investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Berkeley professor letter to peers on BLM and George Floyd.

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California , Berkeley .
I have met you both personally but do not know you closely , and am contacting you anonymously , with apologies .
I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job , and likely all future jobs in my field .
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity , but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system .
The explanation provided in your documentation , to the near exclusion of all others , is univariate : the problems of the black community are caused by whites , or , when whites are not physically present , by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains , souls , and institutions .
Many cogent objections to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voices , including from within the black community itself , such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly .
These people are not racists or ‘ Uncle Toms ’ .
They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders .
Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques .
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism , white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians .
Instead , it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws , or its worrying implication of total black impotence .
This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture , without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed , narrow discourse .
A counter-narrative exists .
If you have time , please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email .
Overwhelmingly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is either primarily anecdotal ( as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates ’ undeniably moving article ) or it is transparently motivated .
As an example of the latter problem , consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans .
This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black .
However , if we use the precise same methodology , we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black .
Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed , and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties .
Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict .
This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries .
And yet , I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department ’ s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘ white man ’ s burden ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guilt .
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist , why is it that Asian Americans , Indian Americans , and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans ?
This is a funny sort of white supremacy .
Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites .
I think it ’ s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews .
And yet , these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews .
None of this is addressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is explained , beyond hand-waving and ad hominems .
“ Those are racist dogwhistles ” .
“ The model minority myth is white supremacist ” .
“ Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime ” , ad nauseam .
These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments : they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications , intended to silence and oppress discourse .
Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are , common to suppressive regimes , doctrines , and religions throughout time and space .
They are intended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the culture of robust criticism from our department .
Increasingly , we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM ’ s problematic view of history , and the department is being presented as unified on the matter .
In particular , ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position .
Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position , which is no small number .
I personally don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BLM narrative , and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration , tenured professoriat , the UC administration , corporate America , and the media , the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability .
I am certain that if my name were attached to this email , I would lose my job and all future jobs , even though I believe in and can justify every word I type .
The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virtually no marches for these invisible victims , no public silences , no heartfelt letters from the UC regents , deans , and departmental heads .
The message is clear : Black lives only matter when whites take them .
Black violence is expected and insoluble , while white violence requires explanation and demands solution .
Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is .
No discussion is permitted for non-black victims of black violence , who proportionally outnumber black victims of non-black violence .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions , to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors , as this attracts the attention of ( overwhelmingly black ) home invaders .
Home invaders like George Floyd .
For this actual , lived , physically experienced reality of violence in the USA , there are no marches , no tearful emails from departmental heads , no support from McDonald ’ s and Wal-Mart .
For the History department , our silence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ duty to shed light on the truth : it is a rejection of it .
The claim that black interracial violence is the product of redlining , slavery , and other injustices is a largely historical claim .
It is for historians , therefore , to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn ’ t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively .
Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11 , as have Chinese Americans more recently .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans , who incidentally have black skin .
It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies .
However , no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department .
The explanation is provided to us , disagreement with it is racist , and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct .
This is a mockery of the historical profession .
Most troublingly , our department appears to have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic National Convention , and the Democratic Party more broadly .
To explain what I mean , consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter , an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers .
All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities , an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates .
Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden ’ s 2020 campaign .
This is grotesque given the fact that the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run .
Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades ; the ‘ systemic racism ’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations .
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community , exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race , all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery , resentment , poverty , and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives .
And yet , donating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of men like Mayor Frey , who saw their cities devolve into violence .
This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform , and of our department , by a political party .
Even worse , there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles .
I refuse to serve the Party , and so should you .
The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us , and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed , purposefully @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes , carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual , real , modern-day slavers .
Starbucks , an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers , is in favor of BLM .
Sony , an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves , many of whom are children , is in favor of BLM .
And so , apparently , are we .
The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity .
Fiat lux , indeed .
There also exists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be called ‘ race hustlers ’ : hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs , charity management positions , academic jobs and advancement , or personal political entrepreneurship .
Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth , we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople .
Their activities are corrosive , demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unironically segregationist .
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today .
We are training leaders who intend , explicitly , to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history .
As the PRC , an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US , I ask you : Is this wise ?
Are we really doing the right thing ?
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd .
Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint .
He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach .
He terrorized the women in his community .
He sired and abandoned multiple children , playing no part in their support or upbringing , failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being .
He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer , a swindler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neighbors .
And yet , the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal , elevating his name to virtual sainthood .
A man who hurt women .
A man who hurt black women .
With the full collaboration of the UCB history department , corporate America , most mainstream media outlets , and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA , he has become a culture hero , buried in a golden casket , his ( recognized ) family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent , abusive misogynist .
A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd , the absolute worst specimen of our race and species .
I ’ m ashamed of my department .
I would say that I ’ m ashamed of both of you , but perhaps you agree with me , and are simply afraid , as I am , of the backlash of speaking the truth .
It ’ s hard to know what kneeling means , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job .
It shouldn ’ t affect the strength of my argument above , but for the record , I write as a person of color .
My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd .
We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race .
The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM , that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life , is richly familiar to us .
I sometimes wonder if it wouldn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman , and who are unlikely to share my race .
The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating .
No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies .
A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
No message will more surely devastate their futures , especially if whites run out of guilt , or indeed if America runs out of whites .
If this had been done to Japanese Americans , or Jewish Americans , or Chinese Americans , then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today .
The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race .
I hope you appreciate the frustration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support BLM .
I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party ’ s uncontested capture of our department .
I do not support the Party co-opting my race , as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview , claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic .
I condemn the manner of George Floyd ’ s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform .
However , I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist , a brutal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I also want to protect the practice of history .
Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations .
Like us , she is free .

via Reddit:
Dear profs X, Y, Z,
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them. In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques. The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
A counter-narrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email. Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black. Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department’s apparent desire to shoulder the ‘white man’s burden’ and to promote a narrative of white guilt.
If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews.
None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.
We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us!
Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number. I personally don’t dare speak out against the BLM narrative, and with this barrage of alleged unity being mass-produced by the administration, tenured professoriat, the UC administration, corporate America, and the media, the punishment for dissent is a clear danger at a time of widespread economic vulnerability. I am certain that if my name were attached to this email, I would lose my job and all future jobs, even though I believe in and can justify every word I type. The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution.
Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is. No discussion is permitted for non-black victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of non-black violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd.
For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald’s and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it. The claim that black interracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn’t led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices – as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.
Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the ‘systemic racism’ there was built by successive Democrat administrations.
The patronizing and condescending attitudes of Democrat leaders towards the black community, exemplified by nearly every Biden statement on the black race, all but guarantee a perpetual state of misery, resentment, poverty, and the attendant grievance politics which are simultaneously annihilating American political discourse and black lives. And yet, donating to BLM is bankrolling the election campaigns of men like Mayor Frey, who saw their cities devolve into violence. This is a grotesque capture of a good-faith movement for necessary police reform, and of our department, by a political party. Even worse, there are virtually no avenues for dissent in academic circles. I refuse to serve the Party, and so should you. The total alliance of major corporations involved in human exploitation with BLM should be a warning flag to us, and yet this damning evidence goes unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or perversely celebrated. We are the useful idiots of the wealthiest classes, carrying water for Jeff Bezos and other actual, real, modern-day slavers. Starbucks, an organisation using literal black slaves in its coffee plantation suppliers, is in favor of BLM. Sony, an organisation using cobalt mined by yet more literal black slaves, many of whom are children, is in favor of BLM. And so, apparently, are we. The absence of counter-narrative enables this obscenity. Fiat lux, indeed. There also exists a large constituency of what can only be called ‘race hustlers’: hucksters of all colors who benefit from stoking the fires of racial conflict to secure administrative jobs, charity management positions, academic jobs and advancement, or personal political entrepreneurship. Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist.
MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing? As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors. And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job. It shouldn’t affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race. The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites. No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.
I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party’s uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic.
I condemn the manner of George Floyd’s death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end. I also want to protect the practice of history. Cleo is no grovelling handmaiden to politicians and corporations. Like us, she is free.


