collectivist butchers , including the ones pushing the coronavirus hoax , always demand fealty to some cause greater than one ’ s self .
Fall for that one and you ’ ve already lost two important parts of yourself—your self-respect and your ability to reason .
The precautionary principle—that no risks can be assumed if someone or something somewhere might be harmed—is anti-mind and anti-life , absurdly evil on its face .
That philosophical abomination now excuses wholesale violation of individual rights and deadly economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and political expediency .
The precautionary principle would , if consistency applied , bring human progress to a halt , eventually rendering the human race extinct .
Nothing is as unsafe as an insistence on absolute safety .
Risk is what makes life worth living—it ’ s the driver of human knowledge and progress .
Imagine the choices that confronted early humans as they made their first choices .
If we build a fire , will it warm us and cook our meat…or consume us ?
If we eat oysters , will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the canoe we ’ ve built float or sink ?
The forward steps of both our individual and humanity ’ s journeys have always involved unanswered questions , hypotheses , risk , experimentation , trial and error , tragedy , and triumph .
It takes no imagination at all to envision potential risks .
Make fear and safety paramount and none of those steps could have or will be taken .
To believe that risks can be eliminated by arbitrary edicts is delusional ; to enforce those edicts tyrannical ; to comply with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and tyrannies always established in the name of somebody ’ s safety .
The betrayal of individual conscience and surrender of individual rights to a collective for safety ’ s sake never produces safety , only misery , destruction , despair , terror and death .
That ’ s a lesson we ’ re set to relearn as we proceed through one of those darkest periods of human history .
There is a silver lining in all this : the curtain has been lifted , we now know exactly what we confront .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ minions do not recognize—much less protect or hold themselves subordinate to the protection of—individual rights .
Nor should we expect that they will do so within our lifetimes .
Absent their replacement via revolution or abandonment via secession , we will continue to live in a political order where they are free to do as they please while we may act only by permission .
If we want our rights , our freedom , and our lives , we ’ re going to have to fight for them with word and deed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ will ever be so .
Those who choose to fight will have one important ally : rule by brute force is the agent of its own collapse .
It has always failed , it always will .
Whether we have the virtue and wisdom to replace it with it ’ s antitheses—freedom and individual rights protected rather than destroyed by government—remains to be seen .

This article best articulates the fight against corona tyranny.
A Silver Lining
By Robert Gore
Who will fight for your rights?
…we are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand, Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal, Appendix, “The Nature of Government,” 1967
We are no longer fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion, we’ve arrived. It is the stage of which every would-be dictator dreams, where his whims are absolute, and everything everyone else says, does, or thinks must comport with those whims, even—impossible though it would be—when they are contradictory.
Science is anti-whim. Nature, as Francis Bacon observed, to be commanded must be obeyed. Nothing illustrates the ultimate inversion of the official coronavirus response better than its leaders’ assault on science in the name of their “science.”
Doctors have been discouraged or prohibited from administering hydroxychloroquine, by itself or in conjunction with other medications, vitamins, and zinc compounds, to treat Covid-19. They have observed and documented the effectiveness of such remedies—mitigation or elimination of the disease’s symptoms—but their observation and documentation are dismissed. Only the validation procedure mandated by the medical bureaucracy—the expensive and complex multistage tests required of new drugs to establish their efficacy and safety—will suffice for official permission. It’s what their “science” demands of a cheap and seemingly effective remedy that’s been on the market for years as a treatment for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria.
So where were the tests and control-group studies for the pandemic models, lockdowns, social distancing, masks, flattening the curve, closing businesses, and contact tracing that have been the official coronavirus responses? Projections are hypotheses, but only one class of hypotheses was officially accepted—disaster scenarios that fed panic and paved the way for further expansion of governments’ power. The doomsday models have been discredited; cases and deaths have been orders of magnitude less than projected.
Countries that haven’t instituted lockdowns have fared no worse than countries that have. Andrew Cuomo, governor of hard-hit New York, recently expressed surprise that two-thirds of hospitalized coronavirus patients had been sheltering in place. As if locking people down—often families under close quarters—in apartment buildings that can’t control cockroaches would somehow protect dwellers against a microscopic, easily spread, fast replicating, and virtually infinite virus.
