Steffen Skovmand

Lies Our Leaders Tell Us (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In matters political, and not least during the present hailstorm of lies from our leaders concerning the origins of and political responsibility for the Coronavirus pandemic, I have often wondered whether somewhere there was a fool-proof way of knowing when something I see on TV or read in the papers is not true. A tool which tells me without having to dig deeper, that what I am hearing, seeing and reading cannot be true. My book, Lies our Leaders Tell Us:How Cultural Marxism Staged a Comeback-In the West is my attempt to come up with the tools to answer these questions. The first tool is Karl Popper¿s falsification test: if any one statement can be falsified, such as there are no black swans, when black swans have in fact been found in Australia, that statement cannot be based on fact. When WHO says publicly in a tweet dated January 14,2020, that there is no risk of human-to-human transmission and we know Taiwanese authorities told them the opposite in December 2019, we know WHO is lying. The second tool is that of the dismal science, economics, namely, to teach our reader to ask a simple question: compared to what? The Coronavirus pandemic is undoubtedly a serious health challenge for the West, but the risk of death is small for otherwise healthy individuals,34.000 Americans died of flu in the 2018-19 flu season and serious treatments are quite likely to be on hand shortly. The third tool, is that old police chestnut: cui bono? Who benefits from the lies? The short answer: our political leaders. Not just because they are covering up, like the WHO, but because our political elites in the West,as opposed to those of countries with few Coronavirus problems like Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore who all had learned from their 2003 experience with another bad flu, SARS, were woefully unprepared and slow to level with their populations. Lies Our Leaders Tell Us takes its readers on a non-fiction picaresque journey on A Ship of Fools. Like all picaresque stories from Henry

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098332594
• Artikelnr.: 60350090

Autorenporträt

Bio: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Steffen Skovmand. Born on 29 May,1946 in Copenhagen, Denmark. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Address: Fyrremose 150 6470 Sydals Denmark. Phone:[phone] or 00351- 937806678. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: [e-mail] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a retired career official (over 33 years in the EU) with diplomatic stints as Deputy (and sometimes Acting) Head of EU Missions in Ukraine and Romania. I have a unique experience of how our international organizations and their leaders operate -in real life. I have represented the EU-Commission in bodies as different as the European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers, the Economic and Social Committee, where I also worked in the beginning of my career in the Single Market directorate, the OECD¿s Financial Affairs Committee, plus have worked with the IMF, the USAID and the UN¿s Development Aid Agency, UNDP. I have an MA in English and History from the University of Århus, Denmark. I have co-written and co-edited two books, From New Deal to New Frontiers and The Angry Young Men. My literary style is creative non-fiction á la Camille Paglia and Ann Coulter. My message politically incorrect I am a regular contributor to a political internet blog, called 24Nyt and frequently write opinion pieces for both Danish and foreign media. I spend half of the year, the winter, in Cascais, Portugal and the summer in Sydals, Denmark, with my wife, Joy, and my dog, Bubba. I have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.