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Apr 5 2020

COVID-19: A Portrait of Power


Politicians, COVID-19, Media: Who controls the real power in society?

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—April 4, 2020

COVID-19: A Portrait of PowerThere is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world and we likely won’t be going back to the way things were once we’re through the crisis.

Non-essential businesses have closed, or been forced to close, imperilling the economic health of the businesses and their employees. Usually busy streets are empty. Travellers and people showing any cold or flu like symptoms are expected to self-isolate and stay indoors for weeks, thereby reaping all the health benefits of stir-crazy. Masks have become the latest fashion trend and it’s surprising there aren’t more with pretty patterns. It’s now a sign of virtue to practice social distancing by respecting the magic six-foot rule.

COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world and we likely won’t be going back to the way things were once we’re through the crisis.

Non-essential businesses have closed, or been forced to close, imperilling the economic health of the businesses and their employees. Usually busy streets are empty. Travellers and people showing any cold or flu like symptoms are expected to self-isolate and stay indoors for weeks, thereby reaping all the health benefits of stir-crazy. Masks have become the latest fashion trend and it’s surprising there aren’t more with pretty patterns. It’s now a sign of virtue to practice social distancing by respecting the magic six-foot rule.

Some big stores are managing customer traffic with lineups, both outside to get in and inside for access to the coolers. To ensure our safety, we’re aided by lines taped onto the floor, helpfully marking the appropriate social distance guidelines. Of course, people headed elsewhere can walk closely past the stacked shopper’s margin of safety, which logic says needs to be a circle with a six-foot radius and a time delay so any deadly airborne virus perishes before you’re commanded to move into it.  But hey, stay behind that line and stay safe!

Yes, yes, COVID-19 is highly contagious and it’s prudent to take preventative measures, just as it always has been with the flu and colds, but we don’t shut down the planet for those maladies. So, is this strain of coronavirus so deadly, its mortality rate so high, that we need to destroy the world economy to save it?

 

Who Controls The Power Of Fear?

Fear is obviously a great motivator, but who wields the power of fear, and is it being used as a weapon rather than a warning? What or who is responsible for the extraordinary level of fear that’s panicked society to the point where we’ve completely upended our way of life, and at costs yet not known?

The top three “Power of Fear” contenders in the COVID-19 panic-demic are politicians, COVID-19, and the media. Let’s review their qualifications.

Politicians

Did fear spread because politicians stood and sounded the alarm? Well, no. Fear came first, essentially “forcing” politicians to do something, and act they did. Our world has been shut down while government spending has skyrocketed. The caring need to protect us from the ravages of COVID-19 demand the exorbitant spending, expected social distancing, enforced self-isolation and the shuttering of non-essential businesses. Societal safety is paramount, after all, and we’ll just have to happily, or sheepishly, accept the resulting chaos, costs, and consequences regardless of their effect on our lives. Any price will be paid—but our political leaders are following the fear, not leading it.

COVID-19

How about the coronavirus, is COVID-19 to blame for the unbelievable fear sweeping the planet that is driving immense social change? The short answer is no, not really. Would we truly be in such a terrified panic without being constantly reminded of its murderous potential? Only if it truly did kill in excessive numbers.

As the world deals with this crisis, the more robust our understanding of COVID-19’s transmission and mortality rates. Our body of knowledge regarding treatments such as Hydroxychloroquine continues to expand and faster, more accurate tests are being administered to help gauge its spread. In addition, private industry has stepped up to either transport equipment or retool facilities to manufacture some.

Rush Limbaugh recently provided some much-needed perspective for his listeners by sharing information compiled by worldometers. (check their credibility claims at the link)

These numbers reflect worldwide causes of death between January 1st through March 25th,2020.

Cause of Death Number of Deaths
Coronavirus 21,000
Seasonal Flu 113,000
Malaria 228,000
Suicide 249,000
Traffic fatalities 313,000
HIV/AIDS 391,000
Alcohol related 581,000
Smoking related 1,162,000
Cancer 1,909,000
Starvation 2,382,000
Abortion 9,900,000

This isn’t to say we should ignore the threat of coronavirus, but it does suggest that our collective fear is way out of proportion to the immediate threat.

Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, told Laura Ingraham in a Fox news interview that none of the 72 patients he treated with a regimen of hydroxychloroquine and azxithromycin for five days or more need intubation.  These numbers are so exceedingly positive that Dr. Smith believes “this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic”.

Moreover, it’s understood that those who have survived the disease are no longer at risk of catching or spreading it. Plus, society will automatically become less fearful as news of treatment success grows, additional medications are tested, and vaccines are developed.

As fear subsides, calls to end the shutdown are certain to follow, and quickly, because society doesn’t perform well while mired in fear and isolation.

As neither politicians nor COVID-19 itself hold the “Power Of Fear”, the championship title goes to the media, and as they hold the power, they are entirely responsible for the frightening level of panic that has pushed people to beg for political salvation. The media wields incredible power to move society and isn’t afraid to use it, which is why we need them to be honest and accurate.

What Can Be Determined Right Now?

The media is the root cause of our panic and subsequent economic shutdown. Several conclusions can be immediately drawn without regard to media motivation.

  1. The media is instrumental in setting the direction of the country.
  2. The media hyped, and continue to hype, the most terrifying model numbers.
  3. Societal fear was generated by the reporting of modelled, or predicted, death counts. Now, actual death counts are continuously reported to keep the fear pump primed.
  4. The similarity to the Global Warming crisis is unmistakable, as the media pushed the worst predictions of “what if” modelling claims, many which have already been proven false, such as the loss of ice in Canada’s Northwest Passage.
  5. The media have continually downplayed the possible effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine treatments which indicates a desire to keep fear levels elevated.
  6. The consequences from the economic shutdown are real and are causing severe distress to businesses and individuals. Economic devastation from the shutdown was inevitable, and predictable. Again, the similarity between the impact to Alberta of the government’s war on “global warming” to the impact to all of Canada (and the US) in the war on coronavirus is evident and extremely relevant.
  7. The detrimental effect on society and the devastating economic stress caused by the over-hyped panic is a direct indicator of the media’s true level of concern for the people.

This last point cannot be overstated. The media insist on pushing the most severe numbers in both the Climate and COVID-19 stories knowing full well that the economic consequences to citizens will be dire. They don’t do it just because they can, hopefully. Regardless of the reason, it must be more important to them than any harm that comes from it. This makes it imperative to ask yourself why their scripted narrative takes precedence over your actual well being.

Furthermore, do you know who doesn’t lose their job due to these government imposed economic shutdowns? That’s right, the media.

 

What Comes Next?

There is no longer any doubt about the media’s strength and ability to drive society in whatever direction they desire. The country’s shutdown is a testament to the immensity of their power. We’re looking at real, unadulterated, and considering their actions, abusive power.

When the crisis ends, as it must, we will have a much better idea as to transmission rates, mortality rates, cure rates and economic cost. If the media is proven to have overhyped the threat, then the consequences are on them and no one else. It also proves that we trust the untrustworthy at great peril.

Friends don’t cause friends ruinous economic harm as the media has done to us with respect to both global warming and COVID-19 unless the data is overwhelmingly certain and the consequences obviously grim. Fake news has real, and often devastating, consequences so when an agenda other than accuracy and truth is at play, it is the equivalent of false advertising. Just like any other business lying to the public, the media should face accountability for their disrespectful betrayal of consumer trust.

When the media “guide” beliefs without regard to truth then the most important thing we can do for ourselves and our fellow citizens is to reject those deceitful sources. Totally, completely, and immediately because they are wholly unworthy of your mind and a danger to us all.

One great thing about the internet is the ability to bypass filtered news and go directly to the source, such as President Trump’s twitter feed which allows him to speak directly to the people

Getting his message out in his own words has been instrumental in his political success because his comments aren’t being interpreted, manipulated, or mischaracterized by those who hate him before being deceitfully presented to the public.

