“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth is far more frightening – Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.” was Alan Moore
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RANT: The Tenth Pin as an example of why the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” can’t be won
Wednesday, July 14, 2021https://www.bowling.com/bowling-blog/bowling-knowledge/how-the-tenth-pin-changed-bowling-forever/
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The Tenth Pin
In the early 19th century, bowling alleys were primarily owned by Bars and Pubs. A culture of crime and gambling became associated with it, and eventually, Bowling gained a poor reputation. In 1841, Connecticut banned ownership of nine-pin lanes in an attempt to curb gambling and crime. To get around the law, players simply added one more pin, which nullified the ban and the modern game was born. There have been few changes to the rules of the sport since then.
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Laugh!
Where there’s a will there is a way.
“Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can ‘pursue happiness’ as long as my brain lives — but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
That’s why the Gooferment can’t possibly keep drugs out of prisons!
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NOTRECOMMENDED: Amazon Fire8 tablet
Tuesday, July 13, 2021@amazon @optimum fire8 tablet can’t connect to CABLEWIFI or OPTIMUM wifi hotspots. Others work like tethered to my I phone. Two ½ hour sessions with Optimum tech support ended with finger pointing. There is no AMAZON Fire tablet tech support. Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Yet another tragedy of the commons!
Tuesday, July 13, 2021https://phys.org/news/2021-07-drought-upends-life-west-basin.html
Water crisis reaches boiling point on Oregon-California line
by Gillian Flaccus
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Beginning in 1906, the federal government reengineered a complex system of lakes, wetlands and rivers in the 10 million-acre (4 million-hectare) Klamath River Basin to create fertile farmland. It built dikes and dams to block and divert rivers, redirecting water away from a natural lake spanning the California-Oregon border.
Evaporation then reduced the lake to one-quarter of its former size and created thousands of arable acres in an area that had been underwater for millennia.
In 1918, the U.S. began granting homesteads on the dried-up parts of Tule Lake. Preference was given to World War I and World War II veterans, and the Klamath Reclamation Project quickly became an agricultural powerhouse.
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“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.” ― Harry Browne
Here we have another great example of the tragedy of the commons!
Of course the little L libertarian solution is private ownership.
Here’s a quick mental model: All of the stake holders are given ownership of the law and they manage it. I would bet a payday that in a few years there’d be more water than needed. Will it be messy and contentious? Sure! But it would be “solved” without the Gooferment.
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HEALTH: Could the Common dandelion help with the WuFlu?
Monday, July 12, 2021“Well, I’m not a doctor, I have never played one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but here are some simple thoughts.”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.19.435959v1.full
Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) efficiently blocks the interaction between ACE2 cell surface receptor and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein D614, mutants D614G, N501Y, K417N and E484K in vitro
Posted March 19, 2021.
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review
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On 11th March 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). To date, there are rapidly spreading new “variants of concern” of SARS-CoV-2, the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), the South African (B.1.351) or Brasilian (P.1) variant. All of them contain multiple mutations in the ACE2 receptor recognition site of the spike protein, compared to the original Wuhan sequence, which is of great concern, because of their potential for immune escape. Here we report on the efficacy of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) to block protein-protein interaction of spike S1 to the human ACE2 cell surface receptor. This could be shown for the original spike D614, but also for its mutant forms (D614G, N501Y, and mix of K417N, E484K, N501Y) in human HEK293-hACE2 kidney and A549-hACE2-TMPRSS2 lung cells. High molecular weight compounds in the water-based extract account for this effect. Infection of the lung cells using SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyped lentivirus particles was efficiently prevented by the extract and so was virus-triggered pro-inflammatory interleukin 6 secretion. Modern herbal monographs consider the usage of this medicinal plant as safe. Thus, the in vitro results reported here should encourage further research on the clinical relevance and applicability of the extract as prevention strategy for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) efficiently blocks the interaction between ACE2 cell surface receptor and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein D614, mutants D614G, N501Y, K417N and E484K in vitro
Hoai Thi Thu Tran, Nguyen Phan Khoi Le, Michael Gigl, CorinnaDawid, Evelyn Lamy
bioRxiv 2021.03.19.435959; doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.19.435959
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Where’s the coverage?
Like that lady doctor in Peru with peroxide, ivermectin, and vitamins, why haven’t we heard about this? Either positive or negative.
