https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238818883433385984Draft decree says lockdown in Spain would start on Monday morning, according to local media. People would only be allowed to go out to buy basic needs or to go to work. Press conference in 35 minutes (1400 GMT)
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
That is some funny shit! Good to have a little humor. From the article:Originally Posted by PatColo
Dr. Sneezlestein explained. Love it.
Saw on facebook something about tick season starting up soon, so we will be able to have Corona with Lyme.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." – Socrates
"Communism can be summed up in one sentence: The abolition of private property." ---Karl Marx
"Either you have the right to own property, or you are property." Wayne Hage
midnight rambler (14th March 2020),PatColo (14th March 2020)
Personally, I don't see why everyone needs to quarantine. Just stay the fuck away from us old farts.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." – Socrates
"Communism can be summed up in one sentence: The abolition of private property." ---Karl Marx
"Either you have the right to own property, or you are property." Wayne Hage
midnight rambler (14th March 2020)
Pat B. with some Qanon-style hope porn... As IF the white hats flipped the satanists' joovirus attack & are using it against them
Will the Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?
PAT BUCHANAN • MARCH 13, 2020 • 800 WORDS • 59 COMMENTS
Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans — a third of the nation — could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.
Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany’s population — 58 million people — could contract the coronavirus. If she is right, and Fauci’s mortality rate holds for her country, that could mean more than half a million dead Germans.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel’s remark “unhelpful” and said it could cause panic. But Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel, saying between 40% and 70% of the world’s population could become infected.
Again, if Fauci’s 1% mortality rate and Lipsitch’s estimate prove on target, between 3 billion and 5 billion people on earth will be infected, and 30 million to 50 million will die, a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
There is, however, some contradictory news.
China, with 81,000 cases, has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus.
Yet, Italy, with its large elderly population, may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West.
As of Thursday, Italy had reported 12,000 cases and 827 deaths, a mortality rate of nearly 7%. This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous.
In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu.
But the problem is this: COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in the USA, while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what we might expect from a boiling national disaster.
The stock market has plunged further and faster than it did in the Great Crash of 1929. Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished. If Sen. Bernie Sanders does not like “millionaires and billionaires,” he should be pleased. There are far fewer of them today than there were when he won the New Hampshire primary.
What does the future hold?
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world’s great nations.
Tourism, air travel, vacation cruises, international gatherings and festivals are already shutting down. Travel bans between countries and continents are being imposed. Conventions, concerts and sporting events are being canceled. Will the Tokyo Olympics go forward? If they do, will all the anticipated visitors from abroad come to Japan to enjoy the games?
Trump has issued a one-month travel ban on Europe.
As for the “open borders” crowd, do Democrats still believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime, and immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care, a proposition to which all the Democratic debaters raised their hands?
The ideological roots of our free trade era can be traced to the mid-19th century when its great evangelist, Richard Cobden, rose at Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Jan. 15, 1846, and rhapsodized:
“I see in the Free Trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe — drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace.”
In the pre-Trump era, Republicans held hands with liberal Democrats in embracing NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and most-favored-nation trade privileges for China.
In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national security? Does it appear wise to have moved the production of pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease, strokes and diabetes to China? Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of weapons for our defense?
In this coronavirus pandemic, people now seem to be looking for authoritative leaders and nations seem to be looking out for their own peoples first. Would Merkel, today, invite a million Syrian refugees into Germany no matter the conditions under which they were living in Syria and Turkey?
Is not the case now conclusive that we made a historic mistake when we outsourced our economic independence to rely for vital necessities upon nations that have never had America’s best interests at heart?
Which rings truer today? We are all part of mankind, all citizens of the world. Or that it’s time to put America and Americans first!
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/will-t...w-world-order/
FAKE "ELECTIONS" - Why Ron Paul Can't "Win"
"If telling the truth marginalizes you, then that is the place to be. After all, if enough people are willing to be marginalized, then before you know it, society has developed a different center. This is the politics of truth." -- E. Martin Schotz
These are the reasons they will use to shut it all down. I guess by next Friday. They have shut down just about everything else that is in the public eye.
Yesterday.
JetBlue bans passenger who notified crew after landing that he'd tested positive for coronavirus
Last week.
Family Of St. Louis County Woman With Coronavirus Violated Quarantine By Going To School Dance
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
midnight rambler (14th March 2020)
Our Interesting Times With Timothy Kelly 2020.03.14
Powers & Principalities Episode 142
Tim & cohost Joe Atwill discuss:
Medical Martial Law
77 mins: Download
FAKE "ELECTIONS" - Why Ron Paul Can't "Win"
"If telling the truth marginalizes you, then that is the place to be. After all, if enough people are willing to be marginalized, then before you know it, society has developed a different center. This is the politics of truth." -- E. Martin Schotz
Did any of you see this one? I'm just happy they don't "plan" to use the "power". /s
Champaign council OKs emergency powers in response to coronavirus
CHAMPAIGN — At a meeting Friday morning, the Champaign City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that gives the mayor and city manager certain emergency powers in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
It allows them to suspend licenses for special events and restrict public access to city buildings, which the city announced later Friday it would be doing for its police department, fire stations, public works department and the City Building.
Payment due dates may also be also be adjusted, and late fees may be waived.
“I don’t want anybody to come into the City Building because they have a bill to pay and either make any of us sick or potentially be exposed to the virus because they needed to pay a city bill,” City Manager Dorothy David said.
The ordinance also gives David more power to negotiate directly with unions if too many workers get sick and shifts need to change or be extended.
“Ordinarily, those kinds of things are negotiated in a bargaining agreement,” David said. “But in urgency, on a very practical level, I may need the authority to sit down with bargaining-unit leadership, reach a memorandum of understanding, put that in place, and then notify the city council that I’ve done it.”
And the ordinance gives the city manager more flexibility to make emergency purchases.
“I’m not talking about, we need to buy Clorox wipes to disinfect offices,” David said. “I’m talking about in the event that suddenly more N95 masks are actually available and we could procure them. We need to be able to procure them quickly.”
City attorney Fred Stavins noted that the emergency ordinance doesn’t compel any particular actions, which would need to be approved by the city council at its next meeting.
“The ordinance contemplates a wide range of emergency situations,” he said. “Whether any of these steps will be necessary, other than the cancellation of some meetings and the necessity to deal with personnel issues, including work-at-home issues, and the ability to respond to the needs of our fire and police departments, is not completely known at this time.”
The emergency ordinance also gives the mayor some more far-reaching powers, including imposing a curfew, limiting the use of water, taking possession of property, restricting the sale of firearms and closing businesses.
These have been part of the city code since at least 2006, Stavins said, and the city doesn’t plan to use them.
“These are parroting what’s in the state statutes,” Stavins said. “These powers currently exist.”
Dan Nusbaum, who owns Green Street Cafe in Champaign, said when he read the proposed ordinance Thursday evening, it “scared me a little bit.”
And Scott McIntosh, general manager of Big Grove Tavern in downtown Champaign, said the city could have better communicated its plans with the ordinance.
“A lot of folks I work with or who patronize our venue were very alarmed last night that there’s already an open discussion of seizing property and shutting off water,” he said. “Prioritizing the community communication needs to be critical for us, both as citizens and as workers who work with you, as opposed to inflame fears right out of the gate.”
David acknowledged the communication could have been improved.
“You are absolutely right,” she said. “The kind of lack of information, by leading with an action before communication, is causing probably undue concern.”
The expansive powers in the ordinance spread quickly online, with the clause allowing a restriction on firearm sales leading the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association to issue a “National Alert.”
Later in the day, the city tried to clean up, issuing a statement that it doesn’t plan to take anyone’s guns.
“To be clear, there is currently no firearm ban and no intent to seize property or close businesses,” the city’s statement said. “Additionally, there are no restrictions on the sale of alcohol or gas or the ability to enter or leave Champaign.”
And David hopped on the WDWS NewsHour to allay those fears.
“We’ve been fielding calls all day,” she said. “The purpose of the order is to give the city the flexibility so that we can thoughtfully and responsibly continue to serve the community.”
And she said insisted the city won’t violate the Constitution.
“The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, all the rights of people are absolutely protected, and this emergency order does not give us the authority to overstep those bounds,” she said. “And things like intent to seize property — somebody today was concerned about turning off of water — those things are not going to be necessary by what is going on in this particular public health crisis as much as we can anticipate.
“That is not the purpose of this at all,” she said.
But regardless of the city’s intent, Illinois Press Association attorney Don Craven said the language of the ordinance appears to violate state law, if not the U.S. Constitution.
“By what authority does the city get to seize personal property?” he wondered.
And he said if the city doesn’t plan to use certain emergency powers, “it begs the question of why do it in the first place.”
In particular, he was concerned about the ordinance letting the city council meet online, which he said would violate the state’s Open Meetings Act.
“You need a physical quorum of the members of the public body,” he said.
David said that section was included because “if suddenly there’s an illness outbreak, and I can’t get all the city council members to attend because we have people in isolation, or it would become a threat to public health for us to convene in that way, we need to have the flexibility to establish electronic communications because the council must legally act to continue governing the city.”
But Craven said it’s still a violation of state law.
“We all agree that in order to have relief from the quorum provision of the Open Meetings Act, it would take a legislative change, and we’re working on drafting one,” Craven said.
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
https://twitter.com/MinWag3MaxRag3/s...05405509476352Georgia man got STABBED with a broken wine bottle over a pack of sweet delicious mountain spring water at Sam's Club.
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
^ around 50m in, Tim & Joe discuss the 2011 movie CONTAGION; anyone see it? They mention how Jude Law played an internet sleuth, anti-vax-er, & they gave him prosthetic "bad teeth" just to make him look more sinister... & meanwhile CDC officials were all handsome/pretty people who would stop at nothing to save humanity:
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a worldwide epidemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Writer:
Scott Z. Burns
Stars:
Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
in the sidebar this story was linked:
How ‘Contagion’ Suddenly Became the Most Urgent Movie of 2020
13 March 2020 | Rolling Stone
FAKE "ELECTIONS" - Why Ron Paul Can't "Win"
"If telling the truth marginalizes you, then that is the place to be. After all, if enough people are willing to be marginalized, then before you know it, society has developed a different center. This is the politics of truth." -- E. Martin Schotz
The Law of Necessity is there is no law.
"A man is to be held accountable for the thoughts he chooses to entertain." --Richard Alan Miller
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?" --George Orwell
"It's not a matter of what is true (reality) that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true (reality)." --Henry Kissinger
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