lewrockwell--2020-05-02--White House Memo Confirms Suppressed True Story Behind Oklahoma City Bombing

As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing , the worst incident of domestic terrorism in our nation ’ s history , we now know for certain that our government ’ s public account and explanation of circumstances surrounding that heinous crime was bogus .
The truth lies in a suppressed version of events , one which was described by President Bill Clinton ’ s General Counsel Abner Mikva as “ not information that should be on paper.
” ( Emphasis added . )
This article will for the first time present key elements of that suppressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For such an order to be issued by Mikva , the Oklahoma City bombing must have posed what can only be described as a mortal threat to Clinton ’ s political future , and to the reputation of many federal agencies involved .
During my Marine Corps career with nearly five years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense , I have seen our nuclear war-fighting plans as well as our most sensitive intelligence reports – both were “ on paper.
” Puriya Intensive Moist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 29.97 ( $ 6.66 / Ounce ) The account offered here is the result of 24 years of research on my part , including 11 years of working closely with the legendary McCurtain Daily Gazette reporter , J.D .
Cash , and collaborating with dozens of other professional and citizen journalists committed to uncovering the full truth behind the Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath .
Whatever Mikva ordered not to be put “ on paper , ” was seen as more threatening to his client , the president , than the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire U.S. government .
But , as is the case of any federal government cover up , information was spread far too widely among various agencies for Mikva ’ s edict to be completely effective .
Over the past 25 years records have been released , often in seemingly unrelated cases , which have provided key elements of this mosaic – enough for us now to piece together the core of the damaging information of such concern to the president ’ s senior legal adviser .
OKBOMB , as the FBI titled the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ federal law enforcement operation that went terribly wrong for reasons still unknown .
Suppressing information about this ugly truth was Mikva ’ s objective when he issued his extraordinary order to go off paper .
Released as a memorandum on letterhead marked , “ EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT , ” the date was May 25 , 1995 , five weeks after the bombing and after the case had supposedly been solved .
This date was exactly three weeks after this newspaper published J.D .
Cash ’ s first story on OKBOMB .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ jail awaiting trial .
Bombing conspirator and white nationalist Michael Fortier had agreed to be the star prosecution witness against his former Army buddies .
Zicam Cold Remedy Citr ... Buy New $ 9.97 ( $ 0.40 / Count ) Mikva ’ s order confirming the mortal threat to the Clinton presidency was released by the Clinton Presidential Library in 2016 as one of the 1500 pages characterized as pertinent to President Barack Obama ’ s nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court .
Garland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the bombing and was the senior on-site Justice Department lawyer in charge of the investigation .
After four weeks , he returned to Washington where he continued to supervise both the investigation and preparing the government ’ s prosecution for McVeigh ’ s and Nichols ’ federal court trials .
A memorandum between two White House attorneys recorded Mikva ’ s unprecedented order and was intended for Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes , with this subject line : “ Terrorism note for H ” .
These first two sentences offer a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to as the suppressed “ Mikva version ” : Please read this historic statement again .
To put it in context , at the very time the president ’ s General Counsel issued his extraordinary suppression order , there was much ongoing work on “ terrorism ” questions that was on paper .
Oklahoma City bombing documents publicly accessible at the Clinton Presidential Library show hundreds of pages of legal , policy and political questions regarding terrorism being examined by lawyers both inside and outside of the federal government .
Any question about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ OKBOMB , was answered three years later in a media interview .
No longer in the White House , Mikva was interviewed about a dispute concerning congressional oversight between the Department of Justice and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee .
Mikva belatedly attempted damage control , having blurted out some sensitive words of his own about the suppressed truth , but it was too late .
His claim that this matter was a budget issue is ludicrous .
The Justice Department and the FBI had previously boasted about the 82 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figure as yet another indicator , albeit a phony one , of the thoroughness of the investigation , and assurance that all perpetrators had been identified and convicted .
( Mikva died in 2016 without public comment on his “ not-on-paper ’ order . )
Adding to the critical importance assigned this suppression effort are other White House records showing that Garland met during this period with Mikva ’ s Deputy General Counsel , Elena Kagan , who now serves on the U.S. Supreme Court .
Qunol Ultra CoQ10 100m ... Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) This document from the Executive Office of the President confirms what had been obvious to J.D .
Cash and others who observed this unprecedented suppression of evidence and obstruction of justice in a federal criminal case .
