thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers

You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis , legitimate or manufactured .
This coronavirus pandemic is no exception .
Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties , but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government for financial handouts , medical intervention , protection and sustenance .
Unless we find some way to rein in the government ’ s power grabs , the fall-out will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for years—government overreach , invasive surveillance , martial law , abuse of powers , militarized police , weaponized technology used to track and control the citizenry , and so on—has coalesced into this present moment .
The government ’ s shameless exploitation of past national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes pales in comparison to what is presently unfolding .
Deploying the same strategy it used with 9/11 to acquire greater powers under the USA Patriot Act , the police state—a.k.a .
the shadow government , a.k.a .
the Deep State—has been anticipating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a wish list of lockdown powers that could be trotted out and approved at a moment ’ s notice .
It should surprise no one , then , that the Trump Administration has asked Congress to allow it to suspend parts of the Constitution whenever it deems it necessary during this coronavirus pandemic and “ other ” emergencies .
It ’ s that “ other ” emergencies part that should particularly give you pause , if not spur you to immediate action ( by action , I mean a loud and vocal , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apolitical , nonpartisan resistance ) .
In fact , the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) has been quietly trotting out and testing a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution .
We ’ re talking about lockdown powers ( at both the federal and state level ) : the ability to suspend the Constitution , indefinitely detain American citizens , bypass the courts , quarantine whole communities or segments of the population , override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economy , muzzle dissidents , “ stop and seize any plane , train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease , ” reshape financial markets , create a digital currency ( and thus further restrict the use of cash ) , determine who should live or die… You ’ re getting the picture now , right ?
These are powers the police state would desperately like to make permanent .
Specifically , the DOJ wants to be able to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial .
The DOJ also wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and suspend the statute of limitations on criminal and civil cases .
Both signify a clear violation of every right espoused in the Constitution , including habeas corpus .
Habeas corpus , a fundamental tenet of English common law that guards against arbitrary and lawless state action , does not appear anywhere in the Bill of Rights .
Its importance was such that it was enshrined in the Constitution itself .
And it is of such magnitude that all other rights , including those in the Bill of Rights , are dependent upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ significance of all other rights crumbles .
The right of habeas corpus was important to the Framers of the Constitution because they knew from personal experience what it was like to be labeled enemy combatants , imprisoned indefinitely and not given the opportunity to appear before a neutral judge .
Believing that such arbitrary imprisonment is “ in all ages , the favorite and most formidable instrument of tyranny , ” the Founders were all the more determined to protect Americans from such government abuses .
Translated as “ you should have the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legal action , or writ , by which those imprisoned unlawfully can seek relief from their imprisonment .
Derived from English common law , habeas corpus first appeared in the Magna Carta of 1215 and is the oldest human right in the history of English-speaking civilization .
The doctrine of habeas corpus stems from the requirement that a government must either charge a person or let him go free .
While serving as President , Thomas Jefferson addressed the essential necessity of habeas corpus .
In his first inaugural address on March 4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I know , indeed , that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong ; that this government is not strong enough.
” But , said Jefferson , our nation was “ the world ’ s best hope ” and , because of our strong commitment to democracy , “ the strongest government on earth.
” Jefferson said that the sum of this basic belief was found in the “ freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gone before us , and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
” Throughout the twentieth century , the importance of the right of habeas corpus has repeatedly been confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court .
Yet 200-plus years after America ’ s founders risked their lives to secure their freedoms , we find ourselves right back where we started , with a government determined to strip us of every vestige of our freedoms .
The DOJ ’ s latest request to Congress is merely a signal that the police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the shadows , with the current national emergency being a convenient cover for their dastardly deeds .
Bear in mind , however , that these powers the Trump Administration , acting on orders from the police state , are officially asking Congress to recognize and authorize barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has already unilaterally claimed for itself .
Unofficially , the police state has been riding roughshod over the rule of law for years now without any pretense of being reined in or restricted in its power grabs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizenry .
As David C. Unger , observes in The Emergency State : America ’ s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs : This rise of an “ emergency state ” that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security is all happening according to schedule .
The civil unrest , the national emergencies , “ unforeseen economic collapse , loss of functioning political and legal order , purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency , pervasive public health emergencies , and catastrophic natural and human disasters , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems , the implicit declaration of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation ’ s security : the powers-that-be have been planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now , not just with active shooter drills and lockdowns and checkpoints and heightened danger alerts , but with a sensory overload of militarized , battlefield images—in video games , in movies , on the news—that acclimate us to life in a police state .
Whether or not this particular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own making is not the point : to those for whom power and profit are everything , the end always justifies the means .
The seeds of this present madness were sown several decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency , which is loosely defined as “ any incident , regardless of location , that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties , damage , or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population , infrastructure , environment , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the country ’ s Continuity of Government ( COG ) plan , these directives ( National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20 ) , which do not need congressional approval , provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “ national emergency.
” Mind you , that national emergency can take any form , can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president .
Just what sort of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives .
However , one thing is clear : in the event of a national emergency , the president will become a dictator because while the COG directives ensure the continuity of executive branch functions , they do not provide for repopulating or reconvening Congress or the Supreme Court .
Thus , a debilitating attack would give unchecked executive , legislative and judicial power to the executive branch and its unelected minions .
The country would then be subjected to martial law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Bill of Rights would be suspended .
Originally devised as a plan for quickly restoring constitutional government , the COG concept arose during the Cold War .
The fear was that a nuclear strike would paralyze the federal government .
These concerns continued into the 1980s .
Under President Ronald Reagan , an elaborate plan was created in which three teams consisting of a cabinet member , an executive chief of staff and military and intelligence officials would practice evacuating and directing a counter nuclear strike against the Soviet Union from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If the president and vice president were both killed , one of these teams would take control , with the ranking cabinet official serving as president .
Among those Reagan handpicked to advise an inexperienced and potentially incompetent successor in a time of crisis were Congressman Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld , then a business executive with G. D. Searle & Co. At least once a year during the 1980s , Cheney and Rumsfeld vanished on top-secret training missions , where each of the teams practiced evacuating and directing a counter nuclear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the attacks of September 11 , 2001 , when it became clear that the assumptions that drove COG planning during the Cold War no longer applied : there would be no warning against a so-called “ terrorist ” attack .
Thus , instead of relying on part-time bureaucrats and evacuation schematics , the Bush administration permanently appointed executive officials , stationed outside the capital , to run a shadow government .
The U.S. military has reportedly already been given standby orders under COG for this present coronavirus pandemic .
The plans for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ run the Deep State are more elaborate than many realize .
Massive underground bunkers the size of small cities are sprinkled throughout the country for the government elite to escape to in the event of a national emergency .
Mount Weather , near Bluemont , Va. , is one of a number of such facilities .
Built into the side of a mountain , this bunker contains , among other things , a hospital , crematorium , dining and recreation areas , sleeping quarters , reservoirs of drinking and cooling water , an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather , which regularly receives top-secret national security information from all the federal departments and agencies .
This facility was largely unknown to everyone , including Congress , until it came to light in the mid-1970s .
Military personnel connected to the bunker have refused to reveal any information about it , even before congressional committees .
In fact , Congress has no oversight , budgetary or otherwise , on Mount Weather , and the specifics of the facility remain top-secret .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are , for all intents and purposes , one crisis away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows , at which time democratic government will be dissolved and the country will be ruled by an unelected bureaucracy .
This is exactly the kind of mischief that Thomas Jefferson warned against when he cautioned , “ In questions of power , then , let no more be heard of confidence in man , but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
” Thus far , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abides by the Constitution .
Those who wrote our Constitution sought to ensure our freedoms by creating a document that protects our God-given rights at all times , even when we are engaged in war , whether that is a so-called war on terrorism , a so-called war on drugs , a so-called war on illegal immigration , or a so-called war on disease .
The attempts by each successive presidential administration to rule by fiat merely plays into the hands of those who would distort the government ’ s system of checks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers beyond all recognition .
Remember , these powers do not expire at the end of a president ’ s term .
They remain on the books , just waiting to be used or abused by the next political demagogue .
So , too , every action taken by Trump and his predecessors to weaken the system of checks and balances , sidestep the rule of law , and expand the power of the executive branch of government has made us that much more vulnerable to those who would abuse those powers in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the President with very specific , limited powers , in recent years , American presidents ( Trump , Obama , Bush , Clinton , etc . )
have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill .
The Trump Administration ’ s willingness to circumvent the Constitution by leaning heavily on the president ’ s so-called emergency powers constitutes a gross perversion of what limited power the Constitution affords the executive branch .
The powers amassed by each successive president through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whomever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator , above the law and beyond any real accountability .
As law professor William P. Marshall explains , “ every extraordinary use of power by one President expands the availability of executive branch power for use by future Presidents.
” Moreover , it doesn ’ t even matter whether other presidents have chosen not to take advantage of any particular power , because “ it is a President ’ s action in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use , that has the precedential significance.
” In other words , each successive president continues to add to his office ’ s list of extraordinary orders and directives , expanding the reach and power of the presidency and granting him- or herself near dictatorial powers .
This abuse of presidential powers has been going on for so long that it has become the norm , the Constitution be damned .
We no longer have a system of checks and balances .
“ The system of checks and balances that the Framers envisioned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer in balance , ” concludes Marshall .
“ The implications of this are serious .
The Framers designed a system of separation of powers to combat government excess and abuse and to curb incompetence .
They also believed that , in the absence of an effective separation-of-powers structure , such ills would inevitably follow .
Unfortunately , however , power once taken is not easily surrendered.
” All of the imperial powers amassed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush and now Trump—to kill American citizens without due process , to detain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to strip Americans of their citizenship rights , to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause , to wage wars without congressional authorization , to suspend laws during wartime , to disregard laws with which he might disagree , to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts , to sanction torture , to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements , to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law , to establish a standing army on American soil , to operate a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for any manipulated reason , and to act as a dictator and a tyrant , above the law and beyond any real accountability—have become a permanent part of the president ’ s toolbox of terror .
These presidential powers—acquired through the use of executive orders , decrees , memorandums , proclamations , national security directives and legislative signing statements and which can be activated by any sitting president—enable past , president and future presidents to operate above the law and beyond the reach of the Constitution .
Think on this : the presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Suddenly , the improbable possibility of any incumbent president attempting to extend the police state ’ s stranglehold on power by using current events to justify postponing or doing away with an election—forfeiting the people ’ s rights to govern altogether—and establishing a totalitarian regime seems less far-fetched than it did even a few years ago .
The emergency state is now out in the open for all to see .
Unfortunately , “ we the people ” refuse to see what ’ s before us .
Most Americans , fearful and easily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight for that last roll of toilet paper than they would their own freedoms .
This is how freedom dies .
We erect our own prison walls , and as our rights dwindle away , we forge our own chains of servitude to the police state .
Be warned , however : once you surrender your freedoms to the government—no matter how compelling the reason might be for doing so—you can never get them back .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we continue down this road , there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end .
The America metamorphosing before our eyes is almost unrecognizable from the country I grew up in , and that ’ s not just tragic—it ’ s downright terrifying .

