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The one thing the layman can trust is he can’t trust the experts. Because they don’t trust him.
Experts, if they aren’t fake or paid shills, come with a particular professional bias as well as the general contemporary bias by which Western elites are alienated from the common man.
There’s a pattern crises follow now: campaigns of misinformation, opportunistic looting by financial actors, the consolidation of power in the hands of the people who as often as not are responsible, and ending with society’s energies diverted to a cause with little or no relationship to the original crisis. A cause to which the people themselves may have no relationship or interest—the 2003 Iraq War is a stark model.
The first significant action taken in the current crisis (as opposed to significant inaction) was a campaign of misinformation. Faced with the very real prospect of a run on medical-quality face masks the experts lied to us about their effectiveness.
It’s not their fault, you might say; fault the outsourcing of the manufacture of basic medical equipment. But that misinformation campaign about masks was nestled like a Russian doll in a greater misinformation (or just mis-informed) campaign—that our hospitals would be overwhelmed with corona virus patients.
How many lives were lost to this? How much time was lost? Might we have avoided the shutdown and the coming economic depression if we had a system capable of honest action in the public interest?
Squint through the snowstorm of information and look into the heart, such as it is, of the elitist: aside from his objective appraisal of the current crisis (leaving aside his atrophied capacity for objectivity in the Current Year) what about the shutdown appeals to him, emotionally? He sees it as a crude device for a crude people—us. Faced with the prospect of formulating a set of rules for going about life and business or just telling the dumb bastards (us) to stay home, they opted, of course, for the latter.
They want you to “shelter in place” because they don’t trust you to carry out basic instructions.
Common to all crises now is the absence of accountability. Let’s not expect it. But it’s becoming increasingly suggestive the still-touted strategy of shutting down is misguided and may even be counter productive.
...numerous epidemiological studies have shown that infection rates for C19 are higher when people are exposed to it for prolonged periods in confined spaces. Locking people up in their homes is probably the worst thing you could do if you wanted to reduce the infections and the duration of the outbreak.
This is well known to the World Health Organisation. In their joint study with Chinese authorities, published in February, the WHO stated that airborne spread wasn’t reported for C19 and was not considered to be a method of transmission.
They found that most infections occurred within families where the chance of infection was as high as 20%. However, the chance of infection in the community was estimated to be between 1-5%
The elite’s reaction to the crisis was delayed and dishonest; so will be any reaction to the present strategy failing—recognition of which censorship will delay as long as it can. The media can be expected now to portray the inevitable waning of the pandemic as a vindication of the shutdown. This too will delay any abandonment of the strategy.
But for other reasons they are in no hurry. The shutdown hurts the little people, for whom it is crafted. It’s like a flood threatening to leave only the commanding heights above water.
The shutdown strategy retains the support of the experts, so the typical bugman can enjoy the disparate impact it has on the middle and working classes without feeling guilty. Indeed, he unthinkingly plugs it directly into his psychological matrix of understanding: it is a case of us dummies ignoring “science” and valuing “jobs” over “lives”.
That it accelerates the dis-empowering of certain people is inevitable, he might say (not that anyone is asking) like globalization and white decline.
Whatever the case, if wealth and cultural status are to remain wildly uneven in the favor of those in charge, the shutdown will have to be uniform across the country.
Why, you might ask, would Bakersfield, with its dearth of cases, have to observe the same drastic measures as Manhattan, and go down the drain of economic decline?
Because if New York, with its vast importance to the status quo we call Globo Homo, is to be shut down for months (because it’s acquired a nasty virus, as a result of being the center of Globo Homo) then by God so must the rest of the nation. We can’t have people and business, the very power, of New York migrating out to the hinterlands! Therefore a crude strategy must become cruder still.
Meanwhile some people are doing extremely well in the current atmosphere. The Daily Mail:
American billionaires are enjoying multi-million dollar increases to their net worth as the country’s unemployment levels rise to record highs amid the coronavirus lockdowns
Eight ‘pandemic profiteers’ have seen their net worth surge by over $1billion each since the start of the global pandemic.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 56, has added $25billion to his own wealth since January 1, 2020, as the company’s staff protest their poor working conditions and he makes a return to the company’s day-to-day running.
According to a report from the Institute for Policy Studies, American billionaires added $282billion – nearly a ten percent increase – to their combined wealth between March 18 and April 10, as the U.S. unemployment rate approached 15 percent.
