Unfortunately the left thinks aliens are more important than Americans. This explains a lot: The Destructive Left-Wing Logic Behind Biden’s Embrace of $450K
Same as in Newfoundland, Canada. People from Afghanistan sent there with homeless people on the streets, & then the government says they are here to help people in Newfoundland. That’s why gas & food prices are going up there to help the immigrants. We will build a Wall and make Mexico pay for it. And he did, the Mexican government provided 28000 guards at their expense. Then came along Brandon who didn’t want to finish the wall and let all those illegals in and you know the rest will be history…don’t forget the $450k Biden wants to give them for breaking the law!
And the ones crossing the borders receive $450,000 while many Americans can’t make $450,000 in 10 years working a job. Thank you #letsgoBranden
I doubt if our vets injured overseas got that type of deal. Disgusting. Illegal immigrants coming in on boats and being put up in 4 star hotels with everything paid for and some money to spend. There are army veterans living on the streets here. We’ve got our gov’t slamming down vaccine mandates on US workers, where employers are laying them off in droves, yet not mandating the same for illegals coming across the border by the thousands. This paves the way for the illegals to take over the jobs of those same workers.
It’s all wrong. No one asks us, and no one cares what we think. We must vote these people out. It’s almost too late to change the tide, as they will be relentless through this year. Even if we win the house and senate, they keep the executive orders coming. It’s not right. America and the whole world is falling. It’s like all the world leaders getting together to change the world as we know it. It is a shame and a travesty…the USA needs to treat our VETS like the heroes they are.. God Bless them Shows The Heart of this “administration “
A new survey for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) finds that 63 percent, including 72 percent of swing voters, said they oppose “paying $450,000 for ‘psychological trauma’ to every illegal immigrant who was separated from their child when illegally entering the United States.” Meanwhile, just 29 percent of voters support the payouts. A plan included in Biden’s filibuster-proof $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better Act” reconciliation package would give $80 billion to illegal aliens with children over the course of a decade via an expanded child tax credit. That plan is opposed by about 2-in-3 voters, the NRCC survey found, including 76 percent of swing voters. Only 25 percent of voters said they support the billions for illegal aliens in child tax credits.
As Breitbart News has noted, the $450,000 payouts to border crossers would far exceed the compensation provided to the victims of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks and of the Boston Marathon bombings. Additionally, analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) calculated that the single payout for a border crosser under the proposal could feed 42 American families for an entire year. Meanwhile, the total cost of the payouts could provide homes to nearly 80,000 homeless Americans for a year or could forgive student loan debt for more than 27,000 American college students and graduates who are struggling to move up the economic ladder. The survey included 800 likely voters | has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent. Unreal #FJB
When Illegal Americans go to Mexico they are sent to A Mexico Jail Facility in Mexico city. Until they are able to get back to America. Yet Illegal Immigrants can come to America and stay in America Legally cause They call America racist so Biden lets it happen. BS send em Back It’s a slap in the face … disrespectful, and pure evil. We should not be helping illegals or any other countries while there is at least one American family or person struggling.
This is Biden’s America!!
Hopefully, one of these days, we’ll realize this outrage it’s up to us to change.
This is Truly Un-American!!! Our own government is turning their backs on us and Superman won’t be flying in to rescue us.
Why haven’t PTSD vets been offered on base housing for years? That structure literally keeps them alive. BEYOND THAT. While politicians, most of whom never served in the Military or held a job continue to screw Americans.
We need Term limits, No lobbyists, No security for former politicians, No pension or healthcare just like the citizens.
Totally agree, this political class is destroying the fundamentals of the United States. They prefer to look after ‘themselves’ rather than the country. It is unjust, wicked and, quite simply, and not right. It’s more than disgusting. It’s criminal and those in charge should face consequences. Disgusting isn’t a strong enough word. It’s criminal in my opinion!!! There’s no law as such —
In terms of how gross it is, Totally f*cked up and it’s criminal!!!
Treason was Committed on a Daily basis by Communist Occupiers that overthrew the U.S. Government in 2008 and 11-4-20 at 3am & we allow it!
UNbeFUCKINGlievable.
Illegals should not have more rights than citizens, period. I get the plight of illegals, but they should not get all the benefits of citizens, and not before all citizens. It’s called divide and conquer and nothing coming out of your media is true. Disgusting is an understatement… Our government is working against the People with our own money.
Welcome to the wonder world of the left democrat. Did Democrats ever really care about veterans or for that part Americans? It’s appalling that separated ILLEGALS get money but Americans permanently separated by ILLEGALS committing murder just get fckd, again! Is the power of the states restricted in the Constitution? Although the power is restricted, the states still possess some necessary powers and exercise important functions in the United States.
Listening to the masses to gain understanding-
The Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution indicates that the states possess those powers that are not given to the Federal Government or prohibited to the states. When CITY, STATE & FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. — BECOME A TYRANNICAL MAF!A AGAINST *W3 TH33 P3OPL3S* — WITHOUT ACTUAL MILITARY LAW, DOES A PATRIOTIC MILITARY STEP IN WITHOUT MILITARY LAW!!
I TRULY BELIEVE*W3 TH33 P3OPL3S* ARE THE MILITARY*
Our government is totally out of Constitutional control. We stop it or lose our God given freedoms. America as we know it is almost LOST if we don’t organize and rebel. Get vocal, get in liberal faces, call, visit your liberal representatives and overwhelm their office with phone calls! Don’t be afraid to join APA and get this revolution underway!! Just A Thought I preach to the choir in Ohio. We have to fight them through our Sheriff Office if everybody calls their Sheriff. We have 2497 Republican Sheriffs that can help clean up their 477 Democrat counties. (IMO Democrat Counties are least educated.) We have Have Morals, Principles & Values t00.
Pray for the world & for each other. Be patient, do not fly off the handle. This is what those who promote evil want. They want conflict and chaos.
Stand up for what is right but do so in a calm & methodical way. Jews are always the scapegoat for everything. It’s anti-Semitic AF. It’s Jews at the root of the evil in the world. Not common Jews, but high powered Jews that we’ve probably never heard of. Just remember this and it’ll make sense later.
The share of COVID-19 patients in ICU beds during the Delta surge was similar to last winter’s wave. Hitler Jugend In 1922, the Munich-based Nazi Party established its official youth organisation called Jugendbund der NSDAP.[1] It was announced on 8 March 1922 in the Völkischer Beobachter, and its inaugural meeting took place on 13 May the same year.[2] Another youth group was established in 1922 as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler. Based in Munich, Bavaria, it served to train and recruit future members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the main paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party at that time.[3] Hitler Youth members give the Nazi salute at a rally at the Lustgarten in Berlin, 1933. One reason the Hitler Youth so easily developed was that regimented organizations, often focused on politics, for young people and particularly adolescent boys were a familiar concept to German society in the Weimar Republic. Numerous youth movements existed across Germany prior to and especially after World War I. They were created for various purposes. Some were religious and others were ideological, but the more prominent ones were formed for political reasons, like the Young Conservatives and the Young Protestants.[4] Once Hitler came onto the revolutionary scene, the transition from seemingly innocuous youth movements to political entities focused on Hitler was swift.[5] Following the abortive Beer Hall Putsch (in November 1923), Nazi youth groups ostensibly disbanded, but many elements simply went underground, operating clandestinely in small units under assumed names. In April 1924, the Jugendbund der NSDAP was renamed Großdeutsche Jugendbewegung (Greater German Youth Movement).[1] On 4 July 1926, the Großdeutsche Jugendbewegung was officially renamed Hitler Jugend Bund der deutschen Arbeiterjugend (Hitler Youth League of German Worker Youth). This event took place a year after the Nazi Party was reorganized. The architect of the reorganization was Kurt Gruber, a law student from Plauen in Saxony.[6]
After a short power struggle with a rival organization—Gerhard Roßbach‘s Schilljugend—Gruber prevailed and his “Greater German Youth Movement” became the Nazi Party’s official youth organization. In July 1926, it was renamed Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend (“Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth”) and, for the first time, it officially became an integral part of the SA. The name Hitler-Jugend was taken up on the suggestion of Hans Severus Ziegler.[7] By 1930, the Hitlerjugend (HJ) had enlisted over 25,000 boys aged 14 and upward.[8][a] They also set up a junior branch, the Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ), for boys aged 10 to 14. Girls from 10 to 18 were given their own parallel organisation, the League of German Girls (BDM).[10][11]
In April 1932, ChancellorHeinrich Brüning banned the Hitler Youth movement in an attempt to stop widespread political violence. But in June, Brüning’s successor as Chancellor, Franz von Papen, lifted the ban as a way of appeasing Hitler, the rapidly ascending political star. A further significant expansion drive started in 1933, after Baldur von Schirach was appointed by Hitler as the first Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader).[12] All youth organizations were brought under Schirach’s control. The kids had to sing the jugend song. And if they weren’t blonde blue eyed it was you were automatically sent off to the gas chamber or a prison camp. [3][13]
Do you know who carried out Hitler’s orders? Doctors. Not soldiers. Doctors. That trial led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code. Which became the foundation of modern medical ethics which has seemingly been forgotten when it comes to the COVID vaccines.