No science at all supports social distancing; six-feet is an arbitrary construct (i.e., whim) of some medical would-be dictator. Masks force the rebreathing of your own respiratory waste, weakening your immune system for the dubious benefit of that all-powerful totem: public health. The health you’re supposedly protecting is certainly not your own. It’s like eating your own feces or drinking your own urine for a purported public benefit.
Flattening the curve to ensure adequate hospital space for the wave of coronavirus patients that hasn’t happened has flattened the hospitals, leading to empty rooms and wards and layoffs for medical workers. Bankruptcies will follow.
Lost jobs and shuttered businesses are just collateral damage for our would-be emperors, who have waged senseless wars and inflicted grievous collateral damage on other countries for decades. Now the devastation and misery they’ve left in their wake have come home. Americans who’ve never asked themselves how it felt to be a victim of their government’s senseless wars are now victims of their government’s senseless war on a germ. After an unsustainable debt-propelled respite, the Greater Depression has resumed (it started in 2008) and will last for years. Its poverty and devastation will sicken and kill multiples of the people who will ultimately be afflicted by the coronavirus.
All this supposedly guided by “science,” yet its proponents commit the most unscientific offense—they corrupt their own data. By their own admission the tests they use give both false negatives and false positives. By their own admission they’re corrupting the death count. Doctors have been instructed to list Covid-19 as a cause of death if the deceased had any of the symptoms associated with Covid-19, even though those symptoms characterize a number of other diseases that singly or in combination kill people, especially people with compromised immune systems. Hospitals have a financial incentive to perpetuate this fraud. They receive $13,000 from Medicare for each Covid-19 patient and $39,000 for each patient put on a ventilator (Links here and here).
The coronavirus tyranny has nothing to do with science, medicine, or health, and everything to do with establishing that ultimate inversion: the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission. These past few weeks we’ve seen how our rulers attempted to discard the last fig leaf—democracy—covering their creeping, now galloping, totalitarianism and complete lack of legitimacy.
A camarilla within the nation’s intelligence services, the Department of Justice, and members of the previous administration, including Barack Obama, attempted to depose the democratically elected president of the United States. Such coups are the province of two-bit plotters in banana republics that make no pretense of observing or protecting rights, where might alone makes right. The United States has gone full banana—the stage of rule by brute force.
Democracy is tyranny of the majority, a system that inevitably destroys individual rights. For the history-challenged, individual rights were the still revolutionary concept on which the idea—although not always the reality—of the United States was established. The logical consequence of the full protection of individual rights is the freedom to live your life as you see fit, as long as you don’t abridge the rights of others. Society or any other group of people has no rights apart from the rights of the individuals that comprise it. Governments have no rights, only the duty to protect the rights of individuals to live peaceably and freely. Government must be the servant, not the master, of its citizens. (See the Ayn Rand Appendix cited above, “The Nature of Government,” for a more detailed exposition of the proper role of government.)
We’re light years from that ideal. Individuals must receive permission to, among other things, leave their homes, hold a job, assemble with other individuals, attend houses of worship, visit parks and beaches, or patronize businesses. The governor of my state, Michelle Lujan Grisham, just decreed that masks must be worn by everyone outside of their own dwellings (I wrote STOP MLG’S TYRANNY on mine). Breathing fresh air is now at the sufferance of our overlords. Civilly disobedient soul that I am, I have yet to don my mask. Don’t think sheep don’t get angry—I get murderous looks from mask-wearers.
With every decree issued since this repression began, those who advocate for their individual rights or actually exercise them by violating the decree are denounced, shamed, censored, and in some cases arrested. Anyone who disagrees by word or deed is “selfish,” unwilling to sacrifice for the common good.
What do they mean by selfish? Is it selfish to fight for your rights? Is it selfish to want to work and produce? Is it selfish to be more concerned with your own welfare and the welfare of your family and friends than with the welfare of strangers, the public, or the government that supposedly represents that public? Is your desire for freedom selfish?
