thewashingtonstandard--2020-04-30--Fossil Al Gore Claims Air Pollution Spreading COVID-19, Which Is Debunked By Former NASA Scientists

With the coronavirus , COVID-19 , taking the spotlight in media outlets across the united States and much of the world , the “ climate change ” ideologues have , for the most part , dialed back their rhetoric on the danger of “ fossil fuels ” .
Enter the fossil himself , Al Gore , to change that .
How ?
The former Vice President and head of the “ Gore Church of Climate Change ” stated in an MSNBC interview , as reported by The Hill , “ This climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic are linked in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the death rate from COVID-19 , a great many of them , are accentuated , made worse by the fossil fuel pollution.
” According to The Hill : Emerging statistics have illustrated that the coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color .
Gore said the crisis has “ exposed some longstanding weaknesses ” in the country .
For example , Gore noted the death rate , before the pandemic , among black children from asthma was much worse than for white children with asthma .
According to the Department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2015 African American children with asthma had a death rate 10 times that of non-Hispanic white children , and black children are four times more likely to be admitted to the hospital for asthma as compared to non-Hispanic white children .
Gore said environmental injustice is just one factor , in addition to inadequate access to health care and unequal economics , that leads to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 and other health issues First of all , the data being referenced by the “ fossil ” Al Gore is five years old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unconstitutional Obamacare was rolled out in 2013 .
According to Gore ’ s political party , the Democrats , who passed Obamacare without reading it , touted that Obamacare was “ designed ” to address inadequate access to health care regardless of economics .
People were going to be able to get “ free ” health care .
And , as we in the alternative media said at the time , and keep saying , Obamacare is health care insurance ; it does not guarantee access to health care services nor does it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , what Al Gore left out of that tidbit is carried on the Department for Health and Human Services , Office of Minority Health website .
“ While all of the causes of asthma remain unclear , children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke exposure are at increased risk for acute lower respiratory tract infections , such as bronchitis .
Children living below or near the poverty level are more likely to have high levels of blood cotinine , a breakdown product of nicotine , than children living in higher income families.
” [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this statement is three-fold .
All causes of asthma remain unclear .
And , exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke increases the risk for acute lower respiratory tract infections .
Lastly , when children are living below or at the poverty level , they are more likely to have increased cotinine in their bloodstream ; cotinine is a breakdown product of nicotine .
Could this mean that children living near the poverty level are smoking tobacco and/or inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke more than their higher income counterparts ?
Because not all causes of asthma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out other factors , such as allergens , and idiopathic origins .
Third , this data is five years old !
While considered current , new data should be available to the public and professionals alike for evaluation and analysis .
The data could have changed , meaning the data could be better or worse .
The data is only good for the moment in time it is gathered .
In the MSNBC interview , Gore indicated the deaths from COVID-19 are made worse by the fossil fuel pollution ( cue at 1:20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in line with the “ scientists ” in Italy who claimed that coronavirus/COVID-19 was carried by particulate matter in air pollution meaning the virus is more contagious and travels farther .
But , several questions concerning this “ theory ” emerged .
According to Climate Realism , air pollution has nothing to do with rising asthma rates or COVID-19/coronavirus deaths .
In his MSNBC interview , Gore doubled down on his reckless assertions .
He attempted to link fossil fuels to high asthma rates , which he claimed are made worse by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pollution in the United States has consistently and sharply declined since the 1970s , asthma rates have increased substantially .
This contradicts the assertion that air pollution causes asthma .
As explained by researcher Joel Schwartz in his paper , “ Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution , ” the incidence of asthma rose 75 percent from 1980 to 1996 , and nearly doubled for children .
However , the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents that air pollution has declined 74 percent since the 1970 ’ s , over the same time period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , climate change is neither causing nor exacerbating any identifiable illness or disease , be it COVID-19 or anything else .
To the extent a modestly warming planet may impact COVID-19 , the impact is almost certainly to reduce the spread of the disease and save many human lives .
In fact , the CDC indicates that “ flu ” season begins with the weather turns colder and ceases when warmer temperatures emerge in the spring .
As we know , coronavirus , like influenza , is an exosome and higher humidity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sun , eradicate these “ viruses ” .
Another point of fact is the number of deaths due to cold weather exceed those in warmer weather .
And if all of this isn ’ t enough to debunk “ Fossil Al ’ s ” claims , maybe the information from a well-know , well-respected NASA scientist might .
Hal Doiron , a physicist who joined NASA in 1963 and developed the Apollo Lunar Module landing dynamics software , stated in 2015 , “ using the same scientific method that put the man on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is not climate ‘ problem ’ .
” Doiron referenced the slogan at NASA : ‘ In God We Trust , all others bring data ’ .
He stated , “ Houston , we do not have a problem .
It is impossible to think global warming will cause any problem especially when you look at the benefits of adding Co2 to the atmosphere .
We are convinced that we don ’ t have a problem with fossil fuels .
There is no problem.
” In 2017 , Doiron criticized the united @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate alarmism instead of sound science .
He stated that “ unvalidated climate models that don ’ t correspond with physical data and the requirements of the scientific method contribute to unfounded climate alarmism ” .
Doiron indicated that unsubstantiated claims about global warming , aka climate change , designed to prevent “ policy makers ” from rational decision making in regards to energy resources constitutes a national security threat .
The “ propaganda ” underpinning climate alarmism is “ causing tremendous political bottlenecks ” that prevent government officials from “ doing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
Doiron , who helped develop the Apollo Lunar Module ’ s landing dynamics software during NASA ’ s moon missions , also expressed concern that the U.S. military has been directly affected by climate alarmist claims separated from sound science .
He criticized the U.S. Navy for “ preparing for something that is unreasonable and would cost too much money ” in the form of “ extreme sea-level rise , ” which has not been borne out by rigorous scientific study .
Doiron defines unvalidated climate models as those that do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy and military planning should be based only on models validated by physical data , he said .
“ At NASA , we have a policy : You can ’ t make a design decision on a spacecraft or rocket that is not validated , ” he said .
“ You don ’ t make critical decisions based on ‘ garbage in , garbage out.
’ Yet our government has been doing that with respect to climate alarm , because too many academics in universities are writing papers , drawing conclusions from models @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data.
” And let ’ s not forget many of these “ academia ” types are working with fudged , fabricated , false , and invented data from “ scientists ” .
Hal Doiron , who passed away on April 28 , 2020 , was a member of The Right Climate Stuff , which includes scientists and engineers across all generations that worked on NASA ’ s most high profile missions , dating all the way back to Apollo .
These individuals have volunteered their time and knowledge to conduct objective , independent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and convey the reality of the actual threat .
The scientists and engineers state on the website the method used in producing their models .
It is well worth the time to review and read their information .
In fact , what should be taken away from their website is found on the home page .
To aid in monitoring the AGW concern , we have developed our own simple , but rigorous , earth surface temperature model using Conservation of Energy principles , similar to the way we analyze surface and internal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the model with 168 years of atmospheric GHG data and data on earth surface temperature variations , counting 1850 through 2017 .
We have used this model to forecast what we believe will be the maximum , but small and non-harmful effects on earth surface temperature , from continued un-restricted use of fossil fuels , until they become too scarce and costly to meet the growing energy demand of our planet .
We expect a world-wide , market-driven transition to alternate sources of energy generation will be completed by 2150 , leaving less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ atmosphere , 50 percent more than current levels .
Highest levels of CO2 in our atmosphere have exceeded 7000 ppm from greater volcanic activity more than 400 million years ago .
Naturally occurring planetary processes reduced atmospheric CO2 levels to a low of about 180 ppm experienced at the last Ice Age glacial maximum about 21,000 years ago .
This was dangerously close to the critical 150 ppm limit required for green plants to grow .
We have produced reports which , in our judgment , provide a more realistic projection of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next 150 years from rising atmospheric GHG levels .
We believe that these more realistic projections do not justify the extent to which the UN and others propose to manipulate and likely devastate the various major economies of the world through mandating drastic reductions in the use of fossil fuels .
[ Emphasis Mine . ]
So , who to believe : Al Gore and his band of “ church scientists ” who fabricate , falsify and invent data or numerous NASA scientists and engineers who volunteer their time and talent to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 168 years of prior historical data ?
It really is a no brainer .
The takeaway from all of this is simple – there is no climate change problem with regard to fossil fuel usage meaning climate change is not contributing to the spread of coronavirus/COVID-19 .
Moreover , with air pollution decreasing , it is highly unlikely that air pollution is spreading this “ flu ” either .
In fact , warmer temperatures help dissipate “ flus ” .
With all the information provided at Sons of Liberty Media regarding this coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be taken to eradicate it , there is no reason for anyone to panic or believe the tripe that comes from fossils like Al Gore .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