If they lie, say goodbye. For the children.

Apr 5 2020

Proposal for New Internet with Kill Switch


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law

Re-Posted Apr 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: As an Englishman qualified to practice law in Virginia and Federal Courts, and very interested in your criticisms of injustices in the American litigation system, I have a suggestion which may seem trivial at first glance but would have an important impact.

My suggestion is that you promote a simple but very beneficial change in the American Rule of Costs, under which each side in litigation pays its own legal costs (subject only to certain statutory exceptions). In most of the rest of the world, the loser in litigation pays most or all of the costs. At present a potential litigant with a just case is discouraged from proceeding in an American court by the prospect that, even if he wins, his gain would be less than his legal costs. This obviously tends to deny to the poor and middle-classes their right of access to the courts. For civil defendants, the American Rule encourages frivolous cases, and promotes corrupt and uneconomical settlements, including those otherwise unjustifiable by, for example, insurance companies. In criminal cases the present American Rule obviously militates against the innocent, and promotes the corrupt practice of plea-bargaining.

A change in the American Rule to that of the rest of the world is clearly desirable from the point of view of individual rights, and the interests of the US economy, where the total cost of unproductive litigation must be huge. Together with that change, it would also be desirable to impose the Common Law prohibitions of Barratry and Champerty to prevent lawyers from taking financial interests in their clients’ gains from civil cases, which encourage ambulance chasing.

Lawyers have a productive part to play in the Economy, essentially aiding commerce and industry. There should be more to American legal practice than endless politicking and unproductive litigation!

KG

REPLY: That is a very good suggestion.

Apr 5 2020

Unprecedented Power Grab


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Re-Posted Apr 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

We are living not just in interesting times, we are living in UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, which has raised the stakes profoundly toward civil war. You may have been laid off, struggling and hoping your employer will not fold, or you may be working from home and wondering if your employee will not cut cuts and leave you there eliminating offices. Then there is the home confinement which depends on whether or not you live in a Democratic state where they want 1090% lockdown, fines, and/or imprisonment if you walk outside while telling neighbors to report on you as if this were East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Then there is the confinement with the family which many find stressful while schools are closed along with day-care-centers and caring for children 100%. The Republican States seems to be following generally just the social-distancing and allowing stores and restaurants to be open following guidelines of limiting the number of customers. Others find their families split forced to facetime, skype, or zoom as elderly relatives are trapped away from loved ones. Then there are those who know someone with COVID-19 or have found their parents go into a hospital for one thing expecting them to die and then they suddenly change the cause of death of COVID-19 out of the clear blue sky causing many to question what is really going on.

While we are all in prison since home confinement if a punishment inflicted by courts, we face the most amazing power grabs in all recorded history thanks to socialism which authorizes the government to pretend to “care” for our well being as long it is profitable. This is one of the greatest rearrangements of power in modern history unfolding before our eyes—and governments are counting of scaring-the-hell out of people to ensure we’re too overwhelmed to do anything about it.

Since January, elites sold their entire stock and bond portfolios and went to cash. I know 100% that they were even tipped off to do so without necessarily outlining the objectives just stating there was this virus. Over the past weeks, governments have used this virus to expand their powers in unprecedented ways all in an amazing effort to save us from certain doom. In Thailand, the government seized the power to censor the media. In South Korea, we find officials began using people’s cellphone, credit-card, and GPS records to track patients with Covid-19 in real-time, all to ensure they would know everyone’s contacts. Taiwan is tracking people under home quarantine in real-time. Other governments are using cellphone location data to monitor people’s movements. Taiwan has total, some 55,000 people are being kept at home through a “digital fence.” Meanwhile, Christine Legarde is pushing hard for the cancellation of the paper currency and move to digital. As head of the IMF, she personally threatened all the tax havens to given everyone up and even threatened the Vatican to remove it from the world monetary system unless they reveal all transfers.

