All is revealed and be prepared for a future you are NOT PREPARED FOR!
The world blew a major gasket over the Coronavirus and destroyed booming economies. How will it handle the next health crisis, put everyone in shackles and those who cough and sneeze in quarantines (Latin for 40 days) that last a vague and undecided time? As my wise grandma used to say, “the country is burning, and the old lady is combing her hair.”
The virus is real and treatable, however, according to the Washington Times;
“COVID-19 will go down as one of the political world’s biggest, most shamefully overblown, overhyped, overly and irrationally inflated and outright deceptively flawed responses to a health matter in American history, one that was carried largely on the lips of medical professionals who have no business running a national economy or government.”
Depending on where you live, the government either ignored the crisis, i.e., Sweden, and let the herd immunity run its course, or instituted a complete lockdown of the country and of the economy similar to a martial law, with police and the military controlling the comings and goings of the population who were only allowed to go to grocery stores and pharmacies.
People who had other ailments stayed home for fear of dying of COVID-19 in the hospital and some died in their homes of heart attacks or other perhaps treatable illnesses.
Elective surgeries were no longer performed, hospitals were mostly empty, staff and doctors laid off, some doctors offered on line conferences (the patients had to take their own temp and blood pressure), or people languished in pain at home.
A beauty salon operator who defied her business closure order by the state and local governments in Texas went to jail for 7 days, the length of time her salon had been opened without the government’s permission. Hailed as a hero by many, she defied the judge’s orders to stay closed; she explained that making a living to feed one’s hungry family and to pay the bills is not a crime.
Lei Fang and colleagues wrote in the Lancet, Respiratory Medicine, on March 26, 2020 that they extrapolated results from a molecular study of coronaviruses, which showed that this group of viruses uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to target cells on the epithelium of the lungs, intestine, kidneys, and blood vessels. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), would probably share these properties.
The scientists also wrote in the Lancet that “The fast-developing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported from Wuhan, China, and has spread globally.”
By March 22, 2020 “among 191 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, the most significant comorbidities with significant effects on mortality were hypertension (30%), diabetes (36%) and coronary heart disease (15%).”
“In an analysis of 201 patients with COVID-19, 84 (42%) patients developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, with hypertension (27%) and diabetes (19%) as the most common comorbidities.”
In 1984, Dr. Anthony Fauci became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In this position, he would have known about the article published in the Virology Journal on August 22, 2005, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”
The scientists reported that “chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage.”
“Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. In addition, the indirect immunofluorescence assay described herein represents a simple and rapid method for screening SARS-CoV antiviral compounds.”
For 15 years Dr. Fauci must have known that both chloroquine and its milder derivative hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), sold as Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine sulfate), and given to patients for treatment of malaria, Lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis, will both treat a current case of coronavirus (therapeutic) and prevent future cases (prophylactic), making HCQ a cure and a “vaccine” of sorts. The 2005 article stated that “concentrations of 10 μM completely abolished SARS-CoV infection.” They added “chloroquine can effectively reduce the establishment of infection and spread of SARS-CoV.”
As non-scientists, we must still ask particularly important questions:
In the process, people resigned themselves to this forfeiture of so many freedoms in exchange for an imagined temporary safety offered by governments in control. Among the many losses were freedom to earn a living, of speech, of movement, of assembly, and of religion.
The mayor of Kansas City, Missouri demanded that churches record the names and contact information of everyone who attended a “religious gathering” so that the Kansas City Department of Public Health could “quickly trace, test, and isolate individuals.”
I am really stunned and frightened that this is happening in America, in the “free world.” Such neighborly snitching and informing only happened under fascist and communist tyrannical regimes, not in an open society.
Coronavirus is spreading, worldwide, a bad case of ‘CRAZY’ that no Bill Gates’ vaccine will ever cure.
“A host of celebrities and scientists including Madonna, Robert de Niro and a clutch of Nobel Prize winners have called for radical change in the world rather than “a return to normal” after the coronavirus lockdowns. (Yahoo, May 6, 2020)
What else is new?
“Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci also added their names to the open letter published in the French daily Le Monde pleading for an end to unbridled consumerism and a “radical transformation” of economies to help save the planet.” (Yahoo)
“We believe it is unthinkable to ‘go back to normal’,” said the letter which was also signed by Nobel laureates for medicine, chemistry and physics as well as peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
“They said the pandemic was a tragedy but it was a chance for humanity to “examine what is essential”.
“Adjustments are not enough. The problem is systemic,” the letter added.
“The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis. Unlike a pandemic… a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences,” it said.
“The 200 signatories said it was time for leaders “to leave behind the unsustainable logic that still prevails and to undertake a profound overhaul of our goals, values, and economies.”
Try mitigating that, Doctors Fauci and Birx, in the case of the former, now that common groupie Fauci is not checking in on CNN’s not long ago virus-stricken Chris (Fredo) Cuomo every day.
The 200 signatories finger ““The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity” as an excuse for not wanting the world to “go back to normal”:
“The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself: that of plants, that of animals, and that of a great number of human beings,” the short letter added.
“Pollution, climate change, and the destruction of our remaining natural zones has brought the world to a breaking point.”
Noteworthy how so many of them waited until their golden years after milking consumerism for all it was worth before coming forward to…“save the planet”.
The stars and scientists are aided and abetted in holding a locked down world hostage by elected officials and at least one church leader.
“We’re not going back to normal,” said (Gavin) Newsom, who gave Tuesday’s press briefing from the site of a Sacramento business called Display California. “It’s a new normal with adaptations and modifications, until we get to immunity and a vaccine.” (SF Gate, May 5, 2020)
Newsom and other elected officials, including Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stopped going back to normal when they allowed people to defecate in the streets—pollution in its purest form.
“Newsom first announced yesterday that some retail sectors (including bookstores, clothing shops, sporting goods stores and flower shops) can resume business as long as their local officials give approval and they make changes in their operations, such as having workers wear masks. This marks the start of the state moving into the second of four phases for reopening (read about each stage on SFGATE).” (SF Gate)
Up until the pandemic hit, mostly bank robbers, terrorists and anarchists wore face masks, now they’re being forced on the public at large.
Don’t venture out of your home without a face mask, or you will be slapped with a steep fine you cannot afford to pay.
If you’re one of the millions of lost souls wondering when the churches will open again, check out the latest Pope Francis Tweet:
“Let us turn this time of #pandemic into a test case to prepare for our collective future. Without an all-embracing vision, there will be no future for anyone.”
Only a pontiff who puts saving the environment ahead of saving souls could Tweet out such Green New Deal idiocy.
Meanwhile, the Democrats—still on a rampage to bring down President Donald Trump—may not have created the pandemic scare, but sure know how to exploit it.
Don’t expect the lockdown that followed COVID-19 to end until after November 3 elections now that those with easy uncensored access to social media are taking the world BAT (you-know-what) CRAZY.
I have very good sources as most people know. Gates must be stopped by breaking up his monopoly on Health. How do we do that? You must get out your damn pen, get off your locked-downed but, and write to your Congress representative, Senator, and the White House. Why? Because they were bribed to eliminate ALL human and Civil Rights to sue for the personal injury or death caused by a vaccine. Remove that 100% freedom of liability and you will disarm Gates. He is pushing his vaccine which DOES NOT have to be tested because there is no liability if they get it wrong or inject some other substance with ID2020 to track us and the press will protect Gates and NEVER reveal what is even in such a vaccine.
I will usually get the flu shot. I had my children vaccinated. But this is now different. Vaccinating the entire world is IMPOSSIBLE and at best vaccines are only 60% effective according to the CDC, which Bill Gates also controls. We cannot even trust the FDA because nobody will investigate Bill Gates and look into his control of the FDA, which he also openly works with.
Gates is all over the globe telling people they will/might die if they refuse to accept his vaccine. Why? What is so important about a virus that is less lethal than the flu? There must be another agenda of control at work. Yet Gates has admitted in a public interview that 700,000 people could die from his vaccine. That is outrageous!