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Ukraine blowing up, now you know why Biden needs BLM diversions…

Top anti-graft officials in Ukraine were offered a $ 6-million bribe to close a case against the owner of a @ @ @ @ @ center of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Trump t.co/nW06hSSC6f

Top anti-graft officials in Ukraine were offered a $6-million bribe to close a case against the owner of a company that was at the center of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Trump t.co/nW06hSSC6f
— Bloomberg (@business) June 13, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--George Carlin: “Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have freedom of choice. You

George Carlin: “Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything…The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged…Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.”

The legend speaks .
The prophet .
When he speaks , truth comes out .
George Carlin was ahead of @ @ @

The legend speaks. The prophet. When he speaks, truth comes out. George Carlin was ahead of his time.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--New York’s response to the coronavirus made the pandemic worse

( Natural News ) Shortly after the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) hit the U.S. , New York City soon became the epicenter of the outbreak in the country .
Now , a new report by the Wall Street Journal says that city and state leaders ’ response to the pandemic put residents at greater risk , leading to many unnecessary deaths .
During the first few days of March , leaders such as Gov .
Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio assured New Yorkers that the situation was under control .
De Blasio even tweeted that New Yorkers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” despite the coronavirus .
It was only after the outbreak had spread to the city ’ s low-income neighborhoods in early March did both Cuomo and de Blasio begin to mobilize both public and private hospitals to prepare more beds and intensive-care units .
However , the hasty nature of the expansion that ensued ended up producing more mistakes , helping to worsen the crisis , according to healthcare workers .
Mistakes were made during the early days of the outbreak Talking to the Wall Street Journal , nearly 90 front-line doctors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administrators and government officials identified a number of missteps done by state and city officials as they tried to catch up with the disease .
Patient transfers were one issue that caused problems during the outbreak .
A number of patients who were too sick to be moved were transferred anyway .
Patients often ended up arriving at hospitals in worse condition than they were before they were moved .
In addition , a number of elderly patients were transferred back to nursing homes , which may have resulted in outbreaks in these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other states to soften similar orders for nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients .
( Related : New York nursing homes now a “ slaughterhouse ” for elderly coronavirus patients . )
At the same time , isolation protocols in these hospitals were lacking in the first place .
They often mixed patients infected with the coronavirus with those who were not .
This allowed the virus to spread to non-COVID-19 wards .
Part of this was due to inadequate staff planning .
While the hospitals added hundreds of intensive-care beds , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This lead to patients receiving improper treatments , while others ended up being overlooked and dying alone .
In addition to the lack of staff , many hospitals also lacked equipment .
The state and city governments , however , relied too much on the federal government to fill these equipment gaps .
This was made worse by the fact that leaders focused too much on procuring ventilators .
As such , hospitals did not always have adequate supplies of other critical resources such as oxygen , vital-signs monitors and dialysis machines .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ government had focused on procuring for the hospitals turned out to be damaged or defective .
Many of the hospitals did not provide their staff with enough protective equipment , not did they allow for adequate testing .
The shortage was enough that a number of front-line workers protested the lack of protection in April .
All this was made worse by squabbling between the governor and mayor .
This resulted in mixed messages , especially when it came to important issues , such guidelines as to when exposed and ill front-line workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system was taken “ to the breaking point ” In response to the criticism , state and city officials have claimed that they did increase hospital capacity and enforce social distancing once the scale of the outbreak became clear .
“ Ultimately our hospitals withstood the pressure and our doctors and nurses delivered heroically , ” said Freddi Goldstein , a member of Cuomo ’ s coronavirus task force .
Greater New York Hospital Association president Kenneth Raske also defended the state ’ s response .
Raske said that what they were able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wartime conditions ” that they faced .
“ We have a large , very sophisticated hospital system .
It took us to the breaking point , ” he said .
While the pandemic exposed how unprepared the state and city governments were , it also highlighted how underfunded the New York City hospital system has been .
For years , Hew York hospitals had been ignoring alarms raised by healthcare workers on insufficient staffing levels .
Meanwhile , many private hospitals in the outer boroughs , particularly in Queens , had closed due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in part due to a forced overhaul that began in 2016 .
Back then , state and federal budget cuts , plus the increased cost of treating uninsured New Yorkers , forced the hospital system to tighten its belt and reduce staffing .
As a result of this , the hospital system remained in the red for years .
At one point , health system officials warned that the system only had enough cash on hand to operate for two weeks .
It was only in mid-2019 that the hospital system finally closed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of $ 36 million .
Despite this , the system still had a $ 1.8 billion structural gap and still required a subsidy from the city .
While part of that gap was closed last year , it seems it wasn ’ t enough to prepare it for the outbreak that was to come .