I know Big Pharma ain’t going to make a lot of money off of dandelions either but where are the Gooferment “scientists” studying this — quickly.
I found it via survival blog can’t they.
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FUN: White House Fence
Sunday, July 11, 2021https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3975231/posts
White House Fence
Three contractors bid to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Kentucky and the third is from New Orleans. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The New Orleans contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
“Well,” he says, “I figure the job will run about $9,000. That’s $4,000 for materials, $4,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Kentucky contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $7,000. That’s $3,000 for materials, $3,000 for my crew and $1,000 profit for me.”
The Chicago contractor doesn’t measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, “$27,000.”
The official, incredulous, says, “You didn’t even measure like the other guys. How did you come up with such a high figure?”
“The Chicago contractor whispers back, “$10,000 for me, $10,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.”
“Done!” replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the Government Stimulus plan worked.
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PEACE: Hubris was our failing
Sunday, July 11, 2021https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-afghanistan-a-failed-mission/
Is Afghanistan a Failed Mission?, by Pat Buchanan – The Unz Review
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As in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973, the year our prisoners of war came home, America did not lose a major battle in Afghanistan.
Yet we did not win the war. South Vietnam was lost.
And contrary to the message awaiting President George W. Bush when he landed on the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was flaunting the banner “Mission Accomplished,” America did not accomplish its mission.
President Joe Biden said as much Thursday, when he responded to a reporter’s question, “The mission has not failed — yet.”
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 impends, and with it our final exit from the Afghan war, the Taliban are overrunning districts at will, and Afghan troops are avoiding battle in what many see as a lost cause.
Monday, 1,000 Afghan soldiers fled into Tajikistan rather than face advancing Taliban forces.
Why did we not succeed? And what does our failure there portend?
We failed, first, because our initial mission, once accomplished, was altered and enlarged to where it became unattainable.
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There never was a vital U.S. interest in Afghanistan worth a war of the cost in blood, treasure and time that we have just fought.
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Many who cast their lot with us are going to pay with their lives, as will their families. And the enemies of the United States are likely to be energized by what they perceive, not wrongly, as a strategic defeat of the USA.
We did it to ourselves. Hubris was our failing, as it often is of great powers, the mindset exhibited by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when she declared: “If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.”
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Unfortunately the “peace movement” of the 60’s and 70’s was astroturf against the R’s.
We, little L libertarians, are in that movement regardless of which side of the two-sided political spectrum.
Other than the Quakers, I don’t know who else we can count on to end the Hubris. Certainly NOT the MIC (Military Industrial Complex).
Let’s cut the “defense” budget 20% and rethink the Dead Old White Guys desire to avoid a standing army. Shut down the FBI and CIA while disarming the Department of Agriculture. As a matter of fact, spin the Agriculture budget back to the sovereign States and shut it down completely.
What are the proper functions of the “central” Gooferment? At most “defense” and foreign relations. Like the Swiss, no one messes with a neutral.
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment (direct election of senators) and return the State’s power and get the money out of that layer of Gooferment.
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TECHNOLOGY: Can’t Sue the Corporation that Wrongly Marked You a Terrorist?
Saturday, July 10, 2021https://www.eff.org/effector/33/4
Supreme Court Says You Can’t Sue the Corporation that Wrongly Marked You a Terrorist
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court barred the courthouse door to thousands of people who were wrongly marked as “potential terrorists” by credit giant TransUnion. The Court’s analysis of their “standing” —whether they were sufficiently injured to file a lawsuit—reflects a naïve view of the increasingly powerful role that personal data, and the private corporations that harvest and monetize it, play in everyday life. It also threatens congressional efforts to protect our privacy and other intangible rights from predation by Facebook, Google and other tech giants.
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Seems like they made big mistake on this one.
Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: “peak” cell phone?
Friday, July 9, 2021https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/does-the-two-year-phone-upgrade-still-make-sense/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Wait a second, does the 2-year phone upgrade still make sense? I think not
Commentary: Flagship phones are giving us only incremental improvements, and our upgrade culture makes less sense than ever.
Sareena Dayaram
July 7, 2021 5:00 a.m. PT
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Smartphone innovation has stagnated, and this is not a knock against the consumer electronics companies or the tech giants that design them. Maybe we’ve reached peak smartphone, and this is as far as it needs to go. It could well be part of the reason why the race to upgrade your phones is slowing.
