We all have to sacrifice—some more than others.
Imagine you own a hotel in NYC. Operating costs and taxes are high and you exist on the margins. Along comes the military and the state. They want to commandeer your hotel for COVID-19 patients. You really don’t have much of a choice. This is a pandemic, after all, and we all must sacrifice, especially small business owners and their employees, the latter now unemployed due to a lockdown. The state and the military plan to modify your building to make it amenable to ICU care—nurse stations constructed in the hallways, airconditioning modified for negative pressure, and other structural changes.
Now imagine the pandemic has passed. Your hotel is no longer suitable for its original purpose short of modification. Few customers—mostly those who know it was used as a COVID-19 hospital—want to lodge there. This fear is irrational but human nature. Unless the state compensates you for the loss, you’re screwed. It’s the end of your business, maybe your life’s dream. Will the government buy the hotel so you can pay off your mortgage? In other words, will hapless taxpayers pickup the tab? The general says nothing about this.
We all have to sacrifice—some more than others.
Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite explains.....
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Also see: Military on the Streets of New York
He expects "this to become a standard across the country in the coming days and weeks. The state is now in the process of throwing millions of workers out of their jobs, closing down business, and basically freezing—and ultimately killing—most business activity in the United States. By summer, or sooner, this will result in desperation and violence, [and that] the military is being deployed to urban areas not so much to deter citizens from the freedom of association. Rather, the USG is preparing for the eventuality of outraged citizens protesting and rioting in reaction to mass unemployment, growing want and poverty, and the inefficiency of the federal government to meet their needs on the most basic level," and I totally agree with him.
Time to reject the new normal for it is literally the End of Civilization:
"The End of Civilization?" by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., March 21, 2020
Governments all over the world are using the alleged threat of a COVID-19 pandemic to shut down the world’s economy. Daniel Lacalle, an authority on energy economics, writes: “The decision to shut down air travel and close all nonessential businesses is now a reality in major global economies. The United States has banned all European flights as Italy enters a complete lockdown, Spain declares a state of emergency, and France closes all nonessential public places and businesses.”
Further, he points out, governments can’t solve the problems they have created through massive spending programs and bigger deficits. These policies make things worse: “Governments will implement large demand-side policies that are the wrong answer to a shutdown of the economy. Most businesses will suffer from the collapse in sales and subsequent working capital build, and none of that will be solved with deficit spending. You cannot mitigate a supply shock with demand policies, which increase debt and overcapacity in the already indebted and bloated sectors and do not help the sectors that are suffering an abrupt collapse in activity,” and government printing of money, i.e., outright inflationism, is even more dangerous.
Lacalle’s remarks bring to mind the trenchant comments on Ludwig von Mises. He warns against attempts to shore up disastrous policies by printing more money. Mises says, “No emergency can justify a return to inflation. Inflation can provide neither the weapons a nation needs to defend its independence nor the capital goods required for any project. It does not cure unsatisfactory conditions. It merely helps the rulers whose policies brought about the catastrophe to exculpate themselves.” He tells us where a policy of inflationism will end: “Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.”
Bill Sardi emphasizes the criminal folly of US government policy. The federal government, he says. is “willing to crash the economy, kill businesses, particularly churches and restaurants that are unlikely to have the resources to re-open their establishments, and coerce people to stay indoors, a practice that will further lower vitamin D levels and result in widespread infection and death among retirees.” States and cities have rushed to follow suit. Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example, are now under drastic “shelter-in-place” orders that require “non-essential businesses” to close and forbid dining in restaurants.
To understand more fully what is happening, we need the guidance of two great thinkers, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard.....
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Related: Illinois goes on coronavirus lockdown days after holding ‘fine & safe’ Democratic primaries
The primary was overwhelmingly carried by establishment favorite Joe Biden (924,771 votes, 59 percent), whereupon Governor J.B. Pritzker and the experts appear to have suddenly changed their minds.
I agree with her on nothing except who cares about the U.S. presidential election (as if it would matter).
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An Amazing Woman and and this whole thing is a Big $cam by some of the most evil people walking the planet.
She also recommends, as do I, Jon Rappoport's blog nomorefakenews for breaking developments and information. He has been a respected voice in the field.
Donald J. Trump: Stop Bugging Me – Trust the Plan!
Yeah, he is saving us all by doing this, right. So says this guy:
Looks trustworthy, huh?
Who the fuck is that guy anyway?
I'm supposed to take him seriously?
Sure smells like a disinformation campaign and limited hangout. Ex-CIA indeed!
UPDATE:
What is happening is much more akin to what's in the lead video. Chump is boxed in. That isn't to say he was the greatest; it just makes one realize how transient and impotent a president really is. Been that way since 1963, in all due honesty -- and blogger who featured the video is absolutely correct. We need someone from on high, in the ruling circles, to call this thing out. Turn the tide. Chump can't do it. This is about destroying nations, people. No question about it.
On that vein, I just want to anecdotally add I have noticed lots of train activity a couple of streets over. More than usual, and at all times of day or night. Just saying.
I would like to take this opportunity to say may God be looking out for you and yours, dear followers and fellow truth seekers. I've been right, I've been wrong, I learn more each day, and I'm just a simple man trying to make his way through the madhouse that the psychopaths in charge have contracted for us. Here is wishing you see your way through and build a better a future, a better world, than what we have lived through thus far.
