TBR News March 12, 2020

The Voice of the White House
Washington, D.C. March 12, 2020:“Working in the White House as a junior staffer is an interesting experience.
When I was younger, I worked as a summer-time job in a clinic for people who had moderate to severe mental problems and the current work closely, at times, echos the earlier one.
I am not an intimate of the President but I have encountered him from time to time and I daily see manifestations of his growing psychological problems.
He insults people, uses foul language, is frantic to see his name mentioned on main-line television and pays absolutely no attention to any advice from his staff that runs counter to his strange ideas.
He lies like a rug to everyone, eats like a hog, makes lewd remarks to female staffers and flies into rages if anyone dares to contradict him.
It is becoming more and more evident to even the least intelligent American voter that Trump is vicious, corrupt and amoral. He has stated often that even if he loses the
election in 2020, he will not leave the White House. I have news for Donald but this is not the place to discuss it.

Commentary for March 12, 2020 : There has been much speculation about the Chinese coronoavirus. It is a relatively harmless periodic flu-like disease that is nowhere as dangerous as the media loudly pretends.
Is there a reason for all of these sinister reports?
Yes, there is.
Trump, outraged at the impreachment business and not only fearful that he might lose the White House, but determined to infllct his will on a nation that does not deserve him, has been shown the following order, promulgaged by his detested rival Obama, that, like his hero Hitler would give him complete control over every aspect of America business and social life, he is waiting for the media, obedient to his wishes out of fear of being taken over under the following program, to build up the dangers of the Chinese flu and then step into the limelight he loves so well and claim he is using this old order to restore peace and good health to America.
This information comes not only from a White House employee but a member of the Attorney General’s office.
If one reads this through, the menace to political freedom becomes very, very clear.
Although the great bulk of the main-line media has joined the chorus of death and coming destruction, there are a few treatments worthy of note.
One of these comes from the very reputable Johns Hopkins University and is repeated here in the hopes that the general public will understand, clearly, that the corona virus is being used, and is contemplated for future use, as a vehicle that will allow Trump and his far-right advisors, the opportunity of clamping down on America’s political, media and economic systems and allow them to establish a government redolent of Hitler’s Third Reich following the Reichstag fire.
Any sensible person reading the John Hopkins review will not be willing to accept the scripted hysteria of pending mass death that the media, and the Trump people, are desperately trying to shove down the public’s collective throats.”

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE)
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
March 12, 2020

Data sources: WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC and DXY and local media reports.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center where our experts help to advance understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.
Note: All cases of COVID-19 in repatriated US citizens from the Diamond Princess are grouped together, and their location is currently designated at the ship’s port location off the coast of Japan. These individuals have been assigned to various quarantine locations (in military bases and hospitals) around the US. This grouping is consistent with the CDC.

Total Confirmed Cases of Corona Virus as of March 12, 2020
127,863

Total Deaths
4,718

Total Recovered
68,310
Note: The balance here is not complete because final diagnosis of complete recoveries has not been delivered at the publication of this report. ed
Confirmed Cases by Country/Region/Sovereignty
80,932 China
12,462 Italy
10,075 Iran
7,869 Korea, South
2,284 France
2,277 Spain
2,078 Germany
1,323 US
702 Norway
696 Cruise Ship
652 Switzerland
639 Japan
617 Denmark
503 Netherlands
500 Sweden
459 United Kingdom
314 Belgium
302 Austria
262 Qatar
195 Bahrain
178 Singapore
149 Malaysia
130 Israel
128 Australia
117 Canada
99 Greece
94 Czechia
89 Slovenia
85 Iceland
80 Kuwait
74 United Arab Emirates
73 India
71 Iraq
70 Thailand
69 San Marino
67 Egypt
61 Lebanon
59 Finland
59 Portugal
52 Brazil
52 Philippines
49 Romania
49 Taiwan*
49 Poland
45 Saudi Arabia
43 Ireland
39 Vietnam
34 Indonesia
28 Russia
24 Algeria
24 Georgia
23 Chile
22 Costa Rica
20 Pakistan
19 Argentina
19 Luxembourg
19 Croatia
19 Serbia
18 Oman
17 South Africa
17 Ecuador
16 Slovakia
16 Estonia
15 Albania
15 Peru
13 Hungary
12 Belarus
12 Mexico
11 Bosnia and Herzegovina
11 Azerbaijan
11 Panama
11 Brunei
10 Latvia
9 Colombia
8 Maldives
7 North Macedonia
7 Afghanistan
7 Bulgaria
7 Tunisia
6 Morocco
6 Cyprus
6 Malta
5 French Guiana
5 New Zealand
5 Dominican Republic
5 Paraguay
4 Senegal
3 Lithuania
3 Cambodia
3 Bangladesh
3 Cuba
3 Moldova
3 Martinique
2 Bolivia
2 Cameroon
2 Burkina Faso
2 Jamaica
2 Monaco
2 Nigeria
2 Honduras
2 Sri Lanka
1 Turkey
1 Mongolia
1 Togo
1 Armenia
1 Ukraine
1 Liechtenstein
1 Andorra
1 Reunion
1 Bhutan
1 Nepal
1 Congo (Kinshasa)
1 Holy See
1 Cote d’Ivoire
1 Jordan
1 Guyana