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I have a “broken” iPhone 10 (some broken glass on the back?) and pristine iPhone 7 (I brought to one of the cable companies cheap plans)..
Ever since I’ve found that there was no real reason to upgrade the 10 to the 12.
While I like technology, a $1,000 is an expensive “want”; not “need”.
Then I read about that NBA star from a third world country who uses a broken screen phone explaining that he can use the money for helping his people. I guess that really shamed me. If he can do it, so can I.
So I guess we have reached “peak phone” for me UNLESS there is some striking each-shaking feature “I just can’t live without”.
Sigh! But upgrading was fun!
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TINFOILHAT: UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites
Thursday, July 8, 2021OPINION
I literally wrote the book on the UFO-nuclear connection. Why is the government hiding what it knows?
by Robert Hastings | July 02, 2021 06:00 AM
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The U.S. government’s recent unidentified flying objects report is unprecedented. It acknowledges, for the first time, that some UFOs (or what the U.S. government refers to as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”) appear to be real, ultra-advanced craft of unknown origin.
Going back 70 years, virtually every statement by the U.S. military had dismissed the phenomenon as misidentified known objects, such as weather balloons, or optical illusions, or hoaxes. Put simply, the new report is a major departure from the past policy of denial and obfuscation. But that candor goes only so far. The report completely ignores the elephant in the room: Hundreds of reports from military veterans, most of whom I have interviewed myself, involve UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites, including the mysterious disabling of our intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The UFO-nukes connection is clearly an important, if not the most important, aspect of UFO interaction with the U.S. military.
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Indeed, how credible? While we in the public domain are not privy to the information contained in the classified version of the report, it appears that nuclear-related cases such as those I have documented were completely sidestepped. Where does this leave us?
Well, while the UAP report is extraordinary due to its fundamental admission that some UFOs appear to be real, unknown craft that demonstrate an interest in U.S. military operations and facilities, it is incomplete. Omitting reference to an undeniably important aspect of UFO activity that, evidence suggests, continues to the present day (note that the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, which seem to be a focal point for UFOs, are powered by nuclear reactors).
Researchers, the media, and the general public must push hard for more honesty from our government.
Robert Hastings is a UFO researcher. His book, UFOs and Nukes, documents and assesses decades of extraordinary encounters between U.S. military nuclear forces and UFOs.
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“Honesty” from the Gooferment. Jumbo shrimp. It appears that politicians and bureaucrats are structurally unable to tell the truth.
So why should we believe ANYTHING that they tell us?
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HEALTH: Blatant suppression — doctors with impeccable credentials are being deplatformed
Wednesday, July 7, 2021Might COVID Injections Reduce Lifespan?
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
July 04, 2021
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My problem is not with the vaccine. My problem is with the government, governing bodies and certain people that are obstructing the flow of life saving information and suppressing the truth from people, and then using coercion to force people to take this vaccine. That’s the nefarious part.
The suppression is so blatant and so overt that doctors with impeccable credentials are being deplatformed for just voicing an opinion. And then you couple that together with proven prehospital treatment approaches and protocols that have been proven to reduce hospitalization and death by 85%, and that information is being suppressed.
So here you have a dual censorship where the positive, hopeful, life-saving information is being suppressed and the dangerous outcomes of the vaccination approach is being suppressed. It’s a perfect setup for genocide.”
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I wonder if anyone is ever going to be held accountable for their support of the COVID Injections.
Remember EPA Christie Whitman: “Ground Zero Air Is Safe” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/epa-head-wrong-911-air-safe-new-york-christine-todd-whitman
Yet, “everyone” knows that Big Pharma is in for the big payday.
It seems like everyone has suspend their good judgment.
Argh!
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GUNS: RKBA doesn’t apply in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk
Tuesday, July 6, 2021https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2021/07/01/scotus-gun-case-n47251
Why New York Gun Case Before SCOTUS Really Matters
By Tom Knighton | Jul 01, 2021 10:30 AM ET
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure a few actually do. The thing is, it shouldn’t matter. Our right to keep and bear arms isn’t to be infringed. Requiring someone to show a need or else they can’t bear arms sure as hell sounds like infringement to me.