More importantly , we now know why OKBOMB federal prosecutors suppressed evidence on such a massive level : it incriminated more than a dozen additional perpetrators who either directly participated in the bombing , or provided support to the wider conspiracy that murdered 168 of our fellow citizens .
The version crafted by Garland and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Nichols was a bogus one whose purpose was to conceal the identity of federal informants who were members of the wider bombing conspiracy .
These accusations are so contrary to the conventional version of OKBOMB constructed by Garland that the reader is justified in wanting to see evidence behind them .
In addition to using it in the McVeigh and Nichols federal trials , the Clinton administration peddled Garland ’ s bogus version to the national media , whose unquestioning acceptance qualifies them as complicit in what later historians could justifiably term @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conducted in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin .
Lawyers at the highest levels of the Clinton White House Office of General Counsel and the Department of Justice perpetrated the greatest fraud ever foisted on a federal criminal case .
Yet , the great majority of the main stream media enthusiastically accepted this bogus version , as did the trial judge who was determined not to allow evidence of a broader conspiracy in his courtroom .
Judge Richard Matsch succeeded in keeping the first trial narrowly focused on Timothy McVeigh .
For the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s refusal to entertain questions about “ others unknown ” as listed in the indictment was understandable .
Resveratrol Supplement ... Buy New $ 21.95 ( $ 0.37 / Count ) But , for the sentencing phase where evidence of other conspirators was a statutorily mandated factor for mitigation , Matsch ’ s stringent exclusion of such evidence constitutes a denial of due process .
As such it has been severely questioned by at least one legal scholar , Daniel Capra of Fordham University law school .
Matsch made the prosecution ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ignored egregious misconduct of both investigators and prosecutors , especially on the questions of prior knowledge and of the broader conspiracy .
By his failure to seriously question government mendacity , even when presented with strong evidence of corrupt practices , Matsch greatly facilitated the acceptance of this bogus Garland version both inside and outside his courtroom .
This third version , skeptical of the bogus Garland one , and until now unaware of Mikva ’ s suppressed version , is largely based on the truly extraordinary investigation by McCurtain Daily Gazette reporter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as published in this newspaper .
Over the past 13 years since J.D.
’ s death , bits and pieces of the suppressed truth have continued to seep into the public domain , validating his reporting and adding important details that further reinforce the stellar work of what was all too often , a lone voice speaking truth to power .
We now have at least a partial answer to the question : exactly what did Mikva ’ s directive refer to when he ordered that “ working on the terrorism question… is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ?
Threats posed by a wide variety of anti-government groups , including neo-Nazis and white supremacist factions were characterized in these terms : 3m Avagard Surgical Sc ... Buy New $ 68.46 ( $ 68.46 / Count ) FBI Undercover Agents ( UCA ’ s ) reported on the extremists ’ apocalyptic and threatening language : These groups were not just talk .
The Bureau reported that members had constructed and detonated IED ’ s ( Improvised Explosive Devices ) at their training sites , and had even sent IED ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , FBI headquarters was coordinating activities among at least half the FBI 50-plus field offices , from Seattle to Baltimore , and Jacksonville , Florida to Phoenix .
Such widespread activity directly contradicts consistent FBI claims that it had no large-scale , anti-white supremacist effort during the years preceding the Oklahoma City bombing .
It is important to note that this accounting is based largely on only partial records released by the FBI after attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom Of Information Act ( FOIA ) complaint in federal court .
A full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , especially Oklahoma City , for which only very limited records have been released .
J.D .
Cash ’ s articles in this newspaper raised two central questions : did the federal government have prior knowledge of the bombing conspiracy on that fateful day 25 years ago ?
And , if it did , was the prior knowledge due to confidential informants among the bombing conspirators ?
The answers to both questions are the same emphatic and very disturbing , “ Yes !
” The critical node for the wider conspiracy identified by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supremacist compound on the Oklahoma-Arkansas border then under the total control of the late Robert Millar .
Government records leave no doubt that Millar and McVeigh were , contrary to all public statements , closely involved in the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building .
Another member of their conspiracy was Andreas Strassmeir , a German national and FBI operative who successfully infiltrated Elohim City from 1991-1995 .
Although Strassmeir was supposed only to report on the targeted group of neo-Nazis , substantial evidence suggests that his extreme language provoked the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is now irrefutable that in spite of federal law enforcement having prior knowledge of the bombing conspiracy , they failed to prevent McVeigh ’ s attack .
