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Best of the Web: The Swedish experiment looks like it's paying off

Fredrik Erixon
The Spectator
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:37 UTC
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about 'the Swedish experiment' in The Spectator. As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach to tackling coronavirus: cities, schools and restaurants have remained open. This was judged by critics to be utterly foolish: it would allow the virus to spread much faster than elsewhere, we were told, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. Hospitals would become like warzones. As Sweden was two weeks behind the UK on the epidemic curve, most British experts said we'd pay the price for our approach when we were at the peak. Come back in two weeks, I was told. Let's see what you're saying then. So here I am.

I'm happy to say that those fears haven't materialised. But the pressure on Sweden to change tack hasn't gone away. We haven't u-turned. We're careful, staying inside a lot more. But schools and shops remain open. Unlike some countries on the continent, no one is asking for 'our papers' when we move around in cities. The police don't stop us and ask why we are spending so much time outdoors: authorities rather encourage it. No one is prying in shopping baskets to make sure you only buy essentials.

The country's Public Health Agency and the 'state epidemiologist', Anders Tegnell, have kept their cool and still don't recommend a lockdown. They are getting criticised by scientific modellers but the agency is sticking to its own model of how the virus is expected to develop and what pressure hospitals will be under. The government still heeds the agency's advice; no party in the opposition argues for a lockdown. Rather, opinion polls show that Swedes remain strongly in favour of the country's liberal approach to the pandemic.

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Best of the Web: A Real New Deal & Debt Jubilee or a Green New Deal & Global Dictatorship?

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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As scary as it is for some to admit even at this stage of the game, the current financial system sits precariously on the edge of a meltdown beyond anything ever recorded in human history. Normally, such a systemic meltdown would generate such turbulence and panic that the masses of complacent subjects would be induced to action in defense of their families and nations, however under current circumstances, the coronavirus pandemic has ensured that no such mass movement, or policy fight has taken shape.

As I wrote in a February 27th editorial Why the Coming Economic Collapse Will NOT be Caused by Coronavirus, the inevitability of the meltdown has been well known to all leading central bankers and highly placed officials in "a position to know" for a very long time. This fact was known even before the new wave of emergency bailouts were begun in September 2019 starting with $50 billion/night of overnight repo loans. It was known even before the age of bailout was created to postpone the 2008-09 collapse of the system under threat of Martial Law. It was known before Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999 and over-the-counter derivatives were deregulated in 2001. Let's just say it's been a part of a very ugly plan for a very long time.

But make no mistake, you didn't have to be a "highly placed" banker or technocratic social engineer to know this collapse was going to happen. No crystal ball was ever needed.

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Best of the Web: Respiratory doctor calls BS on the coronavirus 'pandemic'

Makia Freeman
The Freedom Articles
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:52 UTC
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© YouTube screenshotThis respiratory doctor lays out the truth behind the fake coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 test is flawed and the case count is inflated.



Comment: This video has already disappeared from the originating article. An alternate upload was found but may yet be censored.


Transcription:

"Good evening YouTube. This is our future and the power's with the people. Just wanted to let you know I am a respiratory therapist and I've been doing this for 21 years. I've been kind of all over the place doing this. I wanted to show you our equipment room here. So we want to talk about COVID-19 for a few minutes and the first thing I want to say is: does it look like there's a ventilator shortage? There's not, okay! As a matter of fact, we're running less ventilators right now than we would normally run and that's cause people are just staying home. They're not having elective surgeries. I want to talk about the numbers and the criteria that goes into what a COVID patient is, or a patient under investigation (what's also called a PUI). Basically right now, and the way it has been last couple of months when they locked us down, is that any patient that came in with a respiratory problem was labeled COVID. Now that doesn't matter if it's you got stage 4 lung cancer, pancreatitis, heart disease, liver failure and everything else - you're still, because you come in with breathing problems, you're labeled a COVID patient.
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Best of the Web: I'm in ghost town Madrid, witnessing a brutal lockdown enforcement. Is it even constitutional?

Jason O'Toole
RT
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:03 UTC
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Madrid has felt eerily like a ghost town ever since the radical lockdown began almost six weeks ago, but an investigation is now looking into whether the heavy-handed approach by the Spanish police is even constitutionally sound.

