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MAGA’S Giant Voice

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Trump’s last Twitter message, before he was banned from the platform, went:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

This has been interpreted by many supporters, especially those who follow QAnon [I do not, though I frequently end up with the same conclusions], as a reference to a military communication system that they hope he will use to defeat his enemies:

https://www.fedsig.com/outdoor-sirens-and-speakers

There is a specific military communications system called Giant Voice Mass Notification Systems

That could have been the reference and the reason major social media platforms decided to banish him.

There could be a more sinister explanation for the reference, though.

POTUS could be playing the role of controlled opposition, using ambiguous phrases and words he knows  some supporters will construe a certain way to trap them, while covering himself, either because he wants to purge radical elements from MAGA or because he is a part of the deep state.

I personally don’t think either of those two explanations is the case, but I’m sure some of his base is wondering about it. But I’m not a blind follower of anyone or any ideology, so it has occurred to me, as it did in 2016.

Why not now? Because having seen what he went through for four years and having seen what he did in that time, more than any president in my adult life, I really don’t believe he was intentionally deceiving us.

Who Incited The Killing Of Ashli Babbit?

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From Summit.news:

A leftist radio host called for police to shoot Trump supporters less than an hour before Ashli Babbitt was shot dead at point blank range during yesterday’s chaos in the Capitol building.

Four Trump supporters were left dead following the bedlam that unfolded yesterday, with authorities only revealing that the other three had died from “medical emergencies.”

Shocking footage shows Babbitt, a 14-year Air Force veteran, being shot in the neck by a police officer who deliberately aimed at her before gunning her down.

 

Before the shooting, innumerable leftists were on Twitter demanding the police use lethal force to disperse Trump supporters, including some with sizeable platforms.

Shelagh Fogarty, a host on Britain’s biggest radio network LBC, responded to a video showing Trump supporters scuffling with Capitol Hill police with the words, “Shoot them.”

 

Fogarty tweeted out the demand for violence to her 88,000 followers.

After Fogarty was confronted about her tweet, she blamed “white supremacists” and subsequently claimed, ” I want nobody shot,” despite directly calling for people to be shot.

Sam Francis On Anarcho-Tyranny

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Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A.

Samuel Francis, Chronicles, July 1994

“This condition, which in some of my columns I have called ‘anarcho-tyranny,’ is essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites, the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection of public safety.”

Lancet, NEJM Retract Covid-19 Papers Over Data Source Concerns

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Update (June 5, 2020, 12.45 PM IST):

The Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton won the 2015 Friendship award given by the Chinese Government

and here’s more about him  from the Lancet website:

“He now works to develop the idea of planetary health – the health of human civilizations and the ecosystems on which they depend.”

The Spectator points out that Horton has been an unrelenting critic of the British government, blaming it for not doing enough, but has attacked any criticism of the Chinese government.

ORIGINAL POST:

This house of cards is tumbling down fast:

From  Statnews.com:

“The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.

Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood pressure medications in Covid-19, that relied on data from the same company.

The retractions came at the request of the authors of the studies, published last month, who were not directly involved with the data collection and sources, the journals said.

“We can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of University Hospital Zurich, and Amit Patel of University of Utah said in a statement issued by the Lancet. “Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.”

A company called Surgisphere was responsible for the primary data on which the papers were based:

“As scrutiny grew, the authors on the paper not affiliated with Surgisphere called for an independent audit. In their Lancet statement Thursday, they said that Surgisphere was not cooperating with the independent reviewers and would not provide the data.

“As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process,” the researchers wrote.”
Who is Surgisphere?

The Guardian on June 3 had this report:

“Data it [Surgisphere] claims to have legitimately obtained from more than a thousand hospitals worldwide formed the basis of scientific articles that have led to changes in Covid-19 treatment policies in Latin American countries. It was also behind a decision by the WHO and research institutes around the world to halt trials of the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine. On Wednesday, the WHO announced those trials would now resume.

Two of the world’s leading medical journals – the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine – published studies based on Surgisphere data. The studies were co-authored by the firm’s chief executive, Sapan Desai……

…A search of publicly available material suggests several of Surgisphere’s employees have little or no data or scientific background. An employee listed as a science editor appears to be a science fiction author and fantasy artist whose professional profile suggests writing is her fulltime job. Another employee listed as a marketing executive is an adult model and events hostess, who also acts in videos for organisations…..Until Monday, the “get in touch” link on Surgisphere’s homepage redirected to a WordPress template for a cryptocurrency website, raising questions about how hospitals could easily contact the company to join its database….