by: Franz Walker
(Natural News) Shortly after the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) hit the U.S., New York City soon became the epicenter of the outbreak in the country. Now, a new report by the Wall Street Journal says that city and state leaders’ response to the pandemic put residents at greater risk, leading to many unnecessary deaths.
During the first few days of March, leaders such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio assured New Yorkers that the situation was under control. De Blasio even tweeted that New Yorkers should “go on with your lives” despite the coronavirus.
Since I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions. Here’s the first: thru Thurs 3/5 go see “The Traitor” @FilmLinc. If “The Wire” was a true story + set in Italy, it would be this film. — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) March 3, 2020
It was only after the outbreak had spread to the city’s low-income neighborhoods in early March did both Cuomo and de Blasio begin to mobilize both public and private hospitals to prepare more beds and intensive-care units. However, the hasty nature of the expansion that ensued ended up producing more mistakes, helping to worsen the crisis, according to healthcare workers.
Mistakes were made during the early days of the outbreak
Talking to the Wall Street Journal, nearly 90 front-line doctors, nurses, health-care workers, hospital administrators and government officials identified a number of missteps done by state and city officials as they tried to catch up with the disease.
Patient transfers were one issue that caused problems during the outbreak. A number of patients who were too sick to be moved were transferred anyway. Patients often ended up arriving at hospitals in worse condition than they were before they were moved.
In addition, a number of elderly patients were transferred back to nursing homes, which may have resulted in outbreaks in these facilities. The backlash from this led other states to soften similar orders for nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. (Related: New York nursing homes now a “slaughterhouse” for elderly coronavirus patients.)
At the same time, isolation protocols in these hospitals were lacking in the first place. They often mixed patients infected with the coronavirus with those who were not. This allowed the virus to spread to non-COVID-19 wards.
Part of this was due to inadequate staff planning. While the hospitals added hundreds of intensive-care beds, they did not add enough trained staff. This lead to patients receiving improper treatments, while others ended up being overlooked and dying alone.
In addition to the lack of staff, many hospitals also lacked equipment. The state and city governments, however, relied too much on the federal government to fill these equipment gaps. This was made worse by the fact that leaders focused too much on procuring ventilators. As such, hospitals did not always have adequate supplies of other critical resources such as oxygen, vital-signs monitors and dialysis machines.
Meanwhile, hundreds of ventilators that the government had focused on procuring for the hospitals turned out to be damaged or defective.
Many of the hospitals did not provide their staff with enough protective equipment, not did they allow for adequate testing. The shortage was enough that a number of front-line workers protested the lack of protection in April.
All this was made worse by squabbling between the governor and mayor. This resulted in mixed messages, especially when it came to important issues, such guidelines as to when exposed and ill front-line workers should return to work.
NY hospital system was taken “to the breaking point”
In response to the criticism, state and city officials have claimed that they did increase hospital capacity and enforce social distancing once the scale of the outbreak became clear. “Ultimately our hospitals withstood the pressure and our doctors and nurses delivered heroically,” said Freddi Goldstein, a member of Cuomo’s coronavirus task force.
Greater New York Hospital Association president Kenneth Raske also defended the state’s response. Raske said that what they were able to do was remarkable considering the “wartime conditions” that they faced.
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“We have a large, very sophisticated hospital system. It took us to the breaking point,” he said.
NYC hospital system is underfunded
While the pandemic exposed how unprepared the state and city governments were, it also highlighted how underfunded the New York City hospital system has been. For years, Hew York hospitals had been ignoring alarms raised by healthcare workers on insufficient staffing levels.
Meanwhile, many private hospitals in the outer boroughs, particularly in Queens, had closed due to lack of funding.
This was in part due to a forced overhaul that began in 2016. Back then, state and federal budget cuts, plus the increased cost of treating uninsured New Yorkers, forced the hospital system to tighten its belt and reduce staffing.
As a result of this, the hospital system remained in the red for years. At one point, health system officials warned that the system only had enough cash on hand to operate for two weeks.
It was only in mid-2019 that the hospital system finally closed its fiscal year with a budget surplus of $36 million.
Despite this, the system still had a $1.8 billion structural gap and still required a subsidy from the city. While part of that gap was closed last year, it seems it wasn’t enough to prepare it for the outbreak that was to come.
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NYDailyNews.com
WSJ.com 2


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Strategist who predicted the U.S. would ‘see a revolt of some kind by the 2020 election’ says U.S. i

Strategist who predicted the U.S. would ‘see a revolt of some kind by the 2020 election’ says U.S. in ‘danger zone’ and stocks will suffer

“ America has lurched from one crisis to the next in 2020 , knocking many people , even professional forecasters , off their feet .
But not Matt Gertken , geopolitical strategist for BCA Research .
“ Unrest was an easy prediction even before the pandemic and recession , which made matters worse , ” wrote Gertken in a note out Friday.
” “ In his most recent analysis , he skips the victory lap and instead focuses on what it means for markets .
Broadly , volatility is likely to worsen , and equities SPX , +1.30 % DJIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ More specifically , Gertken notes , the U.S. dollar DXY , +0.36 % is likely face choppy waters over the near term , but some of the headwinds may abate over the long term .
“ The market is reacting to stimulus now , ” Gertken writes , “ but policies look to turn a lot tougher on business , ” no matter who wins the White House in November.
” “ “ Either the market sells off in the short run to register the currently likely victory of Joe Biden , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regulation , or the market rallies all the way till the election , increasing the chances of President Trump ’ s reelection , which would revolutionize the global system , especially on trade , and would require a selloff around December .
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by moon89286
“America has lurched from one crisis to the next in 2020, knocking many people, even professional forecasters, off their feet. But not Matt Gertken, geopolitical strategist for BCA Research.
“Unrest was an easy prediction even before the pandemic and recession, which made matters worse,” wrote Gertken in a note out Friday.”
www.marketwatch.com/story/strategist-who-predicted-the-us-would-see-a-revolt-of-some-kind-by-the-2020-election-says-us-in-danger-zone-and-stocks-will-suffer-2020-06-08?mod=home-page
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“In his most recent analysis, he skips the victory lap and instead focuses on what it means for markets. Broadly, volatility is likely to worsen, and equities SPX, +1.30% DJIA, +1.90% to be vulnerable. More specifically, Gertken notes, the U.S. dollar DXY, +0.36% is likely face choppy waters over the near term, but some of the headwinds may abate over the long term.
“The market is reacting to stimulus now,” Gertken writes, “but policies look to turn a lot tougher on business,” no matter who wins the White House in November.”
““Either the market sells off in the short run to register the currently likely victory of Joe Biden, who will hike taxes, wages, and regulation, or the market rallies all the way till the election, increasing the chances of President Trump’s reelection, which would revolutionize the global system, especially on trade, and would require a selloff around December.””


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Counterterrorism Expert Says ‘The Goal Of Antifa Is To Overthrow The Government’

Shideler expressed concerns for the amount of support Antifa receives from local and state officials .
“ What is distressing @ @ @ @ @ that Antifa does get from local and state officials from some of these more radical @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We ’ ve seen these in Portland , we ’ re seeing it @ @ @ @ @ and some of the city council members who are essentially supporting this insurrection .
”

Shideler expressed concerns for the amount of support Antifa receives from local and state officials.
“What is distressing is the level of support that Antifa does get from local and state officials from some of these more radical areas,” Shideler said. “We’ve seen these in Portland, we’re seeing it in Seattle with the mayor and some of the city council members who are essentially supporting this insurrection.”
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dailycaller.com/2020/06/13/counterterrorism-expert-antifa-overthrow-the-government/
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investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Woman behind Seattle’s CHAZ Kshama Sawant, who is refusing to let cops into the six-block zone lives

Woman behind Seattle’s CHAZ Kshama Sawant, who is refusing to let cops into the six-block zone lives in an $800,000 home

• Kshama Sawant , 46 , has been described as a leader in the creation of Seattle ’ s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone • The city councilwoman has urged fellow activists not to allow cops back into the six-block zone set up in the center of the city • Indian-born Sawant worked as a software engineer before migrating to the US , where she was ‘ radicalized by the inequality and poverty ’ that she saw • Sawant became the first socialist to be elected to Seattle ’ s City Council in 2013 ; she recently endorsed Bernie Sanders for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under fire for railing against gentrification while being married to a Microsoft engineer ; she is also reported to live in a $ 800K home • One Seattle Times columnist has compared her to the Queen in Alice In Wonderland , because of her ‘ off with their heads ’ political style A software engineer turned firebrand socialist has been named as the leader of a movement which has pushed police out of six-block area of central Seattle , known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ( CHAZ ) .
Indian-born Kshama Sawant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Seattle City Council , is encouraging activists in the CHAZ ‘ to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region ’ , according to Fox News .
The CHAZ was established on June 8 , after protesters took over Capitol Hill ’ s East Precinct building , sending members of the Seattle Police Department fleeing .
Sawant tweeted Friday : ‘ Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police , but is turned over permanently into community control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convert East Precinct into a community center for restorative justice.
’ She further stated : ‘ The movement has been undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan ’ s police .
Congratulations , solidarity !
’

Kshama Sawant, 46, has been described as a leader in the creation of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
The city councilwoman has urged fellow activists not to allow cops back into the six-block zone set up in the center of the city
Indian-born Sawant worked as a software engineer before migrating to the US, where she was ‘radicalized by the inequality and poverty’ that she saw
Sawant became the first socialist to be elected to Seattle’s City Council in 2013; she recently endorsed Bernie Sanders for President
However, she has come under fire for railing against gentrification while being married to a Microsoft engineer; she is also reported to live in a $800K home
One Seattle Times columnist has compared her to the Queen in Alice In Wonderland, because of her ‘off with their heads’ political style
A software engineer turned firebrand socialist has been named as the leader of a movement which has pushed police out of six-block area of central Seattle, known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ ‘to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region’, according to Fox News.
The CHAZ was established on June 8, after protesters took over Capitol Hill’s East Precinct building, sending members of the Seattle Police Department fleeing.
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Sawant tweeted Friday: ‘Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police, but is turned over permanently into community control. My office is bringing legislation to convert East Precinct into a community center for restorative justice.’
She further stated: ‘The movement has been undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan’s police. Congratulations, solidarity!’
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8417543/Kshama-Sawant-46-helped-create-Seattles-CHAZ-refuses-let-cops-six-block-zone.html


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Video: CNN Crew Attacked By Rioters Outside Wendy’s In Atlanta – They Used A Skateboard To Beat The

Video: CNN Crew Attacked By Rioters Outside Wendy’s In Atlanta – They Used A Skateboard To Beat The Camera Crew

I love how CNN proudly reports the police brutality but hides to blame the rioters when they get harassed by @ @

I love how CNN proudly reports the police brutality but hides to blame the rioters when they get harassed by them.
www.rightjournalism.com/video-cnn-crew-attacked-by-rioters-outside-wendys-in-atlanta-they-used-a-skateboard-to-beat-the-camera-crew/
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h/t Proud American 88


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--A letter form an armed neighbor posted in Las Vegas Emergency. Antifa coming to the burbs.

Ok I was not going to post this as I ’ m sick of the lies on social media but all of you need to hear what happened here last night .
At about 4pm we started getting notices that our outside shopping distract Downtown Summerlin was suddenly closed and evacuated .
About an hour later we saw online postings shared through the community that said the hell with downtown Las Vegas let ’ s go to downtown Summerlin and loot and let ’ s go to the local neighborhoods and destroy them .
About 400 heavily armed police showed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and started covering the surrounding streets where we live .
We saw postings online that specifically called out our neighborhoods for attack .
Residents were terrified we all have seen what ’ s happening on TV etc .
as a neighborhood we took action .
We organized and set up a watch on the Main Street from downtown into our three neighborhoods .
Yes we were armed and heavily armed but we kept the weapons in our cars .
A police officer came by and asked if we were locals .
We said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protecting the neighborhood we said yes .
She asked if we were armed we said yes heavily and she asked open carry and we said yes .
She then proceeded to tell what to do .
She said we were targets of the antifa they were going to try and enter the neighborhood and burn as many cars as possible and damage and loot as many homes as they could .
She asked us to tell everyone get cars off the streets and take in anything that could be used as a weapon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planters etc .
She told they had found huge piles of bricks all around downtown and our neighborhood as well as they arrested someone setting up a food and water camp in the desert nearby .
She said the road was heavily covered by the sheriffs department but if we saw a mob coming to us that meant something bad happened and do not let them into the neighborhood .
She was serious .
She also said they may try to flank us and come around the back way so keep our eyes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we noticed the typical antifa punks in their black outfits and helmets .
One kept driving by in a car another was on a skateboard and another on a bike .
We had another walking they were waking through the neighborhoods and we had lookouts in all three .
704 homes banded together to protect our families and property .
We finally decided after bike boy and walking guy made five passes to show them what we got .
At that point we took out our weapons and held them down or strapped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their attention that ’ s for sure .
Within a few minutes they disappeared .
At this point I got notice that one of these peaceful protesters was filling up 8 pallets of glass bottles at the chevron station with gas up the street .
People realized he was making a lot of Molotov cocktails and confronted him and he took off .
Soon after our show of force the protesters went to a Main Street and got picked up and left except a few who went to nearby neighborhood and attempted some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So when I see idiots on social media saying that these are peaceful protestors and it ’ s the President staging this stuff etc I say how dare you .
Your ignorant stupid blind hatred is disgusting .
Never in my life did I think I would have to take up arms to defend my home and my family .
These were not right wing militias or any of them other crap you always blame these were hard core anti America socialists intent on causing as much damage as possible .
This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there and I am angry and getting angrier by the day .
This has nothing to do with the BLM movement .
The majority of what we saw was 20 something white spoiled punks with CA plates on their cars .
How dare you socialist antifa piece of ****s attempt to come into my neighborhood and threaten extreme violence .
I can tell you if they had gotten in and started destroying things not one would have made it out .
We had about 20 other homeowners who wanted to be with us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if we need you we will call .
We did not go looking for antifa we did it move from the entrance to our neighborhoods .
We stood there ready to protect our families friends and homes .
Every one of these antifa we saw all dressed the same and all had backpacks and we knew they had bricks in those backpacks .
In a split second one of us could have been hit with one of those bricks and it would kill you .
The only reason it did not happen is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I am disgusted by those on social media saying these are peaceful protestors being harassed by the police .
Grow the **** up and stop the BS .
One Molotov cocktail would take out multiple homes in Vegas in the heat this place is a tinder box .
Our neighborhood is on the far west side of town a mile from open desert we have nothing to do with anything going on .
All of the postings online were kill the rich let ’ s burn their homes .
So before another one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t you walk out into the violence for yourself .
My wife was terrified she wanted to take our dogs and leave .
How dare you left wing assholes threaten to destroy and kill us .
I am beyond disgusted with what I am seeing posted .
Go watch your CNN and MSNBC and live in your fairy land world but last night was terrifying .
Thinking that we could really come Under a violent attack and I may have to use a weapon to defend myself and my family .
What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These are not protestors this is not non violent .
Share this with anyone people need to know the truth of who and what these people are .
This is antifa we have their postings we saw it for ourselves they were coming for us and we would have shot every last one of them to protect our families .
We got lucky but it will happen in some city soon people will fight back .
I ’ m pissed it ’ s obvious and it ’ s idiots out there calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and police grow up .

Posted in Las Vegas Emergency:
Ok I was not going to post this as I’m sick of the lies on social media but all of you need to hear what happened here last night.
At about 4pm we started getting notices that our outside shopping distract Downtown Summerlin was suddenly closed and evacuated.
About an hour later we saw online postings shared through the community that said the hell with downtown Las Vegas let’s go to downtown Summerlin and loot and let’s go to the local neighborhoods and destroy them.
About 400 heavily armed police showed up and blocked the Downtown Summerlin district and started covering the surrounding streets where we live.
We saw postings online that specifically called out our neighborhoods for attack.
Residents were terrified we all have seen what’s happening on TV etc. as a neighborhood we took action.
We organized and set up a watch on the Main Street from downtown into our three neighborhoods.
Yes we were armed and heavily armed but we kept the weapons in our cars.
A police officer came by and asked if we were locals. We said yes, she asked if we were protecting the neighborhood we said yes. She asked if we were armed we said yes heavily and she asked open carry and we said yes.
She then proceeded to tell what to do. She said we were targets of the antifa they were going to try and enter the neighborhood and burn as many cars as possible and damage and loot as many homes as they could. She asked us to tell everyone get cars off the streets and take in anything that could be used as a weapon against a home like potted plants in planters etc.
She told they had found huge piles of bricks all around downtown and our neighborhood as well as they arrested someone setting up a food and water camp in the desert nearby.
She said the road was heavily covered by the sheriffs department but if we saw a mob coming to us that meant something bad happened and do not let them into the neighborhood. She was serious. She also said they may try to flank us and come around the back way so keep our eyes open.
As we waited and watched we noticed the typical antifa punks in their black outfits and helmets. One kept driving by in a car another was on a skateboard and another on a bike. We had another walking they were waking through the neighborhoods and we had lookouts in all three. 704 homes banded together to protect our families and property.
We finally decided after bike boy and walking guy made five passes to show them what we got. At that point we took out our weapons and held them down or strapped them to our shoulders.
We got their attention that’s for sure. Within a few minutes they disappeared. At this point I got notice that one of these peaceful protesters was filling up 8 pallets of glass bottles at the chevron station with gas up the street. People realized he was making a lot of Molotov cocktails and confronted him and he took off.
Soon after our show of force the protesters went to a Main Street and got picked up and left except a few who went to nearby neighborhood and attempted some home break ins and were caught.
So when I see idiots on social media saying that these are peaceful protestors and it’s the President staging this stuff etc I say how dare you.
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Your ignorant stupid blind hatred is disgusting. Never in my life did I think I would have to take up arms to defend my home and my family.
These were not right wing militias or any of them other crap you always blame these were hard core anti America socialists intent on causing as much damage as possible.
This is not TV or social media I was there and I am angry and getting angrier by the day. This has nothing to do with the BLM movement. The majority of what we saw was 20 something white spoiled punks with CA plates on their cars.
How dare you socialist antifa piece of ****s attempt to come into my neighborhood and threaten extreme violence. I can tell you if they had gotten in and started destroying things not one would have made it out. We had about 20 other homeowners who wanted to be with us but I feared accidental violence and said if we need you we will call.
We did not go looking for antifa we did it move from the entrance to our neighborhoods. We stood there ready to protect our families friends and homes.
Every one of these antifa we saw all dressed the same and all had backpacks and we knew they had bricks in those backpacks. In a split second one of us could have been hit with one of those bricks and it would kill you. The only reason it did not happen is they knew they would be shot.
I am disgusted by those on social media saying these are peaceful protestors being harassed by the police. Grow the **** up and stop the BS. One Molotov cocktail would take out multiple homes in Vegas in the heat this place is a tinder box.
Our neighborhood is on the far west side of town a mile from open desert we have nothing to do with anything going on. All of the postings online were kill the rich let’s burn their homes.
So before another one of you defends these rioters why don’t you walk out into the violence for yourself. My wife was terrified she wanted to take our dogs and leave. How dare you left wing assholes threaten to destroy and kill us.
I am beyond disgusted with what I am seeing posted. Go watch your CNN and MSNBC and live in your fairy land world but last night was terrifying. Thinking that we could really come
Under a violent attack and I may have to use a weapon to defend myself and my family. What the hell is wrong with you people. These are not protestors this is not non violent.
Share this with anyone people need to know the truth of who and what these people are. This is antifa we have their postings we saw it for ourselves they were coming for us and we would have shot every last one of them to protect our families. We got lucky but it will happen in some city soon people will fight back.
I’m pissed it’s obvious and it’s idiots out there calling these people peaceful and blaming the government and police grow up.
DOUGLAS KRAFT
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investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Bill Holter – Federal Reserve’s Desperate Act. Get God’s Money

Is zero reserve requirement at the banks a sign we are getting close to the end of the Ponzi scheme we have been living through ?
Financial writer Bill Holter says , “ I ’ ll answer this with a familiar saying , and that is ‘ desperate people do desperate things , ’ and that ’ s pretty desperate .
How safe is a banking system that has no requirement for reserves ?
” This all circles around to gold and the increasing demand for physical ownership .
Holter says , “ There is huge demand for physical gold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delivery has increased almost every single day since first notice day .
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If you go back two years ago , that never ever happened .
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It looks like the Bank of International Settlements ( BIS ) is supplying the market to tamp down the price .
We don ’ t know when an actual failure to deliver event is going to happen , but the system has gotten so large that once you get a crack in the credit markets or a question of the credit worthiness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capital flow to gold and clean that market right up .
Once that does happen , gold and silver will go into hiding .
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People will not sell their gold or silver for fiat currency .
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People are waking up to the fact that there is a massive problem in the credit markets .
In the past , the safe haven has been the dollar and Treasuries , but if the problem is the dollar and the credit worthiness of Treasuries , what ’ s the next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead to gold .
That is your safe haven .
Gold is the ultimate safe haven .
It ’ s God ’ s money .
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Is zero reserve requirement at the banks a sign we are getting close to the end of the Ponzi scheme we have been living through? Financial writer Bill Holter says, “I’ll answer this with a familiar saying, and that is ‘desperate people do desperate things,’ and that’s pretty desperate. How safe is a banking system that has no requirement for reserves?” This all circles around to gold and the increasing demand for physical ownership. Holter says, “There is huge demand for physical gold. The amount of gold standing for delivery has increased almost every single day since first notice day. . . . If you go back two years ago, that never ever happened. . . . It looks like the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is supplying the market to tamp down the price. We don’t know when an actual failure to deliver event is going to happen, but the system has gotten so large that once you get a crack in the credit markets or a question of the credit worthiness of the U.S., you will see capital flow to gold and clean that market right up. Once that does happen, gold and silver will go into hiding. . . . People will not sell their gold or silver for fiat currency. . . . People are waking up to the fact that there is a massive problem in the credit markets. In the past, the safe haven has been the dollar and Treasuries, but if the problem is the dollar and the credit worthiness of Treasuries, what’s the next step of protection? All capital roads lead to gold. That is your safe haven. Gold is the ultimate safe haven. It’s God’s money.”
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investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Scientists now claim coronavirus is affected by weather and climate

( Natural News ) A new study suggests that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) is seasonal , spreading much faster in specific weather and climate conditions and dying out when it gets warmer or colder .
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine ( UM SOM ) found that the cities heavily affected by the virus during the start of the pandemic were situated on a similar band of northern latitude .
These cities also experienced cold temperatures and relatively low humidity from January through March .
According to the researchers , this implies that the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the flu and spreads more rapidly in the winter and early spring months .
Cities within a certain latitude were hit harder For their study , published in JAMA Network Open , the researchers collected climate data from 50 cities around the world from between January and March of this year .
The team identified eight cities with “ substantial ” spread of the virus : Daegu , South Korea ; Madrid , Spain ; Milan , Italy ; Paris , France ; Qom , Iran ; Seattle , USA ; Tokyo , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Substantial , in this case , was defined by the researchers as a country having reported at least 10 deaths from the coronavirus by March 10 .
These climate data from these cities was compared with that of 42 cities that were less affected by the virus .
To do this , the team used climate data , such as temperature and humidity , from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast ’ s ERA-5 reanalysis .
From November 2019 to March 2020 , the eight cities in question were on a narrow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 50 ’ N. In comparison , cities north and south of this band did not see as rapid a spread of the coronavirus .
With this data , the researchers then looked at the 2-m temperature — that of the surface where most human activity takes place — of the eight cities .
They found that the average temperature in these cities between January 2020 and February 2020 , as recorded by airport weather stations , was between 39 F and 48 F. Meanwhile , the average temperatures 20 to 30 days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities were reported were roughly the same , ranging from 37 F to 48 F. At the same time , the cities also had similarly low amounts of specific humidity .
“ All the temperatures for the eight locations being in such a close range was a little surprising , ” co-author Dr. Mohammad Sajadi , an associate professor at the Institute of Human Virology at UM SOM , told the Daily Mail .
“ I was not expecting the temperatures to be so close and the humidity ranges to be so close @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sajadi and his team , this means that the coronavirus behaves like a seasonal respiratory virus such as influenza , peaking in cold weather and dying out when it gets warmer .
New study runs counter to what previous studies have said While the UM SOM team proposed that the coronavirus is seasonal , other studies have stated otherwise .
In April , a study of the virus ’ s spread in Chinese cities by researchers from Fudan University found no correlation between its spread and the temperature and amount of UV radiation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conducted by researchers at the Harvard Medical School , this time looking at data from U.S. cities , also came to the same conclusion .
The reason why the UM SOM study came to a different conclusion , however , could come down to the cities they looked at .
This latest study looked at a range of cities not limited to a single country — the temperature and climate differences between the cities sampled in the earlier studies may not have been enough to affect the virus .
Should the study ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that climate and weather data can be used in future models to help predict the spread of the pandemic .

by: Franz Walker
(Natural News) A new study suggests that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is seasonal, spreading much faster in specific weather and climate conditions and dying out when it gets warmer or colder.
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) found that the cities heavily affected by the virus during the start of the pandemic were situated on a similar band of northern latitude. These cities also experienced cold temperatures and relatively low humidity from January through March.
According to the researchers, this implies that the coronavirus behaves similarly to seasonal viruses such as the flu and spreads more rapidly in the winter and early spring months.
Cities within a certain latitude were hit harder
For their study, published in JAMA Network Open, the researchers collected climate data from 50 cities around the world from between January and March of this year.
The team identified eight cities with “substantial” spread of the virus: Daegu, South Korea; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Paris, France; Qom, Iran; Seattle, USA; Tokyo, Japan; and Wuhan, China. Substantial, in this case, was defined by the researchers as a country having reported at least 10 deaths from the coronavirus by March 10.
These climate data from these cities was compared with that of 42 cities that were less affected by the virus. To do this, the team used climate data, such as temperature and humidity, from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast’s ERA-5 reanalysis.
From November 2019 to March 2020, the eight cities in question were on a narrow band of latitudes between 30’ N and 50’ N. In comparison, cities north and south of this band did not see as rapid a spread of the coronavirus.
With this data, the researchers then looked at the 2-m temperature — that of the surface where most human activity takes place — of the eight cities. They found that the average temperature in these cities between January 2020 and February 2020, as recorded by airport weather stations, was between 39 F and 48 F.
Meanwhile, the average temperatures 20 to 30 days before their first community deaths in these cities were reported were roughly the same, ranging from 37 F to 48 F. At the same time, the cities also had similarly low amounts of specific humidity.
“All the temperatures for the eight locations being in such a close range was a little surprising,” co-author Dr. Mohammad Sajadi, an associate professor at the Institute of Human Virology at UM SOM, told the Daily Mail.
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“I was not expecting the temperatures to be so close and the humidity ranges to be so close,” he added.
According to Sajadi and his team, this means that the coronavirus behaves like a seasonal respiratory virus such as influenza, peaking in cold weather and dying out when it gets warmer.
New study runs counter to what previous studies have said
While the UM SOM team proposed that the coronavirus is seasonal, other studies have stated otherwise.
In April, a study of the virus’s spread in Chinese cities by researchers from Fudan University found no correlation between its spread and the temperature and amount of UV radiation in those cities.
A similar study conducted by researchers at the Harvard Medical School, this time looking at data from U.S. cities, also came to the same conclusion.
The reason why the UM SOM study came to a different conclusion, however, could come down to the cities they looked at. This latest study looked at a range of cities not limited to a single country — the temperature and climate differences between the cities sampled in the earlier studies may not have been enough to affect the virus.
Should the study’s results be verified, Sajadi believes that climate and weather data can be used in future models to help predict the spread of the pandemic.
Sources include:
DailyMail.co.uk
JAMANetwork.com


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Peak hypocrisy? LA Councilwoman criticized for LAPD security detail after filing motion to defund po

Peak hypocrisy? LA Councilwoman criticized for LAPD security detail after filing motion to defund police

( Natural News ) Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez has found herself in hot water for filing a motion that seeks to cut millions of dollars from the Los Angeles Police Department ’ s funding – all while having a security detail from the LAPD stationed right outside her home .
“ The Los Angeles Police Department deployed a patrol unit to the home of Nury Martinez following a series of protests , in which Ms Martinez was concerned about her safety , ” a spokeswoman for the LAPD confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Los Angeles Chief of Police made the decision to give Martinez and her family protection via security detail after Martinez and her daughter allegedly received death threats .
This was confirmed by Rick Coca , Martinez ’ s spokesman , in an exchange with Spectrum News .
Coca , in an email , said that the LAPD recommended placing a security detail unit at Martinez ’ s home as it was allegedly the best course of action to ensure the safety of the Council President and her family .
The security detail from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of two officers , was stationed outside Martinez ’ s residence for two months .
This allegedly cost the city at least USD 100,000 .
According to a story run by Spectrum , the units assigned to Martinez were directed to provide round-the-clock security at the council president ’ s home , starting April 4th .
The security detail ’ s hours , however , were cut roughly a month later , with the police officers only standing guard from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. “ It ’ s kind of ironic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be reallocated from the police budget , but yet she has security at her house by the Los Angeles Police Department , ” Jamie McBride , who serves as director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League ( LAPPL ) , said in a statement .
McBride was referring to a recent motion put forth by Martinez and other Los Angeles council members Herb Wesson , Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez , that seeks to cut funding to the LAPD as a response to the wave of protests over racial injustice and alleged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country .
( Related : Democratic mayors are seriously considering DEFUNDING police departments amid persisting riots . )
“ We need a vision for our city that says ‘ there is going to be justice.
’ American society is founded on a racial hierarchy , one that is born out of slavery , followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor , ” the council ’ s motion , which was also published on Martinez ’ s public Twitter account , said , with the next couple of sentences seemingly parroting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police departments .
“ Police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality , ” the motion read .
As reported by CBS Local , while the proposed cuts by the council would amount to a relatively small fraction of the overall LAPD budget of USD 3.1 billion , the motion still was not received warmly by the officers .
“ Instead of reaching out to the Command Officers Association as many council members have done in the past to address @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and allow for the opportunity to come together as professionals to discuss issues , Council Member Martinez simply tweeted their intentions , ” the LAPPL , which also functions as the police force ’ s union in the city , said in a statement .
In addition to the council ’ s proposed cut , Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti , a Democrat , also agreed to redirect a total of USD 250 million from the department as well as the city ’ s other programs toward causes such as youth jobs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” for the black community .
Martinez ’ s security detail , according to her spokesman , has been canceled .