There are those who will tie themselves in intellectual knots answering those questions in the negative, but nevertheless asserting that individual rights and their exercise—free expression, free inquiry, free production, and free exchange—can all be justified as conferring the greatest public good. They then wonder why they never win arguments with those pushing collectivized notions of the public good. When might makes right, the public good is whatever the collective’s masters say it is—argument over.
Fighting for one’s freedom and all that flows from it is selfish, profoundly so. If you don’t fight for that which is yours—the individual rights that are the essential condition of your existence—who’s going to do it for you? Anthony Fauci? Bill Gates? Nancy Pelosi? President Trump? Joe Biden? George Soros? Jerome Powell? Adam Schiff? Mark Zuckerberg? Eric Schmidt? Santa Claus? The Tooth Fairy? When was the last time you even heard the term “individual rights” in polite, mainstream discourse? When individual rights are mentioned at all, they’re treated as a quaint anachronism.
And what do they mean by sacrifice? They mean that instead of selfishly fighting for your rights and freedom, you are to unselfishly place them on the sacrificial altar known as the public good. You’re selfish for resisting the sacrifice of that which is rightfully yours, but those collecting what is not rightfully theirs are selfless saints. If you voluntarily board that cattle car, you’ll secure your spot in the Unselfish Hall of Fame, along with millions of others who have lost their property, happiness, freedom, and lives without selfish protest or resistance. You might even be designated a Hero of the Public Good, posthumously of course.
If you find the world’s descent into evil unfathomable, it’s time to rethink the premises that the selfless is the good and the selfish is evil. Collectivist butchers, including the ones pushing the coronavirus hoax, always demand fealty to some cause greater than one’s self. Fall for that one and you’ve already lost two important parts of yourself—your self-respect and your ability to reason.
The precautionary principle—that no risks can be assumed if someone or something somewhere might be harmed—is anti-mind and anti-life, absurdly evil on its face. That philosophical abomination now excuses wholesale violation of individual rights and deadly economic devastation based on projections, bureaucratic whim, and political expediency. The precautionary principle would, if consistency applied, bring human progress to a halt, eventually rendering the human race extinct. Nothing is as unsafe as an insistence on absolute safety.
Risk is what makes life worth living—it’s the driver of human knowledge and progress. Imagine the choices that confronted early humans as they made their first choices. If we build a fire, will it warm us and cook our meat…or consume us? If we eat oysters, will they nourish or kill us? Will the canoe we’ve built float or sink? The forward steps of both our individual and humanity’s journeys have always involved unanswered questions, hypotheses, risk, experimentation, trial and error, tragedy, and triumph. It takes no imagination at all to envision potential risks. Make fear and safety paramount and none of those steps could have or will be taken.
To believe that risks can be eliminated by arbitrary edicts is delusional; to enforce those edicts tyrannical; to comply with them suicidal. Wars are always fought and tyrannies always established in the name of somebody’s safety. The betrayal of individual conscience and surrender of individual rights to a collective for safety’s sake never produces safety, only misery, destruction, despair, terror and death. That’s a lesson we’re set to relearn as we proceed through one of those darkest periods of human history.
There is a silver lining in all this: the curtain has been lifted, we now know exactly what we confront. Present governments and their many bootlickers and minions do not recognize—much less protect or hold themselves subordinate to the protection of—individual rights. Nor should we expect that they will do so within our lifetimes. Absent their replacement via revolution or abandonment via secession, we will continue to live in a political order where they are free to do as they please while we may act only by permission.
If we want our rights, our freedom, and our lives, we’re going to have to fight for them with word and deed. It has ever been so; it will ever be so. Those who choose to fight will have one important ally: rule by brute force is the agent of its own collapse. It has always failed, it always will. Whether we have the virtue and wisdom to replace it with it’s antitheses—freedom and individual rights protected rather than destroyed by government—remains to be seen.
Stay sane.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Denmark Ends Lockdown After Partial Reopening Doesn’t See Rise In Cases

The lockdown nazis in the Democrat-media complex will be unmoved – facts are the enemy .
Denmark Ends Lockdown After Partial Reopening Doesn ’ t See Rise In Cases Last month , Denmark became the first country in Europe to enact a partial reopening , and since then the number of new cases and the rate of transmission has been dropping , Reuters reported .