With the coronavirus, COVID-19, taking the spotlight in media outlets across the united States and much of the world, the “climate change” ideologues have, for the most part, dialed back their rhetoric on the danger of “fossil fuels”. Enter the fossil himself, Al Gore, to change that. How? The former Vice President and head of the “Gore Church of Climate Change” stated in an MSNBC interview, as reported by The Hill, “This climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic are linked in some ways. The preconditions that raise the death rate from COVID-19, a great many of them, are accentuated, made worse by the fossil fuel pollution.”
According to The Hill:
Emerging statistics have illustrated that the coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on communities of color.
Gore said the crisis has “exposed some longstanding weaknesses” in the country.
For example, Gore noted the death rate, before the pandemic, among black children from asthma was much worse than for white children with asthma.
According to the Department for Health and Human Services, in 2015 African American children with asthma had a death rate 10 times that of non-Hispanic white children, and black children are four times more likely to be admitted to the hospital for asthma as compared to non-Hispanic white children.
Gore said environmental injustice is just one factor, in addition to inadequate access to health care and unequal economics, that leads to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 and other health issues
First of all, the data being referenced by the “fossil” Al Gore is five years old. This is particularly important because the unconstitutional Obamacare was rolled out in 2013. According to Gore’s political party, the Democrats, who passed Obamacare without reading it, touted that Obamacare was “designed” to address inadequate access to health care regardless of economics. People were going to be able to get “free” health care. And, as we in the alternative media said at the time, and keep saying, Obamacare is health care insurance; it does not guarantee access to health care services nor does it guarantee payment for those services.
Second, what Al Gore left out of that tidbit is carried on the Department for Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health website. “While all of the causes of asthma remain unclear, children exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke exposure are at increased risk for acute lower respiratory tract infections, such as bronchitis. Children living below or near the poverty level are more likely to have high levels of blood cotinine, a breakdown product of nicotine, than children living in higher income families.” [Emphasis Mine.] The key to this statement is three-fold. All causes of asthma remain unclear. And, exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke increases the risk for acute lower respiratory tract infections. Lastly, when children are living below or at the poverty level, they are more likely to have increased cotinine in their bloodstream; cotinine is a breakdown product of nicotine. Could this mean that children living near the poverty level are smoking tobacco and/or inhaling secondhand tobacco smoke more than their higher income counterparts? Because not all causes of asthma are known, one cannot rule out other factors, such as allergens, and idiopathic origins.
Third, this data is five years old! While considered current, new data should be available to the public and professionals alike for evaluation and analysis. The data could have changed, meaning the data could be better or worse. The data is only good for the moment in time it is gathered.
In the MSNBC interview, Gore indicated the deaths from COVID-19 are made worse by the fossil fuel pollution (cue at 1:20 into the interview). This falls in line with the “scientists” in Italy who claimed that coronavirus/COVID-19 was carried by particulate matter in air pollution meaning the virus is more contagious and travels farther. But, several questions concerning this “theory” emerged.
According to Climate Realism, air pollution has nothing to do with rising asthma rates or COVID-19/coronavirus deaths.
In his MSNBC interview, Gore doubled down on his reckless assertions. He attempted to link fossil fuels to high asthma rates, which he claimed are made worse by the coronavirus. However, even as air pollution in the United States has consistently and sharply declined since the 1970s, asthma rates have increased substantially. This contradicts the assertion that air pollution causes asthma.
As explained by researcher Joel Schwartz in his paper, “Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution,” the incidence of asthma rose 75 percent from 1980 to 1996, and nearly doubled for children. However, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents that air pollution has declined 74 percent since the 1970’s, over the same time period that asthma worsened.
In the end, climate change is neither causing nor exacerbating any identifiable illness or disease, be it COVID-19 or anything else. To the extent a modestly warming planet may impact COVID-19, the impact is almost certainly to reduce the spread of the disease and save many human lives.
In fact, the CDC indicates that “flu” season begins with the weather turns colder and ceases when warmer temperatures emerge in the spring. As we know, coronavirus, like influenza, is an exosome and higher humidity and temperatures, including UV rays from the sun, eradicate these “viruses”. Another point of fact is the number of deaths due to cold weather exceed those in warmer weather.
And if all of this isn’t enough to debunk “Fossil Al’s” claims, maybe the information from a well-know, well-respected NASA scientist might.
Hal Doiron, a physicist who joined NASA in 1963 and developed the Apollo Lunar Module landing dynamics software, stated in 2015, “using the same scientific method that put the man on the moon, NASA scientists have concluded there is not climate ‘problem’.” Doiron referenced the slogan at NASA: ‘In God We Trust, all others bring data’. He stated, “Houston, we do not have a problem. It is impossible to think global warming will cause any problem especially when you look at the benefits of adding Co2 to the atmosphere. We are convinced that we don’t have a problem with fossil fuels. There is no problem.”
In 2017, Doiron criticized the united States Navy for making decisions based on climate alarmism instead of sound science. He stated that “unvalidated climate models that don’t correspond with physical data and the requirements of the scientific method contribute to unfounded climate alarmism”. Doiron indicated that unsubstantiated claims about global warming, aka climate change, designed to prevent “policy makers” from rational decision making in regards to energy resources constitutes a national security threat.
Climate Depot continued:
The “propaganda” underpinning climate alarmism is “causing tremendous political bottlenecks” that prevent government officials from “doing the right thing” on energy, he said.
Doiron, who helped develop the Apollo Lunar Module’s landing dynamics software during NASA’s moon missions, also expressed concern that the U.S. military has been directly affected by climate alarmist claims separated from sound science.
He criticized the U.S. Navy for “preparing for something that is unreasonable and would cost too much money” in the form of “extreme sea-level rise,” which has not been borne out by rigorous scientific study.
Doiron defines unvalidated climate models as those that do not agree with physical data. Public policy and military planning should be based only on models validated by physical data, he said.
“At NASA, we have a policy: You can’t make a design decision on a spacecraft or rocket that is not validated,” he said. “You don’t make critical decisions based on ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ Yet our government has been doing that with respect to climate alarm, because too many academics in universities are writing papers, drawing conclusions from models that don’t agree with physical data.”
And let’s not forget many of these “academia” types are working with fudged, fabricated, false, and invented data from “scientists”.
Hal Doiron, who passed away on April 28, 2020, was a member of The Right Climate Stuff, which includes scientists and engineers across all generations that worked on NASA’s most high profile missions, dating all the way back to Apollo. These individuals have volunteered their time and knowledge to conduct objective, independent assessments of man-made climate change or AGW and convey the reality of the actual threat. The scientists and engineers state on the website the method used in producing their models. It is well worth the time to review and read their information. In fact, what should be taken away from their website is found on the home page.
To aid in monitoring the AGW concern, we have developed our own simple, but rigorous, earth surface temperature model using Conservation of Energy principles, similar to the way we analyze surface and internal temperature of spacecraft. We have validated the model with 168 years of atmospheric GHG data and data on earth surface temperature variations, counting 1850 through 2017. We have used this model to forecast what we believe will be the maximum, but small and non-harmful effects on earth surface temperature, from continued un-restricted use of fossil fuels, until they become too scarce and costly to meet the growing energy demand of our planet.
We expect a world-wide, market-driven transition to alternate sources of energy generation will be completed by 2150, leaving less than 600 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, 50 percent more than current levels. Highest levels of CO2 in our atmosphere have exceeded 7000 ppm from greater volcanic activity more than 400 million years ago. Naturally occurring planetary processes reduced atmospheric CO2 levels to a low of about 180 ppm experienced at the last Ice Age glacial maximum about 21,000 years ago. This was dangerously close to the critical 150 ppm limit required for green plants to grow.
We have produced reports which, in our judgment, provide a more realistic projection of the maximum expected earth surface temperature rise over the next 150 years from rising atmospheric GHG levels. We believe that these more realistic projections do not justify the extent to which the UN and others propose to manipulate and likely devastate the various major economies of the world through mandating drastic reductions in the use of fossil fuels. [Emphasis Mine.]
So, who to believe: Al Gore and his band of “church scientists” who fabricate, falsify and invent data or numerous NASA scientists and engineers who volunteer their time and talent to produce a more accurate model based on 168 years of prior historical data? It really is a no brainer.
The takeaway from all of this is simple – there is no climate change problem with regard to fossil fuel usage meaning climate change is not contributing to the spread of coronavirus/COVID-19. Moreover, with air pollution decreasing, it is highly unlikely that air pollution is spreading this “flu” either. In fact, warmer temperatures help dissipate “flus”. With all the information provided at Sons of Liberty Media regarding this coronavirus hoax as well as products that can be taken to eradicate it, there is no reason for anyone to panic or believe the tripe that comes from fossils like Al Gore.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-04-30--Several Events In Modern US History That Must Never Be Allowed To Happen Against! – Never, As In Eve