Recovered cases as of March 12, 2020
80,932 China
12,462 Italy
10,075 Iran
7,869 Korea, South
2,284 France
2,277 Spain
2,078 Germany
1,323 US
702 Norway
696 Cruise Ship
652 Switzerland
639 Japan
617 Denmark
503 Netherlands
500 Sweden
459 United Kingdom
314 Belgium
302 Austria
262 Qatar
195 Bahrain
178 Singapore
149 Malaysia
130 Israel
128 Australia
117 Canada
99 Greece
94 Czechia
89 Slovenia
85 Iceland
80 Kuwait
74 United Arab Emirates
73 India
71 Iraq
70 Thailand
69 San Marino
67 Egypt
61 Lebanon
59 Finland
59 Portugal
52 Brazil
52 Philippines
49 Romania
49 Taiwan*
49 Poland
45 Saudi Arabia
43 Ireland
39 Vietnam
34 Indonesia
28 Russia
24 Algeria
24 Georgia
23 Chile
22 Costa Rica
20 Pakistan
19 Argentina
19 Luxembourg
19 Croatia
19 Serbia
18 Oman
17 South Africa
17 Ecuador
16 Slovakia
16 Estonia
15 Albania
15 Peru
13 Hungary
12 Belarus
12 Mexico
11 Bosnia and Herzegovina
11 Azerbaijan
11 Panama
11 Brunei
10 Latvia
9 Colombia
8 Maldives
7 North Macedonia
7 Afghanistan
7 Bulgaria
7 Tunisia
6 Morocco
6 Cyprus
6 Malta
5 French Guiana
5 New Zealand
5 Dominican Republic
5 Paraguay
4 Senegal
3 Lithuania
3 Cambodia
3 Bangladesh
3 Cuba
3 Moldova
3 Martinique
2 Bolivia
2 Cameroon
2 Burkina Faso
2 Jamaica
2 Monaco
2 Nigeria
2 Honduras
2 Sri Lanka
1 Turkey
1 Mongolia
1 Togo
1 Armenia
1 Ukraine
1 Liechtenstein
1 Andorra
1 Reunion
1 Bhutan
1 Nepal
1 Congo (Kinshasa)
1 Holy See
1 Cote d’Ivoire
1 Jordan
1 Guyana

Recovered from coronavirus infection

50,318 recovered

Hubei China
2,959 recovered
Iran
1,289 recovered
Guangdong China
1,249 recovered
Henan China
1,197 recovered
Zhejiang China
1,045 recovered
Italy
999 recovered
Hunan China
984 recovered
Anhui China
934 recovered
Jiangxi China
734 recovered
Shandong China
629 recovered
Jiangsu China
554 recovered
Chongqing China
498 recovered
Sichuan China
441 recovered
Heilongjiang China
334 recovered
Beijing China
333 recovered
Korea, South
325 recovered
Diamond Princess Cruise Ship
321 recovered
Shanghai China
308 recovered
Hebei China
295 recovered
Fujian China
241 recovered
Guangxi China
232 recovered
Shaanxi China
183 recovered
Spain
170 recovered
Yunnan China
160 recovered
Hainan China
137 recovered
Guizhou China
132 recovered
Shanxi China
132 recovered
Tianjin China
118 recovered
Japan
112 recovered
Liaoning China
96 recovered
Singapore
92 recovered
Jilin China
88 recovered
Gansu China
73 recovered
Xinjiang China
72 recovered
Ningxia China
71 recovered
Inner Mongolia China
67 recovered
Hong Kong China
35 recovered
Bahrain
34 recovered
Thailand
27 recovered
Egypt
26 recovered
Malaysia
25 recovered
Germany
20 recovered
Taiwan*
18 recovered
Qinghai China
18 recovered
UK United Kingdom
17 recovered
United Arab Emirates
16 recovered
Vietnam
15 recovered
Iraq
12 recovered
France France
10 recovered
Macau China
9 recovered
Oman
8 recovered
Algeria
8 recovered
Queensland Australia
7 recovered
Victoria Australia
6 recovered
Romania
5 recovered
Kuwait
4 recovered
New South Wales Australia
4 recovered
Austria
4 recovered
British Columbia Canada
4 recovered
Ontario Canada
4 recovered
India
4 recovered
Israel
4 recovered
Mexico
4 recovered
Switzerland
3 recovered
Azerbaijan
3 recovered
Belarus
3 recovered
Russia
2 recovered
South Australia Australia
2 recovered
Indonesia
2 recovered
Pakistan
2 recovered
Philippines
2 recovered
California US
2 recovered
Illinois US
1 recovered
Belgium
1 recovered
Cambodia
1 recovered
Tibet China
1 recovered
Denmark Denmark
1 recovered
Finland
1 recovered
Iceland
1 recovered
Latvia
1 recovered
Lebanon
1 recovered
Nepal
1 recovered
Norway
1 recovered
Saudi Arabia
1 recovered
Senegal
1 recovered
Sri Lanka
1 recovered
Sweden
1 recovered
Gibraltar United Kingdom
1 recovered
Arizona US
1 recovered
Massachusetts US
1 recovered
Washington US
1 recovered
Wisconsin US