There is a serious behind-the-curtain push in Europe to prevent people from getting on an airplane again without a health certificate that you are free from the COVID-19 which is 1/10th of the flu in real impact. Germany has come out and stated it will NOT mandate Gates’ vaccine. Meanwhile, A renowned corona researcher has been murdered in the United States. He was on the brink of a scientific breakthrough against the corona pandemic. His killer was found dead in a car. We are crossing over into the Hillary Twilight Zone.
There is a very serious agenda going on here and people better wake up and fast. The 2020 election is going to be escalated upwards using this virus. Our models show it will be back for the next flu season starting in September. I can write the headlines now: Trump Causes Deaths Because He Opened the Economy TOO Early!
I have run the model on Gates personally. I will release that analysis tomorrow. Suffice it to say, this IS A BATTLE we can win!. It looks like this is Gates’ grandstand event in his life, but it ends here in 2020.
The Democrats only have this issue of the virus to try to take down Trump. The Democrats will try to switch the debate and call those who are against Gates the very same people who are right-wing anti-government extremists who need to be suppressed, imprisoned, and behind closed doors – terminated. This election will interestingly turn on Gates, his virus, his orchestrated economic Gates Depression and his demand for worldwide vaccination for this virus that does not even reach the epidemic level at 7.7% of the population.
Gates has funded every study that predicted 2 million Americans should be dead by now and others that said 500,000 will be dead. He controls the World Health Organization, the UN Climate Change, the CDC, NIH, FDA, every medical research university around the globe – he controls them all! He has organized a Global Monopoly of the Health Industry as he did with Microsoft. That is is greatest talent – monopolization. Sure, I played the Monopoly Game – but it was just a game as a kid. It did not spark visions of grandeur to control the world as it seems to have done with Bill Gates.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories running around. One that the Pirbright Institute has the patent on the vaccine since November 2019 and Gates owns it. Here too, Gates does NOT own Pirbright Institute, but he has been involved. Is this the vaccine he intends to roll out? Who knows for sure. But the danger with conspiracy theories is that they are themselves a way to demean all dissent. It could be Gates’ PR firm which starts this sort of conspiracy, make sure it spreads everywhere, and then they easily show it is false. They then take that to discredit everything else without lifting a finger. We MUST be very careful NOT to jump on these conspiracy theories for that is the very way they use that strategy to win.
The entire strategy is ALWAYS to deliberately attack the messenger because they do not want to address the crisis. To find the truth, my #1 favored method is just follow the money. Gates has the backing of all the Pharmaceutical Companies which have a huge lobby. The press will not defend the people. They should ask any politician who makes statements against the anti-vaccine movement if they accept money from any drug-related company or lobby. Naturally, they will NEVER do that so the press is just worthless anymore. They are part of the conspiracy process to undermine all our rights, privileges and immunities and are usually too ignorant to even understand that they are a manipulated tool in the hands of very dark forces.
The entire design of Socrates is based upon the realization that there are so many variables and combinations that attempting to reduce the economic prospects for the future to a single cause and effect is absolutely impossible. The same is true when you have this many vaccines. Socrates is the ONLY model that predicted the peak in this virus correctly: “The computer forecast the peak would be this week of April 6th. New York has had to admit it peaked this week. I trust Socrates. It has no political agenda.” It is the Only model that predicted years in advance that this would be the Commodity Wave (2020-2028) and it would be build on shortages – not speculative demand. These forecasts are NOT my personal opinion, yet not press will ever report what Socrates has done because (1) it goes against the consensus we would all die, and (2) they can;t help attacking me the messenger because they cannot argue with a computer.
As I have said, I was vaccinated and I had my children vaccinated. What Gates is doing is very wrong. There are way too many combinations with vaccines and that creates a complete unknown that no drug company bothers to investigate. The drug companies have been relieved of ALL liability thanks to Congress. They can even deliberately kill people and never be charged or sued. That is UN-AMERICAN!!!!!
You cannot relieve Gates and his Health Monopoly of all liability and simultaneously standby and allow his to try to get politicians to pass laws making his vaccine mandatory or you will not be able to leave your home if you still have one since you will not be able to work.