With a population of nearly 6 million people , Denmark has confirmed almost 11,000 cases and 548 deaths so far , according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center .
Danish authorities reported no deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 13 , and the country ’ s health experts say that a second wave of the coronavirus is unlikely to affect the country .
The second phase of reopening began May 11 , with shopping malls and restaurants becoming accessible to the public once again .
( RELATED : 4.5 Million People Return To Work As Italy Eases Lockdown Restrictions ) Denmark , like other countries in Europe , enacted partial reopening policies in April in order to ensure that new outbreaks would be prevented .
Poland began to open public places in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with neither country reporting an increase in new cases or deaths .
Ireland also began its first phase of reopening Friday .
Denmark did not rely on mass testing and contact tracing , nor did it recommend face masks and other coverings .
Some health experts , like Danish professor Hans Jorn Kolmos , attributed the country ’ s success to citizen behavior .

The lockdown nazis in the Democrat-media complex will be unmoved – facts are the enemy.
Denmark Ends Lockdown After Partial Reopening Doesn’t See Rise In Cases By: Varun Hukeri, May 18, 2020: Denmark ended its national lockdown Monday after a partial reopening of the country’s economy did not lead to a rise in coronavirus cases. Last month, Denmark became the first country in Europe to enact a partial reopening, and since then the number of new cases and the rate of transmission has been dropping, Reuters reported. With a population of nearly 6 million people, Denmark has confirmed almost 11,000 cases and 548 deaths so far, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Danish authorities reported no deaths Friday, the first time since March 13, and the country’s health experts say that a second wave of the coronavirus is unlikely to affect the country. The second phase of reopening began May 11, with shopping malls and restaurants becoming accessible to the public once again. (RELATED: 4.5 Million People Return To Work As Italy Eases Lockdown Restrictions) Denmark, like other countries in Europe, enacted partial reopening policies in April in order to ensure that new outbreaks would be prevented. Poland began to open public places in April, and Austria did the same, with neither country reporting an increase in new cases or deaths. Ireland also began its first phase of reopening Friday. Denmark did not rely on mass testing and contact tracing, nor did it recommend face masks and other coverings. Some health experts, like Danish professor Hans Jorn Kolmos, attributed the country’s success to citizen behavior.
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pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--Covering His Culo: Cuomo says ‘nobody’ should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths amid criticism o

Covering His Culo: Cuomo says ‘nobody’ should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths amid criticism over nursing home policy

Cuomo says ‘ nobody ’ should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths amid criticism over nursing home policy New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo said “ nobody ” should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths , including nursing homes , saying older people were “ always going to die from this virus.
” Cuomo has come under fire for his policy enacted March 25 forcing nursing homes to take in COVID-19 positive patients , which has only recently been reversed .
One reporter at an Albany press conference on Sunday asked the governor what he had to say to families who had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus .
“ They ’ re looking for accountability and they feel that they were failed , what ’ s the comment to that ?
” Cuomo noted that 139 people had died in New York state from the virus on Saturday .
“ How do we get justice for those families ?
Who can we prosecute for those deaths ?
Nobody .
Mother Nature , God , where did this virus come from ?
People are going to die by this virus , that is the truth.
” NYC COUNCILMAN SAYS BIPARTISAN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ S ‘ BACKWARD ’ NURSING HOME ORDER “ Older people , vulnerable people , are going to die from this virus , ” Cuomo added .
“ That is going to happen despite whatever you do , with all our progress as a society , we can ’ t keep everyone alive .
Older people are more vulnerable .
That is a fact that is not going to change.
” More than 4,800 people died from COVID-19 in nursing homes in New York from March 1 to May 1 , according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Roughly 25 percent of all deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes .
The reporter pressed Cuomo about his nursing home policy again : “ Some think that the mandates that are currently in place , if they were in place from the get-go , they feel that their loved ones might still be here.
” “ People rationalize death in different ways .
I don ’ t think there is any logical rationale to say they would be alive today , ” the governor said .
He added that no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had gone without a hospital bed or a ventilator .
“ I increased the hospital capacity to an extent that we didn ’ t even need , ” he said .