..Desai has been named in three medical malpractice suits, unrelated to the Surgisphere database. In an interview with the Scientist, Desai previously described the allegations as “unfounded”..
…In 2008, Desai launched a crowdfunding campaign on the website Indiegogo promoting a wearable “next generation human augmentation device that can help you achieve what you never thought was possible”. The device never came to fruition…
…Desai’s Wikipedia page has been deleted following questions about Surgisphere and his history, first raised in 2010…..
…The Guardian has since contacted five hospitals in Melbourne and two in Sydney, whose cooperation would have been essential for the Australian patient numbers in the database to be reached. All denied any role in such a database, and said they had never heard of Surgisphere. Desai did not respond to requests to comment on their statements.
…Another study using the Surgisphere database, again co-authored by Desai, found the anti-parasite drug ivermectin reduced death rates in severely ill Covid-19 patients. It was published online in the Social Science Research Network e-library, before peer-review or publication in a medical journal, and prompted the Peruvian government to add ivermectin to its national Covid-19 therapeutic strategy…
…The New England Journal of Medicine also published a peer-reviewed Desai study based on Surgisphere data, which included data from Covid-19 patients from 169 hospitals in 11 countries in Asia, Europe and North America. It found common heart medications known as angiotensin-converting–enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers were not associated with a higher risk of harm in Covid-19 patients.”

The Guardian report picked up the analysis from James Todaro at Medicine Uncensored.

Todaro shows that Surgisphere does not appear anywhere in Internet Archive records, and its portfolio of past cases is thin to non-existent, made up mostly testimonials and PR releases.

Errors in Surgisphere’s database that Todaro points out include:

Reporting 73 deaths from in Australia, when Australia had only a total of 67 deaths by April 21.

Claiming to have detailed patient records for 63,315 patients in the USA, when the total number of Covd-19 patients in the USA was 66,000.

Providing  specific African data that would mean that over 40% of all patient deaths in Africa took place in Surgisphere-related hospitals with the sophisticated cardiac monitoring technology needed to collect such data.

What is amazing is not how this Desai shyster conned the world, but how these supposedly top-notch science journals and brilliant research scientists never bothered to check their sources for research that would have such a monumental impact.

We had the fraud Neil Ferguson. Now this.

On second thoughts, Desai almost deserves a medal for showing up how flimsy and pretentious the whole academic publishing industry is.

Added (June 5, 12.36 PM):

I have added an excerpt from  Surgisphere’s response below:

“Our studies, including that published in The Lancet, use a registry, with data obtained from electronic health records (EHR). In our hydroxychloroquine analysis, we studied a very specific group of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and have clearly stated that the results of our analyses should not be over-interpreted to those that have yet to develop such disease or those that have not been hospitalized. We also clearly outlined the limitations of an observational study that cannot fully control for unobservable confounding measures, and we concluded that off-label use of the drug regimens outside of the context of a clinical trial should not be recommended.

In so doing, we join agencies including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as several other observational studies reported in the NEJM, JAMA and the BMJ, each of which have pointed to either no benefit of the drug regimens using hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine or even a signal of potential harm (also see this paper). The Brazilian CloroCovid-19 Study on chloroquine diphosphate was recently stopped in Brazil due to the noted safety hazards associated with this drug.

Our COVID-19 research was not funded by any drug company, private or public donor, or political organization. Our research collaborators on the piece for The Lancet devoted their time through personal funds and resources because they saw the urgent humanitarian need and opportunity to inform rapidly-evolving pandemic responses.”

Unlock 1.0: “You Can Keep Walking”

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Ruchir Sharma in The Times of India:

“After three weeks the government began replacing lockdown 1.0 with looser versions, but rather than relax many upper class Indians were learning to love life under lockdown. They posted odes to recipe sharing, Netflix, Zoom cocktail parties, the clear view of the sky and moon as the smog lifted over an idle nation. They gasped over images of leopards venturing into shuttered cities like Chandigarh, 250 kilometres from Delhi. Ah, nature!

When I looked out of my living room window, I saw dorms for the community staff, and had to wonder how sublime this life could be for them. Does social distancing have any meaning for labourers packed six to a 200 sq ft room? Does a lockdown make any sense in such crowded living conditions?

Meanwhile the crisis was liberating for Indian bureaucrats and the police, self-important in normal times, “essential” during this crisis. Videos posted on WhatsApp showed police beating people caught on the streets without a satisfactory excuse, or forcing them to perform squats while holding their ears – a punishment common in government schools. The commentary was often less horrified than humorous, including one mash-up that went viral with cricket style play-by-play.

