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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on CDC showing no COVID spread from those with natural immunity

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

Summary

In a FOIA request to the CDC, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) requests information on how many Americans who have recovered from a COVID infection with natural antibodies have then subsequently transmitted the virus to someone else. Turns out director Rochelle Walensky and her crew have absolutely no data suggesting this has happened – not even in one identifiable case.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Rep-Thomas-Massie-R-KY-on-CDC-showing-no-COVID-spread-from-those-with-natural-immunity-Podcast/B09LRNLGQK

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Back To The Unspeakable: Europe Locks Down ‘Unclean’ Unvaxxed

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

Across Europe, from Germany to Italy, governments are placing millions under house arrest for the “crime” of not being “fully” vaccinated. While there is no public health justification for the move – we know from experts such as the CDC Director that the vaxxed continue to spread the virus – there is a distinct punitive intent. Those who do not follow the orders – as irrational as the orders – are to be denied basic human rights. Haven’t we seen this movie before?

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Watch “Oops…? Did Attorney General Garland Lie To Congress About Parent ‘Threat Tag’?” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

Is the DOJ, Garland and FIB in a contest to see who is more corrupt?

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have revealed what appears to be a blockbuster whistleblower document showing how the FBI was instructed to add a “tag” to mark “threats” that parents might pose to school boards, schools, and teachers. Garland vehemently denied such a tag was authorized in testimony before Congress. Also today…as the vax continues to fail in its basic functions, Biden is set to demand boosters for all Americans. What could go wrong? And…big Pharma is making $1K per SECOND profit on the shots – corporatism? Get your copy of Ron Paul’s new mini-book, “Making Sense of Current Political Idiocies”!! Make a tax-deductible contribution to the Ron Paul Institute of $50 for a copy of the book and $100 for a Ron Paul HAND-SIGNED copy. This is a LIMITED TIME offer! Make your contribution here: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/support/

https://youtu.be/ZjRKsRndSUc

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‘Making Sense of Current Political Idiocies’ – RPI 17 November Update

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

https://mailchi.mp/ronpaulinstitute/rpbook?e=4e0de347c8

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Homicide Rates in 2020 Surged to a 24-Year High. It’s Another Sign of a Failing Regime. | Mises Wire

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

https://mises.org/wire/homicide-rates-2020-surged-24-year-high-its-another-sign-failing-regime

Ryan McMaken

By mid 2020, it was already becoming clear that the United States was experiencing a spike in crime. Indeed, by midyear, numerous media outlets were already reporting remarkably large increases in homicide in a number of cities. It was clear that if then current trends continued, homicide rates in the United States would reach levels not seen in over a decade.

With full-year data for 2020 now available on the FBI’s Crime in the United States report, we can see that those predictions were right. According to the report, the homicide rate in the United States rose to 6.5 per 100,000 in 2020, which is the highest rate reported since 1997—a twenty-four-year high.

Moreover the increase from 2019 to 2020 was one of the largest increases the US has experienced in ninety years. For similar increases in a similarly short period of time, we must go back to the 1960s—or even the 1940s. In other words, this is not normal. If the current trend continues, the US could find itself back experiencing homicide growth not experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s.

It remains to be seen, however, if this is a temporary spike or part of a longer trend. If it is a spike, we can expect homicide rates to fall back to around 5 per 100,000, as had become a common experience over the past decade. If it is just a spike, then we can blame the surge in homicide on short-term events such as the covid lockdowns or the Black Lives Matter riots. If the surge is part of a larger trend, however, we’ll need to look to more broad and permanent causes for a satisfactory explanation.

But finding the causes of larger trends in homicide rates is no simple matter, and ideological groups tend to use movements in homicide rates as “proof” of the correctness of their preferred political hobby horses. 

There is compelling evidence, however, that trends in crime are driven largely by how the public views the legitimacy of the regime and its institutions. In short, the theory rests on the idea that crime increases when a jurisdiction’s residents do not respect government institutions and do not believe that government institutions can provide safety or administer justice in a fairly reliable way.

