GOVEROTRAGEOUS: US government data is suspect at best; deceitful at worst

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/why-you-cant-trust-the-us-government?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=136012965&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Why you can’t trust the US government data

  • In this article, I will show you why government data is not trustable. That is why I personally prefer anecdotes that are verifiable when trying to figure out what is really going on.

Steve Kirsch  — Aug 15, 2023

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Example 3: Thousands of patients died at a tiny facility in 2020 (just 69 beds with 68% occupancy)

This is my favorite example. Facility #235601.

In the last 7 months in 2020, this facility had 2,584 total deaths which included 9 deaths from COVID (from 48 cases, a 19% death rate from COVID).

Here’s the impressive thing: the average occupancy throughout the period was just 47 beds and it stayed pretty constant throughout the 32 week period. There are just 69 beds in the entire facility.

In other words, on average, everyone living there died, on average, every 4.2 days and they were immediately able to fill the empty beds every week.

This facility passed all the Medicare QA checks.

Single facilities like this with such large death numbers throws the aggregate data off.

And this was not the only example of a small facility with thousands of deaths in 2020!

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To us Michael Malice’s line “factual but not truthful”.

We have a CPI that distorts inflation and more voters than are registered.  So why should we be surprised that other sources are “full of <synonym for excrement>”!

I don’t have any idea how to fix the problem other than to disbelieve anything reported.

How does that expression go: 

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ― Edgar Allan Poe 

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Who will save “We, The Sheeple” from unserious politicians and bureaucrats?

Thursday, August 17, 2023

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/09/forget-crime-drugs-nyc-democrats-ice-cream-trucks-are-real-menace/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell

First, NY Democrats Came for Pizza Ovens. Now, They’re Coming for Ice Cream Trucks.
Jarrett Stepman / @JarrettStepman / August 09, 2023 

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New York City, like many other cities in America, is dealing with several acute challenges. None of them involves ice cream.

The biggest issue is the explosion of crime in the past few years. New York experienced a huge increase in burglaries, assaults, and car thefts to begin the year. Liberal media sources keep trying to downplay the problem, but the fact that crime is elevated—though isn’t quite at all-time highs—is hardly something to celebrate or be proud of.

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At risk of being funny, are these fools serious.  Like Congress with the National Debt, these fools are fiddling while Rome burns.

But the voters keep voting for these … … clowns.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Yes, but” the Gooferment forgot to test the ground?

Thursday, August 10, 2023

https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2023/07/28/phoenix-homeless-shelter-shipping-containers?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Jul 28, 2023 – Climate

See the solar-powered homeless shelter made from shipping containers

Jessica Boehm

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Twenty unhoused people in Phoenix are set to move into a new, solar-powered shelter constructed out of shipping containers next week.

What’s happening: The city of Phoenix ordered four prefabricated shelters from local company Steel + Spark last year and installed the first outside St. Vincent de Paul’s Washington Street shelter this week.

It has 10 single rooms and six double rooms for couples.

Why it matters: This type of interim independent living provides an important step for unhoused people between staying in congregate shelter and building the confidence to enter permanent housing, St. Vincent de Paul chief program officer Jessica Berg told Axios Phoenix.

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The intrigue: All four X-Wings and a 200-bed structure were to be installed at a new shelter at 22nd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road intended to open this summer.

Yes, but: The city found methane gas at the site and stopped construction last month. Officials tell us they are looking for a new area to build the shelter, but have not yet found a site.

What’s next: Scott Hall, Phoenix’s deputy homeless solutions director, said the city decided to deploy the X-Wing at St. Vincent de Paul in the interim to make immediate use of the shelter and see how it works.

He added the city may find additional places to put the other three wings, but did not yet have details.

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Kudos for finding a “solution”.  Seems to be a great idea and almost great execution.  Who forgets to solid test for any construction.  Does everyone forget the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

In any event, it’s a partial solution.  It needs plumbing to be a complete idea.

Maybe consult with some RV designers for ideas?

My travel trailer back in the 70’s had it correct.

The poor “unhoused people”, what I’d call “homeless”, need less Gooferment “help” and more “free market solutions”.  

Whatever happened to Jason Stapleton’s(@Jason_Stapleton) idea of “military style barracks” staffed by the homeless themselves as a safe bridge back to society?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Yet another absurd diktat to save Mother Earth!