Curt Doolittle’s Propertarian Constitution vs Jim Bowery’s Sortocracy
James Bowery 12 May 2020:
Sortocracy purports to be an upgrade to the Treaty of Westphalia. The Propertarian Constitution purports to be an upgrade to the United States Constitution. Sortocracy, takes the form of a declaration of the conditions of peace between sovereign nation-states, as did The Peace of Westphalia. It upgrades the notion of a nation-state as recognized by other nation-states . As such it does not take the place of the of a constitution. Its philosophical foundation is aligned with that of The Declaration of Independence rather than the US Constitution.
Hence their program to characterize (stereotype) and vilify “The left”, misdefined as necessarily being in international Marxist, anti-ethnonational or Cultural Marxist, anti White terms.
Affidavit quotes Trump confidant Roger Stone being told by a Jerusalem contact: ‘He is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intell. The key is in your hands!’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US President Donald Trump shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump who was convicted last year in Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, was in contact with one or more apparently well-connected Israelis at the height of the 2016 US presidential campaign, one of whom warned Stone that Trump was “going to be defeated unless we intervene” and promised “we have critical intell[sic].”
The exchange between Stone and this Jerusalem-based contact appears in FBI documents made public on Tuesday. The documents — FBI affidavits submitted to obtain search warrants in the criminal investigation into Stone — were released following a court case brought by The Associated Press and other media organizations.
A longtime adviser to Trump, Stone officially worked on the 2016 presidential campaign until August 2015, when he said he left and Trump said he was fired. However he continued to communicate with the campaign, according to Mueller’s investigation.
The FBI material, which is heavily redacted, includes one explicit reference to Israel and one to Jerusalem, and a series of references to a minister, a cabinet minister, a “minister without portfolio in the cabinet dealing with issues concerning defense and foreign affairs,” the PM, and the Prime Minister. In all these references the names and countries of the minister and prime minister are redacted.
Section of FBI document with heavily redacted references to a minister, a cabinet minister, a “minister without portfolio in the cabinet dealing with issues concerning defense and foreign affairs,” the PM, and the Prime Minister.
Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s prime minister in 2016, and the Israeli government included a minister without portfolio, Tzachi Hanegbi, appointed in May with responsibility for defense and foreign affairs. One reference to the unnamed PM in the material reads as follows: “On or about June 28, 2016, [NAME REDACTED] messaged STONE, “RETURNING TO DC AFTER URGENT CONSULTATIONS WITH PM IN ROME.MUST MEET WITH YOU WED. EVE AND WITH DJ TRUMP THURSDAY IN NYC.” Netanyahu made a state visit to Italy at the end of June 2016.
According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Spain’s Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.” Guy Standing, a research professor at the University of London, told CNBC that there was no prospect of a global economic revival without a universal basic income. “It’s almost a no-brainer,” he said. “We are going to have some sort of basic income system sooner or later….”
“Where will the government find the money?” is no longer a valid objection to providing an economic safety net for the people. The government can find the money in the same place it just found more than $5 trillion for Wall Street and Corporate America: the central bank can print it. In an April 9 post commenting on the $1.77 trillion handed to Wall Street under the CARES Act, Wolf Richter observed, “If the Fed had sent that $1.77 Trillion to the 130 million households in the US, each household would have received $13,600. But no, this was helicopter money exclusively for Wall Street and for asset holders.”
“Helicopter money” – money simply issued by the central bank and injected into the economy – could be used in many ways, including building infrastructure, capitalizing a national infrastructure and development bank, providing free state university tuition, or funding Medicare, social security, or a universal basic income. In the current crisis, in which a government-mandated shutdown has left households more vulnerable than at any time since the Great Depression, a UBI seems the most direct and efficient way to get money to everyone who needs it. Critics argue that it will trigger inflation and collapse the dollar. As gold proponent Mike Maloney complained on an April 16 podcast:
Typing extra digits into computers does not make us wealthy. If this insane theory of printing money for almost everyone on a permanent basis takes hold, the value of the dollars in your purse or pocketbook will … just continue to erode …. I just want someone to explain to me how this is going to work.
Having done quite a bit of study on that, I thought I would take on the challenge. Here is how and why a central bank-financed UBI can work without eroding the dollar.
In a Debt-Based System, the Consumer Economy Is Chronically Short of Money
First, some basics of modern money. We do not have a fixed and stable money system. We have a credit system, in which money is created and destroyed by banks every day. Money is created as a deposit when the bank makes a loan and is extinguished when the loan is repaid, as explained in detail by the Bank of England here. When fewer loans are being created than are being repaid, the money supply shrinks, a phenomenon called “debt deflation.” Deflation then triggers recession and depression. The term “helicopter money” was coined to describe the cure for that much-feared syndrome. Economist Milton Friedman said it was easy to cure a deflation: just print money and rain it down from helicopters on the people.
Our money supply is in a chronic state of deflation, due to the way money comes into existence. Banks create the principal but not the interest needed to repay their loans, so more money is always owed back than was created in the original loans. Thus debt always grows faster than the money supply, as can be seen in this chart from WorkableEconomics.com:
When the debt burden grow so large that borrowers cannot take on more, they pay down old loans without taking out new ones and the money supply shrinks or deflates.
Posted by DanielS on Thursday, 16 April 2020 06:48.
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Who is Dr. Fauci?
Since January 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the lead members of the Trump Administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
And how much money has been spent??? keeping alive people whose AIDS education could be summed up in a few short words?
Don’t conduct yourself like a pig and you won’t get the disease.
Maybe you should know who you are having sex with?
There has been much discussion, and with good reason, about the balancing the cost of keeping low risk groups at home, shutting down businesses, etc. for the COVID-19 crisis.
What has been the cost of keeping alive people who irresponsibly abuse what is to conscientious people such an important act as sex?
It is an untold tragedy, the good that the money spent on AIDS could have done to people who conduct their lives responsibly with regard to sex.
An utter slap in the face to humanity.
It only became everybody’s problem when they penalized responsible humanity by making them pay for destructive behavior.
You may be temporarily homebound, but thanks to today’s technology, that doesn’t mean you have to stop exploring. Despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, and the resulting closures of many national parks from sea to shining sea, lovers of the great outdoors can quench their thirst for wide open spaces by tuning in to one of the many cameras streaming live from inside the country’s parks.
Why not plan a virtual trip to one of America’s most breathtaking natural treasures, Glacier National Park? The park comprises more than 1,500 square miles of Montana wilderness, populated only by glaciers, lakes, hiking trails, mountain peaks, and the occasional grizzly bear. (Plus, it’s easy to leave no trace when your visit is via the Internet.)
As of publication, the park isn’t completely closed, but it’s functioning under modified operations. According to the National Park Service, “As of March 21, 2020, the Apgar Visitor Center and Bookstore will close until further notice. The park will continue to provide visitor information through alternative means at the Apgar Visitor Center Plaza.”
If you’re practicing social distancing or find yourself quarantined inside for the foreseeable future, check out the best Glacier National Park webcams for your at-home viewing pleasure. Practice patience; the images refresh only every minute or so.
Lake McDonald Webcam
Searching for that iconic Glacier National Park lookout? You’ll find it here. The best of the park’s stunning scenery is on display in this soothing feed from the foot of Lake McDonald. Tune into this webcam for a viewpoint of the glacially carved lake, the Continental Divide in the distance, and dramatic weather patterns — during the winter months, this webcam is sometimes dominated by foggy, limited-visibility views of thick snow, sleet, or rain before breaking to reveal a placid lake framed by snow-capped peaks.
For a more dynamic experience, check out the Lake McDonald PTZ webcam; park rangers occasionally aim this camera at different points across the Lake McDonald Valley.
Apgar Village Webcam
This webcam is trained on the park’s central hub, which, during the summer, involves a flurry of activity ranging from visitors arriving to camp, shop, or eat to school buses full of children coming for field trips. Apgar Village is home to the largest campground in Glacier National Park as well as alternative lodging facilities, two gift shops, a restaurant, and boat rentals and other recreational equipment. In its quieter moments between the onrush of human activity, you might even see a few deer passing through.
Middle Fork of the Flathead River Webcam
Keep an eye on this webcam, located near park headquarters, for a view of the rolling Flathead River and its happenings, which can include groups of rafters in the summer and wandering wildlife in the winter, especially coyotes and deer. The Flathead River forms the southwest border of Glacier National Park and also appeals to kayakers, thanks to its calm, clear waters.
