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Why Social Distancing Should Not Be the New Normal – Dr. Joseph Mercola – LewRockwell.com

According to some, Bill Gates prominently among them, social distancing is part of “the new normal.” Alas, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest social distancing and lock downs will not be necessary at all, and were probably a bad idea in the first place.

According to Nobel-prize-winning scientist Michael Levitt,1 the rate of SARS-CoV-2 mortality never experienced exponential growth, as was predicted, which suggests a majority of people may have had some sort of prior resistance or immunity.

Levitt, a professor of structural biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, received the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. … Continue reading →

Source: Why Social Distancing Should Not Be the New Normal – LewRockwell

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Happy Juneteenth! Goodbye Aunt Jemima and Hello Greatest Depression and Hyperinflation – The Dollar Vigilante

How dare you feature a smiling black granny on a box of buttermilk pancake mix? Are you implying she has to make it for you? Or a happy black uncle on a bag of rice? Are you saying he worked his hands to the bone in the Southern paddies to bring that rice to you, you privileged scumbag? And that he is happy about it?

I really don’t know what these brands and their racially stereotyping Mad Men were thinking. Putting African Americans on food products? For 130 years?

Racists!

Of course, it is especially important to eradicate all these neon flickering signs of white supremacy today of all days: Juneteenth – the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

Sadly, quite a few troubling brands remain.

One of them is ConAgra. According to a Boston news site, the image on a box of Cream of Wheat, a beaming black man in a white chef’s uniform, has not been altered much since its debut in the late 19th century.

What???

And then there are the many, many concerns expressed about the matronly shape of Mrs. Butterworth’s container. Based on an elderly white woman, Joy Butterworth’s tone of voice, physique and style of dress too strongly resemble that of a slave mammy. Off with her head!

With this one ConAgra Brands really showed their true colors. Racist, ageist, sexist, body shaming and offending the fashion police! Worst is they tried to pull it off by saying Mrs. Butterworth was “intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother.”

It is ironic that two-centuries-old slavedom is the topic of the day, just as we are entering Slavedom 4.0 – the new and improved version. Not based on the color of your skin, or your ethnicity, or your religion… just plain old working for your Masters, earning them money and working off your debt, in exchange for them protecting you against the evil of viruses, or being out on the streets, begging for food.

So quit your low-wage job today, because it pays not to have an independent income! The US government’s CARES Act is literally incentivizing unemployment – creating millions of “philanthropy” addicts in one go.

Lucy and I were wondering what happened to Neil Ferguson, that eminent London doctor who “resigned” after being caught with his mistress, not adhering to his own wide-spread advice about social distancing. The same one who used a computer model to predict enormous death estimates – over 2.2 million in the US alone. Dr. Ferguson had previously published almost equally sensational death estimates for mad cow disease, bird flu and swine flu. The perfect man to fan the propaganda that makes people believe hospitals are running out of space and equipment and staff because of the “overwhelming” number of Coronavirus cases. Those same hospitals that are in line for their share of the 22 billion-dollar CARES-pie, also known as “Covid-19 High Impact Payments” …

This and more in today’s video, including a true All-American Hero!

[https://youtu.be/SPdWe6eJiQI]

Today, on Slave Day, think about what they’re doing. Really think about it. Then think about what you’re doing to stop it.

Publilius Syrius, a Roman slave who later became emancipated, said: “Debt is the slavery of the free.” He also said, “The opportunity is often lost by deliberating”.

The time to break free mentally, spiritually and physically is now. Tomorrow will be too late.

Wake up and take note!

“A debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.”

– David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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Source: Happy Juneteenth! Goodbye Aunt Jemima and Hello Greatest Depression and Hyperinflation – The Dollar Vigilante

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People in Xinfadi, Beijing Rounded up for Quarantine – Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng

People from Xinfadi, Beijing rounded up for quarantine, probably on Jun 14, after new CCP virus outbreak . It took a whole day to take all those people away. 7 hotels were requisitioned as quarantine sites.

 

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Is The ‘Second Wave’ Another Coronavirus Hoax? Ron Paul

Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the “medical community” told us we must throw out the “stay-at-home” orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The Covid-19 virus will not bother people who are protesting this injustice, they said. The virus only attacks people leaving their homes to protest the stay-at-home orders.

Now, after thousands of businesses – many of them black-owned – have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests. Suddenly last week they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a “second wave” of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to “open up” their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives.

Texas, Florida, and California were singled out to scare the rest of the country into thinking that if you dare leave your homes you will catch coronavirus and die. There was a “spike” in coronavirus “cases” they claimed. Funny, just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that “spike” in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders.

In the county here in Texas that includes Houston, the young judge who somehow seized the power to shut down the third largest city in the United States warns us that she may again shut down Harris County to fight this “second wave” of cases. She even threatened to again pour millions of dollars into a “field hospital” at a Houston football stadium that did not see a single patient in the “first wave” of coronavirus. It’s hard not to wonder which politically-connected companies are reaping millions in contracts for an obviously un-needed hospital. Thousands of hospital beds in Houston are vacant, while cancer patients have been refused their screenings and desperately needed treatments.

As former Congressman David Stockman points out, the actual coronavirus numbers do not in any way support the media assertion that a “second wave” of infection is cresting over Texas. Stockman informs us that in Texas the “reported infected case rate of 256 per 100,000 is just 10 percent  of the real ‘hot spot’ rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3 percent of New York City’s 196 per 100,000 rate.”

There are no “hot spots” in Texas. It’s just more media hype.

It’s funny that they don’t dare mention Georgia, which has also opened its economy and has seen no “spike” at all.

The same people who were demanding more testing are now screaming that we must shut the economy down again because these tests – which are notoriously unreliable – are showing more coronavirus cases. This is a disease that 99.9 percent of the people who are infected with survive! But 40 million people out of work and the thousands of lives that will end due to the shutdown are never mentioned.

There is something else going on here and it is in no way related to public health.

Copyright © 2020 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.

Source: Is The ‘Second Wave’ Another Coronavirus Hoax?

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Is The ‘Second Wave’ Another Coronavirus Hoax? Ron Paul

Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the “medical community” told us we must throw out the “stay-at-home” orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The Covid-19 virus will not bother people who are protesting this injustice, they said. The virus only attacks people leaving their homes to protest the stay-at-home orders.

Now, after thousands of businesses – many of them black-owned – have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests. Suddenly last week they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a “second wave” of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to “open up” their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives.

Texas, Florida, and California were singled out to scare the rest of the country into thinking that if you dare leave your homes you will catch coronavirus and die. There was a “spike” in coronavirus “cases” they claimed. Funny, just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that “spike” in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders.

In the county here in Texas that includes Houston, the young judge who somehow seized the power to shut down the third largest city in the United States warns us that she may again shut down Fort Bend County to fight this “second wave” of cases. She even threatened to again pour millions of dollars into a “field hospital” at a Houston football stadium that did not see a single patient in the “first wave” of coronavirus. It’s hard not to wonder which politically-connected companies are reaping millions in contracts for an obviously un-needed hospital. Thousands of hospital beds in Houston are vacant, while cancer patients have been refused their screenings and desperately needed treatments.

As former Congressman David Stockman points out, the actual coronavirus numbers do not in any way support the media assertion that a “second wave” of infection is cresting over Texas. Stockman informs us that in Texas the “reported infected case rate of 256 per 100,000 is just 10 percent  of the real ‘hot spot’ rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3 percent of New York City’s 196 per 100,000 rate.”

There are no “hot spots” in Texas. It’s just more media hype.

It’s funny that they don’t dare mention Georgia, which has also opened its economy and has seen no “spike” at all.

The same people who were demanding more testing are now screaming that we must shut the economy down again because these tests – which are notoriously unreliable – are showing more coronavirus cases. This is a disease that 99.9 percent of the people who are infected with survive! But 40 million people out of work and the thousands of lives that will end due to the shutdown are never mentioned.

There is something else going on here and it is in no way related to public health.

Copyright © 2020 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.

Source: Is The ‘Second Wave’ Another Coronavirus Hoax?

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The Fall of Greece. Prepare Yourself Accordingly. Stefan Molyneux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF8rLgaJnbo 

A discussion about the rise to power of the far-left Syriza party in Greece as a result of the recent elections – and the impact that it will have for all of Europe and the world! What is the truth about the austerity which Greece was under? What does their future look like?

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her primary research interests include the US economy, the federal budget, homeland security, taxation, tax competition, and financial privacy. For more, go to: http://www.thedailybeast.com/contribu…