On May 10 , Cuomo revealed a requirement for hospital patients to test negative for coronavirus before being discharged to nursing homes , effectively reversing his previous policy .
He also announced a policy requiring all New York nursing homes and adult care facilities to test staff members for COVID-19 twice a week and report positive cases to the state .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP ] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo ’ s failed nursing home policies , ” Stefanik tweeted Friday .
“ NOW they admit they unethically changed the way they report nursing home deaths .
An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY — NEED ANSWERS.
” New York City Republican Councilman Joe Borelli told “ Fox & Friends ” on Monday there are now bipartisan calls for an investigation into the rule .
“ The truth of the matter is on March 25 , the Cuomo administration made a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy that prevented nursing homes from rejecting patients that were testing positive for COVID-19 from coming back into the nursing home , ” Borelli told “ Fox & Friends First.
” Borelli added that though “ leeway ” should be given to elected officials who make difficult decisions in difficult circumstances , Cuomo made a “ backward ” decision , allowing infected people to be allowed near vulnerable and “ close-knit ” people .
“ You don ’ t have to be an expert in epidemiology to realize that this was going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Cuomo says ‘nobody’ should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths amid criticism over nursing home policy
By FOX News, May 18, 2020:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said “nobody” should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths, including nursing homes, saying older people were “always going to die from this virus.”
Cuomo has come under fire for his policy enacted March 25 forcing nursing homes to take in COVID-19 positive patients, which has only recently been reversed.
One reporter at an Albany press conference on Sunday asked the governor what he had to say to families who had lost loved ones in nursing homes to coronavirus. “They’re looking for accountability and they feel that they were failed, what’s the comment to that?”
Cuomo noted that 139 people had died in New York state from the virus on Saturday. “How do we get justice for those families? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Mother Nature, God, where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus, that is the truth.”
NYC COUNCILMAN SAYS BIPARTISAN PRESSURE MOUNTING FOR PROBE OF CUOMO’S ‘BACKWARD’ NURSING HOME ORDER
“Older people, vulnerable people, are going to die from this virus,” Cuomo added. “That is going to happen despite whatever you do, with all our progress as a society, we can’t keep everyone alive. Older people are more vulnerable. That is a fact that is not going to change.”
More than 4,800 people died from COVID-19 in nursing homes in New York from March 1 to May 1, according to a count by the governor’s office. Roughly 25 percent of all deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes.
The reporter pressed Cuomo about his nursing home policy again: “Some think that the mandates that are currently in place, if they were in place from the get-go, they feel that their loved ones might still be here.”
ELISE STEFANIK ASKS FEDS TO INVESTIGATE CUOMO’S ‘FAILED’ NURSING HOME POLICY
“People rationalize death in different ways. I don’t think there is any logical rationale to say they would be alive today,” the governor said. He added that no one in the state who needed one had gone without a hospital bed or a ventilator. “I increased the hospital capacity to an extent that we didn’t even need,” he said.
On May 10, Cuomo revealed a requirement for hospital patients to test negative for coronavirus before being discharged to nursing homes, effectively reversing his previous policy. He also announced a policy requiring all New York nursing homes and adult care facilities to test staff members for COVID-19 twice a week and report positive cases to the state.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is demanding a federal probe into Cuomo’s policy.
“Today I joined my [New York GOP] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo’s failed nursing home policies,” Stefanik tweeted Friday. “NOW they admit they unethically changed the way they report nursing home deaths. An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY — NEED ANSWERS.”
New York City Republican Councilman Joe Borelli told “Fox & Friends” on Monday there are now bipartisan calls for an investigation into the rule.
“The truth of the matter is on March 25, the Cuomo administration made a decision in the form of a written policy that prevented nursing homes from rejecting patients that were testing positive for COVID-19 from coming back into the nursing home,” Borelli told “Fox & Friends First.”
Borelli added that though “leeway” should be given to elected officials who make difficult decisions in difficult circumstances, Cuomo made a “backward” decision, allowing infected people to be allowed near vulnerable and “close-knit” people.
“You don’t have to be an expert in epidemiology to realize that this was going to be a problem,” Borelli said.


