lewrockwell--2020-09-11--5G Opponents Are Not Luddites

5G Opponents Are Not Luddites

As a science and technology aficionado who believes in using science to promote human health and prosperity , I was startled to find myself classified as a Luddite by Frontier Centre research associate Paz Gomez in her article “ Luddites Stand in the Way of 5G Prosperity : Fears Overblown , Ignore Benefits of Communications Connectivity ” published on July 29 , 2020 .
The one thing I can agree with Ms. Gomez on is that faster communications would provide many benefits to humankind .
However , choices have to be made about how to deliver faster communications to households @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not all choices are good ones .
And you can ’ t do a proper cost/benefit analysis without thoroughly exploring all of the costs .
The expression “ 5G ” refers to the fifth generation of wireless technology , which will carry more data , at higher speeds , than previous cellular networks .
But wireless 5G is not the only game in town when it comes to delivering high-speed internet .
It faces stiff competition from fibre optic systems .
All EMF*d Up ( *Electro ... Mills , Anne Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fibre optic cables consist of extremely thin interior strands of glass or plastic which carry signals in the form of light , surrounded by multiple layers of cladding , coating and jacketing which prevent the light signals from escaping .
Fibre optic cables are already in use for most of the world ’ s internet transmissions .
This 2010 article estimated that “ ninety-nine percent of the Internet ’ s physical distance has been strung with fiber already.
” This means there ’ s a good chance that the street where your home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ optic cable running along its length , even though it may not yet be in use ( this is known as “ dark fibre ” . )
I ’ ve been told that ’ s the case in the municipality where I live .
The problem stems from what ’ s called “ the last mile ” : the distance between the street ’ s central fibre optic cable and the customer ’ s wifi router or receiving devices .
Until recently , this last mile ( which might be only 20 feet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wired with coaxial cable or DSL ( Digital Subscriber Lines ) .
Such cables transmit data reliably over shielded wires , but the transmission speed is relatively slow compared to fibre optics .
It ’ s the last mile that the two competing new technologies propose to speed up .
This can be done in two ways : either by replacing the coaxial or DSL cable running from the street to your home with additional fibre optic cable , or by simply beaming signals wirelessly to your devices using antennae referred to as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in North America would require the installation of millions of small cellular antennae in order to ensure continuous coverage [ 1 ] .
That ’ s because the wavelengths they use have a very short range , so antennae have to be placed close together .
For indoor use , small cells might need to be located as little as 10 meters apart .
Outdoors , small cells have a range varying from 500 meters to 2.5 kilometers .
[ 2 ] Some neighbourhoods might end up with small cells located on almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5G ... Best Price : $ 671.67 Buy New $ 849.99 Different companies use different frequency bands for their 5G , but the most important thing to note is that none of the wireless 5G technologies have undergone any safety testing whatsoever with respect to the impact of these waves on human health .
None .
This was admitted by industry representatives at a U.S. Senate hearing held on February 7 , 2019 , an excerpt of which can be seen in this YouTube video .
Yes , there are government guidelines for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ’ re called Safety Code 6 .
Critics such as Canadians for Safe Technology ( “ C4ST ” ) allege that the code is severely obsolete [ 3 ] .
It was created by Health Canada in the 1970s ( long before the development of smart phones ) to evaluate the technology existing at that time .
It has not had any major revisions made to it in the last 30 years—but it has nevertheless has been extended to constitute the guidelines for a host of later-developed technologies including smart phones and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apparently content to let it serve as the safety guideline for the untested 5G wireless radiation .
An international appeal signed by 398 scientists and doctors has recommended a moratorium on the roll-out of wireless 5G .
They say new scientific evidence demonstrates that living organisms ( both plants and animals ) are adversely affected by EMFs ( that is , existing electromagnetic frequencies emitted by 2G , 3G and 4G technologies—let alone 5G ) at levels well below current national and international guidelines .
The problem would simply be exacerbated by 5G @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. has published a study showing “ a statistically significant increase in the incidence of brain and heart cancer in animals exposed to EMF below the… guidelines followed by most countries.
” The Bioinitiative Report ( published in 2012 and recently updated to cover the period up to 2020 ) was authored by 29 people from 10 countries .
Among them , they held 10 medical degrees ( MD ) , 21 PhDs , and a few other degrees .
This group doesn ’ t seem to fit the description of Luddites .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ EMFs , as indicated in scientific studies , are : • Increased oxidative stress and free radical production ( associated with numerous conditions such as Alzheimer ’ s disease , high blood pressure , atherosclerosis , heart disease , arthritis and diabetes—all of which have increased dramatically since the 1990s ) • Neurological effects ( changes in memory , learning or perception ) • Disrupted immune function ( an especially important problem in these days of COVID-19 ) .
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G , ... Buy New $ 434.00 Dr. Martin Pall , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Basic Medical Sciences at Washington State University .
He has studied extensively the biological effects of electromagnetic fields , and summarized his findings in a letter to California legislators three years ago .
His list of 14 different adverse health effects include life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias , lower sperm counts , cataract formation and sleep disruption .
In short , it is absurd to dismiss the health concerns about EMFs that have been brought forward by hundreds of scientists as the grumpy rumblings of Luddites who just can ’ t get their heads @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Opponents of 5G have additional concerns besides human health .
They point to studies showing adverse effects of EMFs on plants , insects , and animals .
Even the microbes in our soil and in our intestines might be affected .
The importance of healthy microbes to human health is only just beginning to be understood .
Of particular concern is the possibility that insect pollinators such as bees and butterflies might be prevented from performing their crucial function of ensuring that the world has enough to eat .
Many 5G critics are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to China , the home country of Huawei , a major manufacturer of wireless 5G technology .
According to C4ST , the competing fibre optic technology can provide even faster connectivity speeds than wireless 5G , without emitting radiation .
These cables are also less vulnerable to natural disaster or attack , and more protective of privacy .
It may cost more to run fibre optics across the last mile to individual homes than it would to install a street ’ s worth of 5G small cells , but that ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individual who purchases the technological upgrade .
And this raises the problem that should be of concern to all who call themselves economists .
The installation of 5G is not—unlike the installation of fibre optics—a private concern .
Once the small cells start broadcasting , their radiation impacts everyone within range , whether they are 5G customers are not .
In economists ’ terminology , 5G imposes negative externalities on people who just happen to live in or meander through the territory where 5G customers and their suppliers are causing radiation to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 1,066.66 In a densely populated city , your neighbour may want 5G while you don ’ t .
The result may be that a small cell sits on a telephone pole 20 feet away from your bedroom window and bathes you in unwanted electromagnetic radiation all night .
Ms. Gomez ’ s article placed speculative values on the anticipated benefits of wireless 5G , but dismissed as “ unsupported ” any claims of harm .
Consequently , her cost/benefit analysis of 5G failed to take into account the following possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ treating individuals who might be adversely affected by wireless 5G • Lost productivity of individuals who might be rendered unable to work due to 5G • The loss of crops that might ensue if insect pollinators or important soil microbes are killed off or incapacitated .
There is also one certain , non-speculative cost that she has failed to take into account : namely , the cost of protective gear that many people are already acquiring to protect themselves from 5G as it expands relentlessly into Canada .
Since becoming aware of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I myself have purchased a device that I hope will reduce the impact of EMFs , and I ’ m investigating other devices to shield my windows , my bed and my work area in case 5G comes to my town .
New companies in this field are springing up all over the place , selling everything from metallic-lined clothing to pendants to Faraday cages for your bedroom .
At common law , the case of Rylands v. Fletcher ( 1868 ) established that a person is liable for damages if he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land onto neighbouring property .
Here ’ s the most famous passage from the British House of Lords : “ If a person brings , or accumulates , on his land anything which , if it should escape , may cause damage to his neighbour , he does so at his peril .
If it does escape , and cause damage , he is responsible , however careful he may have been , and whatever precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage.
” EMF : Survival Guide .
D ... Mallow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has not yet been tested whether a court would apply this rule to 5G electromagnetic waves ( or even 4G , for that matter ) but a UK group called Action Against 5G has retained a team of lawyers to commence legal proceedings .
Like the Canadian group C4ST , the UK group does not oppose technology .
Rather , it opposes untested and suspected unsafe technology .
It advocates the use of fibre optics instead of wireless 5G to achieve speedier communications .
Likewise , a group called Stop5GNetherlands applied for an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invoke an emergency procedure to stop the installation of 5G in the Netherlands .
In the US , the Children ’ s Health Defense organization headed up by lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing the Federal Communication Commission ( FCC ) for refusing to update its safety guidelines which ( like Canada ’ s ) are more than 25 years old .
In 2019 , an appellate court in Turin , Italy confirmed the trial court ’ s decision that the plaintiff ’ s acoustic neuroma ( a tumor affecting the inner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his mobile phone .
The city of Brussels and several parts of Switzerland have proactively imposed moratoriums on the rollout of 5G .
Many other municipalities around the world have followed suit , or are considering doing so .
Even some entire countries are on the list of places where 5G moratoriums are under consideration .
It would be the height of folly to close our eyes to the risks of wireless 5G when a huge percentage of our population is already suffering from chronic illnesses that have become increasingly more commonplace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deployed .
I hope more Canadians will wake up to the risks and join with concerned individuals around the world to prevent this untested and probably harmful technology from being inflicted upon non-consenting victims .
[ 1 ] David Zarnett , in this recent article for Macleans magazine , says 273,000 small cells will probably have to be installed for Canada alone .
The US has nine times the population , so they might well need over 2,457,000 antennae .
[ 2 ] What are small cells in 5G technology , https : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3 ] See , for instance , this page from C4ST ( a volunteer organization founded by Frank Clegg , the retired former president of Microsoft Canada ) : http : //c4st.org/safety-code-6/ Reprinted with permission of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy .
The Best of Karen Selick