by: Michael Alexander
(Natural News) Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez has found herself in hot water for filing a motion that seeks to cut millions of dollars from the Los Angeles Police Department’s funding – all while having a security detail from the LAPD stationed right outside her home.
“The Los Angeles Police Department deployed a patrol unit to the home of Nury Martinez following a series of protests, in which Ms Martinez was concerned about her safety,” a spokeswoman for the LAPD confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email.
According to the LAPD spokeswoman, the Los Angeles Chief of Police made the decision to give Martinez and her family protection via security detail after Martinez and her daughter allegedly received death threats.
This was confirmed by Rick Coca, Martinez’s spokesman, in an exchange with Spectrum News.
Coca, in an email, said that the LAPD recommended placing a security detail unit at Martinez’s home as it was allegedly the best course of action to ensure the safety of the Council President and her family.
The security detail from the LAPD, which was usually composed of two officers, was stationed outside Martinez’s residence for two months. This allegedly cost the city at least USD 100,000.
According to a story run by Spectrum, the units assigned to Martinez were directed to provide round-the-clock security at the council president’s home, starting April 4th. The security detail’s hours, however, were cut roughly a month later, with the police officers only standing guard from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
“It’s kind of ironic. Here she is demanding USD 150 million be reallocated from the police budget, but yet she has security at her house by the Los Angeles Police Department,” Jamie McBride, who serves as director of the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), said in a statement.
McBride was referring to a recent motion put forth by Martinez and other Los Angeles council members Herb Wesson, Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez, that seeks to cut funding to the LAPD as a response to the wave of protests over racial injustice and alleged police brutality that are happening across the country. (Related: Democratic mayors are seriously considering DEFUNDING police departments amid persisting riots.)
“We need a vision for our city that says ‘there is going to be justice.’ American society is founded on a racial hierarchy, one that is born out of slavery, followed by Jim Crow segregation and corporate abuse of labor,” the council’s motion, which was also published on Martinez’s public Twitter account, said, with the next couple of sentences seemingly parroting Left-wing propaganda regarding the country’s police departments.
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“Police departments are asked to enforce a system of laws that are designed to reinforce and maintain economic and racial inequality,” the motion read.
Today we intrdcd a motion to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step. We cannot talk about change, we have to be about change. pic.twitter.com/hR1tBAqwHP — Nury Martinez (@CD6Nury) June 3, 2020
As reported by CBS Local, while the proposed cuts by the council would amount to a relatively small fraction of the overall LAPD budget of USD 3.1 billion, the motion still was not received warmly by the officers.
“Instead of reaching out to the Command Officers Association as many council members have done in the past to address concerns or advise of their pending actions and allow for the opportunity to come together as professionals to discuss issues, Council Member Martinez simply tweeted their intentions,” the LAPPL, which also functions as the police force’s union in the city, said in a statement.
In addition to the council’s proposed cut, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, also agreed to redirect a total of USD 250 million from the department as well as the city’s other programs toward causes such as youth jobs, health initiatives and so-called “peace centers” for the black community.
Martinez’s security detail, according to her spokesman, has been canceled.
Sources include:
TheEpochTimes.com
SpectrumNews1.com
LosAngeles.CBSLocal.com
DailyMail.co.uk


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-14--Doug Noland Explains Q1’s “Extraordinary” Debt Binge

Credit Bubble Bulletin ’ s Doug Noland saves the rest of us a lot of time by digging through the Fed ’ s quarterly financial reports and presenting the results in an understandable form .
These reports are always terrifying , but Q1 2020 is in a class of its own .
Here , mostly in Noland ’ s words , are some of the highlights of what may go down as the single most outrageous three months in financial history ( at least until the current quarter ’ s numbers are published ) : Total Non-Financial Debt ( NFD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the first quarter ( $ 6.379 TN seasonally-adjusted and annualized ) to $ 54.325 TN .
This was the strongest quarter of NFD growth on record , surpassing full-year NFD expansions for the years 2009 , 2010 , 2011 and 2013 .
Non financial debt is now up $ 20.857 TN , or 59 % , since the end of 2008 .
As a percentage of GDP it is a record 260 % , compared to previous cycle peaks of 226 % ( Q4 ‘ 07 ) and 183 % ( Q4 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jumped $ 963 billion during Q1 , surpassing the previous record $ 656 billion from Q3 ’ 07 .
Total Credit ( Non-Financial , Financial and Foreign ) surged a nominal $ 2.391 TN for the quarter to $ 77.861 TN , surpassing previous record growth from Q1 ‘ 04 ( $ 1.512 TN ) .
At 102 % of GDP , US government debt is the highest since World War II , Combined outstanding Treasury and Agency ( i.e.
, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage paper ) Securities surged $ 840 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 29.289 TN , or 137 % of GDP .
Noland calls this “ a replay of the ‘ alchemy of Wall Street finance ’ dynamic from the mortgage finance Bubble period .
Endless “ AAA ” debt securities these days transform increasingly risky end-of-cycle Credit into perceived money-like , safe and liquid instruments ( experiencing insatiable demand ) .
” This is a fiasco – and rather tangible , at that .
It started years – even decades – ago .
The craziness turned extreme last year , with the Fed aggressively stimulating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It was never going to end well .
And when the Bubble began imploding in March , the Fed and global central bankers responded immediately with Trillions of liquidity support .
This fueled a rally , short squeeze and reversal of hedges that developed into one dazzling speculative melee .
From my analytical perspective , events over the past few months confirm Bubble Analysis – the Global Bubble Thesis .
This week likely marked the beginning of a painful second leg of the bear market or , at the minimum , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have been both capitulation on the short side and “ blow-off ” speculative excess on the part of the bulls .
It was almost like 1999 all over again – frenetic retail online trading , penny stock euphoria , derivatives run amuck , fun and games and throw caution to the wind speculative froth .
The Fed owns the frail Bubble – this disastrous mania .
How ironic is it that the more cautious ( i.e .
realistic ) the Fed ’ s view of economic prospects , the greater liquidity-induced market @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , perpetual bull markets and permanent prosperity ?
And of all the nonsense emanating from this historic financial mania , history will trash this foolhardy notion that there is no limit to the quantity of central bank Credit and government debt that can be issued .
Reviewing the Fed ’ s Q1 Z.1 report , I was thinking this is how things look as a system self-destructs .
Q2 will be worse .