Deaths from corona virus as of March 12, 2020

6 deaths Chongqing China
6 deaths Hainan China
6 deaths Hebei China
6 deaths Shandong China
5 deaths Netherlands
4 deaths Hunan China
4 deaths Switzerland
4 deaths California US
3 deaths Belgium
3 deaths Hong Kong China
3 deaths Shanghai China
3 deaths Sichuan China
3 deaths Tianjin China
3 deaths Xinjiang China
3 deaths Germany
3 deaths Lebanon
3 deaths San Marino
2 deaths New South Wales Australia
2 deaths Gansu China
2 deaths Guangxi China
2 deaths Guizhou China
2 deaths Shaanxi China
2 deaths Yunnan China
2 deaths Philippines
2 deaths Florida US
1 death lbania
1 death Algeria
1 death Argentina
1 death Western Australia Australia
1 death Austria
1 deaths Bulgaria
1 death British Columbia Canada
1 death Fujian China
1 death Inner Mongolia China
1 death Jiangxi China
1 death Jilin China
1 death Liaoning China
1 death Zhejiang China
1 death Egypt
1 death Greece
1 death Guyana
1 death India
1 death Indonesia
1 death Ireland
1 death Morocco
1 death Panama
1 death Poland
1 death Sweden
1 death Taiwan*
1 deathsThailand
1 death New Jersey US
1 death South Dakota US

The Season of Evil
by Gregory Douglas
Preface
This is in essence a work of fiction, but the usual disclaimers notwithstanding, many of the horrific incidents related herein are based entirely on factual occurrences.
None of the characters or the events in this telling are invented and at the same time, none are real. And certainly, none of the participants could be considered by any stretch of the imagination to be either noble, self-sacrificing, honest, pure of motive or in any way socially acceptable to anything other than a hungry crocodile, a professional politician or a tax collector.
In fact, the main characters are complex, very often unpleasant, destructive and occasionally, very entertaining.
To those who would say that the majority of humanity has nothing in common with the characters depicted herein, the response is that mirrors only depict the ugly, evil and deformed things that peer into them
There are no heroes here, only different shapes and degrees of villains and if there is a moral to this tale it might well be found in a sentence by Jonathan Swift, a brilliant and misanthropic Irish cleric who wrote in his ‘Gulliver’s Travels,”
“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most odious race of little pernicious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
Swift was often unkind in his observations but certainly not inaccuratre.
Frienze, Italy
July 2018-August 2019

ENVOY

It is a common belief that to lose something of great value is a great tragedy. We lose beloved family members to age, dissolution and protracted death, friends to senseless extinctions caused by wars, drunken drivers and, surprisingly often, to self-destruction, which is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Material possessions, the assemblages of a lifetime of trivia, are destroyed by acts of man or nature: cities are burnt, flooded or shaken to pieces by purported acts of God and churches collapse on praying grandmothers.
These are losses that tear wounds in our psyches and shatter the artificial protection walls that every man builds around his fragile and temporary life. Certainty is illusion without question but probably the greatest gain a man can achieve in his flickering lifetime can be found in a loss.
This is a loss of what, for a better word, we can call the burden of life. Man comes into his inheritance equipped with a sort of empty backpack slung over his shoulders and as he progresses towards his final curtain, this pack becomes filled with a great weight of small objects.
The great sorrows or terrible personal losses, defeats, humiliations, rejections and persecutions that occur in the lives of all of us are of such immediate importance that we can and do have to deal with them as they happen. The lesser troubles, irritations, nuisances, minor daily frictions, petty insults and aborted joys remain in this theoretical pack and sink down out of conscious memory.
The small matters are often forgotten and so they survive and add to the weight of the pack. These constitute the burden of life: the sum of the small far outweighs the sum of the great.
It is the loss of this heavy, cumulative mass of petty trivia that suddenly and gloriously raises the carrier from thick darkness to a great, singing light and then it can be said that in this instance, a great loss is indeed a great gain.