If the United States is indeed at the beginning of an upward trend in homicide, it might be more evidence of what many already suspect is happening: trust in American political institutions is falling, and consequently fear of private crime and social disorder is rising.

Homicides: Some Historical Perspective

In order to get some perspective on these trends, however, we have to look at historical movements in homicide rates.

There is significant disagreement over the measurement of homicide rates in the early twentieth century, and data is especially spotty before the FBI established the Uniform Crime Report system in 1930. There is much more consensus, however, that homicide rates were high by today’s standards during the early 1930s. These rates began to decline rapidly after 1934, and this began a long downward trend in homicide that lasted until the late 1950s. This trend bottomed out at 4 per 100,000 in 1957. By 1965, homicide rates had begun a rapid ascent, climbing from 4.6 per 100,000 in 1963 and peaking at 9.8 per 100,000 in 1980. Homicide rates remained at elevated levels throughout the 1980s, but went into steep decline after 1993, reaching 4.4 per 100,000—a fifty-one-year low—in 2014.

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Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Program; Vital Statistics of the United States: 1965–1979; Vital Statistics of the United States: 1939–1964.

Since 2014, however, the homicide rate has increased by more than 45 percent.

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Looks Like Joe Biden Just Lost The New York Times – Issues & Insights

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

Who is to blame? Every president and congress since the Federal reserve was formed in 1913.

https://issuesinsights.com/2021/11/17/looks-like-joe-biden-just-lost-the-new-york-times/

I & I Editorial Board

His crumbling public approval rating must be troubling to President Joe Biden. But can it possibly compare to learning that the liberal mainstream media is turning on him as well?

On Tuesday, the New York Times sent an email to its morning update subscribers with the headline: “Who’s to blame for inflation?”

“It is dragging down President Biden’s approval ratings and fueling discontent among Americans,” writes senior economics correspondent Neil Irwin. “How did we get here? Who is to blame?”

We fully expected the Times to make excuses for Biden. And at first, it looks as though that is what Irwin is going to do, writing that “presidents have less control over the economy than headlines might suggest.” But then he adds that “the current situation is an exception to the rule.”

And even more remarkable is what comes next. Irwin writes:

You can draw a direct line from a specific policy decision that Biden and congressional Democrats made this past winter to some of the inflation happening now.

In designing the stimulus that Congress passed in March, Biden’s administration went big, with $1.9 trillion in pandemic relief — on top of a separate $900 billion package that passed three months earlier. Put the two together, and $2.8 trillion in federal money has been coursing through the economy this year while economic activity has trended only a few hundred billion dollars a year short of what mainstream analysts would consider full health.

The fact that the Times, along with others in the mainstream media, admits that inflation is a problem is in itself a noteworthy development, since for months it insisted that it was just a data anomaly – one that Republicans were trying to exploit for political gain.

Now, with prices for many common household goods having gone up by double digits over the past few months and no end in sight for the trend, the inflation story is impossible to ignore. 

But the fact that any one of these “news” outlets is willing to blame Biden for the inflation spiral is a truly stunning development, given they’d spent months blasting out “fact checks” that aggressively slapped down any such claim.

In April, for example, a USA Today “fact check” told readers that COVID-19 was “to blame for spike in lumber prices, not Biden.” In June, it ran another saying that “Rising gas prices due to high demand and low supply, not Biden’s policies.”

The next month, AP declared that “House GOP falsely blames Biden for gas prices.”

When Republican Sen. Rick Scott stated in July that “Thanks to the insane tax-and-spending spree of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Washington, we are seeing six straight months of raging inflation,” the “fact checking” site PolitiFact labeled it “Mostly False.”

In August, CNN approvingly quoted the Democrats’ all-time favorite economist, Mark Zandi, as saying that “the jump in inflation has nothing to do with tax and spending policies.”