The cause for this failure remains hidden in Mikva ’ s suppressed version , but there is no doubt that the FBI ’ s importing a “ pretend Nazi ” from Germany was a major contributing factor .
While J.D .
Cash ’ s articles in this paper formed the foundation of the skeptical version , his death prevented him from seeing the fruit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facts have surfaced .
What is crystal clear is that while Cash ’ s honest reporting has stood the test of these last 25 years , the surfacing of suppressed evidence increasingly exposes Garland ’ s version as a fraud .

As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the worst incident of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history, we now know for certain that our government’s public account and explanation of circumstances surrounding that heinous crime was bogus. The truth lies in a suppressed version of events, one which was described by President Bill Clinton’s General Counsel Abner Mikva as “not information that should be on paper.” (Emphasis added.)
This article will for the first time present key elements of that suppressed information, on paper for the public.
For such an order to be issued by Mikva, the Oklahoma City bombing must have posed what can only be described as a mortal threat to Clinton’s political future, and to the reputation of many federal agencies involved.
During my Marine Corps career with nearly five years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, I have seen our nuclear war-fighting plans as well as our most sensitive intelligence reports – both were “on paper.”
Puriya Intensive Moist... Buy New $29.97 ($6.66 / Ounce) (as of 10:35 UTC - Details) The account offered here is the result of 24 years of research on my part, including 11 years of working closely with the legendary McCurtain Daily Gazette reporter, J.D. Cash, and collaborating with dozens of other professional and citizen journalists committed to uncovering the full truth behind the Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath.
Whatever Mikva ordered not to be put “on paper,” was seen as more threatening to his client, the president, than the compromise of any other information in the entire U.S. government. But, as is the case of any federal government cover up, information was spread far too widely among various agencies for Mikva’s edict to be completely effective.
Over the past 25 years records have been released, often in seemingly unrelated cases, which have provided key elements of this mosaic – enough for us now to piece together the core of the damaging information of such concern to the president’s senior legal adviser.
OKBOMB, as the FBI titled the case, was the result of a federal law enforcement operation that went terribly wrong for reasons still unknown.
Suppressing information about this ugly truth was Mikva’s objective when he issued his extraordinary order to go off paper. Released as a memorandum on letterhead marked, “EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,” the date was May 25, 1995, five weeks after the bombing and after the case had supposedly been solved.
This date was exactly three weeks after this newspaper published J.D. Cash’s first story on OKBOMB. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were in jail awaiting trial. Bombing conspirator and white nationalist Michael Fortier had agreed to be the star prosecution witness against his former Army buddies. Zicam Cold Remedy Citr... Buy New $9.97 ($0.40 / Count) (as of 03:17 UTC - Details)
Mikva’s order confirming the mortal threat to the Clinton presidency was released by the Clinton Presidential Library in 2016 as one of the 1500 pages characterized as pertinent to President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Garland arrived in Oklahoma City just two days after the bombing and was the senior on-site Justice Department lawyer in charge of the investigation. After four weeks, he returned to Washington where he continued to supervise both the investigation and preparing the government’s prosecution for McVeigh’s and Nichols’ federal court trials.
A memorandum between two White House attorneys recorded Mikva’s unprecedented order and was intended for Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, with this subject line: “Terrorism note for H”.
These first two sentences offer a candid disclosure of what will be referred to as the suppressed “Mikva version”:
The Justice Department has stopped working on the terrorism question. They say this is because Ab [Abner Mikva] instructed them that this is not information that should be on paper. (Emphasis added.)
Please read this historic statement again.
To put it in context, at the very time the president’s General Counsel issued his extraordinary suppression order, there was much ongoing work on “terrorism” questions that was on paper. Oklahoma City bombing documents publicly accessible at the Clinton Presidential Library show hundreds of pages of legal, policy and political questions regarding terrorism being examined by lawyers both inside and outside of the federal government.
Any question about whether Mikva’s edict dealt with OKBOMB, was answered three years later in a media interview. No longer in the White House, Mikva was interviewed about a dispute concerning congressional oversight between the Department of Justice and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
The Chicago Tribune reporter wrote of Mikva’s admission:
Abner Mikva, a former White House counsel, federal judge, and Chicago congressman said Congress must move cautiously. [The Department of] Justice handles sensitive investigations, from terrorism to organized crime, and many techniques must remain secret, Mikva said. “If Chairman Hyde starts asking about all the dollars they spent in Oklahoma City, that can compromise some very, very delicate information,” added Mikva, a Democrat. “How much of that does he really want to get into?” (Emphasis added.)
