Covid, The Rich Get Richer

 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60015294

As the headline says, the wealth of the ten richest men on the globe doubled in the pandemic .... well, if you use a more reasonable estimate, maybe only 70%.

This is an old story... I wrote on this back in 2017 when the 8 richest had more wealth than the lower 50% of people on the planet and met in Davos every year. to discuss??? 

The cover story has always been that they meet there to discuss climate change, healthcare for all, and better wealth distribution. 

From the headline, one can see that either: 

1. If measured by results, wealth doesn't equal smarts. Things have gone the opposite direction of what these titans of wealth claim to be their objective. 
2. Davos and such things are just cover stories for the elite meeting on ways to amass even more wealth, 

You choose.

Even within the article, it is easy to see the true objectives of organizations like Oxfam: 

That should include more progressive tax regimes, which impose higher levies on capital and wealth, with the revenue spent on "quality universal healthcare and social protection for all" Mr Sriskandarajah said.

Oxfam is also calling for the intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines to be waived to enable wider production and faster distribution.

Earlier this month the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, voiced his concerns over widening global inequality, arguing the impact of inflation and measures to tackle it were likely to cause more damage to poorer countries.

The elite have been pushing for "more progressive" tax regimes and "universal health" forever. 

In the last 30 years we have cut global poverty in half primarily through increased global trade and technical innovation. More of the wealth has been "distributed" (created) by those who DO THINGS ... like invent, increase efficiency, and allocate resources to the most productive uses.

"Universal health care" primarily benefits administrators .... which means more paperwork, less care,  and more wealth for insurance companies, lawyers, and government. 

Why can't you go see some local practitioner like you can a dentist or optometrist. 

Primary medicare and medicaid, along with the constant pressure of insurance companies to raise costs so their "cut" off the top is greater ... 6% of $1K is bigger than 6& of $500. Naturally it is nice of them to send you glossy brochures (that you are paying for) telling how they are fighting to reduce costs (and thus their profits). 

The main effect of "climate science" is to increase the cost of energy, thus hurting the lower income people, and moving more money to guys like Elon Musk who sells expensive cars with batteries that are more destructive to the environment than coal mining, and will wear out in "5 years" or so. 

Why Did They Label Lab Leak Theory A "Dangerous Conspiracy Theory"?

 https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/12/why-did-scientists-suppress-the-lab-leak-theory/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/media-lab-leak-theory.html

For all of 2020, the idea that Covid could be due to a "lab leak" was "fringe disinformation". As this NY Times article reports: 

The common reaction in elite liberal circles? A Washington Post reporter called it a “fringe theory” that “has been repeatedly disputed by experts.” The Atlantic Council accused Cotton of abetting an “infodemic” by “pushing debunked claim that the novel coronavirus may have been created in a Wuhan lab.” A writer for Vox said it was a “dangerous conspiracy theory” being advanced by conservatives “known to regularly spew nonsense (and bash China).”

But why would our "trusted elites" do such a thing? As the Ridley article points out:

The emails unveiled this week reveal no good scientific reason at all for why these leading virologists changed their minds and became deniers rather than believers in even the remote possibility of a lab leak, all in just a few days in February 2020. No new data, no new arguments. But they do very clearly reveal a blatant political reason for the volte-face. Speculating about a lab leak, said Ron Fouchier, a Dutch researcher, might ‘do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular’. Francis Collins was pithier, worrying about ‘doing great potential harm to science and international harmony’. Contradicting Donald Trump, protecting science’s reputation at all costs and keeping in with those who dole out large grants are pretty strong incentives to change one’s mind.

Naturally it would be certifiable crazy to consider the possibility that the "lab leak" was not an accident, right? 

I know if my IBM taskmasters had me working on a project to enhance computer viruses to make them harder to detect, easier to spread, etc, I would NEVER suspect that they had any ulterior motives. Like maybe they had agreements with a few big anti-virus companies to release anti-virus software that was absolutely required to remove this enhanced virus? Certainly we trust big business,  big pharma, big government to never do such a thing. Right? 

Did we miss National Socialist Germany? The USSR? 9-11? Millions of babies murdered in their mother's womb?  Is it unimaginable in such a world to trade off the deaths of a few million elderly people soon to die anyway for a vast increase in government control and massive profits for the Davos elite? 

We live in an amoral world. Catholic priests abuse boys. Powerful men fly on the "lolita express".  Presidents stain the carpet of the Oval Office with their semen with impunity. What part of "no rules" (for those who control and support "the narrative") is it that you have not taken to heart? 

As Nietzsche said "without God, all is permissible". 

Doctor Robert Malone, Covid

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT

The link is to a 3 hour podcast that is worth watching, and may be removed soon to protect us all from "misinformation".

