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Best of the Web: The lockdown is not backed by science. And now the economy is flatlining

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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Can we admit that we were wrong? Can we admit that the coronavirus is not going to kill "hundreds of thousands or even millions" of Americans? Can we admit that the public health system is not going to buckle and collapse? Can we admit that we fashioned our public policy on flawed computer models that proved utterly worthless? Can we admit that the number of people infected is significantly larger than the official numbers? Can we admit that the percentage of fatalities is going to be significantly lower? Can we admit that the majority of people who have died are over 60 with serious underlying conditions like high-blood pressure, diabetes, obesity etc? Can we admit that there is no "historical scientific basis" for using "lockdowns" to fight a pandemic? Can we admit that "social distancing", "shelter in place", "self isolation" and "self quarantine" are arbitrary directives aimed at social control and not science-based remedies derived from serious research? Can we admit that the new data and the hard science do not support the existing policy but suggest that savaging civil liberties, decimating the economy and keeping the entire population in a perennial state of hysteria, is a gross overreaction that has done incalculable damage to the country, to our economic well-being, and to our tattered credibility as a responsible nation?

The bottom line is this: The data and the science do not support the current policy. That alone should give us pause.

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Best of the Web: Trump and Putin talk: How is this bad?

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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According to MSN and most mainstream American news outlets, the Trump administration has caused certain lawmakers on Capitol Hill deep concern over a gesture of peace and brotherhood between nations. The coming row will show the world, the real purveyors of crisis and war on our planet. Read on to find out who they are.

MSN bills a document drafted by the Trump administration as an "unusual declaration intended to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a meeting between American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River on April 25, 1945." But, such an olive branch only seems unusual if we consider the never-ending conflict between the United States and Russia as acceptable.

The MSN reporters cannot even come up with a decent provocation to justify their one-sided report. The best Microsoft's news dogs can come up with is Russian fighters buzzing American Navy planes over the Mediterranean Sea. That's as if the US Navy never practiced targeting Mig or Sukhoi jets whenever they're close by. Readers of American media get a constant menu like this. Russia helping Syria. Putin wants to remake the Soviet Union. And so on.

The ones so deeply concerned include Rep. Eliot Engel (D, NY), who is, if you can imagine, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. What this psychopath Tweeted should make a chill run down your spine if you ever wondered about world peace:
"Everyone knows that Trump has a bizarre infatuation with Russia's autocratic leader and that Trump constantly plays into Putin's hands."

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Best of the Web: Latest CDC computer model predicts between 0 and 12.6 billion new COVID-19 deaths by summer


Babylon Bee
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:19 UTC
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U.S. — After several embarrassing and widely divergent revisions to the coronavirus projections of infection, hospitalization, and death rate used by government officials around the world to justify shutting down the global economy, experts at John Hopkins have now deployed a state-of-the-art super-scientific computer model and have now determined that between 0 and 12.6 billion people will contract the disease and be completely dead by summer.

"The panel of experts came together to give Americans the true picture of what we are looking at," said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as he pointed to lots of completely accurate up-to-date charts and graphs from the study. "This is not just the flu. This is going to wipe out between 0 and 12.6 billion people before summer hits."

As a result of the new predictions, the CDC has revised their guidelines for essential workers to continue wearing a face covering and regularly taking their temperature, but to also begin praying to whatever higher power they choose as they await the impending death of everyone on June 1.

Comment: We'll be lucky if it stays in the billions. Trillions, more like!

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Flashback Best of the Web: Trump's fight against child sex trafficking a possible reason for the staunch opposition against him

Liz Crokin
Townhall
Sun, 05 Mar 2017 13:04 UTC
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The shadow government led by former President Barack Obama is working overtime to delegitimize President Donald Trump and his administration. They've accused and even set up Trump's people to tie his administration to "evil" Russia and now Trump's alleging that Obama tapped his phones. There's never been such a concerted effort in modern history, if ever, to overthrow a democratically elected U.S. president by not only the Democrats but by some Republicans aka RINOS as well. The bigger question is why are they so desperately trying to stage this coup and sabotage his presidency? Why is Obama remaining in Washington D.C. and moving his top adviser Valerie Jarrett into his new mansion? Furthermore, why is Trump's opposition so hell bent on tying him to Russia and using the superpower as a scapegoat when they are the actual ones who have far more questionable ties to the Kremlin? As Trump's enemies continue to tell the masses to pay no attention to that man behind the green curtain, let's dare to do just that.

On Feb. 25, I published a column here analyzing why the mainstream media is ignoring Trump's massive sex trafficking busts and his recent press conference addressing the problem. I concluded it's partly because the MSM and the left don't care about protecting children if it doesn't enable them to destroy their political opposition. This story quickly became the no. 1 trending story on Townhall's site. Not only did the MSM continue to ignore this issue, I received dozens of messages from readers complaining that social media forums were censoring my column. In a strange twist, one of the few media outlets that did a follow-up on my story was the Russian state-run Sputnik news outlet. Social media also censored their follow-up on my story. I've written several investigative pieces on how social media has censored conservative voices; however, they now appear to be censoring stories that expose child sex trafficking and pedophiles.