As a science and technology aficionado who believes in using science to promote human health and prosperity, I was startled to find myself classified as a Luddite by Frontier Centre research associate Paz Gomez in her article “Luddites Stand in the Way of 5G Prosperity: Fears Overblown, Ignore Benefits of Communications Connectivity” published on July 29, 2020.
The one thing I can agree with Ms. Gomez on is that faster communications would provide many benefits to humankind. However, choices have to be made about how to deliver faster communications to households, offices, farms and manufacturing buildings. Not all choices are good ones. And you can’t do a proper cost/benefit analysis without thoroughly exploring all of the costs.
The expression “5G” refers to the fifth generation of wireless technology, which will carry more data, at higher speeds, than previous cellular networks. But wireless 5G is not the only game in town when it comes to delivering high-speed internet. It faces stiff competition from fibre optic systems. All EMF*d Up (*Electro... Mills, Anne Best Price: $13.78 Buy New $12.84 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
Fibre optic cables consist of extremely thin interior strands of glass or plastic which carry signals in the form of light, surrounded by multiple layers of cladding, coating and jacketing which prevent the light signals from escaping.
Fibre optic cables are already in use for most of the world’s internet transmissions. This 2010 article estimated that “ninety-nine percent of the Internet’s physical distance has been strung with fiber already.”
This means there’s a good chance that the street where your home or workplace is located already has fibre optic cable running along its length, even though it may not yet be in use (this is known as “dark fibre”.) I’ve been told that’s the case in the municipality where I live.
The problem stems from what’s called “the last mile”: the distance between the street’s central fibre optic cable and the customer’s wifi router or receiving devices. Until recently, this last mile (which might be only 20 feet in some cases) has ordinarily been wired with coaxial cable or DSL (Digital Subscriber Lines). Such cables transmit data reliably over shielded wires, but the transmission speed is relatively slow compared to fibre optics.
It’s the last mile that the two competing new technologies propose to speed up. This can be done in two ways: either by replacing the coaxial or DSL cable running from the street to your home with additional fibre optic cable, or by simply beaming signals wirelessly to your devices using antennae referred to as “small cells”.
Wireless 5G in North America would require the installation of millions of small cellular antennae in order to ensure continuous coverage[1]. That’s because the wavelengths they use have a very short range, so antennae have to be placed close together. For indoor use, small cells might need to be located as little as 10 meters apart. Outdoors, small cells have a range varying from 500 meters to 2.5 kilometers.[2] Some neighbourhoods might end up with small cells located on almost every telephone pole. Samsung Galaxy S20 5G ... Best Price: $671.67 Buy New $849.99 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
Different companies use different frequency bands for their 5G, but the most important thing to note is that none of the wireless 5G technologies have undergone any safety testing whatsoever with respect to the impact of these waves on human health. None. This was admitted by industry representatives at a U.S. Senate hearing held on February 7, 2019, an excerpt of which can be seen in this YouTube video.
Yes, there are government guidelines for electromagnetic energy. Here in Canada, they’re called Safety Code 6. Critics such as Canadians for Safe Technology (“C4ST”) allege that the code is severely obsolete[3]. It was created by Health Canada in the 1970s (long before the development of smart phones) to evaluate the technology existing at that time. It has not had any major revisions made to it in the last 30 years—but it has nevertheless has been extended to constitute the guidelines for a host of later-developed technologies including smart phones and cell phone antennae. Health Canada is apparently content to let it serve as the safety guideline for the untested 5G wireless radiation.
An international appeal signed by 398 scientists and doctors has recommended a moratorium on the roll-out of wireless 5G. They say new scientific evidence demonstrates that living organisms (both plants and animals) are adversely affected by EMFs (that is, existing electromagnetic frequencies emitted by 2G, 3G and 4G technologies—let alone 5G) at levels well below current national and international guidelines. The problem would simply be exacerbated by 5G. The National Toxicology Program in the U.S. has published a study showing “a statistically significant increase in the incidence of brain and heart cancer in animals exposed to EMF below the… guidelines followed by most countries.”
The Bioinitiative Report (published in 2012 and recently updated to cover the period up to 2020) was authored by 29 people from 10 countries. Among them, they held 10 medical degrees (MD), 21 PhDs, and a few other degrees. This group doesn’t seem to fit the description of Luddites. Among the health problems they identified from EMFs, as indicated in scientific studies, are:
Increased oxidative stress and free radical production (associated with numerous conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes—all of which have increased dramatically since the 1990s)
Neurological effects (changes in memory, learning or perception)
Disrupted immune function (an especially important problem in these days of COVID-19).
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G,... Buy New $434.00 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details) Dr. Martin Pall, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences at Washington State University. He has studied extensively the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, and summarized his findings in a letter to California legislators three years ago. His list of 14 different adverse health effects include life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, lower sperm counts, cataract formation and sleep disruption.
In short, it is absurd to dismiss the health concerns about EMFs that have been brought forward by hundreds of scientists as the grumpy rumblings of Luddites who just can’t get their heads around the potential benefits of science.
Opponents of 5G have additional concerns besides human health. They point to studies showing adverse effects of EMFs on plants, insects, and animals. Even the microbes in our soil and in our intestines might be affected. The importance of healthy microbes to human health is only just beginning to be understood. Of particular concern is the possibility that insect pollinators such as bees and butterflies might be prevented from performing their crucial function of ensuring that the world has enough to eat.
Many 5G critics are concerned about possible data leaks, especially to China, the home country of Huawei, a major manufacturer of wireless 5G technology.
According to C4ST, the competing fibre optic technology can provide even faster connectivity speeds than wireless 5G, without emitting radiation. These cables are also less vulnerable to natural disaster or attack, and more protective of privacy. It may cost more to run fibre optics across the last mile to individual homes than it would to install a street’s worth of 5G small cells, but that’s a cost that can be borne by the individual who purchases the technological upgrade.
And this raises the problem that should be of concern to all who call themselves economists. The installation of 5G is not—unlike the installation of fibre optics—a private concern. Once the small cells start broadcasting, their radiation impacts everyone within range, whether they are 5G customers are not. In economists’ terminology, 5G imposes negative externalities on people who just happen to live in or meander through the territory where 5G customers and their suppliers are causing radiation to be emitted. Original Oppo Find X2 ... Buy New $1,066.66 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
In a densely populated city, your neighbour may want 5G while you don’t. The result may be that a small cell sits on a telephone pole 20 feet away from your bedroom window and bathes you in unwanted electromagnetic radiation all night.
Ms. Gomez’s article placed speculative values on the anticipated benefits of wireless 5G, but dismissed as “unsupported” any claims of harm. Consequently, her cost/benefit analysis of 5G failed to take into account the following possible costs:
Health care costs of treating individuals who might be adversely affected by wireless 5G
Lost productivity of individuals who might be rendered unable to work due to 5G
The loss of crops that might ensue if insect pollinators or important soil microbes are killed off or incapacitated.
There is also one certain, non-speculative cost that she has failed to take into account: namely, the cost of protective gear that many people are already acquiring to protect themselves from 5G as it expands relentlessly into Canada. Since becoming aware of the adverse impacts of earlier generations of EMFs, I myself have purchased a device that I hope will reduce the impact of EMFs, and I’m investigating other devices to shield my windows, my bed and my work area in case 5G comes to my town. New companies in this field are springing up all over the place, selling everything from metallic-lined clothing to pendants to Faraday cages for your bedroom.
At common law, the case of Rylands v. Fletcher (1868) established that a person is liable for damages if he allows something harmful to escape from his land onto neighbouring property. Here’s the most famous passage from the British House of Lords:
“If a person brings, or accumulates, on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril. If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage.”
EMF: Survival Guide. D... Mallow, David Buy New $14.95 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details) It has not yet been tested whether a court would apply this rule to 5G electromagnetic waves (or even 4G, for that matter) but a UK group called Action Against 5G has retained a team of lawyers to commence legal proceedings. Like the Canadian group C4ST, the UK group does not oppose technology. Rather, it opposes untested and suspected unsafe technology. It advocates the use of fibre optics instead of wireless 5G to achieve speedier communications.
Likewise, a group called Stop5GNetherlands applied for an injunction on February 25, 2020 to invoke an emergency procedure to stop the installation of 5G in the Netherlands.
In the US, the Children’s Health Defense organization headed up by lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suing the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) for refusing to update its safety guidelines which (like Canada’s) are more than 25 years old.
In 2019, an appellate court in Turin, Italy confirmed the trial court’s decision that the plaintiff’s acoustic neuroma (a tumor affecting the inner ear) was caused by the use of his mobile phone.
The city of Brussels and several parts of Switzerland have proactively imposed moratoriums on the rollout of 5G. Many other municipalities around the world have followed suit, or are considering doing so. Even some entire countries are on the list of places where 5G moratoriums are under consideration.
It would be the height of folly to close our eyes to the risks of wireless 5G when a huge percentage of our population is already suffering from chronic illnesses that have become increasingly more commonplace with every new generation of EMFs already deployed. I hope more Canadians will wake up to the risks and join with concerned individuals around the world to prevent this untested and probably harmful technology from being inflicted upon non-consenting victims.
Notes:
[1] David Zarnett, in this recent article for Macleans magazine, says 273,000 small cells will probably have to be installed for Canada alone. The US has nine times the population, so they might well need over 2,457,000 antennae.
[2] What are small cells in 5G technology, https://www.rfpage.com/what-are-small-cells-in-5g-technology/ accessed 18 August 2020.
[3] See, for instance, this page from C4ST (a volunteer organization founded by Frank Clegg, the retired former president of Microsoft Canada): http://c4st.org/safety-code-6/
Reprinted with permission of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
The Best of Karen Selick