In your opinion, what is the most important thing about life? 1 John 5:19 Knowing your creator Understanding that our soul is eternal. Know your exit strategy. Other than that, know that God has got this!!
Love Empathy Gratitude Humility. Knowing that someone gave me life enjoying natural beauty The people you hold close to your heart. Even those we have lost Being Christ-like to others
Making your own choices and learning from them.
Who Runs The World:: You and your perception
Members of: Bilderberg Group Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations To name a few : Our collective mistakes run the world. We’ve been usurped and have surrendered our power to Luciferians No one. We run our own lives. And that’s how it should be. The Khazarian Mafia. Club of Rome…Vatican creeps It’s deep and hundreds if not thousands of years old. Illuminati | Freemasons | Technocracy
Single biggest threat to humanity #GatesOfHell God runs the world in the same way a parent watches a child learning how to walk. The parent rarely intervenes (although they could at any moment) because otherwise the child will never learn. The only time the parent gets involved is if irreparable harm will incur. The billionaire class. Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Gates, Soros, Blackrock, Bilderberg etc… Billionaires, Central Banks, The Bilderberg Group, The Bohemian Grove folks…and probably 2-3 far more secret groups we’ve not yet learned about.
Whoever it is, we’re an imprisoned planet, the leader can only be evil. I would suggest that very few know. However, I would also suggest it’s someone ( something) far more complex than we can imagine. Whatever and whoever has the ability to control all world powers and influence every aspect of their decision making process. Very concerning ! A man living in a remote small shack who can only be reached with a key to an improbability field.
Banks run the world. Redshield is at the top of the pyramid. They’re the all seeing eye. You’re so wrong, Vanguard and Blackrock, both owned by the Rothschilds. The who, funded by the Rockefellers and Gates.
Central Banks And The Cabal
Rothschild family – Wikipedia I’m a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been. To sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen
The devil has had great influence during this age. Rothschild and the Bilderberg group
Look who owns everything and you will find the answer…Blackstock is one Richest people, families,of the world. They own the shares of the companies that virtually own every other company, that own everything.
13 Families that Secretly Control the World!!! Now for those famous bloodlines who control everything. These guys are so rich and powerful, they make Ambani and Gates look like peasants. Their ideologies and connections aren’t known to the public. Which is why we don’t know much about them. Don’t question yourself if you don’t recognize them – that was their plan throughout.
1. The Astor Bloodline, 2. The Bundy Bloodline, 3. The Collins Bloodline 4. The DuPont Bloodline 5. The Freeman Bloodline 6. The Kennedy Bloodline 7. The Li Bloodline 8. The Onassis Bloodline 9. The Rockefeller Bloodline 10. The Russell Bloodline 11. The Van Duyn Bloodline 12. The Merovingian and 13. The Rothschild Bloodline
These people and families tell governments what to do and implement. Gates, Benzo, Walmart family, Etc, around the world!!!
True or not, the whole concept is a bit unsettling. Just imagine being played around like puppets. What do you feel about the concept of having one government? Have your say in the comments section, Citation – Wikipedia, ageoftruth.dk, realworldorder.net AgeOfTruth.dk morasta.it
A very ancient entity that wants to traverse from his dimension to ours to the 3rd world that we see and hear.. these guys are evil… These entities have been working with highly intelligent individuals to try and make it to our plane of existence….The Media
Members of the People’s Liberation Army in Big Bird in China Communism is a political ideology and a specific branch of socialism. It generally seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production (in some ways, not unlike Doozers). Communism is a political ideology and a specific branch of socialism. It generally seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production (in some ways, not unlike Doozers). Though it has its roots in the writings of Karl Marx, Communism has taken many forms, and is always set up in stark contrast to capitalism. In a Wilkins Coffee commercial, Wilkins, in Soviet Russia, asks for Party Line Coffee.
For as long as activism has existed, environmentalists have rallied around demonstrations, protests, and “raising awareness.” In that tradition, since COP26 began, climate activists have been protesting, arguing that actions taken by world leaders at the summit are not enough.
Last week, Greta Thunberg gave a speech in which she said leadership is not going to come from inside COP26 because all world leaders do is “blah blah blah.” Instead, she said climate leadership would come from activists like her. While passionate, this display of vexation toward COP26, in comparison to past international climate summits, COP26 has been impressively action-oriented and fruitful. In light of this, protests and demands come off as petulant, out of touch, and alarmist.
From the very first Earth Day in 1970, young leaders such as Thunberg have been instrumental in making climate change a mainstream issue, but the time for yelling at politicians and calling for an all-or-nothing approach to climate change is over. The real work now should be pushing for solutions, and this work is held back by the naïve tactics imposed by protesters.
Preventing participants from entering COP26 does not inspire action. At its best, it can raise awareness for a cause. At its worst, it turns would-be allies away and delays the progress protesters so desperately claim to desire. Assuming in good faith that such protests are for the purpose of awareness, it’s important to note that protesting for awareness of climate change in 2021 is nonsensical.
World leaders are well aware that the climate is changing. Instead of vaguely calling for transformative action, climate activists should have clear policy objections.
COP26 comes after a recent iteration of directionless environmental activism: Protesters near London blocked traffic during rush hour to “raise awareness” that climate change is happening. This brand of protesting, in which everyday people who may be sympathetic to the cause are inconvenienced, doesn’t win more support. Instead, the climate movement is seen as hysterical and impractical, rather than a solutions-oriented movement.
These activists aren’t convincing anyone; they’re pissing people off. What’s more is that the activists in question didn’t carry signs or share a cohesive message. If awareness was truly the goal, it would stand to reason that there would be clarity of message — whatever it is we should be aware of. The supposed shock factor of stopping traffic isn’t enough to convince irritated drivers that they should be scared of climate change.
The cherry on top is that this kind of protest is inherently bad for the environment. Stopping traffic means that cars are idling, which results in more carbon emissions than if commuters were able to get home normally. Protesting environmental degradation by increasing emissions or carelessly polluting our environment is truly the height of irony. This isn’t unusual for climate protests either. Protesters have been known to leave their signs behind, littering all in the name of climate change. When the Extinction Rebellion dumped cow manure in front of the White House on Earth Day this year, city employees had to clean up the mess.
One group of protesters certainly cannot fix climate change, nor is anyone expecting them to, but there are more constructive directions in which they could direct their energy. Especially at an event such as COP26, activists should be demonstrating how everyday folks can help our environment in addition to the international talks that are occurring. Planting trees in a local park or cleaning up trash from the sidewalk not only has an immediate effect for the community but shows members of the community that they’re serious about improving the environment rather than just committed to causing a scene.
The goal of climate activists should be to convince the broader public that their solutions are not only the best to tackle the problem but also have secondary benefits for the economy and people’s everyday lives. At COP26, climate activists have a responsibility to be realistic and measured with their demands.
BREAKING: Former FEMA Whistleblower Celeste Solum explains that the Corona PCR “test” is implanting a microchip.
So the Nasopharyngeal Covid19 PCR “tests” were never tested at all. They are implanting chips, inserting Nanobots called Nanites with a bioweapons payload for the brain, while at the same time harvesting DNA. The PCR swab is inserted straight to the Nasopharynx behind the nose and forehead where your eyes are. It’s at the blood brain barrier and next to your pineal gland. I believe they are knocking out people’s senses with these Bioweapons and killing human intuition and your ability to cognitively see what they are doing to us.
They’re knocking out our senses and targeting the brain with Nanites that carry a payload as Celeste spoke about in previous videos.
This is war. Serious warfare. DECLINE THE “TESTS”, REFUSE THE MASKS AND NEVER LET THEM STICK YOU WITH A NEEDLE.