Even in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the US Justice Department asked lawmakers for the power to request that defendants be detained indefinitely without trial during emergencies. Anthony Fauci was asked by host Anderson Cooper on CNN in an effort to undermine Trump: “Knowing the science, does it make sense to you that some states are still not issuing stay-at-home orders? I mean, whether there should be a federally mandated directive for that or not, I guess that’s more of a political question, but just scientifically, doesn’t everybody have to be on the same page with this stuff?”

In 2020, Fauci deliberately misleads Congress showing his dishonesty with the statistics. He compares the Coronavirus to the Flu claiming it is 10x more lethal because the death rate with the flue is only 0.1%. What fails to point out that this number is based on 38 to 54 million people with the flu. He was comparing those hospitalized with Coronavirus at 3% down to 2% whereas those hospitalized with the flu has a mortality rate of 6%. He gas deliberately played with the numbers to create this crisis which was predetermined would be used to enforce political change.

What is going on is VERY Dangerous. Fauci is bought and paid for and should be investigated. Bill Gates donated $100 million to Fauci’s NIH and $13.5 million to CDRC. It was Bill Gates on February 28th who was already calling this a major pandemic ahead of everyone. I bet you will find he also sold all his stocks and bonds in league with those in Europe. The number of deaths is less than 10% of those caused annually by the flu. This does not add up to warrant the destruction of the economy which he is advocating. Fauci even opposed using the Malaria drug which doctors in the field have found to prevent deaths. He wanted a year of study before trying it while always supporting Bill Gates with his vaccine. Of course, Bill Gates said that his vaccine would first go to those only in the medical field, which probably included himself. It appears he intentionally wanted more people to die to help this cause. Gates was behind climate change and now a major donator and proponent of using a disease to achieve the same goals he advocated for Climate Change.

In 2017, Fauci was already saying that the Trump administration would face a “surprise” pandemic. This supported the entire Climate Change which Gates was also behind with his dire C02 forecasts that we hade to reduced the population. In a fake petition of 11,000 purported scientists who signed this claim that girls must stop having children was exposed to have among its signers, Mickey Mouse of the Institute for the Blind.

This was the same recommendation of Gates – reduce the population. Even Bill Gates’ push to put microchips in us all is really puzzling as to has all his money simply gone to his head? This whole ID2020 movement is just beyond belief. It has been Bill Gates calling for 10 more weeks of lockdown! Bill Gates resigned both from Microsoft and Warren Buffet’s boards. It is curious that he has helped to create probably an $80 billion loss for Buffett for his solutions will destroy both as the world economy implodes. Microsoft was worth $1.435 trillion on February 10th, and $1.115 trillion on March 23rd. Bill Gates helped to cause a $320 billion loss there. You can imaging with a $400 billion loss on the two companies where he was a board member, he would not be very popular. We will have to wait for his next SEC filing to see what he sold since his last filing as of February 14, 2020, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If he sold all or a major part of his 50 million shares in Berkshire after February 14th, 2020, he should be investigated.

Then the Democrats have in one voice blamed every death of Trump and have used this to divide and conquer the people. Impeachment lost, Russiagate lost, they needed something that was more direct and a threat of IMMEDIATE death so they have manufactured COVID-19 into the next Black Death. They then have been using this to introduce a digital currency to eliminate cash and have introduced legislation to take away guns (H.R.5717 – Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020). They want to make sure people cannot fight back against subjugation which is coming to every community near you. The onslaught against Trump is so intense, they are trying to stuff every bill possible with anti-democratic legislation.

Using this virus as the excuse for emergency powers that are outright tyrannical is just astonishing. They claim that a state of emergency is justified if the threat is public, universal, and existential, and therefore they justify extraordinary powers to save the people by removing all liberty. They have intentionally destroyed the economy knowing full well that a huge proportion of small businesses will be forever lost. They seek to ensure that the people will be dependent upon the government and accept subjugation as was the case with the Communist Revolutions.