So get out your pen – PLEASE! Write to every politician you can before Bill Gates outlaws mail because like paper money it contains life-threatening virus he has another vaccine for. Gates is a very dangerous man. He has attacked this like someone trying to conquer the world, has no remorse for those who have committed suicide, lost their jobs, homes, pensions, and marriages. He obviously does not believe in democracy or why didn’t he run for president in the Democrats? Perhaps he is waiting to be drafted as their candidate after Biden takes one of his vaccines.
The total worldwide death from his scare tactics is 263,346. That is far less than 700,000 assuming its only 1% who die from his vaccines. In 1976, concerns in the United States about a possible influenza pandemic involving a virus similar to the deadly 1918 pandemic strain resulted in a large-scale vaccination program for the entire country. Approximately 45 million people were vaccinated in 10 weeks with what became known as the “swine flu vaccine.” The US government abruptly stopped the vaccination program when no swine flu cases were detected outside the military base where the disease originated and when an unexpectedly high number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome were reported in vaccinated individuals. The vaccine was estimated to have caused approximately one Guillain-Barré syndrome case per 100,000 persons vaccinated, resulting in 53 deaths. As a result of the association between the 1976 swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome, this condition is closely monitored every influenza season as part of the influenza vaccine safety monitoring in the United States.
I do not think 700,000 people should sacrifice their lives for Bill Gates and what kind of person would even demand the entire world be vaccinated? This seems to me to be more of an effort to be exonerated from any liability, a complete denial of human and civil rights to FORCE people to be vaccinated, by a man who has no medical background and whose body language of always waving his hands in the air appears to me as hiding the truth behind his scheme.
I will publish a piece on Gates in two days which is personal. I do not like to attack people on a personal level. I think that is unprofessional. Unfortunately, this seems to be a war we are clearly in for the lives of our families as well as ourselves and our communities.
This guy is very dangerous. He has created a health Monopoly and there is no question that some people die from vaccines and has conceded that perhaps 700,000 people may die from his injections. He has absolutely no remorse and insists that his way is the MOST URGENT INVENTION IN THE WORLD! The Nephew Of President John F. Kennedy is leading a fight against mandatory vaccines.
Gates has been behind the scenes in Europe and trying to intimidate the politicians. The proposal is that NOBODY will ever be allowed to get on any public transportation again, air, water, or train, without a HEATH CERTIFICATE from this guy to force the world to take his vaccine in which he can easily slip his ID2020 and nobody would be the wiser.
Already, US firm Gilead is in talks with Indian drug companies to produce Remdesivir which was rushed by the FDA, which Gates also influences, to begin massive production in India and Pakistan.
We have judges willing to throw people in prison for violating these stay at home orders imposing absolute tyranny. The corruption of how Gates has pulled this off is unimaginable. It is well documented that Fauci held even experiments in creating this virus.
In Washington, the reason Goldman Sachs will never be prosecuted criminally in the USA is because they pour so much money into the pockets of politicians that in closed door discussions on Capital Hill, I was told that would never happen because they all have their hand out. Gates is doing the same thing. Nobody will investigate and nobody will lock him up no matter what he does. He has discovered the power of billions.
Bill Gates has become perhaps the most dangerous man in modern-history. We have no idea his end game or if her was actually involved in creating this virus to gain world dominance. I don’t recall any fiction writer every coming up with a plot like this. So what we are witnessing is coming from the dark corridors of Gates own mind. Never in all my wildest imagination would I have personally thought someone would be so devious to pull off a worldwide coup. He has chosen is victims well – scare people and they will surrender all their rights if they think the will die without his vaccine.
Governor Cuomo of New York demonstrates how insane this has become. He has asked Bill Gates now to revolutionize the educate system in New York post-Coronavirus. Cumo actually said: “The old model of, everybody goes and sits in a classroom, and the teacher is in front of that classroom, and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms — why, with all the technology you have?” Already a backlash is unfold against Cumo who makes decisions off the cuff without any consideration of what they means. This is the very same governor who ordered nursing homes to take in COVID patients unleashing seeping death plagues when it is the elderly who are susceptible to these respiratory flu-like viruses – not the youth.
The mismanagement of the health system in New York has been unbelievable. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said that early responses to the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine “anecdotally” suggest its use in the coronavirus fight has been “effective,” but that official data was still forthcoming. Two drugs touted as possible treatments for COVID-19 can no longer be prescribed for people who want them just in case they get sick.
