thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-03--Missouri:  Kansas City Puts Forth Policy To Require Churches To Register Lists Of Attendants

Missouri : Kansas City Puts Forth Policy To Require Churches To Register Lists Of Attendants People , this is only the beginning .
There is no possible way you can spread coronavirus or COVID-19 .
It is a lie perpetrated on the people by Big Pharma , the CDC , lying politicians , Bill Gates , and the corrupt media .
For those of you wondering , I ask , why are they all on the same page on this ?
It ’ s to infringe on your liberties and to usurp non-delegated authority .
Such is the case with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has pushed a Nazi-like policy , not law , that requires churches to maintain “ lists ” of those attending .
I ’ ve got four words every legitimate elder in a church , not a hireling , should tell this mayor : “ We will not comply.
” The policy we put out regarding several things that the mayor presumed to usurp authority over .
Of course , this is based on a declaration of a non-existent state of emergency , you know , those things tyrants declare to advance their lawless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency orders here , orders which he was never given authority to issue .
These are to take effect at 12:01am on May 6 , 2020 .
Here ’ s the mayor ’ s policy from the City of Kansas City website : What changes from previous orders ?
Kansas City will begin operating under a “ 10/10/10 rule.
” The primary changes are as follows : • Non-essential business operations that are not open to the public can resume in-person and delivery operations , provided they operate in accordance with guidance provided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to maintain social distancing .
• Most non-essential business operations that are open to the public ( such as non-essential retail stores and personal care services ) can resume in-person operations provided business operators follow the “ 10/10/10 rule.
” The 10/10/10 rule specifies that these businesses must limit the number of individuals on-site ( inclusive of employees and customers ) to no more than 10 percent of building occupancy or 10 people ( whichever is larger ) , and record the names , contact information , and approximate entry/exit time of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 10 minutes .
• In-person religious gatherings ( including weddings and funerals ) may resume , subject to the 10/10/10 rule ( if held inside ) or limited to 50 people outside , provided social distancing precautions are followed and event organizers maintain records of all attendees .
“ Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil , track and spy upon what was once a free American people , ” states Liberty Council , founder and Chairman Matt Staver , who didn ’ t mince @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kansas City ’ s misguided government officials are now demanding.
” The 10/10/10 rule is based on 10 people or 10 percent of the allowable number prescribed in the fire code , but only for those who remain in the building for longer than 10 minutes .
But it is not the limit on people that has drawn the most concern , but the record keeping .
The new rule requires all churches to “ record the names , contact information , and approximate entry/exit time of all customers who are on premises @ @ @ @ @ @ @ includes churches , synagogues , and mosques along with businesses .
Only medical facilities and grocery stores are exempt .
Rich Bott , President of the locally based Bott Radio Network with 113 stations in 13 states , says it ’ s a violation of longstanding guarantees in the Bill of Rights that protect religious activity from government oversight and control .
“ This is outrageous on the part of the KC municipal government officials .
They are treating churches the same as businesses for COVID contact tracing purposes , ” Bott told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a massive overreach violating the sanctity of churches and the privacy of their attendees .
This must not go unchallenged.
” Liberty Council agrees that the policy , aimed at reopening the nation shut down from the coronavirus pandemic , goes too far and has ominous overtones from the darkest days of the past .
In a letter to supporters on Friday , Liberty Council ’ s Staver described the actions in Missouri ’ s largest city as “ attacks.
” “ These attacks on our churches can not stand .
The backbone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guaranteed ability to worship and serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , ” Staver wrote .
Liberty Council also alleges that churches must turn over their “ membership lists , ” something that the City denies .
While the mayor ’ s office claims that isn ’ t the entire picture , and that even though they are required to make lists , they remain in their possession , I ask , then why demand they make lists ?
Furthermore , this is not law and can not be enforced lawfully , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to shove they will seek to enforce policy unlawfully .
“ We are not asking that churches provide a list immediately to the city , ” Morgan Said , director of communications for Mayor Lucas told Metro Voice .
“ Churches keep the list and only if a member tests positive , and that member attended a church function , would the church provide a list to the city.
” Did you see the hook there ?
Those who test positive .
We know that 80 % of those testing positive are false-positives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for government to be involved in the jurisdiction of the church , of whom there is only one King , and that ’ s the Lord Jesus Christ .
Said told Metro Voice that the church or other religious institution keeps the record for only 30 days , “ Unless , God forbid , someone tests positive , the church can destroy the list.
” Said also referred to a clarification issued by the Mayor ’ s office that provided additional guidance for how many people can be in a church at one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 10/10/10 rule just like businesses and other organizations , ” stated Said .
“ Church capacity is determined by the structure ’ s fire code limits.
” That means a large church that seats 3,000 could potentially host a service of 300 .
A church of 300 could host 30 but those numbers also include the church staff .
Again , the mayor has zero authority to tell the church how to conduct itself when it comes together… none , zero , zip , nada .
Give these people a rope and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cowboy !
This must stop and it ’ s up to the churches to politely , but forcefully , say , “ We will not comply.
” Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

People, this is only the beginning. There is no possible way you can spread coronavirus or COVID-19. It is a lie perpetrated on the people by Big Pharma, the CDC, lying politicians, Bill Gates, and the corrupt media. For those of you wondering, I ask, why are they all on the same page on this? It’s to infringe on your liberties and to usurp non-delegated authority. Such is the case with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who has pushed a Nazi-like policy, not law, that requires churches to maintain “lists” of those attending.
I’ve got four words every legitimate elder in a church, not a hireling, should tell this mayor: “We will not comply.”
The policy we put out regarding several things that the mayor presumed to usurp authority over.
Of course, this is based on a declaration of a non-existent state of emergency, you know, those things tyrants declare to advance their lawless agendas?
The mayor issued his latest emergency orders here, orders which he was never given authority to issue.
These are to take effect at 12:01am on May 6, 2020.
Here’s the mayor’s policy from the City of Kansas City website:
What changes from previous orders?
Kansas City will begin operating under a “10/10/10 rule.” The primary changes are as follows:
Non-essential business operations that are not open to the public can resume in-person and delivery operations, provided they operate in accordance with guidance provided by the Health Department and allow workers to maintain social distancing.
Most non-essential business operations that are open to the public (such as non-essential retail stores and personal care services) can resume in-person operations provided business operators follow the “10/10/10 rule.” The 10/10/10 rule specifies that these businesses must limit the number of individuals on-site (inclusive of employees and customers) to no more than 10 percent of building occupancy or 10 people (whichever is larger), and record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of all customers who are on premises for more than 10 minutes.
In-person religious gatherings (including weddings and funerals) may resume, subject to the 10/10/10 rule (if held inside) or limited to 50 people outside, provided social distancing precautions are followed and event organizers maintain records of all attendees.
“Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a free American people,” states Liberty Council, founder and Chairman Matt Staver, who didn’t mince words. “That is exactly what Kansas City’s misguided government officials are now demanding.”
Metro Voice reports:
The 10/10/10 rule is based on 10 people or 10 percent of the allowable number prescribed in the fire code, but only for those who remain in the building for longer than 10 minutes.
But it is not the limit on people that has drawn the most concern, but the record keeping. The new rule requires all churches to “record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of all customers who are on premises for more than 10 minutes.” That includes churches, synagogues, and mosques along with businesses. Only medical facilities and grocery stores are exempt.
Rich Bott, President of the locally based Bott Radio Network with 113 stations in 13 states, says it’s a violation of longstanding guarantees in the Bill of Rights that protect religious activity from government oversight and control.
“This is outrageous on the part of the KC municipal government officials. They are treating churches the same as businesses for COVID contact tracing purposes,” Bott told the Metro Voice. “This is a massive overreach violating the sanctity of churches and the privacy of their attendees. This must not go unchallenged.”
Liberty Council agrees that the policy, aimed at reopening the nation shut down from the coronavirus pandemic, goes too far and has ominous overtones from the darkest days of the past.
In a letter to supporters on Friday, Liberty Council’s Staver described the actions in Missouri’s largest city as “attacks.”
“These attacks on our churches cannot stand. The backbone of our country relies on our constitutionally guaranteed ability to worship and serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” Staver wrote.
Liberty Council also alleges that churches must turn over their “membership lists,” something that the City denies.
While the mayor’s office claims that isn’t the entire picture, and that even though they are required to make lists, they remain in their possession, I ask, then why demand they make lists? Furthermore, this is not law and cannot be enforced lawfully, but you can bet when push comes to shove they will seek to enforce policy unlawfully.
“We are not asking that churches provide a list immediately to the city,” Morgan Said, director of communications for Mayor Lucas told Metro Voice. “Churches keep the list and only if a member tests positive, and that member attended a church function, would the church provide a list to the city.”
Did you see the hook there? Those who test positive.
We know that 80% of those testing positive are false-positives.
It’s just a way for government to be involved in the jurisdiction of the church, of whom there is only one King, and that’s the Lord Jesus Christ.
Metro Voice added:
Said told Metro Voice that the church or other religious institution keeps the record for only 30 days, “Unless, God forbid, someone tests positive, the church can destroy the list.”
Said also referred to a clarification issued by the Mayor’s office that provided additional guidance for how many people can be in a church at one time.
“Churches must abide by the 10/10/10 rule just like businesses and other organizations,” stated Said. “Church capacity is determined by the structure’s fire code limits.”
That means a large church that seats 3,000 could potentially host a service of 300. A church of 300 could host 30 but those numbers also include the church staff.
Again, the mayor has zero authority to tell the church how to conduct itself when it comes together… none, zero, zip, nada.
Give these people a rope and they’ll wanna be a cowboy! This must stop and it’s up to the churches to politely, but forcefully, say, “We will not comply.”
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-03--AMERICAN REVOLUTION: From CA To NY, SHUTDOWN UNREST, Hundreds of Thousands Across Nation Turn Out Fo

