The Second Most Evil Person on the Planet Right Behind Bill Gates

Re-posted from The Conservative Tree house By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh —— Bio and Archives—April 28, 2020

On March 9, 2020, I flew back to D.C. The flight was more than half empty which was quite unusual—all flights to D.C. had been running at full capacity prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now remaining flights are almost empty with demand down in some cases by 96 percent.

A month later I wrote an article asking President Trump to open up the economy as it became more evident that the supply and delivery chains have been severely disrupted by the draconian quarantine-driven lockdowns of individual Democrat states, lockdowns which are yet to be lifted partially or fully. This resulted in closing small American businesses, the bread and butter of our economy. Open Up The U.S. Economy As Soon As Possible

Usually a quarantine is established to separate sick people from the healthy and, as the word says, it is meant for 40 days. But the state governors have decided to lock down healthy people, beyond the 40 days, with plans of more in-home confinement, robbing them of their freedom of assembly, religion, speech, and freedom of movement.

With 30 million out of work and fudged death numbers from COVID-19, the hysteria has built up to the point where people are afraid to even get out of their homes without a mask, much less go to work.

Unemployment checks, ginned up fear and panic, bailouts, and forced government closures of businesses based on random decisions of “essential vs. non-essential” have further exacerbated the problem of returning to work. Social interaction has become evil in less than two months of constant government PSAs on TV, radio, print media, and grocery stores.

Salesmen in America used to travel around the country to small towns USA in the 70s-80s and found every little town with a town square with stores and factories around the town where people would be employed. Those factories sit empty now, victims of the production exodus to Communist China or the buildings have been razed to make room for some other development. In light of the COVID-19 manufactured crisis which is destroying the world’s economy, the obvious question must be asked, why can we not build things in America again?

There are many products in short supply right now,  but freezers, upright and chest type, are something that we never thought would be hard to find. One store offered to order a freezer but it would not arrive earlier than June and, if things do not improve, it may be August or later.

Then the  owner launched into a discussion about what is going on in this country and how wrong this shutdown is. He said, that if the mayor had told him that he had to close his shop (a business he has built over decades), he would have gone to jail rather than close his store. He was of the opinion that shutting down the country and businesses is completely ludicrous.  He also added that most who come into their store ask if the appliances are made in America.

In a 2015 Consumer Report recommendations for best freezers, about half of them were made at the time in the U.S.

In a 2019 interview, Marc Blumenthal said that “an Amana chest freezer and a Maytag upright freezer are made in Ottawa, Ohio.”

Should we as consumers put pressure on suppliers and store owners to have more made in America products and parts? Is it right to export most of our manufacturing to an inimical country, one ruled by the Communist Party at that, when it is not in our best interest?

If you can’t find a freezer right now and you wish to purchase one, perhaps you should join a grassroots campaign to bring back more manufacturing to America under American ownership.

There are many former manufacturing hubs around the country where factories are sitting empty. Can’t Americans who have the know-how re-purpose old factories? President Trump has certainly advocated so for a long time. America needs to manufacture its own products, especially key industries for our nation’s security such as defense, steel, medical equipment, computers, pharmaceuticals, meat packing, vitamins, appliances, and other essentials for our food supply.

These are the unintended consequence of a Chinese produced COVID-19 crisis. We have allowed China to control manufacturing in the U.S. of formerly ‘Made in America’ products. For a list of products still made in America check here and the reference list at the bottom of this article.

In order to return manufacturing to the U.S., we must train a better skilled workforce. Not everybody needs to go to college to get an unmarketable degree in social and racial justice for which there are so few jobs. It is noteworthy that you prefer justice to rule the world,  but can you feed and shelter your family with a worthless college degree? Many technical and manufacturing jobs pay so much better and you don’t have to spend your parents’ life savings on expensive college tuition. And there is always huge satisfaction at the end of the day for a skilled job well done.

Note: Made in the USA reference list:

• Act For America
• American Manufacturing
• Made In America
• Made In USA Forever
• Still Made In USA
• America Working
• Any Town USA
• Everything Kitchens
• Strictly USA
• The Made In America Movement
• USA Love List
• Aris Industrial

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Cliff Kincaid —— Bio and Archives—April 28, 2020

Most of the media were too busy covering the phony Russia-gate story to notice how China has been directly involved in controversial coronavirus research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Since the media ignored the threat, they are now charging President Trump with ignoring the threat and peddling “conspiracy theories” about it. This is how the fake news media deceive the American people on a matter of life and death.

Evidence shows that the Trump Administration for at least two years has been urging the FBI and the NIH to crack down on Chinese exploitation and theft of sensitive U.S. Government research.

Media have treated news of a suspension of NIH funds to the EcoHealth Alliance as a “conspiracy theory”

A Harvard biochemist who claimed backing from the NIH has already been charged in a scheme to benefit China.