pamelagellerreport--2020-05-18--The Biggest LIES about COVID 19: 6 facts that change everything we know about the Chinese Virus

1 ) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers 2 ) States with longer lockdowns had worse results 3 ) Outside nursing homes , the fatality rate never warranted such action , even if it would work 4 ) Outside New York , this is barely worse than bad flu seasons 5 ) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns , not the virus : 6 ) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians , not scientists Horowitz : We have been lied to : 6 facts that change everything we know about SARS-CoV-2 Every day we learn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Daniel Horowitz , The Blaze , May 18 , 2020 : Every day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown .
Here are some of the most important ones from over the weekend .
1 ) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers : From day one , we were warned that states are ascribing every single death of anyone who happens to test positive for the coronavirus — even if they are asymptomatic — to the virus rather than the clear cause of death .
Now , thanks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state was forced to revise its death count down by 23 % over the weekend — from 1,150 to 878 .
The state is now publishing numbers of deaths “ with ” COVID-19 separate from deaths “ from ” COVID-19 .
As I reported on Thursday , county officials started accusing the state ’ s department of health of reclassifying deaths of those who tested positive for the virus but died of things like alcohol poisoning as COVID-19 deaths just to insidiously inflate the numbers .
This revision in Colorado is a bombshell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remain unknown to most Americans .
Every state needs to do this , and if they did , we would find an across-the-board drop in numbers by at least 25 % , the same % age by which Dr. Birx reportedly believes the count is being inflated , according to the Washington Post .
For example , in Minnesota , state officials are now admitting that every single person who dies in a nursing home after testing positive is now deemed to have died from the virus , never mind the fact that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a given week occur in nursing homes and that most cases of COVID-19 are asymptomatic , which means more often than not , they died exclusively of other causes .
2 ) States with longer lockdowns had worse results : Kyle Lamb posted a solid analysis on Twitter , grouping states by how long they implemented a lockdown and averaging out the deaths per 100,000 people by each grouping .
The results are stounding , as there is a perfectly inverse relationship between how long a state implemented a lockdown and how successful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I independently cross-checked these numbers , and they appear to be accurate .
While this doesn ’ t necessarily prove that lockdowns cause more COVID-19 deaths ( although they definitely cause other deaths ) , it ’ s nearly impossible to assert the other way around – that lockdowns prevent deaths – if we see zero correlation in the data .
This is especially true given that Florida is the third most populous state and has the highest concentration of seniors , yet deaths and hospitalizations are way down since the state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more densely populated than Michigan and Pennsylvania , yet has one-sixth and one-fourth of the deaths per capita , respectively .
The same holds true for Georgia , which is a fairly densely populated state .
Infections are down over 40 % and deaths are down 31 % since reopening .
As Secretary of Health Alex Azar said yesterday , “ We are seeing that in places that are opening , we ’ re not seeing this spike in cases .
We still see spikes in some areas that are , in fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homes , the fatality rate never warranted such action , even if it would work : Every day we find more hard data showing that the overwhelming majority of cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic , and outside nursing homes , the chance of dying is very low and very limited to a population we can more efficiently shield .
For those who are younger and healthier , deaths are almost nonexistent .
Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries and has a higher overall fatality rate than others , yet its age-stratified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Netherlands , Denmark , France , and elsewhere .
One Twitter commentator has broken down the age-based fatality rates of the comprehensive Spanish antibody study , and the results are similar to what we ’ ve seen elsewhere : He used public information to calculate the case data and the population age data , and I have spot-checked some data points and they all seem on target .
It ’ s identical to what the Netherlands found .
Remember , Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries , but even there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the overwhelming majority of deaths of those above age 80 were in senior care facilities .
When you take them out of the equation , the death rates are shockingly low .
Yet the same politicians who focused on locking up an entire country failed to care for those in nursing homes .
This demographic COVID-19 death chart from Massachusetts speaks volumes about the targeted scope of the danger .
It ’ s essentially the same story in every state .
4 ) Outside New York , this is barely worse than bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its schools , almost every U.S. state continues to keep schools shut .
Yet according to the CDC ’ s latest weekly report , “ For children ( 0-17 years ) , COVID-19 hospitalization rates are much lower than influenza hospitalization rates at comparable time points during recent influenza seasons.