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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Incandescent Bulb Ban

A Department of Energy rule requiring new lightbulbs to have a minimum brightness of 45 lumens went into effect in the United States yesterday, effectively banning incandescent lightbulbs. The ban does not affect currently owned lightbulbs and excludes several specialty bulbs used in refrigerators, plant lights, and others (see full list).

The ban is part of a decadelong federal push to increase energy efficiency across major consumer sectors like cars and appliances. Incandescent bulbs, though cheaper upfront than light-emitting diodes, are likely to burn out 30 times faster and are more costly than LEDs in the long term (see comparison). Recent consumer surveys suggest over half of US households already partly or entirely use LEDs as general-use lightbulbs, whose longer life span has likely contributed to the 40% decline in lightbulb shipments over the last decade.

Some studies have suggested the flickering and coloration of LED lights can trigger migraines and other conditions in people with light sensitivity issues. 

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Is there any aspect of the marketplace that is off-limits to Gooferment interference?

Certainly seems not.

And, what happens when the Unintended Consequences begins to appear like with the Covid Jab?

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Recognize that LBJ’s Great Society absolutely destroyed the black family

Saturday, July 22, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-great-society-destroyed-nuclear-family-structure-one-chart

How The ‘Great Society’ Destroyed The Nuclear Family Structure In One Chart
by Tyler Durden  — Sunday, Jul 16, 2023 – 02:00 PM

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Who destroyed the American family?

The argument can be made that the Great Society programs initiated the destruction of the nuclear family structure. The blame starts with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s set of domestic programs in the mid-1960s that were used to fight ‘poverty’ but only discouraged work and destabilized families. 

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First, the US has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world. Second, the connection between single-parent households and crime is very strong. According to research carried out by Jerrod Brown, a behavioral specialist at Concordia St. Paul, the extant literature “suggests that children raised in single-parent households experience more physical and psychological problems compared to those raised in two-parent households.” Moreover, he added, the “implications of homes in which fathers are absent may be important to explore for criminal justice and mental health professionals.”

Maybe this whole Great Society experiment has gone terribly wrong. Let’s try something different. Maybe bring back the family unit and dial back welfare programs.

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I remember Malcom X’s quote: “… … It has turned out that it’s Johnson in the White House-and black votes were a major factor in his winning as decisively as he wanted to. If it had been Goldwater, all I am saying is that the black people would at least have known they were dealing with an honestly growling wolf, rather than a fox who could have them half-digested before they even knew what was happening.”  — Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X 

LBJ delivered a knock out blow to the black family and fooled the black into think he was “looking out for them”.

While I may not like Malcom X’s politics, he was often right!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why Vaccines are Treated Differently

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/why_vaccines_are_treated_differently_from_other_products.html

July 15, 2023
Why Vaccines are Treated Differently from Other Products
By Victor Fernandez 

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Attorney Aaron Siri of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) who has worked a great deal on vaccine-related issues like vaccine injury claims, vaccine exemptions and vaccine policy work, gave testimony to the Arizona State Senate on May 25th. His impressive two-hour presentation sought to answer the question: How can this system that people rely on fail us so badly? But to understand the failure is to understand the context within which the new vaccines arose. We need to understand what happened 37 years ago.

In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (HR5546). This is an historic act because it removed liability for childhood injury vaccines. Removing liability tends to alter the behavior of entities that benefit. Indeed, it turned out that pharmaceutical companies were no longer liable for injuries caused by their products. That has been the law since 1986. 

Attorney Siri says that he knows of no other product that has that kind of immunity. Not planes nor drugs. But since 1986, big pharma has not had any market force check of any significance. “Think of all the products out there that warrant safety precautions, and the one you give immunity to is the one you give to babies. Think about that.”

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STUNNING!

Time to repeal that law and hold Big Pharma accountable for its products.

Argh!

Europe doesn’t allow advertising.

We should NOT allow doctors to profit from Big Pharma “bribes”.

The system is corrupt; time to address it. 

In the meanwhile, question authority!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: How can a State not have “standing” to call the Federal Gooferment to account for not following the laws?

Sunday, June 25, 2023

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-strikes-texas-challenge-biden-border-policy/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell

Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas’ Challenge to Biden Border Policy
Tyler O’Neil / @Tyler2ONeil / June 23, 2023

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The Supreme Court struck down a challenge to President Joe Biden’s border policy Friday, ruling that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge a policy the states claimed was illegal.