Luckily, this case is before the Supreme Court. Many think we’ll see constitutional carry handed down by the Court. I’m more skeptical. I think we’ll definitely see the end of requirements like this. We might even see the Courts rule that shall issue is the most states can do.
Regardless, the case matters because I can’t imagine how many others got death threats but were told by the state of New York that their lives just aren’t a good enough reason to be permitted to carry a gun.
More importantly, how many of them died because they couldn’t?
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… or in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee either.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: PCLOB “Book Report” Fails to Investigate or Tell the Public the Truth About Domestic Mass Surveillance
Monday, July 5, 2021The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has concluded its six-year investigation into Executive Order 12333, one of the most sprawling and influential authorities that enables the U.S. government’s mass surveillance programs.
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Another Gooferment “failure”!
Expecting the politicians and bureaucrats IN the Deep State to limit its intrusions is just DUMB!
Happy “Independence” Day!
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MONEY: Injury from a “vaccine” might be devastating financially
Saturday, July 3, 2021COVID Vaccine Deaths and Injuries Are Secretly Buried
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
July 01, 2021
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- Reports of deaths and serious injuries from the COVID-19 jabs mount by the day. As of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had posted 358,379 adverse events, including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries
- In the European Union’s database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021. EudraVigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 countries. Remarkably, about HALF of all reported injuries — 753,657 — are listed as “serious”
- The British Yellow Card system had, as of June 9, 2021, received 276,867 adverse event reports following COVID “vaccination,” including 1,332 deaths
- Before you make the decision to participate in this unprecedented health experiment, it may be wise to assess your personal insurance and financial ability to handle a serious injury, as pandemic vaccine manufacturers are indemnified against lawsuits
- If you are injured by a COVID shot and live in the U.S., your only recourse is to apply for compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Act (CICP). Payouts are rare, cover only lost wages and unpaid medical bills, cannot be appealed, are capped around $370,000 for death, and require you to exhaust your private insurance before kicking in
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That last point is devastating financially.
So Big Pharma gets all the profits and some random poor shlub “wins” a negative lottery!
That doesn’t seem very fair.
Time to release this “payoff” to Big Pharma for their campaign contributions.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Giuliani’s suspension is just political backstabbing
Friday, July 2, 2021Turley: Why Giuliani’s Suspension Should Worry All Lawyers
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, JUN 28, 2021 – 12:00 PM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
- Below is my column in The Hill on the suspension of Rudy Giuliani by the New York Bar. The widespread hatred for Giuliani may be blinding many to the more troubling aspects of the opinion by the New York Supreme Court.
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This week, New York’s Supreme Court took the extraordinary step of suspending Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor and counsel to former President Trump, from practicing law. As a long-standing critic of Giuliani for his baffling, self-defeating and at times bizarre statements, I found the action was, on some level, reaffirming.
However, the fluid standard applied in Giuliani’s case raises serious concerns over how and when such suspensions will be imposed against lawyers in public controversies. Indeed, the Giuliani standard would seem to implicate a wide array of attorneys who straddle the line of legal and political advocacy.
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The concern in this case is that we are seeing a weaponization of bar investigations after a wide (and well-funded) campaign to harass Republican lawyers, their firms and their clients after the 2020 election. And it has worked: Many law firms are unwilling to take on Republican or conservative causes for fear of being targeted.
The Giuliani opinion fuels those concerns. Despite a damning account of exaggerations and falsehoods, it often reads more like a venting — rather than a vetting — of grievances against Giuliani. Instead of issuing a well-deserved reprimand, the court declared Giuliani to be a public menace if allowed to continue practicing law, even for the period of his own adjudication. The premature suspension made little sense. The bar was focused on Giuliani’s public statements, which will continue unabated by any suspension.
Nevertheless, the suspension thrilled many in today’s bloodsport politics. Yet while the court seemed to apply a special “Giuliani rule,” it is unlikely to stay that way if — to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz — the bar becomes “nothing but a continuation of politics by other means.”
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Seems like EVERYTHING has become political.
With different standards if you’re of the “wrong” political party.
Sounds like the NY Bar needs to get a slap down by SCOTUS!