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured.
This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government for financial handouts, medical intervention, protection and sustenance.
Unless we find some way to rein in the government’s power grabs, the fall-out will be epic.
Everything I have warned about for years—government overreach, invasive surveillance, martial law, abuse of powers, militarized police, weaponized technology used to track and control the citizenry, and so on—has coalesced into this present moment.
The government’s shameless exploitation of past national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes pales in comparison to what is presently unfolding.
It’s downright Machiavellian.
Deploying the same strategy it used with 9/11 to acquire greater powers under the USA Patriot Act, the police state—a.k.a. the shadow government, a.k.a. the Deep State—has been anticipating this moment for years, quietly assembling a wish list of lockdown powers that could be trotted out and approved at a moment’s notice.
It should surprise no one, then, that the Trump Administration has asked Congress to allow it to suspend parts of the Constitution whenever it deems it necessary during this coronavirus pandemic and “other” emergencies.
It’s that “other” emergencies part that should particularly give you pause, if not spur you to immediate action (by action, I mean a loud and vocal, apolitical, nonpartisan outcry and sustained, apolitical, nonpartisan resistance).
In fact, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been quietly trotting out and testing a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution.
We’re talking about lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level): the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease,” reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die…
You’re getting the picture now, right?
These are powers the police state would desperately like to make permanent.
Specifically, the DOJ wants to be able to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial. The DOJ also wants to be able to pause court proceedings and suspend the statute of limitations on criminal and civil cases.
Both signify a clear violation of every right espoused in the Constitution, including habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus, a fundamental tenet of English common law that guards against arbitrary and lawless state action, does not appear anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Its importance was such that it was enshrined in the Constitution itself. And it is of such magnitude that all other rights, including those in the Bill of Rights, are dependent upon it. Without habeas corpus, the significance of all other rights crumbles.
The right of habeas corpus was important to the Framers of the Constitution because they knew from personal experience what it was like to be labeled enemy combatants, imprisoned indefinitely and not given the opportunity to appear before a neutral judge. Believing that such arbitrary imprisonment is “in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instrument of tyranny,” the Founders were all the more determined to protect Americans from such government abuses.
Translated as “you should have the body,” habeas corpus is a legal action, or writ, by which those imprisoned unlawfully can seek relief from their imprisonment. Derived from English common law, habeas corpus first appeared in the Magna Carta of 1215 and is the oldest human right in the history of English-speaking civilization. The doctrine of habeas corpus stems from the requirement that a government must either charge a person or let him go free.
While serving as President, Thomas Jefferson addressed the essential necessity of habeas corpus. In his first inaugural address on March 4, 1801, Jefferson said, “I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong; that this government is not strong enough.” But, said Jefferson, our nation was “the world’s best hope” and, because of our strong commitment to democracy, “the strongest government on earth.” Jefferson said that the sum of this basic belief was found in the “freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”
Throughout the twentieth century, the importance of the right of habeas corpus has repeatedly been confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet 200-plus years after America’s founders risked their lives to secure their freedoms, we find ourselves right back where we started, with a government determined to strip us of every vestige of our freedoms.
The DOJ’s latest request to Congress is merely a signal that the police state is ready to step out of the shadows, with the current national emergency being a convenient cover for their dastardly deeds.
Bear in mind, however, that these powers the Trump Administration, acting on orders from the police state, are officially asking Congress to recognize and authorize barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has already unilaterally claimed for itself.
Unofficially, the police state has been riding roughshod over the rule of law for years now without any pretense of being reined in or restricted in its power grabs by Congress, the courts or the citizenry.
As David C. Unger, observes in The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs :
“For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. … Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.”
This rise of an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security is all happening according to schedule.
The civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters,” the government’s reliance on the armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems, the implicit declaration of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security: the powers-that-be have been planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now, not just with active shooter drills and lockdowns and checkpoints and heightened danger alerts, but with a sensory overload of militarized, battlefield images—in video games, in movies, on the news—that acclimate us to life in a police state.
Whether or not this particular crisis is of the government’s own making is not the point: to those for whom power and profit are everything, the end always justifies the means.
The seeds of this present madness were sown several decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency, which is loosely defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.“
Comprising the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, these directives (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20), which do not need congressional approval, provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “national emergency.”
Mind you, that national emergency can take any form, can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president.
Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the president will become a dictator because while the COG directives ensure the continuity of executive branch functions, they do not provide for repopulating or reconvening Congress or the Supreme Court.
Thus, a debilitating attack would give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the executive branch and its unelected minions. The country would then be subjected to martial law by default, and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be suspended.
Originally devised as a plan for quickly restoring constitutional government, the COG concept arose during the Cold War. The fear was that a nuclear strike would paralyze the federal government.
These concerns continued into the 1980s.
Under President Ronald Reagan, an elaborate plan was created in which three teams consisting of a cabinet member, an executive chief of staff and military and intelligence officials would practice evacuating and directing a counter nuclear strike against the Soviet Union from a variety of high-tech, mobile command vehicles. If the president and vice president were both killed, one of these teams would take control, with the ranking cabinet official serving as president.
Among those Reagan handpicked to advise an inexperienced and potentially incompetent successor in a time of crisis were Congressman Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, then a business executive with G. D. Searle & Co. At least once a year during the 1980s, Cheney and Rumsfeld vanished on top-secret training missions, where each of the teams practiced evacuating and directing a counter nuclear strike against Russia.
This all changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when it became clear that the assumptions that drove COG planning during the Cold War no longer applied: there would be no warning against a so-called “terrorist” attack. Thus, instead of relying on part-time bureaucrats and evacuation schematics, the Bush administration permanently appointed executive officials, stationed outside the capital, to run a shadow government.
The U.S. military has reportedly already been given standby orders under COG for this present coronavirus pandemic.
The plans for the shadow government administered by those who run the Deep State are more elaborate than many realize. Massive underground bunkers the size of small cities are sprinkled throughout the country for the government elite to escape to in the event of a national emergency. Mount Weather, near Bluemont, Va., is one of a number of such facilities. Built into the side of a mountain, this bunker contains, among other things, a hospital, crematorium, dining and recreation areas, sleeping quarters, reservoirs of drinking and cooling water, an emergency power plant and a radio/television studio.
There is also an Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, which regularly receives top-secret national security information from all the federal departments and agencies. This facility was largely unknown to everyone, including Congress, until it came to light in the mid-1970s. Military personnel connected to the bunker have refused to reveal any information about it, even before congressional committees. In fact, Congress has no oversight, budgetary or otherwise, on Mount Weather, and the specifics of the facility remain top-secret.
What is the bottom line here?
We are, for all intents and purposes, one crisis away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows, at which time democratic government will be dissolved and the country will be ruled by an unelected bureaucracy.
This is exactly the kind of mischief that Thomas Jefferson warned against when he cautioned, “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Thus far, we have at least pretended that the government abides by the Constitution.
Those who wrote our Constitution sought to ensure our freedoms by creating a document that protects our God-given rights at all times, even when we are engaged in war, whether that is a so-called war on terrorism, a so-called war on drugs, a so-called war on illegal immigration, or a so-called war on disease.
The attempts by each successive presidential administration to rule by fiat merely plays into the hands of those who would distort the government’s system of checks and balances and its constitutional separation of powers beyond all recognition.
Remember, these powers do not expire at the end of a president’s term. They remain on the books, just waiting to be used or abused by the next political demagogue.
So, too, every action taken by Trump and his predecessors to weaken the system of checks and balances, sidestep the rule of law, and expand the power of the executive branch of government has made us that much more vulnerable to those who would abuse those powers in the future.
Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents (Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.) have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.
The Trump Administration’s willingness to circumvent the Constitution by leaning heavily on the president’s so-called emergency powers constitutes a gross perversion of what limited power the Constitution affords the executive branch.
The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of Congress and the courts—powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whomever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability.
As law professor William P. Marshall explains, “every extraordinary use of power by one President expands the availability of executive branch power for use by future Presidents.” Moreover, it doesn’t even matter whether other presidents have chosen not to take advantage of any particular power, because “it is a President’s action in using power, rather than forsaking its use, that has the precedential significance.”
In other words, each successive president continues to add to his office’s list of extraordinary orders and directives, expanding the reach and power of the presidency and granting him- or herself near dictatorial powers.
This abuse of presidential powers has been going on for so long that it has become the norm, the Constitution be damned.
We no longer have a system of checks and balances.
“The system of checks and balances that the Framers envisioned now lacks effective checks and is no longer in balance,” concludes Marshall. “The implications of this are serious. The Framers designed a system of separation of powers to combat government excess and abuse and to curb incompetence. They also believed that, in the absence of an effective separation-of-powers structure, such ills would inevitably follow. Unfortunately, however, power once taken is not easily surrendered.”
All of the imperial powers amassed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush and now Trump—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects (including American citizens) indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to wage wars without congressional authorization, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to establish a standing army on American soil, to operate a shadow government, to declare national emergencies for any manipulated reason, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability—have become a permanent part of the president’s toolbox of terror.
These presidential powers—acquired through the use of executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements and which can be activated by any sitting president—enable past, president and future presidents to operate above the law and beyond the reach of the Constitution.
Think on this: the presidential election is right around the corner.
Suddenly, the improbable possibility of any incumbent president attempting to extend the police state’s stranglehold on power by using current events to justify postponing or doing away with an election—forfeiting the people’s rights to govern altogether—and establishing a totalitarian regime seems less far-fetched than it did even a few years ago.
The emergency state is now out in the open for all to see. Unfortunately, “we the people” refuse to see what’s before us. Most Americans, fearful and easily controlled, would sooner rouse themselves to fight for that last roll of toilet paper than they would their own freedoms.
This is how freedom dies.
We erect our own prison walls, and as our rights dwindle away, we forge our own chains of servitude to the police state.
Be warned, however: once you surrender your freedoms to the government—no matter how compelling the reason might be for doing so—you can never get them back.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People , no government willingly relinquishes power.
If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.
The America metamorphosing before our eyes is almost unrecognizable from the country I grew up in, and that’s not just tragic—it’s downright terrifying.
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--California Beachgoers Snub Governor’s Stay At Home Order – As They Should!