lewrockwell--2020-09-11--Old Tucson Taken Over by Covid Banditos

Old Tucson Taken Over by Covid Banditos

For 81 years , Old Tucson has survived as a movie and TV set and a popular tourist attraction .
Built by Columbia Pictures in 1939 , it has been used in the filming of hundreds of movies and TV shows .
John Wayne , Gene Autry , Ronald Reagan , Bing Crosby , Ingrid Bergman , Glenn Ford , Kurt Russell , Dean Martin , Tom Selleck , Gene Hackman , Michael Landon , Burt Reynolds , Clint Eastwood , Charles Bronson , Robert Mitchum , Elvis Presley , Angie Dickinson , Steve McQueen , and Steve Martin walked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who didn ’ t ?
Practically every “ A List ” Western and period actor worked here at some point .
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Corral , Winchester ’ 73 , The Three Amigos , The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing , 3:10 to Yuma , The Bells of St. Mary ’ s , The Outlaw Josey Wales , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tombstone were filmed at least partially in Old Tucson along with TV shows like Little House on the Prairie , Bonanza , Rawhide , Gunsmoke , The Sacketts , Wagon Train , Wanted Dead or Alive , Have Gun Will Travel , Death Valley Days , Highway to Heaven , High Chaparral , and The Young Riders .
Old Tucson survived a big fire , various rebuilds , and changes in operators , but what finally killed it this week were the seemingly never-ending heavy-handed COVID restrictions imposed by Pima County that were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tucson Mayor Regina Romero ’ s equally draconian rules implemented first .
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Best Price : $ 5.00 Buy New $ 10.71 The hundreds of other businesses around the state that are shuttering permanently in response to lockdowns and restrictions are also significant , but they are so numerous , they would be nearly impossible to list .
Old Tucson General Manager Terry Verhage said , on September 8 when announcing the shutdown of the historic site , “ We did everything possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we were open , but the ongoing COVID-19 public health protocols and restrictions limited park attendance to the point where Old Tucson could no longer stay in business.
” Verhage said that , “ the decision was made with a heavy heart .
We know how important Old Tucson is to our community , guests , and employees.
” It seems like the nail in the coffin was the cancellation of a popular month-long October event at Old Tucson called Nightfall that had run for 29 years .
Last October , Nightfall drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cancellation of this event may have caused the operator to realize that the financial bleeding had to stop at some point .
Hopes that the restrictions would lessen were fading .
The town didn ’ t die like it might in a dramatic canned movie plot involving an evil cattle baron buying the sheriff and kicking the good folks out of town .
It died in a more mundane predictable manner : Pima County made a news release on Tuesday morning saying that “ the county would assume responsibility for Old Tucson on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guys don ’ t always win .
The Best of David Hathaway

For 81 years, Old Tucson has survived as a movie and TV set and a popular tourist attraction. Built by Columbia Pictures in 1939, it has been used in the filming of hundreds of movies and TV shows. John Wayne, Gene Autry, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Glenn Ford, Kurt Russell, Dean Martin, Tom Selleck, Gene Hackman, Michael Landon, Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Robert Mitchum, Elvis Presley, Angie Dickinson, Steve McQueen, and Steve Martin walked the streets with the cameras rolling. Who didn’t? Practically every “A List” Western and period actor worked here at some point. Five-Star Trails: Tucs... Rachowiecki, Rob Best Price: $15.53 Buy New $13.06 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
Movies like Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, El Dorado, McLintock, Red River, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Winchester ’73, The Three Amigos, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, 3:10 to Yuma, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Quick and the Dead, and Tombstone were filmed at least partially in Old Tucson along with TV shows like Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Sacketts, Wagon Train, Wanted Dead or Alive, Have Gun Will Travel, Death Valley Days, Highway to Heaven, High Chaparral, and The Young Riders.
Old Tucson survived a big fire, various rebuilds, and changes in operators, but what finally killed it this week were the seemingly never-ending heavy-handed COVID restrictions imposed by Pima County that were implemented as an apparent obsequious endorsement of Tucson Mayor Regina Romero’s equally draconian rules implemented first.
Old Tucson Studios (Im... Lawton, Paul J. Best Price: $5.00 Buy New $10.71 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details) The hundreds of other businesses around the state that are shuttering permanently in response to lockdowns and restrictions are also significant, but they are so numerous, they would be nearly impossible to list. Old Tucson General Manager Terry Verhage said, on September 8 when announcing the shutdown of the historic site, “We did everything possible to keep our loyal fans safe when we were open, but the ongoing COVID-19 public health protocols and restrictions limited park attendance to the point where Old Tucson could no longer stay in business.” Verhage said that, “the decision was made with a heavy heart. We know how important Old Tucson is to our community, guests, and employees.”
It seems like the nail in the coffin was the cancellation of a popular month-long October event at Old Tucson called Nightfall that had run for 29 years. Last October, Nightfall drew 34,000 visitors to Old Tucson. The cancellation of this event may have caused the operator to realize that the financial bleeding had to stop at some point. Hopes that the restrictions would lessen were fading.
The town didn’t die like it might in a dramatic canned movie plot involving an evil cattle baron buying the sheriff and kicking the good folks out of town. It died in a more mundane predictable manner: Pima County made a news release on Tuesday morning saying that “the county would assume responsibility for Old Tucson on Sept. 14.” Apparently, the good guys don’t always win.
The Best of David Hathaway


lewrockwell--2020-09-11--Is Kamala Harris a 21st-Century Woodrow Wilson?