” Even the World Health Organization ’ s top scientist just admitted that children “ seem less capable of spreading the virus.
” As for everyone else , if you look at the bump in overall deaths for most states ( outside the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at , slightly below , or slight above the 2018 flu season .
But at this point , everything is way below a typical flu season in the winter , yet you wouldn ’ t know it from listening to the media .
According to the CDC , hospitalizations and deaths have been declining in all 10 designated regions for the past 3-7 weeks .
Still , we are now being more fascist that even Italy in violating civil rights .
5 ) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns , not the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdowns saved any lives of coronavirus patients , there is clear evidence they cost other lives .
It has been observed in a number of states that there are excess deaths being detected , primarily from people dying at home .
The CDC is predicting 21,462-40,097 excess deaths NOT due to COVID-19 , likely from those too scared to come to the ER because of the exaggerated risk being associated with COVID-19 .
Also , a recent analysis of excess deaths in England shows that they are seeing thousands of people dying at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown .
6 ) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians , not scientists : Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic research reports that the origin of this cult of “ social distancing ” being used for totalitarian lockdowns was the brainchild of a high schooler ’ s sociology paper in 2006 , promoted by the Bush administration during the avian flu .
It was widely mocked by the epidemiological community , including by Johns Hopkins , for “ causing the potential for a ‘ serious adverse outcome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.
” How have we allowed such an illogical approach to crush our liberties , economy , hospitals , education , and criminal justice ?
How have we lost our freedoms ?
The answer is that the public is not getting the right information .
This is why the political class is doing everything in its power to censor anyone who dares question the idolatry of this lockdown cult .
YouTube has censored the videos of Knut Wittkowski , who was a top epidemiologist in Germany and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , epidemiology , and research design at Rockefeller University .
One would think we ’ d want to hear his opinion , but there is only one view that is allowed to gain traction .
Why is it that only one side is scared of the information of the other side ?
As James Madison warned , “ Knowledge will forever govern ignorance : And a people who mean to be their own Governors , must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives .
”

1) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers
2) States with longer lockdowns had worse results
3) Outside nursing homes, the fatality rate never warranted such action, even if it would work
4) Outside New York, this is barely worse than bad flu seasons
5) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns, not the virus
6) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians, not scientists
Horowitz: We have been lied to: 6 facts that change everything we know about SARS-CoV-2
Every day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown.
Daniel Horowitz, The Blaze, May 18, 2020:
Every day we learn new information demonstrating the lies driving lockdown. Here are some of the most important ones from over the weekend.
1) The shocking inflation of COVID-19 death numbers: From day one, we were warned that states are ascribing every single death of anyone who happens to test positive for the coronavirus — even if they are asymptomatic — to the virus rather than the clear cause of death. Now, thanks to a lawsuit in Colorado, the state was forced to revise its death count down by 23 % over the weekend — from 1,150 to 878. The state is now publishing numbers of deaths “with” COVID-19 separate from deaths “from” COVID-19. As I reported on Thursday, county officials started accusing the state’s department of health of reclassifying deaths of those who tested positive for the virus but died of things like alcohol poisoning as COVID-19 deaths just to insidiously inflate the numbers. This revision in Colorado is a bombshell story that, of course, will remain unknown to most Americans. Every state needs to do this, and if they did, we would find an across-the-board drop in numbers by at least 25%, the same %age by which Dr. Birx reportedly believes the count is being inflated, according to the Washington Post. For example, in Minnesota, state officials are now admitting that every single person who dies in a nursing home after testing positive is now deemed to have died from the virus, never mind the fact that 25% of all natural deaths in a given week occur in nursing homes and that most cases of COVID-19 are asymptomatic, which means more often than not, they died exclusively of other causes.
2) States with longer lockdowns had worse results: Kyle Lamb posted a solid analysis on Twitter, grouping states by how long they implemented a lockdown and averaging out the deaths per 100,000 people by each grouping. The results are stounding, as there is a perfectly inverse relationship between how long a state implemented a lockdown and how successful it was in keeping the deaths down. I independently cross-checked these numbers, and they appear to be accurate.