Several Events In Modern US History That Must Never Be Allowed To Happen Against !
– Never , As In Ever !
There are several events in modern U.S. history that must never be allowed to happen again .
Never , as in EVER !
I ’ m talking about false flag events that warmongering politicians have used to authorize U.S. military aggression and unjust war around the world and gross miscarriages of justice in violent despotic assaults against American citizens inside the United States .
I ’ m talking about the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incidents in 1964 that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vietnam .
I ’ m talking about the premeditated and unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty by the State of Israel in 1967 .
I ’ m talking about the total con job that was the 9/11 attacks , which precipitated two unconstitutional and immoral military invasions against two countries , Iraq and Afghanistan , that had absolutely nothing to do with those attacks—wars we are still waging in those countries almost twenty years later—and the phony perpetual “ war on terror ” that has caused millions of innocent deaths around the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ precipice of financial ruin .
The events surrounding 9/11 also birthed a burgeoning Police State in this country with the introduction of the Stalinesque USA Patriot Act , the Military Commissions Act , the unconstitutional provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that expunge both the Fourth Amendment and Habeas Corpus , etc .
I ’ m also talking about the government murders of nearly 100 American citizens by federal police agencies outside Waco , Texas , in 1993 .
The brutality and barbarism committed against the Branch Davidians rival that of any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And while we are on the subject , let ’ s not forget the federal police agents who murdered Vicki and Sam Weaver and seriously wounded their husband and father , Randy Weaver , and a friend near Ruby Ridge , Idaho , in 1992 .
Vicki had her brains blown out by FBI assassin Lon Horiuchi as she stood in her kitchen doorway holding her infant baby in her arms .
Her son , Sam , 14 , was shot in the back by another federal agent .
Oh , yes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s dog .
The American people must see to it that events such as these are never allowed to happen again .
Ever !
And now we must add to the ignoble list above the mass Naziesque lockdown of the American people and the shutdown of private businesses and churches in the wake of the greatest con job against our Constitution and Bill of Rights since 9/11 : the so-called coronavirus pandemic .
These unconstitutional and dictatorial lockdowns and shutdowns must never be allowed to happen again .
I have documented in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being hyped and exaggerated for the express purpose of fomenting fear and panic among the American citizenry , thereby enabling government lockdowns and shutdowns that the American people would never tolerate had they not been scared to death by power-mad politicians , mad scientists and the malevolent mainstream media .
I have documented the facts that prove that the CDC and medical establishment have exaggerated and extortionated deaths from corona to the point that those institutions now have zero credibility in any statistic they provide regarding corona deaths .
The 60,000 U.S. deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in truth easily be half that number—or even less than half .
They have fabricated and exaggerated corona deaths to the point that we can not believe anything they have told us .
Absolutely nothing !
I am saying ( and , thankfully , I am not the only one saying it ) , the American people must never allow government lockdowns and shutdowns of their states and communities ever again .
If we allow this to be repeated , it will be repeated again and again until we are living permanently under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I suppose I must acknowledge the fact that not every State in the United States is a Free State .
Several states have already succumbed to the chains of tyranny as a matter of daily practice .
I see virtually no hope for freedom in states such as Hawaii , California , Oregon , Washington , Colorado , Illinois , Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , New Jersey and Connecticut .
To be sure , there are county sheriffs in several of those states that are bravely trying to hold the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If you live in those states , my only advice for you is to LEAVE , because lockdowns and shutdowns are guaranteed to be the “ new normal ” for those states .
Neither do I see much hope for freedom in large metropolitan areas .
My advice to people living in dense urban areas is to GET OUT .
For the rest of us , if we do not draw our line in the sand for liberty RIGHT NOW , our liberties are gone .
And I mean FOREVER .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the motto by which we elect anyone to public office this November .
We should demand that every candidate for governor , attorney general , State legislator , State senator , sheriff , mayor , city councilman , county commissioner , etc.
, answers one question : Will you authorize , support or help enact ANY government lockdown , stay-at-home order or shutdown of private businesses and churches ?
Yes or no !
And any candidate that takes longer than two seconds to shout a resounding “ NO !
” should not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parties do not matter .
Saying they are a conservative does not matter .
Saying they are a Christian does not matter .
If they will not take a principled stand on these unconstitutional lockdowns , shutdowns and stay-at-home orders , our freedoms are toast .
I repeat : They are TOAST .
I don ’ t know how to say it any plainer : If we do not draw our line in the sand for liberty right here and right now , our children and grandchildren will grow up in a land @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an alarmist ; that is being a realist .
In addition to that , it is obligatory that we go on the offensive and begin filing lawsuits against these unconstitutional government directives .
Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly states , “ Governors stay-at-home orders are unconstitutional [ and ] won ’ t hold up in court.
” Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Tuesday that stay-at-home orders from governors across the U.S. are unconstitutional because creating laws is a power delegated solely to legislatures .
“ The government has to recognize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Constitution still exist in bad times as well as in good and it has to treat people equally , ” Napolitano told “ Fox & Friends.
” Napolitano pointed out that Michigan Gov .
Gretchen Whitmer and New Jersey Gov .
Phil Murphy ’ s stay-at-home orders are “ made-up laws.
” “ The only laws that we have to obey and the only laws for which we can be punished for not obeying are those enacted by the legislature , ” he added .
“ The bad news is that the police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The good news is once these cases are tried when the pandemic is over , there isn ’ t a judge in the country who is going to recognize the power of the governor or a mayor to make up a law off the top of his head , to make up a punishment off the top of his head requiring people to comply with it .
That ’ s not democracy in America and that ’ s not what the Constitution requires.
” Here in Montana , we need an attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stay-at-home order in court .
Our Montana constitution clearly states : Section 5 .
Freedom of religion .
The state shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .
Section 6 .
Freedom of assembly .
The people shall have the right peaceably to assemble , petition for redress or peaceably protest government action .
Government lockdown and shutdown orders violate each of these constitutionally protected liberties—along with several others .
Nowhere does our State constitution give the power to the governor to deny these basic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this State .
A State code annotated that contravenes the State constitution is no law at all .
I imagine that your State has a similar constitution , and nowhere does your State constitution give your governor the power to deny these basic liberties to the people , either .
In all likelihood , this is the first time that such a statewide directive denying basic liberties has been enacted , and so it has never been challenged in court .
We intend to put an end to that inaction .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in which a governor issued a statewide stay-at-home order also begin taking legal action—and SOON .
Judge Napolitano is right .
“ It won ’ t hold up in court.
” And my heartiest kudos go out to the seven governors that did NOT issue a stay-at-home order .
If things are not turned around in the rest of the states , these seven states could very well find themselves welcoming many new freedom-minded people to their communities .
The seven states that did NOT issue stay-at-home orders are South Dakota , North @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Wyoming and Nebraska ( albeit there may have been local and county directives shuttering businesses and restricting gatherings within those states—and the Mormon churches in Utah surrendered their First Amendment liberties as sheepishly as did the evangelical churches in the other states ) .
Fascists Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are already saying that future lockdowns will be in order as the coronavirus will never go away .
In other words , they intend to see to it that America is turned into a Fascist medical dictatorship , complete with forced vaccinations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , self-professing conservatives and patriots need to STOP aiding and abetting the international criminals Fauci and Gates by continuing to sensationalize and dramatize the coronavirus .
Turn off the propaganda news media , and stop playing into their hands by legitimizing the phony narrative and thereby contributing to the further fomenting of fear .
People of America : The time has now come for you and me to draw our line in the sand and say to these government-mandated lockdowns and shutdowns : NEVER AGAIN !
P.S .
If you missed it , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 30-year veteran physician on how the CDC has instructed doctors to fudge corona death numbers upward on death certificates .
This video has been viewed over 2 million times on various platforms .
How good is it ?
It ’ s so good that Facebook is calling it “ false news.
” As you can imagine , Dr. Bukacek is now the target of an orchestrated campaign by the liberal media to have her removed from her position on the local board of health .
We have created an online petition in support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of my readers to please go vote in support of one of the finest medical doctors in the entire Flathead Valley ( Montana ) .
In fact , Dr. Bukacek is the reigning “ Best Family Physician of the Flathead ” as voted by residents .
And , no , you don ’ t have to be a resident of the Flathead Valley to sign the online petition .
Please take a minute to add your name to this online petition and support this courageous truth-telling doctor .
Here is the online @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Several Events In Modern US History That Must Never Be Allowed To Happen Against! – Never, As In Ever!
There are several events in modern U.S. history that must never be allowed to happen again. Never, as in EVER!
I’m talking about false flag events that warmongering politicians have used to authorize U.S. military aggression and unjust war around the world and gross miscarriages of justice in violent despotic assaults against American citizens inside the United States.
I’m talking about the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incidents in 1964 that launched an illegal and indefensible war in Vietnam. I’m talking about the premeditated and unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty by the State of Israel in 1967.
I’m talking about the total con job that was the 9/11 attacks, which precipitated two unconstitutional and immoral military invasions against two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, that had absolutely nothing to do with those attacks—wars we are still waging in those countries almost twenty years later—and the phony perpetual “war on terror” that has caused millions of innocent deaths around the world and has taken the U.S. to the precipice of financial ruin.
The events surrounding 9/11 also birthed a burgeoning Police State in this country with the introduction of the Stalinesque USA Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the unconstitutional provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that expunge both the Fourth Amendment and Habeas Corpus, etc.
I’m also talking about the government murders of nearly 100 American citizens by federal police agencies outside Waco, Texas, in 1993. The brutality and barbarism committed against the Branch Davidians rival that of any despotic dictatorship anywhere in the world.
And while we are on the subject, let’s not forget the federal police agents who murdered Vicki and Sam Weaver and seriously wounded their husband and father, Randy Weaver, and a friend near Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992. Vicki had her brains blown out by FBI assassin Lon Horiuchi as she stood in her kitchen doorway holding her infant baby in her arms. Her son, Sam, 14, was shot in the back by another federal agent. Oh, yes, they also shot and killed the boy’s dog.
The American people must see to it that events such as these are never allowed to happen again. Ever!
And now we must add to the ignoble list above the mass Naziesque lockdown of the American people and the shutdown of private businesses and churches in the wake of the greatest con job against our Constitution and Bill of Rights since 9/11: the so-called coronavirus pandemic.
These unconstitutional and dictatorial lockdowns and shutdowns must never be allowed to happen again.
I have documented in this column the way the coronavirus is being hyped and exaggerated for the express purpose of fomenting fear and panic among the American citizenry, thereby enabling government lockdowns and shutdowns that the American people would never tolerate had they not been scared to death by power-mad politicians, mad scientists and the malevolent mainstream media.
I have documented the facts that prove that the CDC and medical establishment have exaggerated and extortionated deaths from corona to the point that those institutions now have zero credibility in any statistic they provide regarding corona deaths. The 60,000 U.S. deaths from corona that they are claiming could in truth easily be half that number—or even less than half. They have fabricated and exaggerated corona deaths to the point that we cannot believe anything they have told us. Absolutely nothing!
I am saying (and, thankfully, I am not the only one saying it), the American people must never allow government lockdowns and shutdowns of their states and communities ever again. If we allow this to be repeated, it will be repeated again and again until we are living permanently under this dictatorial yoke.
As an aside, I suppose I must acknowledge the fact that not every State in the United States is a Free State. Several states have already succumbed to the chains of tyranny as a matter of daily practice. I see virtually no hope for freedom in states such as Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. To be sure, there are county sheriffs in several of those states that are bravely trying to hold the line for liberty. God bless them.
If you live in those states, my only advice for you is to LEAVE, because lockdowns and shutdowns are guaranteed to be the “new normal” for those states.
Neither do I see much hope for freedom in large metropolitan areas. My advice to people living in dense urban areas is to GET OUT.
For the rest of us, if we do not draw our line in the sand for liberty RIGHT NOW, our liberties are gone. And I mean FOREVER.
We must make the motto “Never Again” the motto by which we elect anyone to public office this November. We should demand that every candidate for governor, attorney general, State legislator, State senator, sheriff, mayor, city councilman, county commissioner, etc., answers one question: Will you authorize, support or help enact ANY government lockdown, stay-at-home order or shutdown of private businesses and churches? Yes or no!
And any candidate that takes longer than two seconds to shout a resounding “NO!” should not receive our vote. Period. Political parties do not matter. Saying they are a conservative does not matter. Saying they are a Christian does not matter. If they will not take a principled stand on these unconstitutional lockdowns, shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, our freedoms are toast. I repeat: They are TOAST.
I don’t know how to say it any plainer: If we do not draw our line in the sand for liberty right here and right now, our children and grandchildren will grow up in a land of tyranny. That is not being an alarmist; that is being a realist.
In addition to that, it is obligatory that we go on the offensive and begin filing lawsuits against these unconstitutional government directives. Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly states, “Governors stay-at-home orders are unconstitutional [and] won’t hold up in court.”
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Tuesday that stay-at-home orders from governors across the U.S. are unconstitutional because creating laws is a power delegated solely to legislatures.
“The government has to recognize that the rights that are in the Constitution still exist in bad times as well as in good and it has to treat people equally,” Napolitano told “Fox & Friends.”
Napolitano pointed out that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s stay-at-home orders are “made-up laws.”
“The only laws that we have to obey and the only laws for which we can be punished for not obeying are those enacted by the legislature,” he added.
“The bad news is that the police are not in a position to distinguish. The good news is once these cases are tried when the pandemic is over, there isn’t a judge in the country who is going to recognize the power of the governor or a mayor to make up a law off the top of his head, to make up a punishment off the top of his head requiring people to comply with it. That’s not democracy in America and that’s not what the Constitution requires.”
Here in Montana, we need an attorney to challenge our governor’s unconstitutional stay-at-home order in court. Our Montana constitution clearly states:
Article II – Declaration of Rights
Section 5. Freedom of religion. The state shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Section 6. Freedom of assembly. The people shall have the right peaceably to assemble, petition for redress or peaceably protest government action.
Government lockdown and shutdown orders violate each of these constitutionally protected liberties—along with several others.
Nowhere does our State constitution give the power to the governor to deny these basic liberties via executive order to the citizens of this State. A State code annotated that contravenes the State constitution is no law at all. I imagine that your State has a similar constitution, and nowhere does your State constitution give your governor the power to deny these basic liberties to the people, either.
In all likelihood, this is the first time that such a statewide directive denying basic liberties has been enacted, and so it has never been challenged in court. We intend to put an end to that inaction.
I strongly suggest that people in every State in which a governor issued a statewide stay-at-home order also begin taking legal action—and SOON. Judge Napolitano is right. “It won’t hold up in court.”
And my heartiest kudos go out to the seven governors that did NOT issue a stay-at-home order. If things are not turned around in the rest of the states, these seven states could very well find themselves welcoming many new freedom-minded people to their communities.
The seven states that did NOT issue stay-at-home orders are South Dakota, North Dakota, Utah, Iowa, Arkansas, Wyoming and Nebraska (albeit there may have been local and county directives shuttering businesses and restricting gatherings within those states—and the Mormon churches in Utah surrendered their First Amendment liberties as sheepishly as did the evangelical churches in the other states).
Fascists Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are already saying that future lockdowns will be in order as the coronavirus will never go away. In other words, they intend to see to it that America is turned into a Fascist medical dictatorship, complete with forced vaccinations, microchipping and universal surveillance.
Furthermore, self-professing conservatives and patriots need to STOP aiding and abetting the international criminals Fauci and Gates by continuing to sensationalize and dramatize the coronavirus. Turn off the propaganda news media, and stop playing into their hands by legitimizing the phony narrative and thereby contributing to the further fomenting of fear.
People of America: The time has now come for you and me to draw our line in the sand and say to these government-mandated lockdowns and shutdowns: NEVER AGAIN!
P.S. If you missed it, here is an excellent video from a 30-year veteran physician on how the CDC has instructed doctors to fudge corona death numbers upward on death certificates. This video has been viewed over 2 million times on various platforms. How good is it? It’s so good that Facebook is calling it “false news.”
As you can imagine, Dr. Bukacek is now the target of an orchestrated campaign by the liberal media to have her removed from her position on the local board of health.
We have created an online petition in support of Dr. Bukacek. I am asking all of my readers to please go vote in support of one of the finest medical doctors in the entire Flathead Valley (Montana). In fact, Dr. Bukacek is the reigning “Best Family Physician of the Flathead” as voted by residents. And, no, you don’t have to be a resident of the Flathead Valley to sign the online petition.
Please take a minute to add your name to this online petition and support this courageous truth-telling doctor.
(Note: The request for donations is from the petition organization, not from Dr. Annie. Therefore, any donation would go to the petition organization, not Dr. Annie.)
Here is the online petition in support of Dr. Annie Bukacek.
Article posted with permission from Chuck Baldwin