Mikva belatedly attempted damage control, having blurted out some sensitive words of his own about the suppressed truth, but it was too late. His claim that this matter was a budget issue is ludicrous. The Justice Department and the FBI had previously boasted about the 82 million dollars spent on OKBOMB, presenting this figure as yet another indicator, albeit a phony one, of the thoroughness of the investigation, and assurance that all perpetrators had been identified and convicted. (Mikva died in 2016 without public comment on his “not-on-paper’ order.)
Adding to the critical importance assigned this suppression effort are other White House records showing that Garland met during this period with Mikva’s Deputy General Counsel, Elena Kagan, who now serves on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Qunol Ultra CoQ10 100m... Buy New $25.35 ($0.21 / Count) (as of 02:39 UTC - Details) This document from the Executive Office of the President confirms what had been obvious to J.D. Cash and others who observed this unprecedented suppression of evidence and obstruction of justice in a federal criminal case.
More importantly, we now know why OKBOMB federal prosecutors suppressed evidence on such a massive level: it incriminated more than a dozen additional perpetrators who either directly participated in the bombing, or provided support to the wider conspiracy that murdered 168 of our fellow citizens.
The version crafted by Garland and presented in the federal trials of McVeigh and Nichols was a bogus one whose purpose was to conceal the identity of federal informants who were members of the wider bombing conspiracy.
These accusations are so contrary to the conventional version of OKBOMB constructed by Garland that the reader is justified in wanting to see evidence behind them.
THE BOGUS GARLAND VERSION
In addition to using it in the McVeigh and Nichols federal trials, the Clinton administration peddled Garland’s bogus version to the national media, whose unquestioning acceptance qualifies them as complicit in what later historians could justifiably term “show trials” equal to those conducted in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
Lawyers at the highest levels of the Clinton White House Office of General Counsel and the Department of Justice perpetrated the greatest fraud ever foisted on a federal criminal case.
Yet, the great majority of the main stream media enthusiastically accepted this bogus version, as did the trial judge who was determined not to allow evidence of a broader conspiracy in his courtroom.
Judge Richard Matsch succeeded in keeping the first trial narrowly focused on Timothy McVeigh. For the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, Matsch’s refusal to entertain questions about “others unknown” as listed in the indictment was understandable.
Resveratrol Supplement... Buy New $21.95 ($0.37 / Count) (as of 02:49 UTC - Details) But, for the sentencing phase where evidence of other conspirators was a statutorily mandated factor for mitigation, Matsch’s stringent exclusion of such evidence constitutes a denial of due process. As such it has been severely questioned by at least one legal scholar, Daniel Capra of Fordham University law school.
Matsch made the prosecution’s challenge much easier when he largely ignored egregious misconduct of both investigators and prosecutors, especially on the questions of prior knowledge and of the broader conspiracy.
By his failure to seriously question government mendacity, even when presented with strong evidence of corrupt practices, Matsch greatly facilitated the acceptance of this bogus Garland version both inside and outside his courtroom.
THE SKEPTICAL CASH VERSION, ADMITTEDLY INCOMPLETE
This third version, skeptical of the bogus Garland one, and until now unaware of Mikva’s suppressed version, is largely based on the truly extraordinary investigation by McCurtain Daily Gazette reporter John David “J.D.” Cash, as published in this newspaper.
Over the past 13 years since J.D.’s death, bits and pieces of the suppressed truth have continued to seep into the public domain, validating his reporting and adding important details that further reinforce the stellar work of what was all too often, a lone voice speaking truth to power.
We now have at least a partial answer to the question: exactly what did Mikva’s directive refer to when he ordered that “working on the terrorism question… is not information that should be on paper”?
Threats posed by a wide variety of anti-government groups, including neo-Nazis and white supremacist factions were characterized in these terms:
DUE TO SPECIFIC THREATS BY SUBJECTS AGAINST FBI PERSONNEL, AND SUBJECTS’ CONTINUED POSSESSION OF WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES, SUBJECTS ARE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
3m Avagard Surgical Sc... Buy New $68.46 ($68.46 / Count) (as of 02:28 UTC - Details) FBI Undercover Agents (UCA’s) reported on the extremists’ apocalyptic and threatening language:
… foresees all out war with the U.S. Government by his group and other groups like the AN [Aryan Nations, an Idaho-based group]. … announced that open war with the U.S. Government would come within the next year. … discussed carrying out a series of political assassinations and what [name redacted] describes as ‘an operational plan’ has been prepared.”
