Sunday, March 29, 2020

Chinese markets are still selling bats and slaughtering rabbits on blood-soaked floors as Beijing celebrates 'victory' over the coronavirus

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Cats, dogs and other domesticated and wild animals freely available to buy 

One sources says that: 'the markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus' despite the outbreaks links to bats 

Wild animals still for sale as food and traditional medicine in Chinese markets

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Igniting John Brown and Fred Douglass

 The Secret Six : John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement: Otto ...

Wealthy Northern agitator Gerritt Smith collaborated with John Brown as did Frederick Douglass, who last met with Brown at Christmas, 1856 in Rochester, New York. As soon as news of Brown’s failed 1859 Harper’s Ferry uprising reached Douglass, he fled to Canada and was hidden by black families. Fearing extradition for treason and certain to be hung, he sailed for England to be welcomed by British abolitionists.  

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Manifesto of Old Men and Simple Preachers

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“It is strange, of course, that a majority of men anywhere could ever as with one mind become enamored of industrialism: a system that has so little regard for individual wants. There is evidently a kind of thinking that rejoices in setting up a social objective which has no relation to the individual. Men are prepared to sacrifice their private dignity and happiness to an abstract social ideal, and without asking whether the social ideal produces the welfare of any individual man whatsoever. But this is absurd. The responsibility of men is for their own welfare and that of their neighbors; not for the hypothetical welfare of some fabulous creature called society.”
Over time a man, if he is perceptive, comes to certain conclusions.  The most startling is that the greatest truths were spoken to him throughout his life by ordinary men, simple preachers, old men sitting around drinking soda and eating peanuts, his father.  These men, if beneficiaries of a culture and community that embraces common-sense as a virtue, know truths that philosophers for centuries have tried in various ways to express.  Common-sense is something all men should know; common- sense informs us of certain natural laws, common-sense is God’s gift of understanding.

Progressivism is based upon perceived empirical or scientific knowledge.  One wonders what the ultimate cost of our fast-paced, progressive materialistic, industrial/post-industrial, consumerism will ultimately be.  Over the course of history time and again philosophers, theologians, poets, historians and ordinary men of exceptional commonsense have written, spoken and preached against the various outcomes incumbent in unrestrained progressivism absent a human connection to nature and nature’s God.

Lindsey Graham: ‘Shameful, Disgusting’ Pelosi Said Trump Contributed to People Dying

 Graham: ‘Shameful, Disgusting’ Pelosi Said Trump Contributed to Deaths


Sunday on Fox News, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said it was “disgusting” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s delay in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic caused deaths.

Graham said, “She’s blaming the president of the United States for people dying because of the way he has lead the country. That’s the most shameful, disgusting statement by any politician in modern history.”

He continued, “She’s the first politician to blame another politician for people dying. This is the same Speaker of the House who held up the bill in the Senate for days because she wanted same-day voting, she wanted carbon neutrality for the airlines, she wanted $75 million of the Endowment for the Humanities and $25 million for the Kennedy Center. She is the one that held up the package in the Senate for days to get the Green New Deal put in a recovery package, so it’s the most shape full disgusting thing I’ve heard yet, and it needs to stop.He added, “We took most of the garbage out, but for her to blame this president for causing loss of life after she held up the relief package for days to get a liberal special interest shopping list in the bill is pretty disgusting.”

Venezuelan General is Extradited to US – Second General Surrenders After US Puts Bounty on Leaders of Criminal Socialist Maduro Regime

 

On Thursday US Attorney General William Barr along with the DEA and prosecutors from the Justice Department filed charges against the Maduro regime. The US Department of Justice accused the Maduro regime of narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, corruption and money laundering. The charges were made against Maduro, Diosdado Cabello and 12 members of the Venezuelan cartel. 

Attkisson lists false claims made by Jeremy Peters in New York Times article


  • New York Times and Peters publish multiple false statements
  • At least two subjects have demanded retractions, corrections
  • Peters changes Attkisson quote to suit a false narrative
  • Peters objects to reporting of factually correct, complete list of U.S. coronavirus deaths
UPDATE: March 20, 2020: See legal letter sent to NYT.

UPDATE March 19, 2020: The New York Times finds its article needs no correcting. See graphics below that explain.

The JFK Arts Center Dems Fought So Hard for Plans To Stop Paying the National Orchestra: Report

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Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts told members of the National Symphony Orchestra it would no longer be paying them hours after President Donald Trump signed a $25 million bailout for the center.

According to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, the musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3.
“The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter,” the email read. “Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3 and that we will not be paid again until the Center reopens.”

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Veterans can attend virtual events for National Vietnam War Veterans Day

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National Vietnam War Veterans Day is March 29. Organizers canceled or postponed many events to slow the spread of COVID-19 through social distancing. Veterans are encouraged to stay connected and participate in virtual events.

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100K to 200K Could Die in US

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that "We're going to have millions of cases" of coronavirus
  • More than 2,100 have died in the U.S.
  • Deaths have been reported in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has assessed 114 sites to be used as makeshift hospitals.
  • A horse racing track in New York is being converted into a hospital.
The United States hit yet another grim milestone in the fight against the coronavirus as the death toll surpassed 2,100 this weekend.

New York had more than 53,000 confirmed cases by Sunday morning. There have been 672 deaths in New York City alone, which has become the epicenter of the health crisis. Overall, there are nearly 125,000 cases in the U.S., according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University.

There were more than 684,000 cases globally as of Sunday. More than 32,000 people have died and some 145,000 have recovered.

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Event 201: A Global Pandemic Exercise October 18, 2019

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise