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March 27, 2021
Satan Sneakers With Human Blood Join Aztec War Gods And Hitler Culture Overtaking America
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A very worrisome new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s claims Russia is reluctant to hold a dialogue, with her stating: “All such statements by Mr. Stoltenberg to the effect Russia refuses to hold a dialogue are not true…They are lies...A very specific discussion was proposed, with the aim of not drifting away towards politicized PR affairs, something our Western partners are notorious for...There was a proposal for holding a concrete discussion, with experts, including military ones, taking part, on a wide range of problems...He may fumble through the papers, find them and stop spreading disinformation about Russia’s alleged refusal to conduct a dialogue...Russia does refuse to participate in a preplanned PR campaign...This is certainly not for us...As far as a concrete discussion is concerned - let me stress once again, with military experts taking part - nobody will ever refuse to hold it, because we were the ones who addressed you with this proposal”.
Then in assessing this blatant disinformation, this transcript shows Security Council Members concluding its being orchestrated by Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden—whose US Intelligence Community has been discovered flouting laws as it increasingly involves itself in domestic politics—beyond all belief, yesterday saw Biden appointing Richard Torres-Estrada to be the first-ever “Chief of Diversity and Inclusion” over all US Special Forces—and is remarkable because Torres-Estrada compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler while calling him “a fucking moron" and "an idiot surrounded by clowns”—which means he’s the last type of person anyone would think of placing into a position of leadership over elite American soldiers.
Most specifically because unlike their new “Chief of Diversity and Inclusion” leader Torres-Estrada, all elite US Special Forces officers receive extensive education about Adolph Hitler at their West Point Military Academy in classes conducted by Dr. David Frey—who teaches these elite combat officers about how Hitler surrounded himself with German Shepherd dogs as a symbol of power—teaches how Hitler was a powerful socialist tyrant and leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (aka Nazi Party)—teaches how Hitler enacted gun laws to disarm his opponents and Jewish citizens in order to destroy them—teaches how Hitler rigged elections so his Nazi Party could stay in power—and teaches the truth that the most notorious environmentalists in history were the German Nazis.
Unlike President Trump, though, socialist leader Biden exhibits every one of these attributes of Hitler—which brings into further clarity the historical research book “Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich” written by Dr. Eric Kurlander and published by Yale University Press in 2017—and in one religious scholarly review about notes: “Again and again, the figures in Kurlander’s book, from minor Nazi officials all the way up to Hitler, seem to have almost no sense that the human will has limits, or that reality should place a check on the kinds of weapons they hope to design, or on the theories they hope to be true”.
Critical to notice in the rise of socialist leader Hitler and his Nazi Party, as Dr. Kurlander documents, is that it was accompanied by nearly all of the people in Germany going insane—an insanity of supernatural evil that saw the German people, most particularly their elites, turning away from their centuries of Christian heritage and own nation’s history—today under socialist leader Biden is being evidenced again in America—and is best exampled in the socialist Democrat Party stronghold State of California, where its Department of Education has proposed a new curriculum that would involve teachers leading students in chanting the names of Aztec gods in an effort to build unity in the classroom.
As to why anyone of sound mind would have children chanting the names of Aztec gods whose demonic history is exposed in historic research articles like “Feeding The Gods: Hundreds Of Skulls Reveal Massive Scale Of Human Sacrifice In Aztec Capital” staggers belief—but one should notice that this is occurring in an America where 666 pairs of $1,000 custom “Satan” sneakers containing a drop of human blood are frantically being bid on today.
And as likewise was exhibited in Nazi Germany when its people went insane, this evil warping of American culture does include mind-bending bizarre occurrences—with this being best exampled today by the Sesame Street characters Elmo and his friend Wes, who had a lovable conversation about how the color of ones fur didn’t make them any different—though when famed artist George Alexopoulos made a cartoon of Hitler saying the exact words Elmo used, the leftist social media site Instagram instantly banned it for violating its community standards—and saw this insanity being followed by socialist leader Kamala Harris joining with known rapist President Bill Clinton at an “Empower Women” event—that caused Clinton rape victim Juanita Broaddrick to post the message: “Is this a fucking joke…..This pervert ........ who raped me....is going to talk about empowering women....with a woman who spread her legs for power”—though for most of the normal Americans watching this socialist insanity, it saw them simply asking Harris: “Wasn’t Epstein available?”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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Demonic supernatural socialist insanity sweeps through America today like it did in Nazi Germany a century before.
According to this report, one of the many normal persons knowing the truth about the supernatural origins of the socialist insanity sweeping through America is Father David Fulton, the pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Constance-Nebraska—and is why, on 6 January, he traveled to Washington D.C. to pray and perform an exorcism at the US Capitol—but for doing so, Father Fulton was informed this week that he now faces expulsion from the church for what he did.
As to why a Christian religious leader in America faces expulsion from his church for doing what his faith led him to do, this report notes, was explained by famed comedian-actor Adam Carolla, who said this week that when comedians are afraid of the backlash from “the woke mob” then “you know they have gotten to everybody”—and exactly stated: “Professors and cops and politicians; they caved…Now, the fact that comedians have caved meant they got to everyone…If comedians are scared, then everyone is scared because they were really our last hope…They are the last sort of truth-tellers in society”.
For the grave danger facing truth-tellers in America, this report details, is exampled by SUNY Geneseo College student Owen Stevens, who was suspended for saying the obvious truth that “A Man Is A Man, A Woman Is A Woman”, and had to get a court order to allow him back into school—further sees Bishop Ready High theology instructor Deborah DelPrince being fired from her 20-year teaching job because she wrote “I can’t breathe’ — that’s not necessarily true…But it perpetuates a myth against police” about the death of George Floyd—a death the Security Council conclusively documented happened to this career criminal due to a drug overdose—a truth about the death of this career drug abusing criminal also known to Duke University, but who warned all their students this week that if any of them even mention the factual toxicology report proving there was a cocktail of drugs in Floyd’s system which likely caused or contributed to his breathing problems and death, they would be immediately investigated for “Discrimination and Harassment”.
While viewing this socialist insanity, this report continues, it caused Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal to write in her article “Yellow Journalism Turns Blue” the suggestion that: “Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning standards to work seamlessly with the progressive left against any opposition”—a suggestion that couldn’t be more timely, as the leftist Washington Post is now publishing deranged articles from so-called experts recommending that 3-month-old babies begin racist training—a level of socialist insanity too much for the Australian reporter, who this week slammed the “Weekend at Biden’s” administration as being a joke—and most certainly a level of socialist insanity too much for the British policeman, who this week published on behalf of all normal people his heartfelt resignation letter “I’m Done Britain”, wherein, in part, he wrote:
I’m a cop of 20 years’ service and I’m done with it.
I’m done with duplicitous liars and twisters of the truth in Parliament, who destroyed policing to further their own careers.
I’m done with those charlatans and snake-oil salesmen and women who spread their bile. Whose acid eats away at society, its values and future. I’m done with the utter lack of consequences of their corruption.
I’m done with the duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in the media and ‘journalism’ with their spin, lies, misrepresentation and half-truths.
I’m done with their 24-hours news, their Twitter echo chambers, their pile-on tactics and agendas, to invent the next big story or extend the life of the old one. I’m done with their sickening pretence that they are on some crusade to make the world a better place.
I’m done with the socially corrosive special-interest groups who want to be top of the victimhood ladder and are prepared to burn the world and anyone different to them, to ensure they are heard above anyone else. Their constant screaming for attention and ever more fantastical claims that bear no scrutiny, but which they know they will never be challenged on, because, you know, ‘cancel culture’.
I’m done with the Soviet-era scale of bureaucracy that stops me doing my job, the projects that strangely never fail, the nepotism in the promotion boards, and the boys’ and girls’ clubs in policing that look after each other, no matter how incompetent, and screw everyone else who isn’t in their gang.
I’m done with the anxiety, the anger, the constant state of heightened arousal in case of danger, even when I should be feeling safe in my own home. I’m done with the corrosive damage to my physical and mental health, sacrificed for a country and public, serving both in green and blue for a country that couldn’t give a toss.
I’m done with the deaths, the suffering, the violence, the dishonesty, the predatory behaviour and all the other public faeces that you ask us to clean up
I’m done with the indescribable levels of frustration, rage, hate and despair that all the above has filled my life with, when all I wanted to do was look after the good people and lock up the bad.
Sort your own mess out, or don’t and let it all collapse around you.
I’m done and I really don’t care anymore.
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In a further example of the socialist insanity sweeping through America, this report points out, it bears noticing that, on 10 March, the Free State of Texas leader Governor Greg Abbott ended the mask mandate for his citizens—and upon hearing Abbott’s announcement on 2 March, socialist Democrats and their leftist corporate media lapdogs warned that death and destruction were imminent—demented Dr. Anthony Fauci called the decision “inexplicable”—socialist leader Biden called it “Neanderthal thinking”—failed US Senate and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called it a “death warrant for Texans”—and socialist tyrant California Governor Gavin Newsom said it was “absolutely reckless”—but two weeks later, the State’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have decreased by 21 percent, and the rolling average number of daily new cases decreased by almost 2,199 over the past two weeks, a 36 percent drop.
The importance of knowing about these insane socialist leaders, their leftist media lapdogs, and the fear mongering lies they tell, this report concludes, is because it makes understandable why the ratings of leftist news outlets CNN and MSNBC are crashing to historic lows—a fact fearfully noticed by the leftist Washington Post in their article “Trump Predicted News Ratings Would 'Tank iI I'm Not There.' He Wasn't Wrong”—a fact noticed by Yale University, who fired their psychiatrist that declared President Trump mentally unfit—a fact noticed by America’s largest leftist newspaper USA Today, who fired their “race and inclusion” editor after she disparaged white people—and a fact noticed by socialist Democrat Party leader US Senator Bernie Sanders, who jumped to the defense of President Trump against the leftist social media banning him to warn: “Tomorrow It Could Be Somebody Else”—and though these are hopeful signs of America winning out in the end against this demonic socialist insanity, the main battle still be fought is described in the just published article “When The Powerful Say Truth Is A Lie And Lies Are The Truth, No One Will Stand Up For America But You”, that says:
For the past year here in Washington, D.C., as well as in cities and states across the country, we’ve been told not to gather with our friends, neighbors, and family, not to worship God with our parishes, and not to visit our sick or elderly loved ones.
We’ve even been told not to admire outdoor beauty, with the National Park Service’s Tuesday announcement that they will be choking off the number of people permitted to admire the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin this spring.
And every single day we are subjected to more base lies disguised as lofty truths. Breathing freely without two masks is selfish. Staying indoors is good for your neighbors. Our differences are what make us a community. We are all in this together.
Powerful black people are oppressed and poor white people are privileged.
QAnon is marching on Washington and the Ku Klux Klan is right behind every door.
Men are women, women are men, and pregnant women make great professional soldiers.
Power-grabs are voting rights. Election integrity threatens “the bedrock of American democracy.”
Joe Biden is an historic visionary.
“War is peace.”
“Democracy dies in darkness.”
Except that last one is true.
The problem, of course, is while corporate media were excited to scream it from the rooftops during President Donald Trump’s four years in office, at a time the most powerful people in the country are insisting the truth is a lie and their lies are the truth, many of our best-known reporters are not merely absent, they’re complicit.
Thursday afternoon, when the president took questions for the first time in more than nine weeks, PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor, for example, asked how the president deals with the tension of attracting ungovernable masses of illegal immigrants to the border after being “elected as a moral, decent man.” Instead of rolling their eyes, two more reporters referentially played off her questions.
Will Biden run for re-election in four years, another reporter queried. Will Vice President Kamala Harris be his running mate? Why isn’t he moving faster to smash the tools designed to protect the Senate’s minority party?
“How far,” AP’s Zeke Miller asked at the top of the presser, “are you willing to go to achieve those promises that you made to the American people?”
We already know the answer to that question because the Democratic Party has made it abundantly clear they will go as far as they physically can.
They will come into our schools, they come into our churches, they will come into our social media, our place of employment, our private company, our home, and our family.
The real question is: How far will we let them come?
Because no one else is going to stand up for us.
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[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
The Watchers Have Arrived—And America Will Never Be The Same
God Is Playing Games With Biden—History Shows This Won't End Well
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I could almost repeat last week’s market update.
“Over the past week, the market didn’t make a lot of headway, as price rises were limited while intraday dips got repeatedly bought. Such is what we would expect with the ‘money flow’ indicators we have discussed over the last several weeks back on “sell signals.” (Importantly, note that Friday’s early morning decline held the uptrend line from the October lows.)”
This week was much the same story, with stocks slopping around all week. However, on Friday, a late afternoon buying surge sent the market back to all-time highs. Again, as noted, stocks haven’t made a lot of headway since the February peak despite a lot of volatility. But Powell’s promise of continue “easy money” certainly didn’t hurt.
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As discussed last week, the “sell signal” triggering on a short-term basis coincides with our concerns of quarter-end rebalancing for pension funds. We discuss the confluence of the long- and short-term indicators and the market’s potential outcome in Thursday’s “3-minutes” video.
I think we saw a good bit of that rebalancing this past week and are likely close to its conclusion. As noted, the positive weekly money flows keep downside risk somewhat mitigated for now. As seen over the last two weeks, dips continue to be bought despite overall price weakness. We also see relatively rapid rotations between the defensive and offensive market sectors. As stated previously, such suggests rallies may remain limited until the subsequent “buy signals” are triggered.
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I suspect we may have some additional quarter-end rebalancing risk early next week. However, buying on Thursday and Friday next week, as second-quarter positioning gets underway, would not be surprising.
As such, hold positions early next week and look for weaknesses to add to exposures as needed.
The Dollar’s Silent Action
Over the last couple of months, we repeatedly discussed the market’s ongoing rise, particularly the “value” rotation, depended on continuing dollar weakness.
The recent rotation to value has been primarily a function of a “weaker dollar,” which boosts commodities. As noted, if economic growth does strengthen, leading to higher rates will attract foreign inflows into the dollar for a higher yield. Such also undermines corporate profitability, given that roughly 40% of corporate profits are from abroad.
The dollar has been gaining strength this year on expectations of more robust economic growth. A break above the 200-dma could accelerate buying as shorts begin to cover their positions.
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The risk not factored into the current “value” trade is the inflation and interest rate increase due to the massive amounts of stimulus. However, that stimulus will quickly flow through the system, leaving consumers tapped by higher inflation and rates eroding disposable income.
In other words, the “value trade” could be just a fleeting as the “economic recovery” itself.
We are firm believers in “value investing.” However, after years of artificial interventions, accounting gimmicks, share buybacks, and massive balance sheet leveraging, there is little “real” value in the markets currently.
Given that the markets have not been allowed to reset, speculators are now simply chasing the next “momentum” trade called “value.”
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Powell’s “Easy Money” Promise
Last week, we discussed Powell’s latest change to monetary policy, or rather, lack thereof.
“The U.S. economy is heading for its strongest growth in nearly 40 years, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, and central bank policymakers are pledging to keep their foot on the gas despite an expected surge of inflation.” – Reuters
In other words, despite the Fed’s mandate of maximum employment and price stability, the Fed is opting to let things run ‘hot’ for some time to ensure that growth is ‘sticky.'” That stance makes some sense, given the economy still requires massive liquidity support more than a decade after the financial crisis. As discussed previously in ‘Forever Stimulus:’
‘What this equates to is more than $12 of liquidity for each $1 of economic growth.'”
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The question that financial markets wanted answering was just how much of a decline in asset prices the Fed will tolerate before providing reassurance.
It only took a 3% clip off of all-time highs before there was a scramble by Fed members to assuage market concerns. My colleague, Mish Shedlock, put together an excellent summary:
“Easy Money” Quotes
- On Thursday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said even with the economy rebounding faster than expected, any change in monetary policy would happen “very, very gradually over time and with great transparency. Only when the economy has all but fully recovered.”
- Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida said the central bank would stay in the game until the recovery is “well and truly complete.”
- Fed Governor Lael Brainard promised “resolute patience.”
- San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said the central bank would show at least “a healthy dose” of patience. ”We are not going to take this punch bowl away.”
- Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said that the United States might well see economic growth remain above trend for several years given the amount of pent-up demand. Nonetheless, “What matters is what outcomes we get. I will see where we go and am not trying to overthink the date (of any policy change). I am trying to think about the outcome.”
Not surprisingly, the Fed is very cautious about the financial markets due to its inherent impact on consumer confidence. However, at this juncture, with rates at zero, stimulus checks in the mail, and QE running $120 billion per month, verbal support is all they can do currently.
As Mish concludes:
“The Fed’s 2% inflation target is monetary insanity. Full speed ahead with the stimulus in search of inflation that would be visible to anyone who was not wearing group think blinders. Japan has tried what the Fed is doing now for over a decade, with no results.”
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Japanification
He is correct. The Fed’s “inflation policy” will likely backfire on them badly. As discussed previously in “Japanification:”
“The U.S., like Japan, is caught in an ongoing ‘liquidity trap’ where maintaining ultra-low interest rates are the key to sustaining an economic pulse. The unintended consequence of such actions, as we are witnessing in the U.S. currently, is the battle with deflationary pressures. The lower interest rates go – the less economic return that can be generated. An ultra-low interest rate environment, contrary to mainstream thought, has a negative impact on making productive investments, and risk begins to outweigh the potential return.”
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As my colleague Doug Kass noted, Japan is a template of the fragility of global economic growth.
“The bigger picture takeaway the fact that financial engineering does not help an economy, it probably hurts it. If it helped, after mega-doses of the stuff in every imaginable form, the Japanese economy would be humming. But the Japanese economy is doing the opposite. Japan tried to substitute monetary policy for sound fiscal and economic policy. And the result is terrible.”
I agree with Doug, as does the data, that while financial engineering props up asset prices, it does nothing for an economy over the medium to longer-term. It actually has negative consequences.
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Stock Buybacks Gone Wild
Two weeks ago, I addressed the “Money On The Sidelines” myth stating:
“No, this is not the ‘cash on the sidelines’ argument which I debunked previously. Following the pandemic, corporations drew down credit lines and hoarded cash due to economic uncertainty. Now, with expectations of recovery, corporations are once again beginning to deploy that cash.”
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As I stated then, while the mainstream media hope is all this cash will be flowing back into the economy, the reality is that it will primarily go to stock buybacks. Again, while not necessarily bad, it is the “least best” use of the company’s cash. Instead of expanding production, increasing sales, acquiring competitors, or making capital investments, the money gets used for a one-time boost to earnings on a per-share basis.
This past week, share buybacks hit a new record.
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Not surprisingly, the most prominent players in buybacks are the ones that need to subsidize their earnings the most to beat estimates; technology and financials.
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Net Purchases
While share buybacks primarily are for the benefit of corporate insiders “cashing out,” it does have the effect of supporting asset prices as well. As I discussed in 2019, when stocks were hitting records amid record share repurchases:
“What is clear, is that the misuse, and abuse, of share buybacks to manipulate earnings and reward insiders has become problematic. As John Authers recently pointed out:
‘For much of the last decade, companies buying their own shares have accounted for all net purchases. The total amount of stock bought back by companies since the 2008 crisis even exceeds the Federal Reserve’s spending on buying bonds over the same period as part of quantitative easing. Both pushed up asset prices.’
In other words, between the Federal Reserve injecting a massive amount of liquidity into the financial markets, and corporations buying back their own shares, there have been effectively no other real buyers in the market.”
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I bring this up for two reasons:
- The buybacks ARE SUPPORTIVE of asset prices in the short-term; and,
- We just had to “bailout” these companies because they couldn’t weather an economic downturn as they have spent years piling into debt and buying back shares.
While Janet Yellen is okay with the buybacks, as she thinks the banks are healthier now, why doesn’t anyone ask the question:
“If banks are so healthy, why do they need a constant monetary stimulus to remain in business and a bailout every time the economy declines?”
It doesn’t sound very healthy to me.
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Portfolio Update
As noted above, with the “money flow” indicators now negative on both a daily and weekly basis, we are currently holding much higher levels of cash. Last week, we also added a bit of “duration” to our bond portfolio by stepping into TLT to add a hedge against a potential pickup in volatility short-term.
With the market now about 1/3rd of the way through the correction cycle, there is limited downside risk currently as we remain in the year’s seasonally strong period. However, such doesn’t mean we can’t have a lot of volatility in the meantime.
We remain wary of the rise in yields, and ultimately the dollar, which remains the key to the current market cycle. As discussed last week, the “value trade,” which had become excessively overbought, corrected in earnest this past week. While we may see some “bottom-fishing” in the short-term, there is still substantially more room for a correction given the extension from long-term means.
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Our more significant concern over the next quarter is the extremely high net positioning of institutions in the markets. Historically, when “everyone is in the pool,” outcomes have not been all that pleasant. While we continue to remain allocated toward equity risk currently, we do it with a constant eye on the risk.
We suspect that we could see a fairly substantial correction during the summer.
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But that is a story we will discuss when we get there.
Continue to manage risk until we start to see “buy signals” across our indicators once again.
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I’m sitting at a bar in Texas, surrounded by maskless people, looking at folks on the streets walking around like life is normal, talking with nice and friendly faces, feeling like things in the world are more-or-less normal. Cases and deaths attributed to Covid are, like everywhere else, falling dramatically.
If you pay attention only to the media fear campaigns, you would find this confusing. More than two weeks ago, the governor of Texas completely reversed his devastating lockdown policies and repealed all his emergency powers, along with the egregious attacks on rights and liberties.
There was something very un-Texan about those lockdowns. My hotel room is festooned with pictures of cowboys on horses waving guns in the air, along with other depictions of rugged individualism facing down the elements. It’s a caricature but Texans embrace it. Then a new virus came along – as if that had never happened before in Texas – and the new Zoom class took the opposite path, not freedom but imposition and control.
After nearly a year of nonsense, on March 2, 2021, the governor finally said enough is enough and repealed it all. Towns and cities can still engage in Covid-related mischief but at least they are no longer getting cover from the governor’s office.
At that moment, a friend remarked to me that this would be the test we have been waiting for. A complete repeal of restrictions would lead to mass death, they said. Would it? Did the lockdowns really control the virus? We would soon find out, he theorized.
I knew better. The “test” of whether and to what extent lockdowns control the virus or “suppress outbreaks” (in Anthony Fauci’s words) has been tried all over the world. Every serious empirical examination has shown that the answer is no.
The US has many examples of open states that have generally had better performance in managing the disease than those states that are closed. Georgia already opened on April 24, 2020. South Dakota never shut down. South Carolina opened in May. Florida ended all restrictions in September. In every case, the press howled about the coming slaughter that did not happen. Yes, each open state experienced a seasonality wave in winter but so did the lockdown states.
So it was in Texas. Thanks to this Twitter thread, and some of my own googling, we have a nice archive of predictions about what would happen if Texas opened.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom said that opening Texas was “absolutely reckless.”
- Gregg Popovich, head coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, said opening was “ridiculous” and “ignorant.”
- CNN quoted an ICU nurse saying “I’m scared of what this is going to look like.”
- Vanity Fair went over the top with this headline: “Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary With Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”
- There was the inevitable Dr. Fauci: “It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.”
- Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke of Texas revealed himself to be a full-blown lockdowner: It’s a “big mistake,” he said. “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death.” He accused the governor of “sacrificing the lives of our fellow Texans … for political gain.”
- James Hamblin, a doctor and writer for the Atlantic, said in a Tweet liked by 20K people: “Ending precautions now is like entering the last miles of a marathon and taking off your shoes and eating several hot dogs.”
- Bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald flipped out: “Goddamn. Texas already has FIVE variants that have turned up: Britain, South Africa, Brazil, New York & CA. The NY and CA variants could weaken vaccine effectiveness. And now idiot @GregAbbott_TX throws open the state.” He further called the government “murderous.”
- Epidemiologist Whitney Robinson wrote: “I feel genuinely sad. There are people who are going to get sick and die bc of avoidable infections they get in the next few weeks. It’s demoralizing.”
- Pundit Bill Kristol (I had no idea that he was a lockdowner) wrote: “Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together.”
- Health pundit Bob Wachter said the decision to open was “unforgivable.”
- Virus guru Michael Osterholm told CNN: “We’re walking into the mouth of the monster. We simply are.”
- Joe Biden famously said that the Texas decision to open reflected “Neanderthal thinking.”
- Nutritionist Eric Feigl-Ding said that the decision makes him want to “vomit so bad.”
- The chairman of the state’s Democratic Party said: “What Abbott is doing is extraordinarily dangerous. This will kill Texans. Our country’s infectious-disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down, even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn’t care.”
- Other state Democrats said in a letter that the decision was “premature and harmful.”
- The CDC’s Rochelle Walensky didn’t mince words: “Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. I am really worried about reports that more states are rolling back the exact public health measures we have recommended to protect people from COVID-19.”
There are probably hundreds more such warnings, predictions, and demands, all stated with absolute certainty that basic social and market functioning is a terrible idea. The lockdown lobby was out in full force. And yet what do we see now more than two weeks out (and arguably the lockdowns died on March 2, when the government announced the decision)?
Here are the data.
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The CDC has a very helpful tool that allows anyone to compare open vs closed states. The results are devastating for those who believe that lockdowns are the way to control a virus. In this chart we compare closed states Massachusetts and California with open states Georgia, Florida, Texas, and South Carolina.
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What can we conclude from such a visualization? It suggests that the lockdowns have had no statistically observable effect on the virus trajectory and resulting severe outcomes. The open states have generally performed better, perhaps not because they are open but simply for reasons of demographics and seasonality. The closed states seem not to have achieved anything in terms of mitigation.
On the other hand, the lockdowns destroyed industries, schools, churches, liberties and lives, demoralizing the population and robbing people of essential rights. All in the name of safety from a virus that did its work in any case.
As for Texas, the results so far are in.
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I’m making no predictions about the future path of the virus in Texas. Indeed for a full year, AIER has been careful about not trying to outguess this virus, which has its own ways, some predictable and some mysterious. The experience has, or should have, humbled everyone. Political arrangements seem to have no power to control it, much less finally suppress it. The belief that it was possible to control people in order to control a virus produced a calamity unprecedented in modern times.
What’s striking about all the above predictions of infections and deaths is not just that they were all wrong. It’s the arrogance and confidence behind each of them. After a full year and directly observing the inability of “nonpharmaceutical interventions” to manage the pathogen, the experts are still wedded to their beloved lockdowns, unable or unwilling to look at the data and learn anything from them.
The concept of lockdowns stemmed from a faulty premise: that you can separate humans, like rats in cages, and therefore control and even eradicate the virus. After a year, we unequivocally know this not to be true, something that the best and wisest epidemiologists knew all along. Essential workers still must work; they must go home to their families, many in crowded living conditions. Lockdowns do not eliminate the virus, they merely shift the burden onto the working class.
Now we can see the failure in black, white, and full color, daily appearing on our screens courtesy of the CDC. Has that shaken the pro-lockdown pundit class?
Not that much. What an amazing testament to the stubbornness of elite opinion and its bias against basic freedoms. They might all echo the words of Groucho Marx: “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
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There's A Serious Flaw To The Team Powell-Yellen Inflation Scheme
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, MAR 27, 2021 - 12:40 PM
Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com,
If you’re a wage earner, retiree, or a lowly saver, your wealth is in imminent danger.
A lifetime of schlepping and saving could be rapidly vaporized over the next several years. In fact, the forces towards this end have already been set in motion.
Indeed, there are many forces at work. But at the moment, the force above all forces is the extreme levels of money printing being jointly carried out by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury.
Fed Chairman Jay Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have linked arms to crank up the printing presses in tandem.
This is what’s driving markets to price things – from copper to digital NFT art – in strange and shocking ways. But what’s behind the money printing?
Surely it’s more than progressive politics – under the guise of virus recovery – run amok.
Where to begin?
The U.S. national debt is a good place to start. And the U.S. national debt is now over $28 trillion. Is that a big number?
As far as we can tell, $28 trillion is a really big number…even in the year 2021. How do we know it’s a big number, aside from counting the twelve zeros that fall after the 28?
We know $28 trillion is a big number based on our everyday experience using dollars to buy goods and services. You can still buy a lot of stuff with $28 trillion.
In truth, $28 trillion is so big it’s hard to comprehend.
Nonetheless, $28 trillion is not as big a number today as it was in 1950. Back then, the relative bigness of $28 trillion was much larger. It was unfathomable.
Crime of the Century
The points is, with paper dollars as legal tender the bigness of $28 trillion is relative. Moreover, with policies of mass dollar debasement in effect, tomorrow’s bigness of $28 trillion will be much different than today’s.
What if $28 trillion isn’t such a big number after all?
What if, through sleight of hand, $28 trillion could be made less big?
What if the relative bigness of $28 trillion could be dropped an order of magnitude so that it had a commensurate value of $2.8 trillion?
A national debt that’s on relative par with $2.8 trillion would be much more convenient for the goons in Washington. It would finagle the U.S. national debt to GDP ratio from over 130 percent to a relative 13 percent.
This may sound crazy. But it has been done before…
One of the unspoken objectives of the Fed’s monetary policy is to inflate the debt away. Powell won’t explicitly say this. He doesn’t have too. His actions tell you everything you need to know.
But what you may not know is that dollar debasement, as a matter of fiscal and monetary policy, bailed out the U.S. government in the 20th century. Powell and Yellen are endeavoring to pull off this crime of the century once again.
If you recall, in 1946, at the conclusion of WWII, the U.S. national debt to GDP ratio was 118 percent. Yet by 1981 the debt to GDP ratio had declined to just 31 percent. It has been rising ever since.
Vigorous economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s had a hand in growing the economy out of debt. But more important was the role of dollar debasement.
Check this out…
The Bureau of Labor Statics own Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation calculator shows that $1.00 in January 1946 had the same buying power as $5.16 in December 1981. Similarly, it took $1.00 in December 1981 to buy what $0.19 could buy in January 1946.
Thus, over this 35 year period, the dollar lost 81 percent. Four fifths of its value was inflated away by the Fed and the Treasury. That’s downright criminal.
There’s a Serious Flaw to the Team Powell-Yellen Inflation Scheme
As you can see, dollar debasement policies inflated a significant part of the national debt away. However, achieving this feat was remarkably destructive.
To halt the flight of gold from American soil, the U.S. government closed the gold window at the Treasury in 1971. This implicit default ended the Bretton Woods agreement. The Treasury stiffed America’s trading partners unconditionally.
“The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem,” remarked Treasury Secretary John Connally to his astonished European counterparts at the G-10 Rome meetings in late 1971.
After Nixon removed the discipline of gold from the world monetary system the money supply could be inflated without limits. For American consumers, this quickly translated into raging price inflation. Things got ugly quick.
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By 1980, the CPI was at 13.5 percent and the yield on the 30 Year Treasury hit 15 percent. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had to jack the federal funds rate up over 20 percent to keep prices from coming completely uncorked. The price of gold spiked from $35 per ounce to over $800.
Volcker’s efforts may have temporarily salvaged the dollar. But they didn’t solve the debt problem. Instead they laid a faulty foundation for an even larger debt edifice to be erected upon.
This brings us to the present state of awfulness. Another implicit default is needed to reckon the Treasury’s books.
Aside from the fraud, chicanery, balderdash, and Montreal Screwjob of it all, there’s a serious flaw to the Team Powell-Yellen inflation scheme…
How can dollar debasement policies aimed at inflating away the debt ever succeed when it’s these very policies that induce the massive growth of debt in the first place?
And this, folks, is precisely why we’re doomed.
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Dawn of the Dead in the United States of Voodoo
March 19, 2021 | Author Bill Bonner
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Dead Men Don’t Spend
The checks went forth yesterday.