Frankly , this is what every business in the united States should do , along with every individual .
They should ignore the demands of tyrants against unlawful demands that infringe on their liberties and their responsibilities .
The latest example of this is when sunbathers in Huntington Beach this weekend defied the Governor ’ s important safety mandate made on Thursday .
First , here is communist Governor Gavin Newsom .
Public beaches across California were filled with sunbathers and swimmers this weekend despite Governor Gavin Newsom ’ s order for Californians to stay at home to help stop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 ) .
The Governor issued the statewide order on Thursday , March 19 , asking all residents — almost 40 million people in total — to remain inside their homes until further notice .
Under the new directive , people are only allowed out to pick up food and other essential items .
“ CA is issuing a statewide , mandatory STAY AT HOME order .
Those that work in critical sectors should go to work , ” Newsom tweeted on Thursday .
“ We need to meet this moment and flatten @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beach from this weekend show people openly ignoring the public health mandate , flooding beaches and the public spaces surrounding them to sunbathe , swim , surf , bike and more .
What ’ s funny is that People called the images they posted , along with the video above “ troubling.
” Seriously , it ’ s hilarious as the people from People are probably pretty close in proximity as they bang out their articles for the magazine , right ?
But God forbid , that people get fresh air and sunshine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systems and help the body to fight off disease !
We must have the Beast ’ s approval , right ?
By the way , we know the numbers of people who are alleged to have coronavirus , as well as those who have allegedly died from it in the US .
We also know the false-positive test results and the fact that the CDC probably had prior knowledge that coronavirus was going to be rolled out .
Still , some people continue to burrow in their homes like bears in winter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their government stimulus checks ( though they claim they aren ’ t socialists and support a man who claims the US won ’ t be a socialist country while blaming it all on a political opposition ) , and yet , here are people who don ’ t really care what Newsom and company have said .
They are just enjoying life .
Good for them !
I wish more and more people would do that .
I wish businesses in the states would band together and stand with one another in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No , you can ’ t do this .
We have lives to live and we won ’ t live them in fear and in subjugation to a criminal government that usurps its authority to criminalize us for exercising our rights , liberties and duties before God .
Where is that American spirit , people ?
Do you have it , or just doing what you ’ re told like a good , little communist ?
Think about it !
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Frankly, this is what every business in the united States should do, along with every individual. They should ignore the demands of tyrants against unlawful demands that infringe on their liberties and their responsibilities. The latest example of this is when sunbathers in Huntington Beach this weekend defied the Governor’s important safety mandate made on Thursday.
First, here is communist Governor Gavin Newsom.
People reported:
Public beaches across California were filled with sunbathers and swimmers this weekend despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s order for Californians to stay at home to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The Governor issued the statewide order on Thursday, March 19, asking all residents — almost 40 million people in total — to remain inside their homes until further notice. Under the new directive, people are only allowed out to pick up food and other essential items.
“CA is issuing a statewide, mandatory STAY AT HOME order. Those that work in critical sectors should go to work,” Newsom tweeted on Thursday. “We need to meet this moment and flatten the curve together.”
Photos of Huntington Beach from this weekend show people openly ignoring the public health mandate, flooding beaches and the public spaces surrounding them to sunbathe, swim, surf, bike and more.
What’s funny is that People called the images they posted, along with the video above “troubling.” Seriously, it’s hilarious as the people from People are probably pretty close in proximity as they bang out their articles for the magazine, right?
But God forbid, that people get fresh air and sunshine, which is good for their immune systems and help the body to fight off disease! We must have the Beast’s approval, right?
Wrong!
By the way, we know the numbers of people who are alleged to have coronavirus, as well as those who have allegedly died from it in the US. We also know the false-positive test results and the fact that the CDC probably had prior knowledge that coronavirus was going to be rolled out.
Still, some people continue to burrow in their homes like bears in winter, some are even conservatives eager to get their government stimulus checks (though they claim they aren’t socialists and support a man who claims the US won’t be a socialist country while blaming it all on a political opposition), and yet, here are people who don’t really care what Newsom and company have said. They are just enjoying life. Good for them!
I wish more and more people would do that.
I wish businesses in the states would band together and stand with one another in the face of tyranny and say, “No, you can’t do this. We have lives to live and we won’t live them in fear and in subjugation to a criminal government that usurps its authority to criminalize us for exercising our rights, liberties and duties before God.
Where is that American spirit, people?
Do you have it, or just doing what you’re told like a good, little communist?
Think about it!
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--Chloroquine Poisoning & Deaths, But “Hey It Works”