There is absolutely NO HISTORICAL evidence that once powers are seized in peacetime they are ever relinquished without revolution. States have NEVER given back powers of this magnitude for all we need to look at is the 9/11 terrorist attacks. TSA and money-laundering regulations reduced the $10,000 to $3,000 if you try to wire money to an individual. You can no longer hop on a plane with more than $10,000 in cash even on domestic flights. Whatever personal liberties we believed we once had are surrendered during an emergency and what has been done here with lockdown is now precedent for the future.

There is absolutely no evidence that this virus poses such a monumental threat that it warrants the shutting down of the economy and the surrender of all our liberties. The annual flu kills 10x more than this virus, but the media is so on board with this plot against the people the TRUTH is also a casualty of this virus. Why do journalists hate us so much? They were supposed to defend us but they are just playing for a seat at the table throwing scraps to the people and enjoying their power. They fail to even understand the world they are advocating for their own children.

 

It is becoming painfully obvious that we are facing an unprecedented battle for our liberty. Google is aiding the Democrats allowing them to use the virus to scare the hell out of the people in this desperate attempt to lead the uninformed to blame Trump for everything so they can seize the country and raise taxes back to 70-90%. People have asked WHY Socrates has forecast that China will become the Financial Capital of the World? If you cannot see what is happening, just go back to NETFLIX and enjoy the confinement.

Trump has been trying desperately to fight back, but the Fake News is so intent upon overthrowing our way of life it is not a battle easily won. As a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY, he should immediately restore the FCC rule of the Fairness Doctrine and extend it to the print media and to social media such as Facebook, Apple, and of course Google. If he does NOT do this, all our freedoms are in danger of extinction.

AT&T is the ultimate owner of CNN. Everyone should write to the chairman of AT&T Randall Lynn Stephenson to defend your liberty and one should question was he one of the elites who sold everything in January as many did after that January 2020 meeting in Switzerland?

This has been an unprecedented power grab and our future will never be the same. Crime will rise SUBSTANTIALLY and the threat to life and property will be far worse than any virus. They know this, and then Phase II will be emergency power to restore the order that they destroyed.

Everyone should write to their respective Republican Representative and demand an investigation into this sordid group pf characters. This is our future and the Democrats are simply on board to overthrow Trump and may NOT even be aware of the larger agenda. Unfortunately, they will never investigate if it is against their personal interests in the 2020 election.

Categories: Disease, Politics
Apr 5 2020

How Taxes Will Make COVID-19 Vanish


Armstrong Economics Blog/The Hunt for Taxes

Re-Posted Apr 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT:  Is there a tax that I can pay to stop Covid-19, or does that only work for climate change ?
🙂

KL

REPLY: No worries. They got that covered. Cash is dirty now. If you touch it you will die. I am sure they are working on a virus that flourishes with gold or silver soon. So once they outlaw cryptocurrencies, then they will have everyone’s wealth in banks and can tax you whatever they desire. Then COVID-19 will magically vanish. So ultimately your taxes will do the trick.

Apr 5 2020

Palm Sunday, Holy Week Begins


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree house on April 5, 2020 by 

palm-sundayMT 21:1-11

When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem
and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives,
Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them,
“Go into the village opposite you,
and immediately you will find an ass tethered,
and a colt with her.
Untie them and bring them here to me.
And if anyone should say anything to you, reply,
‘The master has need of them.’
Then he will send them at once.”
This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet
might be fulfilled:
Say to daughter Zion,
“Behold, your king comes to you,
meek and riding on an ass,
and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”
The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them.
They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them,
and he sat upon them.
The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road,
while others cut branches from the trees
and strewed them on the road.
The crowds preceding him and those following
kept crying out and saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;
hosanna in the highest.”
And when he entered Jerusalem
the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?”
And the crowds replied,
“This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

set my face like flintIS 50:4-7

The Lord GOD has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I might know how to speak to the weary
a word that will rouse them.
Morning after morning
he opens my ear that I may hear;
and I have not rebelled,
have not turned back.
I gave my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
my face I did not shield
from buffets and spitting.