If you want to see the "debunk" -- that basically attacks Malone rather than a lot of his assertions, questions, concerns, etc., here it is.

What I liked most about Malone is that he avoids saying "this is how it is" ... he says more than once that he may be wrong, he says a lot along the lines of "this seems to be what historical experience with AIDs and its various vaccines, as well as our current limited experience with Covid and the vaccines MAY be showing, He points out that a lot of people in the Covid narrative have vested interests -- there is a lot of money to be made by forcing everyone to take a number of "jabs". 

Much like Obamacare, people are forced to "buy/obtain" a product -- and on top of all the mandates there is a ton of free advertising. I find the general Covid message to be "Give fear a chance".  For some segments of the economy (big pharma, big retail (Amazon. WalMart, etc), financial entities that feed off the printing of money, etc) Covid has been a giant moneymaker. 

It has certainly made a generally faceless bureaucrat (Fauci) into a household name -- people have done a lot just to be famous. This would not be the first time. 

What is true? Who do you trust? 

The proper answer is always no one. Humans are inherently flawed, often dishonest, even with themselves -- my position is that the more somebody stands up and says "I'm the expert, trust me!" ... the less I do, especially if their story changes regularly. 

Think about eggs/cholesterol -- they were BAD, and the "Food Pyramid" put carbs as the base -- the good.  It was "expert truth" for 40 years, then it was wrong. 

For "some strange reason", there seems to be an awful lot of sickness going around this year -- the vast majority of it not Covid -- RSV, Flu, pneumonia, and even a concerning set of "weird things. Menstrual cycles becoming irregular or ceasing, a range of heart issues, fatigue, intermittent fevers ... strange stuff. Even some odd and rarely seen cancers. 

Remember, AIDs stands for "Acquired Immune Deficiency".  It killed your immune system and you died of a bunch of weird stuff. Think Kaposi's Sarcoma.

If a significant number of the jabbed start to get sick with a bunch of stuff, do you suppose there will be any resistance from the oligarchy to admit that the jab is causal? 

I've not been 100% since the jab in mid October. RSV ... formerly a disease of babies and elderly. Those with immune system problems. A persistent very bad cough and mucus ... multiple treatments, maybe successful this time ... seems pretty much like somehow I'm allergic, maybe asthmatic, though I never have been before. Seems to be a good number of sick folks filling up hospitals from non-Covid causes. 

Hmmmm 

 

With Covid, But Not Because of Covid

https://coloradosun.com/2022/01/12/colorado-covid-omicron-hospital-patients/ 

The linked gives some hope that the big media, big government, big Democrat, big pharma oligarchy is starting to move to a more reality based narrative. 

From the very start, the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths were WITH Covid rather than BECAUSE of Covid. The narrative acknowledged that the "vast majority" of those hospitalized with, or dying with Covid did not reach that state because of Covid. They were old and in poor health due to multiple underlying conditions. The narrative required that whenever a younger person that was "apparently" in "perfect health" died with Covid, the word had to get out to maximum effect . 

Given millions of cases there almost had to be some that died OF Covid -- I personally know of a healthy 50ish guy that died of anesthesia. Although most of us hardly think of it when we are put under, it does happen.

I personally don't know anyone that died even WITH Covid, although I accept that there are many. I also don't personally know anyone that was murdered -- though I know there are a lot. I DO unfortunately personally know of 10ish and probably more if I think of it that died in car accidents. 

Even Biden has now declared that there is nothing the federal government can do to stop Covid ... "It's a virus, and we will have to live (and die) WITH it -- though likely not BECAUSE of it very often. "News at 11", those with some level of independent thought knew this from the start. 

It would be great if everyone knew "... during a 2020 campaign debate, Biden proclaimed: “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.” At the time Biden proposed this disqualifier from holding the presidency, the U.S. had recorded 220,000 covid deaths, according to the Journal. Since inauguration day, it has recorded 350,000. And counting."

The narrative at that time required that anyone that died WITH Covid died BECAUSE of Covid ... because as Biden said, the critical thing was that Trump lost the election. The vaccine was made available on December 11 2020 .... there are some memos that indicate it would have been "disruptive" to release it as early as mid September 2020. Well. yes, it may have been "disruptive" to Biden being installed as cadaver in chief.  Who cares about the loss of a few tens of thousands of old people if we can get rid of Trump? The "greater good" and all that.

We will never have any clue how many people were hospitalized and died because of Covid, because the narrative and the control of the oligarchy is what counts. A nation that has murdered over 60 million babies in the mother's womb makes National Socialist Germany appear to be a highly moral nation by comparison. 