Although the draconian lockdowns punished the economy , a partial recovery occurred after governments allowed businesses to reopen .
However , continued economic growth depends on the outcome of the presidential election .
The crisis opened the door for a surge in regulations , subsidies , and other special interest privileges under the guise of promoting the “ public health.
” This progressivism—a code word for cronyism—presents a serious threat to America .
As Murray Rothbard explains , the original Progressive Era witnessed corporate and safety regulations , environmental laws , welfare and labor compensation , and new taxes that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and labor activists at the expense of the taxpayer .
If trends continue , modern politicians will pass similar policies to benefit themselves and favored supporters , crippling economic activity .
To properly understand this progressivist threat , one must recognize the motives , background , and ideological orientation of the original progressives .
They were mostly Yankees , the descendants of the Puritans who stayed in New England or emigrated to New York and the Midwest .
They grew up in evangelical households that urged a remaking of society by coercively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
After earning PhDs in Germany , progressives preached their interventionism under the secularized guise of science and the public welfare .
Furthermore , these social engineers supported eugenics , the science of controlling the labor supply to improve its overall quality .
Lastly , progressives strove to revolutionize the world through foreign policy adventures .
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The corporatists championed protecting trusts and cartels from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big business advocates wanted to create trade commissions and other regulatory agencies to cripple competition and impose onerous compliance costs on small businesses .
On the other hand , the socialists desired an overhaul of the capitalist system , blaring the trumpets for stringent antitrust regulation , radical labor laws , and redistributive taxes .
President Woodrow Wilson embodied both strands , working with the two groups to enact the income tax , the Federal Reserve System , and the Federal Trade Commission .
In many ways , modern progressives are carbon copies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live in coastal New York City , Washington , DC , San Francisco , and Los Angeles .
While eschewing traditional religion , modern progressives are zealots for egalitarianism and social justice .
They attended the Ivy League and other elite American universities , empowering them with government-funded research .
Although modern progressives disregard eugenics , they still advocate social engineering , championing egalitarianism for everybody except themselves while dictating what is morally acceptable .
Finally , they are thoroughgoing foreign interventionists .
Neoconservatism is actually a variant of progressivism , for as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s wars were “ but an extrapolation of the sentiments of America ’ s progressive class , first articulated by people such as Princeton ’ s Woodrow Wilson.
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The former support a cozy relationship with Wall Street and “ Big Tech , ” welcoming various internet and safety regulations that would hurt smaller businesses without the appropriate ecommerce infrastructure .
The latter advocate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Big Tech , the Green New Deal , a universal basic income , and wealth taxes .
With the exception of hostile antitrust lawsuits , big business corporatists are not against these measures per se , provided they can acquire environmental subsidies and offload the cost of new entitlements and taxes onto the less wealthy ( accomplished with the progressivist income tax and Social Security ) .
If Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden embody the corporatist mindset and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren the socialist mentality , then surely Kamala Harris is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funded Harris in various California elections in exchange for favorable regulatory oversight .
Many former personnel now work for the large companies : a senior counsel left in 2018 to lobby on behalf of Amazon , Harris ’ s first campaign manager works for Google , and her brother-in-law is the chief legal officer for Uber .
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Harris exerts enormous influence over the extremely malleable ( and increasingly senile ) Biden , jubilantly telling Trevor Noah on The Daily Show that “ as soon as we get him in the White House , and even before with these task forces that we had , we were able to significantly push Joe Biden to do things that he hadn ’ t signed on to before.
” Clearly , Harris plans to run the show .
Similar to the legislation of one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ juggernaut presents an incredible threat to the United States .
Its policies will impoverish the public to enrich elite businesses , politicians , intellectuals , and unions .
This future looks bleak , and it must be stopped .
[ Adapted from “ America 2021 : The Threat of Progressivism , ” a talk delivered on August 29 in Orlando , FL . ]
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Although the draconian lockdowns punished the economy, a partial recovery occurred after governments allowed businesses to reopen. However, continued economic growth depends on the outcome of the presidential election. The crisis opened the door for a surge in regulations, subsidies, and other special interest privileges under the guise of promoting the “public health.”
This progressivism—a code word for cronyism—presents a serious threat to America.
As Murray Rothbard explains, the original Progressive Era witnessed corporate and safety regulations, environmental laws, welfare and labor compensation, and new taxes that benefited favored corporations, bureaucrats, academics, and labor activists at the expense of the taxpayer. If trends continue, modern politicians will pass similar policies to benefit themselves and favored supporters, crippling economic activity. To properly understand this progressivist threat, one must recognize the motives, background, and ideological orientation of the original progressives. They were mostly Yankees, the descendants of the Puritans who stayed in New England or emigrated to New York and the Midwest. They grew up in evangelical households that urged a remaking of society by coercively stamping out sin, particularly alcohol consumption. After earning PhDs in Germany, progressives preached their interventionism under the secularized guise of science and the public welfare. Furthermore, these social engineers supported eugenics, the science of controlling the labor supply to improve its overall quality. Lastly, progressives strove to revolutionize the world through foreign policy adventures. The Progressive Era Murray N Rothbard Best Price: $17.74 Buy New $11.33 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details)
In their struggle for economic privileges, progressives split into two groups. The corporatists championed protecting trusts and cartels from the vicissitudes of the free market. These big business advocates wanted to create trade commissions and other regulatory agencies to cripple competition and impose onerous compliance costs on small businesses. On the other hand, the socialists desired an overhaul of the capitalist system, blaring the trumpets for stringent antitrust regulation, radical labor laws, and redistributive taxes. President Woodrow Wilson embodied both strands, working with the two groups to enact the income tax, the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Trade Commission.
In many ways, modern progressives are carbon copies. They congregate in New England and live in coastal New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. While eschewing traditional religion, modern progressives are zealots for egalitarianism and social justice. They attended the Ivy League and other elite American universities, empowering them with government-funded research. Although modern progressives disregard eugenics, they still advocate social engineering, championing egalitarianism for everybody except themselves while dictating what is morally acceptable. Finally, they are thoroughgoing foreign interventionists. Neoconservatism is actually a variant of progressivism, for as Angelo Codevilla explains, George W. Bush’s wars were “but an extrapolation of the sentiments of America’s progressive class, first articulated by people such as Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson.” Conceived in Liberty, ... Murray N Rothbard Best Price: $9.00 Buy New $15.39 (as of 08:05 UTC - Details)
The progressive movement still splits along corporatist and socialist lines. The former support a cozy relationship with Wall Street and “Big Tech,” welcoming various internet and safety regulations that would hurt smaller businesses without the appropriate ecommerce infrastructure. The latter advocate radically anticapitalist measures, particularly the dismantling of Big Tech, the Green New Deal, a universal basic income, and wealth taxes. With the exception of hostile antitrust lawsuits, big business corporatists are not against these measures per se, provided they can acquire environmental subsidies and offload the cost of new entitlements and taxes onto the less wealthy (accomplished with the progressivist income tax and Social Security).
If Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden embody the corporatist mindset and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren the socialist mentality, then surely Kamala Harris is the modern Wilsonian.
Big Tech has funded Harris in various California elections in exchange for favorable regulatory oversight. Many former personnel now work for the large companies: a senior counsel left in 2018 to lobby on behalf of Amazon, Harris’s first campaign manager works for Google, and her brother-in-law is the chief legal officer for Uber. Woodrow Wilson: A Biog... John Milton Cooper Jr. Best Price: $3.60 Buy New $12.00 (as of 08:40 UTC - Details)
To pander to the socialists, Harris supports the profligate Green New Deal and a universal basic income, funded by new taxes that will “only” be levied on the wealthy. Harris exerts enormous influence over the extremely malleable (and increasingly senile) Biden, jubilantly telling Trevor Noah on The Daily Show that “as soon as we get him in the White House, and even before with these task forces that we had, we were able to significantly push Joe Biden to do things that he hadn’t signed on to before.”
Clearly, Harris plans to run the show.
Similar to the legislation of one hundred years ago, the new progressive juggernaut presents an incredible threat to the United States. Its policies will impoverish the public to enrich elite businesses, politicians, intellectuals, and unions. This future looks bleak, and it must be stopped.
[Adapted from “America 2021: The Threat of Progressivism,” a talk delivered on August 29 in Orlando, FL.]
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institu