Despite little evidence it works , a rush to buy Chloroquine pushed prices up 400 % , and that ’ s not all .
Please pay attention to this report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security regarding Chloroquine Poisoning The drug chloroquine , currently being investigated as a potential treatment for COVID-19 , resulted in multiple overdose deaths in Nigeria .
In the short period after the drug was touted by US President Donald Trump , prices reportedly skyrocketed by more than 400 % in some locations due to increased demand , despite a dearth of evidence indicating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Over the weekend , Nigeria reported several deaths due to “ chloroquine poisoning.
” In response , Lagos State Health Commissioner Akin Abayoi published a video via the Lagos State Ministry of Health Twitter account warning against the unlicensed use of chloroquine and emphasizing that it has yet to demonstrate efficacy against COVID-19 , and Nigeria ’ s Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire echoed the need for additional data in a statement posted on the Nigeria Ministry of Health website .
I believe we need a review of the definition of “ Works @ @

Despite little evidence it works, a rush to buy Chloroquine pushed prices up 400%, and that’s not all. Dear Kyle Bass
That does not prove it works. Perhaps he would have recovered anyway.
Perhaps it was a false positive and he never had it
Perhaps is is a false negative now How the hell does one case prove anything? https://t.co/LVNuWVdNHO — Mike "Mish" Shedlock (@MishGEA) March 23, 2020
Chloroquine Poisoning
Please pay attention to this report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security regarding Chloroquine Poisoning
The drug chloroquine, currently being investigated as a potential treatment for COVID-19, resulted in multiple overdose deaths in Nigeria. In the short period after the drug was touted by US President Donald Trump, prices reportedly skyrocketed by more than 400% in some locations due to increased demand, despite a dearth of evidence indicating that it is effective against COVID-19.
Over the weekend, Nigeria reported several deaths due to “chloroquine poisoning.” In response, Lagos State Health Commissioner Akin Abayoi published a video via the Lagos State Ministry of Health Twitter account warning against the unlicensed use of chloroquine and emphasizing that it has yet to demonstrate efficacy against COVID-19, and Nigeria’s Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire echoed the need for additional data in a statement posted on the Nigeria Ministry of Health website.
I believe we need a review of the definition of “Works.”
Article posted with permission from Mish Shedlock


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--The Supernatural In Our Political World & Empire

Most people just think people have different ideologies and thus , they direct governments by those .
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Most people just think people have different ideologies and thus, they direct governments by those. While ideologies certainly do play a role, many forget that there are spiritual entities behind those ideologies (Ephesians 6:12ff). Victor Porlier continues in a series explaining why the US is involved in the Middle East and addressing the ideologies not only of Islam and Jews, but also the occultic nature of freemasonry and its influence in both Europe and North America.
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--Attacking Second Amendment By Forcing Gun Stores To Close

In case you are just waking up from a coma , America is currently in utter turmoil .
Panic buying has emptied shelves across the country , millions of unemployed people are spending their last dollar on food , hundreds of cities have been placed on lockdown , and cops are using Chinese-made patrol drones to monitor citizens 24-hours a day .
In a matter of just 2 weeks , America has shifted from the land of the free to the land of the economic collapse and newly ushered in police state .
As if things couldn ’ t get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are now stripping people of their constitutional right to bear arms by forcing gun stores to close .
With so much uncertainty on the horizon , there has never been a better time for a citizen to be prepared to defend themselves and their family .
The market is reacting appropriately to this demand and business has boomed for the gun industry in the past week , with long lines stretching outside gun stores across the country .
The Wall Street Journal reports that on March 16 , background checks were up 300 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year , according to federal data shared with the National Shooting Sports Foundation .
However , this is becoming increasingly harder to do thanks to executive orders and court rulings that have shuttered gun stores from coast to coast .
While liquor stores and fast food restaurants are considered “ essential business ” and allowed to stay open , stores that allow people to purchase tools for self-defense are closed .
This is creating a storm of backlash against the state .
New Jersey Gov .
Phil Murphy forced all gun stores to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s being sued for it .
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court by the New Jersey Second Amendment Society and Legend Firearms shop in Monroe .
“ The exigencies surrounding this viral pandemic both justify and necessitate changes in the manner in which people live their lives and conduct their daily business , ” the lawsuit said .
“ However , this emergency ( like any other emergency ) has its constitutional limits .
It would not justify a prior restraint on speech , nor a suspension of the right to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does not justify a ban on obtaining guns and ammunition.
” On Sunday night , the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in favor of the governor ’ s order to close all gun stores too .
Gov .
Tom Wolf ordered all gun stores shut down claiming they were not “ life-sustaining.
” The decision was challenged all the way to the state ’ s highest court and the people lost — but not without dissent from two of the justices .
“ In my view , it is incumbent upon the Governor to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens to continue to exercise this constitutional right , ” Justice David Wecht said noting that the order , as written , represented an “ impermissible intrusion upon a fundamental constitutional right.
” “ Such an accommodation may be effectuated while preserving sensible restrictions designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 , but nonetheless provide a legal avenue for the purchase and sale of firearms , thus avoiding an impermissible intrusion upon a fundamental constitutional right.
” Adam Kraut , a lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the case and the director of legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , telling the Washington Free Beacon he is unhappy with the court ’ s decision .
“ I am disappointed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined an opportunity to protect the fundamental rights of all Pennsylvanians during this time of uncertainty , when many are deciding that the ability to defends one ’ s home and family is more necessary than ever .
The Governor ’ s Order amounts to an absolute and indefinite prohibition on the acquisition of firearms by citizens of the Commonwealth .
Such a prohibition can not withstand constitutional scrutiny @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Second Amendment.
” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva issued a similar attack on the 2nd Amendment this week , ordering all gun stores to close their doors .
In a glaring case of doublespeak , the sheriff claimed removing the citizens right to self-defense “ is about taking care of people.
” California Gov .
Gavin Newsom — who is inches closer to dictatorship status each day — issued a list of essential businesses and left off gun stores .
The good news is , however , that gun store owners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have no plans to close , ” said David Chong , who owns AO Sword Firearms in El Cajon .
“ We have not heard any lawful order to shut down.
” Chong , like the rest of the pro-gun rights individuals above , recognizes that the closure of gun stores is a direct attack on your Second Amendment right to bear arms .
“ We have to be very careful not to get into a ridiculous situation where we are sterilizing the Second Amendment by saying , ‘ Oh you can keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t acquire any , ’ ” Chong said .
“ People are purchasing firearms because they ’ re in fear for their safety , ” said Michael Schwartz , executive director of the San Diego County Gun Owners .
“ If you shut down that ability I think it ’ s a potentially dangerous situation.
” Indeed , one of the major primers of the American Revolutionary War was the British crown ordering colonists to be disarmed through the act of closing stores that sold arms .
“ They ’ re definitely being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they ’ re complying with the law , but also want to make sure that they are fulfilling the responsibility to the community and people that want to be safe and protect themselves , ” Schwartz said .

