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In the wake of Tennessee tornadoes, and a rolling near-pandemic Coronavirus contagion, conservatives clinging to smaller government ideology face a challenge on the role of the federal government in responding to disasters. Should Washington D.C. step in, does responsibility lie at lower levels or government, or private intiative?
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What portion of the ‘swelling cases’ is ‘swelling testing’?
Bill prefers a volunteer fire department to Fahrenheit 451.
Game consoles and computer games are flying off the shelves in quarantined cities and new games that expected a few sales this week are selling thousands. Children under 10 are immune carriers, the scariest words in epidemiology, they can catch COVID-19 and pass it on but are not sick!
Bill needs to use and thus teach the terminology of governance. Government is a set of tools we use to deal with non-rivalrous and non-excludable externalities. We need to make the obscure terminology normal so people see there are other ways to do it than the bureaucratic method, parliaments and taxes.
The research onto viruses is broken because they are assuming random mutation as an evolutionary tool. Its not random. Its a genetic repair mechanism in the cell for other purposes that has broken. They are also rejecting cures that work because they can’t find a mechanism for that cure. This is why a few countries that tried mega doses of vitamin C and elderberry juice are calling people cured. Vietnam, etc. God created virus code in all organisms to attack and kill bacteria and transfer repair RNA to damaged cells. That system has broken down with virus’s attacking human and animal cells. All part of the biblical fall.
Although I agree with Bill Whittle on most topics, he is wrong about the NTSB, at least where the leadership of that agency is concerned. In 1996, the Clinton appointed NTSB Chairman Jim Hall and Vice Chairman Robert Francis allowed an absolutely illegal FBI takeover of the NTSB investigation into the crash of TWA 800 on the evening of July 17th of that year. The professional (read career) NTSB personnel were horrified to see what happened after FBI agent in Charge James Kallstrom pushed the NTSB people on site out of the way and with the help of the Clinton DOJ used the FBI and CIA to produce a narrative which contradicted the obvious facts and allowed the coverup of the real cause of the crash. Eyewitnesses were intimidated, and their testimony was either ignored or fabricated. Crucial pieces of the wreckage disappeared or were altered by FBI personnel. I was a TWA 747 Captain at the time, and was the head union representative for all the TWA pilots who flew it’s international routes. I am working to have the current NTSB under President Trump’s administration reopen the investigation and include all the eyewitness testimony. None of that was included in the original “Probable Cause” report published by the NTSB in 2001. I lecture on the subject all over the country. Currently, I am working on a DVD of that lecture titled “The Downing of TWA 800 – The Facts and the Lies”. All proceeds from the sales of the DVD will go to the TWA Museum in Kansas City, which includes a very moving exhibit honoring the 230 souls who died that night, 54 of them TWA employees or family members. I have asked Bill Whittle to consider doing a piece on this issue, but so far have had no response. I would be happy to speak with him, Scott Ott or Steven Green at any time. It is not too late to bring justice and closure for the victims of the crash and their friends and families.
I remember that debacle, though I don’t blame the NTSB members for it. By law, the NTSB had the lead, but a turf battle quickly ensued with the FBI. Senior NTSB leadership acquiesced to FBI demands, which was a mistake. Based on later testimony before Congress by NTSB investigators, I believe the FBI mismanaged the probe and intimidated NTSB personnel and their supporters in the process. Since that time both agencies have come to an agreement that the NTSB is in charge of all accident investigations. The FBI may conduct its own criminal investigation, but they will share data and not interfere with each other’s efforts. From your comments I get the impression you think both the FBI and the NTSB lied about the most likely cause of the crash. I can only presume you believe the aircraft was either shot down or blown up by a bomb. Both of those theories were investigated and discounted in favor of evidence that more closely pointed to a fuel tank explosion.
With all due respect, I was involved in the TWA 800 investigation from the morning after the crash. The FBI personnel silenced and intimidated the NTSB investigators on site. The fact is that none of the eyewitnesses were allowed to testify at the week NTSB hearings in Baltimore, nor was ANY of their testimony included in the final report speaks volumes. There were over 700 eyewitnesses, many (over 200 in fact) were considered very credible. They included Major Fritz Meyer of the NY Air National Guard. He was giving a helicopter check ride that night, and both he and his trainee saw something rise off the water and strike the left side of the aircraft BEFORE the massive petroleum explosion. Major Meyer stated emphatically that he had no doubt the 747 had been shot down by a missile or MISSILES. The supposed explosion of fuel vapors in the Center Section tank was ridiculed by anyone who was familiar with the design of the 747 fuel system and it’s venting capabilities.
You may remember that the CIA produced, at the request of the FBI under James Kallstrom, a video which portrayed the explosion separating the forward third of the aircraft from the rest. Then, according to the video, the remainder of the fuselage pitched up and climbed an additional 5000′ to nearly 18,000′ MSL. That is aerodynamically impossible! I would suggest you view the EPIX documentary “TWA 800” and read Jack Cashill’s book “TWA 800 – The Crash the coverup and the conspiracy” It is by far the best researched and written account of the tragedy yet published. The national media bought the entire narrative being pushed by the Clinton Administration without question, just as they have reported as fact all the issues about the Trump Presidency.
In closing, Hank Hughes, the career NTSB investigator who was in charge of the NTSB’s TWA 800 investigation, stated after his retirement that it was his opinion that the airplane was: “Brought down by an explosion or explosions EXTERNAL to the aircraft.” In other words, Hughes believed the evidence clearly showed that: TWA 800 had been shot down by a missile or missiles, and NOT destroyed by an explosion of unknown origin in the center wing tank.
You may be interested to visit my blog at http://www.captain-al-speaking.com. There is an entire category on TWA 800, with posts dating back to September of 2016, when the blog was established. If President Trump is reelected this November, there is a chance that the truth about the crash will finally come out. I sincerely hope that it will.
The problem with Government doing things is that it fails in the doing. Then it uses its own failure as an excuse to double down on the failure, increase the size of Government, to take more wealth from those who produce it, and then spend it on still more failures.
This is a positive feedback mechanism that it will inevitably result in the total collapse of the Government and the society it pretends to govern. Followed by centuries of dark ages during which the memory of the failure of Government is wiped out. Then the song and dance will begin all over again with the same result.
When are we ever going so stop the madness? The reset of 1776 worked for a while in that it took over two centuries for the exponential growth of Government to explode from being background noise. It has been heading toward the stratosphere for about a century. Where is the ceiling? When there is no more private space for the producers of wealth and value to exist and work. At that point, everything collapses.
I, too, thought the CDC were non partisan straight shooters until last week when Trump said don’t panic and an hour later coup plotter Rod Rosenstien’s SISTER contradicted him on behalf on the CDC and basically said, no, panic is appropriate.
How many people do you know in very high Federal office, high enough to speak for the department ? One guy heads the DOJ and his sister heads part of the CDC ? Twin Vinman brothers BOTH on the NSC? Seems like everybody in the swamp is either siblings or literally in bed with one another.
There are several articles out there noting the incestuous relationships among federal agencies and media. The problem has been wide publication since their entrails stretch into those who are supposed to out graft at the highest levels. It is very much like Hydra.
John, look at this latest “crisis” as a chance for swamp dwellers to expose themselves (they can’t resist the temptation to attack Trump), thus providing the President an opportunity to remove them when the time is right.