And all the peoples rejoiced.
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Stimulus blinders firmly attached! Let’s go! Mars is within reach! [PT]
Bloomberg reports:
As the economy reopens, consumer spending over the next two quarters is likely to be the strongest such period in at least 70 years with a rebound in services leading the way, according to economists at Wells Fargo & Co.
This is La Bubble Epoch… a gay time for all… full of farce and foolishness.
Tesla is going to the moon. Bitcoin is headed for Mars.
It makes us all giddy with excitement – 5G, 6G, 7G, 98G… million-dollar non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of cindered artworks and Michael Jackson “lactating”… negative real interest rates… Joe Biden… a free-range chicken in every pot and a stimmy check in every bank account.
All things are thought to be possible… even those that are physically, mathematically, and theoretically impossible.
And there is no longer any career risk or shame associated with saying or doing astonishingly stupid things.
Men can have babies, too – yes, we can! Farmers can plow backward to fool the crows.
But, OMG… You’re using the third-person singular masculine pronoun rather than the all-purpose, politically correct (though grammatically idiotic) “they.”
Horrors!
But that’s just a feature of the era. Things that don’t matter do matter. And things that do matter… well, fuhgeddaboutem.
Cockamamie Rip-Off
Our problem with this glorious age is that many things that don’t seem to matter right away – like a whiff of smoke on a dry California hillside, or a $3.3 trillion federal deficit – may become big deals later.
Here’s one… the biggest heist in history.
We refer to the $200 billion stolen from the “bailout” money. Here’s Yahoo Money on the story:
More than $200 billion in unemployment aid may have gone to fraudsters in the pandemic.
A significant chunk of the government support reserved for unemployed Americans went to fraudsters instead during the pandemic, according to new estimates.
More than $200 billion of unemployment benefits distributed in the pandemic may have been pocketed by thieves, according to ID.me, a computer security service that 19 states — accounting for 75% of the national population — use to verify worker identities. That’s more than triple the official government estimate of $63 billion based on the 10% pre-pandemic fraud rate.
Up to 30% of claims under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), the program that provides benefits to self-employed and contractors, are fraudulent, according to data by ID.me.
What’s $200 billion? Peanuts.
But people follow leaders. And when leaders impose a cockamamie rip-off as the law of the land… it doesn’t take the public long before getting in the spirit of dishonesty behind it.
Then, the whole society falls apart.
It’s Complicated
But don’t worry, Dear Reader. The Biden Administration is ready to fight corruption – overseas! Politico:
Going after the ‘Achilles’ heel’: Biden charges into global anti-corruption fight
Earlier this month, amid a blizzard of news both domestic and foreign, Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the time to ban a powerful Ukrainian oligarch from setting foot in the United States.
That’s right. We won’t tolerate corruption – in the Ukraine. Here in the U.S.? Well… It’s complicated.
We are not so much concerned by the facts as by the theory. Sure, apparently many people – millions? – lied to get the stimmy money. But when the money goes, everything goes.
Money is what determines our place in line. Those with the most money go to the head of the line and get the most stuff. Those at the end get what’s left.
And when the feds begin handing out money willy-nilly, the right and the wrong of it are hard to figure out. It’s not surprising that people begin cutting in line.
Raise the Dead
First, the stimmy money itself…
Was it earned by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Did it belong to Joe Biden? Was it saved by Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell? No.
Was it taken from any human being’s bank account? No again…
Then, how could it be stolen? From whom? Nobody.
Prosecutors would be at a loss. Because nobody is ever going to get standing in court to challenge the somebodies who made off with it.
Besides, who had a “right” to the money? The young woman who fit the eligibility requirements, as determined by Congress?
But where in the U.S. Constitution do the feds get the power to create money and give it to some people and not to others? You can check it yourself.
Congress has no such right.
Maybe the thieves had as much of a right to the money as anyone else. It was up for grabs. They grabbed it.
And better they than some others.
According to the H&R Block website, even corpses are eligible for the stimmy money:
- I received a stimulus check for a deceased relative. What do I do?
- It depends when your loved one passed. Individuals who died in 2020 are eligible for the second stimulus check while anyone who died before 2020 is not.
This deepens our curiosity. Do the feds think they can raise the dead? If not, why give them money?
Federal Spend-a-Thon
Surely, a dead man needs the money less than a living one – no matter when he kicked the bucket. Even a fraudster would seem a better bag man than a corpse for the stimmy giveaways.
And maybe, it is “life-ist”… a kind of “live privilege”… to think that the shades are somehow unable to do their part in the great spend-a-thon that the feds are trying to incite.
Shame on us. We would be peddling a “negative stereotype” if we were to observe that dead men are not big spenders, are not stimulated very easily, and that even $1,400 is unlikely to do the trick.
And perhaps, since the impossible is now possible, fake money is real money and the frontier between right and wrong, true and false, ridiculous and sublime is no longer clearly marked – perhaps it is no longer permissible to make distinctions?
Maybe the quick and the dead, sinners and saints, all have the same rights to the money that none of them earned?
So, in keeping with the Bubble Epoch zeitgeist, we will await the Dawn of the Dead… when the cadavers rise from their graves, shuffle into our malls and, drawing on their stimmy checks, leave with Hermès scarves, thus distracting the clerks so the crooks can make off with the big-screen TVs.
Yes – that ought to get the economy moving in the right direction!
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Originally published at Bonner & Partners
Bill Bonner founded Agora, Inc in 1978. It has since grown into one of the largest independent newsletter publishing companies in the world. He has also written three New York Times bestselling books, Financial Reckoning Day, Empire of Debt and Mobs, Messiahs and Markets.
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Blog/Disease
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Well you can cross the Big Apple off the Tourist list. New York City will be the first to impost Vaccine Passports to enter places. There goes Broadway. If that does not end NYC, I suppose nothing else will. You would think that if this was closer to the Spanish flu with a 3% kill ratio, perhaps you can justify it. Even the CDC has come out and shortens the social distancing from 6 feet to 3 feet because even that is absurd. When I said I had gone to the doctor and said I did not know anyone with COVID, they said I could have gotten it by pumping gas into my car. So much for masks and social distancing.
The Biden Administration is also hard at work to create a COVID Passport. Let’s face reality. The death rate with COVID 0.028% is about the same as the Kong Kong flu of the ’60s. It certainly does not warrant such hype. Therefore, the primary objective is to reduce movement to reduce the use of fossil fuels. The Guardian has already come out stating we need total lockdowns every two years to meet the UN objectives in climate.
There are diseases that are far worse than COVID which has a near 98.5% survival rate. So, is the end goal to create a passport for absolutely every version of some disease? This is all about Climate Change and I find it amazing that the majority of the people and corporations are totally blind to what is taking place slowly in incremental steps. The future we leave our children will be nothing but a total prison camp. At some point, they will most likely introduce permits to have children.
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Prima Noctum (jus primae noctis)(Prima Nocta) (First Night) was a law enforced by Edward I of England in an attempt to breed the Scots out instead of fighting them out. This right was the privilege of English Nobles to sleep with a woman on the first night of her marriage. However, it appears that money may not be able to buy love, but it can buy just about everything else. If you paid a fine, then the English Nobel would not sleep with your bride. This eventually merged and became the fee for a marriage license – a perpetual fine. The way this is going, the blending of climate change and population growth seems to lead to only one result – we will eventually need a permit to have a child, not unlike the one-child rule that existed in China until it was abandoned.
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Our political models show an unbelievable Panic Cycle in 2022 and 2024 with the Directional Change in 2021 which we obviously achieved. I cannot stress enough that to get Panic Cycles in politics is just astonishing. I don’t really want to venture a guess, but if the Biden Administration continues to move in this authoritarian direction, the 2022 election is going to make 2020 look like child’s play. I do not believe that Biden is in charge of anything. He is the perfect puppet making Bush Jr. look like a genius. This is not even Harris pulling the strings. This is a much darker force behind the curtain protected by the likes of the Washington Post and the New York Times. Categories: Disease
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COMMENT: Dear Mr Armstrong,
I wanted to write in to affirm your observation of regular people buying now rather than waiting (The Bull v Bear in the US Markets). I had to buy a new dryer earlier in the year. It took 6 weeks to get the one I had ordered. I wanted to buy a new computer recently. Lenovo showed delivery in 12 weeks for the one I wanted! Another company I looked at was taking pre-orders for delivery beginning the end of May. I paid a little extra and went with a small manufacturer that could deliver within 10 business days. I bought an extra freezer so we can stock up. I actually tried to buy a freezer last year and couldn’t get one at all, so I snapped one up as soon as they were available back in January.
My wife just asked me if I wanted to get a new grill for Father’s Day. I said, ‘Let’s buy that right now and put it aside. Who knows what will happen by Father’s Day.’
J
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REPLY: I remember the 70s well. Because of OPEC, not just gasoline was rising, but suddenly everything made of plastic was rising. For those who do not know, plastics are made starting with raw materials, such as natural gas, oil, or plants, which are refined into ethane and propane. Ethane and propane are treated with high heat, in a process known as cracking. This is how they’re converted into monomers such as ethylene and propylene. The monomers ethylene and propylene are combined with a catalyst to create a polymer “fluff,” which looks like powdered laundry detergent. Then the polymer is fed into an extruder, where it is melted and fed into a pipe, and the plastic forms a long tube as it cools. So when oil rose in price, so did everything made of plastic. That was much of the inflationary boom between 1976 and 1980.
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Everything was rising in price which led to the realization that it was cheap to buy today because it would only cost more tomorrow. I ordered a new refrigerator in December. It finally arrived in March. We are entering a period of shortages so prices will be moving higher as supply is constrained and demand will rise. The other side-effect of lockdowns and the destruction of offices with people working more remotely, everyone is out remodeling or expanding their homes. The construction industry is booming. Just look at the price of lumber.
Welcome to the inflation cycle our computer has been projecting would be built upon shortages.
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The Greens in Australia want to tax Billionaires 6% Wealth Tax annually (in addition to INCOME) as a property tax on everything this own from art right down to the watch they wear. They claim it will raise $11.2 billion over its first two years, it will cost the Australian Tax Office an extra $110 million to implement the policy and enforce compliance. But it does not stop there. It would apply to Australians who hold more than $1 billion in assets, no matter where they live, and non-residents who hold Australian assets worth more than $1 billion. Therefore, you can see how stupid these people are for they assume those they target would just remain in Australia and that foreign investment would certainly abandon Australia. This is on top of income taxes, and property taxes that already are in place.