An executive order issued by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo this week limits prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to COVID-19 patients in state-approved clinical trials, and for FDA-approved uses as an antimalarial or autoimmune treatment, and then only for a 14-day supply with no refills. I reported that my cousin was a front-line nurse. She caught it working with these people and ended up giving it to her husband. He ended up in the hospital with Pneumonia in his lungs. He is 67 and overweight. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi are all capable of causing it. The infection causes inflammation in the air sacs in your lungs, which are called alveoli. The alveoli fill with fluid or pus, making it difficult to breathe. He was taken to the hospital and they administered hydroxychloroquine. He was home in two days.
In English, Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, we find the famous quote about the dogs of war which is a phrase spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273: “Cry ‘Havoc!,’ and let slip the dogs of war.” I am finishing up a very important special report – the Cycle of War. History has often presented usurpers who have raised fortunes to hire armies to overthrow governments. This is the modern version of a usurper with his mercenary army who only look at the coin they are being paid to kill people.
Apathy is prevalent across the land. People are holed-up in their homes waiting for their governor to give them permission to go about their business.
Governor Pete Ricketts (R) of Nebraska used the word “allow” when directing the citizenry about opening their “nonessential” businesses and “nonessential” churches. And this in a conservative state smack in the middle of the heartland. (Listen to the restrictions being imposed for conducting worship services, overstepping the First Amendment by essentially establishing a state religion of COVID-19.)
On it’s face, the development is disturbing, yet challenges to these guidelines are practically nonexistent. As much as showing up at state capitals on May Day was a demonstration of dissatisfaction with government handling of an overblown crisis, few are defying the unconstitutionality of these edicts by unlocking their business and church doors.
Facing down the giant of statism that Americans have allowed (there’s that word again) to grow unhindered for the past eighty years isn’t happening. Hissing and moaning on social media doesn’t count except to vent, nor does the internet adequately replace human interaction or commerce.
If people haven’t realized to what extent the State has eradicated free movement and the pursuit of individual livelihoods, note that Kate Brown, democrat governor of Oregon, decided to lockdown the state until July 6, 2020. For rationale, she cited danger of infection in a state of four million where, at the time of the declaration, there had been 109 deaths associated with coronavirus, not necessarily caused by it. The cry of outrage should be deafening.
What’s needed is a Moses in each community to come forward to confront the “pharaoh” and demand the release of the slaves.
Should anyone following the stay-at-home order believe that “slave” is an overstatement, it’s time to examine their justification for permitting themselves to be imprisoned by an irrational fear of a disease that credible studies have shown to be less lethal than the annual flu. (If you don’t believe your life has been impacted for the worse, just as I was writing this there came a flurry of horns honking as a group of cars drove by to wish someone a happy birthday which they were constrained from doing in person.)
Governors are acting as Pharaoh, decreeing that citizens must make bricks without straw. They are expected to comply with work orders while being restricted from working – told to create something out of nothing and be happy about it.
Moses pushed the envelope and God provided the means to loose the chains long enough to escape prison, though the fight for true freedom was lengthened by decades because the people capitulated to fear of what appeared to be overwhelming odds. As soon as they didn’t see the power of God operating, which they had just experienced, they lost faith that doomed them to wander in the wilderness until Joshua kindled their courage.
Now is the time for a Moses to rise up in the houses of government and among the businesspeople and the churches. One willing to be a voice, a standard-bearer and an example of faith in the face of godless fear. One who will take the lead in their community to insist the people’s inheritance is restored; who will pray for the rebellious who have jeopardized that heritage by drifting from faith (Deuteronomy 9:23-29) and placing government above the law. One who is willing to coach the people about their ability to overturn tyranny that’s masquerading as the law that it contradicts.
For consideration:
• COVID-19’s mortality rate is less than seasonal flu (CDC data. Check the “provisional” statistics to understand the inflated numbers.)
• COVID-19 has been used to deny treatment for fatal illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, etc.
• Unconstitutional executive orders are denying the free exercise of religion and speech (1st Amendment), armed protection (2nd Amendment) free enterprise and the ability to provide for one’s family, freedom of travel – the pursuit of life and liberty (Fifth Amendment).
