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Why hasn't US Occupational Safety and Health Administration bothered to do any testing on the potential negative effects of mandatory workplace face masks? An increasing number of individuals have tested C02 level build-up inside masks using OSHA-approved equipment and the results have been concerning. Why doesn't OSHA take the time to either disprove or confirm whether it is safe for face masks to be mandated on workers? Plus in today's program: corruption in Covid testing across the country and another look at the big hype over new "cases" in Texas and Florida.
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By Ron Paul
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows that the central bank is the leading cause of economic inequality. The Federal Reserve manipulates the money supply by buying and selling government securities. This means that when the Fed decides to pump money into the economy, it does so by putting it in the pockets of wealthy, and oftentimes politically-connected, investors who are able to spend the new money before the Fed’s actions result in widespread inflation. Wealthy individuals also tend to be among the first to invest in the bubbles that form when the Fed distorts interest rates, which are the price of money. These investors may lose some money when the bubble bursts, but these losses are usually outweighed by their gains, so they end up profiting from the Fed-created boom-bubble-bust cycle. In contrast, middle-class Americans lose jobs as well as savings, houses, and other assets when bubbles burst. They will also not benefit as much as the rich and well-connected from government bailouts and stimulus schemes. Middle- and working-class Americans also suffer from a steady erosion of their standard of living because of the Fed’s devaluation of the currency. This is the reason why so many Americans rely on credit cards to cover routine expenses. The Federal Reserve is thus the reason why total US credit card debt is almost one trillion dollars. Big-spending politicians are also beneficiaries of the fiat money system. The Fed’s purchases of US debt enable Congress to massively increase welfare and warfare spending without increasing taxes to politically unacceptable levels. The people pay for the welfare-warfare state via the Fed’s hidden and regressive inflation tax. Low interest rates also benefit politicians by keeping the federal government’s interest payments low. This is an unstated reason why the Fed will keep interest rates near zero or even lower interest rates below zero. In response to the government-caused economic collapse, the Federal Reserve increased the money supply by about a trillion dollars from mid-April to early June. In contrast, it took the Fed all of 2019 to grow the money supply by 921 billion dollars. Even before the lockdown, the Fed was massively intervening in the economy in a futile attempt to prevent economic crisis. A coming crisis will likely be triggered by a collapse in the dollar’s value and a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status. The economic collapse will be worse than the Great Depression. This will result in widespread violence along with government crackdowns on liberties, accelerating the US slide into authoritarianism. The only way to avoid this is for Congress to make drastic cuts in spending — starting with defunding the military-industrial complex — and to audit then end the Fed.
The scare headlines are screaming: record spike in "cases" in Arizona, Texas, and Florida! Other states are mandating face masks even where deaths and the death rate continues to decline. New York City has for the first time since March reported zero Covid deaths. So...is there anything to this "spike" in the Sun Belt? Is the hype justified?
Washington is a land of delusions. One side creates delusions about Coronavirus, while the other side creates delusions about the economy. Politicians of all stripes are so desperate to keep their house of cards together that they're putting their faith in Federal Reserve counterfeiting. The era of government omnipotence is ending.
Houston's Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner heaped praise on the recent George Floyd protests, which drew tens of thousands of people tightly packed into the city. He even addressed the crowd. Coronavirus was no problem, the protests were too important. Yesterday Mayor Turner cancelled the Texas state Republican Party convention, which was to be held in Houston and would bring in a tiny fraction of the numbers of those who attended the Floyd protest. The mayor's reason to cancel the Republican Party convention? Coronavirus! Is this really about public health...or is it something else?