True to form, our media have treated news of a suspension of NIH funds to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American group working with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as a “conspiracy theory” led by President Trump. Since news about the suspension of funds was leaked to Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News, a series of stories alleging this is all a “conspiracy theory” involving Trump have appeared in the following left-wing publications: Politico, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo,  and Raw Story.

This is how reporters justify (to themselves) ignoring the scandal that was developing right under their noses. They would rather run interference for the Chinese regime than inform the American people about controversial research that may have spawned the Chinese release of the coronavirus.

In the middle of this scandal is NIH director Dr. Francis Collins, an Obama holdover who publicly affirms his Christian faith but has a long history of collaborating with the communist Chinese regime.

This is what the media really fear – disclosure of evidence that the Chinese conducted dangerous virus experiments with the help of the Obama Administration.

Here’s the background: Collins had served as an advisor on healthcare to Barack Hussein Obama during his 2008 campaign and on his transition team. After he was appointed by Obama as NIH Director in 2009, he began the process of deep cooperation with China, This led to the  U.S.-China Program for Biomedical Research, which provided financial awards for U.S. and Chinese “collaborating investigators” and sent millions of dollars  through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), whose director is Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.

Collins appears in a 2010 report that includes a photograph with Professor Chen Yiyu, President of the National Science Foundation of China, signing a memorandum of understanding for joint medical research involving diseases “severely threatening mankind’s lives.” Another story and photo showed Collins exchanging gifts with Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu during a visit to Beijing, saying they worked “to strengthen the already robust research collaborations between the two countries” and “promote innovation and strategic medical research.”

On October 14, 2010, Collins and a delegation paid a visit to Peking University (PKU) Health Science Center, as a story indicates that the participants expressed a hope for “a more extensive partnership on scientific research, academic exchange, and personnel training in future…”

Collins had been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science for leading the Human Genome Project, whose purpose was to understand DNA in order to fight disease. That veered out of control when the Chinese component spawned genetically-engineered babies.

Chinese government program to recruit National Institutes of Health-funded researchers, in order to “steal intellectual property” and “establish shadow laboratories in China

His continued directorship of the NIH came into doubt after Donald J. Trump was elected president. Pro-life groups such as the Charlotte Lozier Institute attacked Collins for his “support of human embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and the creation of ethically-questionable human-animal chimeras.”

More than 40 conservative Republicans wrote to the president in May 2017 urging him to fire Collins because of his support for human embryonic stem cell research.

Nevertheless, Collins was retained as NIH Director at the urging of Senator Roy Blunt and other “moderate” GOP members of the Senate and House. That was a big mistake. Collins’ ongoing relationship with the Chinese medical and scientific establishment finally got him into trouble in 2019 when Blunt arranged an April 11 Senate hearing on oversight of the NIH budget.

At the hearing, Blunt described a Chinese government program to recruit National Institutes of Health-funded researchers, in order to “steal intellectual property” and “establish shadow laboratories in China,” and to “help the Chinese government obtain confidential information about NIH research grants.” He referred to how China’s Thousand Talents Plan (TTP), a program controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, was threatening “the integrity of the NIH system.”

Harvard University professor and two Chinese nationals had been charged with crimes in several “China-related cases”

Meanwhile, a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearingon November 19, 2019. Senator Rob Portman revealed the problem was so serious that “…we learned that Thousand Talents Plan members worked at National Labs on sensitive research and maintained security clearances.”

In fact, the Senate subcommittee released a report, Threats to the U.S. Research Enterprise: China’s Talent Recruitment Plans, which said, “NIH has attempted to address the threats presented by foreign talent recruitment plans like the TTP, but significant gaps in grant integrity efforts remain unaddressed. These gaps have made it difficult for NIH to engage in proactive efforts to prevent foreign exploitation of U.S.-funded research.”

On January 20, 2020, as the coronavirus was spreading inside the United States, the Department of Justice announced that a Harvard University professor and two Chinese nationals had been charged with crimes in several “China-related cases.” Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was described as a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan between 2012 and 2017. But the complaint says Lieber lied to federal investigators about his involvement with the Thousand Talents Plan.

Lieber’s “sponsors,” as identified on his web site, include the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, and MITRE, a think tank.

Released accidentally or intentionally, the virus has destroyed millions of lives and our economy

As the Trump Administration was trying to get Collins to pay more attention to the problem, he acknowledged under questioning by Senator Blunt at the April 2019 Senate hearing that there were “egregious instances where our funding of grants in this country is being taken advantage of by individuals who are not following the appropriate rules.” He said the FBI was investigating “vigorously” and that some of the information about the problem was classified.

