Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Trumpizing our Institutions

Mount Trumpmore
Art Credit: artist/creator unknown

Mr. Trump's "delegitimization of the Democratic Party or anyone who doesn't think like him is similar to the Nazi program to "reconstruct or reorder" various German institutions. The Nazis got rid of, “unreliable Nazis and replaced them with reliable Nazis.” They didn't tear down the universities, the judicial system, the press. They Nazified them. “The German institutions then became sources of Nazi concepts and behavior.”

Interesting, isn’t it?

Who would have thought about doing such a thing?

Well, whether Mr. Trump – Trump zealots, Trump evangelicals, or the Trump Republicans, e.g. Sen. Mitch McConnell – have or have not, the net result is we are witnessing the Trumpization of our institutions... weakening them, getting rid of those people not deemed loyal to him and replacing them with Trump Loyalists... right before our eyes.

Here is the story…

Losing Reality: Can We Get the Truth Back?


This being the Trump era, we find ourselves once again engulfed in two realities. There’s the reality of a spiraling global challenge from coronavirus, and there’s the ALTERNATE reality created by the president and his political and propaganda empire. They are spreading a virus of their own, lulling true believers into complacent ignorance with lies and misinformation.

In this conversation, Bill Moyers talks with psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton about the dueling realities in today's America.


Why Are They Killing Us?


Where did coronavirus COVID-19 come from?

Trump Republicans argue: “The Chinese eat raw food and bats. It came from that.”

Obviously, there is much more to the story. It is fact, however, that “27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan (China).*

Dig around a little and you discover that this virus demonstrates DNA from at least three sources.

Why is that? Is that “normal”?
The answer is, “No it is rare”. So, how does it happen?
The answer: “It was created in a lab.”

While no bats were traded in the Wauhan Seafood Market and no bats are found within some, 900 kilometers from Wauhan, “the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) (one of two labs in Wuhan), is located ~280 meters from the market”*.

According to Professor Francis Boyle**, arguably, the “Ralph Nader” of biological warfare, the Wuhan Coronavirus known as COVID-19 may have leaked from, “Wuhan City’s Biosafety Level 4 facility and a designated WHO research lab, which was specifically set up to research coronaviruses and SARS”.

Further, Boyle said, “The COVID-19 virus is a chimera. It includes SARS, an already weaponized coronavirus, along with HIV genetic material and possibly flu virus."

"COVID-19 may also have a flu virus mixed in, along with gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal”

Boyle continued, “They (Wuhan lab) had already developed SARS. SARS had leaked out two to three times before this, and it seems they were turbocharging SARS, which is what [COVID-19] looks to be. This is a brand-new generation of biowarfare weapons we haven't seen before.

In the interview below he references his sources. In my view, here are a few excerpts from one of the real “smoking guns” sources*.

The greater, remaining question is: Why are the governments of the world trying to kill us? And, since the Wuhan lab bought or otherwise obtained it’s coronaviruses and SARS “seed stock” from the U.S.A., why are we letting our government create them, as well as unknown numbers of other biowarfare weapons, with our tax dollars?

*The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus, Botao Xiao (1,2*) and Lei Xiao (3)

1 Joint International Research Laboratory of Synthetic Biology and Medicine, School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China 
2 School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
3 Tian You Hospital, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430064, China
* Corresponding author: xiaob@scut.edu.cn Tel / Fax: 86-20-3938-0631           

Abstract
"The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host."

"The 2019-nCoV coronavirus has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of  the  virus published  on  Nature  this week  indicated that  the  genome  sequences  from patients were  96%  or 89% identical to the  Bat  CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis 1,2. It was critical to study where the pathogen came  from and how it passed onto human."

"An article published on The Lancet reported that 41 people in Wuhan were found to have the acute respiratory syndrome and 27 of them had contact with Huanan  Seafood Market 3. The 2019-nCoV was found in 33 out of 585 samples collected in the market after the outbreak. The market was suspicious to be the origin of the epidemic, and was shut down according to the rule of quarantine the source during an epidemic."

"The bats carrying CoV ZC45 were originally found in Yunnan or Zhejiang province, both of which were more than 900 kilometers away from the seafood market. Bats were normally found to live in caves and trees. But the seafood market is in a densely-populated district of Wuhan, a metropolitan of ~15 million people. The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market. According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market. There was possible natural recombination or intermediate host of the coronavirus, yet little proof has been reported." 