In case you are just waking up from a coma, America is currently in utter turmoil. Panic buying has emptied shelves across the country, millions of unemployed people are spending their last dollar on food, hundreds of cities have been placed on lockdown, and cops are using Chinese-made patrol drones to monitor citizens 24-hours a day. In a matter of just 2 weeks, America has shifted from the land of the free to the land of the economic collapse and newly ushered in police state. As if things couldn’t get bad enough, governments across the country are now stripping people of their constitutional right to bear arms by forcing gun stores to close.
With so much uncertainty on the horizon, there has never been a better time for a citizen to be prepared to defend themselves and their family. The market is reacting appropriately to this demand and business has boomed for the gun industry in the past week, with long lines stretching outside gun stores across the country. The Wall Street Journal reports that on March 16, background checks were up 300% compared with the same day last year, according to federal data shared with the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
However, this is becoming increasingly harder to do thanks to executive orders and court rulings that have shuttered gun stores from coast to coast.
While liquor stores and fast food restaurants are considered “essential business” and allowed to stay open, stores that allow people to purchase tools for self-defense are closed. This is creating a storm of backlash against the state.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy forced all gun stores to close on Saturday and now he’s being sued for it. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court by the New Jersey Second Amendment Society and Legend Firearms shop in Monroe.
“The exigencies surrounding this viral pandemic both justify and necessitate changes in the manner in which people live their lives and conduct their daily business,” the lawsuit said. “However, this emergency (like any other emergency) has its constitutional limits. It would not justify a prior restraint on speech, nor a suspension of the right to vote. Just the same, it does not justify a ban on obtaining guns and ammunition.”
On Sunday night, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in favor of the governor’s order to close all gun stores too. Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all gun stores shut down claiming they were not “life-sustaining.” The decision was challenged all the way to the state’s highest court and the people lost — but not without dissent from two of the justices.
“In my view, it is incumbent upon the Governor to make some manner of allowance for our citizens to continue to exercise this constitutional right,” Justice David Wecht said noting that the order, as written, represented an “impermissible intrusion upon a fundamental constitutional right.”
“Such an accommodation may be effectuated while preserving sensible restrictions designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, but nonetheless provide a legal avenue for the purchase and sale of firearms, thus avoiding an impermissible intrusion upon a fundamental constitutional right.”
Adam Kraut, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs in the case and the director of legal strategy for the Firearms Policy Coalition agreed, telling the Washington Free Beacon he is unhappy with the court’s decision.
“I am disappointed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined an opportunity to protect the fundamental rights of all Pennsylvanians during this time of uncertainty, when many are deciding that the ability to defends one’s home and family is more necessary than ever. The Governor’s Order amounts to an absolute and indefinite prohibition on the acquisition of firearms by citizens of the Commonwealth. Such a prohibition cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny and directly infringes upon the core of the Second Amendment.”
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva issued a similar attack on the 2nd Amendment this week, ordering all gun stores to close their doors. In a glaring case of doublespeak, the sheriff claimed removing the citizens right to self-defense “is about taking care of people.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom — who is inches closer to dictatorship status each day — issued a list of essential businesses and left off gun stores. The good news is, however, that gun store owners are refusing to close.
“We have no plans to close,” said David Chong, who owns AO Sword Firearms in El Cajon. “We have not heard any lawful order to shut down.”
Chong, like the rest of the pro-gun rights individuals above, recognizes that the closure of gun stores is a direct attack on your Second Amendment right to bear arms.
“We have to be very careful not to get into a ridiculous situation where we are sterilizing the Second Amendment by saying, ‘Oh you can keep and bear arms but you can’t acquire any,’” Chong said.
“People are purchasing firearms because they’re in fear for their safety,” said Michael Schwartz, executive director of the San Diego County Gun Owners. “If you shut down that ability I think it’s a potentially dangerous situation.”
Indeed, one of the major primers of the American Revolutionary War was the British crown ordering colonists to be disarmed through the act of closing stores that sold arms.
“They’re definitely being threatened and they want to make sure that they’re complying with the law, but also want to make sure that they are fulfilling the responsibility to the community and people that want to be safe and protect themselves,” Schwartz said.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--Experts Warn Of A Complete And Utter Economic Meltdown

Everyone that tried to tell us that this pandemic would fade away quickly has been proven dead wrong .
Right now , approximately 187 million Americans are under “ shelter-in-place ” orders as COVID-19 sweeps across the nation like wildfire .
There are now more than 43,000 confirmed cases in the U.S. , but by the time many of you read this article that number is likely to be far higher .
But what is even more concerning is what we are seeing with the cases that have come to a final resolution one way or the other .
Of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resolved , 553 patients have died and only 295 patients have recovered .
Over time , the number of patients that have officially recovered will eventually surpass the number that have died for a couple of reasons .
For one , some victims are dying in just a few days while it can take weeks for some patients to fully recover .
Secondly , more widespread testing will start to reveal more mild cases , and most of those mild cases will ultimately recover .
But without a doubt , it is starting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a very high death rate like we are seeing in Italy , Spain and other western European nations .
Monday was the very first time that more than 100 Americans died in a single day , and it looks like the days ahead could be much , much worse .
Overall , the global death toll is rising at a pace that is very alarming .
It hit 16,000 on Monday , and that means it only took six days to double from 8,000 .
If the death toll keeps doubling like that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very big trouble .
The number of confirmed cases is rising at an exponential rate as well , and on Monday the head of the WHO warned that this pandemic “ is accelerating ” … As I write this article , there are 260,133 open cases around the world and 118,947 closed cases .
Out of the closed cases , 86 percent of the victims have recovered and 14 percent of the victims have died .
To put that into perspective , the Spanish Flu pandemic that stretched from 1918 to 1920 had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent .
But even after everything that has transpired , there are still lots of Americans that are not taking this pandemic seriously .
I don ’ t understand this , because all of our medical authorities are warning us that the worst is yet to come .
In fact , Surgeon General Jerome Adams just told us that “ it ’ s going to get bad ” … And as I have been warning for weeks , this pandemic is going to plunge the United States and the entire globe into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , even CNN is using “ the d-word ” … .
A month ago , most Americans wouldn ’ t have imagined that such a thing could be possible .
But now “ the everything bubble ” has burst and we have just witnessed the fastest 30 percent decline for the S & P 500 in all of U.S. history… In the short-term , the good news for investors is that we should see a substantial bounce in stock prices this week , and that could especially be true when Congress finally gets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ package .
But whether the market goes up or down in the short-term , it isn ’ t going to stop the complete and utter economic meltdown that is now unfolding .
According to billionaire Tom Barrack , the commercial mortgage market is on the precipice of a historic collapse… All of the dominoes are going to fall , and it is going to be horrifying to watch .
Meanwhile , we could be on the verge of a shutdown “ of virtually all passenger flights across the U.S. ” … To me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficult to imagine , but we will see things a lot stranger than this in the days ahead .
As America literally shuts down from coast to coast , the job losses are going to be absolutely staggering .
In fact , we are being warned to expect numbers that are unlike anything we have ever seen before… If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time , we will very quickly surpass the unemployment levels that we witnessed during the Great Recession .
Back then , the unemployment rate didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now the head of the St. Louis Fed is warning that we may see a 30 percent unemployment rate in the second quarter… Could things actually deteriorate that rapidly ?
I sure hope not , because most American families are just barely scraping by… For years , many of us have been begging and pleading with people to get ready .
We warned that when things finally broke loose that events would move very quickly .
I even co-authored an entire book entitled “ Get Prepared Now ” , but now it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because a day of reckoning is now upon us .
I really like how Mike Adams of Natural News made this point… A lot of the same people that didn ’ t listen and didn ’ t get prepared in advance are now trying to convince us that this crisis will soon be gone .
And it would be wonderful if they are right .
But at this moment the global numbers are rising rapidly with each passing hour , and the global economy is literally imploding all around us .