As is so often the case, the public was way ahead of the mainstream press on this one. A poll in June found that twice as many people blamed Biden as President Donald Trump for rising inflation.

It’s worth noting that the Times admission of Biden’s fault regarding inflation comes after CNN ran a piece exposing the growing antagonism between Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Which raises questions such as:

Why didn’t the New York Times editors “correct” Irwin’s story before it went out? Is it suddenly OK to run hit pieces on Biden, even if it risks helping Republicans? If so, what’s changed in the corporate newsrooms to allow such an infamia?

Now, bear in mind that we are not saying that the media has suddenly decided to do its job and cover the facts. As we pointed out yesterday, the mainstream press has racked up such an incredibly long list of false and misleading stories, all designed to help drive a leftist narrative, that it has pretty much lost all credibility outside crossword puzzles and TV listings.

But that makes this recent development at the New York Times even more astonishing. If the mainstream media lose faith in Biden, who will be left to defend him? Jimmy Carter?

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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Pfizer, BioNTech & Moderna raking in $1,000 every second from Covid-19 vaccine – research — RT USA News

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

From “free” jabs paid for by you.

“Follow the money” Deep Throat

https://www.rt.com/usa/540458-african-vax-poor-countries/

The top three Covid-19 vaccine makers are making around $65,000 per minute as wealthy nations snap up their products, while plans to offer the jab to poorer nations at a discount have largely fallen through, new research reveals.

“It is obscene that just a few companies are making millions of dollars in profit every single hour, while just two percent of people in low income countries have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus,” the African Alliance and People’s Vaccine Alliance Africa declared on Tuesday.

Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna are making $65,000 every minute off the sale of their blockbuster Covid-19 vaccines, the organizations revealed on Tuesday, noting that the firms have off-loaded the majority of their jabs to wealthy countries. The pharma trio will have realized $34 billion between them, the NGOs calculate, with sums that work out to $1,000 per second or $93.5 million per day.

Despite these prodigious profits, a whopping 98% of people in low-income countries remain unvaccinated, according to People’s Vaccine Alliance Africa (PVA) and the African Alliance. The organization added that while Pfizer and BioNTech had delivered less than 1% of their supply to low income nations, Moderna had done even worse, meting out just 0.2% of its own supplies to low-income nations.

“Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna have used their monopolies to prioritize the most profitable contracts with the richest governments, leaving low-income countries out in the cold,” the African Alliance’s Maaza Seyoum told MedicalXpress on Tuesday. While AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson were more successful in distributing their jabs on a not-for-profit basis, they plan to wind down that arrangement in the near future, foreseeing an end to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The PVA has called for Big Pharma to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights regarding Covid-19 vaccines, waiving intellectual property rights under a World Trade Organization agreement, but wealthy nations like Germany and the UK have blocked that move.

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Erie Times E-Edition Article-COVID-19 grips Erie County with 220 new cases per day

Posted by M. C. on November 18, 2021

https://erietimes-pa-app.newsmemory.com/?publink=54db2ad2c_1345fd1

The resident ET-N fear mongers are ignoring my suggestion that it would be interesting to know how many cases are covid only vs cancer, heart attack, car crash admissions or just those coming in with a broken pinky and otherwise feeling great but testing positive.

In other words covid sick vs those fortunate enough to have mother nature provide natural immunity in the background.

Here is another way to spice up the reporting. Instead of reporting the number of “cases” report the government reimbursement for “cases”.

“Erie County with $2,860,000 per day”…at least according to factcheck.org. See below.

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Watch “Ep. 2006 Why the Fifth Circuit Slammed the Vaccine Mandate” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on November 17, 2021

https://youtu.be/YpE8fPgtsIM

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Watch “Masks, Lockdowns & Vaccines Don’t Stop The Spread: Why Are They Still Being Pushed?” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on November 17, 2021

https://youtu.be/dLRzoR5HebI

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