lewrockwell--2020-09-11--Cancel Culture Comes South

Cancel Culture Comes South

These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled .
For Southerners we have seen monuments memorializing and honoring our past heroes and history—monuments and symbols which have stood for a century—torn down and smashed by frenzied mobs , unrestrained in too many cases by a compliant or spineless government .
Various writers and commentators have attempted to describe the reasons and motivations behind this uprising in the streets and near madness in the media and among our political class .
In many cases , these authors reach back into history for analogies or comparisons .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repeated exactly .
Burnt by the Sun Best Price : $ 3.99 Buy New $ 11.99 Of course , the riots of 1968 , ostensibly over the Vietnam War , figure in these historical comparisons .
On a literary level , we recall the works of George Orwell on the growth and results of totalitarian Communism and collectivism ( Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm ) or the late Jean Raspail on the very real peril of mass immigration which would overwhelm our civilization ( The Camp of the Saints , 1975 and 1995 ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come to mind , especially on the infiltration and perversion of academia and of our entertainment industry .
But none of these literary classics or historical analogies can measure or describe fully what we are witnessing today .
It is unique .
A film that I own came to mind recently , and in so many ways I think it encapsulates as no other artistic or literary work has the period we are passing through .
No , I am not thinking of the destruction of monuments or the riots and the looting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a derivative , a by-product of the mentality that reigns today nearly everywhere , in our politics , in our media , in entertainment , and most particularly in that most critical element of society ( and its continuance ) , education .
There are reasons behind those frenzied and unhinged “ mostly peaceful ” demonstrations , and those reasons are not just the financial largesse of a George Soros or of Hollywood and Silicon Valley mega-millionaire elites .
Mises on Money Gary North Best Price : $ 7.90 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Burnt by the Sun ( 1994 ) , directed by the Russian anti-Communist ( and monarchist ) Nikita Mikhalkov .
It is set in 1936 more or less at the height of the Stalinist purges , and its main character is Comrade Sergei Kotov , a devout Communist , a hero of the Russian Civil War , an “ Old Bolshevik.
” But Kotov commits one small sin : as Soviet tanks on maneuver are about to trample the wheat fields that belong to the local village collective , with his senior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to halt .
A family friend , Mitya , arrives ; Mitya is working with the Soviet secret police , the NKVD , and because of Sergei ’ s action he denounces him based on a trumped up charge of treason .
A black car with NKVD agents arrives and whisks him away .
Sergei is forced—indeed , does so willingly in the name of the party and the ideals of Communism—to confess to his “ crime ” and is executed .
Comrade Kotov ’ s mental attitude is indeed very much like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the party , what the movement commands must be obeyed willingly , even joyfully , even if the target is some symbol previously praised by the party or…oneself .
If the monuments to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson were originally the targets—the “ low hanging fruit , ” as it were—of the radicals , more easily attacked , they were only a first step in the revolutionary project .
Now , ironically , if the movement defines monuments to Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionists as “ racist , ” then they must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down .
If a textbook says faintly favorable things about John C. Calhoun , then it must be purged or “ corrected.
” Then on to the next level , to Christopher Columbus , Thomas Jefferson , and George Washington , and to every facet of our culture .
Thus , the film Gone with the Wind henceforth will be shown with disclaimers about slavery and racism ( after being pulled temporarily by WarnerMedia ) , and perhaps any number of John Wayne movies need to be contextualized as well .
Beyond Woke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sweep of this destructive vision is immense .
It shapes and determines the mindset of millions , bending them to its will , even for those who are entrusted ostensibly with the very defense of our civilization .
Those defenders cower in silence or fear , if not going along with the Revolution .
This vision , as Mikhalkov underlines in Burnt by the Sun , is motivated essentially by a type of religious fanaticism , a kind of Anti-Christianity , with its own emblematic symbols , sacred teachings , parables , saints @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( and repentance ) system , and accompanying manufactured history .
In that sense , it mirrors in a very dark and evil way the traditional faith which for two millennia has informed and annealed our civilization .
It is that civilization—Western and Christian—which is the target , and no manner of half-measures on the part of our supposed conservative opposition can stem or defeat it .
That civilization has had its most persistent defenders in the South .

These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we have seen monuments memorializing and honoring our past heroes and history—monuments and symbols which have stood for a century—torn down and smashed by frenzied mobs, unrestrained in too many cases by a compliant or spineless government.
Various writers and commentators have attempted to describe the reasons and motivations behind this uprising in the streets and near madness in the media and among our political class. In many cases, these authors reach back into history for analogies or comparisons. But ongoing history never offers the same event repeated exactly.
Burnt by the Sun Best Price: $3.99 Buy New $11.99 (as of 03:48 UTC - Details) Of course, the riots of 1968, ostensibly over the Vietnam War, figure in these historical comparisons. On a literary level, we recall the works of George Orwell on the growth and results of totalitarian Communism and collectivism (Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Animal Farm) or the late Jean Raspail on the very real peril of mass immigration which would overwhelm our civilization (The Camp of the Saints, 1975 and 1995). And there are other examples which come to mind, especially on the infiltration and perversion of academia and of our entertainment industry.
But none of these literary classics or historical analogies can measure or describe fully what we are witnessing today. It is unique.
A film that I own came to mind recently, and in so many ways I think it encapsulates as no other artistic or literary work has the period we are passing through. No, I am not thinking of the destruction of monuments or the riots and the looting: they are, I would suggest, a derivative, a by-product of the mentality that reigns today nearly everywhere, in our politics, in our media, in entertainment, and most particularly in that most critical element of society (and its continuance), education. There are reasons behind those frenzied and unhinged “mostly peaceful” demonstrations, and those reasons are not just the financial largesse of a George Soros or of Hollywood and Silicon Valley mega-millionaire elites.
Mises on Money Gary North Best Price: $7.90 Buy New $9.00 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details) That movie is a Russian opus, Burnt by the Sun (1994), directed by the Russian anti-Communist (and monarchist) Nikita Mikhalkov. It is set in 1936 more or less at the height of the Stalinist purges, and its main character is Comrade Sergei Kotov, a devout Communist, a hero of the Russian Civil War, an “Old Bolshevik.” But Kotov commits one small sin: as Soviet tanks on maneuver are about to trample the wheat fields that belong to the local village collective, with his senior status in the Party he orders them to halt. A family friend, Mitya, arrives; Mitya is working with the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, and because of Sergei’s action he denounces him based on a trumped up charge of treason. A black car with NKVD agents arrives and whisks him away. Sergei is forced—indeed, does so willingly in the name of the party and the ideals of Communism—to confess to his “crime” and is executed.
Comrade Kotov’s mental attitude is indeed very much like that of our modern-day revolutionaries. What the party, what the movement commands must be obeyed willingly, even joyfully, even if the target is some symbol previously praised by the party or…oneself.
If the monuments to Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson were originally the targets—the “low hanging fruit,” as it were—of the radicals, more easily attacked, they were only a first step in the revolutionary project. Now, ironically, if the movement defines monuments to Frederick Douglass and the Abolitionists as “racist,” then they must go also, they must be brought down. If a textbook says faintly favorable things about John C. Calhoun, then it must be purged or “corrected.” Then on to the next level, to Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, and to every facet of our culture. Thus, the film Gone with the Wind henceforth will be shown with disclaimers about slavery and racism (after being pulled temporarily by WarnerMedia), and perhaps any number of John Wayne movies need to be contextualized as well. Beyond Woke Michael Rectenwald Buy New $19.99 (as of 11:37 UTC - Details)
The sweep of this destructive vision is immense. It shapes and determines the mindset of millions, bending them to its will, even for those who are entrusted ostensibly with the very defense of our civilization. Those defenders cower in silence or fear, if not going along with the Revolution.
This vision, as Mikhalkov underlines in Burnt by the Sun, is motivated essentially by a type of religious fanaticism, a kind of Anti-Christianity, with its own emblematic symbols, sacred teachings, parables, saints (and sinners), a confessional (and repentance) system, and accompanying manufactured history. In that sense, it mirrors in a very dark and evil way the traditional faith which for two millennia has informed and annealed our civilization. It is that civilization—Western and Christian—which is the target, and no manner of half-measures on the part of our supposed conservative opposition can stem or defeat it.
That civilization has had its most persistent defenders in the South.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-11--The Pandemic Is History

The Pandemic Is History

A curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited life spans .
No one knows why , but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus .
The following graph from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics shows the time profile of the COVID-19 weekly death counts from February onward .
( For an interactive version of the graph , go here . )
In the U.S. , the virus got underway in March .
For the week ending March 14 , the total number of deaths nationwide was 52 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of deaths increased rapidly , peaking in the week ending April 18 at a count of 17,026 .
Contagion Myth : Why Vi ... Fallon Morell , Sally Buy New $ 22.49 From that time onward , the death count declined rapidly to a weekly number of 3,684 in late June .
A second “ wave ” began in July .
The peak of that second wave was 6,794 deaths during the week ending July 25 .
After that , a steeper decline commenced and accelerated .
The peak death count for Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the week ending April 11 ) and has been under that number since .
Only a single death occurred in that age group during the latest reported week , and there were no deaths recorded in the 25–34 age group .
Virus epidemics behave differently from virtually all other diseases .
If you graphed timelines of the number of cancer deaths , fatal heart attacks , and fatal strokes , those timelines would be virtually flat .

A curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited life spans. No one knows why, but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus.
The following graph from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics shows the time profile of the COVID-19 weekly death counts from February onward. (For an interactive version of the graph, go here.)
In the U.S., the virus got underway in March. For the week ending March 14, the total number of deaths nationwide was 52. During the following month, the number of deaths increased rapidly, peaking in the week ending April 18 at a count of 17,026. Contagion Myth: Why Vi... Fallon Morell, Sally Buy New $22.49 (as of 04:23 UTC - Details)
From that time onward, the death count declined rapidly to a weekly number of 3,684 in late June. A second “wave” began in July. The peak of that second wave was 6,794 deaths during the week ending July 25. After that, a steeper decline commenced and accelerated.
The peak death count for Americans under age 25 was 28 (for the week ending April 11) and has been under that number since. Only a single death occurred in that age group during the latest reported week, and there were no deaths recorded in the 25–34 age group.
Virus epidemics behave differently from virtually all other diseases. If you graphed timelines of the number of cancer deaths, fatal heart attacks, and fatal strokes, those timelines would be virtually flat.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-11--Neocons Levy False Attacks on Trump To Distract From Hideous Waste of Blood and Treasure Overseas

For the past two days , the press and the entire political establishment have crawled out of the fetid swamp to launch one of their most deranged attacks yet on President Trump .
They ’ ve accused him of the grave offense of ridiculing America ’ s fallen soldiers .
This attack has only one goal .
They do not want you , dear reader , to actually think deeply about who has really used and abused American ’ s bravest soldiers .
The answer , unambiguously , is our utterly failed ruling class .
America ’ s corrupt ruling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our brave warriors not for the betterment of America , but for the enrichment of Washington .
The claim , as reported by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic , is this : When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 , he blamed rain for the last-minute decision , saying that “ the helicopter couldn ’ t fly ” and that the Secret Service wouldn ’ t drive him there .
Neither claim was true .
B136 Big Wine Glass 20 ... Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain , and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead , according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day .
In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit , Trump said , “ Why should I go to that cemetery ?
It ’ s filled with losers.
” In a separate conversation on the same trip , Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ suckers ” for getting killed .
On Memorial Day 2017 , Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery , a short drive from the White House .
He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly , who was then the secretary of homeland security , and who would , a short time later , be named the White House chief of staff .
The two men were set to visit Section 60 , the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America ’ s most recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is buried in Section 60 .
A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps , Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan .
He was 29 .
Trump was meant , on this visit , to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son ’ s grave , and to comfort the families of other fallen service members .
But according to sources with knowledge of this visit , Trump , while standing by Robert Kelly ’ s grave , turned directly to his father and said , “ I don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it for them ?
” [ The Atlantic ] There is , of course , no evidence that this ever happened .
Goldberg cites only unnamed sources who have refused to go on the record .
Plenty of on-the-record people deny it .
Even Donald Trump ’ s mortal enemy , John Bolton , denied the charge .

For the past two days, the press and the entire political establishment have crawled out of the fetid swamp to launch one of their most deranged attacks yet on President Trump. They’ve accused him of the grave offense of ridiculing America’s fallen soldiers. This attack has only one goal. They do not want you, dear reader, to actually think deeply about who has really used and abused American’s bravest soldiers. The answer, unambiguously, is our utterly failed ruling class. America’s corrupt ruling class has recklessly sacrificed the precious blood of our brave warriors not for the betterment of America, but for the enrichment of Washington.
The claim, as reported by Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, is this:
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true. B136 Big Wine Glass 20... Buy New $16.00 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details) Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. … On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars. Kelly’s son Robert is buried in Section 60. A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son’s grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members. But according to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” [The Atlantic]
There is, of course, no evidence that this ever happened. Goldberg cites only unnamed sources who have refused to go on the record. Plenty of on-the-record people deny it. Even Donald Trump’s mortal enemy, John Bolton, denied the charge.
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lewrockwell--2020-09-11--Covid Diagnostic Test: Worst Test Ever Devised?