thewashingtonstandard--2020-04-30--Flynn Attorney on Explosive New Documents: There’s More Coming and It Gets Much Worse

Flynn Attorney on Explosive New Documents : There ’ s More Coming and It Gets Much Worse NEW BOMBSHELL DOCS : FBI ’ s goal in breaking policy and interviewing him under false premises was to “ get him fired ” “ get him to lie ” Penalties against all those involved , including Obama , should be most severe .
It ’ s a coup .
Flynn Attorney on Explosive New Documents : There ’ s More Coming and It Gets Worse During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night Sidney Powell , a top attorney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , said explosive new documents showing agents framing her client are only the beginning .
“ The documents I ’ ve seen so far in addition to the ones you have in your hands now are even more stunning .
It ’ s just absolutely appalling what these agents and then the Special Counsel operation did to General Flynn .
It ’ s abuse of their authority at every turn , ” Powell said .
“ These documents weren ’ t easily discovered .
The emails have been in the FBI the whole @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I understand it , may not have been .
We still do not know who the author of those is .
They ’ re devastating evidence of lengths they were willing to go to dsiregard all prior protocols , all prior rules , their standard practice in other cases to warn of 1001 violation .
All of that .
None of that applied to General Flynn .
They only had special violations of every protocol known for him because they were determined to take him out.
” “ I can ’ t thank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Durham enough for having the integrity and fortitude to get to the bottom of this because that ’ s what it takes , ” she continued .
Powell has asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to vacate the case .
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy broke down the new documents and said it ’ s clear FBI agents put Flynn in a perjury trap .
“ I think what we ’ re seeing is a meticulously planned out scheme to try to get a 33-year combat veteran of the United States to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ d have a basis to charge him with false statements or otherwise get him fired , ” McCarthy said .
They did not have a legitimate investigative reason for doing this .
There was no criminal predicate .
There was no reason to treat him as a criminal suspect.
” “ For years a number of us have been arguing that this looked like a perjury trap .
We ’ re now seeing the paper trail start to catch up with what common sense has said for a longtime , ” he continued @

NEW BOMBSHELL DOCS: FBI’s goal in breaking policy and interviewing him under false premises was to “get him fired” “get him to lie”
Penalties against all those involved, including Obama, should be most severe. It’s a coup.
Flynn Attorney on Explosive New Documents: There’s More Coming and It Gets Worse
By: Katie Pavlich, Town Hall, April 29, 2020:
During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night Sidney Powell, a top attorney representing General Michael Flynn against the FBI, said explosive new documents showing agents framing her client are only the beginning.
“The documents I’ve seen so far in addition to the ones you have in your hands now are even more stunning. It’s just absolutely appalling what these agents and then the Special Counsel operation did to General Flynn. It’s abuse of their authority at every turn,” Powell said. “These documents weren’t easily discovered. The emails have been in the FBI the whole time but the handwritten notes, as I understand it, may not have been. We still do not know who the author of those is. They’re devastating evidence of lengths they were willing to go to dsiregard all prior protocols, all prior rules, their standard practice in other cases to warn of 1001 violation. All of that. None of that applied to General Flynn. They only had special violations of every protocol known for him because they were determined to take him out.”
“I can’t thank Attorney General Barr and Mr. Jensen and Mr. Durham enough for having the integrity and fortitude to get to the bottom of this because that’s what it takes,” she continued.
Powell has asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to vacate the case.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy broke down the new documents and said it’s clear FBI agents put Flynn in a perjury trap.
“I think what we’re seeing is a meticulously planned out scheme to try to get a 33-year combat veteran of the United States to say something inaccurate so that they’d have a basis to charge him with false statements or otherwise get him fired,” McCarthy said. They did not have a legitimate investigative reason for doing this. There was no criminal predicate. There was no reason to treat him as a criminal suspect.”
“For years a number of us have been arguing that this looked like a perjury trap. We’re now seeing the paper trail start to catch up with what common sense has said for a longtime,” he continued.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-04-30--COVID-19 Proves Lowering The Bar Is Never The Answer