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GUNS: Enforce the “fellow in possession” federal law
Thursday, July 1, 2021WaPo Gives Biden Four Pinocchio’s Over Cannon Claim
Cam EdwardsJun 28, 2021 9:30 AM ET
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You know a Democratic politician messed up when even the Washington Post fact-checkers can’t cover for them. Such is the case with Joe Biden’s big talk about gun control and violent crime last week, which veered wildly off the rails when Sleepy Joe started mumbling about the early days of the Republic and how the Second Amendment limited those who could exercise their right to keep and bear arms and what type of arms were protected.
“You couldn’t own a cannon,” proclaimed the president, even though Politifact rated that claim as “false” when Biden made similar comments on the campaign trail in 2020. Now the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler is taking a stab at the the claim, and he too says that Biden’s still wrong.
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If Biden was serious about crime, he’d enforce the “fellow in possession” federal law.
Argh!
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MONEY: Inflation deception — what goes up; never ever comes down
Wednesday, June 30, 2021https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/inflation-transitory-heres-your-simple-test
Is Inflation “Transitory”? Here’s Your Simple Test
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUN 17, 2021 – 09:50 AM
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
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Is inflation “transitory” in your household budget? Really? Where?
The Federal Reserve has been bleating that inflation is “transitory”–but what about the real world that we live in, as opposed to the abstract funhouse of rigged statistics? Here’s a simple test to help you decide if inflation is “transitory” in the real world.
Let’s start with some simple stipulations: price is price, there are no tricks like hedonics or substitution. Nobody cares if the truck stereo is better than it was 40 years ago, the price of the truck is the price we pay today, and that’s all that matters.
(Funny, the funhouse statistical adjustments never consider that appliances that used to last 30 years now break down and are junked after 3 years–if we adjusted for that, the $500 washer would be tagged at $5,000 today because it has lost 90% of its durability over the past 30 years.)
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My readers, acquaintances, friends, and anyone who will listen to me is probably tired of hearing me whine about “penny candy”, “three silver dimes for a 1965 gallon of gas”, “my long gone father-in-law’s fifty dollar bill”, and “the dollar losing 99% of its purchasing power in 50 years”.
I don’t know how else to make “We, The Sheeple” realize that the politicians are robbing us blind.
Argh!
All I can say is save your nickels; at least they have some intrinsic value.
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POLITICAL: Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Fauci resisted Trump directive to cancel virus research grant linked to Wuhan lab, new book says
Excerpts from the book, “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” are being released.
By Nicholas Sherman
Updated: June 24, 2021 – 3:40pm
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Trump issued a directive to Fauci and the National Institutes of Health in April 2020 to cut funding for a study examining how coronaviruses jump from infected bats to humans after it was reportedly linked to the lab in Wuhan, suspected of having leaked the virus.
The exchange between Fauci and the White House is detailed in an upcoming book by Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta called “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” according to Fox News.
The study’s sponsor, EcoHealth Alliance, was then told to end the remaining $369,819 balance of its 2020 grant.
According to the book, on April 2020, Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins received notice that Trump wanted to cancel the grant. Fauci and Collins resisted, telling the White House they “were not sure the NIH actually had the authority to terminate a peer-reviewed grant in the middle of a budget cycle.”
“The HHS general counsel told them to do it anyway and made clear it was a direct order from the president, implying that their jobs were on the line if they didn’t comply. Fauci and Collins reluctantly agreed to cancel the grant,” an excerpt of the book reads.
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So why weren’t they fired immediately. Did DJT45 learn nothing from his time on “The Apprentice”?
What better way to communicate to entrenched bureaucrats who feel entitled than a visit to the unemployment office?
It should have been an after-thought — “BTW fire all those people in that chain of command NOW!”.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What is mandated public education but enslavement of the young?
Monday, June 28, 2021https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3971191/posts
It is Time to End Compulsory Public Education
The Reactionary ^ | Techno Fog
Posted on 6/26/2021, 1:50:44 PM by cuz1961
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It is Time to End Compulsory Public Education. . What is mandated public education but enslavement of the young?
The State is teaching second graders “restorative justice.”. High schoolers are instructed that their families “reinforce racist/homophobic prejudices.” Government officials – teachers and school board members – are targeting parents for their opposition to the teachings of critical race theory.
And we grovel to the State, begging them to make it stop.
This is not the profile of a free people.
The fight against the government’s efforts to teach and promote evil will always exist as long as there are public schools. The evil may be different in degree – it won’t always be critical race theory …
Mandated education is a relatively new idea in the West….