While this doesn’t necessarily prove that lockdowns cause more COVID-19 deaths (although they definitely cause other deaths), it’s nearly impossible to assert the other way around – that lockdowns prevent deaths – if we see zero correlation in the data. This is especially true given that Florida is the third most populous state and has the highest concentration of seniors, yet deaths and hospitalizations are way down since the state reopened on May 4. Florida is more densely populated than Michigan and Pennsylvania, yet has one-sixth and one-fourth of the deaths per capita, respectively. The same holds true for Georgia, which is a fairly densely populated state. Infections are down over 40% and deaths are down 31% since reopening. As Secretary of Health Alex Azar said yesterday, “We are seeing that in places that are opening, we’re not seeing this spike in cases. We still see spikes in some areas that are, in fact, closed.”
3) Outside nursing homes, the fatality rate never warranted such action, even if it would work: Every day we find more hard data showing that the overwhelming majority of cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, and outside nursing homes, the chance of dying is very low and very limited to a population we can more efficiently shield. For those who are younger and healthier, deaths are almost nonexistent. Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries and has a higher overall fatality rate than others, yet its age-stratified fatality rates mirror what we have seen in the Netherlands, Denmark, France, and elsewhere. One Twitter commentator has broken down the age-based fatality rates of the comprehensive Spanish antibody study, and the results are similar to what we’ve seen elsewhere:
He used public information to calculate the case data and the population age data, and I have spot-checked some data points and they all seem on target. It’s identical to what the Netherlands found.
Remember, Spain was one of the hardest-hit countries, but even there, 57% of all deaths and the overwhelming majority of deaths of those above age 80 were in senior care facilities. When you take them out of the equation, the death rates are shockingly low. Yet the same politicians who focused on locking up an entire country failed to care for those in nursing homes. This demographic COVID-19 death chart from Massachusetts speaks volumes about the targeted scope of the danger.
It’s essentially the same story in every state.
4) Outside New York, this is barely worse than bad flu seasons: While Europe is opening its schools, almost every U.S. state continues to keep schools shut. Yet according to the CDC’s latest weekly report, “For children (0-17 years), COVID-19 hospitalization rates are much lower than influenza hospitalization rates at comparable time points during recent influenza seasons.” Even the World Health Organization’s top scientist just admitted that children “seem less capable of spreading the virus.” As for everyone else, if you look at the bump in overall deaths for most states (outside the tristate area), they are either at, slightly below, or slight above the 2018 flu season. But at this point, everything is way below a typical flu season in the winter, yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to the media. According to the CDC, hospitalizations and deaths have been declining in all 10 designated regions for the past 3-7 weeks. Still, we are now being more fascist that even Italy in violating civil rights.
5) Excess deaths are from the lockdowns, not the virus: While there is zero evidence that lockdowns saved any lives of coronavirus patients, there is clear evidence they cost other lives. It has been observed in a number of states that there are excess deaths being detected, primarily from people dying at home. The CDC is predicting 21,462-40,097 excess deaths NOT due to COVID-19, likely from those too scared to come to the ER because of the exaggerated risk being associated with COVID-19. Also, a recent analysis of excess deaths in England shows that they are seeing thousands of people dying at home from other symptoms because of the lockdown.
6) Social distancing was invented by a high-school kid and politicians, not scientists: Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic research reports that the origin of this cult of “social distancing” being used for totalitarian lockdowns was the brainchild of a high schooler’s sociology paper in 2006, promoted by the Bush administration during the avian flu. It was widely mocked by the epidemiological community, including by Johns Hopkins, for “causing the potential for a ‘serious adverse outcome,'” thereby ensuring that “a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.”
How have we allowed such an illogical approach to crush our liberties, economy, hospitals, education, and criminal justice? How have we lost our freedoms?
The answer is that the public is not getting the right information. This is why the political class is doing everything in its power to censor anyone who dares question the idolatry of this lockdown cult. YouTube has censored the videos of Knut Wittkowski, who was a top epidemiologist in Germany and then served as the head of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design at Rockefeller University. One would think we’d want to hear his opinion, but there is only one view that is allowed to gain traction. Why is it that only one side is scared of the information of the other side?
As James Madison warned, “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”