These groups were not just talk. The Bureau reported that members had constructed and detonated IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) at their training sites, and had even sent IED’s through the U.S. mail.
By 1992, FBI headquarters was coordinating activities among at least half the FBI 50-plus field offices, from Seattle to Baltimore, and Jacksonville, Florida to Phoenix. Such widespread activity directly contradicts consistent FBI claims that it had no large-scale, anti-white supremacist effort during the years preceding the Oklahoma City bombing.
It is important to note that this accounting is based largely on only partial records released by the FBI after attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) complaint in federal court. A full accounting would no doubt include other offices, especially Oklahoma City, for which only very limited records have been released.
J.D. Cash’s articles in this newspaper raised two central questions: did the federal government have prior knowledge of the bombing conspiracy on that fateful day 25 years ago? And, if it did, was the prior knowledge due to confidential informants among the bombing conspirators?
The answers to both questions are the same emphatic and very disturbing, “Yes!”
The critical node for the wider conspiracy identified by Cash is Elohim City, a white supremacist compound on the Oklahoma-Arkansas border then under the total control of the late Robert Millar. Government records leave no doubt that Millar and McVeigh were, contrary to all public statements, closely involved in the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building. Another member of their conspiracy was Andreas Strassmeir, a German national and FBI operative who successfully infiltrated Elohim City from 1991-1995.
Although Strassmeir was supposed only to report on the targeted group of neo-Nazis, substantial evidence suggests that his extreme language provoked the most violent actions of the bombing conspirators.
It is now irrefutable that in spite of federal law enforcement having prior knowledge of the bombing conspiracy, they failed to prevent McVeigh’s attack. The cause for this failure remains hidden in Mikva’s suppressed version, but there is no doubt that the FBI’s importing a “pretend Nazi” from Germany was a major contributing factor.
While J.D. Cash’s articles in this paper formed the foundation of the skeptical version, his death prevented him from seeing the fruit of his work as these hitherto suppressed facts have surfaced.
What is crystal clear is that while Cash’s honest reporting has stood the test of these last 25 years, the surfacing of suppressed evidence increasingly exposes Garland’s version as a fraud.


lewrockwell--2020-05-02--The Three Nations of Covid and a Windbag Named Fauci

If you don ’ t think our so-called mainstream rulers has gone off the deep end , just consider New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ’ s recent menacing tweets to the orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn , which has insisted on holding funerals , including one Monday for a revered 73-year old Rabbi attended by upwards of 2,000 mourners : “ Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite : a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic , ” the mayor said in one post .
“ When I heard , I went there myself to ensure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus.
” My message to the Jewish community , and all communities , is this simple : the time for warnings has passed .
I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups .
This is about stopping this disease and saving lives .
Period .
Well , NYC is nearly a ghost town and now its idiotic ruling pols are suggesting that , apparently , only ghosts may attend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : The Undrai ... David A. Stockman Best Price : $ 12.72 Buy New $ 43.07 But actually , this photo from the offending funeral is another picture worth a thousand words .
That ’ s because by now , everyone , and we mean everyone , knows that the Covid-19 strikes the elderly , the frail and the already disease-afflicted ; and that these vulnerable populations need to not only “ social distance ” , but actually stay home and keep out of harm ’ s way completely .
That appears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ funeral .
If you can spot an octogenarian in this crowd , or even a grandfather , your eyesight is better than Clark Kent ’ s .
And besides being preponderantly way under 50-somethings , they congregated outdoors and virtually all were wearing masks .
Yet claiming to speak for some latter day “ Committee of Public Safety ” , Mayor Robespierre actually threatened to bring in the gendarmes .
Hundreds of people gathered in Williamsburg , Brooklyn , for a massive funeral Tuesday evening As to whether the above pictured citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s start with a tale of two Lockdown Nations – New York City and the semi-socialist Republic of California .
Both have imposed severe stay-at-home and business shutdown orders almost from the day the Donald issued his unfortunate March 16 guidelines .
Yet here are the results 45 days later with respect to their mortality rates , which is ostensibly the reason officialdom issued these draconian “ cease and desist ” orders in the first place .
To wit , the mortality rate as of April 28 was 143 per 100,000 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the state of California .
Essentially the same public health policy lockdown , but night and day differences in the outcome .
Yes , New York is more dense than California on average , but that doesn ’ t even remotely explain the difference .