Comment: On the one hand, it seems unlikely that Trump's 'anti-pedophile drive' - to whatever extent that has actually manifested in increased prosecutions - is the factor that turned the US elites against him. After all, he threatened to overturn so much more that is dear to them.

However, knowing what we do about the lengths pedophiles will go to cover up their crimes and - very often - get their victims locked up in prison instead, it is reasonable to make the case that it is a core motivating factor. Pedophilia and other deviant 'arts' certainly do 'bind' elites (via blackmail operations like Wexner/Epstein's, for example) to 'shared common interest'...

See also: PedoGate Update: The Global Elite's Pedophile Empire is Crumbling - But Will it Ever Crash?

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Best of the Web: When COVID-19 deaths go up, other deaths go down

Koen Swinkels
Medium
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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CDC data show that increases in the number of COVID-19 deaths coincide with roughly proportional decreases in the number of non-pneumonia & non-influenza deaths.

The result is that the overall numbers of weekly deaths are roughly the same in 2020 as they were in the 4 years prior. (Do note that the 2020 numbers for Week 16 could still be revised upwards)

As to why this is so, there are likely multiple reasons, but part of the explanation may have to do with the way COVID-19 deaths are counted, as described in this (frankly shocking) video: If someone dies and at the time of death was also known to have tested positive for COVID-19 they are automatically counted as a COVID-19 death. In other words, deaths are listed as COVID-19 deaths even when the cause of death was clearly something else.

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Best of the Web: Gov. Newsom instructs California coroners to examine deaths dating back to DECEMBER for COVID-19

Kerry Crowley
The Mercury News
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:20 UTC
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is instructing coroners to examine whether people who died as far back as December were COVID-19-positive
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And yet he went 'full lockdown' on California
Gov. Gavin Newsom said 86 more people who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus died in California on Tuesday, bringing the statewide COVID-19 death toll to 1,354.

During his Wednesday press briefing, Newsom said the death toll increased by 6.8% over a 24-hour period and provided an indication deaths that took place as far back as December could eventually be added to the state's count.

Following an announcement from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department Tuesday that two individuals who posthumously tested positive for COVID-19 died at their homes in February, Newsom said he has instructed coroners around the state to "dig even deeper" and perform autopsies on individuals who may have died from the novel coronavirus as far back as December, 2019.


Comment: To be clear, the California governor is pushing this in order to find as many 'COVID-19 deaths' as possible in order to increase the death toll he can reasonably claim from 'the pandemic'.

But the real implication is that COVID-19-related deaths in his state in December would - at the very least - make Wuhan one of two or more simultaneous clusters, and possibly place an 'original' cluster in the USA, not China...

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Best of the Web: Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein met many times, AFTER the pedophile was convicted

Emily Flitter, James B. Stewart
The New York Times
Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.

There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black), politicians (Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson), Nobel laureates (Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek) and even royals (Prince Andrew).

Few, though, compared in prestige and power to the world's second-richest person, a brilliant and intensely private luminary: Bill Gates. And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, whose $100 billion-plus fortune has endowed the world's largest charitable organization, has done his best to minimize his connections to Mr. Epstein. "I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him," he told The Wall Street Journal last month.

In fact, beginning in 2011, Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions — including at least three times at Mr. Epstein's palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Comment: Incidentally, shared obsessions include eugenics, 'editing' human genes, and a 'master-race':

Jeffrey Epstein dreamed of seeding 'master-race' with his DNA, planned 'baby factory' at his New Mexico ranch

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Best of the Web: Corbett Report: Speaking Truth to Power in Covid-1984 - Kit Knightly on Off-Guardian's Corona Coverage


Corbett Report
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:51 UTC
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Kit Knightly of Off-Guardian.org joins us to discuss the site's ongoing coverage of the corona crisis. From experts questioning the panic to death figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal, today we highlight the work of those who are speaking truth to power on the defining event of our age . . . and point out those who are cheering on the out-of-control police state.

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Best of the Web: Whitney Webb on the Rise of a Biotech Industrial Complex Under COVID-19

Mnar Muhawesh
MintPress News
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:45 UTC
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Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.

In this episode, we are joined by independent journalist Whitney Webb. Many of our readers and listeners are familiar with Webb from her extraordinary work at MintPress as a staff writer and investigative reporter. She is now a contributor and is working on her first book about Jeffery Epstein and his ties to the Deep State.
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Best of the Web: Genocide of the 'impure': Surge in Do Not Resuscitate orders for learning disabilities patients issued during UK lockdown

Rebecca Thomas
Health Service Journal
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
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A learning disability care provider said it has received an "unprecedented" number of do not resuscitate forms from doctors that it believes to be illegal.

Turning Point, which provides supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities, has raised concerns to HSJ that it has received 13 "unlawful" do not attempt cardio-pulmonary resuscitation or do not resuscitate orders from hospital specialists and GPs since the beginning of April, half of which came in the last week.

The provider said that, of the orders it usually receives, around 12 each year would require a legal challenge.

Turning Point, which operates facilities across the country, plans on challenging the lawfulness of the orders received this month, which it said appear to have been carried out without consultation with patients or their families.

Comment: This is just further proof that hysteria can make even those professionals entrusted with our lives act unconscionably:

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