With all of the furor over social distancing , widespread fear , conspiracy theories and opportunistic political grandstanding attendant to the COVID-19 pandemic vying for our attention , just above the radar , we ’ re hearing calls for investigations into how the novel coronavirus was introduced into the human population in the first place .
Much of this has come from some pretty heavy hitters in Washington , most notably Sens .
Tom Cotton , R-Ark.
, Ted Cruz , R-Texas , Marco Rubio , R-Fla. , and Marsha Blackburn , R-Tenn .
It shouldn ’ t escape the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these are coming from Republicans and include demands that the government of Communist China be held accountable for its lies and suppression of information relating to the pandemic .
One tweet , in particular , posted by Sen. Josh Hawley , R-Mo.
, has been getting a fair amount of ink , so to speak , and has been met with a great deal of public support .
As reported by Breitbart on April 26 , Hawley ’ s tweet accompanied a link to the April 14 story in the Washington Post which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State Department officials warned that personnel working at China ’ s Wuhan Institute of Virology ( WIV ) were woefully under-trained and essentially unable to “ safely operate this high-containment laboratory.
” While this might not necessarily represent a smoking gun , it ’ s certainly a weapon that needs to be sent to the nearest ballistics lab .
First off , I ’ d like to address a couple of things : Culturally , China is pretty backward .
For a nation of its technological and industrial development , it is extremely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s long-held traditions of physical fitness and employing preventive medicine are eminently sound , some of the conventions and beliefs held by the majority of Chinese are profoundly retrograde .
I ’ ll just leave it to the fact that they consume bats , reptiles , wild birds and contribute mightily to the illegal endangered species trade with their superstitions as validation for this assertion .
Consequently , I have concerns regarding just how seriously the Wuhan lab workers were taking existing safety precautions .
The second thing I ’ d like to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A lab technician working in Wuhan is every bit as capable of making a grievous procedural error as anyone else , either due to incompetence , neglect , fatigue or a momentary lapse of focus .
This is without factoring in the likelihood that the Wuhan lab workers were poorly trained , or the possibility that the lab ’ s standard operating procedures ( SOPs ) were a pandemic waiting to happen .
There are dozens of strains of coronavirus , a handful of which can give rise to illness in humans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exclusively ( most notably rodents ) , and others that do not give rise to disease in any species that we know of .
I know this because of my former work in biomedical research , which I have discussed previously in this space .
Some of this included stints in Biosafety Level 3 ( BSL-3 or BL-3 ) facilities and exposure to more rodents than I can reliably count .
I even drafted SOPs for a BSL-3 facility a few miles from where I now sit .
Last month , the Centers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) outlined biosafety guidelines for researchers specific to COVID-19 , recommending that virus isolation and characterization of viral agents from this pathogen must be processed within a BSL-3 laboratory space using BSL-3 procedures .
To give the layperson an idea of what this means : Viruses like Ebola , Marburg virus ( an Ebola variant ) , Lassa virus and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever are Biosafety Level 4 pathogens .
E. coli and the disease organisms that cause Tetanus and Chlamydia are Biosafety Level 2 pathogens .
The higher the number , the more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from this ought to be clear : These are not environments in which anyone can afford to screw around .
So , how did we get to this point ?
Let ’ s return to the topic of human fallibility for a moment .
During my years working with infectious diseases , I witnessed numerous instances of personnel flouting SOPs .
Usually , these were foreign professors and postdoctoral fellows who either thought that the safety procedures put in place by their Nervous Nellie American hosts were too stringent , or that their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occasion , I had to report a foreign researcher for skipping the showering-out procedure in a BSL-3 facility .
I don ’ t know if he was in a hurry or just didn ’ t want to get wet , but there ’ s obviously no excuse for such behavior given the stakes involved .
On more than one occasion , this kind of thing resulted in a contaminated lab , with tens of thousands of dollars down the tubes .
Last week in this space , I detailed the folly of expecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Communist government and far-left American politicos , since these have proven themselves to be manifestly evil .
It has since become apparent that this subject needs to be expanded upon .
In 2018 , the people of the state of Colorado queued up to vote in a homosexual governor so they could feel good about not being homophobes , much in the same way Americans voted , 10 years prior , for a subversive black man with no bona fides whatsoever and an origin story crafted from whole cloth for president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being racists .
We ’ re well aware of how the latter proposition played out ; now , Colorado residents are rather concerned about their governor ’ s furtive , sinister machinations around lifting COVID-19 restrictions .
Against our better judgment , we accepted the left ’ s assertion that homosexuals weren ’ t morally compromised people ; now , we have homosexuals in positions of influence across America advancing morally depraved policies and far-left ideology in unrestrained fashion – and somehow , we have the nerve to be surprised .
Once upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ universally understood that communists could not be trusted on any level .
Still , we got into bed with the Chinese ; now we have a “ business partner ” who routinely steals proprietary information from American companies , and sends its students here to be educated in how better to conquer us .
Our president is forced to rely on a dedicated Swamp creature to spearhead the administration ’ s efforts against COVID-19 because such people are so well entrenched in the infrastructure of government , and the director of the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ orangutan .
Again , somehow we ’ re astonished that scum are behaving in scummy fashion .
The take-away here ?
Lowering the bar is always a recipe for disaster , and we can ’ t afford to do it anymore – not for the sake of profits , nor political correctness , nor to spare the feelings of deviants and the indolent .
The stakes are just too damned high .

With all of the furor over social distancing, widespread fear, conspiracy theories and opportunistic political grandstanding attendant to the COVID-19 pandemic vying for our attention, just above the radar, we’re hearing calls for investigations into how the novel coronavirus was introduced into the human population in the first place. Much of this has come from some pretty heavy hitters in Washington, most notably Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
It shouldn’t escape the reader’s notice that all of these are coming from Republicans and include demands that the government of Communist China be held accountable for its lies and suppression of information relating to the pandemic. One tweet, in particular, posted by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has been getting a fair amount of ink, so to speak, and has been met with a great deal of public support.
As reported by Breitbart on April 26, Hawley’s tweet accompanied a link to the April 14 story in the Washington Post which revealed that in January 2018, two State Department officials warned that personnel working at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were woefully under-trained and essentially unable to “safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”
While this might not necessarily represent a smoking gun, it’s certainly a weapon that needs to be sent to the nearest ballistics lab.
First off, I’d like to address a couple of things: Culturally, China is pretty backward. For a nation of its technological and industrial development, it is extremely backward. While things like China’s long-held traditions of physical fitness and employing preventive medicine are eminently sound, some of the conventions and beliefs held by the majority of Chinese are profoundly retrograde. I’ll just leave it to the fact that they consume bats, reptiles, wild birds and contribute mightily to the illegal endangered species trade with their superstitions as validation for this assertion.
Consequently, I have concerns regarding just how seriously the Wuhan lab workers were taking existing safety precautions.
The second thing I’d like to speak to is plain old human fallibility. A lab technician working in Wuhan is every bit as capable of making a grievous procedural error as anyone else, either due to incompetence, neglect, fatigue or a momentary lapse of focus. This is without factoring in the likelihood that the Wuhan lab workers were poorly trained, or the possibility that the lab’s standard operating procedures (SOPs) were a pandemic waiting to happen.
There are dozens of strains of coronavirus, a handful of which can give rise to illness in humans. There are some that infect animals exclusively (most notably rodents), and others that do not give rise to disease in any species that we know of.
I know this because of my former work in biomedical research, which I have discussed previously in this space. Some of this included stints in Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3 or BL-3) facilities and exposure to more rodents than I can reliably count. I even drafted SOPs for a BSL-3 facility a few miles from where I now sit.
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlined biosafety guidelines for researchers specific to COVID-19, recommending that virus isolation and characterization of viral agents from this pathogen must be processed within a BSL-3 laboratory space using BSL-3 procedures.
To give the layperson an idea of what this means: Viruses like Ebola, Marburg virus (an Ebola variant), Lassa virus and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever are Biosafety Level 4 pathogens. E. coli and the disease organisms that cause Tetanus and Chlamydia are Biosafety Level 2 pathogens. The higher the number, the more dangerous the disease organism.
The take-away from this ought to be clear: These are not environments in which anyone can afford to screw around.
So, how did we get to this point?
Let’s return to the topic of human fallibility for a moment. During my years working with infectious diseases, I witnessed numerous instances of personnel flouting SOPs. Usually, these were foreign professors and postdoctoral fellows who either thought that the safety procedures put in place by their Nervous Nellie American hosts were too stringent, or that their lofty titles precluded adherence. On one occasion, I had to report a foreign researcher for skipping the showering-out procedure in a BSL-3 facility. I don’t know if he was in a hurry or just didn’t want to get wet, but there’s obviously no excuse for such behavior given the stakes involved.
On more than one occasion, this kind of thing resulted in a contaminated lab, with tens of thousands of dollars down the tubes.
Last week in this space, I detailed the folly of expecting forthrightness vis-à-vis the coronavirus pandemic from China’s Communist government and far-left American politicos, since these have proven themselves to be manifestly evil. It has since become apparent that this subject needs to be expanded upon.
In 2018, the people of the state of Colorado queued up to vote in a homosexual governor so they could feel good about not being homophobes, much in the same way Americans voted, 10 years prior, for a subversive black man with no bona fides whatsoever and an origin story crafted from whole cloth for president so they could feel good about not being racists. We’re well aware of how the latter proposition played out; now, Colorado residents are rather concerned about their governor’s furtive, sinister machinations around lifting COVID-19 restrictions.
Against our better judgment, we accepted the left’s assertion that homosexuals weren’t morally compromised people; now, we have homosexuals in positions of influence across America advancing morally depraved policies and far-left ideology in unrestrained fashion – and somehow, we have the nerve to be surprised.
Once upon a time in America, it was universally understood that communists could not be trusted on any level. Still, we got into bed with the Chinese; now we have a “business partner” who routinely steals proprietary information from American companies, and sends its students here to be educated in how better to conquer us. Our president is forced to rely on a dedicated Swamp creature to spearhead the administration’s efforts against COVID-19 because such people are so well entrenched in the infrastructure of government, and the director of the World Health Organization might as well be an orangutan.
Again, somehow we’re astonished that scum are behaving in scummy fashion.
The take-away here? Lowering the bar is always a recipe for disaster, and we can’t afford to do it anymore – not for the sake of profits, nor political correctness, nor to spare the feelings of deviants and the indolent. The stakes are just too damned high.
Article posted with permission from Erik Rush