By mid-April many rich countries had started to debate reopening their economies. Protests were breaking out against lockdowns in the United States. In India, there was little public debate, much less protest.

[Lila: This is not true. There was plenty of debate, but it doesn’t get into the major English media, which is largely leftist, favor of an expansion of government, and inclined to criticize Modi reflexively from that angle. While, Modi appears to have followed the dictates of the globalists at every turn, he is commonly derided as being too insular. ]

The hardest hit, the poor and unemployed, seem to accept their misery as fate, likely unaware of evidence that the most stringent lockdowns are generating the most severe economic damage.

While the pandemic quickly became the leading cause of deaths in many countries, in India many more still die each week, mostly in rural areas, from diseases like tuberculosis or diarrhea. Still, the urban elite has the political influence and most continued to support a tough lockdown

“If the government lifts restrictions millions of illiterate Indians will pour into the streets and super-spread the disease,” says a friend.

Of estimates showing that each week the lockdown is pushing tens of millions of Indians below the poverty line, the elite’s standard answer is “The government should take care of them, just look how much the United States is spending on displaced workers.” Never mind that India has one-twentieth the average income of the United States, or that no bureaucracy, including those of much wealthier nations, is equipped to handle a sudden exodus of tens of millions of workers.

The irony now is that with India headed for what could be its worst post-Independence recession, economic pressure is forcing a retreat to lockdown lite, even as the virus case count surges.

Lockdown fatigue has set in. Confronted on the street by a police patrol after Delhi’s 7pm curfew last week, a friend pleaded that it was insufferable to go out earlier, with daytime temperatures around 45 degrees. “It is my job to make these announcements,” said the weary officer. “You can keep walking.”

Wuhan Denialism

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From Tablet:

“Media sources that claim to refute the lab source hypothesis often refer to the public comments of zoologist Peter Daszak, the flawed correspondence of Andersen et al., or the emotional Lancet letter in which some scientists basically expressed their support and compassion with their Chinese peers. While there are some virus hunters like Peter Daszak who assert zoonotic transfer and discount the possibility of a lab leak, there are also leading microbiologists like professor Richard Ebright who assert that a lab or lab-related accident is a possible cause of the outbreak.

Notably, virus ecologists like Peter Daszak and Jonna Mazet have an inherent conflict of interest as they are involved in similar bat and wildlife sampling activity—and, in Daszak and Mazet’s case, in research with the Wuhan labs. As an example of such activity, Daszak and collaborators sampled 12,333 bats for viruses in a big wildlife surveillance project. A lab-related accident in China involving similar research would likely affect the funding for their work as it would demonstrate the risks involved. As it happens, the NIH recently cut the funding to Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance after realizing the risks involved in that research.

Daszak’s relentless and heavily amplified public assertions that the outbreak must have originated due to a zoonotic jump, and his denial of the possibility of a lab accident involving a natural virus, even long before the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published, would appear to be motivated by the apparent conflict of interest that he has denied. Daszak’s denial of his conflict of interest raised concerns of many scientists and experts, with many explicitly describing that denial as a bold lie. Daszak has presented no direct evidence that the outbreak started as a result of a zoonotic jump outside of a laboratory. In case the outbreak is a result of a natural zoonotic jump, that would underscore the importance of Daszak’s risky wildlife sampling and “early outbreak warning” work and increase their research funding. It is important to consider conflicts of interest when assessing anyone’s claims.”

Floyd Tested Positive for Covid-19 & Other Oddities

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It always pays to wait a little before pouncing on highly charged “racial” stories. There’s inevitably a back-story. And here it is:

According to news reports, the newly released  full autopsy report of George Floyd shows he tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3. So the “I can’t breathe” T-shirts work every way.

See the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office Autopsy Report.

The report claims that Covid-19 had nothing to do with Floyd’s death, since he was asymptomatic.

Hmm. He did have trouble breathing, even before the cops knelt on his neck and pressed down on his back, didn’t he?

According to an additional earlier (Monday) report released by the Medical Examiner’s office,

He also had arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease.

He had multiple blunt force injuries to the head and upper body, none life-threatening.

He was intoxicated on Fentanyl.

And had recently used methamphetamines and cannabis.

The manner of death is listed as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”  It’s dubbed a homicide.

There are just too many coincidences and oddities for me to accept that this was a random case of police brutality.

The perpetrator cop, accused of racism, is surnamed Chauvin.…as in chauvin-ist.

Chauvin has a long history of  complaints over his hair-trigger temper and shoot-first temperament.

Floyd has a long history of petty and serious crime.

The cop and Floyd are former colleagues from working security at the  Nuevo Rodeo Club at the same period of time.

The “racist” cop is married to a “model minority” Asian (Laotian) woman.

Two out of the four cops involved in the death are of Asian origin.

Chauvin’s wife is a former Mrs. Minnesota. Floyd is a former high-school foot-ball star.

She once wrote a bad check. Just like George Floyd.

In May, only 3 days after Floyd’s death, another black man was pinned down by the neck by police in an incident that got widespread attention in France. In May in Hongkong, a man was killed after being immobilized face down by the police. There is a universal use of dangerous choke-holds by the police and it is a universal problem that lawmakers want to address.

Floyd has a criminal history from Houston, involving home invasion and violent threats to a single woman (conviction in 2009 and then 5 years in jail). He was arrested before that for drug possession and theft with a firearm.

[Note:  Floyd’s criminal history, not known to the arresting officers, does not justify in any form their treatment of him.  However, it most certainly helps to explain why he resisted arrest, which is what made them act more aggressively to him. They were not racially but situationally motivated.]

Home invasion is the crime most feared by the middle-class, because it destroys the English common-law notion of security and full entitlement in one’s own house. An Englishman’s home is his castle….as they say.

Houston  was the site of massive gentrification after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

The post-Floyd looting and arson by anarchists belonging to antifa (and possibly other groups) has been described as a kind of violent gentrification, by anti-BLM observers..

Masks were worn by the anarchists, who also sported T-shirts with the slogan “I can’t breathe.”

This was a slogan that became popular after the police killing of another “gentle giant” black man, Eric Garner, a few years back.

“I can’t breathe,” is what a lot of Covid-19 patients say as the disease creates hypoxia.

Governments have either urged or mandated mask-wearing to the general population, along with so-called social distancing.

While the anarchists wore masks, they did not “social distance.”

In the media or among various social justice warriors and Covid snitches no one objected to this violation of social distancing.

But when peaceful lockdown sceptics stepped out, even alone, on beaches, without a soul around, or in pursuit of their livelihood, police threatened them with fines and jail time and in some cases arrested them. They shot them in the Philippines, confiscated their cars and autorickshaws in India, shuttered their shops, and shamed them on social media in the West.

The KuKluxKlan used to set fires on the lawns of black people, to threaten them. This was vehemently  condemned by all decent human beings.

Now supposedly pro-black groups, like antifa, burn property in black neighborhoods supposedly to threaten the white middle-class.

But it still terrorizes blacks.

And the media and the left approve.

There’s a lot more.

But this should be enough to show that the whole wretched story is yet another consciousness-raising exercise intended to mold us into the “New Man” required by the the new global order.

The global elites use these dreadful rampages to analyze our reactions and our networks, test our limits, and evaluate our ability to resist bait.

 

Antifa: Dem’s Paramilitary Wing

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From American Thinker:

“Lest you have any doubt that today’s Antifa is the direct descendant of the violent communist group in Hitler’s Germany, just compare the logos. Here’s the original Antifa logo:

And here’s the American Antifa logo:

For those who say Antifa is obviously communist, so it has nothing to do with the Democrat Party, think again.  Over the past few years, Antifa has been operating freely in Democrat-run cities such as Berkeley and Portland, attacking anything or anybody it thinks is conservative.  In those cities, the mayors have explicitly told their police forces to stand down.  This means that the mayors are treating Antifa as a Democrat paramilitary organization that uses violence to suspend citizens’ First Amendment rights to free speech.”

White, Middle-Class Antifa Anarchists Behind Floyd Riots

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From The Express, UK:

In a series of furious tweets this morning, he [Maajid Nawaz, activist and broadcaster] said that white-bourgeois Antifa rioters had been burning black minority neighbourhoods before “running back to mummy and daddy”.

The activist and broadcaster posted “evidence” of “spoiled-brat privileged gentrifying Antifa-clad ‘anarchist’ rioters exploit minority communities’ rage to grind their own ideological axe. Then they go home to mummy & daddy while minority neighbourhoods stay black & over-policed”.

One tweet read: “LISTEN UP: dear white-bourgeois Antifa-clad gentrifying ‘anarchists’, STOP BAITING more OVER-POLICING OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES through provoking your hissy-fit rioting ‘on our behalves’.”