Apgar Mt. Southeast View Webcam
When the weather’s clear enough to enjoy the view from this webcam, you may be confused by the image that forms: 9,376-foot Mount Saint Nicholas bears a striking resemblance to the Matterhorn, but the remote Apgar Mt. Southeast View webcam is posted thousands of miles from Switzerland, Italy, and the European Alps. That’s because both Mount Saint Nicholas and the Matterhorn are glacial horns, a geological feature formed by glaciers carving out three or more sides of a peak at the same time.
St. Mary Visitor Center Webcam
The webcam posted at the St. Mary Visitor Center, located on the park’s eastern boundary, faces west into the park, with Red Eagle Mountain dominating the view and other mountains surrounding St. Mary Lake complementing it. In the winter and spring, tune in at dawn and keep your eyes peeled for elk; in the summer, enjoy a sweeping view of colorful wildflower blooms carpeting the expansive meadow between the visitor center and the mountains beyond.
Another nearby webcam, the St. Mary Visitor Center PTZ webcam, can be moved and zoomed in by park staff if they’ve spotted an elk or want to provide a closer look of the mountains in the distance.
A sailor who was serving aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier has become the first on the ship to die from Covid-19, the US Navy announced.
The sailor was moved to an isolation house on Guam after testing positive, where he was found unresponsive on 9 April and died on 13 April.
Over 500 sailors on the USS Roosevelt have tested positive for the virus.
The ship’s captain was fired this month after his letter pleading for help with the outbreak was leaked to US media.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is currently stationed in Guam, with sailors quarantining ashore. The name of the sailor who died has been withheld by the Navy until the family is notified.
Defence secretary Mark Esper said the department “is deeply saddened by the loss of our first active duty member to Covid-19”.
“We remain committed to protecting our personnel and their families while continuing to assist in defeating this outbreak.”
According to a statement by the Navy, the sailor tested positive for the virus on 30 March and was isolated at the naval base with four others.
He received twice-daily medical checks and was found unresponsive on Thursday morning. Fellow sailors administered CPR and the sailor was transferred to the navy hospital.
The Navy reports that 92% of the crew have tested for Covid-19, with 585 positive cases and 3,724 negative. Nearly 4,000 sailors have been moved off the vessel.
On 30 March, the vessel’s captain, Brett Crozier, sent a letter to defence officials begging for assistance with the outbreak on board, saying the spread was “accelerating” and it was impossible to contain in the ship’s cramped quarters.
His subsequent firing provoked a public outcry and led to the resignation of acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly.
Mr Modly said he removed Capt Crozier for allegedly leaking the letter and creating “the impression the Navy was not responding”, claiming that the captain’s actions were “naive” and “stupid”.
Navy officers on a coronavirus-hit aircraft carrier wanted to sign a dire letter about the outbreak, but the ship’s captain wouldn’t let them
- Senior officers aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier reeling from a coronavirus outbreak offered to sign a revealing letter about the dire situation, only to be denied by the ship’s commander, Capt. Brett Crozier.
- Crozier feared for their careers and denied their request, according to The New York Times.
- Crozier was eventually fired for sending the letter by the Navy’s top official, who berated him to his former crew in controversial remarks that led to the official’s resignation.
Senior officers aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier reeling from a coronavirus outbreak offered to sign a revealing letter about the dire situation, only to be denied by the ship’s commander, Capt. Brett Crozier.
Crozier, who has since been relieved of command for sending the four-page letter out to over 20 recipients, was asked by senior officers on the ship to sign the letter, according to a New York Times report published Sunday.
Crozier reportedly feared for their careers and denied their request.
In his letter, which was first obtained by The San Francisco Chronicle, Crozier urged Navy colleagues to implement a “political solution” and take “immediate and decisive action” as the ship dealt with a coronavirus outbreak.
Crozier is in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus. Over 580 of the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s crew of 4,800 tested positive as of Sunday, according to the Navy. Nearly 4,000 crew members have since evacuated the ship into Guam, where many of them are under quarantine in hotels.
The captain was eventually fired on April 2 by then-acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly.
According to Modly, Crozier violated military protocols, circumventing the chain of command by sending the letter to a group of people. Modly said that while he did not know how the letter got to the media, there was a “proper way” for Crozier to handle his concerns.
“If he didn’t think ... that if he didn’t think that information wasn’t going to get out into the public, in this information age that we live in, then he was either A: too naive, or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this,” Modly said of Crozier. “The alternative is that he did this on purpose.”
Modly has since apologized for his remarks and resigned on April 7.
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Capt. Brett Crozier
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