• As Israel was in the wilderness, Americans far outnumber their adversaries (it’s difficult to refer to the State in this way but that’s what government has become, adversarial to the People). Approximately three million Israelites came out of Egypt which no single walled town or city standing against them housed. American patriots number over 200 million in a nation of 325 million and if all those entrepreneurs and church leaders knowing their rights, invoked those rights by opening their businesses and worship centers, the renegade State officials could not arrest and jail all those exercising their God-given rights.
• If county sheriffs upheld their constitutional oaths to serve their constituents first and foremost, they would not enforce unconstitutional orders, which are not law if they do not conform to the state or federal constitutions. If state and city law enforcement officers would do the same, they would constrain government officials operating outside their constitutional authority.
Belief in God’s promise and how He re-established our dominion through Christ is what must be restored to the people’s understanding. Ephesians 3:20 explains the power given to His People.
A Moses and a Joshua are called upon to come before the House, the Senate, every state legislature, every county board and every city council to direct Americans back to the path of self-determination.
When independent entrepreneurs, like Family Barbershop Owner Mike Land of Madison, MS, who knew his constitutional right to conduct business, are threatened with intolerable fines and jail under the color of law, it’s time to move in faith. When single parents like Kosha Beall are denied their right to ply their trade because it’s been determined by authorities that it’s “nonessential,” then it’s time to contest government excess.
Standing at a podium on the capitol grounds in Jackson, Mississippi, State Senator Chris McDaniel made an essential point that should strike all Americans to the core, “A constitution without men and women willing to defend it isn’t a constitution at all.”
The internet is fraught with predictions that the coronavirus vaccine will contain the “mark” limiting who can buy or sell. How easily are people overlooking the obvious but insidious “requirement” already in our midst that is restricting who can buy or sell, or go out in public – the face mask, which has been proven to be ineffective in safeguarding health.
Christians who proclaim their faith are being cowed by the world’s decision to be driven by fear and are conforming by covering up like Muslims do with niqabs, hijabs or burkhas. Believers can’t live with one foot in fear and one foot in faith. One cancels out the other.
Are there enough Americans ready to unhook the mask that has taken the place of a black swastika-emblazoned armband and engage their God-given right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?”
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.K. Secretary of State for International Trade Elizabeth Truss announced today [joint statement] the beginning of a series of fast-tracked trade negotiations toward a new free trade agreement. [USTR Release]
In the foreground is a trade agreement between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. However, in the more strategic background context these negotiations create leverage for the U.K. in their post-Brexit negotiations with the European Union. First from today:
LIGHTHIZER – […] The US negotiating team will be led by Dan Mullaney, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East; and the UK negotiating team will be led by Oliver Griffiths, Director for US Negotiations at the Department for International Trade. Over 200 staff from U.S. and UK government agencies and departments are expected to take part in the negotiations.
An opening plenary today will kick off the detailed discussions, followed by multiple virtual meetings from Wednesday 6 May to Friday 15 May. The negotiations build on the work conducted through the U.S.-UK Trade and Investment Working Group, which was established in July 2017, partly to lay the ground work for these negotiations.
A comprehensive U.S-U.K trade agreement will further deepen the already very strong trade and investment ties between the United States and UK by creating new opportunities for American and UK families, workers, businesses and farmers through increased access to the other’s market.
The United States and the United Kingdom are the first and fifth largest economies in the world, respectively. Total two-way trade between the two countries is already worth about $269 billion a year. Each country is the other’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with about $1 trillion invested in each other’s economies. Every day, around one million Americans go to work for UK firms, while around one million Britons go to work for American firms. (more)
An important geopolitical overlay helps to better understand the specifics of this dynamic.
The United States is essentially a self-sustaining economy. Meaning, if you think about a nation as an independent construct able to sustain itself; our imports are enhancements not priorities. Our domestic resources, energy development, food production and essential internal needs are capable of sustaining our population. The import of products is valuable, but in the bigger picture not fundamentally necessary for survival.