By what authority does a State have to compel attendance at a government school?
The Supreme Court has held that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.5 What of the right to not attend school?
Is the right to not be forced to attend a government school lesser than the freedom of speech?
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“By what authority does a State have to force a child attend a government school, where they are taught poisonous and evil doctrines?”
I disagree that this is a power inherent to a State. This wasn’t a power accepted at the formation of this country or when the Constitution was drafted. Even where there were laws mandating schooling, they didn’t mandate public education. There’s a big difference there.
To that you might say it’s the consent of the governed: “The voters gave the State the authority to compel public education.”
My parents never gave the State that authority. Did yours?
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As I have often blogged, “public education” is to create cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.
In the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, “the teachers’ union” wields an awesome amount of political power. So it’s never going to give it up voluntarily,
Perhaps, “We, The Sheeple”parent will just withdraw their consent and their children from the system?
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RANT: Time to defund the FBI acting like the Keystone Kops
Sunday, June 27, 2021https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/
OPINION
FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6: Devine
By Miranda Devine
June 23, 2021 | 10:39pm | Updated
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Joseph Bolanos was a pillar of his community. President of his Upper West Side block association for the past 23 years, he looked out for his neighbors during the pandemic. He dropped off masks and kept extra heaters in his rent-controlled apartment for seniors. He raised morale with a weekly street dance to show his support for essential workers.
A Red Cross volunteer after the 9/11 attacks, the 69-year-old security consultant once received a police commendation for heroism after saving a woman from being mugged.
Unmarried, and caring for his 94-year-old mother, he was a well-loved character in the quiet residential area.
But now his neighbors think he is a domestic terrorist.
Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.
Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.
“It’s destroyed my reputation,” he says. “I’m not a violent invader … I do not condone the criminality and violence on [Jan. 6] whatsoever.”
The FBI told Bolanos he was raided because of a tip to the Jan. 6 hotline from a neighbor who said he had overheard him “boasting” about being at the Capitol.
An FBI agent phoned Bolanos the Sunday after the riot and left a message. He returned the call the next day, but never heard back.
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If EVER contacted by “law enforcement”, your next contact should be with a criminal defense lawyer. PERIOD!
Don’t talk to them ever. And if your lawyer demands audio and video recording, they’ll never talk to you.
See that deprives them their ability to lie about you or what you said.
Argh!
Time to shut the FBI down and completely rethink their “mission”.
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GUNS: Didn’t the Afghan irregulars defeat the USSR and the USA?
Saturday, June 26, 2021https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/is-no-one-going-to-mention-how-confusing-and-out-of-it-joe-biden-was/
OPINION
EDITORIAL
Is no one going to mention how confusing and out of it Biden was?
By Post Editorial Board
June 23, 2021 | 6:40pm | Updated
- Biden unveils crime reduction strategy, targets gun rights
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President Biden’s topic was one of utmost importance Wednesday — crime and gun violence. But you wouldn’t know it from the way he spoke.
He slurred his words. He called the ATF “the AFT.” At one point, he talked about the history of the Second Amendment and “the blood of patriots” before concluding that someone would need nuclear weapons to take down the government. If you weren’t confused, you were horrified.
Biden was obviously tired, speaking in barely a monotone. He couldn’t pronounce “cognitive.”
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As I said on Facebook, Biden and his speech writes are ignoring the Afghan irregulars, who armed with late 1890’s and early 1900’s weapons, fought the USSR and the USA to defeat.
Imagine what would happen in the USA where ⅓ of the population is armed with modern weapons, the hunters are even more dangerous, and our “drug gangs” have to be the finest light infantry in the world. (And “light” maybe a miss categorization.)
Argh!
The arrogance of politicians and bureaucrats!
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TINFOILHAT: Ivermectin demonstrates its effectiveness in India
Friday, June 25, 2021New Study Links Ivermectin To “Large Reductions” In COVID-19 Deaths
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, JUN 21, 2021 – 10:20 PM
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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A recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies has found that using antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to “large reductions” in COVID-19 deaths and its use could have a “significant impact” on the pandemic globally.
A health worker shows a bottle of Ivermectin as part of a study of the Center for Paediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. (Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images)
For the study (pdf), published on June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just over 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.
Using multiple methods of sequential analysis, the researchers concluded with a moderate level of confidence that the drug reduced the risk of death in COVID-19 patients by an average of 62 percent, at a 95 percent confidence interval of 0.19-0.79, in a sample of 2438 patients.
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Guess we didn’t need the lockdowns or all those “free” so-called vaccines?
Just a crisis that didn’t go to waste.
Argh!
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RANT: Maybe Patton was right and we should have just kept going?
Thursday, June 24, 2021
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RANT: When will Fauci, the D’s, and “Main Street Media” be called to account about Hydroxychloroquine?
Wednesday, June 23, 2021Former Trump Official Slices Fauci Apart Over Hydroxychloroquine Fiasco
Matt Vespa | @mvespa1 | Posted: Jun 19, 2021 6:00 AM
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Navarro goes on to accuse Fauci and the liberal media of being complicit in tens of thousands of negligent homicides as this treatment has been confirmed to be effective. It’s another reason to hate Fauci. It’s another example showing how bad he is at his job. The man was wrong about testing, the vaccine (he thought we didn’t need one), and masks. He admits in emails that the masks we all wore for a year did nothing to curb the spread. Only Fauci can explain why he did what he did on COVID. He lied. He was biased. He is the poster child for the death of medical expertise. They got political. They wanted Trump gone, but now the population, except for woke liberals, have rightfully turned their backs on these political clowns. They’re not doctors. They’re DNC operatives. With COVID over, you can mute Fauci on your televisions.
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My guess is NEVER!
Doesn’t make it right but it was all about raiding the Taxpayers’ pocketbook!
Argh!
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HEALTH: Make every day a “broccoli” day without “proof”
Tuesday, June 22, 2021The Food That Can Downregulate a Metastatic Cancer Gene
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM June 14th, 2021 Volume 54
- Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.”
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Ovarian cancer. “Cruciferous vegetable…[intake] significantly favor[ed] survival”, whereas “a survival disadvantage was shown for meats.” Milk also appeared to double the risk of dying. Here are the survival graphs. Eight years out, for example, about 40 percent of ovarian cancer patients who averaged meat or milk every day were dead, compared to only about 20 percent who just had meat or milk a few times a week at most.
Now, it could just be that the fat and cholesterol in the meat increased circulating estrogen levels, or because of meat’s growth hormones, or all the carcinogens. And galactose, the sugar naturally found in milk, may also be directly toxic to the ovary, and dairy has got all the hormones too. However, the lowering of risk with broccoli and the increasing of risk with meat and dairy are also consistent with the CD36 mechanism of cancer spread we’ve been talking about.
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Hmmm, docs can NOT “prove” that broccoli is a miracle anti-cancer “drug”.
But, low cost side effect free “treatment”? How much proof does one need?
Even if they’re wrong and they can’t say why there’s a broccoli effect, why not just jump ahead of the “proof” in case they are wright?
Doesn’t seem much downside!
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Reinke Faces Life 
LIBERTARIAN: National Popular Vote Compact is a step in the anti-freedom journey towards mob rule
Sunday, July 4, 2021https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/22/national-popular-vote-compact-would-disenfranchise-smaller-rural-states/
National Popular Vote Compact Would Disenfranchise Smaller and Rural States
Ann Bollin / June 22, 2021′
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With the 2020 presidential election in the rearview mirror, a brazen effort is underway in several states to circumvent the Constitution and fundamentally alter the role of the Electoral College in future presidential elections.
If adopted by enough states and not challenged in court, this unconstitutional effort would potentially disenfranchise the voters of several states by ignoring those states’ choice for president and instead defer to the votes of nonresidents to decide how electoral votes would be cast.
That would have a devastating effect on how Americans select their president.
The ploy is known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The compact’s enabling legislation bypasses America’s most fundamental body of law—the U.S. Constitution, specifically Article II, Section I—and nullifies the Electoral College, which guarantees each state a minimum number of electoral votes to ensure that small and rural states are represented.
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(1) Unconstitutional?
(2) Dumb for little states not to litigate NOW?
(3) Federalizes all issues and makes the US of A a unitary state like France!
(4) Ensures the 51% can tyrannize the 49?
Celebrate Independence Day before this takes away our freedom forever and introduces “democracy” AKA mob rule.
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