This is also an e-book, available from Amazon:

Encyclopedia of American Loons

William Tapley

William Tapley, known on youtube as thirdeaglebooks, is a retired furniture engineer, conspiracy theorist and self-declared prophet (“co-prophet of the end times”) who has received some attention for being extraordinarily unhinged and incoherent even by self-declared-prophets-on-youtube standards. A typical example (no link provided) is his 2014 claim, based on a commercial for the iPad, that there will be a “false flag” event at the Super Bowl, in a rant partially concerned with an image of a sunrise that he claims to be of a woman giving birth to the Antichrist. (Elsewhere, Tapley has argued that Danny DeVito is, in fact, the Antichrist – it seems to be an open question whether it is one or more antichrists.) In general, most of his videos seem to be devoted to pointing out symbolism the rest of us might, for obvious reasons, have missed related to the end times in otherwise mundane-looking things, such as information about the nefarious plans of the Illuminati in a Miracle Whip commercial.
If you wondered about the “thirdeaglebooks” alias or the “co-prophet” designation, Tapley is ready to explain: God has told him he, Tapley, is the Eagle of the Apocalypse, and his own research revealed two previous “eagles”, which meant that he was no. 3; the previous two were the 15th-century Saints Vincent Ferrer and Bernardino of Siena, who sounded the alarm about the church’s first great enemy Martin Luther, precursor of the false prophet. As for the “Co-Prophet” title, Tapley believes his partner to be none other than Daniel of Old Testament.
Though unwilling to put an exact date on Armageddon, Tapley at least provided an estimate back in 2014: between October 13 and November 29, 2017. We don’t know about any updates, but an indication of what such updates would have involved can perhaps be gleaned from his 2014 response to the fact he had “predicted several events that had to occur 7 years earlier between October 13 and November 29, 2010, including: the fall of Israel, the fall of the Catholic Church, World War 3, and the return of Enoch and Elijah.” His response: These things did happen; you just might not have noticed.
Among his most notable successes are a 2012 analysis of the infamous Gangnam Style video, which Tapley concluded was a message directly from God about the nature of the Anti-Christ – telling us in particular that the Anti-Christ had a gay relationship with the False Prophet. Let us just say that if this was God’s message, and that was his means of delivering it, we should be seriously concerned about a lot of things. In fact, by applying the same methodology (i.e. free association) Tapley has established that God is sending all kinds of warnings to the world, contained in “music videos, television commercials, even sporting events.”
Before coming up with the Gangnam Style analysis, however, Tapley gained some attention for writing and recording the ditty “Mitt Romney, A Hero In My Mind,” that he hoped would become the Romney campaign theme. (The ditty is, to be honest, probably better described as “anti-Obama” than “pro-Romney”.)
In 2013 Tapley argued that Margaret Thatcher’s death was a warning to Obama. Among the pieces of evidence for that claim is a verse in Daniel that refers to a lion but Tapley claims is really talking about a lioness and is therefore Thatcher – and if you wonder why the Bible talked about a lion and not a lioness, Tapley has the answer: it is because “she comes up out of the sea.” The purported explanation is rather telling at least in some ways. He also produced a response to Obama’s speech to Planned Parenthood in which he mostly lied about abortion rights but also claimed that the speech was proof that Obama is possessed by demons. Other things argued by Tapley include the claim that Prince’s death is a fulfillment of prophecy; Tapley compared him to Jesus, who you should remember (if you doubted his claim), was the Prince of Peace.
Last, but not least, Tapley is probably one of the most colorful proponents of the Denver airport conspiracy, which is already one of the more fascinating conspiracy theories out there. Tapley’s version is predictably concerned mostly with hidden and at the same time prominently displayed Satanism, but his take raised to some notability after being featured by Stephen Colbert. In 2011 Tapley also received the honor of becoming the first “three-peat” designee of Anderson Cooper 360’s “RidicuList”; Tapley, on his side, claims that he doesn’t think Cooper actually considers him a joke: “Well, he laughs at me, but I think it’s more of a nervous laughter,” said Tapley.
Diagnosis: Yes, he is belligerently insane. But he is also a happy, content eccentric who enjoys his retirement in an interestingly colorful way. Probably completely harmless.