What are the long term effects of the vaccine? Nobody has a clue. Approving this sort of new technology vaccine typically takes something like a decade. Do you want to trust the oligarchy to report massive negative effects of the vaccination if they are to occur? One thing is certain, if people do have negative effects from the vaccine, the companies creating it are immune from being sued. 

You may not get any immunity from being jabbed and boosted, and you may even have long term side effects. however the vaccine companies have TOTAL immunity! Isn't that cozy?

The article claims that "Omicron is different"! Well, maybe ... the coding of the reasons for admission are different, but the incentives are different as well. In 2020, MN docs got a 6 page memo on "how to report cause of death". One might have thought that docs had been reporting cause of death before 2020? Well, for anyone that has ever worked in a bureaucracy, the memo. written in obscure bureaucratese pretty much said "if there is ANY way you can call it Covid, CALL IT COVID!". 

Lots of Covid death in 2020 was good! Trump! 

January. 6, 2021, A Day That Will Die In Obscurity

 https://www.nationalreview.com/news/remembering-the-lies-and-half-truths-spread-in-the-wake-of-january-6/

I've pointed out the insanity of calling Jan 6, 2021 anything beyond a "Mostly Peaceful Demonstration" -- the only person killed was an unarmed white female veteran, nothing was burned, and nobody got a free TV. A moments comparison of the reaction to Jan 6 and the BLM riots of the summer is instructive.

The immediate recognition of Trump being elected was shown when women  marched on Washington in the 100's of thousands wearing "Pussy Hats", an obvious symbol of their sincerity and good sense.

Such intellectual giants and students of history as Kamala Harris found January 6 2021 to be comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

Many people ask "why are we so divided?" 

A very easy answer is because current leadership and meda (but I repeat myself) tend to maximize the severity of events that they believe will benefit their cause, while ignoring or completely suppressing items that would tend to give a sense of balance to thinking about events, and maybe even result in there being some level of equity in how those expressing their views on policy, elections, and actions by authorities are treated. 

Currently, something like 70 people involved in the January 6 demonstrations are incarcerated without being charged, and not being allowed bail. 

Meanwhile, the Biden administration pushes for no bail being required at all to release defendants with long criminal records.

If say "20%" as much attention was paid to citizens being incarcerated for long periods with no charges, no legal representation, concern about "threats to democracy" may at least be seen as a problem for "both sides" to be concerned about.

Biden Unifies With "Lets Go Brandon"!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvnhIF18w0

A good one from AwakenWithJP.

A caller to the NORAD Santa Tracker ended with "Let's go Brandon" and Biden agreed. 

There are two choices here:

1. Biden actually is aware of reality, has a sense of humor, and showed it by being agreeable to the callers closing. 
2. Biden has no sense of reality, and is just mindlessly playing along with whatever his handlers tell him to do .... and if something unexpected shows up, he does the only thing he can do ... mindlessly follow along. 

It would be nice to kinda believe #1, and hope that if #2 is reality,  he doesn't prove Obama right again. 

Yet searing, anonymously sourced quotes from Obama kept appearing through the race. One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warning, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” Speaking of his own waning understanding of today’s Democratic electorate, especially in Iowa, Obama told one 2020 candidate: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”

Unfortunately, there were no cameras rolling when Obama made the "don't underestimate" statement  ... however it does have the ring of truth and Politico published it. It certainly looks like Obama was right about Joe, as were many American voters -- though to be fair, one can't really blame the dead or manufactured "voters". 

Trusted Propaganda Initiative

 https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation

With the introduction of several possible new Covid-19 vaccines, there has been a rise of ‘anti-vaccine’ disinformation spreading online to millions of people.

Examples include widely shared memes which link falsehoods about vaccines to freedom and individual liberties. Other posts seek to downplay the risks of coronavirus and suggest there is an ulterior motive behind the development of a vaccine.

I wonder if pursuit of power, profit and submission of the masses  are "ulterior motives? 

I guess not, since it is obvious that these are major motivations --  as they always are, however even more so in a "crisis". 

Rahm Emanuel, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste".

Inflation Can't Go On Forever

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177

Here is a little article showing some of the famous economists that have stated versions of the title of this blog. 

A cursory look at recent history is that we are somewhat on a repeat of the Sorry Seventies unfortunately including a hapless president rivaling and maybe even exceeding Jimmy Carter in his incompetence. 

I grew up with my dad constantly assuming that we would have a return to the 1930's when he grew up. He always was looking for the next depression, and to him, it never happened because the periods of decline were much less severe than the 1930's. I like to say that history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.

From 1966 to 1982, the stock market was flat.

In January of 1966 the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a level of 990. It would continue trading in a range of roughly 600 to 1,000 over the following 17 years. It once again reached 990 in December of 1982 before finally breaking out and heading higher.