The Supreme Court Friday stuck down Texas and Louisiana’s legal challenge to new Biden administration border policies that violate federal statutes and harm citizens in Texas and Louisiana, the states argued. (Read the full ruling below.)

All justices besides Samuel Alito concurred in the opinion that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge the new rules, which the Department of Homeland Security promulgated in 2021.

Texas and Louisiana argued that federal law requires law enforcement to arrest certain noncitizens upon their release from prison or entry of a final order of removal, but the new DHS rule only prioritizes the arrest and removal of noncitizens who are suspected terrorists or dangerous criminals who unlawfully entered the country recently. The states claimed that these rules harmed them by imposing extra costs by requiring them to continue to incarcerate or supply social services—such as health care and education—to noncitizens.

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I just don’t understand.  No one seems to want to enforce the laws!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Nirvana approach” whne comparing the Free Market ro Gooferment

Thursday, June 15, 2023

https://www.econlib.org/james-mackintoshs-misunderstanding-of-markets/

Harold Demsetz pointed out in a famous 1969 article that many economists use the “Nirvana approach.” They compare actual markets with ideal government programs run by all-knowing bureaucrats with benevolent motives rather than comparing actual markets with actual government.

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Let me know when someone finds any “government programs run by all-knowing bureaucrats with benevolent motives” because I’ve never seen any Gooferment program that works at all.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: How about clawing back all the fraud in Gooferment programs?

Thursday, June 8, 2023

https://palexander.substack.com/p/debt-deal-passes-mccarthy-gets-help?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=125282226&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Debt deal passes; McCarthy gets help from Dems; did I not tell you McCarthy is the other side, the UNIPARTY, these are crooks Republican Resistance Falters, Again… How Biden pulled it off…DRUDGE gets it right…he forgot one more headline e.g. “the crooks, the high-crime congress people BS us again as they worked together to rape the tax payer and steal the future of children; America hating

Dr. Paul Alexander

Jun 1, 2023

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These are thieves and you need now to read it, read the bill, and see where the money was stolen, who got which pork, who is going to get kickbacks, who is the bagman or bagmen, whose family is richer today due to it, this is all a game, a show of thieves and we should not be afraid to go back and examine every COVID relief and PPE $ money, all of it, every tax dollar linked to COVID for I am sure 90% was fraudulent and these beasts in government enriched themselves, kind of like the COVID Freedom Fighters, at least some of them. They came to ‘take’. 

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I’d suggest a 10% bounty of every dollar clawed back from fraud, waste, and abuse.  Let’s put the free market to work punishing these thieves.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Is the FDIC outlived its usefulness and far exceeded that 205k$ limit

Saturday, May 20, 2023

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/05/fdic-seizure-of-foreign-deposits-at-svb-opens-pandoras-box-at-jpmorgan-chase-and-citi-which-hold-a-combined-1-trillion-in-foreign-deposits-with-no-fdic-insurance/

FDIC Seizure of Foreign Deposits at SVB Opens Pandora’s Box at JPMorgan Chase and Citi – Which Hold a Combined $1 Trillion in Foreign Deposits with No FDIC Insurance
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 15, 2023 ~

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If you have been following the banking crisis, you have likely read at least a dozen times that on March 12 federal banking regulators, with the consent of the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, invoked the “systemic risk exception” in order to protect both insured and uninsured depositors at the two banks that failed in March – Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

That’s why there were gasps of shock on Saturday evening at around 5:30 p.m. when the Wall Street Journal (paywall) published the stunning news that depositors in the Cayman Islands’ branch of Silicon Valley Bank had their deposits seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which they are unlikely to ever see again.

As Wall Street On Parade has previously reported, under statute, the FDIC cannot insure deposits held on foreign soil by U.S. banks. What it can do, however, is to sell those deposits to the bank that acquires the collapsed bank. In the case of Silicon Valley Bank, the acquiring bank was First Citizens Bancshares which, apparently, declined to purchase the foreign deposits in the secrecy jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands, a jurisdiction most notable recently for housing Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto house of frauds.

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It’s hard to imagine any Gooferment policy, program, or agency that doesn’t far outlive its usefulness.

In this case, foreign depositors get screwed.

Soon it will be US depositors.  Time to unwind all the Government Sponsored Entities  — FDIC, FHA, FHLB, Fannie, Freddie, and Sallie.

Before it’s too late!

If it isn’t already.

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