First They Came For The Greek Cypriots ~ Boris Uses Feudal System Law Seizes £150 Million From Britons' Bank Accounts

'Amazingly enough, this ridiculous feudal custom still exists.'
Authored by Simon Black: During the summer of 1215 in a riverfront meadow near London, some of England’s top barons gathered to confront King John and force him to sign a contract guaranteeing their rights and freedoms.
The contract became known as the Magna Carta. And one of its key provisions (#43) gave the Barons protection against something called ‘escheat’.

In medieval times, ‘escheat’ referred to the property being forcibly passed to the King if its original owner died without heirs.

So if a Baron passed away without a son, his domain would pass by escheat back to the crown.
Over time, kings vastly expanded the use of escheat; anyone convicted of a crime would have their property seized by escheat. Occasionally someone’s son or daughter could be pressed into servitude by escheat.
It was like a medieval version of Civil Asset Forfeiture: the King took whatever he wanted, for any reason, and people had no rights.

Art Of Resistance: The COVID 1984 Contest

The New Hysteria

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: We now hear that wearing masks is not a safety issue but a control issue imposed on us to take away our liberty.  https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/27/mandatory-masks-arent-about-safety-theyre-about-social-control/?utm_campaign=ACTENGAGE 
How likely is it that every state, local, and federal health official, every state governor, every government in the world is involved in a control conspiracy?  How can countries locked in intense conflict against one another be united in a control conspiracy? Can we really imagine Washington in league with Iran, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Russia? It is amazing to me how far off real concerns all of this has become.  It has become more of a hysteria than the virus itself.
The emotional and liberty issues are made up.  Everyone was demanding masks, the general population as well as doctors and nurses.  The criticism of the authorities was the lack of masks.  The lack of N-95 or higher masks was the leading sign of the unpreparedness of the Western governments.
The flip-flopping of public health officials on masks is likely explained by the initial unavailability of masks even for those treating infected patients as well as for the public.

China Double Dares Trump, Boris, Etc. To Go For It - Approves Homogenous Chinese Law For Hong Kong

Beijing will initiate a far-reaching 'crackdown' to impose standard Chinese law on privileged Hong Kong once it takes effect in September.
By Tyler Durden: One day after the US declared that Hong Kong is no longer "autonomous" from Beijing, China's Politburo Standing Committee on Thursday officially wove a controversial new "National Security" resolution that was approved during last week's National Party Congress into Hong Kong's 'Basic Law' - the de facto constitution left by the British - in defiance of President Trump, and a broader backlash across the West, which has repeatedly stood up to defend Hong Kong's freedoms.
According to the Jew York Times, Beijing will probably initiate a far-reaching 'crackdown' to impose the new law on Hong Kong once it takes effect in September.

Laundering Feudalism

Max and Stacy examine the abundance of circumstantial evidence that the entire economy has become a money laundering operation. From the ‘unicorns’ of Silicon Valley where losses are rising exponentially, to fracking plays where losses mount every year for the past decade to the entire business model of private equity where companies are loaded up with massive piles of debt... who exactly is profiting from so many money losing enterprises?

Like Some Sweeteners The Best Leading COVID Indicator Might Literally Be Shit...

Here Is The Best Advance Indicator If A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Coming

By Tyler Durden: As public health officials and investors search for reliable leading indicators for the 'second wave' of infections that Dr. Fauci and the WHO insist is right around the corner, one team of researchers has determined that the answers might be found under the ground...

To wit, a team of researchers from Yale University in New Haven, Conn. published a paper earlier this month on their studies of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in the sewage in the Greater New Haven area. In the abstract of their report, the team determined that "when adjusted for the time lag, the virus RNA concentrations were highly correlated with the COVID-19 epidemiological curve (R2 =0.99) and local hospital admissions (R2 =0.99). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were a seven-day leading indicator ahead of compiled COVID-19 testing data and led local hospital admissions data by three days."

Instead Of Accusing China Of Trade Deficit 'Trump Should Be Blaming US Corporations' Economist Says

'What does seem to be clear is that Asian countries, such as China and South Korea, did a better job of responding to the virus and controlling its spread.'

Sputnik: US President Donald Trump warned on 14 May that Washington could potentially suspend all ties with China as part of its response to Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Trump also claimed that cutting off relations with China would save the United States some $500 billion.