The United Kingdom is very similar in this regard. The U.K. has abundant energy resources, food and agricultural development, and is positioned as an independent economy absent the dynamic of internal politics regulating those functions. Domestic politics surrounding left-wing climate change (energy development etc), to restrict internal development, are a function of ability, not necessity. The U.K. has abundant coal, oil and natural gas; it also has abundant agriculture. [The U.K weakness is military defense.]
Because both nations are similar in their ability to be non-dependent on trade, a free trade agreement is essentially a second-tier negotiation on products and services that enhance the independence. This is a unique dynamic not found in all trade discussions. Two independent economic systems negotiating on trade enhancements to each-other.
This is a much different dynamic than negotiation with a dependent country like China. China cannot feed itself, it needs to import raw materials to sustain itself; thus the importance of the One-Belt/One-Road Beijing initiative. China is a massive economy, but China is also a dependent economy; subject to damage from external dynamics.
Similarly, due to advanced political ideology, Canada cannot sustain itself economically; however, they are dependent by choice. Currently Mexico is not self-sustaining; they too are dependent on both access to the U.S. market and the import of industrial goods. However, unlike Canada our southern trade partner is working toward self-sustenance.
♦ Dependence or Independence is the ultimate context for all trade negotiations.
Dependent countries do not inherently carry negotiation leverage, and must create leverage through access to their economy (China again). The more independent the internal economy is within any nation, the less dependency they have. Less dependency means more leverage… more leverage means better terms (with nationalist negotiators).
A U.S-U.K trade agreement would not be based on “essential” trade products or “vital” trade services. The trade is not essential, but it is complimentary.
A U.S. and U.K. trade agreement is based on mutual enhancements or mutual benefits. This is an important distinction to keep in mind because it plays into the larger geopolitical dynamic.
The U.K. is currently in a post-Brexit negotiation phase after they spit away from the European Union. Strategically, it is smart for the U.K. to enter into trade discussions with the U.S. for needed products and services they might currently be gaining from the EU.
The timing of trade discussion with the U.S. gives Prime Minister Boris Johnson leverage toward the EU. President Trump and Boris Johnson have previously discussed this.
Additionally, the U.S. and E.U will eventually have to work out a new trade agreement because President trump is realigning all existing U.S. trade terms.
The U.S. already carries all of the leverage in any discussion with the EU; both in terms of market size, need for EU to retain access to the U.S. market, and the generous one-way tariff benefit currently maintained by the EU (which Trump is about to confront). Enhancing the U.S. leverage by providing a super-highway for transatlantic trade between the U.S. and U.K. puts the EU at an even further strategic disadvantage with the U.S.
If President Trump told the EU to drop their market restrictions (protectionist tariffs and non tariff barriers); and the EU refused to negotiate…. well, Trump could just shut the EU trade door completely (think German autos) and collapse their economy. The EU needs us more than we need the EU.
Remember the important dynamic: The EU hitched their wagon to China… China cannot purchase from the EU without the dollars from their U.S. trade imbalance…. If Trump shrinks U.S. purchasing from China; Beijing has less money to spend on EU industrial goods…. When we punch China on the nose, the EU gets the nosebleed.
Again, all of this is leverage for the U.S. and vulnerability for the EU.
Thus, the Trump benefit in a complimentary trade discussion with Boris Johnson is really the pending benefit of leverage over the EU.
Not accidentally, a Johnson benefit in a complimentary trade discussion with Trump is really the current benefit of leverage in their post-Brexit negotiations with the EU.
Because most of the trade sectors will be lower tier; and because the bigger goal for President Trump would be the building of leverage to confront the EU; I would expect the biggest trade gain for the U.S. will be helping the U.K. with military purchases.
There will be a lot of small-ball stuff. However, the bigger headline within a fast deal will likely be Boris Johnson purchasing advanced military hardware from us, and in return the U.K. will have preferential access to sell into the United States market based on reciprocal value.
That preferential access will form the basis for a trade hub inside the U.K. which will be the gateway to a transatlantic super-highway. The UK will then negotiate with EU companies based on access to their trade hub. Boris Johnson control the hub.
Once an alternative trade route is established Trump will start negotiating with the EU for new terms based on reciprocity. If the EU balks, Trump reminds them he can just close direct EU trade access while reminding them EU companies can use the hub.