AMERICAN REVOLUTION : From CA To NY , SHUTDOWN UNREST , Hundreds of Thousands Across Nation Turn Out For Lockdown Protests The American people are fighting back .
They are fed up with the tyrannical Democrats , and rightfully so .
They want their freedom back .
They want their jobs back .
They want their livelihoods back .
However , protests are not good enough .
The Democrats must pay a big price for this house arrest at the ballot box in November .
There is simply no other choice .
# GOP2020 !
# Freedom !
Editor ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not forget these either : • Wisconsin : Former Governor Scott Walker Demonstrates Once Again Who He Really Is After Thousands Protest Lockdown – I Understand , But We Need to Show We Can Follow Guidelines • Idaho : Protesters Surround Cop ’ s House After Video Showed Him Arrest Mom For Bringing Kids To Park ( Video ) SHUTDOWN UNREST : From CA To NY , Thousands Across Nation Turn Out For Lockdown Protests Well over a month into coronavirus shutdown mode , unrest bubbled to the surface in states across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to California , thousands gathered in protest , demanding an end to draconian lockdown measures .
An estimated 500-plus protesters gathered in Huntington Beach , California on Friday , rejecting Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom ’ s coronavirus measures , including his order to close all public beaches in Orange County .
“ The city itself has also made it clear it will be fighting back against the governor ’ s order , ” The Wrap reported Friday .
“ During an emergency meeting late on Thursday , the Huntington Beach City Council voted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s order.
” Nearby , hundreds gathered in San Diego to protest the lockdown , too .
There was a mixture of mask-wearing and non-mask-wearing protesters , holding signs like “ Look Ma No Mask , ” “ All Jobs Are Essential , ” and “ Re-Open California ” Some of the protests carried their signs on foot , others took a cue from Michigan ’ s “ operation gridlock ” protest earlier this month and used their vehicles to show their dissent of lockdown measures .
Protests hit Chicago , as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Chicago ’ s loop Friday to call on Gov .
J.B. Pritzker , a Democrat , to come up with a plan to reopen the state ’ s economy , ” Fox News reported Friday .
“ Several hundred gathered outside the Thompson Center , while counter-protesters drove by in their cars calling for the state to remain shut down.
” Hundreds more gathered at the state ’ s Capitol in Springfield , holding “ Freedom over fear , ” “ Fire Pritzker , ” and “ I don ’ t give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chicago ” signs , Fox reported .

AMERICAN REVOLUTION: From CA To NY, SHUTDOWN UNREST, Hundreds of Thousands Across Nation Turn Out For Lockdown Protests
The American people are fighting back. They are fed up with the tyrannical Democrats, and rightfully so. They want their freedom back. They want their jobs back. They want their livelihoods back. However, protests are not good enough. The Democrats must pay a big price for this house arrest at the ballot box in November. There is simply no other choice. #GOP2020! #Freedom!
Editor’s Note: And let’s not forget these either:
Pelosi, Schumer, Biden & all their leftwing friends have routinely been putting petty politics ahead of what's best for the American people! pic.twitter.com/chhZTIrr6X — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 1, 2020
SHUTDOWN UNREST: From CA To NY, Thousands Across Nation Turn Out For Lockdown Protests
By Daily Wire, May 2, 2020
Well over a month into coronavirus shutdown mode, unrest bubbled to the surface in states across the nation on Friday. From New York to California, thousands gathered in protest, demanding an end to draconian lockdown measures.
An estimated 500-plus protesters gathered in Huntington Beach, California on Friday, rejecting Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus measures, including his order to close all public beaches in Orange County.
“The city itself has also made it clear it will be fighting back against the governor’s order,” The Wrap reported Friday. “During an emergency meeting late on Thursday, the Huntington Beach City Council voted to seek an injunction against Newsom’s order.”
WATCH:
Huntington Beach lockdown protest was HUGE on Friday. pic.twitter.com/pdoYmJchS2 — Amanda (@AmandaPresto) May 2, 2020
Nearby, hundreds gathered in San Diego to protest the lockdown, too. There was a mixture of mask-wearing and non-mask-wearing protesters, holding signs like “Look Ma No Mask,” “All Jobs Are Essential,” and “Re-Open California”
WATCH:
Some of the protests carried their signs on foot, others took a cue from Michigan’s “operation gridlock” protest earlier this month and used their vehicles to show their dissent of lockdown measures.
4/ we stayed on public property and marched across Union street. Here’s a look at the crowd as they passed me. pic.twitter.com/YhJq6W0cfw — Justin Hart (@justin_hart) May 2, 2020
Protests hit Chicago, as well: “A group of protesters gathered in Chicago’s loop Friday to call on Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, to come up with a plan to reopen the state’s economy,” Fox News reported Friday. “Several hundred gathered outside the Thompson Center, while counter-protesters drove by in their cars calling for the state to remain shut down.”
WATCH:
Hundreds more gathered at the state’s Capitol in Springfield, holding “Freedom over fear,” “Fire Pritzker,” and “I don’t give a damn how you do it in Chicago” signs, Fox reported.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-03--Fear & Loathing Of The COVID-19 Economy:  COVID-19 Authoritarianism Is The New Normal

Let me begin by saying I don ’ t know anything definitive about the origin of COVID-19 .
I don ’ t know if it is a natural mutation or a manmade biological weapon .
I don ’ t trust the government and its media corporations to report the truth on the virus or the actual number of victims it has claimed .
The WHO—owned by Merck , the GAVI Alliance , and the Gates Foundation—and the CDC—allowed to receive “ gifts ” from Big Pharma and corporations—are corrupt institutions that have lied about pandemics in the past , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Despite revised numbers and evidence computer models were seriously flawed—one might argue deliberately so—the corporate media continues to report COVID-19 as something akin to the Black Death .
It has done a successful job of scaring the hell out of millions if not billions of people .
“ The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think .
How many people actually died from COVID-19 is anyone ’ s guess , ” said Dr. Annie Bukacek in April .
“ Based on inaccurate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by fear-mongers into relinquishing freedoms.
” But here is something a script-reading establishment media avoids reporting—the death toll from a decimated economy will be far higher than anything inflicted by this virus ( or whatever it is ) .
COVID-19 is a near-perfect cover for the engineered crash of an economy already on Federal Reserve funny money life support .
Instead of assigning blame to the responsible culprits—mega-banks , the financial and “ investment ” ( speculation ) class , transnational corporations , and their handmaids in government—blame is placed on an invisible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manufactured precisely for the purpose of taking down the economy .
“ If you take the kinds of drastic action that we are currently seeing [ state-mandated lockdowns ] , it is unquestionably going to lead to massive job losses , huge redundancies , thousands of small to medium businesses going to the wall , future generations saddled with debt , and millions of people thrust into poverty with no way out , ” writes Rob Slane .
This will result in “ risks to the mental health of millions of people , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on a scale never seen before and which may never be restored after the health crisis is over , ” and the “ frightening possibility of mass civil unrest the longer the measures continue , ” Slane adds .
In fact , the US and much of the world has remained mired in financial ill-health in the wake of the last “ too big to fail ” bankster looting a dozen years ago .
The media called it the “ Great Recession , ” although , by any standard , it was and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of summer , it will mutate into a full-blown Greatest Depression .
“ We ’ ve entered a downturn that is going to be longer , deeper , and different than the unpleasantness of 1929-1946 , ” notes best-selling author Doug Casey .
According to the economist Nouriel Roubini : Earlier this month [ March 2020 ] , it took just 15 days for the US stock market to plummet into bear territory ( a 20 % decline from its peak ) —the fastest such decline ever .
Now , markets are down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up , and credit spreads ( like those for junk bonds ) have spiked to 2008 levels .
Even mainstream financial firms such as Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley expect US GDP to fall by an annualized rate of 6 % in the first quarter , and by 24 % to 30 % in the second .
US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has warned that the unemployment rate could skyrocket to above 20 % ( twice the peak level during the GFC [ Global Financial Crisis ] ) .
According @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Government Statistics , a second-quarter GDP contraction will rival the depths of the Great Depression .
The current unemployment rate is 22 % and it will get worse , far worse , possibly affecting more than half the working population .
There are mounting risks of a hyperinflationary Great Depression , as the Federal Reserve and federal government launch unlimited money creation , deficit spending , and financial bailouts , Williams wrote on April 28 .
More than 30 million Americans applied for unemployment insurance as a result of the state-mandated and enforced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ workers are unable to file due to clogged online systems and the inefficiency of state bureaucracy ) .
In less than a month , the 22.4 million jobs created after the manufactured Great Recession—primarily low-paid service sector jobs—were wiped out .
Desperate and poverty-stricken Americans will , as Henry Kissinger long ago remarked , run to the government and beg for protection .
They will willingly—even enthusiastically—relinquish their natural rights for the false security of the state .
The massive violations of a moribund Constitution and Bill of Rights are dismissed as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease that is , according to a scaremongering media , wafting through the air and laying in wait on all surfaces .
In short , your natural rights are considered a threat to the rest of humanity .
In March , a poll was conducted on public support for killing off what remains of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights .
“ We presented a nationally representative sample of 3,000 U.S. residents with eight possible policy responses to the outbreak , all of which may be unconstitutional , including forced quarantine in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spreading misinformation , bans against certain people entering the country , and conscription of health-care workers , ” writes Adam Chilton , Professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School , and three of his associates .
“ Even when we explicitly told half of our sample that the policies may violate the Constitution , ” the group writes , “ the majority supported all eight of them , ” including the restrictions imposed on free speech .
In short , propagandized and frightened citizens , in fear of a New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sort , are abrogating their birthright of individual liberty in favor of allowing the state to impose ever-increasing draconian measures—including an audacious expansion of surveillance—to control humanity .
“ After the threat has subsided , ” Chilton and the law professors conclude , “ Americans must recognize any constitutional violations for what they were , lest they become the new normal.
” It should be obvious by now COVID-19 authoritarianism is already the new normal .