I quit managing money domestically in the United States back in 1985. They came in for an audit and government employees MUST find something wrong because their view is nobody is perfect. They said they were going to write me up for improper record keeping. I asked what was wrong. They said my tabs on files were PINK and they were supposed to be RED. I am not one to cower from the government. I demanded their names and told them I would be filing a lawsuit against them personally. They dropped the nonsense and left. I then informed all my American clients that I would no longer manage money inside the United States. I returned all the funds and moved offshore. That incident transformed me into one of the first Hedge Fund Managers. Stupid regulation has an impact and the idiots behind it are too stupid to understand the consequences.
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The political left never gets it. If they raised income taxes back to 90% again, I would just quit. Out of principle, I would simply refuse to work as an economic slave. They never read Atlas Shrugged. They think robbing others because they have more than they have is perfectly fine. So if they are walking down the street and someone sticks a gun in their face and says give me everything or your life, they too are justified because whatever they have is still more than the person with the gun.
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I find it very interesting that these left-wing policies are actually forbidden by the Ten Commandments for they are built upon avarice and envy. The Seven Deadly Sins are Pride, Anger, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, and Sloth. What is interesting is the fact that what is in the Ten Commandments can be found in just about every religion since the dawn of time. This appears to be a human problem and they always justify it by saying it is not fair that someone else has something they do not. But then again, then do not want to work for it – Sloth. Categories: Regulation, The Hunt for Taxes
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What is 2032?
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Many people have asked, “Why is 2032 going to be such a major change in the world’s political economy and society as a whole?”
We are confronted by the end of the Sixth Wave come 2032, which will be a profound economic and political change. It appears these world leaders are pushing us toward fulfilling the vision of Kalus Schwab and his distorted view of how society functions. While the first wave marked the collapse of Rome, 794 marked the collapse of the Nara period in Japan as the capital then moved to Kyoto. That would last until 1185 AD when government was overthrown, marking the birth of the Shogun Period (military general authority). The Great Seljuk Turkish Empire had its origins, with its first capital in 1037. By 1092, the Seljuk Empire was at its greatest upon Malik Shah I’s death and had captured most of the Byzantine Empire, creating the Great Monetary Crisis of 1092 in Constantinople. Alexius I (1081-1118AD) of Byzantium saw his empire carved up.
It was 1075 when the Investiture Dispute began, where the Pope opposed kings appointing bishops to control. He had to threaten the ex-communication of kings, which only concluded in 1103. This was the start of the separation of church and state. In 1084, Emperor Henry IV deposed Pope Gregory VII and installed the first Anti-Pope Clement III who then crowned Henry Holy Roman Emperor. A revolution in 1094 resulted in Pope Urban II overthrowing the Anti-Pope and Henry lost power over Italy. But by 1111, Henry V captured the Pope, forced his settlement, and then crowned Henry V as Holy Roman Emperor. By 1112, the Church splits between Papal and Imperial supporters.
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The Balkans had been overrun by the Patzinaks who were a nomadic people of the Turkic family. Their original home is unknown, but during the 8th and 9th centuries, they inhabited the region between the lower Volga and the Urals. They then laid siege to Constantinople itself in 1090 AD. They led Alexius to ask for help from Venice, which began the First Crusade (1096–1099) where they took Jerusalem. But the Venetians were more interested in plundering Constantinople. Thus, 1104 marked the peak in the Byzantine Empire and by the Latin rulers who seized Byzantium taking control 1204-1261 AD. It wasn’t until 1298 when the reign of Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, began.
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The financial crisis in France led to the default on loans to Italian bankers and the seizure of the Papacy itself moving it to Avignon in France known as the Avignon Papacy, also known as the Babylonian Captivity, which was period from 1309 to 1376. The French Anti-Pope seized the Knights Templars on Friday, October 13, 1307, to confiscate all their wealth and that of their clients. The Knights Templars had become the first real international banking system as they evolved following their founding around 1117/1118 AD, lasting for 22 waves of 8.6 years. This next wave also saw the Black Plague (1347-1351) wipe out 50% of the population, which then changed the economy by shifting it from serfdom in Europe to capitalism as wages began to take place because of the shortage of labor.
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The next peak in the cycle 1413.75 marked the start of the religious revolution. In England, the Oldcastle Revolt was a Lollard uprising against both the Catholic Church and the English King Henry V. Oldcastle was influenced by Lollard cleric William Swynderby, who preached in Almeley during his youth. Lollardy was a politico-religious movement initiated by prominent theologian John Wycliffe during the 1370s. The Lollard beliefs dealt with their opposition to capital punishment, rejection of religious celibacy, and belief that members of the Clergy should be held accountable to civil laws. In addition, it was the rise of the iconoclasty, which took place in the Byzantine Empire, where they rejected ornamentation of churches, religious images, and pilgrimages. They objected to war, violence, and abortion. John Oldcastle led the revolt, and it took place on the night of 9/10 January 1414. The rebellion was absolutely crushed at the battle on St. Giles’s Fields. There was rising discontent in religion that manifested on October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church in Germany.
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This next wave peaked in 1723.35, not merely saw the Protestant Reformation impact region, but with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, scholars fled to Europe and Russia, taking the wealth of knowledge with them. By 1492, Christopher Columbus convinced others that the world was round and not flat based upon maps that came from Constantinople. While it would slowly expand the knowledge in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is formally classified as being between 1715-1789, which really became the foundation for the next wave into 2032.
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But this wave was the beginning of the crisis with a monarchy. Columbus was backed by Spain, which then became the new financial capital of Europe. But the mismanagement by the monarchy led to Spain becoming a serial defaulter beginning in 1557, followed by 1570, 1575, 1596, 1607, and 1647, ending in a third world status by the end of this wave. King Philip V of Spain abdicated the throne in 1724 to go to a monastery.
In England, on October 17, 1722, the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended because of a Jacobite plot to take the thrown by a Catholic James III they called the Old Pretender, and Parliament prohibited journalists from reporting on political debates. From here on out, the tone for the next wave was set in motion. The rise against the monarchy. This was the wave of human rights and it moves into its culmination come 2032 with the rise against human rights and the attempt once more to suppress the people with the rise of authoritarianism. This is once more a major turning point, and we will face a dramatic change both economically and politically on a global scale.
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The forthcoming “The Discovery of the Business Cycle” goes into the details of these waves throughout history with not merely political facts but also the rise and fall of the world’s monetary system. Categories: ECM
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The ‘Covid’ Vaccine Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction!
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“Saying that a state or regime is a murderer is a convenient personification of an abstraction. Regimes are in realty people with the power to command a whole society. It is these people that have committed the kilo- and megamurders of our century, and we must not hide their identity under the abstraction of the ‘state,’ ‘regime,’ ‘government,’ or ‘communist.’”
Rudolph Rummel (1994) “Death by Government”
Due to Rummel’s book title, some might take this quote to be contradictory, but it is not. People murder or purposely allow murder; so only identifying the killers by way of identity abstraction is akin to blaming a gun for shooting and killing on its own instead of blaming the actual murderer that pulled the trigger. It is a way of hiding blame in the form of psychological trickery. This can only be an effective strategy when used by the ruling class as propaganda for fools.
Government’s are made up of people, and these people called politicians come from the ranks of the general population, and they are the worst of mankind. Is this then an indictment of all humanity? I would not go quite that far, and those in government are murderers, but complicity by mass voluntary servitude and support of the state in the murder of others is a major factor in the persecution, genocide, and democide of innocents.
Today, we are witnessing the atrocious results of this dynamic, as people around the world are participating in the plot with their chosen governments to exterminate large numbers of society by their cooperation, support, indifference, and especially their silence. The ‘state,’ ‘regime,’ and ‘government’ are certainly murderers in whole, but it is important to attach names to all that take part in the wholesale slaughter of others.
The extermination of societies through genocide and democide is achieved in many ways, from war, forced starvation, psychological destruction, mass imprisonment, and sterilization; from chemical agents, bombs, nuclear weapons, and now the killing will be due to ‘vaccination.’ Surely I jest you say, but I do not, as the indiscriminate killing of hundreds of millions or billions of people around the world at the hands of the powerful is sought. Some call it population control, some call it depopulation, but it is simply planned mass murder to benefit the agendas of the few. The tool being used to accomplish this goal is the untested, experimental, mind-altering, gene-changing, toxic poison called the Covid-19 ‘vaccine,’ and it is the newest weapon of mass destruction.
Many are having horrible effects due to these injections, and many are dying. Some are dying immediately after taking this shot, some are dying after a few hours or days, others after a few weeks, and the long-term effects at this point are virtually unknown. It is as if people are deaf, dumb, and blind when it comes to logic, as this falsely claimed affliction called Covid that supposedly has an survival rate of 99.98%, is being treated as a deadly pandemic, and the ‘cure’ recommended is a ‘vaccine’ that kills many more than the purposely created fake virus scam.
The agendas of the so-called claimed elites are clear, as evidenced in just these few quotes of many below. The desire to eliminate much of the population has been voiced over and over again, but the people still refuse to listen, and in fact, stand in line to take the state’s poison for something that has never once been separated, purified, properly isolated, or identified, and has not even been proven to exist.
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” ~ Ted Turner
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
“If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~ Margaret Sanger
“A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people’s time to look after them.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Population control will now become the centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy.” ~ Hillary Clinton
“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”. ~ Henry Kissinger
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” ~ Bill Gates
While the ruling segment of society, including all the political pawns in government, are behind this push to depopulate the world in order to gain total control, there are many aspects to this plan. Much of the focus has been on the deliberate destruction of the natural immune systems of populations at large, as this alone will be responsible for extreme sickness, dependability, the loss of functional existence, and large-scale death. This has already been essentially accomplished due to lockdowns, quarantines, dangerous mask wearing, job losses, isolation, distancing, lack of exercise, loss of vital vitamin D, and all the extreme stress caused by these absurd and evil mandates. In other words, the trap is set, and due to the much-weakened state of the general health and immunity of the ‘public,’ the deadly vaccine will be the driver of undue mortality, just as is desired by those attempting to take over the planet. A perfect storm has been devised in order to bring down this country and the world, and it is now going forward with little resistance.
All will be blamed on a ‘virus’ of course, but it will not be this bogus Covid strain being propagated by the political class, the medical establishment, and the media, it will be blamed on fabricated new strains mislabeled as ‘mutant variants’ of this bogus ‘Covid-19.’
Thousands upon thousands are already dying due to taking this poisonous concoction, and many more have had horrible adverse reactions such as Bell’s Palsy, paralysis, loss of bodily functions and speech, anaphylactic shock, cardiac arrest and arrhythmia, deadly autoimmune reactions, and a myriad of other detrimental side effects. In Israel, the most highly vaccinated population to date, the Pfizer vaccine has killed “about 40 times more (elderly) people and 260 times more of the young than what the COVID-19 virus would have claimed in the given time frame.” As more and more line up for this toxic lethal injection, the death counts will continue to rise, and every ensuing shot will cause more death. As time goes by, and as subsequent vaccines are claimed to be necessary, the death count will explode.