Losing your Independence is like battling Parkinson’s Disease
HER TRAGIC FIRST SYMPTOM STOPPED THE PERFORMER’S CAREER IN ITS TRACKS.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, singer Linda Ronstadt discusses how progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) has forced her to retire and how she has come to accept her diagnosis. Ronstadt shares how the disorder, which was initially diagnosed as Parkinson’s, has caused her to lose motor control of her vocal cords, leading to what would be her last show in 2009. She officially retired from her decades-long singing career four years later. She also talks about how she has learned to accept her diagnosis, her familial connections to the disease, and the ways she copes with its symptoms. “I find creative new ways to do things,” she says in the interview. “Eating is hard … I’ve had to relearn how to eat. You could carve a new brain map if you’re patient and willing to do that, but it’s hard.” Ronstadt is also the focus of a recent CNN Films documentary, “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice”, that reflects on her career and journey with PSP. You can watch the full interview and read more here.
A multi-platinum artist and 11-time Grammy Award winner, Linda Ronstadt enjoyed a decades-long musical career beginning in the late ’60s. After first performing with the band Stone Ponies, she later launched a solo career with her breakout album, Heart Like a Wheel. Ronstadt became well-known for hits like “When Will I Be Loved” and “You’re No Good,” seamlessly straddling a range of genres including classic rock and country. The “Blue Bayou” singer announced her retirement from music in 2011, and in 2013, she shared the reason why: she had developed a rare brain disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). A form of Parkinsonism that is distinct from Parkinson’s itself, PSP is a motor disorder that causes problems with walking, balance, eye movements, swallowing, and fine motor coordination. Read on to learn the first symptoms that alerted Ronstadt to a problem, and to learn more about this rare condition.
Ronstadt says her first symptom was a sudden inability to sing. Ronstadt said that when her first symptom—a sudden inability to sing—appeared in 2000, her “entire career flashed” before her eyes. “I remembered every show I’d ever done,” she said. Indeed, the first sign that her health was failing did go on to end her storied career. In a 2020 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the singer recalled the moment she suspected she was sick: “I couldn’t hear the top end of my voice. I couldn’t hear the part that I used to get in tune,” she told Cooper. “My throat would clutch up. It would just be like I had a cramp or something.” Looking back on the “five or six years” immediately following her first symptoms, she says she continued to appear on stage, relying heavily on her bands and backup singers to disguise the problem. “I didn’t know why I couldn’t sing — all I knew was that it was muscular, or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson’s disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can’t sing a note,” she told AARP. RELATED: This Was the First Sign of Parkinson’s Alan Alda Noticed.
She was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Though she would later be diagnosed with PSP, Ronstadt was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Both assessments came as a surprise. “I was expecting [the doctor] was going to say I had a pinched nerve and they could fix it. And he said, ‘Well, I think you might have Parkinson’s disease,’ and I was totally shocked. It took him about a year after that to come to the diagnosis and then took a little bit longer to come to supranuclear palsy,” Ronstadt told CNN. Unfortunately, while some Parkinson’s patients respond well to certain medications and therapies, Ronstadt says PSP has no such courses of treatment. “I have a form of Parkinsonism that doesn’t respond to standard Parkinson’s meds, so there’s no treatment for what I have,” she explained to AARP.
She lived with symptoms for years before seeing a doctor.
Ronstadt says that her rare diagnosis is an everyday struggle.
“Everything becomes a challenge. Brushing your teeth, taking a shower,” she shared with CNN. “Eating is hard … I’ve had to relearn how to eat,” she added. However, she says she’s continually adapting to her new circumstances. “I find creative new ways to do things. I’m like a toddler,” Ronstadt said. When asked by Cooper what advice she would give to others facing Parkinson’s or a similar diagnosis, Ronstadt didn’t miss a beat. “Acceptance,” she said. RELATED: If You Notice This in the Morning, It May Be an Early Sign of Parkinson’s. About one third of people with Parkinson’s disease experience freezing episodes. Freezing episodes are sudden, short, transient blocks of movement that occur primarily with initiating walking, turning, navigating through narrow spaces or approaching obstacles. Freezing can last just a few seconds or up to several minutes. Freezing can limit household and community mobility, increase risk of falling and contribute to reduced socialization and quality of life.
Ten Tips to put the Freeze on Freezing! 1. Try another movement – raise an arm, touch your head, point to the ceiling; then re-start 2. Change direction: if you can’t move forward, try stepping sideways and then go forward 3. Carry a laser pointer in your pocket; when you freeze – shine the laser in front of your foot and step on the light – this cue can help you re-start. 4. Visualize an object on the ground in front of you and try to step over it. 5. Wear a metronome on your belt or carry a small one in your pocket – turn it on and the external beat can help you re-start. 6. Try humming a song and time your re-start with the beat of the music 7. Count “1-2-3-go” and then step forward 8. Weight shift side to side to help initiate taking a step 9. March in place a few times and then step forward 10. Don’t fight the freeze by trying harder to step forward – shift your attention from moving the legs to moving the arms – then resume walking forward.
When low income and middle class workers lose their jobs because of corporate tax hikes, will Democrats blame that on Trump too? If corporations leave the United States and that tax revenue drops significantly, They say it’s free!?!? Does that mean that it’s all still free?
This is Real 12-Year-Old Girl Fighting for Her Life in ICU after Heart Problems Caused by the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine https://shar.es/aWJJ1B via @grtvnews
To the left the only science that matters is the science that matches their narratives. But this is a promising sign. It’s hard to find real scientists that are not tainted to come up with a desired outcome. (It’s estimated what data reported to VAERS is only 1% of real world data, so the REAL numbers can be multiplied by 100x estimate.) VAERS: 160,000+ Americans Have Likely Died From COVID-19 Injections VAERS Summary for COVID-19 Vaccines through 10/1/2021 – VAERS Analysis
The FDA has been assuming that nearly all of the adverse events reported in VAERS have been due to “over-reporting” of “background events.” In short, there is nothing to see here: it’s all noise. This video proves that that assertion is impossible. TFNT11: The FDA’s BIG mistake (rumble.com) 860,000+ infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach they call Focused Protection. Great Barrington Declaration (gb declaration.org)
Everybody should watch every single minute of this and share/repost! (especially beginning around the 27th minute…) 2030 UnMasked Documentary – YouTube
I will just leave this here. Do your research without google for the truth. Now there’s pre-clinical studies suggesting the lipid nanoparticles actually go right into the heart. The heart expresses the spike protein and the body attacks the heart. Curious….has anyone ever seen what happens when you put grains of rice on a speaker and crank up the bass? Like if you attended a concert in say…Texas, with heavy bass and nanoparticles collected in your heart…might that induce a heart attack?
Without the will overflowing among the people to do that. This will continue until you no longer have a business. You no longer have a job. We no longer have a country.
Lobbyists and no term limits are the 2 big issues…. That or some kind of balanced budget amendment. There’s got to be a forcing of the hand. And it’s not going to come from them. Ever
On December 21, 2020 Saturn and Jupiter aligned into a beautiful bright star.
That was the first time they aligned like this since the Middle Ages. According to Forbes, the two planets will look like a “double planet” and provide an extraordinary amount of light. The last time these two planets aligned like this was on March 4, 1226, according to astronomer Patrick Hartigan at Rice University. “Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so, but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how close the planets will appear to be to one another. You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky,” Hartigan said in a statement.
The spectacular sighting will be viewable from anywhere on earth. “The planets will appear low in the western sky for about an hour after sunset as viewed from the northern hemisphere, and though they’ll be closest on December 21, you can look each evening that week. Although the sight will be sinking towards the horizon, it will be bright enough to be viewed at twilight. All you need is an unobstructed view to the southwest, and to look to the southwest from about 45 minutes after sunset where you are,” Forbes states. To catch it in the night sky, you’ll need a regular telescope at a minimum. But for a brighter view, an astronomer’s telescope or a university telescope feed would work better. Alignments like these, called “conjunctions” are not necessarily rare, but some of them are impossibly rare or only come around once in hundreds of years. Astronomers speculate that the Star of David written off in Matthew was an exceptionally rare triple conjunction between Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. One such astronomer was Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
The recent Jupiter Saturn conjunction on December 21, 2020, in Aquarius has stirred the question-
Are we in the Age of Aquarius?
Well, that depends on who you ask, as there is much debate over when the Age of Aquarius begins or if it has already started.
For those that believe it has already started, January 13, 1996, December 21, 2012, and December 21, 2020, are all dates that I have seen mentioned.
For those that believe it is yet to start, it’s looking like March 20, 2597, which is still centuries away.
So, who is right? How do we know?
Let’s first take a look at how Ages are commonly determined.
The Astrological Ages: Every year around March 20-21, we experience the Equinox, a time of equal hours of night and day. The constellation the Sun is in at the time of the March Equinox is said to determine the Age we are in, with each Age lasting about 2,160 years. Now, before we go any further, it is important to clarify that Western Astrology determines that the March Equinox is the start of the Aries Season. This is how western Astrology birth charts and horoscopes are calculated. They are fixed, making the start of the Aries Season always at the March Equinox.