Let me begin by saying I don’t know anything definitive about the origin of COVID-19. I don’t know if it is a natural mutation or a manmade biological weapon. I don’t trust the government and its media corporations to report the truth on the virus or the actual number of victims it has claimed. The WHO—owned by Merck, the GAVI Alliance, and the Gates Foundation—and the CDC—allowed to receive “gifts” from Big Pharma and corporations—are corrupt institutions that have lied about pandemics in the past, so why should we believe them now?
Despite revised numbers and evidence computer models were seriously flawed—one might argue deliberately so—the corporate media continues to report COVID-19 as something akin to the Black Death. It has done a successful job of scaring the hell out of millions if not billions of people.
“The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think. How many people actually died from COVID-19 is anyone’s guess,” said Dr. Annie Bukacek in April. “Based on inaccurate, incomplete data, people are being terrorized by fear-mongers into relinquishing freedoms.”
But here is something a script-reading establishment media avoids reporting—the death toll from a decimated economy will be far higher than anything inflicted by this virus (or whatever it is).
COVID-19 is a near-perfect cover for the engineered crash of an economy already on Federal Reserve funny money life support. Instead of assigning blame to the responsible culprits—mega-banks, the financial and “investment” (speculation) class, transnational corporations, and their handmaids in government—blame is placed on an invisible virus that may or may not be manufactured precisely for the purpose of taking down the economy.
“If you take the kinds of drastic action that we are currently seeing [state-mandated lockdowns], it is unquestionably going to lead to massive job losses, huge redundancies, thousands of small to medium businesses going to the wall, future generations saddled with debt, and millions of people thrust into poverty with no way out,” writes Rob Slane.
This will result in “risks to the mental health of millions of people,” the “stripping of civil liberties on a scale never seen before and which may never be restored after the health crisis is over,” and the “frightening possibility of mass civil unrest the longer the measures continue,” Slane adds.
In fact, the US and much of the world has remained mired in financial ill-health in the wake of the last “too big to fail” bankster looting a dozen years ago. The media called it the “Great Recession,” although, by any standard, it was and is a depression. By the end of summer, it will mutate into a full-blown Greatest Depression. “We’ve entered a downturn that is going to be longer, deeper, and different than the unpleasantness of 1929-1946,” notes best-selling author Doug Casey.
According to the economist Nouriel Roubini:
Earlier this month [March 2020], it took just 15 days for the US stock market to plummet into bear territory (a 20% decline from its peak)—the fastest such decline ever. Now, markets are down 35%, credit markets have seized up, and credit spreads (like those for junk bonds) have spiked to 2008 levels. Even mainstream financial firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley expect US GDP to fall by an annualized rate of 6% in the first quarter, and by 24% to 30% in the second. US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has warned that the unemployment rate could skyrocket to above 20% (twice the peak level during the GFC [Global Financial Crisis]).
According to John Williams, publisher of Shadow Government Statistics, a second-quarter GDP contraction will rival the depths of the Great Depression. The current unemployment rate is 22% and it will get worse, far worse, possibly affecting more than half the working population. There are mounting risks of a hyperinflationary Great Depression, as the Federal Reserve and federal government launch unlimited money creation, deficit spending, and financial bailouts, Williams wrote on April 28.
More than 30 million Americans applied for unemployment insurance as a result of the state-mandated and enforced economic lockdown (millions of other unemployed workers are unable to file due to clogged online systems and the inefficiency of state bureaucracy). In less than a month, the 22.4 million jobs created after the manufactured Great Recession—primarily low-paid service sector jobs—were wiped out.
Desperate and poverty-stricken Americans will, as Henry Kissinger long ago remarked, run to the government and beg for protection. They will willingly—even enthusiastically—relinquish their natural rights for the false security of the state.
The massive violations of a moribund Constitution and Bill of Rights are dismissed as an excuse by irresponsible people to spread a disease that is, according to a scaremongering media, wafting through the air and laying in wait on all surfaces. In short, your natural rights are considered a threat to the rest of humanity.
In March, a poll was conducted on public support for killing off what remains of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “We presented a nationally representative sample of 3,000 U.S. residents with eight possible policy responses to the outbreak, all of which may be unconstitutional, including forced quarantine in a government facility, criminal penalties for spreading misinformation, bans against certain people entering the country, and conscription of health-care workers,” writes Adam Chilton, Professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, and three of his associates.
“Even when we explicitly told half of our sample that the policies may violate the Constitution,” the group writes, “the majority supported all eight of them,” including the restrictions imposed on free speech.
In short, propagandized and frightened citizens, in fear of a New Black Death that is nothing of the sort, are abrogating their birthright of individual liberty in favor of allowing the state to impose ever-increasing draconian measures—including an audacious expansion of surveillance—to control humanity.
“After the threat has subsided,” Chilton and the law professors conclude, “Americans must recognize any constitutional violations for what they were, lest they become the new normal.”
It should be obvious by now COVID-19 authoritarianism is already the new normal.
Article posted with permission from Kurt Nimmo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--ANOTHER NYC Nurse Whistleblower: Patients Not Dying From Coronavirus, But Are Being “Murdered” By “G

ANOTHER NYC Nurse Whistleblower : Patients Not Dying From Coronavirus , But Are Being “ Murdered ” By “ Gross Negligence and Complete Medical Mismanagement.
” ( Video ) GR previously published reports from other nurses who testified to the same thing : WATCH Registered Nurse in NYC Hospital : Patients are being left to die , no treatment , no drugs , “ it ’ s murder ” “ it ’ s out of a horror movie.
” Another nurse speaks out .
But nothing will be done in this Democrat-controlled city .
The Democrats need a higher death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are under attack by the enemy within .
The Democrat-media complex continues to polish Cuomo ’ s knob .
Every day .
De Blasio ’ s , too .
Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator | The totalitarian Democrat-controlled social platform Facebook removed the video , of course .
A Nevada nurse who travelled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has posted a tearful Facebook Live video claiming that patients are not dying from the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by “ gross negligence and complete medical mismanagement.
” Nicole Sirotek , a nurse from Elko , Nevada , was assigned to two different hospitals in New York City .
“ I am literally telling you that they are murdering these people , ” Sirotek says in the terrifying video .
The video begins with Sirotek explaining that every time she attempts to advocate on behalf of one of her patients , management takes them away and reassigns her to another unit .
She said that this happened at both of the hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ I legitimately don ’ t even know what to do anymore .
Even advocacy groups don ’ t give a sh-t about these people , ” she said .
“ Black lives don ’ t matter here.
” “ I know not everybody is going to live .
I ’ m not that f-cking green , or ignorant , or bright eyed and bushy tailed to think that , okay ?
I know we ’ re going to have a sh-t ton of people die — but these people aren ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gave several specific examples of patients who have died from medical negligence , including a resident nurse killing a patient by using a defibrillator on him when he had a pulse and it wasn ’ t necessary .
When she ran out of the room to get help stopping him from doing it , the director of nursing just shook their head at her .
The patient ultimately died , but not from COVID .
In another example , she said that a patient was given the wrong type of insulin .
Even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital was refusing to give blood transfusions to patients who are low on blood unless they have internal bleeding .
Without proper blood flow , she explained , the ventilators will not do anything to help them — and she said that this is a common problem for patients with the virus .
“ Nobody is listening .
They don ’ t care what is happening to these people .
They don ’ t .
I ’ m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them , ” she said .