The government, all its enforcers, the medical establishment, the pharmaceutical cartels, and the mainstream media, are all to blame, but so are all of you that have voluntarily given them this power over you that you now refuse to take away. Without resistance and dissent, the blame for the coming carnage will lie at the feet of all who stood by and allowed this to happen without saying no.
This is a war against the people; the chosen tool to gain the submission of the masses has been a lie called Covid-19, and the weapon of mass destruction being used to accomplish the death of millions is the ‘Covid vaccine!’
If you cherish your family, your freedom and your life, refuse to wear a mask, refuse all orders by the state, and refuse to take this murderous injection wrongly called a ‘vaccine.’
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CDC ignores vaccine deaths
Gary D. Barnett [send him mail] is a retired investment professional that has been writing about freedom and liberty matters, politics, and history for two decades. He is against all war and aggression, and against the state. He recently finished a collaboration with former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and was a contributor to her new book, “When China Sneezes” From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Political-Economic Crisis.” Currently, he lives in Montana with his wife and son. Visit his website.
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When I hear Bill Gates state on video, that if other countries had “followed the procedures of Vietnam, New Zealand, and Australia, there would have been lesser deaths…”
it is obvious to me that what he really was saying is ‘if other countries had followed the POLITICAL MOVES of Vietnam, New Zealand, and Australia’ bla bla bla, etc, and bla.
With the information available on alt and social media it is also obvious to me, that those countries have gone full on Nazi/Stazi/Police state based upon zero actual medical reasons.
It doesn’t take any imagination to then hypothesize and extrapolate that the WHO, WEF, UN, Gates and other uber-wealthy people are the designers and movers of this takeover worldwide. Additionally the huge global corporations (with interlinking BODs) are going along with the scheme and doing what some conservative governments will not/cannot do.
This was all planned in advance, it’s got very little to do with an actual virus, but primarily for propaganda sake. The scheme covers politics, social conditioning, financial re-engineering, setting up an unaccountable soviet style polit bureau of world governance, CCP level technical population control, and adoption of a fully operational socialist/fascist systems.
– The mask will become the shot.
– Food shortages will become the normal, and hunger will begat compliance.
– Sporadic violence will be the catalyst for a general police state and then gun/2A removal.
– Political unrest and social chaos will seize any governments that attempt to object, and likely will usher in UN troops to oversee the chaos.
If a few years ago I would have imagined a successful worldwide scam to take control of the world would happen in 2020 – I may have called myself a little bit nuts or a great fiction writer!
But now…?
What really scares me is to extrapolate any further on the effects of what seems to planned, and even more, the success thus far.
Very big thank you for all you do and your writings!
G
REPLY: Never in my life have I ever witnessed such a political coup to take over the world and impose their vision of a socialistic, green environment. The last time something like this occurred on an international contagion basis was the Revolution of 1848. Our models forecast that we would see global civil unrest in 2020, and this was 172 years on schedule (2 x 8.6 – 17.2). The previous target was 1934, which was the Socialist revolution where FDR even confiscated gold in January 1934. However, the 1848 event was more of a contagion.
I have said many times that humans cannot forecast what they have never seen. I personally am shocked at the magnitude of this movement. Just watching the Democratic Convention makes me see that conducting business in the future will become impossible unless you are doing something they approve of.
People do not grasp the dangerous road we are heading down. Socialists cannot tolerate dissent nor will they tolerate opposition. Socialism requires TOTALITARIANISM to take hold. Just look at anyone who posts anything against this movement, from health to facts about the Obama Administration illegally trying to create Russia Gate. Facebook and YouTube immediately take them down. They are idiots, for they think they are helping their Democratic cause, but they will soon discover that Socialists will not tolerate free speech, and they too will end up suppressed. They are fools, for they have NEVER picked up a history book — ever!
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The Socialist Revolutionary movement began in Italy with a local revolution in Sicily in January 1848. The movement caught on as a natural contagion spreading to France by February. This revolution became a contagion rather than organized by a single group as we have today. The movement extended throughout the whole of Europe, with the exception of Russia, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries. In France, by June 26, 1848, the revolution resulted in more than 10,000 people were either killed, which included 1,500 troops. It was successful in creating the Second Republic.
The Socialist Revolution of 1848 took hold and spread worldwide, as we are witnessing again today under the pretense of this coronavirus. The 1848 Socialist Revolution engulfed the following countries, among many others, which even included Canada:
Italian states
France
German states
Denmark
Schleswig
Habsburg Monarchy
Hungary
Galicia
Sweden
Switzerland
Greater Poland
Romanian Principalities
Belgium
Ireland
Spain
South America
There was rising tension in the United States, but this was offset by the California Gold Rush after the discovery in 1848. Many people just picked up and left. Nevertheless, there was also a political polarization, with Democrats and reformers in favor of socialism. However, they were deeply concerned about the violence involved in Europe. The opposition came from conservative elements, especially Whigs, southern slaveholders, orthodox Calvinists, and Catholics. The most interesting aspect was that thousands of Germans fled the Socialists in Europe and migrated to the United States, later becoming Republicans, which also helped suppress the Socialists.
The 1848 Socialist Revolution sent people fleeing Europe to the United States for safety. Today, a takeover by the Socialists in the United States will lead to yet another migration between states, but there is no new land for people to flee. It is more likely to result in nations splitting and civil wars.
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We will not mince words. America is indeed suffering from a dangerous plague – a plague of misanthropic fear-mongering from the likes of Dr. Fauci, the Scarf Lady and the Biden’s new CDC director, among countless others of the self-designated Virus Patrol.
All three took to the mainstream media in recent days, with new CDC director Rochelle Walensky getting positively teary-eyed as she allegedly veered off-script to sound yet another Covid Alarm:
“I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom,” Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears.
“We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge.”
What? Where? Wait!
Here’s the source of Doom. Well, if you have your magnifying glass handy you might possibly spot it – the squiggle down there in the yellow box below!
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Actually, she was not nearly done. When it comes to paint by the numbers exaggeration and hysteria the following is hard to top.
It seems that the reason for Walensky’s alarm is that from the winter-flu season peak on January 13th, when the 7-day moving average reported 251,912 so-called “new cases”, the 7-day rate had plummeted by 77.8% to 55,840 on March 15th, but as of March 28 it was down by only, um, 75.3%!
The nation is recording a seven-day average of about 57,000 new Covid-19 cases per day, a 7% jump over the last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House news briefing on the pandemic.
You can’t make up this kind of calculated mendacity, including, presumably, the off-script scripted tears.
That’s especially because it’s now an established fact that upwards of 60-80% of these “new cases” are not medical cases at all: They are asymptomatic individuals who got swabbed and had their nasal secretions run to at 35-40+ CTs on the PCR test, which immense magnification systematically generates false positives based on harmless RNA fragments and dead viral debris.
Yet with only 15,000 to 20,000 actual infected cases per day at best, of which 95% will not result in serious illness, hospitalization or death, the head of the CDC is out yelling fire in the theater still another time.
“I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory,” Walensky said. “We have seen cases and hospital admissions move from historic declines to stagnations and increases. We know from prior surges that if we don’t control things now, there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again.”
Walensky urged the public to “take this moment very seriously,” adding people should continue to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart and avoid crowds or traveling. “We can turn this around, but it will take all of us working together,” she added.
We have bolded the last sentence because that’s what the political class is really all about. They are forever searching out societal ills–some real, mostly imagined – that require state-orchestrated collective action to remedy. After all, that is how they gain power and pelf in the arena of politics and governance, and on that score the Covid-Hysteria was made to order.
By contrast, under a regime of spontaneous markets and social order, tens of millions of uninfected or asymptomatic people would never be getting Covid tests in the first place, and they certainly would not have been quarantining or shutting-down their normal economic and social lives.
All of that flowed from the misbegotten predicate that the coronavirus was some kind of modern Black Plague equivalent, but with a hideously perverted twist: Namely, that to stop its spread the healthy and well should be isolated at home or via distancing and masks on the infinitesimal chance that they might unknowingly have a sufficient viral load to transmit the pathogen in the community.
The fact is, back in the more benighted times of earlier centuries, they quarantined the sick, not the well; and when people got sick from seriously dangerous pathogens, they stayed home because they were too sick to wander around the community.
Stated differently, in the face of serious general contagions, society didn’t need officialdom constantly beating the tom-toms to induce fear-based changes in behavior that were not warranted by the facts at hand.
To the contrary, in the midst of real pandemics, communities quickly apprehended the dangers and organized themselves to cope. And when the sick stayed home or were committed to treatment or isolation facilities, real contagions and viruses eventually burned themselves out.
Not this time. There was no spontaneous community defense because the Covid is lethal to only a small subset of the population, consisting of the very elderly with weak immune systems and the co-morbid already suffering from other life-threatening conditions.
Beyond that, the”science” provides no basis at all for the notion that healthy or asymptomatic people transmit the virus. The political class’ false project of “stopping the spread”, in fact, buried the real science which overwhelmingly ixnays the whacko theory that healthy people going about their ordinary business are stealthy vessels of disease and death.
Instead, Fauci et. al. have seized upon the prosaic mechanics of human activity centered around social congregation, which inherently generates the probability that a respiratory virus–whether relatively benign or deathly – will spread through the community, and called it “the science”.
But that is not the science of Covid at all, which actually says that for 95% of the population it is not a lethal pathogen, as we will amplify below.
Instead, “community spread” is just an obvious mechanical fact of social life that got peddled as the “science” of lockdowns and became the basis for the whole regime of economic-martial law that has been stood-up since March 2020.
In any event, the sheer destructive absurdity of the matter was crystallized this weekend by the 55-year government lifer and windbag, Anthony Fauci, who has single-handedly made a mockery of “the science” and the U.S. Constitution during the past 14 months.
Said the sainted Dr. Fauci on the weekend CBS show:
“When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they’re interacting with groups or multiple households,” Fauci proclaimed during an appearance on CBS News.
Fauci added that “children can clearly wind up getting infected” even if other kids they play with have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
With respect to the bolded phrase, what in the world is this dope talking about?
Of course, kids get infected with all kinds of germs which pass-around the classrooms and playgrounds, but in the case of the Covid, few of them get sick, virtually none are hospitalized and, thankfully, a nearly invisible fraction become fatalities.
Indeed, after a full year of this full-on Covid-Hysteria, here is what we know about the “kids”. To wit, there are 73.2 million of them in America (17-years and under), yet only 238 of them are reported by the CDC itself as being among “all deaths involving Covid-19″.