Everyone that tried to tell us that this pandemic would fade away quickly has been proven dead wrong. Right now, approximately 187 million Americans are under “shelter-in-place” orders as COVID-19 sweeps across the nation like wildfire. There are now more than 43,000 confirmed cases in the U.S., but by the time many of you read this article that number is likely to be far higher. But what is even more concerning is what we are seeing with the cases that have come to a final resolution one way or the other. Of all U.S. cases that have been officially resolved, 553 patients have died and only 295 patients have recovered. Over time, the number of patients that have officially recovered will eventually surpass the number that have died for a couple of reasons. For one, some victims are dying in just a few days while it can take weeks for some patients to fully recover. Secondly, more widespread testing will start to reveal more mild cases, and most of those mild cases will ultimately recover. But without a doubt, it is starting to appear that the U.S. will have a very high death rate like we are seeing in Italy, Spain and other western European nations. Monday was the very first time that more than 100 Americans died in a single day, and it looks like the days ahead could be much, much worse.
Overall, the global death toll is rising at a pace that is very alarming. It hit 16,000 on Monday, and that means it only took six days to double from 8,000.
If the death toll keeps doubling like that, we are going to be in very big trouble.
The number of confirmed cases is rising at an exponential rate as well, and on Monday the head of the WHO warned that this pandemic “is accelerating”…
The coronavirus “pandemic is accelerating,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Monday. Almost every country in the world has reported cases, he announced in a Geneva press conference. “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases. Eleven days for the second 100,000 and just four days for the third 100,000,” he said.
As I write this article, there are 260,133 open cases around the world and 118,947 closed cases.
Out of the closed cases, 86 percent of the victims have recovered and 14 percent of the victims have died.
To put that into perspective, the Spanish Flu pandemic that stretched from 1918 to 1920 had a death rate of less than 3 percent.
But even after everything that has transpired, there are still lots of Americans that are not taking this pandemic seriously. I don’t understand this, because all of our medical authorities are warning us that the worst is yet to come. In fact, Surgeon General Jerome Adams just told us that “it’s going to get bad” …
Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned Monday that the coronavirus outbreak will worsen this week and said people across the country are not taking the threat seriously enough. “I want America to understand this week, it’s going to get bad,” Adams said in an interview on the “TODAY” show.
And as I have been warning for weeks, this pandemic is going to plunge the United States and the entire globe into a horrifying economic nightmare.
At this point, even CNN is using “the d-word”….
A global recession, once unthinkable in 2020, is now a foregone conclusion and some experts warn that the pandemic could drag the world’s economy into a depression. More bad news: The coronavirus outbreak may just be getting started. Central banks and governments are now unleashing a tsunami of interest rate cuts, loan guarantees and new spending, tapping emergency powers to reassure investors, cushion the shock to companies and workers and preserve the foundations of a functioning economy for the future.
A month ago, most Americans wouldn’t have imagined that such a thing could be possible.
But now “the everything bubble” has burst and we have just witnessed the fastest 30 percent decline for the S&P 500 in all of U.S. history…
Twenty-two days. That’s all it took for the S&P 500 to fall 30% from its record high, the fastest drop of this magnitude in history. The second, third and fourth quickest 30% pullbacks all occurred during the Great Depression era in 1934, 1931 and 1929, respectively, according to data from Bank of America Securities.
In the short-term, the good news for investors is that we should see a substantial bounce in stock prices this week, and that could especially be true when Congress finally gets around to passing their “stimulus” package.
But whether the market goes up or down in the short-term, it isn’t going to stop the complete and utter economic meltdown that is now unfolding.
According to billionaire Tom Barrack, the commercial mortgage market is on the precipice of a historic collapse…
Real estate investor Tom Barrack said the U.S. commercial-mortgage market is on the brink of collapse and predicted a “domino effect” of catastrophic economic consequences if banks and government don’t take prompt action to keep borrowers from defaulting. Barrack, chairman and chief executive officer of Colony Capital Inc., warned in a white paper and in a subsequent interview on Bloomberg Television of a chain reaction of margin calls, mass foreclosures, evictions and, potentially, bank failures due to the coronavirus pandemic and consequent shutdown of much of the U.S. economy.
Sadly, Barrack is 100 percent correct.
All of the dominoes are going to fall, and it is going to be horrifying to watch.
Meanwhile, we could be on the verge of a shutdown “of virtually all passenger flights across the U.S.”…
Major U.S. airlines are drafting plans for a potential voluntary shutdown of virtually all passenger flights across the U.S., according to industry and federal officials, as government agencies also consider ordering such a move and the nation’s air-traffic control system continues to be ravaged by the coronavirus contagion. No final decisions have been made by the carriers or the White House, these officials said. As airlines struggle to keep aircraft flying with minimal passengers, various options are under consideration, these people said.
To me, this is something that is exceedingly difficult to imagine, but we will see things a lot stranger than this in the days ahead.
As America literally shuts down from coast to coast, the job losses are going to be absolutely staggering. In fact, we are being warned to expect numbers that are unlike anything we have ever seen before…
Upcoming weekly jobless claims will shatter the standards set even during the worst points of the financial crisis and the early-1980s recession, with Bank of America forecasting a total of 3 million when the number is released Thursday. Those figures are expected to be so bad, in fact, that the Trump administration, according to several media reports, has asked state officials to delay releasing precise counts.
If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time, we will very quickly surpass the unemployment levels that we witnessed during the Great Recession.
Back then, the unemployment rate didn’t exceed 10 percent, but now the head of the St. Louis Fed is warning that we may see a 30 percent unemployment rate in the second quarter…
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted the U.S. unemployment rate may hit 30% in the second quarter because of shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, with an unprecedented 50% drop in gross domestic product.
Could things actually deteriorate that rapidly?
I sure hope not, because most American families are just barely scraping by…
How long could you sustain your household if you were to stop earning income? If you are like most Americans, the answer is not for long. Only 40 percent of Americans can afford an unexpected $1,000 expense with their savings. In fact, nearly 80 percent of workers are living paycheck to paycheck. It is no surprise that the probability of an economic recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic caused many to worry.
For years, many of us have been begging and pleading with people to get ready. We warned that when things finally broke loose that events would move very quickly. I even co-authored an entire book entitled “Get Prepared Now”, but now it is too late to get prepared in advance because a day of reckoning is now upon us. I really like how Mike Adams of Natural News made this point…
Over the last several days, I’ve been called by many people I haven’t heard from in years. Suddenly they’re interested in what I have to say, even though they ignored everything I said for the last decade. And they want to assure me they’re “fully prepared” with 2-3 weeks of food. These are the same people who probably have four months’ worth of toilet paper, but only a 3-week supply of food. I’m not even trying to educate them at this point. That day is long gone. Anyone who thinks “2-3 weeks of food” is going to carry them through a national food supply line collapse, a global consumer goods supply line collapse and a systemic, cascading finance and banking collapses is living in a land of sheer delusion.
A lot of the same people that didn’t listen and didn’t get prepared in advance are now trying to convince us that this crisis will soon be gone.
And it would be wonderful if they are right.
But at this moment the global numbers are rising rapidly with each passing hour, and the global economy is literally imploding all around us.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-24--EVIL AXIS: Sanders Skips Coronavirus Stimulus Vote for Event With Jihad-Reps Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tla

EVIL AXIS: Sanders Skips Coronavirus Stimulus Vote for Event With Jihad-Reps Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC

The enemy of America is my friend .
And by his fruits shall know him .
And so we know him .
Related : DEMOCRATS TO AMERICA : DROP DEAD , Coronavirus Rescue Bill BLOCKED by Dems for SECOND Time WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders claims he ’ s too busy dealing with the coronavirus crisis to pull the plug on his ailing campaign — but when it came time to vote on a crucial , $ 1.8 trillion stimulus package Sunday night , the presidential wannabe was in Burlington , Vermont , holding a campaign event .
WHILE THE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PACKAGE INTO THE EARLY HOURS OF MONDAY , SANDERS WAS CONTINUING HIS DOOMED WHITE HOUSE BID WITH A VIRTUAL “ CORONAVIRUS ROUNDTABLE , ” STARRING FIREBRAND REPS. ILHAN OMAR , RASHIDA TLAIB AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ .
Sanders spent the first 30 minutes of the video hectoring his Senate colleagues over the bill , accusing Republicans of giving the Trump administration “ a blank check to hand out corporate welfare.
” “ I know some of my Republican colleagues are talking about a one-time , $ 1,000 payment , ” he said , referring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to American families .
“ Really ?
Really ?
Yeah , that ’ ll last you for two or three weeks .
What happens after that ?
” he added .
The 78-year-old self-described socialist has resisted repeated calls to drop out of the race now that his odds of winning are virtually impossible .
see also After being thumped by former veep Joe Biden in last week ’ s primaries , Sanders exploded in a foul rant when a reporter asked him about the future of his campaign .
But when it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ package that would help offset the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic , Sanders was missing in action .
The package was deadlocked after Senate Democrats blocked the measure , 47-47 , claiming it didn ’ t do enough for workers and health care providers .
Lawmakers will return Monday to continue hammering out the details of the historic bill , which is almost three times the size of the 2008 bank bailout .
The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment .

The enemy of America is my friend. And by his fruits shall know him. And so we know him.
Related: DEMOCRATS TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD, Coronavirus Rescue Bill BLOCKED by Dems for SECOND Time
Democrats BLOCKING Coronavirus Relief Over Radical Wish List
SANDERS SKIPS CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS VOTE FOR EVENT WITH AOC, OMAR, TLAIB
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders claims he’s too busy dealing with the coronavirus crisis to pull the plug on his ailing campaign — but when it came time to vote on a crucial, $1.8 trillion stimulus package Sunday night, the presidential wannabe was in Burlington, Vermont, holding a campaign event.
WHILE THE REST OF THE SENATE HAMMERED OUT THE PACKAGE INTO THE EARLY HOURS OF MONDAY, SANDERS WAS CONTINUING HIS DOOMED WHITE HOUSE BID WITH A VIRTUAL “CORONAVIRUS ROUNDTABLE,” STARRING FIREBRAND REPS. ILHAN OMAR, RASHIDA TLAIB AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ.
Sanders spent the first 30 minutes of the video hectoring his Senate colleagues over the bill, accusing Republicans of giving the Trump administration “a blank check to hand out corporate welfare.”
“I know some of my Republican colleagues are talking about a one-time, $1,000 payment,” he said, referring to the proposal to send direct checks to American families.
“Really? Really? Yeah, that’ll last you for two or three weeks. What happens after that?” he added.
The 78-year-old self-described socialist has resisted repeated calls to drop out of the race now that his odds of winning are virtually impossible.
see also
After being thumped by former veep Joe Biden in last week’s primaries, Sanders exploded in a foul rant when a reporter asked him about the future of his campaign.
“I’m dealing with a f—ing global crisis,” Sanders snapped at veteran CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju.
But when it came time to vote on the trillion-dollar package that would help offset the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanders was missing in action.
The package was deadlocked after Senate Democrats blocked the measure, 47-47, claiming it didn’t do enough for workers and health care providers.
Lawmakers will return Monday to continue hammering out the details of the historic bill, which is almost three times the size of the 2008 bank bailout.
The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-25--Parents, It’s Time To Use This Crisis Opportunity To Educate Your Own Kids!

Parents , It ’ s Time To Use This Crisis Opportunity To Educate Your Own Kids !
With so many children finally not being sent to the public indoctrination centers in America and around the world , many parents are questioning what they are supposed to do ?
As if part of parenting was not educating their own children .
Well , in this episode , we ’ ll discuss a little of the ongoing crisis and what it is forcing people into and then we ’ ll tell you how to redeem that time for good with your own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Educate your children at home .
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With so many children finally not being sent to the public indoctrination centers in America and around the world, many parents are questioning what they are supposed to do? As if part of parenting was not educating their own children. Well, in this episode, we’ll discuss a little of the ongoing crisis and what it is forcing people into and then we’ll tell you how to redeem that time for good with your own children because the days are evil.
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thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-25--List Of Socialist Pork In Coronavirus Relief Bill

If the GOP held up a relief bill , the Democrat media complex would be hanging us high in Times Square .
Thee should be NOTHING in the Coronavirus relief bll that is not corona related .
– $ 300M for foreign refugees – $ 800M for Endowment for the Humanities and Arts – $ 100M for NASA – $ 25M for cleaning supplies for the Capital Building .
– $ 25M for additional House of Reps salary .
–A nationwide mandate for ballot harvesting –An automatic visa extension for all foreign workers –An expansion of foreign-language ballots –Same-day voter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ amnesty for nearly 800,000 DACA illegal aliens As Senate Republicans were reeling late Monday following two unsuccessful procedural votes on their version of a coronavirus response bill , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif. , released her chamber ’ s version of legislation to fight the disease and its economic effects — and it includes a raft of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000 .
The $ 2.5 trillion package includes many of the same elements as the Senate bill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Tuesday morning — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects to vote on a Senate bill by Tuesday night .
These similarities include support for workers and small businesses financially impacted by the large-scale economic slowdown from stemming the spread of the outbreak ; help for hospitals and health care workers in need of personal protective equipment ( PPE ) and other supplies ; tax breaks for average Americans ; direct cash assistance to all adult Americans and other measures directly applicable to the crisis at hand .
BUT IT ALSO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ HAVE RANKLED REPUBLICANS , INCLUDING FUNDING FOR THE KENNEDY CENTER — A PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IN WASHINGTON , D.C. — THE ELIMINATION OF THE U.S .
POSTAL SERVICE ’ S DEBT TO THE TREASURY , A REQUIREMENT THAT AIRLINES ACCEPTING ASSISTANCE UNDER THE BILL HAVE A UNION REPRESENTATIVE ON THEIR BOARD , ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS FOR AIRLINES AND MORE .
Pelosi argued that the Senate bill , unlike the House ’ s , would “ put corporations first , not workers and families.
” Republicans , on the other hand , argued that Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the left ’ s agenda items under the pretense of a bill to fight the coronavirus .
“ They ought to be embarrassed , ” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of similar proposals being pushed by Senate Democrats .
“ There is no time for this nonsense.
” Here ’ s some of what ’ s in the House Democrats ’ $ 2.5 trillion , 1,404-page bill .
The House Democrats ’ bill requires that any company getting coronavirus-related aid disclose its diversity stats , including its employees ’ race , gender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the structure of its offices that deal with diversity and inclusion .
The reports , which will be made public within a year of the companies accepting federal coronavirus-related assistance , will also include the “ number and dollar value invested with minority-and-women owned suppliers … including professional services ( legal and consulting ) and asset managers , and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions , as compared to all vendor investments .
”