There's a deafening silence here in the Spanish capital, which is broken only by the ominous sounds of police or ambulance sirens. The city briefly comes to life every night at 7:58pm, when Madrilenos take to their balconies to applaud healthcare workers on the frontline. It's done with such great gusto - there are even vuvuzelas blasting away and people singing - that it can feel like a cup final night in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

It obviously helps to create a positive spirit of togetherness, but tensions are running high. I don't want to come across like controversial radio host Alex Jones harping on about far-right conspiracy theories, and I certainly won't say the situation in Spain is like a return to the bad old days under Franco's regime - but with the military visible on the streets of Spain it's hard not to describe the situation as martial law in all but name.
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Best of the Web: Sabotage: Labour's own senior staff acted to keep Corbyn out of power, leaked internal report reveals


Media Lens
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
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© Press AssociationJeremy Corbyn speaking to another overflow crowd, this time in Gateshead, northeast England, on 5 June 2017
In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by Labour, putting Corbyn in a strong position to lead a coalition government.

Labour achieved 40 per cent in the election, increasing its share of the vote by more than any other of the party's election leaders since 1945. As we noted at the time, it was one of the most astonishing results in UK political history.

A leaked internal Labour report now reveals that senior Labour figures were actively trying to stop Labour winning the general election in order to oust Corbyn as party leader. The 860-page document, 'The work of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in relation to antisemitism, 2014 - 2019', first leaked to Sky News, was the product of an extensive internal investigation into the way Labour handled antisemitism complaints.

The report includes copious damning examples of email and WhatsApp exchanges among Labour officials expressing contempt for Jeremy Corbyn and anyone who supported him, including other Labour staff, Labour MPs and even the public.

Comment: Destroyed from within, aided by factions without: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Introducing Political Ponerology, plus some odds and ends

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Best of the Web: Deadliest mass killing in Canada's history: At least 18 dead after man goes on shooting spree in Nova Scotia - UPDATES

Alexander Quon
GlobalNews.ca
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 07:47 UTC
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© Nova Scotia RCMP - HOGabriel Wortman, 51, has been identified by RCMP as the suspect in their active shooter investigation in Portapique, N.S., on April 19, 2020.
Nova Scotia RCMP said a suspect in a shooting investigation near Portapique, Nova Scotia was taken into custody on Sunday. They identified the suspect as 51 year-old Gabriel Wortman, but would not specify the number of victims or say whether any individuals had been killed in the incident.

Multiple people, including one member of the RCMP, are dead after a shooting rampage in a community in rural Nova Scotia on Sunday.

Gabriel Wortman, 51, is believed to be the primary suspect in the shooting spree that occurred in and around the area of Portapique, N.S.

Multiple sources told Global News that Wortman is dead. A body matching the description of Wortman was seen at the Enfield Big Stop on Highway 102.

Comment: UPDATE April 19 21:25 CET

Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported that at least 16 people were killed across Nova Scotia before the gunman was 'neutralized' after an exchange of gunfire. Authorities warned earlier that there might be more victims as they were still investigating. Police said they do not know the motive of the rampage yet, but it appeared to be "very random in nature," as some of the victims had no relation to the shooter. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history.

UPDATE April 20 13:11 CET

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed that at least 18 were killed, with police saying that they believe the attacker targeted specific victims only to then go on killing random strangers. He has also disguised himself and his vehicle. Conflicting reports said that the killer had been detained but now authorities have confirmed he is "deceased" following a firefight with police.

RT provides further information of how the events unfolded:
  • He made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser and wore a police uniform, which indicates the attack wasn't totally spontaneous.
  • The chase for the suspect, who changed vehicles at least once, went along one of Nova Scotia province's busiest highways and ended near a gas station 35 kilometers north of Halifax around noon Sunday.
  • Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year veteran of the RCMP and mother of two, was killed responding to the active shooter incident, while another RCMP officer is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
  • One of the victims was informally identified by her sister as Lisa McCully, an elementary school teacher and a volunteer at the Berwick bible camp.
The Nova Scotia massacre has become the deadliest mass killing in the history of Canada, overshadowing the 1989 mass shooting at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, which led to tighter gun controls. Earlier, authorities warned that there might be even more victims as the investigation is ongoing and involves "multiple" crime scenes, some with "structures on fire."