Collins told Blunt that investigations of NIH-funded foreign scientists were ongoing at more than 55 U.S. institutions. (see the  video of the hearing and the Collins testimony at the 40 minute and 59 seconds mark). In a letter, he said “This kind of inappropriate influence is not limited to biomedical research; it has been a significant issue for defense and energy research for some time.”

It looks like a classic case of Americans supplying the rope the communists needed to hang us. Whether it was released accidentally or intentionally, the rope in this case was a virus that destroyed millions of lives and our economy.

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Bob Hoye —— Bio and Archives—April 28, 2020

“That which is not compulsory is prohibited”

Also, the spreading condemnation of government intrusion may be offensive to Liberals in Canada and Democrats in America. Fortunately for perspective, physics provides a practical definition of an authoritarian system “That which is not compulsory is prohibited”. This elegantly covers everything from the Kremlin to Ottawa and from DC to school boards.

In all political jurisdictions fear has been employed. A generic fear is that without central planners “bad things” will happen. So far as can be told, Stephen King has not published a novel or short story by that name. Original backers of the Federal Reserve System boasted that it could prevent recessions. Since its inception in 1913, there have been 18 recessions and “19” is staring us in the face. Which will be the only one forced by policymakers.

In the early 1970s, a “bad thing” was “Climate Cooling”, but over the past 30 years policy hysteria has been focused upon “Global Warming”.

Of course, today’s most urgent of all “bad things” is the Wuhan Flu, which initially unleashed draconian controls that only Communists can impose. Regrettably, the rest of the world followed, each its own way. Essentially, the whole of the US, including “Flyover Country” has been shut down because New York City is unusually susceptible to yet another respiratory disease. And Gotham is administered by Democrats, who will use any excuse to impose control.

Indeed, recently The Diplomat headlined “Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?”. The article published on April 15^th discussed both sides. And then there has been the obsequious support of the ChiComs by the World Health Organization (WHO). Essentially touting the Communist Party line. And President Trump has “two experts” advising him. On the 26^th, YouTube announced it would “remove any content that goes against WHO recommendations.”

And for Beijing it started by denying there was a health problem in Wuhan. That was in December when the story and concerns by local medical doctors were squelched. One explanation was that China wanted to conclude the trade agreement with the US, before revealing a serious problem. The other is the tradition of denying “bad things”.

This was the case with a deadly earthquake in January 1970 when in the midst of the Cultural Revolution the news of the disaster was covered up (Irish Times, January 8, 2000). The death toll was some 15,000 and downplaying of the disaster went along with a few years of Beijing denying a famine that killed 20 million.

The Tangshan Earthquake of July 1976 was devastating

The Tangshan Earthquake of July 1976 was devastating. As this writer recalls, initially China denied the severity of the temblor as well as casualties. One reason was that Communists prided themselves on their ability to predict earthquakes. And the other is that within the perfectly planned society nothing could go wrong.

But geologists around the world instantly knew the severity of the quake and that it was centered in a populated region. Eventually the government admitted the disaster but due to their omnipotence denied outside aid. Some 240,000 were killed and 85 percent of buildings were destroyed, making it one of the deadliest in history.

So, in the face of natural disaster Beijing’s mode has been to deny and cover up. Today’s coverup included that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted from human to human. Then in a rush, likely in the interests of perfection, locked down Wuhan as well as 15 other cities. Amounting to control over some 57 million people, and draconian measures were introduced by “panicked” statists in many countries.

London in the summer of 1665: Fastest plunge in the global economy ever

And the result is the fastest plunge in the global economy ever. This writer is a financial historian and is familiar with all of the recorded economic crashes. As they have occurred in important financial centers there is only one example of financial distress directly due to disease. That was in London in the summer of 1665 when the bubonic plague killed 100,000 or a quarter of London’s population. For over 18 months it was devastating as shipping and afflicted houses were quarantined.

There were popular protests as business collapsed. London was the most severely hit and diarist Samuel Pepys recorded in September “Lord! How empty the streets are.” However, rumors went around that no tobacconist ever got the plague.

Fortunately, London got back to business. In March 1666, the Lord Chancellor stated ”… the streets were as full, the Exchange as much crowded, the people in all places as numerous as they have ever been…” (James Leasor, The Plague and the Fire, 1962).

Now that was in the face of the Black Death. Today’s hysteria about the SARS-CoV-2 flu has been a deliberate promotion by ambitious control freaks. The Green New Deal plans to end airline and private car traffic and fortunately ordinary folk are beginning to see that this form of utopia is impractical.

Which could be the case with the promotion that a committee can “manage” the temperature of the nearest planet.

The Fed legend about preventing financial “bad things” happening anywhere is losing credibility.

In-your-face and in-your-wallet government is being more widely seen as too much intrusion. And with such rank promotions becoming so obvious, popular movements could eventually accomplish another great reformation. The first step would be the freedom to work and play, not to overlook freedom of assembly.