 By Chris Rossini Life is only experienced on an individual level. We each have our own individual and unique adventure. No one can see through the eyes of another, or think the thoughts of another, walk in the shoes of another, or make choices for another. All choices and actions are made by each individual mind. In a nutshell, Life is Liberty. Every individual is endowed with the Liberty to choose and to act. It is the ultimate gift of Life. One cannot imagine a greater one. Every single action that a person makes, he makes because he believes that the outcome will improve his situation. By acting, individuals are constantly swapping out the less favorable for what (they believe) will be the more favorable. That doesn't mean that every action will produce a more favorable result. Since no individual is omnipotent, or all-knowing, we are all susceptible to error. We can act, only to find out that the means we chose will not produce the end we are seeking. But the moment that each of us chooses to act, we believe our situation will be improved by doing so. Because man is fallible, and must fail (quite often) while advancing through life, he is tempted to offload this individual responsibility to others. He's willing to sacrifice his greatest gift in the world, his individual Liberty, to other men! "Let someone else tell me what to do." Oh what a mistake! It's hard to imagine a bigger and more deadly error. Unsurprisingly, there is never a shortage of other men who are up for the task of being the ruler. They happen to believe that they themselves are "gifted," and "exceptional," and "enlightened" on how the entire world should "work." Sure! They'll tell you how to act! No problem! They will "organize" your life, "index" it, "cross-reference" it, run it through super-computers, shake it, stir it, turn a few screws, mix a few potions, and announce their decrees. All you have to do is obey. Don't obey and violent force will come your way. As a result of this sacrifice of Liberty, a new world is born. It is a total fantasy world from beginning to end, where the blind lead the blind, and everyone ends up falling into the ditch. The truth that everyone involved desperately tries to avoid is this: Another person cannot successfully dictate how you are to act. He cannot tell you what is more favorable, or less favorable, to your situation. He's not in your situation! He has his own personal situation! He doesn't see what you see. He doesn't experience what you experience. He can't successfully tell you what you should do. Is it any wonder that as you look through mankind's history you see nothing but a continuous stream of failed government experiments? Every single form of government that you can imagine has been attempted many times over, all with the same exact result. Failure! That's because the truth never changes. It's impossible for another to live your life. It's impossible to sacrifice your Liberty, and think that everything will turn out OK. Not only will it not turn out OK, it will turn out to be a major catastrophe! The biggest death counts ever piled up in the history of the world, have been piled up by governments! Nothing else even comes close. The "gifted," "exceptional," and "enlightened" ones are exceptional only at producing human suffering. When you embrace your Liberty, and make mistakes (as you must, from time-to-time) you will suffer from those mistakes. You're not alone. We all suffer from our mistakes. The point is to learn from them, and not to repeat them. When you sacrifice your liberty, and your ruler makes a mistake (as he absolutely will) then YOU SUFFER! Your ruler doesn't suffer for you. YOU SUFFER as a result of his decrees. There is no avoidance to suffering. Isn't it enough to suffer from your own mistakes? Must you compound it exponentially by suffering from the decrees of others? Here's the thing about rulers. Once you sacrifice your Liberty to them, you can't just nicely ask for them back. You can't go and say, "You know, I made a mistake. You obviously can't live my life for me. You don't even know me. I'd like to make my own decisions again. Thanks." No...No...No. Once you give your Liberty away, the ruler is not giving it back to you. America started out with citizens that were the freest perhaps to ever exist. Government was a non-issue in their lives. As a result, American abundance shook the world! But alas... The last 100 years of American history have been a prime example of what happens when you give away authority over your own life to rulers. It's been a constant grinding away of freedom, mixed in with great leaps into the abyss. We're currently living through yet another great leap into the abyss. It's now blatantly obvious that government wants to hang on to the liberties taken away during the Covid propaganda-fest. They do not want to return them. We've reached the point where the headlines actually say that low death counts are nothing to celebrate!!! That's the nature of power. Give it your liberty, and it will hang onto to it with an iron fist. The blind are truly leading the blind, and (as always) everyone will end up falling into the ditch. Liberty is the most precious gift imaginable. Is it any wonder that giving it up leads to a living nightmare? It's perfectly logical that such would be the fate of the people that go along. The good news is that the opposite is just as true. Cherishing and jealously guarding individual liberty leads to happiness, comfort and prosperity. It can be no other way. Liberty is the nucleus of the individual fife. NEVER (EVER) sacrifice it to any other man. 