As a statistical matter that represents just 0.3 mortalities per 100,000 population. The tip-off that this is ultra-thin gruel by any standard can be illustrated many different ways, but here are three of them:
- For the same 17 years and younger population during the same period (weeks of February 1, 2020 to March 24, 2021), the mortality rate from all causes other that WITH-Covid was 51.9 per 100,000 or 160X higher;
- The WITH-Covid mortality rate for the truly vulnerable population 85-years and older was 2,460 per 100,000 or 7,500X higher.
- The pediatrics association estimates that kids account for 13% of Covid “cases”, but have accounted for only 0.05% of deaths – meaning that the survival rate is 99.993%.
Nor is that all. Even the CDC tables show that nearly 20% of the WITH-Covid deaths in this age cohort also included pneumonia; and that there were also 602 deaths from pneumonia that did not include a positive Covid test or physician’s diagnosis.
Stated differently, among the entire youthful population of 73.2 million, there were 194 deaths from pure Covid versus 602 cases from pure pneumonia and another 179 deaths attributable to influenza.
So why in the world is Dr. Fauci worried about children being “infected”?
The answer is simple: He isn’t.
His game is stopping the spread for its own sake, and taking 73 million children hostage to the dictates of the Virus Patrol is all in a day’s work.
In fact, when it comes to the science of picking statistical pepper out of what is self-evidently numeric fly-shit, Dr. Fauci has few peers.
Thus, he told his fawning CBS host on Sunday that 10,000 additional, mostly false positive, cases are a new reminder that normalization is still a grave danger. In fact, he allowed that maybe by mid-summer people can go back to baseball parks, but only if they sit far apart and wear a mask!
ANTHONY FAUCI: …I’ve said many times to you that when you’re coming down from a big peak and you reach a point and start to plateau, once you stay at that plateau, you’re really in danger of a surge coming up. And unfortunately, that’s what we’re starting to see. We got stuck at around 50,000 new cases per day, went up to 60,000 the other day, and that’s really a risk.
…What we’re likely seeing is because of things like spring break and pulling back on the mitigation methods that you’ve seen. Now, several states have done that. I believe it’s premature,” Fauci said.
“I would expect that as we get through the summer – late spring, early summer – there’s going to be a relaxation where you’re going to have more and more people who will be allowed into baseball parks, very likely separated with seating, very likely continuing to wear masks.”
We undercover the real motivation behind this blithering crackpottery below, but for want of doubt consider this data. The on age-adjusted deaths from all sources during the 2020 Year of the Covid is now in, and the thin green bar on the far right margin speaks for itself.
The age-adjusted death rate in the US was only a tad above its recent level, and actually much lower than it was during the entirety of the 105 years between 1900 and 2005. Yet we are still being told about Impending Doom and Sleepy Joe is calling upon governors of some of the Red States who have finally come to their senses to reimpose the mandatory mask requirement.
And that’s the Spoiler Alert. This whole Covid enchilada has not been about public health all along.
Its an excuse for increased social control and aggrandizement of the state that the political classes have opportunistically seized upon, and are now determined to perpetuate indefinitely with new variants, new pretexts and new assaults on constitutional liberty, fiscal sanity and free market prosperity.
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Notwithstanding the above, we actually can imagine a pathogen which would be as deadly as Ebola, as transmissible as the worst strain of SARS-2 and a Grim Reaper of one and all, regardless of age, health status or prophylactic measures taken.
While that might justify a sweeping economic Lockdown and government campaign to stop the spread on the grounds that society was being literally invaded by an army of fatal pathogens, the crucial point is this: The Covid has now proven itself in spades to be just the opposite of that theoretical deathly contagion.
And for want of doubt, we don’t mean modestly dissimilar. We are talking about upside-down, black and white, opposite-end-of-the-earth different.
Truly, the data below tells you all you need to know as to why the Virus Patrol is and has been dead-wrong all alone. Sweeping nonparmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been unjustified from the get-go, as has the relentless blunderbuss campaign by the arms of the state to stop the spread of the coronavirus dead-in-its-tracks.
The reason is simple. The Covid is a pathogenic bully that hones in with malice aforethought on the very most vulnerable segments of the population. That is, those exhibiting the immunological frailties of old age, life-threatening comorbidities or rare genetic predispositions for immune system overreaction to this viral interloper, especially in the form of cytokine storms where the human body essentially attacks and kills itself.
On the one hand, the proof that the Covid is not a universally deadly pathogen is in the aggregate pudding. Based on the overwhelming findings of serological studies (i.e. blood serum tests for antibodies), upwards of 125 million Americans have been infected to date, albeit most of this number have not been symptomatic or confirmed via the wholly unreliable PCR test.
Even among the 30 million who have tested positive – including many individuals who have tested positive multiple times in order to get free of government or employer restrictions – less than 10 million have been seriously ill, fewer than one million have been hospitalized, and even by the CDC’s expansive counting system, about 525,000 have died.
That computes to a 0.4% IFR (infection fatality rate), which ain’t no Black Plague or Ebola equivalent. Full stop.
Indeed, even at this most aggregated level, the Covid does not present as a marauding army of death. In no way shape or form does it merit the “deathly” prefix that has become embedded in the vocabulary and word processors of the mainstream narrative.
In fact, even when you use age as a crude proxy for health status, there are virtually no community-spread illnesses that have the kind of extreme skew to the least healthy as shown in the table below.
This is the mortality rate per 100,000 for the period from February 1, 2020 through March 24, 2021, and the mortality figures are extracted from the CDC’s own expansive count of WITH-Covid deaths.
Population/ WITH-Covid deaths/ rate per 100,000 by Age Cohort:
- 0-17 Years: 73.2 million persons/ 238 deaths/ 0.33 per 100k;
- 18-29 years: 53.6 million persons/ 1,916 deaths/ 3.6 per 100k;
- 30-49 years: 84.5 million persons/ 20,717 deaths/ 24.5 per 100k;
- 50-64 years: 62.9 million persons/78,883 deaths/ 125.4 per 100k;
- 65-74 years: 31.5 million persons/ 115,381 deaths/ 366.4 per 100k;
- 75-84 years: 16.0 million persons/ 146,310 deaths/ 916.2 per 100k;
- 85+ years: 6.6 million persons/ 162,583 deaths/ 2,460.0 per 100k;
- All ages: 328.2 million persons/ 526,028 deaths/ 160.3 per 100k.
In round terms, the above shows that 81% of all WITH-Covid deaths have been among the 16% of the population (54.1 million) 65 years and older. By contrast, the the 64.4% of the population under 50 years (211.4 million) accounted for just 22,900 or 4.4% of the WITH-Covid deaths tallied by the CDC.
Yet it is the under 50 years population – the Kids, the socially congregating 20-30 year olds and the core working age population 30-50 years – that has borne the brunt of the Lockdowns and NPIs. Self-evidently, these measures were not imposed for their own protection since their risks of death from Covid were infinitesimal compared to the ordinary risks of life.
As shown in the table below, for instance, the risk of death from all causes other than WITH-Covid during the last 14 months for the 18-29 years cohort was 183.1 per 100,000. That’s 51X greater than the 3.6 per 100,000 risk of dying from Covid during the same period for the 53.6 million members of this most socially active and interactive cohort of the US population.
Even in the case of the core working age population age 30-49, the all causes (other than Covid) risk of death was 283.3 per 100,000 or 12X greater than the incidence of WITH-Covid deaths (24.5 per 100k).
Of course, the Virus Patrol might argue that the WITH-Covid deaths were preventable by stern Lockdowns and other NPIs, while deaths from, say, heart disease or respiratory illnesses were not. In fact, that’s exactly what the Scarf Lady argued on a weekend show this past Sunday.
Had the Donald not been such a obstinate dolt, Dr. Birx essentially claimed, and strictly followed the advice of herself and Fauci et. Al, most of the WITH-Covid deaths would not have happened.
The “vast majority” of the almost 550,000 coronavirus deaths in the US could have been prevented if Donald Trump’s administration had acted earlier and with greater conviction…. “There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”
If we were Sleepy Joe, we’d probably risk a chauvinism charge and say, c’mon woman!
Here is the seven-day moving average of deaths WITH-Covid for two of the most open states (Texas and Florida) compared to the the nation’s Lockdown capital of California. For the past 370 days, the curves have risen and fallen pretty much in tandem with the normal flu seasonality, and in recent months California has taken a turn for the worse relative to Texas and Florida.
Indeed, since Governor Abbott belatedly saw the light and opened Texas completely in early March, the data are so compelling as to make a complete fool of the Scarf Lady, as shown below:
Texas: 7-day new cases average:
- March 2 (before): 6,663
- March 28 (after): 3,320
Texas: 7-day new deaths average:
- March 2 (before): 231;
- March 28 (after): 107
The fact is, there is now overwhelming proof among both the states and among different countries that the vast disparities in Covid-control regimes didn’t make any difference in mortality and other health outcomes. Dr. Birx was not talking science, she was spouting political cant.
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Internationally, the case of Sweden should finally tell Dr. Fauci, the Scarf Lady and the rest of the Virus Patrol to shut-up and go home. After 14 months of firmly resisting the Wuhan Lockdown Model that was foolishly adopted in the US, the UK and throughout much of Western Europe, half of Sweden should be dead by now if the egregious fear-mongering of the Virus Patrol was even remotely correct.
In fact, based on preliminary data from EU statistics agency Eurostat, Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years. By contrast, countries that opted for several periods of strict lockdowns, such as Spain and Belgium, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.
In all, twenty-one of the 30 countries with available statistics had higher excess mortality outcomes than Sweden.
Here’s the thing. The misbegotten one-size fits all regime adopted by the Donald’s advisors in March 2020 didn’t happen because America’s admittedly lumbering Federal and local governments weren’t capable of targeting protective measures on the nation’s 54 million or so population of the most vulnerable Americans.
For crying out loud, the Federal government (via Medicare/Medicaid) actually knows the social security numbers, preferred physicians and health facilities and medical conditions of damn near every single American over 65 years.
It could have put on a full court press of notifications, advisories about health risks, prophylactics and treatments and provided financial support and protective services wherever warranted at a tiny fraction of the fiscal and economic costs that have been incurred by the NPI strategies.
So why wasn’t this targeted approach taken?
There is a very simple and deeply disturbing answer. To wit, there was nothing in this targeted approach for publicity-hounds and wanna be power players like Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady, who would have otherwise soldiered on in relative obscurity in the backwaters of the Federal public health apparatus.
Worse still, once these wanna be Federal power players bamboozled the Donald (easy enough to do) and basically redefined a targeted medical challenge as a sweeping, across-the-board public health crisis, the governors, mayors and other petty officials throughout the land were unleashed to impose economic martial law, and they did so on the basis of dubious and rubbery local statues.