But, if we are actually looking at where the Sun is based on the constellations (not western zodiacs), we would see that the Sun currently sits in the sign of Pisces at the time of the March Equinox. This method of calculation, which is based on astronomy, would currently put us in the Age of Pisces. The Sun’s position at the Equinox is slowly shifting and when it reaches the sign of Aquarius, that is when some believe we will be in the Age of Aquarius.
Using the current mapping of the constellations by astronomers, this would put the start of the Age of Aquarius in the year 2597. However, here is where it gets complicated and a little confusing. Astrology and astronomy are not always aligned. The constellations are also not all the same size, so not all Ages would neatly fit into the 2,160-year cycle mapped out by the ancients.
Rather than looking to astronomy, some astrologers prefer to use different methods, including the tracking of certain stars and planets, to determine the Ages. These calculations show that we are either very close to or already in the Age of Aquarius. As there is no definitive date that the Age of Aquarius begins, the only tool we have to go on is our intuition and looking to the themes of the Age of Aquarius vs. The Age of Pisces.
The Age of Pisces!!! This 2,160 year period is considered a time of alchemy, where we are realizing our potential to create. The narrative- if you can dream it, you can do it, is very much connected to the Age of Pisces. During this time, we have used the resources of the Earth and our imaginations to build and create all sorts of things. The Age of Pisces is strongly connected to our beliefs. All of the major organized religions of the world were founded under the Age of Pisces. Religion has helped to create a sense of belonging, faith, and spiritual understanding, but it has also created severe division, hatred, and manipulation.
Pisces is represented by two fish swimming in opposite directions. These fish are said to represent the duality in the Oneness. During the Age of Pisces, our attention has very much been drawn to the duality of life. While there has been some recognition of Oneness, there have also been many lost in the idea of duality- good and evil, wrong or right. These have all been measures we have used to govern and run society and most religions. Under the Age of Pisces, where our beliefs are strong, we can become more susceptible to brainwashing, fear-mongering, and manipulation. These are all things we have seen being used against us by society, governments, the media, and so on.
Before the Age of Pisces, we would have been in the Age of Aries, a time of independence and fighting for what we believe in. The Age of Pisces has perhaps allowed us to realize a greater love, to be more compassionate, to attune to the spiritual sides of life, and to realize there is more to life than we can truly understand. Hopefully, when the Age of Pisces does end, we would have all learned that our imagination is limitless, that duality is real but also an illusion, and that love and compassion make for a better world.
The Age of Aquarius: During this period, we move out of the idea of religion into a more open understanding of spirituality. Rather than looking to a spiritual leader, we instead look within to our own inner guidance. We are also less likely to search for spiritual understanding and more likely to trust science and technology. Robots, artificial intelligence, and microchips are all things associated with the Age of Aquarius. This is truly the digital age, and a time to advance our skills and knowledge using technology.
Along with being a time of rapid technological developments, the Age of Aquarius is also a time of community. Rather than looking to “big things out there” for guidance and support, there is a shift in creating the resources and support that is needed on a more accessible, community-based level. Aquarian energy is all about humanitarian efforts, so a greater push in this direction is expected. While the Age of Pisces taught us love and compassion, the Age of Aquarius will help us to put those emotions into practical action.
Aquarian energy is very much centered around what is good for the collective and the whole, rather than the individual. It allows us to see that none of us are really thriving until all of us are thriving. Under this energy, we may have to be mindful of getting sucked into a “group-think” mentality or overly compromising our own thoughts and beliefs for the sake of the greater good. As you can see, both Ages have their light and their dark to work with. After the Age of Aquarius, we will move into the Age of Capricorn, traveling backward through the zodiac until we return to Aries. At this point, we would have completed what’s known as the Great Year.
At the end of the day, does it really matter which Age we are in? Each Age comes with its own benefits and downsides. Each Age has something to teach and show us. Each Age is important for our growth and evolution here on the planet. Perhaps the starting of a new Age is not something that can be defined by one particular date. Perhaps it is a slow transition or build into the Age. Perhaps there are many markers along the way that help us to transition and slowly integrate into the new energies that await us.
Or perhaps, on an even deeper level, the astrological Age we are in is all about our state of mind. Maybe on a psychic level, it is only when we are “ready” that the Age will begin. I personally feel we are in a transition period, ebbing and flowing between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius. I don’t know when we will officially root ourselves in the Age of Aquarius, but maybe that is not important for where we are going.
What exactly is the ‘deep state,’ and is it even real? Amrita Khalid is a technology and politics reporter who specializes in breaking down complex issues into practical, useful terms. A former contributor to CQ, a Congressional news and analysis site, she’s currently a master’s candidate in international relations at the University of Leeds. Who Is Deep State and is the worst kept secret government operation in Washington. Fox News host Sean Hannity grimly warned of an “unelected fourth branch of government” leaking secrets to the media in a massive effort to undermine the Trump presidency. White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon vowed to destroy the “administrative state,” and his former news outlet, Breitbart blamed the firing of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn on the deep state. Trump confidants and advisors such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Dennis Kucinich, Corey Lewandowski, and Roger Stone have all insisted that the deep state exists and is at war with President Donald Trump. InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones aired multiple segments linking the deep state to everything from White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s resignation to Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russian lawyer. Reports have surfaced detailing that the Trump administration is considering a global network of private spies to counter supposed deep state enemies. The so-called “deep state,” sometimes also known as “shadow government,” is often used to describe the bureaucracies of the military and spy agencies and their top secret inner-workings. The roots of the deep state’s creation date back to the end of World War II and the expansion of what President Dwight Eisenhower deemed the “military-industrial complex.” Former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren is the author of Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of Shadow Government and offered up the following definition of the deep state on Bill Moyers. “(The Deep State) is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street.” Lofgren also includes FISA courts and powerful federal courts such as the Eastern District of Virginia, which has issued subpoenas to Trump associates Paul Manafort and Flynn in connection with the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, and the Southern District of Manhattan, which has the ability to investigate Trump’s numerous conflicts of interests on Wall Street and once included ousted federal prosecutor Preet Bharara.
The deep state as understood by Lofgren and other national security experts appears to be on an entirely different planet than the conspiratorial deep state of Breitbart and Alex Jones lore. “When I wrote the Deep State I began to realize from all these interpretations that when you create a concept and send it out into the world it’s like sending a virus out,” Lofgren said at a panel before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in June. “It infects other people. It mutates, and it comes back unrecognizable.” Lofgren dismissed outside interpretations of the deep state by various conservative media icons, including a scenario posed by Pat Buchanan in which pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions of the federal government are at war with each other. The actual deep state is far more banal, Lofgren argues. Far from being a secret “conspiratorial cabal,” the real deep state, he argues, operates in broad daylight, in the form of thousands of government workers going about their daily duty, and has done so far before Trump ever stepped foot into office. Breitbart’s definition of deep state encompasses not just an identity but any behavior that can be considered “anti-Trump,” especially leaks, and includes the mainstream media and other factions of the federal government, such as EPA employees who have refused to comply with Trump’s orders.
One Breitbart headline from May trumpeted, “Jack Welch urges Trump to go to war against the Deep State.” It was an overly generous interpretation of comments made by the former CEO of General Electric in a CNBC interview, in which Welch criticized Trump’s management of the bureaucracy and firing of James Comey.
From Breitbart: The term “deep state” has been used to refer to deliberate leaks designed to undermine the president, but also to the willing collusion of elements of the mainstream media, the latent distrust and suspected opposition of elements of the intelligence services, but also the willing resistance of certain career civil servants in the agencies charged with carrying President Trump’s directions to fruition.
Trump and the deep state: One could argue that if any American president had a reason to fear backlash from the top-secret factions of his government, it’s Trump. His distrust of the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies is unique among American presidents. He likened intelligence officials to Nazis and dismissed the FBI investigation into his campaign’s Russian ties as a “witch hunt.”
The president’s stormy relationship with the intelligence community came to a boiling point after the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Former CIA case officer and executive director for Council for the National Interest Phil Giraldi maintains there is some truth to a partisan faction within the deep state. “I think when we talk about the intelligence community, it’s important to analyze what that means,” Giraldi said in an interview with the Tom Woods Show podcast. “The intelligence community is basically 20,000 people like me who are essentially in a certain circumstance where they perform a job of a certain type, and they do their jobs. And they’re loyal to whatever government is in place. But at the top of these organizations, you have people that are heavily politicized. And I would say, ‘Where is the deep state?’ or ‘Where is the establishment?” in the intelligence community, it’s these guys at the top. These guys were particularly miffed by Trump’s comments, plus these guys lost their status when Trump was elected. So they have an agenda.”
Deep state terminology: Jason Royce Lindsey, the author of The Concealment of the State, told the Daily Dot via email that study of deep state terminology has its roots in authoritarian regimes like Egypt and Turkey, where the military-security component is strong. Politicians exist in the “shallow state” and military and security services exist in the “deep state” and are less apparent to the general public. According to Lindsey, the embrace of the deep state concept by Trump supporters gives them someone to blame for the administration’s setbacks. “The narrative that someone inside the government is to blame is a false one,” Lindsey wrote,“but an easier explanation than laying out the real political complexity of the United States at this time and explaining how the various parts of government have to reach some consensus for actual legislation to happen.”
The numerous definitions of deep state and concept’s enthusiastic embrace by pro-Trump conspiracy theorists make its serious discussion almost impossible. Other experts dismiss the idea of a deep state altogether.
The Daily Dot reached out to Pulitzer Prize-winning national security historian Tim Weiner to ask him to define what he understood a deep state to mean. “There is no Deep State,” he wrote to the Daily Dot in a Facebook message.
When asked to explain the many Trump supporters who are convinced of the deep state’s plans to overthrow Trump, Weiner had a one-line response: “They are deluded.”
YES PEOPLE WE HAVE A FKN ‘PEDO’ SITTING IN PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CHAIR DESTROYING AMERICA WHILE MAKING THE DEEP STATE WEALTHIER AND MORE POWERFUL… LAST NIGHT THE DEVIL STROKE 13 TIMES AS 13 REPUBLICANS BETRAYED US AND AMERICA…WE CAN ONLY TRUST TRUMP..
In February 2020, Trump cabinet member and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, when asked if a deep state working against President Trump exists, stated that it was “absolutely, 100% true”.[28] In an article for The New York Review of Books, Michael Tomasky quoted Newt Gingrich as using the term in the context of the Robert Mueller investigation in July 2018, quoting Gingrich stating: “[Mueller is] … the tip of the deep state spear aimed at destroying or at a minimum undermining and crippling the Trump presidency”.[29] Gingrich then added to the statement that “the brazen redefinition of Mueller’s task tells you how arrogant the deep state is and how confident it is it can get away with anything”.[29] Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, has written: “There’s no secret conspiracy or deep state running U.S. foreign policy; to the extent that there is a bipartisan foreign-policy elite, it is hiding in plain sight.”[30]
The term has also been used in comments on the “deep state”-like influence allegedly wielded by career military officers such as H. R. McMaster, John Kelly and James Mattis in the Trump administration. The anthropologist C. August Elliott described this state of affairs as the emergence of a “shallow state”: “an America where public servants now function as tugboats guiding the President’s very leaky ship through the shallows and away from a potential shipwreck”.[31] On September 5, 2018, The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” written by a “senior official in the Trump Administration”. In the essay, the official was critical of President Trump and claimed “that many of the senior officials in [Trump’s] own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations”.[32]House Minority LeaderKevin McCarthy described this as evidence of the deep state at work,[33] and David Bossie wrote an op-ed at Fox News claiming this was the deep state “working against the will of the American people”.[34] However, there was some doubt as to the actual importance of the anonymous author, with some estimating that hundreds or thousands of possible positions could be considered “senior officials”[35] and the inherent paradox of exposing the existence of such a group.[36]
Fruit of the Holy Spirit: The Fruit of the Holy Spirit is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” The fruit is contrasted with the works of the flesh. Beatitudes, Meekness, Gentleness, Ten Commandments, Forbearance, Self-control & Cardinal Virtues. The Biblical concept of peace, εἰρήνη (eirene) in Greek, is inclusive of life without conflict, as well as wholeness and harmony with God and others.
In Galatians 5:22-23, love is translated from the Greek word ἀγάπη, (agape). The fruit of the spirit bible study. Sleep well tonight knowing that we have a loving God watching over us. These times are difficult but we will overcome them. Biggest step I took was aligning to liberate all of us. http://gpms.world
As a contributor, and public liaison. I have excelled at the process of
slaying the GIANT EGO.
Placed me on the highest timeline and came with a specific upgraded coding system. #higherlove
So many people are awake and see the big picture. In a chaotic life, it’s comforting to connect. It’s a great day to rejoice in the day that the Lord has made!
We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to [b]edification. Romans 15:1-2
“The object of your salvation will lead to your destruction” was evidently correct. From my understanding is that we have already created this. If things are done unnaturally, the device can and will lead to our destruction.
Read this: An evil conscience is a guilty conscience. When we feel guilty, we feel shame. When we feel shame, we want to run and hide from God just like Adam and Eve did. God will cleanse us from the guilt and wash our bodies with pure water. https://365promises.com
We’ll reduce the carbon footprint when LA Palma volcano stops spewing Sulfur Dioxide,
A lot of trees and vegetation can survive fire, some need it to live – the plants will soon grow back. That’s true of most pine trees: their seeds are serotinous, and fire bursts the cones and scatters those seeds. A volcanic eruption began Sunday afternoon on September 19th on Cumbre Vieja de La Palma, in the Las Manchas area, after thousands of earthquakes have been registered in the area in recent days, where a huge column of volcanic materials can be seen. LIVE: La Palma Volcanic Eruption, Ocean Entry (Feed #3) – YouTube
La Palma volcano has 2 main & 2 other vents (ash plumes, lava fountains ~500 m high, lava flow).
Cone 200 m tall. VEI explosivity 2. Lava flows through tubes & on the surface. Lava flows into the sea 6 km away. Footage of the 1971 La Palma eruption looks just like the 2021 eruption. Look at the Cinder Cone of the 1971 eruption, it has young Canarian Pine growing on itLa Palma weathered that one and is still here 50 years later. 3 active vents (out of 8) Footage of the 1971 La Palma eruption looks just like the 2021 eruption. La Palma weathered that one and is still here 50 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-89…
I was raised out of a garden and on pinto beans and cornbread! I am a strong healthy mountain girl with a solid immune system. That’s how we roll. We are not afraid to live! Beans, cornbread and running in the woods barefoot S.W. Va mountains. You know not what you speak of! Educate yourself then come back. In Texas 16% of my county has had covid & some of that is reinfections. 84% have NOT had covid. Our vaccination rate is 42%. I’m not a mathematician, but I’m thinking MOST of us haven’t had covid or any vaccine. Our schools have been open & we’re living our regular lives. I live in TN and literally do not know a single person who has gotten covid. On the other hand, my family lives in the locked down NY and all of them except my Mom have gotten it. Lockdowns/mandates do not work. #SouthernRocks
Everyone is now getting sick in the rest of the states… Difference is we didn’t give up our freedom to opt for the vaccine and get sick anyway.
Biden captured 2,286,406 votes to Trump’s 1,896,101 and Jorgensen’s 62,220.
IMO, CONGRESS ARE TRAITORS TO AMERICA. THEY HAVE NOT DONE ONE THING TO MAKE THIS CONSTUTUTIONAL REPUBLIC BETTER. ALL THEY DO IS PROMOTE THE N.W.O. AND DESTROY AMERICA. Granholm for laughing at high oil prices https://youtu.be/FbNT01-ORnU via @YouTube I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I HAVE HAD ENOUGH….
You allowed it when there was no vaccine and now you wish to deprive them of income? A group who are , collectively, far , far , far more familiar with the consequences than the majority! I mean sure, it is your right to ask questions and determine if you wish to accept help from the hospital or not. Are you afraid of C? I imagine you are double vaccinated. Let it go. Remind yourself of your decision to protect society, and love yourself for doing so. That’s your fault for blindly getting vaccinated because they said “we ought to”
Pa·tri·ot: a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors ƒυ¢к уσυя ƒαкє є.σ. It’s us against them. Stop letting them divide us,
Exactly right, they weaponized the EPA, just like they did OSHA.
I’ve believed this all along. Communist Manifesto.
Inflation = Higher taxes
States with the highest COVID death rates during the Delta wave (updated through Nov. 4). This tragic list is dominated by states where Republican politicians have pandered to right-wing resistance to vaccination and masking requirements at the expense of their constituents.
States in the north tend to get a surge of cases in the colder months and states in the south tend to get surges in the warmer months. This has to do with more people staying indoors because of the harsh climate. Very little to do with politics.
The map above shows the county level and vote share results of the 2020 US Presidential Election. The darker the blue the more a county went for Biden and the darker the red the more the county went for Donald Trump. You can see how it compares to the 2016 map here.