The need for the COVID test is being hyped to the skies .
More tests automatically create more case numbers .
This allows heads of state and national governments to whipsaw the public : “ We were re-opening the economy , but now , with the escalating case numbers , we ’ ll have to impose lockdowns again… ” This wreaks more havoc and economic destruction , which is the true goal of the COVID operation .
Its cruelty is boundless .
In this article , I present quotes from official sources about their own diagnostic test for the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the admitted holes and shortcomings of the test are devastating .
The Optimal Dose : Rest ... Judson Somerville MD Best Price : $ 9.96 Buy New $ 9.98 “ Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.
” Translation : A positive test doesn ’ t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all .
And , ahem , reading between the lines , maybe the COVID virus might not be in the patient ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the World Health Organization ( WHO ) : “ Coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ) technical guidance : Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans ” [ 2 ] : “ Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development , both in-house and commercially .
Some assays may detect only the novel virus [ COVID ] and some may also detect other strains ( e.g .
SARS-CoV ) that are genetically similar.
” Translation : Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than a cold .
The WHO document adds this little piece : “ Protocol use limitations : Optional clinical specimens for testing has [ have ] not yet been validated.
” Translation : We ’ re not sure which tissue samples to take from the patient , in order for the test to have any validity .
Over the Counter Natur ... Ellison , Shane Best Price : $ 5.81 Buy New $ 9.56 From the FDA : “ LabCorp COVID-19RT-PCR test EUA Summary : ACCELERATED EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION ( EUA ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AMERICA ) ” [ 3 ] : “ …The SARS-CoV-2RNA [ COVID virus ] is generally detectable in respiratory specimens during the acute phase of infection .
Positive results are indicative of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA ; clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine patient infection status…THE AGENT DETECTED MAY NOT BE THE DEFINITE CAUSE OF DISEASE ( CAPS are mine ) .
Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.
” Translation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claim the test can “ generally ” detect the presence of the COVID virus in a patient .
But we admit that “ the agent detected ” on the test , by which we mean COVID virus , “ may not be the definite cause of disease.
” We also admit that , unless the patient has an acute infection , we can ’ t find COVID .
Therefore , the idea of “ asymptomatic patients ” confirmed by the test is nonsense .
And even though a positive test for COVID may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , all positive tests must be reported—and they will be counted as “ COVID cases.
” Regardless .
“ Regulatory status : For research use only , not for use in diagnostic procedures.
” Translation : Don ’ t use the test result alone to diagnose infection or disease .
Oops .
“ non-specific interference of Influenza A Virus ( H1N1 ) , Influenza B Virus ( Yamagata ) , Respiratory Syncytial Virus ( type B ) , Respiratory Adenovirus ( type 3 , type 7 ) , Parainfluenza Virus ( type 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , etc.
” Vitamin C : The Real St ... Steve Hickey , Andrew W ... Best Price : $ 8.91 Buy New $ 12.47 Translation : Although this company states the test can detect COVID , it also states the test can read FALSELY positive if the patient has one of a number of other irrelevant viruses in his body .
What is the test proving , then ?
Who knows ?
Flip a coin .
Translation : This clearly means the test is not suited to detect how much virus is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ ll cover how important this admission is in a minute .
“ The detection result of this product is only for clinical reference , and it should not be used as the only evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment .
The clinical management of patients should be considered in combination with their symptoms/signs , history , other laboratory tests and treatment responses .
The detection results should not be directly used as the evidence for clinical diagnosis , and are only for the reference of clinicians.
” Translation : Don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basis for diagnosing a person with COVID .
And yet , this is exactly what health authorities are doing all over the world .
All positive tests must be reported to government agencies , and they are counted as COVID cases .
Those quotes , from official government and testing sources , torpedo the whole “ scientific ” basis of the test .
And now , I ’ ll add another lethal blow : the test has never been validated properly as an instrument to detect disease .
Even if we blindly assumed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID virus in a patient , it doesn ’ t show HOW MUCH virus is in the body .
And that is key , because in order to even begin talking about actual illness in the real world , not in a lab , the patient would need to have millions and millions of the virus actively replicating in his body .
Magnesium : Reversing D ... Levy , MD Jd Best Price : $ 23.53 Buy New $ 24.58 Proponents of the test assert that it CAN measure how much virus is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reply : prove it .
Prove it in a way it should have been proved decades ago—but never was .
Take five hundred people and remove tissue samples from them .
The people who take the samples do NOT do the test .
The testers will never know who the patients are and what condition they ’ re in .
The testers run their PCR on the tissue samples .
In each case , they say which virus they found and HOW MUCH of it they found .
“ All right , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 76 , 87 , and 93 we found a great deal of virus.
” Now we un-blind those patients .
They should all be sick , because they have so much virus replicating in their bodies .
Are they sick ?
Are they running marathons ?
Let ’ s find out .
This OBVIOUS vetting of the test has never been done .
That is an enormous scandal .
Where are the controlled test results in 500 patients , a thousand patients ?
Nowhere .
The PCR is an unproven fraud .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people…why are they sick ?
” I ’ ve written thousands of words answering that question , in past articles .
A NUMBER of conditions—none involving COVID , and most involving old traditional diseases—are making people sick .
There are other large-scale studies of the PCR test that have never been done .
I ’ ve covered them in detail , in prior articles .
To summarize : a study using a thousand patients , in which their tissue samples are sent to 30 different labs for analysis and verdicts , to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to lab ; and a study of 1000 patients , in which the results are compared with the results of analysis by electron microcopy .
These large studies—never done .
Vitamin D3 , Zinc and M ... Jeffers , Nancy Best Price : null Buy New $ 6.98 In other words , the PCR test has never been adequately tested ; it has never been properly validated as a diagnostic tool .
Here , from Canadian researcher David Crowe ’ s bombshell paper , FLAWS IN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC THEORY , is a key @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] : “ A review of 33 RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 approved under US FDA Emergency Use Authorizations showed a wide range of differences in what the tests were looking for and how they decided whether they had found it .
The tests look for a variety of different segments ( ‘ genes ’ ) of the presumed COVID-19 genome , that only amounts to about 1 % or less of the total genome , which is about 30,000 bases .
Perhaps the worst feature of the tests is how they decide whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one [ ‘ gene ’ ] segment is being looked for .
Some tests look for only one , so it must be present for a positive .
But tests that look for two segments are split between those that require both to be present and those that require either one for a positive .
Some tests look for three segments but only require any two to be present , while one test insisted on all three .
Tests that allow a segment to be undetected raise the question of how it can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when an important part of it was missing.
” If the PCR is a uniform standardized test , a rabbit is a spaceship .
Speaking of lack of uniformity in test results , here is a quote from Stephen Bustin , who is considered one of the foremost experts on PCR in the world .
The excerpt is from his 2017 article , “ Talking the talk , but not walking the walk : RT-qPCR as a paradigm for the lack of reproducibility in molecular research ” [ 6 ] : “ Awareness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been long-standing , with the first report describing inconsistencies with replicate and serial specimens evaluated within and between laboratories as early as 1992 .
The lack of a theoretical understanding of the dynamic processes involved in PCR , especially with respect to the amplification of nonreproducible and/or unexpected amplification products , was also highlighted decades ago .
These observations and the resulting implications are largely disregarded.
” Here is the story of an epic failure of the PCR , right out in the open , for all to see .
The reference is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2007 , “ Faith in Quick Tests Leads to Epidemic That Wasn ’ t. ” [ 7 ] “ Dr .
Brooke Herndon , an internist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center , could not stop coughing…By late April , other health care workers at the hospital were coughing… ” Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V ... Buy New $ 14.99 ( $ 0.17 / Count ) “ For months , nearly everyone involved thought the medical center had had a huge whooping cough outbreak , with extensive ramifications .
Nearly 1,000 health care workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , were given a preliminary test and furloughed from work until their results were in ; 142 people , including Dr. Herndon , were told they appeared to have the disease ; and thousands were given antibiotics and a vaccine for protection .
Hospital beds were taken out of commission , including some in intensive care.
” “ Then , about eight months later , health care workers were dumbfounded to receive an e-mail message from the hospital administration informing them that the whole thing was a false alarm.
” “ Now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists say the problem was that they placed too much faith in a quick and highly sensitive molecular test [ PCR ] that led them astray.
” “ There are no national data on pseudo-epidemics caused by an overreliance on such molecular tests , said Dr. Trish M. Perl , an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins and past president of the Society of Health Care Epidemiologists of America .
But , she said , pseudo-epidemics happen all the time .
The Dartmouth case may have been one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means an exception , she said.
” “ Many of the new molecular [ PCR ] tests are quick but technically demanding , and each laboratory may do them in its own way .
These tests , called ‘ home brews , ’ are not commercially available , and there are no good estimates of their error rates .
But their very sensitivity makes false positives likely , and when hundreds or thousands of people are tested , as occurred at Dartmouth , false positives can make it seem like there is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a little bit of no man ’ s land , ’ with the new molecular [ PCR ] tests , said Dr. Mark Perkins , an infectious disease specialist and chief scientific officer at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics , a nonprofit foundation supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
‘ All bets are off on exact performance ’ .
” “ With pertussis , she [ Dr. Kretsinger , CDC ] said , ‘ there are probably 100 different P.C.R .
protocols and methods being used throughout the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how often any of them are accurate .
‘ We have had a number of outbreaks where we believe that despite the presence of P.C.R.-positive results , the disease was not pertussis , ’ Dr. Kretsinger added.
” “ Dr .
Cathy A. Petti , an infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah , said the story had one clear lesson.
” “ ’ The big message is that every lab is vulnerable to having false positives , ’ Dr. Petti said .
‘ No single test result is absolute and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result based on P.C.R ’ .
” There is more to report about the PCR test , and I have , but I ’ ll make this final point for now : I ’ ve presented , over the last several months , compelling evidence that no one proved the existence of the COVID virus , by proper scientific procedures , in the first place .
So the PCR test would be looking for…what ?
A virus that isn ’ t there ?
And on the back of this test , governments are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and untold numbers of human lives .