Needless to say, this unconstitutional, unplanned, disorganized blunderbuss of interventions turned into a totalitarian nightmare within a matter of weeks.
Even then, there was no excuse. The data from the Covid-struck cruise ship called the Diamond Princess was already in, and it showed that among even a senior citizen-aged population of about 3,711 guests and crew, of which 712 (19%) were confirmed cases or became symptomatic or ill, only a tiny fraction needed hospital care and just 14 died.
That made for a IFR of just 0.4%, assuming all passengers were infected owing to close quarters at sea. At worst, the IFR was 2.0% if you assume the improbability that only the 712 passengers who were tested and diagnosed as Covid-positive had been infected.
Moreover, among the ship’s crew of 1,045 with a median age of 36 years, there were 145 positive cases, but zero deaths.
By contrast, among the 2,666 passengers on board with a median age of 69 years, there were 567 positive cases. Yet all of the fatalities were among these far older passengers, and virtually all of those who succumbed were in their 70s and 80s.
In short, when the 14th passenger, who was in his late 70s, died on April 14th, the entire profile of the Covid had been live fire tested and demarcated: It wasn’t a deathly pathogen for society as a whole, and it was fatal for just a small subset of the elderly population over 70 years.
Needless to say, the Diamond Princess lessons never got the time of day once the White House Coronavirus Task Force was up and running, and conducting it nightly reality TV show.
Then-and-there, the public health apparatchiks turned the Federal government’s Covid response into an all-of-society political crusade to accomplish the impossible: Namely, extinguish a novel respiratory virus that by its very nature was destined to spread to most of the population, and could have been permitted to do so had it been accompanied with protective measures targeted on the vulnerable.
Under that kind of regime, real medical science would have been the driver. We are referring to hundreds of thousands of trained physicians and health care institutions providing one-patient-at-a-time care and treatments. That is, the real science would have been brought to bear on sick patients – including the kind of ad hoc improvisations and off-label treatments that quickly emerge from the decentralized medical community when a novel medical threat arises.
As it happened, by contrast, we got a clumsy, sometimes brutal social control regime targeted mainly on the healthy from the public officials who were not remotely competent to manage anything as stunningly complex and interdependent as the American economy and social order. And whatever their ad hocery and constantly changing advice, rules and orders were based upon, it wasn’t “the science”.
Worse still, the pseudo-science behind the NPI regime quickly got hyper-politicized once the Donald discovered that he had been bamboozled and began to let loose with randomized doubts about the undertaking that he had authorized and sanctioned.
Accordingly, within a few weeks the most extreme form of Faucist public health nonsense became the sanctioned orthodoxy among the anti-Trump political class and media organs. And wearing a mask became the very badge of honor in a purported war on the Covid that actually amounted to a political war on the Trumpian Right.
If there were any doubts, Biden removed them this week when he called upon Red State governors to reinstate their mandatory mask orders, and adopted the same misbegotten language that was used in the state-aggrandizing War on Poverty by LBJ, War On Drugs by Nixon and War on Energy by Carter, among others.
“We still are in a war with this deadly virus,” he said. “And we’re bolstering our defenses, but this war is far from won.”
Of course, in these phony wars what amounts to statistical noise is transposed into heavy duty warnings, such as CDC Director Walensky’s cry of doom Monday morning that we are facing an impending 4th wave breakout owing to some tiny squiggles in the incoming case and mortality data.
Then again, if you can spot this incipient breakout in the chart below, your eyes are surely better than ours.
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In fact, there is no uptick in the overwhelming majority of states, if such upticks of positive PCR tests results were meaningful, which they are not. Just six states, which are shown in color below, account for most of the national uptick, and these are the six most consistent and heavy duty Blue State Lockdown regimes!
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Notwithstanding the meaningless statistical noise shown above, the establishment media has now been house-trained to replicate and amplify the false alarms issued by officialdom.
Here is the nonsense that the media megaphones at POLITICO were quick to issue upon Walensky’s doom pronouncement. Self-evidently, what is really transmissible is the mainstream party line, not the disease:
Covid strikes back – Pardon this interruption to the “everything is awesome” narrative. Because Covid-19 is surging again, leaving the CDC director with a sense of “impending doom” regarding a fourth wave in the pandemic.
Debbie Lai, chief operating officer of Covid Act Now, told POLITICO Nightly’s Renuka Rayasam that the country’s Covid trajectory is deteriorating: “There may be a fourth surge underway, with cases now growing in two-thirds of states versus half before the weekend.”
The numbers: New cases jumped by 11 percent over the past week to a seven-day average of about 60,000 daily cases, according to an interagency memo dated March 29 and obtained by POLITICO.
Likewise, a WSJ paint-by-the-numbers story obsessed on the same trivia.
The US reported 507 deaths for Sunday, down from a day-earlier 741 but up from 447 a week earlier.
Well, here’s the fact of the matter. Every day about 8,200 American die on average, and more in the winter-early spring months. So the Sunday-to-Sunday difference cited by the WSJ amounts to 0.7% of the daily mortality average; it’s a statistical fluctuation, not news or information.
Needless to say, these statistical noise emissions – even though they are heralded with bated breath in the MSM – are still just plain noise. And they are also a testament to the utter lack of context in which Sleepy Joe’s war on this ostensibly “deadly virus” is being waged.
As indicated earlier, here is the mortality rates for the same seven age cohorts shown above – but this time for all causes of death except WITH-Covid. What it shows is the obvious point that mortality rates are a function of age, but that compared to the all-causes curve depicted below, the Covid skew to the very elderly is in a class all by itself.
To wit, the ratio of deaths from all causes other than Covid for the 85 and older population is 164X higher than for the 0-17 years cohort. And that’s not even in the same ballpark as the 7,455X ratio for the incidence of Covid deaths as between the oldest and youngest Americans.
Medical science and targeted help versus a blunderbuss non-science based political power grab is what the so-called Covid crisis has been about since the very beginning. It was another false crisis defined by the political class and their media subalterns to facilitate a further aggrandizement of the state.
All Causes Mortality Except Covid: # of deaths/rate per 100k, February 2020-March 2021:
- 0-17 years: 70,731 deaths/96.6 per 100k;
- 18-29 years: 98,083 deaths/183.1 per 100k;
- 30-49 years: 239,400 deaths/283.3 per 100k;
- 50-64 years: 581,170 deaths/923.8 per 100k;
- 65-74 years: 694,765 deaths/2,206 per 100k;
- 75-84 years: 840,052 deaths/5,260 per 100k;
- 85 years & older: 1,045,660 deaths/ 15,819 per 100k;
- All age groups: 3,509,979 deaths/ 1,069 per 100k
Nor are these data unique to the US. Covid is an elderly-assaulting bully the world over.
But rather than protection of the bottom two classes of the population, the Covid became an excuse for house arrest and economic and social disenfranchisement of the bulk of the population that was never in serious danger, as the chart below makes so stunningly clear.
Yet the apparatchiks who falsely seized power are not about to give it up – vaccinations, herd immunity and plunging cases notwithstanding.
That’s the real impending doom.
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Russia Officially Warns Its Citizens: “The West Is Preparing For Nothing Less Than War With Us”
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A foreboding and brief new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting the Italian government expelling two Russian diplomats from the country, yesterday, after an Italian navy captain who was caught passing secret documents belonging to the NATO member state to a Russian military official on Tuesday night, sees this transcript showing Security Council Members all agreeing that this action conforms to the normal protocols of state spycraft, and them saying that if NATO military officers want to exchange secrets for money, Russian military intelligence officials have no choice other than to oblige them before someone else does.
Normal protocols of state spycraft, however, US intelligence officials no longer have available to them as “human intelligence dries up” into the workings of Mexican drug cartels flooding America with illegal migrants and drugs, and this week saw current and former senior intelligence officials in both countries telling Reuters that US efforts to combat powerful drug cartels inside Mexico have come to a standstill since January as relations fray between them—and sees this breakdown of US intelligence operations coming at the same time NATO scrambled fighter jets 10-times on Monday to track and intercept an unusual “rare peak” of Russian bombers and fighters flying over the North Sea, Black Sea and Baltic Sea, with it further being reported: “The Russian activity across an unusually wide area of European skies came on the same day North American Aerospace Defense Command said it tracked Russian aircraft off the coast of Alaska”.
Events that were preceded by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accusing the United States of “trying to cultivate the image of an external enemy” as a way to distract attention from their own domestic problems, and her warning Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden and his regime: “We urge you not to play with fire”—a warning ignored as Biden and his socialist henchmen quickly concocted lies about Russia interfering in the 2020 election—the sheer absurdity of which led to such articles being published like “They're Not Even Trying To Make Sense Now”, wherein it observed: “In short, we are supposed to believe that in 2016 the Russian hacked nothing but the election and in 2020 they hacked everything but the election”.
Socialist insanity coming at the same time Biden is ignoring the numerous US convoys being attacked in Iraq—then yesterday it saw Biden’s favorite US general turned arms industry lobbyist Ben Hodges outlandishly saying that no Russians died in World War II, only Ukrainians—a lie of historic proportions as Russia lost up to 26-million citizens in World War II, as opposed to the United States that saw 405,399 deaths from all causes in this war, and is why on the 70th Anniversary of this war ending even the leftist Washington Post acknowledged the truth in their article “Don’t Forget How The Soviet Union Saved The World From Hitler”—though to explain what Biden and his vile socialist forces are doing, it sees Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stating: “Our foreign partners have long made it a norm to pretend that the destruction of Nazism took place allegedly without involvement of the Soviet Union…We see historic knowledge, followed by public opinion, becoming a subject of entire informational special operations with involvement of heads of states, ministers of foreign affairs”.
While Biden and his socialist forces are attempting to rewrite the entire history of the world and America to conform to their godless ideology, however, it comes at the same time war propaganda articles are appearing in the US like “Russia Massing Troops on Ukraine Border; US Forces in Europe Raise Watch to Highest Level ‘Potential Imminent Crisis’”—“Russian Armor Floods Toward Border With Ukraine Amid Fears Of An “Imminent Crisis””—and—“Russian Troop Movements on Ukraine Border Test Biden Administration”—the latter of which correctly noted that Russia’s most watched news host Dmitry Kiselyov warned in a dramatic interlude during his News of the Week program on state television Sunday that “The West Is Preparing For Nothing Less Than War With Us”—a warning of total war not being given to the American people so they can prepare for this nuclear weapons conflict like the Russian people are now doing—and in a final warning to Biden and his socialist forces, this morning Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov plainly stated: “Moscow is taking all the necessary measures to ensure security of its frontiers…The Russian Federation transfers the Armed Forces on its soil as it wants to…This should not concern anyone and this is not posing any threat to anyone”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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This is what war looks like—always be prepared!
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