While overall the map doesn’t look too dissimilar from 2016, the results in many ways couldn’t be more different. First and foremost Biden won whereas Clinton lost. Moreover, as of December 2nd, 2020 Biden had received 15 million more votes than Clinton and 18 million more votes than Trump did in 2016. However, Trump also did better in 2020 than 2016 winning 11 million more votes than he did 4 years earlier, and 8 million more than Clinton did that year. The difference of course is primarily down to the enormous increase in voter turnout 66.9% in 2020 vs just 55.7% in 2016. This means Biden won 306 electoral college votes compared to 232 for Trump, an almost complete switch from 2016 where he won 304 electoral college votes to 227 for Clinton (there were 7 faithless electors in 2016). However, in terms of geography the pattern from 2016 largely remained the same. Biden won the majority of the people, Trump won the majority of the land. According to NPR: “In 2020, just 77 counties total have flipped so far, and Biden won 59 of them.” And according to the Brookings Institute: “Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.” Overall, at the time of writing Biden has won 477 counties, Trump has won 2,497 counties with 110 still outstanding. This means Biden will have won the presidency with the fewest counties (Obama won 689 in 2012), but also the largest number of votes in history. This is part of a long-term trend where the Democrats are more and more concentrated geographically. This would not be a problem for them if the presidency were decided by popular vote. But the Electoral College favor small states at the expense of big ones, which means they are facing an increasingly difficult structural challenge. This is a problem both for presidential elections and for hopes of regaining control in the Senate. If you enjoyed this map you may also be interested in: If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2020 US Presidential Election Fact check: 6 of Aaron Rodgers’ false and misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccine (msn.com) Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial | The BMJ Doesn’t your vaccine work? Or are you just shitty you got your arm twisted while others stood their ground. The shots don’t work you fool. Don’t blame others for your own missteps. We tried to tell you. And you were thanking them for all their hard work and commitment last year… sheep.
You allowed it when there was no vaccine and now you wish to deprive them of income? A group who are , collectively, far , far , far more familiar with the consequences than the majority! I mean sure, it is your right to ask questions and determine if you wish to accept help from the hospital or not. Are you afraid of C? I imagine you are double vaccinated. Let it go. Remind yourself of your decision to protect society, and love yourself for doing so. That’s your fault for blindly getting vaccinated because they said “we ought to” Learn next time perhaps. The Left Will Not Admit It To Save Face: Trump Nearing the Crossroads – VDH’s Blade of Perseus (victorhanson.com)
ƒυ¢к уσυя ƒαкє є.σ. It’s us against them. Stop letting them divide us,
We live in a time when voices are silenced and critical thinking is persecuted.
A father of 4 was murdered by one of those illegals he dropped off in Florida.
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You got that right! The Biden Regime is perpetuating the…
“Xi Jinping-Fauci” Virus
2 million unvaccinated, untested and unmonitored illegals spread all over America. That is an invasion. I think everyone should do what Florida is doing by impounding the busses and planes that are transporting them into their state. Covid-19 is not the only thing they’ve brought and still bringing, they’ve already brought measles and Haitians brought Aids. Our country is gong through an extermination brought on by the Democrats.
Now if you have a job and are not vaccinated by January 4th you will be forced to get a vaccine or Have to be tested every 3rd week as they shove that long QT up your nose that broke many noses w nose bleeds! And You still Resist Fined $14,000 to go to the illegals so says Tyrant Joe!!!
Illegals. They know Americans have money, and they want it now. Obviously, this is NOT about health. Think and educate yourself. The leftist government’s actions @cdc@JoeBiden make no sense. #DoNotComply “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” Thomas Paine
The Biden administration is giving it to them. And I mean all of it! Socialism. Being woke isn’t the same as “changing his mind”… How do people stick up for this corrupt moron? Are you still stuck in the media’s brainwashing cycle over Trump and somehow believe that this corrupt lying arrogant dementia patient is good for America?
The only people spreading Covid-19 right now is the Biden Adm. flying untested illegals all over the country and dropping them in our communities.
That’s how the delta variant lit up the south this summer. Very sad, so many sick. Ever think the vax is the spreader & blaming unvaxxed is their way to cover up their major screw up. Look up the numbers overseas most deaths are vaxxed. You do realize that we’re paying for this regime to fly in enemy combatants from Afghanistan and Africa … Right?
Thousands, every day! This is not going to end well.
No worries about that. There is no covid-19. But fake numbers do exist. They know this! That’s why they tell you to mask up and stay apart while they’ve been doing the total opposite of cam the whole time. Covid-19 is just a name for the regular flu.
The Yellow Star Holocaust: Only Hindsight is 20/20 so to speak in absolutes makes you a sigh. It’s ok to question anything and everything. That’s why I have hesitation about this vaccine. To force people to a jab that has possibly worse consequences than covid-19 is terrible & to treat them like they’re dirty because they have hesitation is much akin to 1930s Germany. For those who don’t know their history: Before the Holocaust Jews were marked with stars and not allowed in places because of “health concerns.” Before the Holocaust Jews were marked with stars and not allowed in places because of “health concerns”
The Gold Star Before The Holocaust. At this point, the American people simply pay taxes to fund foreign governments and cash payments to illegal aliens. The Democrat agenda isn’t even “America Last”, it is quite literally “Screw America”. Lauren Boebert
W£ R TH£ SHIT STORM! I’ve never been bullied in my life. Bullies go after the weak. Don’t be weak. Teach your kids to be tough & to love & respect themselves. This is important. I realize it’s easier said than done, but if you drill it into their heads from day one, they won’t ever be a victim
BIPARTISAN BILL WILL PASS—RECONCILIATION WON’T [The Progressives Flail Wildly After Nancy Pelosi Signals She’s Ready to Cave to Joe Manchin] “…[Pelosi] ready to cave, allowing the infrastructure bill to be passed before any vote on reconciliation.”
The so-called $1.2T “infrastructure” bill is hardly that, and it has a lot of rubbish in it. But it WEAKENS the wasteful reconciliation bill (touted as costing $1.8T but would really cost $4T) that would DESTROY the US.
Let’s hope this prediction’s right.
GOP YES votes: Katko, Bacon, Van Drew, Young, Upton, Kinzinger, Gonzalez, Fitzpatrick, Reed, Gabarino, Malliotakis, McKinley, and Smith of New Jersey, Dem NO votes: AOC, Omar, Bush, Bowman, Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib https://twitter.com/i/events/14433
They were just threatening, trying to bully and scare nurses & doctors to get the jab. They knew they couldn’t actually fire 20,000 workers. It was a psy-op. You can never trust them.
They lie as a policy, as a trick, as a strategy.
The health fascists blinked.
Are we starting to think real, meaningful “confrontations” between American Citizens and their so-called ” Leaders/Govt” are on the table ? I would say, its >thisclose<.. I’m old enough to remember when President Biden, Dr. Fauci and CDC Director Walensky said there wouldn’t be vaccine mandates. “No, I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory,” Biden said of vaccines at a press conference in Delaware Dec 2020.
I mean sure, it is your right to ask questions and determine if you wish to accept help from the hospital or not. Are you afraid of C? I imagine you are double vaccinated. Let it go. Remind yourself of your decision to protect society, and love yourself for doing so. Lesson learned.
Don’t do things to please others. What’s the difference ?
Well you’ll do a great job of increasing your chance of catching Covid then.
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If you are vaccinated why are you worried? Vaccination doesn’t stop transmission.
This is a best way to be drawn-in the vaccinated sociopath crowd.
Why should a nurse get the vaccine if they can prove natural immunity.
So what’s your thoughts on proven natural immunity?
How does it feel to have lost your senses? You’ve got much less chance of catching it from an unvaccinated person.
Leaders are supposed to lead by example. So what do our leaders do? They exempt themselves from mandates – so we should follow their lead and exempt ourselves. They ignore laws they don’t like (like immigration) – so we should follow their lead and ignore laws we don’t like.
They finally realize the jabs are and do not work
better to wake up late than never. If you get a stroke and need an emergency surgery, let me know if your doctor is vaccinated or not. Ok, pourquoi? Et bonne chance dans ta démarche de champion! Désolé pour le réveil plutôt brutal, et oui, tu t’es fait fourrér par le gouvernement…sorry! ( we can’t do this in english as well but you seem to think not a single Québecois is commenting on this? I’m glad to prove you wrong)
I thought you were vaccinated? And by the way, a little birdie told me the vaccinations transmit the virus also. Pass it on. No one is “vaccinated”. Those jabs are “flu” shots at best, with worse side effects and unknown mysterious long term consequences. You did not “protect” anybody. YOu took the “jab” because they coerced you and threatened you. Not because the “jab” would help you or anybody else. Because : it does not. If you’re vaccinated what does it matter? Your vaccine supposedly is made to protect you.