That certainly isn't a "depression", but were something like that (or worse) to repeat, it would change a lot of Boomers lifestyles. 

Between 2008 and 2014, the Federal Reserve printed more than $3.5 trillion in new bills. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly triple the amount of money that the Fed created in its first 95 years of existence. Three centuries’ worth of growth in the money supply was crammed into a few short years. The money poured through the veins of the financial system and stoked demand for assets like stocks, corporate debt and commercial real estate bonds, driving up prices across markets. Hoenig was the one Fed leader who voted consistently against this course of action, starting in 2010. In doing so, he pitted himself against the Fed’s powerful chair at the time, Ben Bernanke, who was widely regarded as a hero for the ambitious rescue plans he designed and oversaw.

Extraordinary events tend to have extraordinary results ... often results that are at least unexpected in some quarters. 

Is Election Integrity Undemocratic?

 https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/ensuring-election-integrity-anti-democratic/

According to basically 100% of of European countries -- if you read the whole article, election integrity is critical to democracy.

When it comes to absentee voting, we Americans, accustomed as we are to very loose rules, are often shocked to learn that 35 of the 47 European countries—including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden—don’t allow absentee voting for citizens living in country. Another ten European countries—including England, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain—allow absentee voting, but require voters to show up in person and present a photo ID to pick up their ballots. It isn’t like in the U.S., where a person can say he’s going to be out of town and have a ballot mailed to him.

Mexico believes you ought to know your vote actually counts. 

...Mexico recently instituted strict reforms. Voters must present a biometric ID—an ID with not only a photo, but also a thumb print. Voters also have indelible ink applied to their thumbs, preventing them from voting more than once. And absentee voting is prohibited, even for people living outside the country.

Wow, with such harsh "voter suppression" measures, the number of people voting must have really dropped in those repressive countries.

Those who oppose election integrity reform here in the U.S. often condemn it as a means of “voter suppression.” But in Mexico, the percent of people voting rose from 59 percent before the reforms to 68 percent after. It turned out that Mexicans were more, not less, likely to vote when they had confidence that their votes mattered.

Democrats, the media, and the State Bureaucracy oppose any voted integrity measures in the strongest terms.

Here, for instance, is President Biden speaking recently in Philadelphia, condemning the idea of voter IDs: “There is an unfolding assault taking place in America today—an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are—who we are as Americans. For, make no mistake, bullies and merchants of fear and peddlers of lies are threatening the very foundation of our country.” Sadly but predictably, he went on to suggest that requiring voter IDs would mean returning people to slavery.

The horror of it! Nearly all the people in Europe are living in SLAVERY! Just ask Joe (on one of the few days he is coherent). 

What kind of "bullies, merchants of fear and peddlers of lies"  have suggested that mail in voting encourages (and has been demonstrated to) enable massive voter fraud? Well Jimmy Carter for one -- and though he is definitely a "peddler of lies", I really can't imagine anyone calling Jimmuh a "bully". 

Sixteen years ago, in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform issued a report that proposed a uniform system of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in U.S. elections. The report also pointed out that widespread absentee voting makes vote fraud more likely. Voter files contain ineligible, duplicate, fictional, and deceased voters, a fact easily exploited using absentee ballots to commit fraud. Citizens who vote absentee are more susceptible to pressure and intimidation. And vote-buying schemes are far easier when citizens vote by mail.

Would you like it if your bank would allow cash withdrawls from your account without photo ID? How many times are you required to show a photo ID? Flying, increasingly buying liquor, shipping a package via UPS, checking into a hotel ... the list just keeps getting longer. 

So we know that insuring voter integrity doesn't reduce voting -- it tends to INCREASE it because people know their vote counts.

Other than a history of voter fraud and a strong desire to continue and increase it,  it seems impossible defend measures like HR1. Therefore, the media mostly ignores what is actually in it, and merely repeats the obvious propaganda that it is racist, voter suppression and somehow a "return to slavery".  

The linked short article is worth the read.

 

Expodentially Misunderestimated

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/deep-meaning-of-expodentially.php

Joe Biden likes to say "expodentially" -- who knew?  Democrats looking human (stupid if Republicans do so) is something ignored by the Democrat media for obvious reasons - it would be simply WRONG to make lite of our glorious leader. 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1470189441738326017

OTOH, everyone knew about "Bushisms" ... in fact, there was a calendar of them. 

There was once a comedian named Norm Crosby that made a good living through malapropisms back when the nation had a sense of humor. I'm quite certain that this clip would be enough to get him Cancelled today. 

Losing a sense of humor is a strong sign of "progress" toward totalitarianism. As "progress" proceeds, poking fun at potentates can become criminal.