The Lord GOD is my help,
therefore I am not disgraced;
I have set my face like flint,
knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

What was Jesus doing at the Triumphal Entry?

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI explains:

Jesus claims the right of kings, known throughout antiquity, to requisition modes of transport.

The use of an animal on which no one had yet sat is a further pointer to the right of kings. Most striking, though, are the Old Testament allusions that give a deeper meaning to the whole episode. . . .

For now let us note this: Jesus is indeed making a royal claim. He wants his path and his action to be understood in terms of Old Testament promises that are fulfilled in his person. . . .

At the same time, through this anchoring of the text in Zechariah 9:9, a “Zealot” exegesis of the kingdom is excluded: Jesus is not building on violence; he is not instigating a military revolt against Rome. His power is of another kind: it is in God’s poverty, God’s peace, that he identifies the only power that can redeem [Jesus of Nazareth, vol. 2].

 

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/9-things-you-need-to-know-about-palm-passion-sunday/#ixzz3VjXWfUi3

I saw a meme a day or two. It said “This is the Lentiest Lent I have ever Lented.” Isn’t that true? This time of the Corona virus, the sheltering in place, loss of jobs, fear for lives and how we live those lives, it is forming this Holy Week into something we have never seen before as our hearts yearn toward Easter.

Will we wait impatiently, longingly even, looking forward with anticipation to the dawning of Easter Sunday and the risen Savior that day belongs to? Will we be changed as we never really have before, or will this time of being locked out of our churches remove the unseen tie that bound us, and allow us to keep on sleeping late on Sundays, and savoring those lazy family mornings?

Most of us will not be attending our churches today. We will worship in the privacy of our homes, perhaps joining our church families online. May our hearts be full of longing for Easter Sunday, and for rejoining each other when we can.

We are a people of hope. From the triumphant Palm Sunday through the agony of Good Friday, we cast our eyes with faith, hope, and love toward Easter Sunday, for we know what lies behind that stone rolled to the side is the empty tomb.

Apr 5 2020

The Emerging COVIDGate Conspiracy


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy

Re-Posted Apr 4, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Bill Gates is calling for 10 more weeks of Lockdown in his Op-ed in, of course, the Washington Post. He is becoming a very dangerous man. The jobs lost and the destruction of the world economy is unbelievable. This has been an agenda behind the curtain since January. Anthony Fauci told CNN that effectively Trump is wrong and the whole country should be locked-down which will unquestionably destroy livelihoods and small businesses that will take 11 years to reconstruct from what our models are showing. Google is joining the conspiracy to destroy the economy allowing Democrats to scare the public with virus advertisements. Many assume that the elections can be postponed. Trump does not have that power and the Democrats are trying to bury Bernie.

The damage they have done is BEYOND description. They are DELIBERATELY destroying jobs for a covert agenda. The Prime Minister of Australia back in January was talking about a lockdown until June. Here we have this very agenda being pitched by Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci who is appearing to be more and more his puppet on a string against the American people and naturally Donald Trump.

George Sorors has been steadily in favor of socialism. Very strange for someone who had to flee such authoritarian regimes. Soros has been a top funder of the Democratic Party and said he would give his entire fortune to prevent George Bush from becoming President. Between Gate’s foundation and Soros’ Open Society Foundations, there is a major funding effort to kill Democracy when it opposes their agenda.