Do you doubt the vaccine’s effectiveness?
Vax mandate delay to 1/4/22 under 2day’s ETS isn’t generosity. 1/4 is 59 days from ETS publishing to Federal Register/FR (technically ETS publishes 11/5). Lawsuits against ETS have 2B filed 60 days from ETS publishing 2 FR. Biden’s forcing you 2 to sue over the Holidays. Merry Xmas
Gates was talking about a possible Smallpox outbreak coming in the near future. Either he will be releasing it or he knows that the Illegals are bringing it. Why would you destroy an airline for a “vax” that does not work, does not stop the spread and may kill you? You have the lucrative opportunity to STOP TYRANNY & be the hero of personal freedom! But NOT dropping them into Sanctuary cities. Go figure.
Thanks to the people who participated in this first ever human experiment with a mRNA gene-therapy, fooled into thinking it was a “vaccine” for a phony “pandemic” allegedly caused by the never-isolated “COVID-19,” we now know the following based on fact-based, post-vaccine research: 1.) It’s not a vaccine. The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine does not provide immunity to Covid or it’s variants so you can still catch Covid and transmit it to others making you asymptomatic. You will likely need a booster shot every 6 months, so get ready to roll up that sleeve every six months once that system rolls out. [link to www.bustle.com] 2.) The 95% efficacy is the RRR (Relative Reduction Risk) where the real reduction rate ARR (Absolute Reduction Risk) is less than 2% as per this scientific Lancet study. [link to www.thelancet.com] This means you are really not protected much at all, as the architects of this phony pandemic would like you to ‘believe.’ 3.) The lipid nanoparticles in the vaccines do not remain in the intramuscular region of the deltoid muscle. They seep out into the cardiovascular system infecting the entire body with spike-protein. Something the manufacturers claimed would never happen, yet it does and is why the adverse-side effects are so bad with this shot. [link to www.sciencedirect.com] 4.) The spike-protein itself is toxic and a part of the disease pathology being the cause of inflammation, ACE2 deregulation and opens up immunity pathways. This means Myocarditis (heart inflammation), Encephalitis (brain inflammation ) and hepatomegaly (liver inflammation) are huge risks and confirmed by many adverse-reactions reported to VAERS and EuroVigilance.
This means the spike-protein itself is enough to damage the cardiovascular system and organs, some of which can have harmful events in the future and is like injecting someone with Covid-19 damaging the inside of the body rather than the lungs. 5.) The synthetic spike-protein itself has coding errors and a 5 GxxxG motif placing it in the category of a prion which could pose a long-term risk of neural degenerative diseases.
6.) The lipid nanoparticles after injection bulk in Ovaries in women followed by bone-marrow. Dr. Robert Malone the inventor of mRNA covers these findings in lay terms for stupid people who can’t process scientific data easily. [link to www.bitchute.com]
Hal Turner Editorial Opinion If it wasn’t for the gullible and naïve idiots who jumped on an experimental gene-therapy shot which skipped any real, meaningful, trials that would have presented the above findings, we now have this data and evidence from the human lab-rats running around gleefully and ignorantly celebrating their Eugenics shot, completely blind to the short-term and long term consequences that this data all points to: MOST of them will die from one or more of the conditions outlined in the reports above, and MOST of those deaths will take place by the year 2025.
Enjoy your harmful spike-protein that you will never get out of your body, and the neural degenerative, long-term risks, which ultimately could lead to untreatable deadly neurological illnesses as your brain slowly rots and deteriorates from the prion causing misfolded proteins that damage your neurons slowly over time. Your sacrifice for the safety of others, which will likely kill most of you, was based on your ignorance, your failure to research things for yourself, and your willingness to simply accept what other (ignorant) people – like politicians – told you. World population of 500 million coming; just as the Georgia GuideStones suggested, and the psychotic maniacs who believe humans need to be culled from the planet, took literally. How about we blame the real culprits who created this in the first place: Fauci with his gain-of-function research that was banned in the US so he moved it to the lab in Wuhan where this took place. Bill Gates with his depopulation agenda and ties to pedophile Jeffery Epstein. The CDC/WHO/Rockefeller Foundation and John Hopkins, who ran Event 201, Spars, Lockstep, planning all of this for their globalist new world order. Source: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/m ___ https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=174684
Independent Thinker who follows those of sound mind #1A#2A Constitutional Biblical Christian.
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.” -Thomas Paine
The vax is scientifically proven to help…..it’s not debatable. It helps in a few ways for many different types of people. You use science everyday in your life but this you have allowed to become political. Grow up. Never believe the numbers. We’d never know the real numbers because they’ve been lying about them since day one. I’d say all the numbers are half the numbers we are being given. They gotta lie to keep pushing their narrative. Us dead!! We see the same if we compare countries like Germany and India. Covid vaccines are a complete dud for stopping the transmission. The Climate is colder and it’s flu season. Staying vaxed masked and inside weakens your immune system. The vaccine doesn’t work and if it only lessens the flu. Then there’s Thera flu for that will also lessens flu symptoms according to the documents. Oregon is supposedly at 80% vaccinated but yet they have mask mandates indoor and outdoor. Kate Brown is a truly horrible person who isn’t a true Oregonian. Lack of Vitamin D is what is leading to the spike in COVID there. 1/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/ Vaccines weren’t intended to help with Delta and young people are not at risk. That’s because they put their faith in a vaccine that doesn’t work. My wife, daughter and I were all vaccinated. Wife got Covid-19 first, then I and finally our daughter. Nothing mild about it. I was in the hospital for 5 days with covid pneumonia. Still at home recovering. Anonymous. Love Vermont, Morse Farm maple syrup ice cream highlight of a road trip in 2018. On a serious note figures tell you one thing VACCINE is dangerous. Don’t know if you follow the ChemTrail idea but today I have never seen so many in the sky over head. Why is COVID rising in Colorado? Experts aren’t sure. (coloradosun.com)
I don’t want to live comfortably under tyrannical rule. I’d rather die fighting against it. And FJB. Never seen a President so disliked. Election stolen. Commie’s take over.
Probably a tie between the end of the Cold War, 9/11/2001 & Afghanistan. We are in a new revolution on earth, beginning to a realignment in the world and changes to our daily life. I survived the Cuban Missile Crisis!
. Duck and Cover. But the current situation that we’re in, where the freedoms that our parents and grandparents fought for, are in danger of being lost forever unless we push back against them. End of WWII, End of Vietnam War, Stolen Election, A POTUS with Dementia, et al. How about when Obama closed all monuments in DC, I fear the 8 year Presidency of that Con Man Barack Obama may well turn out being much worse if we don’t wake the fuck up ASAP.
Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, and the Brexit vote, same year, both were epic ~ Man landed on the moon & The Mets won the world series IN 1969.
The JFK “assassination.” (It was a friendly fire accident).
“The Day Kennedy Was Shot” by Jim Bishop. Key excerpt: Secret Service Agent Clint Hill called Bobby Kennedy from Parkland Hospital and said, “There has been an accident.” [page 175]. From “The Death of A President” by William Manchester. “What was so terrible was the thought that it had been an accident, a freak, that an inch or two here, a moment or two there would have reversed history.” (page 645) I saw a document where it was a security bloke behind JFK accidentally triggering on being startled by Oswald’s shot.
Is this the same hypothesis? The direction of fire matches that of the Grassy-knoll theory. A passing train set off three railroad torpedoes. The Secret Service perceived them as 3 gunshots. They prepared to return fire, then JFK’s limo braked, causing the follow up car to brake. The bloke fell back and fired 3 rounds on full auto. Oswald was indeed a patsy. Reference: Mortal Error book. Both witnesses and video show everyone running to the grassy knoll after JFK was shot. Railroad tracks run right alongside the motorcade route.
You can clearly see it on Google Earth. Read The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop for the hints of truth. Good books: The Echo from Dealey Plaza, The Last Dissenting Witness, The Dark Side of Camelot, Aftermath of an Execution. Actually, there were three: the assassination of JFK, the 9/11 attacks, and the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington DC.
President Trump at the White House… breaking the entire establishment!!!
Before the last 2 years, I would have said it was close between the Berlin Wall coming down and 9/11. Now I think that COVID and 1/6/21 are going to be far more consequential in the future. I have lived in interesting times and now — I understand why that can be a curse. 9/11 and the 2008 stock market crash. Moon landing, in the grand scheme of things.
After that 9/11 and JFK assassination. America’s Bi-centennial anniversary.