thewashingtonstandard--2020-04-30--Wisconsin:  Cops Harass Mom For Letting Daughter Play Outside During Lockdown – She Owns Them!  (Vid

Wisconsin : Cops Harass Mom For Letting Daughter Play Outside During Lockdown – She Owns Them !
( Video ) Calumet County , WI — While there are examples of police officers across the country refusing to enforce arbitrary and outright ridiculous government mandates that do nothing for actual safety , there is no shortage of instances of cops fulfilling their roles as enforcers by blindly “ just doing their jobs.
” A mother in Wisconsin learned just how far the order followers are willing to go this week when she received a visit from two Calumet County Sheriff ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ playing outside with their neighbor .
As the following infuriating video shows , two deputies with the Calumet County Sheriff ’ s Office pay an unsuspecting mother a visit reportedly because her daughter was outside playing with a friend….the horror .
When the two deputies show up , the mother , identified only as ‘ Amy ’ , told the deputies that she spoke with the sheriff ’ s department two weeks ago and she was told that cops wouldn ’ t be enforcing “ that order.
” “ Your officer was just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to me that you all wouldn ’ t be enforcing that order , ” said Amy .
“ Oh , we ’ re about to , ” the deputy , identified as police school liaison deputy Matthew Eberhardt , threatens .
“ So why are you here ?
” asks Amy .
“ Because your daughter is going to play at other people ’ s home and you ’ re allowing it to happen , ” Eberhardt explained , adding , “ Stop having your kid go by other people ’ s home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responded .
“ I acknowledge it , anything else ?
” Eberhardt says , “ no , ” implying that there was nothing else , but the interaction and subsequent harassment was only just beginning .
As Eberhardt tries to save face and walk away , the female officer on the scene wanted some , so she chimed in .
She asked for the mother ’ s last name and middle initial so she could file paperwork for the alleged “ violation of a state order.
” “ Because you violated an order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she ’ s cut off by the mother .
The female cop then continued to shame the mom for letting her child walk in her own neighborhood , saying , “ She walks all over the place all day long barefoot… She shouldn ’ t be anywhere away from the house.
” The shame didn ’ t work , however .
As the female officer continued to pry and shame the mother , the mother flexed her rights and refused to answer any questions , telling the deputies that she did nothing wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ridiculous the harassment was .
After refusing to identify herself and standing her ground , this rights-flexing mother sent the cops packing .
But not before the female cop attempted to hold on to what dignity she had left .
We are going to document that you “ were uncooperative ” and added “ We ’ ll be back if your daughter ’ s out !
” It is important to point out that this mom wasn ’ t gallivanting her children in crowded public places , or letting them run freely in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their own neighborhood outside — an entirely safe and acceptable form of self-quarantine .
What ’ s more , earlier this month , Wisconsin governor Tony Evers , relaxed much of the state ’ s stay-at-home order and even opened golf courses .
The idea that grown adults can go to a golf course and play golf with each other while a child can not play outside with her friend is absolute insanity and speaks to the arbitrary nature of law enforcement amid the COVID-19 outbreak .
Below is the video .
Sadly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on which the Free Thought Project has reported over the last few weeks as cops try vigorously to end up on the wrong side of history by enforcing unlawful and outright egregious decrees , many times without a violation actually taking place .
As we reported earlier this month , a father was arrested in front of his children for legally obeying all rules and playing in an open park with his daughter .

Wisconsin: Cops Harass Mom For Letting Daughter Play Outside During Lockdown – She Owns Them! (Video)
Calumet County, WI — While there are examples of police officers across the country refusing to enforce arbitrary and outright ridiculous government mandates that do nothing for actual safety, there is no shortage of instances of cops fulfilling their roles as enforcers by blindly “just doing their jobs.” A mother in Wisconsin learned just how far the order followers are willing to go this week when she received a visit from two Calumet County Sheriff’s Deputies — because her daughter was playing outside with their neighbor.
As the following infuriating video shows, two deputies with the Calumet County Sheriff’s Office pay an unsuspecting mother a visit reportedly because her daughter was outside playing with a friend….the horror.
When the two deputies show up, the mother, identified only as ‘Amy’, told the deputies that she spoke with the sheriff’s department two weeks ago and she was told that cops wouldn’t be enforcing “that order.”
“Your officer was just here two weeks ago and he explained to me that you all wouldn’t be enforcing that order,” said Amy.
“Oh, we’re about to,” the deputy, identified as police school liaison deputy Matthew Eberhardt, threatens.
“So why are you here?” asks Amy.
“Because your daughter is going to play at other people’s home and you’re allowing it to happen,” Eberhardt explained, adding, “Stop having your kid go by other people’s home!”
“Okay,” she responded. “I acknowledge it, anything else?”
Eberhardt says, “no,” implying that there was nothing else, but the interaction and subsequent harassment was only just beginning.
As Eberhardt tries to save face and walk away, the female officer on the scene wanted some, so she chimed in. She asked for the mother’s last name and middle initial so she could file paperwork for the alleged “violation of a state order.”
“Because you violated an order,” the female cop says before she’s cut off by the mother.
“I haven’t violated an order,” Amy says.
The female cop then continued to shame the mom for letting her child walk in her own neighborhood, saying, “She walks all over the place all day long barefoot… She shouldn’t be anywhere away from the house.”
The shame didn’t work, however. As the female officer continued to pry and shame the mother, the mother flexed her rights and refused to answer any questions, telling the deputies that she did nothing wrong.
This mother knew how arbitrary and ridiculous the harassment was. After refusing to identify herself and standing her ground, this rights-flexing mother sent the cops packing. But not before the female cop attempted to hold on to what dignity she had left.
We are going to document that you “were uncooperative” and added “We’ll be back if your daughter’s out!”
It is important to point out that this mom wasn’t gallivanting her children in crowded public places, or letting them run freely in a supermarket — they were playing in their own neighborhood outside — an entirely safe and acceptable form of self-quarantine.
What’s more, earlier this month, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, relaxed much of the state’s stay-at-home order and even opened golf courses. The idea that grown adults can go to a golf course and play golf with each other while a child cannot play outside with her friend is absolute insanity and speaks to the arbitrary nature of law enforcement amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Below is the video.
Sadly, this case is one of many on which the Free Thought Project has reported over the last few weeks as cops try vigorously to end up on the wrong side of history by enforcing unlawful and outright egregious decrees, many times without a violation actually taking place.
As we reported earlier this month, a father was arrested in front of his children for legally obeying all rules and playing in an open park with his daughter.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-01--Medical Tyranny:  Trump Pivots To Mandatory Vaccinations Under Operation “Warp Speed”