ANOTHER NYC Nurse Whistleblower: Patients Not Dying From Coronavirus, But Are Being “Murdered” By “Gross Negligence and Complete Medical Mismanagement.” (Video)
GR previously published reports from other nurses who testified to the same thing: WATCH Registered Nurse in NYC Hospital: Patients are being left to die, no treatment, no drugs, “it’s murder” “it’s out of a horror movie.”
Another nurse speaks out. But nothing will be done in this Democrat-controlled city. The Democrats need a higher death rate to justify the continued lockdowns. We are under attack by the enemy within.
The Democrat-media complex continues to polish Cuomo’s knob. Every day. De Blasio’s, too.
Hospitals Get Paid More to List Patients as COVID-19 and Three Times as Much if the Patient Goes on Ventilator |
The totalitarian Democrat-controlled social platform Facebook removed the video, of course.
MUST WATCH: Tearful Nurse Blows Whistle on New York Hospitals ‘Murdering’ COVID Patients With ‘Complete Medical Mismanagement’ By Gateway Pundit, May 4, 2020:
A Nevada nurse who travelled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has posted a tearful Facebook Live video claiming that patients are not dying from the virus, but are being “murdered” by “gross negligence and complete medical mismanagement.”
Nicole Sirotek, a nurse from Elko, Nevada, was assigned to two different hospitals in New York City.
“I am literally telling you that they are murdering these people,” Sirotek says in the terrifying video.
The video begins with Sirotek explaining that every time she attempts to advocate on behalf of one of her patients, management takes them away and reassigns her to another unit. She said that this happened at both of the hospitals she has worked at in the city. “I legitimately don’t even know what to do anymore. Even advocacy groups don’t give a sh-t about these people,” she said. “Black lives don’t matter here.”
“I know not everybody is going to live. I’m not that f-cking green, or ignorant, or bright eyed and bushy tailed to think that, okay? I know we’re going to have a sh-t ton of people die — but these people aren’t dying from COVID.”
Sirotek then gave several specific examples of patients who have died from medical negligence, including a resident nurse killing a patient by using a defibrillator on him when he had a pulse and it wasn’t necessary. When she ran out of the room to get help stopping him from doing it, the director of nursing just shook their head at her. The patient ultimately died, but not from COVID.
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In another example, she said that a patient was given the wrong type of insulin. Even more alarmingly, she said that the hospital was refusing to give blood transfusions to patients who are low on blood unless they have internal bleeding. Without proper blood flow, she explained, the ventilators will not do anything to help them — and she said that this is a common problem for patients with the virus.
“Nobody is listening. They don’t care what is happening to these people. They don’t. I’m literally coming here every day and watching them kill them,” she said.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--American Socialism: California Approved For Up to $10 Billion Bailout To Pay Unemployment Benefits D

American Socialism : California Approved For Up to $ 10 Billion Bailout To Pay Unemployment Benefits Due To Their Unlawful Lockdown These people cause their own problems and then look to everyone else to solve them .
This is not governing , it ’ s socialism .
California has now become the first state to be approved for up to $ 10 Billion in federal funds ( ie .
taxes on US citizens ’ backs ) to pay unemployment benefits that Governor Gavin Newsom instigated with his unlawful lockdown in the state .
The story comes from Tyler Durden at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether or not to bailout decades-long bad decisions on the basis of a sudden virus/lockdown-driven drop in revenues , California has stepped up to the plate with what appears to be a direct request for a bailout to fund the benefits for millions of newly-unemployed residents ( and illegal immigrants ) .
Just a day after California Governor Newsom warned of the state ’ s sudden budget collapse… “ Last year I did a May revise with a $ 21.4 billion budget surplus , ” Newsom said on Friday during his daily coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This year I will be doing a May revise looking at tens of billions of dollars in deficit .
We just went tens of billions in surplus in just weeks to deficits.
“ The Wall Street Journal reports that California has become the first state to borrow money from the federal government so it can continue paying out rising claims for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic .
The Golden State borrowed $ 348 million in federal funds after receiving approval to tap up to $ 10 billion for this purpose through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spokesman said Monday .
Meanwhile , in a memo last week , Newsom ’ s finance director ordered departments to significantly slash spending immediately using strict measures , including bans on new goods and service contracts .
As the journal concludes , California serves as an early sign of the potential magnitude of the federal assistance that could be required if states are to continue paying out jobless benefits .
It is one of more than 20 states and jurisdictions that entered the current economic crisis without enough money in their unemployment trust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recession , according to Labor Department data .
With 30 million unemployment claims filed since the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the shutdown of broad swaths of the economy , states are reporting that they ’ ll need at least $ 1 trillion in aid from the federal government – which has already doled out over $ 2.2 trillion in relief for business loans , stimulus checks , expanded unemployment benefits and small business assistance .
And with a lack of tax revenue , states with bloated budgets and massive entitlement programs are facing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The U.S. government has also approved loans of up to $ 12.6 billion for Illinois and up to $ 1.1 billion for Connecticut through the end of July to replenish state unemployment insurance funds , though the two states hadn ’ t yet started borrowing by the end of April .
California was the only state to have accessed the program so far in the current downturn , the Treasury spokesman said .
One wonders if the reason that the other states haven ’ t been so quick to draw down on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a broader-based bailout from a Democrat-sponsored Congressional bill that enables pension benefits to be covered… and not just the jobless .
Obviously , every state that initiated unlawful lockdowns of their people and economies will be having their hands out , wanting the people to bailout governors who don ’ t know how to govern .
It ’ s long past time the people of each state put an end to such flagrant disregard for the law in order to engage in tyranny .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

American Socialism: California Approved For Up to $10 Billion Bailout To Pay Unemployment Benefits Due To Their Unlawful Lockdown
These people cause their own problems and then look to everyone else to solve them. This is not governing, it’s socialism. California has now become the first state to be approved for up to $10 Billion in federal funds (ie. taxes on US citizens’ backs) to pay unemployment benefits that Governor Gavin Newsom instigated with his unlawful lockdown in the state.
The story comes from Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge:
As politicians argue over whether or not to bailout decades-long bad decisions on the basis of a sudden virus/lockdown-driven drop in revenues, California has stepped up to the plate with what appears to be a direct request for a bailout to fund the benefits for millions of newly-unemployed residents (and illegal immigrants).
Just a day after California Governor Newsom warned of the state’s sudden budget collapse…
“Last year I did a May revise with a $21.4 billion budget surplus,” Newsom said on Friday during his daily coronavirus briefing, according to Bloomberg. “This year I will be doing a May revise looking at tens of billions of dollars in deficit. We just went tens of billions in surplus in just weeks to deficits.“
The Wall Street Journal reports that California has become the first state to borrow money from the federal government so it can continue paying out rising claims for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Golden State borrowed $348 million in federal funds after receiving approval to tap up to $10 billion for this purpose through the end of July, a Treasury Department spokesman said Monday.
“I’m doing everything I can to work with cities and counties, but we are not going to be in a position, even as the nation’s fifth-largest economy, to provide for the needs of all the cities and the counties without federal support,” said Newsom.
Meanwhile, in a memo last week, Newsom’s finance director ordered departments to significantly slash spending immediately using strict measures, including bans on new goods and service contracts.
As the journal concludes, California serves as an early sign of the potential magnitude of the federal assistance that could be required if states are to continue paying out jobless benefits. It is one of more than 20 states and jurisdictions that entered the current economic crisis without enough money in their unemployment trust funds to pay benefits through a yearlong recession, according to Labor Department data.
With 30 million unemployment claims filed since the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the shutdown of broad swaths of the economy, states are reporting that they’ll need at least $1 trillion in aid from the federal government – which has already doled out over $2.2 trillion in relief for business loans, stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits and small business assistance.
And with a lack of tax revenue, states with bloated budgets and massive entitlement programs are facing significant pain in the months ahead.
The U.S. government has also approved loans of up to $12.6 billion for Illinois and up to $1.1 billion for Connecticut through the end of July to replenish state unemployment insurance funds, though the two states hadn’t yet started borrowing by the end of April. California was the only state to have accessed the program so far in the current downturn, the Treasury spokesman said.
One wonders if the reason that the other states haven’t been so quick to draw down on the loans is because they are hoping for a broader-based bailout from a Democrat-sponsored Congressional bill that enables pension benefits to be covered… and not just the jobless.
Obviously, every state that initiated unlawful lockdowns of their people and economies will be having their hands out, wanting the people to bailout governors who don’t know how to govern.
It’s long past time the people of each state put an end to such flagrant disregard for the law in order to engage in tyranny.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--The Truth About Coronavirus Vaccines:  Is This Why Bill Gates Wants Indemnity?  Are You Willing To T