Dr Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist who served as the United States assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy, has shared his views on the matter.
Sputnik: In a recent interview, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stressed that the percentage of GDP shrinkage in the second quarter is "going to be very high", even as much as 20 percent. How can the US sustain its economy during the crisis? 
Dr Paul Craig Roberts: All economies that had closedowns are experiencing shrinkages, even Sweden, a country that did not impose a mandatory closedown to the same extent.

Facebook Appoints Jewish Israel Apartheid Regime Censor To Oversight Board

Facebook habitually censors Palestinian journalists and news organizations on its platform. (Anthony Quintano / Flickr). 

By Tamara Nassar: Facebook has hired the former director-general of Israel’s justice ministry as a member of its new oversight board.
This body will effectively determine what content to censor or permit on the social media platform.
Emi Palmor headed the justice ministry from 2014 until she was dismissed from her post last year.
Under her direction, the Israeli justice ministry “petitioned Facebook to censor legitimate speech of human rights defenders and journalists because it was deemed politically undesirable,” Palestinian civil society groups stated this month.
The groups condemned Facebook’s selection of Palmor, warning of her potential role in muzzling freedom of expression and censoring human rights defenders, particularly Palestinian, Arab and Muslim voices on the platform.

Where Did My World Go?

Change Is Not Always Progress

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: I remember when there was no tamper-proof and child-proof packaging.  That was before multiculturalism and Identity Politics when we could still trust one another and parents accepted responsibility for their children without fobbing it off on a company with a liability claim.  
I remember also when there were no state income and sales taxes.  States were able to meet their responsibilities without them.
A postage stamp cost one cent. A middle class house was $11,000 and an upper middle class house went fot $20,000.  One million dollars was a large fortune. There were no billionaires.
The air museum on the naval base in Pensacola, Florida, has a street reconstructed from the 1940s. The restaurant’s memu offers a complete evening meal for 69 cents.
I was thinking about that as I reviewed a recent Publix supermarket bill:  a loaf of bread $3.89, a dozen organic eggs $4.95, a package of 6 hot dogs $5.49, 8 small tomatos $5.19, a package of baby spinach $4.19, a half gallon of milk $4.59, a package of two paper towel rolls $5.99.  When I was 5 or 6 years old, my mother would send me to the bakery with a dime for a loaf of bread or to the market with 11 cents for a quart of milk. The Saturday afternoon double-feature at the movie house was 10 cents.

Novel Coronavirus Uses The Same Strategy As HIV To Evade And Cripple The Immune System: New Study Confirms

'Can't have the peasants realizing they were lied to all along. Twitter, for example, has developed a nasty habit of immediately banning anyone who dares to tell the truth about anything.'

By Tyler Durden: Back on February 1, when the coronavirus pandemic was only just starting to attract broader attention and the China-influenced mainstream media was still politically inclined to minimize the severity of the disease before pulling a sharp U-turn and now going full bore with a narrative of just how dangerous it is for the Trump administration to reopen the economy (because if the economy recovers by November, Trump just might get re-elected), we published an article referencing an Arxiv pre-print which found that the covid-19 genome contained "HIV Insertions", stoking fears that the virus was an artificially created bioweapon. While the mere suggestion that this virus was man-made - nevermind sharing discrete segments of its genetic structure with HIV - sparked outrage among the well-paid mercenary enforcers of the First Amendment known as "fact-checkers" who are employed by such biased organizations as Twitter and Facebook to stifle any line of inquiry that runs contrary to whatever dominant narrative has been blessed by the Zuckerbergs and Dorseys of the world,

J4MB's Gender Matters - With Tom Golden

Elizabeth Hobson: Continuing J4MB's series of video interviews of people with interesting things to say on gender issues.

The Jews: A New Speech Protected Aristocracy Is Being Created As Free Speech Is Made A Felony

'The many critics of the Jewish state will have no vocabulary left to use, nowhere to go, as in Britain, and that is surely the intention.'

By Philip Giraldi: I frequently write about the massive propaganda campaign being run by supporters of 'Israel' to conceal the damage done by the Jewish state to actual United States’ interests. One of the more interesting aspects of that effort is the bowdlerization of language to extirpate some words that might have anti-Semitic overtones and to twist the meaning of others in such a fashion as to deprive them of any meaning. Providing loans at usurious rates of interest used to be regularly referred to “Shylocking” even in legal circles, named after the Shakespearean character in the Merchant of Venice. It is an obvious word just waiting around to be censored and has consequently disappeared from use.