President Donald Trump now has a new goal : Operation Warp Speed .
That ’ s a partnership with “ pharmaceutical companies and the military ” in a rush to create a coronavirus vaccine that will be mandatory .
He ’ s stepping into Bill Gates ’ shoes .
According to a report by Bloomberg , the Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine , with the goal of making enough doses for most Americans by year ’ s end .
Instead of eliminating the police state and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He ’ s now sided with Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci making him complicit in the removal of people ’ s basic human rights .
Next in Coronavirus Tyranny : Forced Vaccinations and ‘ Digital Certificates ’ It ’ s time to call a spade a spade , and a tyrant a tyrant .
Brian from the YouTube channel High Impact Flix detailed the problems with vaccine and how quickly Trump pivoted to help the biggest and most corrupt pharmaceutical companies in the world .
“ I wan na ask you a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Are you against government-subsidized , taxpayer-funded , pharmaceutical benefiting , Bill Gates supported , vaccines ?
Now let me ask you this question : are you for or against Donald Trump ?
Are you for or against Barack Obama ?
Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance ?
Are you trying to hold two mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed ideas or beliefs in your minds at the same time ?
” The mainstream media is now saying this is a good thing , Trump is doing the right thing , and their reporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the freedom to decide what goes into their body .
At 2:28 in the above video , there is a clip of Trump saying people “ have to take the shot ” and get the vaccination .
“ Wait ’ til you see the name of the operation…I thought ‘ no way .
No .
It can ’ t be this blatant.
’ And if this is true , there ’ s no way people are still gon na be for Trump after this ... Called Operation Warp Speed , the project will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and THE MILITARY ... they ’ re all in bed together , guys !
We ’ ve known this !
Now , they ’ re just putting it in our faces !
‘ Look , see ?
Here ’ s that thing you can do about it !
We ’ re gon na get the vaccine going !
You ’ re gon na have to have vaccine certifications !
’ ” “ Are you really still for Master Trump ?
You know people were checked out .
You guys who are for Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Obama , the signing of the NDAA and the resigning of the Patriot Act under Obama , you said : ‘ oh that ’ s that ’ s tyranny !
This is a tyrant !
He ’ s acting in a despotic manner !
’ You were right .
But then Trump comes along and does the same thing…just like Obama did .
SILENCE !
…Cuz everybody that supports Trump that was against Obama…are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites and that ’ s why our country and our world is goin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gon na stand fast on , and hold firm to the truth !
What has the world come to ?
” This news isn ’ t going to sit well with some , but we have to be steadfast when it comes to our rights and our freedom .
We need to know what these people who declare themselves our rulers are planning to do to us .
Trump is pushing the elitists ’ agenda for ID2020 .
Do you still support Trump after this ?

President Donald Trump now has a new goal: Operation Warp Speed. That’s a partnership with “pharmaceutical companies and the military” in a rush to create a coronavirus vaccine that will be mandatory. He’s stepping into Bill Gates’ shoes.
According to a report by Bloomberg, the Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with the goal of making enough doses for most Americans by year’s end. Instead of eliminating the police state and tyranny, Trump is doing the opposite. He’s now sided with Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci making him complicit in the removal of people’s basic human rights.
Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and ‘Digital Certificates’
It’s time to call a spade a spade, and a tyrant a tyrant. Brian from the YouTube channel High Impact Flix detailed the problems with vaccine and how quickly Trump pivoted to help the biggest and most corrupt pharmaceutical companies in the world.
“I wanna ask you a question. Are you really against vaccines? Are you against government-subsidized, taxpayer-funded, pharmaceutical benefiting, Bill Gates supported, vaccines? Now let me ask you this question: are you for or against Donald Trump? Are you for or against Barack Obama? Do you suffer from cognitive dissonance? Are you trying to hold two mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed ideas or beliefs in your minds at the same time?”
The mainstream media is now saying this is a good thing, Trump is doing the right thing, and their reporting of it should concern anyone who wants the freedom to decide what goes into their body. At 2:28 in the above video, there is a clip of Trump saying people “have to take the shot” and get the vaccination.
“Wait ’til you see the name of the operation…I thought ‘no way. No. It can’t be this blatant.’ And if this is true, there’s no way people are still gonna be for Trump after this...Called Operation Warp Speed, the project will join pharmaceutical companies and with government agencies and THE MILITARY...they’re all in bed together, guys! We’ve known this! Now, they’re just putting it in our faces! ‘Look, see? Here’s that thing you can do about it! We’re gonna get the vaccine going! You’re gonna have to have vaccine certifications!’”
Brian doesn’t mince words:
“Are you really still for Master Trump? You know people were checked out. You guys who are for Trump now, you call people who were for Obama, the signing of the NDAA and the resigning of the Patriot Act under Obama, you said: ‘oh that’s that’s tyranny! This is a tyrant! He’s acting in a despotic manner!’ You were right. But then Trump comes along and does the same thing…just like Obama did. SILENCE!…Cuz everybody that supports Trump that was against Obama…are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites and that’s why our country and our world is goin’ down. Because people are not gonna stand fast on, and hold firm to the truth! What has the world come to?”
This news isn’t going to sit well with some, but we have to be steadfast when it comes to our rights and our freedom. We need to know what these people who declare themselves our rulers are planning to do to us. Trump is pushing the elitists’ agenda for ID2020. Do you still support Trump after this?
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-01--Media Took Millions in Loans Meant for Small Businesses

Even while the media is blaring stories about the abuse of the Payroll Protection Plan loans from the Small Business Administration , its own industry took millions in loans and wants billions more .
Unlike many small businesses which were forced to shut down because of the lockdown , the media has been wrongly listed as ‘ essential ’ and exempted from the shutdowns , but that hasn ’ t stopped it from taking money that should have been used to compensate small business owners who can ’ t stay open .
Even when the media operations cashing in on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s idea of a small business .
The Seattle Times maxed out its PPP loan with a $ 10 million payout .
The Seattle Times is not only Washington State ’ s largest daily , but its parent company , the Seattle Times Company , owns two other papers , and had , as recently as 3 years ago , put out 7 papers .
It also owned multiple newspapers in Maine which it sold off for over $ 200 million .
It had two printing plants , one of which it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which it still owns , continues to print a variety of magazines and newspapers .
But while the Seattle Times is , like the New York Times , a multi-generational family property , the McClatchy Company owns 49.5 % of voting stock and 70.6 % of voting stock in the Seattle Times Company .
McClatchy has dozens of papers and had revenues of over $ 800 million in 2018 .
While McClatchy has operated at a loss and filed for Chapter 11 , it ’ s not a small business .
Neither is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is partially backed by , among others , CalPERS , the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System , the largest and most politically correct pension fund in the country .
Is this really a small business ?
Despite the façade of family ownership , national chains have owned much of the Seattle paper business since the Great Depression with McClatchy taking over from Knight Ridder .
Even if you ignore all the wizards behind the Emerald City paper ’ s curtain , the Seattle Times Company has 849 employees .
How was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the SBA ’ s PPP loan ?
Double and triple standards .
If you deal in fresh fruit and have over 100 employees , according to the SBA , you ’ re not a small business .
If you supply toys , you ’ re limited to 150 employees .
But if you ’ re a newspaper publisher , you can have up to 1,000 employees and still be considered a small business .
That ’ s how a company that owns 3 papers , a printing plant , and its silent partner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in America , was eligible to grab loans intended to keep small businesses afloat .
The Seattle Times wasn ’ t unique among the media in seizing loans meant for shuttered small businesses .
The Tampa Bay Times got an $ 8.5 million loan , close to the max .
The Times Publishing Company also puts out 10 papers , a few magazines , and Politifact , a site which claims to ‘ fact check ’ politicians , but frequently makes false claims , puts out spam , and smears conservatives .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Media Studies , which is funded by leftist billionaires like George Soros and Pierre Omidyar .
And just to make matters worse , the Poynter Institute , which is officially a non-profit , also got a stimulus loan of $ 737,400 to cover its coronavirus “ business losses ” .
Poynter notes that as , “ a nonprofit with under 60 employees , Poynter qualified for the loan.
” But Poynter ’ s documents suggest that its newspaper business had $ 123 million in revenues with assets of $ 43 million .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ operations , the intermingling of non-profits and for-profits , is already suspect on its own .
It should not have been taking money meant for small businesses .
But the media has been eager to pig out on small business loans even as it attacks public companies that took PPP loans .
Axios , a media venture by Politico bigwigs , with around 200 employees , funded by venture capital and investment firms , including Jeffrey Katzenberg , the Hollywood tycoon with a net worth of $ 750 million , and NBCUniversal , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But this obscene piggery isn ’ t enough for the media which wants a much bigger exemption .
Senator Maria Cantwell , Senator Amy Klobuchar , and Senator John Kennedy dispatched a letter urging a waiver on the affiliation rule “ which restricts assistance to companies owned or controlled by larger entities.
” This would potentially allow huge multi-billion-dollar conglomerates like Gannett to raid money intended for small businesses even as they lobby politicians to shut those businesses down .
The senators falsely claimed that keeping the media going was “ essential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would lift the 1,000-employee limit and allow newspapers owned by national chains to apply for loans as if they were small businesses .
It ’ s the equivalent of having every Starbucks outlet claim that it ’ s just a small business serving the local community and won ’ t pass the money upward .
The media has been shaming other corporations that took PPP loans , yet it is entirely without shame .
There ought to be no more sanctimonious lectures about corporate bailouts from Democrats who want to bail out billion-dollar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t get inside the front door .
If affiliation rules are waived for the media , Gannett ’ s thousand plus newspapers would be ready to raid the SBA for loans that would likely never be repaid , while justifying the looting by arguing that the media is suffering because small businesses can ’ t afford to take out as many ads in local papers as before .
The media has already managed to loot at least $ 23.5 million meant for small businesses .
Affiliation waivers would turn PPP loans into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth billions .
The media has already been allowed to operate while actual small businesses were shut down , even though there ’ s been a coronavirus infection spike in the media which , as far as we know , killed several people .
It ’ s used its megaphone to push for more shutdowns of local businesses as non-essential even as it demands the right to raid the money intended for those businesses to fund its massive operations .
National media chains on the verge of bankruptcy want to exploit small business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their broken business model going for another few years before they fold .
The PPP loan program was not designed as a bailout for media giants and their pension fraud .
The Seattle Times , the Tampa Bay Times , Poynter , and Axios ought to be pressured into returning the money they took .
And while that may never happen , any effort by politicians to apply affiliation waivers to the media ought to be fought as an obscene cash grab from small businesses to lefty corporations .