The EU will have no choice except to acquiesce to Trump’s terms, drop their protectionist unilateral tariffs and drop their non-tariff barriers. We finally dissolve the Marshal Plan and enter a new trade era based on actual reciprocity.
Eight countries (USA, UK, Canada, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany), harbouring 9% of humanity, report 67% of COVID-19 (C-19) fatalities. Are these countries pandemic dead-zones; or, are they jurisdictions wherein medico-legal bureaucrats systematically manipulate and misrepresent “cause of death” designations on official death certificates?
The eight break into two categories:
Lombardy occupies a landlocked 23,800 square kilometres of northern Italy. Of Lombardy’s 10 million inhabitants 85% call Milan home.
On February 21, Lombardy became the first polity outside China to report a cluster of C-19 cases. Organized scribbling of “COVID-19” onto death certificates commenced three days thereafter.
Lombardy, with 15% of Italy’s population, has rung-up 50% of Italy’s C-19 deaths. Lombardy’s certifiers of death have signed-off on 14,189 C-19 fatalities. For comparison:
North Carolina (pop 10 million) reports 420 C-19 deaths.
Lombardy, we are to believe, suffered more fatalities than Asia.
Spain performed the same pandemic tragicomedy as Italy, albeit two weeks later. Community of Madrid assumed the protagonist role in Spain that Lombardy plays in Italy.
Community of Madrid (one of 17 regional governments) has a population of 6.7 million. Territorially, it overlaps Metropolitan Madrid.
During the ramp-up of Spain’s C-19 death certification initiative (March 3-12) Madrid posted half Spain’s C-19 deaths. Currently, Madrid with 13% of Spain’s population, reports 33% of Spain’s C-19 deaths.
Madrid has allegedly suffered 8,376 C-19 fatalities. For contrast:
Canada’s west-coast province of British Columbia, home to 5.1 million people with vastly greater contact with China than the Madrilenians have, reports just 112 C-19 fatalities.
Bavaria is nowhere near Milan or Madrid in body-count but remains noteworthy because of its outlier status within the German Federation. As well, Bavaria was the first area to copy northern Italy’s imposition of martial law.
The Free State of Bavaria occupies a landlocked 70,500 square kilometres of Germany’s south-eastern corner. Half its 13 million inhabitants live in or around Munich.
Bavaria, with 15% of Germany’s population, has recorded 29% of Germany’s C-19 deaths. It is the only significant Federation member reporting over the national average. Bavaria’s 1,926 deaths dwarf those of Berlin (pop 3.7 million) which has recorded a mere 154.
Five contiguous, integrated US states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, boast a combined population of 39.7 million. C-19 cases were reported there in early March; deaths followed two weeks later.
These five northeastern states’ C-19 death toll accounts for 59% of the US total despite these states comprising barely 12% of the US population. Their collective 39,353 C-19 death toll is greater than the toll from the rest of America combined and it exceeds that of any country other than the USA!
California (pop 39.9 million) has more contact with China than the US northeast. California’s C-19 death toll is 2,215.
Canada (pop 37.7 million) has listed 3,682 official C-19 fatalities.
Quebec (pop 8.5 million) has registered 2,205 C-19 deaths. Thus with 22% of Canada’s population, Quebec reports 60% of Canada’s C-19 fatalities.
Canada’s four western provinces (pop 12.1 million) have incurred only 221 C-19 fatalities. The east-coast provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick (combined pop: 1 million) have yet to mourn a C-19 death.
The Munich-Milan-Madrid-Manhattan-Montreal nexus generates C-19 death data starkly at odds with data from the rest of the world. Compare the deaths-per-million tallies of New York City (2,251), Milan (1,418) and Madrid (1,250) with the global average: 32.
From Tel Aviv to Seoul to Moscow major metropolitan areas with modern medical facilities, (and having undertaken extensive C-19 testing) are posting deaths-per-million counts in the 5 to 25 range.
The five profiled regions are laughable statistical outliers. Their data must be excluded from the larger set. Instruments giving completely out-of-whack readings typically get replaced.
Sources
How does mortality differ across countries?
Worldometer
WHO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports
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