That ’ s because by now there is overwhelming evidence that the severity of the quarantine regime has essentially zero impact on the mortality metrics .
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 And folks , even the Virus Patrol hardliners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are designed to prevent 3-day hospital stays by people who get an unusually stubborn case of the winter flu .
This is about death prevention and that ’ s why they run the Chyron of Death across the CNN screen day and night .
But there is zero correlation : We call attention to Washington state , Maine and Massachusetts especially because even though they all have severe statewide lockdown regimes and their overall mortality rates very widely , from 3.8 per 100,000 in Maine to 45.7 per 100,000 in Massachusetts , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To wit , 40-60 % of their Covid-fatalities have been in nursing homes .
In Maine , 53 % of Covid deaths were in nursing homes , meaning that the actual Covid-mortality rate for the general population is just 1.8 per 100,000 and in Massachusetts 56 % are nursing home fatalities , meaning the general rate is 21 per 100,000 .
Ironically , Sweden has one of the least restrictive lockdown regimes in the world – schools , businesses , restaurants and retail remain open–yet its mortality rate of 22 per 100,000 is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Massachusetts .
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In the case of Washington state where the first corona cases occurred , upwards of 40 % of the 690 deaths to date have been in nursing homes , meaning that its general population mortality is just 6.0 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , these single-digit rates are rounding errors on the scheme of things , even as all deaths are both regrettable and inevitable .
But by what rational calculation does Governor Inslee insist on keeping the state in Lockdown and its economy heading into the the drink ?
Someone might dare inform him that the general mortality rate from all causes for his citizens is 900 per 100,000 annually , and that , therefore , he is imposing the economic mayhem evident in these charts below owing to a risk of Covid death for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so far has been 0.7 % of the normal average .
Stated differently , had Patient Zero ( aka the Donald ) not been the victim of malpractice by his doctors led by Fauci and the Scarf Lady , he might have been advised to dial in on day # 1 to the heart of the Covid-threat .
Namely , the 15,600 nursing homes in America , which domicile some 1.5 million residents , of which one-quarter ( 425,00 ) are over the age of 80 years .
In the case of Massachusetts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occurred in nursing homes , the average age of Covid-deaths has been 82 years .
Needless to say , you did not need to be entombed in the infectious disease tunnel at the NIH for 52 years like Dr. Fauci , a pretentious 79-year old windbag who should have himself been put in a retirement home years ago , to realize that nursing homes are dense-packed with the frail , disease-afflicted elderly .
So rather than wipe out $ 4 trillion of GDP via Lockdown Nation they might have started with say $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the state public health agencies to zero-in on protecting , isolating and treating the nursing home residents .
After all , we find it easy to believe that spending $ 20,000 per nursing home resident might have saved or extended a lot more lives than the WHO/CDC/DR .
Fauci blunderbuss assault on the entire US economy .
Indeed , with each passing update , the CDC data itself becomes an ever more dispositive indictment of the madness the Donald ’ s doctors have imposed on the nation .
It is now strikingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it comes to Covid-19 there are three nations in America , and that the attempt to shoe-horn them into a one-size fits all regime of state control is tantamount to insane .
There is first the Kids Nation of some 61 million persons under 15 years , where even by the CDCs elastic definitions there have been just 5 WITH Covid deaths thru April 28 .
You needn ’ t even bother with the zero-ridden fraction of 1 per 100,000 ( its actually 0.008 ) to make the point .
That is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 44,000 deaths among the Kids Nation – so corona-virus accounts for just 0.011 % of the total , and in no sane world would it be a reason for shutting down the schools .
Of course , the Virus Patrol insists that the school closures are an unfortunate necessity because otherwise the Kids Nation would take the virus home to the Parents/Workers Nation .
That is the 215 million citizens between 15 and 64 , who account for the overwhelming share of commerce , jobholders and GDP .
The Great Deformation : ... @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 8.99 Yet according to the CDC , there have been just 8,267 deaths WITH Covid in this massive expanse of the population , which figure represents a mortality rate of , well , 3.6 per 100,000 .
But here ’ s the thing .
The normal total mortality rate for the 15-64 years old population is 335 per 100,000 .
So we are talking about shutting down the entire economy owing to a death rate to date which amounts to 1.1 % of normal mortality in the Parents/Workers nation .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , comprised of 52 million citizens .
But they account for 32,000 or nearly 80 % of the WITH Covid deaths as of April 28 – with 15,000 of these being among those 85 years and older .