Even while the media is blaring stories about the abuse of the Payroll Protection Plan loans from the Small Business Administration, its own industry took millions in loans and wants billions more.
Unlike many small businesses which were forced to shut down because of the lockdown, the media has been wrongly listed as ‘essential’ and exempted from the shutdowns, but that hasn’t stopped it from taking money that should have been used to compensate small business owners who can’t stay open.
Even when the media operations cashing in on the SBA loans aren’t anyone’s idea of a small business.
The Seattle Times maxed out its PPP loan with a $10 million payout. The Seattle Times is not only Washington State’s largest daily, but its parent company, the Seattle Times Company, owns two other papers, and had, as recently as 3 years ago, put out 7 papers. It also owned multiple newspapers in Maine which it sold off for over $200 million. It had two printing plants, one of which it sold. The Rotary Offset Press, which it still owns, continues to print a variety of magazines and newspapers.
But while the Seattle Times is, like the New York Times, a multi-generational family property, the McClatchy Company owns 49.5% of voting stock and 70.6% of voting stock in the Seattle Times Company. McClatchy has dozens of papers and had revenues of over $800 million in 2018.
While McClatchy has operated at a loss and filed for Chapter 11, it’s not a small business. Neither is the hedge fund likely to run it which is partially backed by, among others, CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest and most politically correct pension fund in the country.
Is this really a small business?
Despite the façade of family ownership, national chains have owned much of the Seattle paper business since the Great Depression with McClatchy taking over from Knight Ridder. Even if you ignore all the wizards behind the Emerald City paper’s curtain, the Seattle Times Company has 849 employees.
How was the Seattle Times able to max out the SBA’s PPP loan? Double and triple standards.
If you deal in fresh fruit and have over 100 employees, according to the SBA, you’re not a small business. If you supply toys, you’re limited to 150 employees. But if you’re a newspaper publisher, you can have up to 1,000 employees and still be considered a small business.
That’s how a company that owns 3 papers, a printing plant, and its silent partner is one of the largest news publishers in America, was eligible to grab loans intended to keep small businesses afloat.
The Seattle Times wasn’t unique among the media in seizing loans meant for shuttered small businesses.
The Tampa Bay Times got an $8.5 million loan, close to the max. The Times Publishing Company also puts out 10 papers, a few magazines, and Politifact, a site which claims to ‘fact check’ politicians, but frequently makes false claims, puts out spam, and smears conservatives.
The Company is owned by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is funded by leftist billionaires like George Soros and Pierre Omidyar.
And just to make matters worse, the Poynter Institute, which is officially a non-profit, also got a stimulus loan of $737,400 to cover its coronavirus “business losses”.
Poynter notes that as, “a nonprofit with under 60 employees, Poynter qualified for the loan.” But Poynter’s documents suggest that its newspaper business had $123 million in revenues with assets of $43 million.
That’s not a small business.
The Tampa Bay Times and its shady operations, the intermingling of non-profits and for-profits, is already suspect on its own. It should not have been taking money meant for small businesses.
But the media has been eager to pig out on small business loans even as it attacks public companies that took PPP loans. Axios, a media venture by Politico bigwigs, with around 200 employees, funded by venture capital and investment firms, including Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood tycoon with a net worth of $750 million, and NBCUniversal, scored a $5 million PPP loan.
But this obscene piggery isn’t enough for the media which wants a much bigger exemption.
Senator Maria Cantwell, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator John Kennedy dispatched a letter urging a waiver on the affiliation rule “which restricts assistance to companies owned or controlled by larger entities.” This would potentially allow huge multi-billion-dollar conglomerates like Gannett to raid money intended for small businesses even as they lobby politicians to shut those businesses down.
The senators falsely claimed that keeping the media going was “essential to public health”.
Affiliation waivers would lift the 1,000-employee limit and allow newspapers owned by national chains to apply for loans as if they were small businesses. It’s the equivalent of having every Starbucks outlet claim that it’s just a small business serving the local community and won’t pass the money upward.
The media has been shaming other corporations that took PPP loans, yet it is entirely without shame.
There ought to be no more sanctimonious lectures about corporate bailouts from Democrats who want to bail out billion-dollar corporations while small business owners can’t get inside the front door. If affiliation rules are waived for the media, Gannett’s thousand plus newspapers would be ready to raid the SBA for loans that would likely never be repaid, while justifying the looting by arguing that the media is suffering because small businesses can’t afford to take out as many ads in local papers as before.
The media has already managed to loot at least $23.5 million meant for small businesses. Affiliation waivers would turn PPP loans into a bailout for media conglomerates that would be worth billions.
The media has already been allowed to operate while actual small businesses were shut down, even though there’s been a coronavirus infection spike in the media which, as far as we know, killed several people. It’s used its megaphone to push for more shutdowns of local businesses as non-essential even as it demands the right to raid the money intended for those businesses to fund its massive operations.
Enough.
National media chains on the verge of bankruptcy want to exploit small business loans intended for coronavirus relief to keep their broken business model going for another few years before they fold.
The PPP loan program was not designed as a bailout for media giants and their pension fraud.
The Seattle Times, the Tampa Bay Times, Poynter, and Axios ought to be pressured into returning the money they took. And while that may never happen, any effort by politicians to apply affiliation waivers to the media ought to be fought as an obscene cash grab from small businesses to lefty corporations.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-01--Latest Trump Executive Order:  Ordering Selected Reserve Of The Armed Forces To Active Duty

The latest executive order by President Donald Trump is another unconstitutional measure , wherein he claims that “ authority is vested in me [ him ] as President by the Constitution and the law of the United States of America ” to order the selected reserve of the armed forces of the US to active duty .
Nothing could be further from the truth , and why is he even attempting to do this ?
First , under our Constitution , Congress calls up the military in the service of the US and then , and only then , does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not appoint himself to that title .
Second , he has no authority to call up those since there is no defense mechanism in which America is at war .
I know Trump has declared himself a wartime president , but that simply is not the case .
However , in an executive order dated April 30 , 2020 , Trump declared : By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America , including section 12304 of title 10 , United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is necessary to augment the regular Armed Forces of the United States for a named operational mission , specifically the “ Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western Hemisphere , ” I hereby order as follows : .
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The Secretary of Defense is directed to order to active duty for not more than 365 consecutive days , any units , and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit , of the Selected Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one time , as he considers necessary .
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( a ) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect : ( i ) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency , or head thereof ; or ( ii ) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary , administrative , or legislative proposals .
( b ) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to , and does not , create any right or benefit , substantive or procedural , enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States , its departments , agencies , or entities , its officers , employees , or agents , or any other person .
Just like the usurper , Obama , Trump , with a pen a phone simply declared it to be so , but without any constitutional authority .
In other words , you can ’ t cite an article , section or clause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be , why ?
Considering that he is pushing now for a vaccine , in light of his previous statements against such a thing , it should be obvious as to what is about to take place in the US .
We are about to have our own military turned against us , or at least a portion of them .
And lest you think this farfetched , consider that many in police departments have already turned against the people to enforce unconstitutional orders by governors .
Meanwhile , there are many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• It ’ s Not Just The People Standing Against Tyranny – Many Police Are Now Standing With Them • Police Have Begun To Revolt Against Tyrannical Edicts From Local Authoritarians The obvious question is this : Why has President Trump usurped the clear words of the Constitution at this point in time regarding our military ?
I ’ ll leave the reader to ponder that… or in the case of political idolators , defend the indefensible actions .

The latest executive order by President Donald Trump is another unconstitutional measure, wherein he claims that “authority is vested in me [him] as President by the Constitution and the law of the United States of America” to order the selected reserve of the armed forces of the US to active duty.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and why is he even attempting to do this?
First, under our Constitution, Congress calls up the military in the service of the US and then, and only then, does the president become commander-in-chief. He does not appoint himself to that title.
Second, he has no authority to call up those since there is no defense mechanism in which America is at war. I know Trump has declared himself a wartime president, but that simply is not the case.
However, in an executive order dated April 30, 2020, Trump declared:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 12304 of title 10, United States Code, and having determined that it is necessary to augment the regular Armed Forces of the United States for a named operational mission, specifically the “Enhanced Department of Defense Counternarcotic Operation in the Western Hemisphere,” I hereby order as follows:
Section 1 . Activation Authority . The Secretary of Defense is directed to order to active duty for not more than 365 consecutive days, any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the Selected Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense, not to exceed 200 Selected Reservists at any one time, as he considers necessary.
Sec . 2 . General Provisions . (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 30, 2020.
Just like the usurper, Obama, Trump, with a pen a phone simply declared it to be so, but without any constitutional authority.
In other words, you can’t cite an article, section or clause to justify this.
The obvious question should be, why?
Considering that he is pushing now for a vaccine, in light of his previous statements against such a thing, it should be obvious as to what is about to take place in the US.
We are about to have our own military turned against us, or at least a portion of them.
And lest you think this farfetched, consider that many in police departments have already turned against the people to enforce unconstitutional orders by governors.
Meanwhile, there are many police who are standing with the people.
The obvious question is this: Why has President Trump usurped the clear words of the Constitution at this point in time regarding our military?
I’ll leave the reader to ponder that… or in the case of political idolators, defend the indefensible actions.