"Was there any other possible pathway? We screened the area around the seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus. Within ~280 meters from the market, here was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) (Figure 1) from Baidu and Google maps). WHCDC hosted animals in laboratories for research purpose, one of which was specialized in pathogens collection and identification 4-6.  In one of their studies, 155 bats including Rhinolophus affinis were  captured  in  Hubei province, and other 450 bats were captured in Zhejiang province 4. The expert in collection was noted in the Author Contributions (JHT). Moreover, he was broadcasted for collecting viruses on nation-wide newspapers and websites in 2017 and 2019 7,8. He described that he was once by attacked by bats and the blood of a bat shot on his skin. He knew  the extreme danger of the infection so he quarantined himself for 14 days 7. In another accident, he quarantined himself again because bats peed on him. He was once thrilled for capturing a bat carrying a live tick 8.

See video of Dr. Mercola’s interview of Prof. Boyle,

Go here is a PDF transcript, Is the Wuhan Coronavirus a Form of Biowarfare?:
A Special Interview With Francis Boyle, By: Dr. Joseph Mercola.

**Dr. Francis A. Boyle, author: U.S. Biowarfare Act (1989), Biowarfare and Terrorism.

US Biowarfare Act Author: Studies Confirm Coronavirus Weaponized!, Spiro Skouras, 22 Feb 2020

In this interview, the Author of the US Biowarfare Act, Professor Francis Boyle uncovers four separate studies which he claims confirm as ‘smoking gun’ evidence the Wuhan Coronavirus known as COVID19 was in fact weaponized.

Professor Boyle also discloses where he believes the true origin of the virus originated and the extent that the US government was involved.

Note: This video has been deleted by YouTube. Please click here to go to BitCHUTE to view it.



Source Links
Study: The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166354220300528

Study: SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose threat for human emergence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/

Study: Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6?fbclid=IwAR3yNfuHykjJbuDGMNqfo6eEFAZ5IqJ_KE9dgcrspGn4xdRQDFBYR8y4MP4

Study: The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus
https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339070128_The_possible_origins_of_2019-nCoV_coronavirus

Study: Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.06.20020974v1

SMOKING GUN: China Bought Weaponized Wuhan Virus From U.S.
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e4d9a96ceaa970024aa6fbf

Full transcript of “smoking gun” bombshell interview: Prof. Francis Boyle exposes the bioweapons origins of the CoVid-19 coronavirus
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-02-20-full-transcript-smoking-gun-interview-prof-frances-boyle-coronavirus-bioweapons.html

Friday, March 6, 2020

Mr. McConnell’s Swamp

Uh… let me see. One of the best outcomes of the coming Nov. elections could be the defeat of Mitch McConnell (R-KY) the chief swamp monster himself.

He is The Heartless, Soulless Reptilian-Like Swamp Thing who, in my opinion, has managed to do more harm to the people of the U.S. than Mr. Trump - the one person who happens to be the modern-day Genghis Khan of harm-doing.

In case you missed it, just the other day Mr. McConnell announced, that he would obstruct whatever a Democratic president might try to accomplish, saying: “If I’m still the majority leader in the Senate think of me as the Grim Reaper. None of that stuff is going to pass…”.

Too bad the Democrats haven’t learned to practice Mr. McConnell’s greatest skills… double-dealing-lie to your face, stomp-‘em-into-the-ground-heartless-soulless-contempt for the 99.9%... but applied to Republicans and most of all, Mr. Trump.

While I disdain it, someone’s got to drive a stake into the heart of the matter so the nation can extricate itself from the Trumpist’s garbage dump (a.k.a. The Swamp) called the U.S. Senate and most of all its leader, Mr. McConnell.

Mitch McConnell’s Do Nothing Republicans - Robert Reich – 3 Mar 2020


Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses Mitch McConnell’s Do-Nothing Senate Republicans, who have refused to serve as a check on Donald Trump's power or take up the nearly 400 bills passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. Fortunately, voters can send many of them packing come November.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Your Crumb of Pie

CBS This Morning, America's Economic Pie
While the CBS This Morning's Economic Pie thing is hackneyed, it does make crystal clear an outrageous truth about our world - we are out of whack messed up.

CBS This Morning
America's Economic Pie
CBS Mall



Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Dem Leaders Refuse to See

Good ol' safe Joe greases slide toward the end of American-style capitalism.
As Democratic Party leaders madly, arms and legs akimbo, scramble to make Joe Biden, the "moderate centrist", their candidate over social-democrat Bernie Sanders, our fundamental problem remains unaddressed: American-style capitalism has failed in delivering its "American Dream" promise.

Everybody knows tremendous inequities live in the USA and, in fact, wherever capitalism is practiced. Examples abound, including income stagnation, wealth accumulation, worker/management wage disparity. The list is endless. A quick review of French economist, Thomas Piketty's, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (please see his TED Talk) clearly lays bare our world-wide wealth and income inequality challenges.

The Democratic Party leadership will never address these issues. It never has. By picking Good Ol' Safe Joe to challenge Mr. Trump, the Dem leaders will ensure we travel further down the path to more and more economic inequities.

Why?

Economist Richard Wolff* knows…

Prof. Richard Wolff: Will Bernie Save Capitalism? 25 Feb 2020



More from Dr. Wolff

Economist Richard Wolff on Capitalism Run Wild
Moyers & Company, Feb 22, 2013



*Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School University, New York City. Richard also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. His books include: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown(2016); Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (2012); Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism(2012); Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (2012); and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It (2009). A full archive of Richard's work, including videos and podcasts, can be found on his site.

Monday, March 2, 2020

Will Dem Party Leadership Find Their Courage?



When it comes to failure to recognize change or emerging innovative ideas, the books are crammed with corporate leadership’s failure to grasp onto the coattails of impending change and make the leap forward. Management of companies like Kodak, IBM, Xerox, Sears, etc., are emblematic of failed leadership, blunders, and outright ineptness.

You may even remember some of those companies when they were powerhouse behemoths. The leadership of each made decisions that seemed logically correct to them at the time when they were on top of the heap in their respective business areas – no doubt decisions to “stay the course” selling technology, products or services that made them millions of dollars in previous years. The only problem: times changed. And, management failed to perceive that change and failed to react accordingly, to provide their companies with courageous leadership when it was required.

Lack of courageous leadership is a classic failure of management and is repeated in countless ways each day.

Lack of courage, or cowardice, can also infect political leaders.

For example, the Democratic Party leaders are clearly showing a courage deficit when it comes to Bernie Sanders as their potential candidate.

It’s sad isn’t it when leaders disregard the wishes of their own people. For instance, “Polling consistently shows that most Democrats approve of key parts of Sanders’ economic agenda, including single-payer health care, the Green New Deal, tuition-free college, student debt forgiveness, a $15 minimum wage, breaking up big banks, and paid family leave.”

“For each of those issues except single-payer health care, a more modest percentage of all Americans — but still a majority — signal their support.”

“That said, support levels among all Americans drop significantly once voters are informed about the policies’ costs.”

I, for one, am looking for an epiphany of sorts, or the proverbial “bravery pill” that the Dem leaders can swallow to help them find their spines, recognize that the nation is calling for a clear change of leadership in the White House and the U.S. Congress, get out of the way, and smooth the path for the person who will make that change happen. Additionally, it’s clearly up to the Dem leadership to find a way to secure what their people are demanding.

Source Links:

50 Examples of Corporations that Failed to Innovate, Katrina Aaslaid, valuer.ai, 22 Nov 2018.

Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders, Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein, nytimes.com, 28 Feb 2020

Trump lashes out at Fox News for new poll showing him losing to all the Democratic candidates, Aaron Rupar, vox.com, 28 Feb 2020.

Polls show most Democrats, many Americans back key Bernie Sanders' policies, Louis Jacobson, politifacts.com, 25 Feb 2020.

Dem Leader Sanders Freak-out is Not About Politics. It's About Power, Rob Kall, opednews, 2 Mar 2020.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Reducing Misery Is Not Socialism

Paul Krugman
"Reducing misery is not socialism," explained Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist, in this interview.

Paul Krugman is my hero because his insight about our nation is right on target.
"Real Americans" identity politics, American racism and more... "people don't now what they are voting for"...please watch.

'Brexit is a mistake but it is not a catastrophe' - Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman


12 Feb 2020 - Channel 4 News

Paul Krugman is a Nobel prize-winning liberal economist, author and New York Times columnist.