The Truth About Coronavirus Vaccines : Is This Why Bill Gates Wants Indemnity ?
Are You Willing To Take The Risk ?
Vaccines have really never been shown to actually prevent anything .
They have proven to cause the very things they are claimed to stop , plus a host of other problems in humans .
As Bill Gates works with the Department of Defense and DARPA to develop a vaccine for coronavirus , he ’ s also seeking indemnity to guard himself , much like the like the current Big Pharma companies have received when they have provided vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• Since When Did Bill Gates Become the President of The United States ?
Then Why is Every Member on Donald Trump ’ s Coronavirus Response Team Pushing His Vaccinations ?
( Videos ) • Who Is In Control Of Operation Warp Speed To Vaccinate America ?
Donald Trump – & It ’ s Tied Right To Bill Gates ( Video ) • Trump Department Of Defense & DARPA Partnering With Bill Gates For New DNA Nanotech COVID-19 Vaccine ( Video ) • More Evidence Trump Is Working With Bill Gates ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What many people are not aware of is that coronavirus vaccines have been made in the not too distant past and now , a short video provides the very reason why Gates may be seeking indemnity .
Take a look at this video from Children ’ s Health Defense .
Why are the world ’ s top vaccine promoters , like Paul Offit and Peter Hotez , frantically warning us about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine ?
Scientists first attempted to develop coronavirus vaccines after China ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US & foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines .
At first , the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus .
However , when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus , the results were horrifying .
Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies , especially in their lungs .
Researchers had seen this same “ enhanced immune response ” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1960s .
Two children died @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Hotez and even Anthony Fauci ( in an unguarded moment ) , warn that any new coronavirus vaccine could trigger lethal immune reactions “ vaccine enhancement ” when vaccinated people come in contact with the wild virus .
Instead of proceeding with caution , Fauci has made the reckless choice to fast track vaccines , partially funded by Gates , without critical animal studies before moving into human clinical trials that could provide early warning of runaway immune response .
Gates ( in the video ) is so worried about the danger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shouldn ’ t be distributed until governments agree to indemnity against lawsuits .
On February 4 , 2020 , according to the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) website , there were only 11 active CV cases in the USA , yet the U.S. quietly pushed through Federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability .
Are you willing to take the risk ?
2012 Study : Immunization with SARS coronavirus vaccines leads to pulmonary immunopathology on challenge with the SARS virus .
Article posted with permission from Sons of @ @

The Truth About Coronavirus Vaccines: Is This Why Bill Gates Wants Indemnity? Are You Willing To Take The Risk?
Vaccines have really never been shown to actually prevent anything. They have proven to cause the very things they are claimed to stop, plus a host of other problems in humans. As Bill Gates works with the Department of Defense and DARPA to develop a vaccine for coronavirus, he’s also seeking indemnity to guard himself, much like the like the current Big Pharma companies have received when they have provided vaccines that cause severe problems or even death.
What many people are not aware of is that coronavirus vaccines have been made in the not too distant past and now, a short video provides the very reason why Gates may be seeking indemnity.
Take a look at this video from Children’s Health Defense.
CHD adds:
Why are the world’s top vaccine promoters, like Paul Offit and Peter Hotez, frantically warning us about the unique and frightening dangers inherent in developing a coronavirus vaccine?
Scientists first attempted to develop coronavirus vaccines after China’s 2002 SARS-CoV outbreak. Teams of US & foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines. At first, the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus. However, when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus, the results were horrifying. Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies, especially in their lungs. Researchers had seen this same “enhanced immune response” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1960s. Two children died.
In this video footage, Offit, Hotez and even Anthony Fauci (in an unguarded moment), warn that any new coronavirus vaccine could trigger lethal immune reactions “vaccine enhancement” when vaccinated people come in contact with the wild virus. Instead of proceeding with caution, Fauci has made the reckless choice to fast track vaccines, partially funded by Gates, without critical animal studies before moving into human clinical trials that could provide early warning of runaway immune response.
Gates (in the video) is so worried about the danger of adverse events that he says vaccines shouldn’t be distributed until governments agree to indemnity against lawsuits. On February 4, 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, there were only 11 active CV cases in the USA, yet the U.S. quietly pushed through Federal regulations giving coronavirus vaccine makers full immunity from liability.
Are you willing to take the risk?
2012 Study: Immunization with SARS coronavirus vaccines leads to pulmonary immunopathology on challenge with the SARS virus.
Federal Register giving liability protection, The PREP Act
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--Unclear If Face Masks Have Saved Any Lives, But They Just Cost One

Unclear If Face Masks Have Saved Any Lives , But They Just Cost One Also predictable .
Mask mandates have triggered violent reactions in some parts of the country .
And it ’ s not surprising .
Driving 10 miles to a store only to be told that you can ’ t buy what you need because you don ’ t have a mask , is going to be infuriating .
Confrontations have already occurred in Oklahoma and , in this case in Michigan , a confrontation turned not only violent , but deadly .
The Genessee County Prosecutor ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flint Family Dollar security guard who was killed on Friday was shot following a dispute with a customer who would not put on a mask in the store .
The 43-year-old security guard was shot Friday afternoon at the Family Dollar on Fifth Ave in Flint .
He was pronounced dead at the hospital .
Obviously the shooter was almost certainly a career criminal and should get the death penalty/spend the rest of his life in jail .
But this hazardous situation didn ’ t have to occur .
The basis for suggesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on their faces is going to save lives is dubious .
For much of the duration of the pandemic , WHO and the CDC were saying the exact opposite .
And so people are right to roll their eyes .
Wearing masks is almost as useless as wearing porous gloves to the store .
They seem to have more to do with pandemic culture than anything practical .
And in 90 plus degree weather , masks become downright hazardous .
That ’ s not counting shootings like these .
It ’ s unclear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but at least one life was lost because of them .

Unclear If Face Masks Have Saved Any Lives, But They Just Cost One
Also predictable. Mask mandates have triggered violent reactions in some parts of the country. And it’s not surprising.
Driving 10 miles to a store only to be told that you can’t buy what you need because you don’t have a mask, is going to be infuriating.
Confrontations have already occurred in Oklahoma and, in this case in Michigan, a confrontation turned not only violent, but deadly.
The Genessee County Prosecutor’s office said Monday afternoon that a Flint Family Dollar security guard who was killed on Friday was shot following a dispute with a customer who would not put on a mask in the store. The 43-year-old security guard was shot Friday afternoon at the Family Dollar on Fifth Ave in Flint. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Obviously the shooter was almost certainly a career criminal and should get the death penalty/spend the rest of his life in jail.
But this hazardous situation didn’t have to occur.
The basis for suggesting that people wearing bandanas or cloth masks on their faces is going to save lives is dubious. For much of the duration of the pandemic, WHO and the CDC were saying the exact opposite.
And so people are right to roll their eyes.
Wearing masks is almost as useless as wearing porous gloves to the store.
They seem to have more to do with pandemic culture than anything practical.
And in 90 plus degree weather, masks become downright hazardous.
That’s not counting shootings like these.
It’s unclear that masks have saved any lives, but at least one life was lost because of them.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--The Senate Dem Rape Culture That Made Biden