BY JOHN RUBINO
Credit Bubble Bulletin’s Doug Noland saves the rest of us a lot of time by digging through the Fed’s quarterly financial reports and presenting the results in an understandable form.
These reports are always terrifying, but Q1 2020 is in a class of its own.
Here, mostly in Noland’s words, are some of the highlights of what may go down as the single most outrageous three months in financial history (at least until the current quarter’s numbers are published):
Total Non-Financial Debt (NFD) surged a nominal $1.597 TN during the first quarter ($6.379 TN seasonally-adjusted and annualized) to $54.325 TN. This was the strongest quarter of NFD growth on record, surpassing full-year NFD expansions for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013. Non financial debt is now up $20.857 TN, or 59%, since the end of 2008. As a percentage of GDP it is a record 260%, compared to previous cycle peaks of 226% (Q4 ‘07) and 183% (Q4 ’99).
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Financial Sector borrowings jumped $963 billion during Q1, surpassing the previous record $656 billion from Q3 ’07.
Total Credit (Non-Financial, Financial and Foreign) surged a nominal $2.391 TN for the quarter to $77.861 TN, surpassing previous record growth from Q1 ‘04 ($1.512 TN).
At 102% of GDP, US government debt is the highest since World War II,
Combined outstanding Treasury and Agency (i.e., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage paper) Securities surged $840 billion during Q1 to a record $29.289 TN, or 137% of GDP. Noland calls this “a replay of the ‘alchemy of Wall Street finance’ dynamic from the mortgage finance Bubble period. Endless “AAA” debt securities these days transform increasingly risky end-of-cycle Credit into perceived money-like, safe and liquid instruments (experiencing insatiable demand).”
Noland concludes:
This is a fiasco – and rather tangible, at that. It started years – even decades – ago. The craziness turned extreme last year, with the Fed aggressively stimulating in the face of highly speculative markets. It was never going to end well. And when the Bubble began imploding in March, the Fed and global central bankers responded immediately with Trillions of liquidity support. This fueled a rally, short squeeze and reversal of hedges that developed into one dazzling speculative melee. From my analytical perspective, events over the past few months confirm Bubble Analysis – the Global Bubble Thesis. This week likely marked the beginning of a painful second leg of the bear market or, at the minimum, the return of wild volatility. There appears to have been both capitulation on the short side and “blow-off” speculative excess on the part of the bulls. It was almost like 1999 all over again – frenetic retail online trading, penny stock euphoria, derivatives run amuck, fun and games and throw caution to the wind speculative froth. The Fed owns the frail Bubble – this disastrous mania. How ironic is it that the more cautious (i.e. realistic) the Fed’s view of economic prospects, the greater liquidity-induced market euphoria propagates delusions of V’s, perpetual bull markets and permanent prosperity? And of all the nonsense emanating from this historic financial mania, history will trash this foolhardy notion that there is no limit to the quantity of central bank Credit and government debt that can be issued. Reviewing the Fed’s Q1 Z.1 report, I was thinking this is how things look as a system self-destructs. Q2 will be worse.


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-15--What The Hell Is The Great Reset?

What The Hell Is The Great Reset?

A friend just sent the following video , from someone named Spiro Skouras about something called the “ great reset , ” which the World Economic Forum ( i.e.
, Davos ) had just decided to impose on the rest of the global economy , using the “ plandemic ” as cover .
The video ’ s title is The Great Reset Plan Revealed : How COVID Ushers In The New World Order .
Stuff like this circulates all the time and 99 % of it is easily dismissed .
But the video quality on this one is good and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 130,000 views and 1,600 comments imply a decent-sized audience .
So instead of blowing it off I Googled “ Great Reset , ” and found a very long Forbes article titled This Moment Calls For The Great Reset .
Here ’ s a small sample : Behaving normally is typically to conform to some standard or regular pattern .
To be normal is to act in accordance with a preexisting rule or principle .
I ’ m not interested in the “ new normal.
” That presupposes the “ old normal ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normal prior to the pandemic .
None of it was just when we analyze the thousands of people killed or injured by police officers .
It ’ s about as normal as seeing a Koala Bear roam the streets of Manhattan .
That ’ s not normal ; it ’ s abnormal .
Much of how we operated in society was unsatisfactory , questionable , and highly flawed .
We became blind to those existing standards , rules , racial biases , and backward principles .
It took a pandemic and the horrific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all up from our collective coma .
If we simply use the “ old normal ” as a baseline to define our “ new normal ” while we wait patiently for a COVID-19 vaccine , we will have missed our chance to start anew .
We will have squandered the opportunity to redefine how we work , how we live , how we care .
I don ’ t want to see that happen .
The so-called “ new normal ” is not a moonshot ; it ’ s the Space Shuttle Challenger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moonshot can not be to improve upon our old normal .
Also near the top of the Google search is the site of the World Economic Forum itself .
Here ’ s their ( somewhat ominous ) overview video : This is new ( to me ) , so there ’ s not a lot to say about it tonight .
But the timing is interesting to say the least .

BY JOHN RUBINO
A friend just sent the following video, from someone named Spiro Skouras about something called the “great reset,” which the World Economic Forum (i.e., Davos) had just decided to impose on the rest of the global economy, using the “plandemic” as cover. The video’s title is The Great Reset Plan Revealed: How COVID Ushers In The New World Order.
Stuff like this circulates all the time and 99% of it is easily dismissed. But the video quality on this one is good and the narrator is articulate. Meanwhile, the 130,000 views and 1,600 comments imply a decent-sized audience.
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So instead of blowing it off I Googled “Great Reset,” and found a very long Forbes article titled This Moment Calls For The Great Reset. Here’s a small sample:
Behaving normally is typically to conform to some standard or regular pattern. To be normal is to act in accordance with a preexisting rule or principle. I’m not interested in the “new normal.” That presupposes the “old normal” was normal. None of it was normal prior to the pandemic. None of it was just when we analyze the thousands of people killed or injured by police officers. It’s about as normal as seeing a Koala Bear roam the streets of Manhattan. That’s not normal; it’s abnormal. Much of how we operated in society was unsatisfactory, questionable, and highly flawed. We became blind to those existing standards, rules, racial biases, and backward principles. It took a pandemic and the horrific murder of George Floyd to wake us all up from our collective coma. If we simply use the “old normal” as a baseline to define our “new normal” while we wait patiently for a COVID-19 vaccine, we will have missed our chance to start anew. We will have squandered the opportunity to redefine how we work, how we live, how we care. I don’t want to see that happen. The so-called “new normal” is not a moonshot; it’s the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster all over again. The next moonshot cannot be to improve upon our old normal.
Also near the top of the Google search is the site of the World Economic Forum itself. Here’s their (somewhat ominous) overview video:
This is new (to me), so there’s not a lot to say about it tonight. But the timing is interesting to say the least.


investmentwatchblog--2020-06-15--Heartbreaking. “Can’t even get food for my kids… babies need milk”

Heartbreaking .
“ Can ’ t even get food for my kids… babies need milk ”

Heartbreaking. “Can’t even get food for my kids… babies need milk”
Take 2 minutes and watch this.👇 pic.twitter.com/Uo2ZA0kKqr
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) June 15, 2020