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Best of the Web: Corona World Order: Chileans granted permission to leave their homes IF they sign up for 'immunity passports' to prove they're not infected

David Aaro
Fox News
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:16 UTC
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© AP Photo/Esteban FelixA flight passenger is screened with a thermal imaging camera at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, on April 20.
Chile announced plans Monday to issue the world's first "immunity passports" for recovered coronavirus patients that would make residents exempt from quarantines and other restrictions, according to a report on Monday.

The cards, which will be rolled out later this week, will allow those who have recovered from the virus to return to work.

"It's precisely they who can help the community enormously, because they don't present a risk," Health Minister Jaime Mañalich said last week, according to the Washington Post.

More than 4,600 people who have recovered from COVID-19 in the country will be eligible, according to Paula Daza, an undersecretary of public health in Chile.

Residents can also apply for the cards, which will be issued to people with a "very high probability" of being noncontagious. Others who apply may be tested for antibodies to determine if they are eligible.


Comment: And how exactly will they determine that? Flip a coin?


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Vader

Best of the Web: French govt issues post-lockdown decrees: Most measures to remain in place (indefinitely) beyond 'deconfinement date' of May 11th

Sarah Smith
French Connexion
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:52 UTC
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Prime Minister Edouard Philippe accompanied by the Health Minister spoke in a televised address for more than two hours tonight giving information and answering questions about Covid-19 and deconfinement plans for France. Here are key points:

Progressive deconfinement from May 11;

Too many people suffering from non-Covid-19 related illnesses and chronic diseases are not continuing their necessary care. Consultations are considerably down sparking concern. There has also been a drop in cancer screening and vaccinations. Health Minister Olivier Véran said the message to patients is strongly: Do not ignore the healthcare you need;

Mr Philippe announced a "probable" requirement for mask use on public transport from May 11;

The Prime Minister evoked the three points which the government sees as essential after the end of confinement: maintaining 'barriers', wide-scale testing and the isolation of patients (either at home or in dedicated establishments depending on their family home situation). The exact details of the deconfinement procedure will be debated in parliament at the beginning of May;


Comment: Oh good, they're going to take a democratic vote on how to continue conducting wilful economic collapse and mass incarceration, hystericization and terrorization of the population.


Comment: So there you have it. They're going to wilfully collapse the economy in order to wholly restructure society as they see fit.

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Best of the Web: #Resistance: Protesters gather in southern Russia and Germany to demand end to 'pandemic lockdown'


RT
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:37 UTC

Comment: Social distancing doesn't apply to NWO goons apparently...


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German polizei 'beat some sense into' a 'Covid-19 denialist'
Hundreds of protesters - most of them unmasked - gathered on Monday in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the southern Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, to demand the cancellation of the self-isolation regime. The unauthorized meeting took place near the building of the local government despite restrictions, which will last till April 30.

A group of representatives was formed among the protesters and began negotiations with officials, TASS reported. The head of the republic, Vyacheslav Bitarov, spoke with some of the demonstrators earlier, saying that authorities will help everyone in need of aid. Bitarov also asked the republic's residents to stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic, "as people in other countries do it," but those gathered did not listen to him, according to reports. Around 1,500 people took part in the action, the Kommersant daily said.

Videos from the Svoboda (Freedom) Square in the capital of Russia's Republic of North Ossetia showed the demonstrators trying to break police cordons and tossing stones at officers in full riot gear.


Comment: It appears even Russia isn't immune to the global COVID-19 hysteria virus.

There have also been protests in the US and in Germany, with German police returning to their old ways after a 75-year hiatus:



The protests in the US are the biggest so far - and many of the protesters are armed:


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Best of the Web: White House petition to investigate Bill Gates for crimes against humanity to hit half a million signatures - 5 times the number to qualify

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:01 UTC
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Bill Gates
A petition to investigate Bill Gates for "crimes against humanity" and "medical malpractice" has gained a staggering 289,000 signatures from concerned citizens, almost tripling the number required to get a response from the White House. Because the petition is only ten days old, it may hit half a million signatures.

The "We the People" petition < — - which can be signed by going to that site — asks the federal government to call on Congress to investigate the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stating that "Congress and all other governing bodies are derelict in duty until a thorough and public inquiry is complete."

The petition created on April 10 reached the threshold of 100,000 signatures within days and is currently one of the most popular petitions on the site.

Comment: People are starting to see through "Saint Bill"

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