There is a very clever 5G spin going around to blame this on technology. This is really a deliberate distraction so people will not look at the agenda and blame technology when this virus exists in the 2018/2019 flu season and seems to have been deliberately hyped. The 5G stories will be used to seize industry all to save the people and the planet. Whatever the radiation impact of that has is not connected to this virus. It is deliberately being used to support this political agenda

Apr 5 2020

President Trump and USA Rescue Thousands of Cruise Ship Passengers The Rest of the World Refused to Help…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on April 4, 2020 by 

There’s a whole lot of headlines about this story, but the one that really deserves to be written is how Team USA and President Trump rescued thousands of passengers and crew members from aboard cruise ships the rest of the world refused. [LINK]

[…] This ends a voyage that began March 5 in Chile and was supposed to finish March 19 in Argentina, but it ran on for days as countries declinedto welcome passengers ashore during the coronavirus pandemic. (more)

You are darn right we rescued those international passengers; now ask yourself: why wouldn’t anyone else help them?

You see, this is again another example of how The United States of America is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen.

Despite an entire planet of global elites constantly putting down Team USA while hypocritically holding themselves up as moral arbiters; and despite every ridiculous democrat cocktail party attendee swooning over other nations while putting their own country down; when push comes to shove it’s Team America that comes through.

Every time.

When an earthquake hits Haiti, who goes?  We go….

When a tsunami hits Japan, who goes? We go…

When a hurricane hits the Bahamas, who responds?  We respond…

When fires burn in Australia, who goes?  We go…

When floods ravage India, who goes? We go….

When famine strikes, we mobilize…

International academics, pontificating media and global elites, many within our own country, sit around looking down their noses, criticizing Team USA, while doing nothing on any comparable scale to the global response consistently provided by our nation.

Every time the proverbial shit-hits-the-fan, it’s team USA to the rescue.

When the crisis is so overwhelming that no-one can even fathom where to begin, who do they call?… The United States of America.

Team USA rescuing those cruise ship passengers is no different.

When have you seen the Norwegian Army responding to a Mississippi delta flood?  When was the last time you saw UN blue helmets show up during Hurricane rescue and recovery along the gulf coast?….

When a tornado destroys one of our towns, it’s ordinary Americans that show up to rebuild.  Colorblind, holding hands, keeping faith, providing hope and getting it done.

That’s our USA grit…

That’s our USA spirit….

You’re darned right we rescued thousands of international cruise line passengers the rest of the world denied; and I am proud of President Trump for doing it.

That’s just the way we roll….

To the U.S. corporate media I say: ‘keep on bitchin’, griping and looking for something to complain about’, because to most Americans you get smaller every single day.

 

Apr 5 2020

Kentucky Directorate of Coronavirus Compliance Orders Ankle Monitors For Uncooperative Citizens…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on April 4, 2020 by 

Comrades, the state officials have judicial authority.  Attempting to defy the dictates of the state will not end well as this young citizen comrade discovered.

“DL” is forced by state authority to live with a coronavirus infected resident.  DL, has tested negative for the virus, but now becomes a potential carrier because the state is requiring DL to remain in close proximity to the infected citizen.  DL doesn’t like this and attempted to leave his confinement; he was captured by the state.  A judge ordered DL to wear an ankle monitor to ensure he remains compliant to the containment order.

Kentucky – Despite Governor Andy Beshear ordering all Kentucky residents to stay at home to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, some in Louisville are reportedly refusing to self-quarantine.

As a response, Jefferson Circuit Court judge Angela Bisig is ordering ankle monitors for those who were exposed to the coronavirus but who won’t stay at home.

CNN reports that Bisig ordered an individual identified as D.L. to wear a global positioning device for the next two weeks. D.L is reportedly living with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus, as well as someone who is a presumptive case.

About a week ago, D.L. was ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days, the amount of time it takes for an infected individual to exhibit symptoms of the coronavirus. Family members, however, said he leaves his home often. (read more)

 

Apr 5 2020

Ground Reports – Healthcare Focus – What’s Going On In Your City, Town, Neighborhood?…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on April 4, 2020 by 

There’s something really odd, a profound disconnect of sorts, between what the media is sharing and the reality of what the general public is reporting from their own experience.

According to most national media hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.

U.S. media claim doctors and nurses are collapsing under the stress and strain of conditions they describe as “war zones” in the battle against COVID-19.