When Joe Biden allegedly sexually assaulted Tara Reade in the hallway of the Russell Senate Office Building , the storied building was home to an entire culture of Senate Democrat sexual predators .
The Russell Building is the home of the Kennedy Caucus Room .
After Senator Ted Kennedy ’ s death , the ‘ Kennedy ’ part was added to the Caucus Room to honor the notorious sexual predator whose actions had led to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne .
Mary Jo was one of the many young women drawn to public service by the idealistic speeches of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only to suffer at their hands .
The renaming of the Caucus Room to honor one of the Senate ’ s worst predators was spearheaded by Senator Chris Dodd , his longtime friend and the other man in the infamous story of the ‘ Waitress Sandwich ’ .
The ungentlemanly tale detailed in GQ began with Kennedy and Dodd getting their dates , “ two very young blondes ” , drunk .
Blonde and young , sometimes underage , was how Ted liked them .
A waitress quoted in the story , notes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their girls very , very drunk.
” With the girls away , Dodd and Kennedy reportedly decided to have some fun with their waitress .
“ As Gaviglio enters the room , the six-foot-two , 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three , 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table .
She lands on her back , scattering crystal , plates and cutlery and the lit candles… Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd , who is sprawled in a chair .
With Gaviglio on Dodd ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begins rubbing his genital area against hers , supporting his weight on the arms of the chair , ” the story of the waitress sandwich continued .
Dodd wasn ’ t just a good friend of Ted Kennedy , but of Joe Biden .
The two Senate Democrats were longtime pals who shared a campaign plane in 2008 .
Biden later told a reporter , “ I ’ m for him .
If I can ’ t make it , I ’ m for him.
” When Dodd retired , Biden , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a statement that began with , “ Senator Dodd is one of my best friends in life.
” Dodd moved from the Senate to running Hollywood ’ s MPAA .
A few years later , both men were working together with China ’ s Xi to get more movies released in China .
Biden ’ s assistance to Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks , who got to sit alongside President Xi , paid off with a big Hollywood fundraiser .
But Dodd was on really good terms with Harvey Weinstein .
The Hollywood sexual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did any other politician .
“ I ’ ve known Harvey for 25 , 30 years , and we ’ ve been friends , ” the Senate Democrat admitted .
“ He was very helpful to me as a candidate for Congress and as a senator over the years.
” Dodd was accused of failing to come forward and condemn Weinstein .
Biden did condemn the Hollywood mogul , but his speeches about powerful men taking advantage of women rang hollow .
Not only did Biden hire Anita Dunn , the Obama adviser @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Harvey Weinstein ’ s damage control team , but he maintained his relationship with Dodd .
Dodd has endorsed Biden and functioned as his surrogate on the campaign trail .
Back in the spring of 1993 , when Biden allegedly assaulted Reade , Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd were the future Veep ’ s colleagues in the Senate .
That was also the year that President Clinton allegedly groped Kathleen Willey when she came to ask him for help .
Democrats had Clinton ’ s back .
There was no reason for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clintonesque behavior would ever come back to haunt him .
There was nothing abnormal about prominent Democrats crudely assaulting women in Washington D.C .
The nineties were the twilight of an era in Washington D.C. A year before Biden ’ s alleged assault in the Russell Office Building , Senator Brock Adams , a lefty Democrat , was accused of drugging and raping a 24-year-old congressional aide .
Democrats continued to stand by Adams despite the allegations .
But facing the possibility of losing a Senate seat that he had only won narrowly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Eight women eventually came forward to accuse Adams of groping or otherwise assaulting them .
Adams might have been a cautionary tale for Biden , but for the fact that Democrats had stood by him until a preponderance of accusations and bad polls forced their hand .
The United States Senate ’ s Select Committee on Ethics and its Democrat majority refused to investigate Adams .
He was never charged for a series of what , if they were true , consisted of a series of carefully preplanned sexual assaults .
None of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ted Kennedy , the Democrat “ lion of the Senate ” , could be seen in Michael Kelly ’ s account , ordering his limo to pull up to the curb to proposition two 16-year-old Senate pages .
One of Kennedy ’ s high-ranking aides was described as a pimp “ whose real job was to procure women for Kennedy ” .
The Clinton years , with their tawdry second coming of the Kennedys , was the last hurrah of the old Democrat club whose privileges including mauling the female help working in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outwardly futile , made D.C. misbehavior into a national issue and exacted a price .
The misconduct didn ’ t stop , but it was slowly forced underground .
By the new century , Senate members , who usually harbored futile presidential ambitions , had learned to exercise a little discretion .
At least by Kennedy standards .
Even in 2008 , the Senate pool was reserved for men because some senators liked to swim naked .
Who were they ?
Joe Biden has been accused of swimming naked in front of female @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , politically or physically , much of the club he was part of .
Ted Kennedy is dead , Chris Dodd is on the sidelines , and at 77 , Biden is a shambling relic from another era .
Did he assault Reade ?
It ’ s possible that in his current state , he no longer remembers .
But there ’ s no reason that such an act would have been an extraordinary event among Senate Democrats of the Kennedy-Dodd era .
That new wave of Democrats was part of a movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ preached a progressive new creed .
Women were drawn to the Kennedyesque rhetoric , only to be abused , assaulted , and even killed by Democrat politicians who saw secretaries , staffers , waitresses , pages , and anyone under their power as a reward for having lied and cheated their way to the top .
Unlike their predecessors , their ideology immunized them from exposure by the media .
Dodd , Kennedy , and Biden were among the worst of the breed : overtly crooked politicians who synthesized the old dirty barroom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now , 27 years after that alleged assault , a weak and confused Biden would like to run on a platform of restoring decency .
But when has Joe Biden ever been on speaking terms with decency ?
Washington D.C. is full of ghosts .
And there are more of them in the Russell Office Building than in just the Kennedy Caucus Room .
Some of the ghosts aren ’ t even dead .
They ’ re relics of another era .
Not a less corrupt one , but one whose corruption was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minors .
Biden is one of those ghosts .
After a rowdy political life , the former senator is a shadow of the man he was .
His campaign is a shade haunting the Democrat Party with its past while mocking its future .
It ’ s only fitting that the ghost is haunted by his own ghosts , by Tara Reade and , no doubt other women , secretaries and staffers waiting to emerge from the shadows and cobwebs of political history .
Many of the ghosts of the nation ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and buried .
Others went home , bitter and broken , occasionally seeing their former bosses grinning on CNN or NBC .
Many have buried the memories and gotten on with their lives .
But in a city of ghosts , nothing stays buried forever .

When Joe Biden allegedly sexually assaulted Tara Reade in the hallway of the Russell Senate Office Building, the storied building was home to an entire culture of Senate Democrat sexual predators.
The Russell Building is the home of the Kennedy Caucus Room. After Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, the ‘Kennedy’ part was added to the Caucus Room to honor the notorious sexual predator whose actions had led to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was one of the many young women drawn to public service by the idealistic speeches of the Kennedy clan’s political scions only to suffer at their hands.
The renaming of the Caucus Room to honor one of the Senate’s worst predators was spearheaded by Senator Chris Dodd, his longtime friend and the other man in the infamous story of the ‘Waitress Sandwich’. The ungentlemanly tale detailed in GQ began with Kennedy and Dodd getting their dates, “two very young blondes”, drunk. Blonde and young, sometimes underage, was how Ted liked them.
A waitress quoted in the story, notes, “They’d always get their girls very, very drunk.”
With the girls away, Dodd and Kennedy reportedly decided to have some fun with their waitress.
“As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles… Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair,” the story of the waitress sandwich continued.
Dodd wasn’t just a good friend of Ted Kennedy, but of Joe Biden.
The two Senate Democrats were longtime pals who shared a campaign plane in 2008. Biden later told a reporter, “I’m for him. If I can’t make it, I’m for him.” When Dodd retired, Biden, by then in the Obama administration, released a statement that began with, “Senator Dodd is one of my best friends in life.”
Dodd moved from the Senate to running Hollywood’s MPAA. A few years later, both men were working together with China’s Xi to get more movies released in China. Biden’s assistance to Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks, who got to sit alongside President Xi, paid off with a big Hollywood fundraiser.
But Dodd was on really good terms with Harvey Weinstein. The Hollywood sexual predator gave Dodd more cash than he did any other politician.
“I’ve known Harvey for 25, 30 years, and we’ve been friends,” the Senate Democrat admitted. “He was very helpful to me as a candidate for Congress and as a senator over the years.”
Dodd was accused of failing to come forward and condemn Weinstein. Biden did condemn the Hollywood mogul, but his speeches about powerful men taking advantage of women rang hollow. Not only did Biden hire Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who had been brought in as part of Harvey Weinstein’s damage control team, but he maintained his relationship with Dodd.
Dodd has endorsed Biden and functioned as his surrogate on the campaign trail.
Back in the spring of 1993, when Biden allegedly assaulted Reade, Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd were the future Veep’s colleagues in the Senate. That was also the year that President Clinton allegedly groped Kathleen Willey when she came to ask him for help. Democrats had Clinton’s back. There was no reason for Biden to have worried that his alleged Clintonesque behavior would ever come back to haunt him.
There was nothing abnormal about prominent Democrats crudely assaulting women in Washington D.C.
The nineties were the twilight of an era in Washington D.C. A year before Biden’s alleged assault in the Russell Office Building, Senator Brock Adams, a lefty Democrat, was accused of drugging and raping a 24-year-old congressional aide. Democrats continued to stand by Adams despite the allegations. But facing the possibility of losing a Senate seat that he had only won narrowly; Adams did not run again.
Eight women eventually came forward to accuse Adams of groping or otherwise assaulting them.
Adams might have been a cautionary tale for Biden, but for the fact that Democrats had stood by him until a preponderance of accusations and bad polls forced their hand. The United States Senate’s Select Committee on Ethics and its Democrat majority refused to investigate Adams. He was never charged for a series of what, if they were true, consisted of a series of carefully preplanned sexual assaults.
None of this was strange or surprising.
Senator Ted Kennedy, the Democrat “lion of the Senate”, could be seen in Michael Kelly’s account, ordering his limo to pull up to the curb to proposition two 16-year-old Senate pages. One of Kennedy’s high-ranking aides was described as a pimp “whose real job was to procure women for Kennedy”.
The Clinton years, with their tawdry second coming of the Kennedys, was the last hurrah of the old Democrat club whose privileges including mauling the female help working in Washington D.C. Clinton’s impeachment, outwardly futile, made D.C. misbehavior into a national issue and exacted a price. The misconduct didn’t stop, but it was slowly forced underground. By the new century, Senate members, who usually harbored futile presidential ambitions, had learned to exercise a little discretion.
At least by Kennedy standards.
Even in 2008, the Senate pool was reserved for men because some senators liked to swim naked. Who were they? Joe Biden has been accused of swimming naked in front of female secret service agents.
Biden has outlived, politically or physically, much of the club he was part of. Ted Kennedy is dead, Chris Dodd is on the sidelines, and at 77, Biden is a shambling relic from another era. Did he assault Reade? It’s possible that in his current state, he no longer remembers. But there’s no reason that such an act would have been an extraordinary event among Senate Democrats of the Kennedy-Dodd era.
That new wave of Democrats was part of a movement that cheerfully exploited women even as it preached a progressive new creed. Women were drawn to the Kennedyesque rhetoric, only to be abused, assaulted, and even killed by Democrat politicians who saw secretaries, staffers, waitresses, pages, and anyone under their power as a reward for having lied and cheated their way to the top.
Unlike their predecessors, their ideology immunized them from exposure by the media.
Dodd, Kennedy, and Biden were among the worst of the breed: overtly crooked politicians who synthesized the old dirty barroom politics with hollow radical moralizing. And now, 27 years after that alleged assault, a weak and confused Biden would like to run on a platform of restoring decency.
But when has Joe Biden ever been on speaking terms with decency?
Washington D.C. is full of ghosts. And there are more of them in the Russell Office Building than in just the Kennedy Caucus Room. Some of the ghosts aren’t even dead. They’re relics of another era. Not a less corrupt one, but one whose corruption was as overt as Senator Ted Kennedy propositioning minors.
Biden is one of those ghosts. After a rowdy political life, the former senator is a shadow of the man he was. His campaign is a shade haunting the Democrat Party with its past while mocking its future. It’s only fitting that the ghost is haunted by his own ghosts, by Tara Reade and, no doubt other women, secretaries and staffers waiting to emerge from the shadows and cobwebs of political history.
Many of the ghosts of the nation’s capital are women. Some are dead and buried. Others went home, bitter and broken, occasionally seeing their former bosses grinning on CNN or NBC. Many have buried the memories and gotten on with their lives. But in a city of ghosts, nothing stays buried forever.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--More Evidence Trump Is Working With Bill Gates’ Vaccine Under “Operation Warp Speed”

