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The COVID “Second Wave” Will Tear Our Communities Apart:
When the new flu season arrives in autumn 2020, our western governments and mainstream news media are preparing to go into overdrive and declare (without evidence) that the 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is here. The fact is, they’re already pushing this narrative by declaring that there’s an uptick in COVID-19 cases and so governments around the world are now imposing mandatory mask laws on the population (see here and here) with added threats of national lock-downs!
The entire COVID-19 narrative has been hyped up beyond stupid and bulled through on the global population by national governments around the world without providing any credible evidence, and when actual data is provided by Investigative Journalists, doctors and professionals on social media for all to see, they are censored and removed by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and major Internet search engines such as Google. The practice is Orwellian, as it censors free speech and is in collusion with the U.N. World Health Organization and its corporate financiers.
To make things worse, the fear driven COVID-19 narrative is being pushed by mainstream media that does not provide investigative journalism. Together, they are all working against the population of the world and our communities by silencing professionals and their data on COVID-19, a virus that has proven to be no worse than the seasonal flu.
In reality, there will be no second wave, however, there will be a continuing flu cycle with the beginning of the annual flu season set to kick off when schools reopen in late August or early September 2020…and classes will not be going back to normal as social distancing rules are already in place including half classes with half of the year at home and online. This whole COVID event has embedded fear, worry and panic within the minds of our children. What this amounts to is psychological terrorism on our children!
DB Note: I have come to the sad conclusion that the largest portion of Americans (the herd), whether black, white or purple, are nothing more than spoiled, cowardly brats. And right here is the evidence that backs up my conclusion. These particular Americans, because of their spoiled, cowardly nature, will allow their children to go through an Orwellian-like hell, instead of standing up and telling Trump, the congress, Fauci, Bill Gates, pig-pharma, and their state governors and health officials, to go straight to hell and stay there. I guess these spoiled-cowards own security means more to them than the safety of their children.
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“The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream “Allahu Akbar” before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.”
~ Peter Joseph, “Zeitgeist: Addendum”. Documentary, History, War, http://www.imdb.com. 2008.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.”
~ “The Ultimate Revolution”. Aldous Huxley’s speech at Berkeley Language Center, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.
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The state of the nation today for most Americans is more dire than during the 1930s.
No FDR era alphabet soup of jobs creation programs exists to put Americans back to work, none planned by Republicans or Dems.
Will things change for the better if Biden succeeds Trump in January and if Dems control both houses of Congress?
No evidence suggests it other than perhaps some tinkering around the edges when massive relief and jobs creation programs are vitally needed to turn things around — at a time of unprecedented economic and unemployment armageddon.
What’s going on is likely to be protracted and painful for countless millions of Americans — what I call the hardest of hard times in a nation serving privileged interests exclusively, uncaring about the vast majority of ordinary people.
Hey, all you card carrying herd members, if these government stooges are willing to destroy the economy, and thus, your chance to ever properly house, feed and clothe you and your family, then why would you continue to buy into all of their despotic, CV-19 bullshit being solely “for the good of you and your family”? If these government assholes don’t give a damn that you and your family could soon be homeless and starving, which they do not, then why would you continue to believe they give a damn if you catch some common-cold/flu (CV-19)?
Are you really this willfully-ignorant, blind and gullible, Mr and Ms America, or are you just so spoiled and cowardly that the only option left, is to be terrified sheep to the slaughter?
Covid-19 and the “Greater Economic Depression” Exceeding the 1930s: Unemployment Armageddon
The COVID-19 crisis at a time of deteriorating economic conditions caused what in hindsight may be known as a Greater Depression — exceeding the worst of the 1930s.
For 20 straight weeks, new claims for unemployment insurance exceeded one million.
Prior to March, the highest ever weekly total was 695,000. What’s unfolding in real time in the US is unprecedented and then some.
The Labor Department’s reported 1.2 million new filings was fake news like earlier weekly reports.
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), 1.6 million US workers applied for unemployment benefits in the last week — not seasonally adjusted.
The number includes 984,000 who applied for state unemployment benefits — another 656,000 seeking Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA).
In the past 20 weeks, a previously unimaginable 55 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits.
Nearly one-third of US working-age Americans currently have no jobs.
Over 30% of laid off US workers who regained employment were furloughed again because of Depression-level economic conditions at a time of zero federal jobs creation programs.
While only Cassandra excelled at predicting future events, what’s going on suggests harder than ever hard times may worsen ahead before improving at an unknown future time.
Federally approved unemployment insurance (UI) benefits of $600 weekly to eligible recipients expired at end of July.
Republicans want benefits slashed to $200 weekly, along with no financial aid to cash-strapped states, no funds for emergency workplace health and safety protections, nothing to prevent landlords from evicting jobless tenants with no ability to pay rent.
Through Thursday, Republicans and Dems failed to agree on a package of vital benefits for unemployed Americans.
According to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, “(w)e’re still a considerable amount apart.”
Dems expressed “disappoint(ment)” over failure to resolve differences with Republicans.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said if stalemated talks continue, Trump will act unilaterally by executive order that surely will fall far short of what’s needed by a president who time and again showed indifference toward public health and welfare — serving privileged interests exclusively throughout his tenure.
Dems said they’ll legally challenge unilateral action by Trump to resolve major differences if he takes this step.
Both sides blame each other for impasse on major issues at a time of unprecedented US unemployment armageddon when vital aid to the needy is essential without delay.
For the past week, jobless Americans got no UI.
EPI called slashing benefits from $600 to $200 weekly, as Senate Republicans demand, “not just cruel, it’s terrible economics,” adding:
“These benefits are supporting a huge amount of spending by people who would otherwise have to cut back dramatically.”
“The spending made possible by the $400 that the Senate wants to cut is supporting 3.4 million jobs.”
“If you cut the $400, you cut those jobs.”
If (now expired) benefits are cut to $400 weekly, $1.7 million jobs will be lost.
May and June employment gains “reversed. Now is not the time to cut benefits that are supporting jobs,” EPI stressed.
GOP leadership claims that UI benefits of $600 disincentivise unemployed Americans from returning to work have no merit.
EPI called the claim “massively overblown,” adding:
“(R)igorous empirical studies show that any theoretical disincentive effect has been so minor that it cannot even be detected.”
Data show that over two-thirds of UI recipients who returned to work in May and June earned more from unemployment benefits than on-the-job pay.
Slashing benefits when most needed amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, an 8th Amendment breach.
In his second (January 1937) inaugural address to the nation, Franklin Roosevelt said the following:
“I see tens of millions of its citizens—a substantial part of its whole population—who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.”
“I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.”
“I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.”
“I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.”
“I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.”
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”
The state of the nation today for most Americans is more dire than during the 1930s.
No FDR era alphabet soup of jobs creation programs exists to put Americans back to work, none planned by Republicans or Dems.
Will things change for the better if Biden succeeds Trump in January and if Dems control both houses of Congress?
No evidence suggests it other than perhaps some tinkering around the edges when massive relief and jobs creation programs are vitally needed to turn things around — at a time of unprecedented economic and unemployment armageddon.
What’s going on is likely to be protracted and painful for countless millions of Americans — what I call the hardest of hard times in a nation serving privileged interests exclusively, uncaring about the vast majority of ordinary people.
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Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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