Media are now reporting about nurses and doctors committing suicide as they try to deal with severe PTSD, and psychological trauma, as a result of endless shifts in overcrowded hospitals filled with desperate and dying patients.  Additionally, refrigerated trailers now fill with piles of dead bodies as the morgues are overwhelmed with deceased coronavirus patients.

Influencers, perhaps people with an interest in pushing an agenda, are sharing videos of nurses and doctors pleading for help and crying under duress amid their struggle.  It all seems rather sad and unnerving.  Additionally, professional instability that severe seems a little disconcerting…. That said, that’s one summation of a recent 24-hour media cycle.

However, there is a disconnect.

I’m not talking a little disconnect; there is a profound and entirely opposite set of reports from nurses, doctors and healthcare workers –in multiple states– who are being laid-off, sent home, told not to come in; and doctors worried of losing their practices because hospitals, and their offices are completely empty.

For every media claim of overwhelmed hospital war-zones, there are a dozen reports from actual workers, nurses, doctors and medical personnel reporting exactly the opposite; and yes, a disparity in reporting even in the New York metropolitan area.

Medical personnel in Wisconsin, Missouri, California, Florida, Colorado, Oregon, Georgia New Jersey, and every region in the USA are reporting there are few to no patients in their facility and the medical staff is being laid-off, or told to go home and/or stay home, because there is nothing to do.

How the heck is this level of profound disconnect possible?

If you google (or duck duck) search: “medical personnel laid-off”, or “nurses sent home” there are thousands of various reports showing hospitals and treatment centers essentially devoid of any patients. There are videos of hospitals on social media showing empty medical treatment floors, empty ICU units, empty waiting rooms, empty x-ray labs, and workers waiting for something to do…

Obviously, the collective -albeit anecdotal- reports do not fit with the 24/7 media claims of “war zones” and PTSD suffering medical workers so overwhelmed they are now committing suicide because they cannot cope.

So you tell me: what’s going on in your town, city, or neighborhood in the healthcare provider industry?

Are hospitals near you “war zones”?  Or are they empty?

Do you have family in the healthcare service field?  What do they say (absent specifics and identifying information, obviously)?

MrDIRT@SidtheKidd87
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My daughter is an ICU Charge Nurse at hospital south of Tampa. Her unit had 5 patients & 3 nurses today.
They’re sending Nurses home.

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Same at UCLA. Empty beds and empty ORs nurses being called off every shift. The loss of revenue will be huge. And if the surge doesn’t materialize many hospitals will never recover.

Rebecca Diserio@rebeccadiserio

Same at LAC+USC Med Center–>part of the same LA County hospital system as UCLA. My nurse friends there say nothing is going on!! County laying off staff!!! WTF is going on???? LA is not New York. We aren’t seeing this surge at all. NY data is sketchy —https://bit.ly/2RbrBzL 

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From a DM: “I am a nurse in a hospital, and I am FURIOUS at what is happening in our country. What is being reported is NOT what’s happening. Our large hospital is so underwhelmed with patients, we are being put on call instead of working our scheduled shifts.” #coronavirus

Belle@Oily_Princess

Space Coast empty – can confirm!

Brevard County FL 700,000 pop, 60 cases, 7 hospitalizations, 0 deaths. Nurses being sent home ‘on call’

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Apr 5 2020

DNI Richard Grenell Announces Col Thomas Monheim as Acting Intel Community Inspector General…


Posted priginally on The Conservative Tree House on April 4, 2020 by 

Acting DNI Richard Grenell announces the replacement for ICIG Michael Atkinson.

Thomas Monheim is a retired Colonel from the US Air Force Reserves and is currently the General Counsel of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Previously, Col Monheim served as Associate Counsel to the President and Deputy General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Richard Grenell

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Office of the DNI

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Thomas Monheim has been named the Acting IC Inspector General. Monheim is a career intelligence professional and retired Colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserves who has served our nation in a wide variety of roles throughout his distinguished career.

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