So many didn ’ t want to hear that Donald Trump is helping get the Bill Gates vaccine ready in record time under “ Operation Warp Speed.
” But the truth is more important than feelings , and people should be aware of what ’ s going on : this is full tyranny , and Trump is working with the “ general and the admiral ” to help roll this vaccine out .
What would he need the help of generals and admirals for if this was not going to be mandatory ?
We all need to stop looking at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever want true liberty and freedom , and too many are turning a blind eye to this .
Why is to not ok for Bill Gates to work on ID2020 , but it ’ s fine if Trump does ?
I ’ ll answer : neither is acceptable and both are tyrannical .
Liberty should not be negotiable , and if Trump does something to stomp on human rights , I am going to mention it , even though it ’ ll upset some people .
Your feelings don ’ t change what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yes , what Trump said in the last video about “ forced vaccines ” was about measles , and it says so in the video clip where he says it .
Yet that mentality still should not be forgotten and that is why it was included .
If he wants mandatory measles vaccinations , he won ’ t stop at just the measles and it ’ s delusional , at best , to think that he would .
Trump admits that he is in control of Operation Warp Speed with the plans to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as humanly possible .
There are 325 million people in the United States .
That doesn ’ t leave many unvaccinated .
Go to 1:30 in the video to hear Trump say , himself , that ’ s he ’ s in control of this operation : Next , a reporter asks Trump “ who is in charge of this operation ?
” Trump says : “ Uh we have , you know who ’ s in charge of it ?
Honestly , I am .
I ’ ll tell ya , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I could say somebody else I will say we ’ re dealing with the general and the admiral .
They ’ re very much in charge , but , I think , probably more than anything , I ’ m in charge .
And I ’ m the one that gets blamed and I get blamed anyway .
Don ’ tforget , if we come up with a vaccine in record time , they ’ ll say they should have done it faster .
But we have a lot of good possibilities.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempted to buy the firm working on a coronavirus vaccine in Germany .
The president is not “ draining the swamp , ” He ’ s going all-in on a vaccine that will be horrifyingly fast-tracked .
And while Trump didn ’ t say the vaccine would be mandatory , it ’ s hard to imagine this going any other way when he ’ s wanting 300 million doses and is working with the “ general and the admiral ” on this operation .
Operation Warp Speed intends to fast track Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s in control of that operation .
Don ’ t take my word for it .
Listen to him say it yourself .
I only want your eyes fully open to what ’ s going on , and what they intend to do to all of us .
If you want to berate the messenger for bringing you this information , do so .
But it ’ s information you all should be aware of .
Does anyone honestly believe that this vaccine won ’ t be mandatory ?
That obviously the goal @ @ @ @

So many didn’t want to hear that Donald Trump is helping get the Bill Gates vaccine ready in record time under “Operation Warp Speed.” But the truth is more important than feelings, and people should be aware of what’s going on: this is full tyranny, and Trump is working with the “general and the admiral” to help roll this vaccine out.
What would he need the help of generals and admirals for if this was not going to be mandatory? We all need to stop looking at the left vs. right paradigm if we ever want true liberty and freedom, and too many are turning a blind eye to this. Why is to not ok for Bill Gates to work on ID2020, but it’s fine if Trump does? I’ll answer: neither is acceptable and both are tyrannical.
Liberty should not be negotiable, and if Trump does something to stomp on human rights, I am going to mention it, even though it’ll upset some people. Your feelings don’t change what Trump said with his own mouth.
Yes, what Trump said in the last video about “forced vaccines” was about measles, and it says so in the video clip where he says it.
Medical Tyranny: Trump Pivots To Mandatory Vaccinations Under Operation “Warp Speed”
Yet that mentality still should not be forgotten and that is why it was included. If he wants mandatory measles vaccinations, he won’t stop at just the measles and it’s delusional, at best, to think that he would. Trump admits that he is in control of Operation Warp Speed with the plans to have 300 million vaccines available as soon as humanly possible.
There are 325 million people in the United States. That doesn’t leave many unvaccinated. Go to 1:30 in the video to hear Trump say, himself, that’s he’s in control of this operation:
Trump, himself, said:
“I hope we’re gonna come up with a good weap-vaccine, ah, Johnson and Johnson and Oxford and lots of different great companies, representative of our country in sometimes-in some ways, the NIH is working very hard and doing a terrific job. Uh, no, I hope we’re gonna have a vaccine, in and we’re going to fast-track it like you’ve never seen before. If we come up with a vaccine, I think they probably will.”
Next, a reporter asks Trump “who is in charge of this operation?” Trump says:
“Uh we have, you know who’s in charge of it? Honestly, I am. I’ll tell ya, I’m really in charge of it. I could say somebody else I will say we’re dealing with the general and the admiral. They’re very much in charge, but, I think, probably more than anything, I’m in charge. And I’m the one that gets blamed and I get blamed anyway. Don’tforget, if we come up with a vaccine in record time, they’ll say they should have done it faster. But we have a lot of good possibilities.”
Germany even confirmed that Donald Trump attempted to buy the firm working on a coronavirus vaccine in Germany. The president is not “draining the swamp,” He’s going all-in on a vaccine that will be horrifyingly fast-tracked.
And while Trump didn’t say the vaccine would be mandatory, it’s hard to imagine this going any other way when he’s wanting 300 million doses and is working with the “general and the admiral” on this operation.
Operation Warp Speed intends to fast track Bill Gates’ vaccine and Trump admits he’s in control of that operation. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to him say it yourself. I only want your eyes fully open to what’s going on, and what they intend to do to all of us. If you want to berate the messenger for bringing you this information, do so. But it’s information you all should be aware of.
Does anyone honestly believe that this vaccine won’t be mandatory? That obviously the goal of the scamdemic.
Article posted with permission from Mac Slavo


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--52 Years Ago, A Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 In The US – Nothing Was Shut Down, Not Even Woodstock

52 Years Ago , A Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 In The US – Nothing Was Shut Down , Not Even Woodstock Mainstream media across the planet continue to refer to the COVID-19 outbreak as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918 .
We are told that the economy shut down during the Spanish flu and people were ordered into quarantine , but it couldn ’ t stop the death toll from reaching 650,000 Americans .
Now , the government has made harsh and sweeping regulations , shut down entire sections of the US economy , largely based on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Metrics and Evaluation ( IHME ) , which says roughly 72,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 .
No one here is claiming that this virus is not serious and should not be taken seriously .
However , it is our duty as a free people to question the nature of the government ’ s reaction , especially when the economic ramifications could be far deadlier than the virus itself — with experts predicting a famine of biblical proportion that could kill millions .
When the virus passes and the suffering continues to persist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asking the question , “ was all of this worth it ?
” Rest assured that governments across the world will be patting themselves on the back for their draconian reactions , police state , and mass surveillance programs that nearly all of them rolled out during this pandemic .
But we may really never know if the lockdown helped to stop the spread or merely suppressed it .
As mentioned above , the mainstream media has referred to COVID-19 repeatedly as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu .
However , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rate stays in decline , this will not be the case .
As of Monday , there are 248,000 confirmed deaths worldwide , with 67,710 of those deaths in the United States .
According to the current rate of new cases and hospitalizations as documented by IHME , experts are predicting a death toll of 72,000 .
“ In 1968 , ” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest , “ the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ago , however , another flu , ( H3N2 ) , known as the Hong Kong flu , killed roughly 100,000 Americans and over 1,000,000 people worldwide .
What makes this flu particularly notable is the fact that most media outlets are not reporting on it and the fact that absolutely nothing was shut down .
In fact , Woodstock — that was attended by an estimated 500,000 people — took place smack dab in the middle of the H3N2 flu pandemic .
As the American Institute for Economic Research points out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
All businesses did too .
You could go to the movies .
You could go to bars and restaurants .
John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert .
In fact , people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later .
There was no thought given to the virus which , like ours today , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Stock markets didn ’ t crash .
Congress passed no legislation .
The Federal Reserve did nothing .
Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing , curve flattening ( even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized ) , or banning of crowds .
No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes .
No surfers were arrested .
No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now .
There were no suicides , no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue .
This was not because the government was some bastion of liberty in the ’ 60s .
These were the days of the draft , a senseless Vietnam war , rampant civil rights violations , and even college students were gunned down by National Guard troops for protesting the spread of war .
The means to enforce such draconian measures were in place and ready to roll , yet nothing was implemented .
The only action taken by the government at the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ community , not the state , was credited with successfully mitigating the disease — as they were the ones qualified to do so — not blowhard politicians .
As AIER notes , this raises the question , why was this different ?
This is a question we will be trying to figure out for decades to come .
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets ?
Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables ?
Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world ’ s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people ?
Maybe all of these were factors .
Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work , as the conspiracy theorists would have it .
Regardless , they all have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries across the world continue to look to Sweden ’ s approach — not shutting down the economy — to quash the spread of the virus , some governments are beginning to follow their lead .
In America , however , the 30 million unemployed citizens currently out of work due to the shutdown present a massive hurdle to regaining anything close to normal .