By way of computation , that ’ s 61 deaths per 100,000 for the group as a whole and 230 per 100,000 for the 85 years and older .
Stated differently , the risk of death posed by Covid-19 is 7,600X greater for Grandparents/Great Grandparents Nation overall than for Kids Nation , and 29,000 times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with severe comorbidity and likely as not to be in the care of a nursing home .
Needless to say , it did not take a catastrophic experiment with Lockdown Nation to figure this out .
It was already known from China and the history of other coronaviruses .
If there were any reason or justice left in America , Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady and the whole CDC/WHO lobby that brought about this disaster would actually be headed for their own quarantine – the kind that doesn ’ t happen at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lifted by the whims of the Cuomo brothers or Mayor Robespierre .
The Best of David Stockman

If you don’t think our so-called mainstream rulers has gone off the deep end, just consider New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent menacing tweets to the orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, which has insisted on holding funerals, including one Monday for a revered 73-year old Rabbi attended by upwards of 2,000 mourners:
“Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic,” the mayor said in one post. “When I heard, I went there myself to ensure the crowd was dispersed. And what I saw WILL NOT be tolerated so long as we are fighting the Coronavirus.”
My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.
Well, NYC is nearly a ghost town and now its idiotic ruling pols are suggesting that, apparently, only ghosts may attend funerals without governmental permission! Peak Trump: The Undrai... David A. Stockman Best Price: $12.72 Buy New $43.07 (as of 11:40 UTC - Details)
But actually, this photo from the offending funeral is another picture worth a thousand words.
That’s because by now, everyone, and we mean everyone, knows that the Covid-19 strikes the elderly, the frail and the already disease-afflicted; and that these vulnerable populations need to not only “social distance”, but actually stay home and keep out of harm’s way completely.
That appears to be exactly what happened at Rabbi Mertz’ funeral. If you can spot an octogenarian in this crowd, or even a grandfather, your eyesight is better than Clark Kent’s.
And besides being preponderantly way under 50-somethings, they congregated outdoors and virtually all were wearing masks. Yet claiming to speak for some latter day “Committee of Public Safety”, Mayor Robespierre actually threatened to bring in the gendarmes.
Hundreds of people gathered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a massive funeral Tuesday evening
As to whether the above pictured citizens should be jailed or fined, let’s start with a tale of two Lockdown Nations – New York City and the semi-socialist Republic of California.
Both have imposed severe stay-at-home and business shutdown orders almost from the day the Donald issued his unfortunate March 16 guidelines. Yet here are the results 45 days later with respect to their mortality rates, which is ostensibly the reason officialdom issued these draconian “cease and desist” orders in the first place.
To wit, the mortality rate as of April 28 was 143 per 100,000 in New York City and 4.6 per 100,000 in the state of California. Essentially the same public health policy lockdown, but night and day differences in the outcome.
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And folks, even the Virus Patrol hardliners don’t claim their lockdown orders are designed to prevent 3-day hospital stays by people who get an unusually stubborn case of the winter flu. This is about death prevention and that’s why they run the Chyron of Death across the CNN screen day and night.
But there is zero correlation:
California : Heavy lockdown, 4.6 deaths per 100,000;
: Heavy lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Iowa : No lockdown, 4.3 deaths per 100,000;
: No lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Texas : Light lockdown, 2.4 deaths per 100,000;
: Light lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Washington state : Heavy lockdown, 10.0 deaths per 100,000;
: Heavy lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Colorado : Inconsistent lockdown, 12.2 deaths per 100,000;
: Inconsistent lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Georgia : Late Lockdown now lifted, 10.0 deaths per 100,000;
: Late Lockdown now lifted, deaths per 100,000; Maine : Heavy Lockdown, 3.8 deaths per 100,000;
: Heavy Lockdown, deaths per 100,000; Massachusetts: Heavy Lockdown, 45.7 deaths per 100,000.
We call attention to Washington state, Maine and Massachusetts especially because even though they all have severe statewide lockdown regimes and their overall mortality rates very widely, from 3.8 per 100,000 in Maine to 45.7 per 100,000 in Massachusetts, they do share one thing in common. To wit, 40-60% of their Covid-fatalities have been in nursing homes.
In Maine, 53% of Covid deaths were in nursing homes, meaning that the actual Covid-mortality rate for the general population is just 1.8 per 100,000 and in Massachusetts 56% are nursing home fatalities, meaning the general rate is 21 per 100,000.