Media and politicians are using the reported massive increase in positive Covid test results to call for another US lockdown. Meanwhile there are increasing doubts as to the accuracy of the tests. New Jersey is mandating masks and two Texas counties are threatening felony charges against those with positive tests who do not stay home. Are these fears justified? Has the continuing decline of Covid deaths become meaningless?
The rule "first do no harm" appears to have been thrown out the window in the response to the 2019 coronavirus outbreak. Some studies suggest that for every "Covid" death there could be 29 deaths due to the lockdowns worldwide. Famine, depression, suicide, untreated illnesses - all of these may overshadow Covid as the killer of the year. Plus in today's program: Fauci says we're "knee-deep in the first wave," the New England Journal of Medicine suggests just suspending any worker who refuses the coronavirus vaccine, and Texas mask "mandates" explained.
By Ron Paul
On July 2nd, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order mandating the wearing of face masks across the state, whether indoors or outdoors, when six feet cannot be maintained between people. In the governor’s decree, he cited a rise in Covid cases, a rise in test positivity, and a rise in hospitalizations as justification to force people to cover their faces in public. The move is not only a violation of the civil liberties of all Texans. Abbott may have based his executive order on inaccurate information about a “rise” in Covid cases due to the Texas State Department of Health Services changing the definition of what constitutes a “Covid case.” Thanks goes to Collin County Judge Chris Hill for blowing the whistle on what appears to be a move in mid-May to redefine what was a “Covid” case to open the door to a massive increase – all to match the mainstream media line that a “second wave” was on the way. In a Commissioners Court hearing for Collin County on May 18th, it was revealed that while previously the determination of a Covid “case” was a confirmed test result, the definition was suddenly changed to count “probable” cases as “cases.” At the same time, the threshold for determining “probable” was lowered to a ridiculous level. As Judge Hill said at that May 18th meeting, “If you have a subjective fever and you have a headache and you live in Collin County, you now meet the qualifications to be a probable COVID patient. It is remarkable how low the standard is now.” Even worse, once a “probable” case was determined based on possibly unrelated subjective criteria, up to 15 people in possible contact with that “probable” case were also listed as “probable cases.” And “probable cases” were considered cases. Repeat that farce across Texas and is it any wonder there was a “spike” in “cases”? Also, Governor Abbott’s claim that hospitals were being over-run by Covid patients was refuted by the Houston hospital directors themselves, who said they were nowhere near actual capacity and in fact were about the same level as they were last year. The basis for Abbott’s unconstitutional “executive order” has been shown to be false. Will he admit his mistake? It is encouraging to see so many local and county officials across Texas announcing they will refuse to enforce Governor Abbott’s unconstitutional face mask order. Thankfully the spirit of freedom and love of liberty is still alive in Texas. The “second wave” is driven by propaganda. Across the country, Covid testing increased from about 150,000 to more than 700,000 per day. You can’t drive through Houston without seeing a flurry of signs advertising “Free Covid test! Results in 15 minutes!” Last week Reuters reported that tests shipped around the country by the federal government were contaminated. Deaths from coronavirus – even the deaths “with” coronavirus rather than deaths “from” coronavirus – are down more than 90 percent since the peak in April. The decline in deaths continues. That means we are closer to the “herd immunity” that will finally kill this virus. Yet Governor Abbott and others across the country see this as a reason to lock the country back down.
The daily death count has morphed into the daily "new case" count, as 100,000 tests a day have exploded into 700,000 tests. Is it a wonder cases are increasing? But what they don't dare mention is that deaths and even the death rate continue to decline. In fact the CDC warns that Covid is at the stage where it cannot even be classified an epidemic due to declining deaths. Still, more masks are required and petty dictators all around are calling for a return to lockdown. Can the truth ever be heard above all the lies?
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