Mainstream media across the planet continue to refer to the COVID-19 outbreak as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. We are told that the economy shut down during the Spanish flu and people were ordered into quarantine, but it couldn’t stop the death toll from reaching 650,000 Americans. Now, the government has made harsh and sweeping regulations, shut down entire sections of the US economy, largely based on a model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which says roughly 72,000 Americans will die from COVID-19.
No one here is claiming that this virus is not serious and should not be taken seriously. However, it is our duty as a free people to question the nature of the government’s reaction, especially when the economic ramifications could be far deadlier than the virus itself — with experts predicting a famine of biblical proportion that could kill millions.
When the virus passes and the suffering continues to persist, a lot of people will be asking the question, “was all of this worth it?”
Rest assured that governments across the world will be patting themselves on the back for their draconian reactions, police state, and mass surveillance programs that nearly all of them rolled out during this pandemic. But we may really never know if the lockdown helped to stop the spread or merely suppressed it.
As mentioned above, the mainstream media has referred to COVID-19 repeatedly as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu. However, if the models are correct and the death rate stays in decline, this will not be the case. As of Monday, there are 248,000 confirmed deaths worldwide, with 67,710 of those deaths in the United States. According to the current rate of new cases and hospitalizations as documented by IHME, experts are predicting a death toll of 72,000.
“In 1968,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
Just 52, years, ago, however, another flu, (H3N2), known as the Hong Kong flu, killed roughly 100,000 Americans and over 1,000,000 people worldwide. What makes this flu particularly notable is the fact that most media outlets are not reporting on it and the fact that absolutely nothing was shut down. In fact, Woodstock — that was attended by an estimated 500,000 people — took place smack dab in the middle of the H3N2 flu pandemic.
As the American Institute for Economic Research points out:
Nothing closed. Schools stayed open. All businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants. John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert. In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later. There was no thought given to the virus which, like ours today, was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic. Stock markets didn’t crash. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening (even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized), or banning of crowds. No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes. No surfers were arrested. No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now. There were no suicides, no unemployment, no drug overdoses. Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue.
Imagine that.
This was not because the government was some bastion of liberty in the ’60s. These were the days of the draft, a senseless Vietnam war, rampant civil rights violations, and even college students were gunned down by National Guard troops for protesting the spread of war. The means to enforce such draconian measures were in place and ready to roll, yet nothing was implemented.
The only action taken by the government at the time was to collect data. The medical community, not the state, was credited with successfully mitigating the disease — as they were the ones qualified to do so — not blowhard politicians.
As AIER notes, this raises the question, why was this different? This is a question we will be trying to figure out for decades to come.
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets? Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life? Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables? Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world’s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people? Maybe all of these were factors. Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work, as the conspiracy theorists would have it. Regardless, they all have some explaining to do.
As more countries across the world continue to look to Sweden’s approach — not shutting down the economy — to quash the spread of the virus, some governments are beginning to follow their lead. In America, however, the 30 million unemployed citizens currently out of work due to the shutdown present a massive hurdle to regaining anything close to normal.
Article posted with permission from Matt Agorist


thewashingtonstandard--2020-05-04--The Federal Reserve: More Lethal than Coronavirus

Last week the Federal Reserve announced it will keep interest rates at or near zero until the economy recovers from the government-imposed shutdown .
Following this announcement , Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged Congress and the Trump administration to put aside any concerns about the deficit and spend whatever it takes to stimulate the economy and combat coronavirus .
The Federal Reserve previously announced it would make unlimited purchases of Treasury securities , thus encouraging Congress and the president to increase spending and debt .
With some members of Congress talking about another multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bill , and with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infrastructure plan as a way to get Americans back to work , it is obvious , and not surprising , that Congress and President Trump gleefully agree with Powell ’ s advice .
Increasing the purchase of federal debt is not the only action the Fed has taken in a desperate attempt to keep the economy afloat .
Since the coronavirus lockdowns began in early March , the Fed has greatly expanded its balance sheet .
The Federal Reserve has also launched an unprecedented program to “ loan ” money directly to businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end the lockdowns , it may be months or even another year before all the lockdowns are finally ended .
It is unlikely that the economy will completely recover after the shutdown ends .
The economy was teetering on the brink of a recession months before anyone heard of coronavirus .
Last September , a panicked Fed began emergency infusions of cash into the repurchasing market , which is where banks make short-term loans to each other .
The Fed ’ s balance sheet expansion also began in September .
The Fed was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus panic , and it will likely keep rates at or even below zero long after the crisis related to the shutdown subsides .
Economic stagnation combined with zero or negative interest rates remove incentive for people to save .
This depletes the supply of private capital available to invest in businesses and jobs .
The lack of private capital will put pressure on the Federal Reserve to maintain , and even expand , its new lending programs indefinitely .
Each of the Federal Reserve ’ s responses to the coronavirus shutdown increases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Federal Reserve ’ s meddling with the money supply and interest rates .
These increased distortions guarantee the inevitable crash will be much more severe than the current downturn .
The one upside is that the next meltdown will likely lead to the end of the fiat money system and thus the end of the welfare-warfare state .
The only way to minimize the coming crisis is to begin immediately unwinding the current system .
The first step is to end the lockdown and let businesses reopen and people go back to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monetary policy by passing the Audit the Fed bill .
Congress should also cut spending , starting with ending our hyper-interventionist foreign policy and bringing the troops home .
Ending the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system may cause some short-term pain , but that pain will be dwarfed by the long-term gains in liberty , peace , and prosperity .
Dr. Ron Paul is an American physician , author , and former politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas 's 14th congressional district , which includes Galveston , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 22nd congressional district for special term between 1976 and 1977 , when he lost reelection in 1978 , and for 3 later terms , from 1979 to 1985 .
On three occasions , he sought the presidency of the United States : as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries in 2008 and 2012 .
Paul is best known for his libertarian views and is a critic of American foreign , domestic , and monetary policies , including the military–industrial complex , the War on Drugs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been married to Carol Wells since 1957 .
They have five children , 18 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren .
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Last week the Federal Reserve announced it will keep interest rates at or near zero until the economy recovers from the government-imposed shutdown. Following this announcement, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged Congress and the Trump administration to put aside any concerns about the deficit and spend whatever it takes to stimulate the economy and combat coronavirus.
The Federal Reserve previously announced it would make unlimited purchases of Treasury securities, thus encouraging Congress and the president to increase spending and debt.
With some members of Congress talking about another multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bill, and with President Trump proposing a two trillion dollars infrastructure plan as a way to get Americans back to work, it is obvious, and not surprising, that Congress and President Trump gleefully agree with Powell’s advice.
Increasing the purchase of federal debt is not the only action the Fed has taken in a desperate attempt to keep the economy afloat.
Since the coronavirus lockdowns began in early March, the Fed has greatly expanded its balance sheet.
The Federal Reserve has also launched an unprecedented program to “loan” money directly to businesses.
While some states are beginning to end the lockdowns, it may be months or even another year before all the lockdowns are finally ended. It is unlikely that the economy will completely recover after the shutdown ends.
The economy was teetering on the brink of a recession months before anyone heard of coronavirus. Last September, a panicked Fed began emergency infusions of cash into the repurchasing market, which is where banks make short-term loans to each other.
The Fed’s balance sheet expansion also began in September.
The Fed was also pushing interest rates down before the coronavirus panic, and it will likely keep rates at or even below zero long after the crisis related to the shutdown subsides.
Economic stagnation combined with zero or negative interest rates remove incentive for people to save.
This depletes the supply of private capital available to invest in businesses and jobs.
The lack of private capital will put pressure on the Federal Reserve to maintain, and even expand, its new lending programs indefinitely.
Each of the Federal Reserve’s responses to the coronavirus shutdown increases the distortions of the market caused by the Federal Reserve’s meddling with the money supply and interest rates.
These increased distortions guarantee the inevitable crash will be much more severe than the current downturn.
The one upside is that the next meltdown will likely lead to the end of the fiat money system and thus the end of the welfare-warfare state.
The only way to minimize the coming crisis is to begin immediately unwinding the current system.
The first step is to end the lockdown and let businesses reopen and people go back to work.
Congress must then begin challenging monetary policy by passing the Audit the Fed bill.
Congress should also cut spending, starting with ending our hyper-interventionist foreign policy and bringing the troops home.
Ending the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system may cause some short-term pain, but that pain will be dwarfed by the long-term gains in liberty, peace, and prosperity.
Article posted with permission from Ron Paul