If the GOP held up a relief bill, the Democrat media complex would be hanging us high in Times Square. Thee should be NOTHING in the Coronavirus relief bll that is not corona related.
– $300M for foreign refugees
– $800M for Endowment for the Humanities and Arts
– $100M for NASA
– $25M for cleaning supplies for the Capital Building.
– $25M for additional House of Reps salary.
–A nationwide mandate for ballot harvesting
–An automatic visa extension for all foreign workers
–An expansion of foreign-language ballots
–Same-day voter registration for the 2020 presidential election
–An amnesty for nearly 800,000 DACA illegal aliens
WHAT’S IN DEMOCRATS’ CORONAVIRUS BILL? ARTS FUNDING, UNION HELP AND MORE
As Senate Republicans were reeling late Monday following two unsuccessful procedural votes on their version of a coronavirus response bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., released her chamber’s version of legislation to fight the disease and its economic effects — and it includes a raft of provisions with questionable relevance to the pandemic that has killed more than 17,000 worldwide and sickened more than 390,000.
The $2.5 trillion package includes many of the same elements as the Senate bill, which is still being negotiated as of Tuesday morning — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects to vote on a Senate bill by Tuesday night. These similarities include support for workers and small businesses financially impacted by the large-scale economic slowdown from stemming the spread of the outbreak; help for hospitals and health care workers in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies; tax breaks for average Americans; direct cash assistance to all adult Americans and other measures directly applicable to the crisis at hand.
BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES A NUMBER OF OTHER MEASURES THAT HAVE RANKLED REPUBLICANS, INCLUDING FUNDING FOR THE KENNEDY CENTER — A PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IN WASHINGTON, D.C. — THE ELIMINATION OF THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE’S DEBT TO THE TREASURY, A REQUIREMENT THAT AIRLINES ACCEPTING ASSISTANCE UNDER THE BILL HAVE A UNION REPRESENTATIVE ON THEIR BOARD, ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS FOR AIRLINES AND MORE.
Pelosi argued that the Senate bill, unlike the House’s, would “put corporations first, not workers and families.” Republicans, on the other hand, argued that Democrats are using the pandemic to push through the left’s agenda items under the pretense of a bill to fight the coronavirus.
“They ought to be embarrassed,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said of similar proposals being pushed by Senate Democrats. “There is no time for this nonsense.”
Here’s some of what’s in the House Democrats’ $2.5 trillion, 1,404-page bill.
Diversity provisions
The House Democrats’ bill requires that any company getting coronavirus-related aid disclose its diversity stats, including its employees’ race, gender, pay, corporate board diversity and the structure of its offices that deal with diversity and inclusion.
The reports, which will be made public within a year of the companies accepting federal coronavirus-related assistance, will also include the “number and dollar value invested with minority-and-women owned suppliers … including professional services (legal and consulting) and asset managers, and deposits and other accounts with minority depository institutions, as compared to all vendor investments.”


thewashingtonstandard--2020-03-25--Coronavirus Exposed As The Hoax It Is!  Can’t Be Spread Person To Person As The Problem Is The Immun

Coronavirus Exposed As The Hoax It Is !
Can ’ t Be Spread Person To Person As The Problem Is The Immune System , Not A Virus As with anything , you live and you learn .
It ’ s called educating yourself .
When we first heard of the coronavirus , some of us , including myself were somewhat skeptical , but not having vast amounts of medical knowledge and such , we posted articles written by others regarding numbers and reports .
However , over the past few weeks , I have learned quite a bit from doctors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the main things is that we have viruses both in us and on us and around us all the time .
Yet , many never get sick .
So why is that ?
Well , this is what I want to present to you for your consideration .
And as I present it , know this , there will not be any more coronavirus articles on here that indicate that it can be spread from person to person because quite simply , I didn ’ t know that was the case because I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ age .
Now , I do , and the results will be to not only expose the lie that the Trump administration , Republicans , Democrats , health “ experts ” and the media have put to us and call on the people to deal with these people who should know better , and probably do , but they lie to us anyway .
With that said , here ’ s a video that I watched on the subject .
Tell me if you don ’ t think this makes far more sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Then , there is Richie from Boston , and listen to his Christian admonition regarding this very thing as he drives all across the united States .
Additionally , understand that even the United Kingdom government has even said that COVID-19 “ is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases ( HCID ) in the UK.
” That was noted on March 19 , 2020 .
Yet , they are still rolling tanks and troops into the UK and demanding people stay in their homes or be threatened with fines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isn ’ t about a public health issue .
Then there is former Texas congressman Dr. Ron Paul .
He recently exposed the hoax of how coronavirus is being used .
Now , I don ’ t know if Dr. Paul knows or agrees with the above videos , and that could be due to his training in modern medicine , but he can spot the lawlessness and tyranny without blinking an eye .
So , what is this all about ?
It ’ s about tyranny .
It ’ s about making @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s about making people suspicious of others as they become more and more enslaved to the tyrants .
Perhaps when there are all these things coming upon the united States and even the world , and are told to look to the state approved medical “ experts , ” should the people not look to their God ?
Finally , keep in mind that throughout history , there have been those who were deceived by their drugs , and I don ’ t think that means things in the Creation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things that are introduced into the body .
As the Book of Revelation , which was largely fulfilled in the first century destruction of Jerusalem just as God promised ( Deuteronomy 28 ; Leviticus 26 ) , tells us at that time : That term sorceries is used in other places in Scripture as well , and is the Greek term φαρμακείᾳ ( pharmakeia ) , and means , “ Magic , sorcery , enchantment .
From pharmakeus ; medication.
” People are actually being led astray by trusting in vaccines and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has said and provided for our lives .
And it appears that it is an effort to rob the people of trillions of dollars while government grabs more power unchallenged .
It ’ s time that was stopped .
For more on that as it concerns vaccinations , my interview with Stephen Halbrook on the pagan origins , not Christian origins , can be heard below .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

Coronavirus Exposed As The Hoax It Is! Can’t Be Spread Person To Person As The Problem Is The Immune System, Not A Virus
As with anything, you live and you learn. It’s called educating yourself. When we first heard of the coronavirus, some of us, including myself were somewhat skeptical, but not having vast amounts of medical knowledge and such, we posted articles written by others regarding numbers and reports. However, over the past few weeks, I have learned quite a bit from doctors and a few nurses. One of the main things is that we have viruses both in us and on us and around us all the time. Yet, many never get sick. So why is that?
Well, this is what I want to present to you for your consideration.
And as I present it, know this, there will not be any more coronavirus articles on here that indicate that it can be spread from person to person because quite simply, I didn’t know that was the case because I was taught those things from an early age. Now, I do, and the results will be to not only expose the lie that the Trump administration, Republicans, Democrats, health “experts” and the media have put to us and call on the people to deal with these people who should know better, and probably do, but they lie to us anyway.
With that said, here’s a video that I watched on the subject.
Tell me if you don’t think this makes far more sense than what we are being told.
Then, there is Richie from Boston, and listen to his Christian admonition regarding this very thing as he drives all across the united States.
Additionally, understand that even the United Kingdom government has even said that COVID-19 “is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.”
That was noted on March 19, 2020.
Yet, they are still rolling tanks and troops into the UK and demanding people stay in their homes or be threatened with fines or arrest. Why?
Because it isn’t about a public health issue.
It’s about tyranny.
Then there is former Texas congressman Dr. Ron Paul. He recently exposed the hoax of how coronavirus is being used. Now, I don’t know if Dr. Paul knows or agrees with the above videos, and that could be due to his training in modern medicine, but he can spot the lawlessness and tyranny without blinking an eye.
So, what is this all about? It’s about tyranny. It’s about making people dependent upon government, not God. It’s about making people suspicious of others as they become more and more enslaved to the tyrants.
Perhaps when there are all these things coming upon the united States and even the world, and are told to look to the state approved medical “experts,” should the people not look to their God?
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? -Isaiah 8:19
Finally, keep in mind that throughout history, there have been those who were deceived by their drugs, and I don’t think that means things in the Creation that God made, but rather outside things that are introduced into the body.
As the Book of Revelation, which was largely fulfilled in the first century destruction of Jerusalem just as God promised (Deuteronomy 28; Leviticus 26), tells us at that time:
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. -Revelation 18:23
That term sorceries is used in other places in Scripture as well, and is the Greek term φαρμακείᾳ (pharmakeia), and means, “Magic, sorcery, enchantment. From pharmakeus; medication.”
People are actually being led astray by trusting in vaccines and the like instead of obeying what the Creator has said and provided for our lives.
And it appears that it is an effort to rob the people of trillions of dollars while government grabs more power unchallenged. It’s time that was stopped.
For more on that as it concerns vaccinations, my interview with Stephen Halbrook on the pagan origins, not Christian origins, can be heard below.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media