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The need for the COVID test is being hyped to the skies. More tests automatically create more case numbers. This allows heads of state and national governments to whipsaw the public:
“We were re-opening the economy, but now, with the escalating case numbers, we’ll have to impose lockdowns again…”
This wreaks more havoc and economic destruction, which is the true goal of the COVID operation. Its cruelty is boundless.
In this article, I present quotes from official sources about their own diagnostic test for the coronavirus, the PCR.
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From “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel” [1]:
“Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.”
Translation: A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. And, ahem, reading between the lines, maybe the COVID virus might not be in the patient’s body at all, either.
From the World Health Organization (WHO): “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Laboratory testing for 2019-nCoV in humans” [2]:
“Several assays that detect the 2019-nCoV have been and are currently under development, both in-house and commercially. Some assays may detect only the novel virus [COVID] and some may also detect other strains (e.g. SARS-CoV) that are genetically similar.”
Translation: Some PCR tests register positive for types of coronavirus that have nothing to do with COVID—including plain old coronas that cause nothing more than a cold.
The WHO document adds this little piece: “Protocol use limitations: Optional clinical specimens for testing has [have] not yet been validated.”
Translation: We’re not sure which tissue samples to take from the patient, in order for the test to have any validity.
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“…The SARS-CoV-2RNA [COVID virus] is generally detectable in respiratory specimens during the acute phase of infection. Positive results are indicative of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA; clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine patient infection status…THE AGENT DETECTED MAY NOT BE THE DEFINITE CAUSE OF DISEASE (CAPS are mine). Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.”
Translation: On the one hand, we claim the test can “generally” detect the presence of the COVID virus in a patient. But we admit that “the agent detected” on the test, by which we mean COVID virus, “may not be the definite cause of disease.” We also admit that, unless the patient has an acute infection, we can’t find COVID. Therefore, the idea of “asymptomatic patients” confirmed by the test is nonsense. And even though a positive test for COVID may not indicate the actual cause of disease, all positive tests must be reported—and they will be counted as “COVID cases.” Regardless.
From a manufacturer of PCR test kit elements, Creative Diagnostics, “SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Multiplex RT-qPCR Kit” [4]:
“Regulatory status: For research use only, not for use in diagnostic procedures.”
Translation: Don’t use the test result alone to diagnose infection or disease. Oops.
“non-specific interference of Influenza A Virus (H1N1), Influenza B Virus (Yamagata), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (type B), Respiratory Adenovirus (type 3, type 7), Parainfluenza Virus (type 2), Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Chlamydia Pneumoniae, etc.” Vitamin C: The Real St... Steve Hickey, Andrew W... Best Price: $8.91 Buy New $12.47 (as of 10:10 UTC - Details)
Translation: Although this company states the test can detect COVID, it also states the test can read FALSELY positive if the patient has one of a number of other irrelevant viruses in his body. What is the test proving, then? Who knows? Flip a coin.
“Application Qualitative”
Translation: This clearly means the test is not suited to detect how much virus is in the patient’s body. I’ll cover how important this admission is in a minute.
“The detection result of this product is only for clinical reference, and it should not be used as the only evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment. The clinical management of patients should be considered in combination with their symptoms/signs, history, other laboratory tests and treatment responses. The detection results should not be directly used as the evidence for clinical diagnosis, and are only for the reference of clinicians.”
Translation: Don’t use the test as the exclusive basis for diagnosing a person with COVID. And yet, this is exactly what health authorities are doing all over the world. All positive tests must be reported to government agencies, and they are counted as COVID cases.
Those quotes, from official government and testing sources, torpedo the whole “scientific” basis of the test.
And now, I’ll add another lethal blow: the test has never been validated properly as an instrument to detect disease. Even if we blindly assumed it can detect the presence of the COVID virus in a patient, it doesn’t show HOW MUCH virus is in the body. And that is key, because in order to even begin talking about actual illness in the real world, not in a lab, the patient would need to have millions and millions of the virus actively replicating in his body. Magnesium: Reversing D... Levy, MD Jd Best Price: $23.53 Buy New $24.58 (as of 02:51 UTC - Details)
Proponents of the test assert that it CAN measure how much virus is in the body. To which I reply: prove it.
Prove it in a way it should have been proved decades ago—but never was.
Take five hundred people and remove tissue samples from them. The people who take the samples do NOT do the test. The testers will never know who the patients are and what condition they’re in.
The testers run their PCR on the tissue samples. In each case, they say which virus they found and HOW MUCH of it they found.
“All right, in patients 24, 46, 65, 76, 87, and 93 we found a great deal of virus.”
Now we un-blind those patients. They should all be sick, because they have so much virus replicating in their bodies. Are they sick? Are they running marathons? Let’s find out.
This OBVIOUS vetting of the test has never been done. That is an enormous scandal. Where are the controlled test results in 500 patients, a thousand patients? Nowhere.
The PCR is an unproven fraud.
“But…but…what about all the sick and dying people…why are they sick?”
I’ve written thousands of words answering that question, in past articles. A NUMBER of conditions—none involving COVID, and most involving old traditional diseases—are making people sick.
There are other large-scale studies of the PCR test that have never been done. I’ve covered them in detail, in prior articles. To summarize: a study using a thousand patients, in which their tissue samples are sent to 30 different labs for analysis and verdicts, to see whether the results are uniform from lab to lab; and a study of 1000 patients, in which the results are compared with the results of analysis by electron microcopy. These large studies—never done. Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
In other words, the PCR test has never been adequately tested; it has never been properly validated as a diagnostic tool.
Here, from Canadian researcher David Crowe’s bombshell paper, FLAWS IN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC THEORY, is a key quote about the PCR test [5]:
“A review of 33 RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 approved under US FDA Emergency Use Authorizations showed a wide range of differences in what the tests were looking for and how they decided whether they had found it. The tests look for a variety of different segments (‘genes’) of the presumed COVID-19 genome, that only amounts to about 1% or less of the total genome, which is about 30,000 bases. Perhaps the worst feature of the tests is how they decide whether the sample is positive if more than one [‘gene’] segment is being looked for. Some tests look for only one, so it must be present for a positive. But tests that look for two segments are split between those that require both to be present and those that require either one for a positive. Some tests look for three segments but only require any two to be present, while one test insisted on all three. Tests that allow a segment to be undetected raise the question of how it can be said that a virus was detected when an important part of it was missing.”
If the PCR is a uniform standardized test, a rabbit is a spaceship.
Speaking of lack of uniformity in test results, here is a quote from Stephen Bustin, who is considered one of the foremost experts on PCR in the world. The excerpt is from his 2017 article, “Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: RT-qPCR as a paradigm for the lack of reproducibility in molecular research” [6]:
“Awareness of variability problems associated with PCR has been long-standing, with the first report describing inconsistencies with replicate and serial specimens evaluated within and between laboratories as early as 1992. The lack of a theoretical understanding of the dynamic processes involved in PCR, especially with respect to the amplification of nonreproducible and/or unexpected amplification products, was also highlighted decades ago. These observations and the resulting implications are largely disregarded.”
Here is the story of an epic failure of the PCR, right out in the open, for all to see. The reference is the NY Times, January 22, 2007, “Faith in Quick Tests Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t.” [7]
“Dr. Brooke Herndon, an internist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, could not stop coughing…By late April, other health care workers at the hospital were coughing…” Frunutta Zinc 5 mg + V... Buy New $14.99 ($0.17 / Count) (as of 05:10 UTC - Details)
“For months, nearly everyone involved thought the medical center had had a huge whooping cough outbreak, with extensive ramifications. Nearly 1,000 health care workers at the hospital in Lebanon, N.H., were given a preliminary test and furloughed from work until their results were in; 142 people, including Dr. Herndon, were told they appeared to have the disease; and thousands were given antibiotics and a vaccine for protection. Hospital beds were taken out of commission, including some in intensive care.”
“Then, about eight months later, health care workers were dumbfounded to receive an e-mail message from the hospital administration informing them that the whole thing was a false alarm.”
“Now, as they look back on the episode, epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists say the problem was that they placed too much faith in a quick and highly sensitive molecular test [PCR] that led them astray.”
“There are no national data on pseudo-epidemics caused by an overreliance on such molecular tests, said Dr. Trish M. Perl, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins and past president of the Society of Health Care Epidemiologists of America. But, she said, pseudo-epidemics happen all the time. The Dartmouth case may have been one of the largest, but it was by no means an exception, she said.”
“Many of the new molecular [PCR] tests are quick but technically demanding, and each laboratory may do them in its own way. These tests, called ‘home brews,’ are not commercially available, and there are no good estimates of their error rates. But their very sensitivity makes false positives likely, and when hundreds or thousands of people are tested, as occurred at Dartmouth, false positives can make it seem like there is an epidemic.”
“’You’re in a little bit of no man’s land,’ with the new molecular [PCR] tests, said Dr. Mark Perkins, an infectious disease specialist and chief scientific officer at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a nonprofit foundation supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ‘All bets are off on exact performance’.”
“With pertussis, she [Dr. Kretsinger, CDC] said, ‘there are probably 100 different P.C.R. protocols and methods being used throughout the country,’ and it is unclear how often any of them are accurate. ‘We have had a number of outbreaks where we believe that despite the presence of P.C.R.-positive results, the disease was not pertussis,’ Dr. Kretsinger added.”
“Dr. Cathy A. Petti, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Utah, said the story had one clear lesson.”
“’The big message is that every lab is vulnerable to having false positives,’ Dr. Petti said. ‘No single test result is absolute and that is even more important with a test result based on P.C.R’.”
There is more to report about the PCR test, and I have, but I’ll make this final point for now: I’ve presented, over the last several months, compelling evidence that no one proved the existence of the COVID virus, by proper scientific procedures, in the first place. So the PCR test would be looking for…what? A virus that isn’t there?
And on the back of this test, governments are wrecking economies all over the world, and untold numbers of human lives.
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
[2] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/laboratory-guidance
now redirects to…
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance-publications
see also,…
blog.microbiologics.com/2019-novel-coronavirus-what-microbiologists-need-to-know/
[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/136151/download
[4] https://www.creative-diagnostics.com/sars-cov-2-coronavirus-multiplex-rt-qpcr-kit-277854-457.htm
[5] https://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf
[6] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/eci.12801
[7] nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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