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Self-evidently, what matters is not how economically suicidal the lockdown regime is from one jurisdiction to the next, but the age, health status and general frailty/vulnerability of the populations at issue. In the case of Washington state where the first corona cases occurred, upwards of 40% of the 690 deaths to date have been in nursing homes, meaning that its general population mortality is just 6.0 per 100,000.
As we amplify below, these single-digit rates are rounding errors on the scheme of things, even as all deaths are both regrettable and inevitable. But by what rational calculation does Governor Inslee insist on keeping the state in Lockdown and its economy heading into the the drink?
Someone might dare inform him that the general mortality rate from all causes for his citizens is 900 per 100,000 annually, and that, therefore, he is imposing the economic mayhem evident in these charts below owing to a risk of Covid death for the general population of his state that so far has been 0.7% of the normal average.
Stated differently, had Patient Zero (aka the Donald) not been the victim of malpractice by his doctors led by Fauci and the Scarf Lady, he might have been advised to dial in on day #1 to the heart of the Covid-threat. Namely, the 15,600 nursing homes in America, which domicile some 1.5 million residents, of which one-quarter (425,00) are over the age of 80 years.
In the case of Massachusetts, where the majority of deaths have occurred in nursing homes, the average age of Covid-deaths has been 82 years.
Needless to say, you did not need to be entombed in the infectious disease tunnel at the NIH for 52 years like Dr. Fauci, a pretentious 79-year old windbag who should have himself been put in a retirement home years ago, to realize that nursing homes are dense-packed with the frail, disease-afflicted elderly.
So rather than wipe out $4 trillion of GDP via Lockdown Nation they might have started with say $25 billion of incremental money for Medicare/Medicaid and the state public health agencies to zero-in on protecting, isolating and treating the nursing home residents.
After all, we find it easy to believe that spending $20,000 per nursing home resident might have saved or extended a lot more lives than the WHO/CDC/DR. Fauci blunderbuss assault on the entire US economy.
Indeed, with each passing update, the CDC data itself becomes an ever more dispositive indictment of the madness the Donald’s doctors have imposed on the nation. It is now strikingly clear, in fact, that when it comes to Covid-19 there are three nations in America, and that the attempt to shoe-horn them into a one-size fits all regime of state control is tantamount to insane.
There is first the Kids Nation of some 61 million persons under 15 years, where even by the CDCs elastic definitions there have been just 5 WITH Covid deaths thru April 28. You needn’t even bother with the zero-ridden fraction of 1 per 100,000 (its actually 0.008) to make the point.
That is to say, last year there were about 44,000 deaths among the Kids Nation – so corona-virus accounts for just 0.011% of the total, and in no sane world would it be a reason for shutting down the schools.
Of course, the Virus Patrol insists that the school closures are an unfortunate necessity because otherwise the Kids Nation would take the virus home to the Parents/Workers Nation. That is the 215 million citizens between 15 and 64, who account for the overwhelming share of commerce, jobholders and GDP. The Great Deformation:... David Stockman Best Price: $4.26 Buy New $8.99 (as of 05:50 UTC - Details)
Yet according to the CDC, there have been just 8,267 deaths WITH Covid in this massive expanse of the population, which figure represents a mortality rate of, well, 3.6 per 100,000.
But here’s the thing. The normal total mortality rate for the 15-64 years old population is 335 per 100,000. So we are talking about shutting down the entire economy owing to a death rate to date which amounts to 1.1% of normal mortality in the Parents/Workers nation.
Finally, we have Grandparents/Great Grandparents Nation, comprised of 52 million citizens. But they account for 32,000 or nearly 80% of the WITH Covid deaths as of April 28 – with 15,000 of these being among those 85 years and older.
By way of computation, that’s 61 deaths per 100,000 for the group as a whole and 230 per 100,000 for the 85 years and older.
Stated differently, the risk of death posed by Covid-19 is 7,600X greater for Grandparents/Great Grandparents Nation overall than for Kids Nation, and 29,000 times greater for the several million Great-Grandparents afflicted with severe comorbidity and likely as not to be in the care of a nursing home.
Needless to say, it did not take a catastrophic experiment with Lockdown Nation to figure this out. It was already known from China and the history of other coronaviruses.
If there were any reason or justice left in America, Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady and the whole CDC/WHO lobby that brought about this disaster would actually be headed for their own quarantine – the kind that doesn’t happen at home and which can’t be lifted by the whims of the Cuomo brothers or Mayor Robespierre.
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Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.
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