Black Monday is the name commonly given to the global, sudden, severe, and largely unexpected stock market crash on October 19, 1987. In Australia and New Zealand, the day is also referred to as Black Tuesday because of the time zone difference from other English-speaking countries. All of the twenty-three major world markets experienced a sharp decline in October 1987. When measured in United States dollars, eight markets declined by 20 to 29%, three by 30 to 39%, and three by more than 40%. The least affected was Austria while the most affected was Hong Kong with a drop of 45.8%. Out of twenty-three major industrial countries, nineteen had a decline greater than 20%. Worldwide losses were estimated at US$1.71 trillion. The severity of the crash sparked fears of extended economic instability or even a reprise of the Great Depression.
Assassinations of JFK, Robert, Dr. King, shooting of Reagan, Berlin Wall falling, Vietnam War, the entire NASA experience, 9/11, Berkeley, Kent State, oh just so many more!
Personally, The Las Vegas massacre stunned me to my soul and three events that strongly resonate with me: 9/11 still rocks me to the core, Hurricane Katrina which I felt would reshape my nephews life. The revelation that the Government has seized power in continuing to use a Pandemic to undermine citizens rights by force & removing choice from citizens to live & work as they desire in Australia, Canada, US, France, UK, all using force against citizens & economy. I’d like to say the moon landing, but there’s also Vietnam, the end of the cold war and the computer chip at the end of the 20th century was quite busy. JFK on 11/22/63; Polio Vaccine, Vietnam War, 9/11, Watergate, Landing on the Moon, The Summer of Love Woodstock!
The assassination of JFK MLK and RFK, 9-11, and the loss of life on the Challenger. The collapse of European Communism. Either 9/11 or Nixon resigning. Space X, moon landing, 747 and not getting lost on trips thanks to my Garmin GPS. Also the Cuban missile crisis, JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X assassinations, Kent State shooting, Moon Landing, Returning from Vietnam military being ignored or spit on, Civil Rights movement & start of dumbing down of USA, MEDIOCRITY the new normal, Watergate, Iran/Contra, 9/11, new ICE AGE soon!
July 20, 1969. “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
I was 9 years old when the Moon landing occurred, but it sticks out in my memories more so than any other historical event that has occurred since. The 911 Attacks rattled my spirit and the Theft of the 2020 election. Being born June 14, 1960 it’s been plentiful… let’s focus on the positive, Moon Landing for sure and Trump winning after all the liberals said no way… still my favorite you tube.
The challenger explosion, 9/11, and this fraudulently installed regime leaving people in Afghanistan, forcing truth tellers out of every institution, lies, threats, erasing women, forcing people to get a shot, supply shortages it’s like opening a history book and reading about 1930’s Germany all over again. D.J.T. is probably the most far reaching he fought for us. Runners up are 9/11 and the Challenger exploding on live Tv, For me, 9/11 was horrific and opened my eyes to corruption and real hate. Personally, I feel like the ongoing “duping of America” is extreme. It’s hard to pin it as historic as it is ongoing.
Moon landing..attempted assassination of President Reagan..Space Shuttle Challenger disaster..9/11..Space Shuttle Columbia disaster… An The Muslim Marxist elected President.. Then a BusinessMan elected President tried to rebuild from One Big Ass Mistake America.. Thereafter A man with Dementia installed as president to finish off what Obama tried…just a few surprises off the top of my head. Bigger shockers JFK assassinated, Moon Landing, Elvis Died, Moved The Browns to Baltimore & NFR moved to Las Vegas. The military grade propaganda concerning the USA 2020 election, and war strategy of The Chyna Virus by which Goebbels would be envious. 10 Reasons Why The 2000 Sydney Olympics Are Still The Greatest Games In History (sportbible.com)
The Me ~ Me About Me Generation! United We Aren’t While Being Divided By Many Things: Blue versus Red States. Pro-Life, Right to Bear Arms. South versus North, Male versus Female, Vax versus Non Vax, College versus Non College. Office Worker vs. Manual Laborer… etcetera… We Were Once The United States!
The American Communist Color Revolution of 2020 will go down in history as the turning point for the entire world. After the Great Reset and Agenda 2030 agendas are completed, the world will be a shell of its former glory. You are fighting this losing battle and all we are doing is making yourself a target. Well enough of this preaching to the choir stuff — we should band together with this sentiment in mind, we can never be defeated. Even in death we win, for in the end, God has already won. Born Free ~ Live Free ~ Die Free ….
Biden can’t even control his own bowels. But says he can change the weather…So let me get this straight: he’s raising the cost of gasoline prices to change the climate. Biden thinks he has the power to change the weather itself from climate change-but has “no control” over gasoline prices?
The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation, a troubling sign for President Joe Biden
Americans say inflation and the economy are their top concerns with just 12% focused on COVID:
Democrats urge Biden to stop ignoring problems and Rep. says he ‘wasn’t elected to be FDR’
The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation
Troubling sign for President Biden and Democrats ahead of midterm elections
Just 12% of adults rated COVID a top issue, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found
And 73% of adults want political leaders to focus on jobs and economic growth
Last November, a majority of voters – 61% – said COVID-19 was important
Only 33% rated the economy a top concern, exit polls found
Dems starting to worry after loss in Virginia and near-loss in New Jersey
‘Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,’ Dem Rep. Abigail Spanberger told New York Times of Biden
The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation, a troubling sign for President Joe Biden and Democrats heading into the midterm elections.
Just 12% of adults rated health issues like the coronavirus as a top national priority, down from 20% in February, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found for October.
Meanwhile, two-thirds of the country, including the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents, say that ‘inflation is a very big concern for them.’The job market is also being closely watched as the poll found that 73% of adults want political leaders to focus on jobs and economic growth.
Democrats, meanwhile, are showing signs of panic and asking Biden to deal with this quality of life issues affecting voters.
“We were so willing to take seriously a global pandemic, but we’re not willing to say, ‘Yeah, inflation is a problem, and supply chain is a problem, and we don’t have enough workers in our workforce,’ Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia told The New York Times. ‘We gloss over that and only like to admit to problems in spaces we dominate.’
She also said Biden needs to remind voters why voters put him in the Oval Office. ‘Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,’ she said, referring to the sweeping net of social programs Biden is seeking to make into law.
Americans are getting hammered at the pump! Bank of America predicts crude oil will skyrocket 43% to $120 a barrel by next summer. With gas prices already at a seven-year high of $3.40 ($6.73 in Mendocino CA).
Inflation in the United States has jumped to a three-decade high while wages haven’t kept pace and prices for food, gas and rent are rising – all putting a growing economic burden on households.
Biden and his administration has argued that as the pandemic fades, the supply chain bottlenecks to unsnarl, more people will return to the workforce, the economy will strengthen and inflation will begin to ease.
The president also touts his Build Back Better package, which he argues multiple Nobel Prize winning economists say would reduce inflation.
But his signature package of social safety net programs has yet to pass Congress and his aides concede that Americans would not see its benefits until next year. Moderate Democrats have raised concerns about its overall price tag, which Biden has cut nearly in half to $1.75 trillion as he tries to get it through the legislative branch.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat from New York, told the Times she fears that Biden’s message isn’t resonating with voters. ‘I don’t understand some of my more progressive colleagues saying last night now shows us that what we need to do is get both of these bills done and shove even more progressive stuff in,’ she said. ‘What we’re talking about is not resonating with voters.’
And voters are starting to show their impatience.
On Tuesday, Virginia voters elected a Republican, Glenn Youngkin, as governor, in a state Biden carried by 10 points last year. And, in New Jersey, incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy barely held on for a second term in a state Biden carried by 16 points and where Democrats have a 1 million voter registration advantage.
The president offered a litany of excuses in a press conference on Wednesday, including the fact that his Build Back Better agenda hasn’t passed Congress and Donald Trump supporters.
‘Look, I just think people are at a point, and it is understandable, where there’s a whole lot of confusion. Everything from are you ever going to get COVID under control or are my kids going to be in school, are they going to be able to stay in school to whether or not I’m going to get a tax break that allows me to be able to pay for the needs of my kids and my family,’ he said.
‘People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things – from COVID to school to jobs to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline,’ the president said.
Thursday’s Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the political landscape is dramatically changing for Biden, who came into office with a promise to end the COVID pandemic and bring back stability after the chaos of the Trump years.
Last November, a majority of voters – 61% – said COVID-19 was ‘an important factor’ in determining their choice for president, and those voters backed Biden with 52% of the vote. And, in the last election, only 33% rated the economy a top concern.
Additionally the president’s approval rating has been on the decline – another worrisome sign.
Biden entered office with the approval of 55% of the country but has seen his popularity decline: 42% of adults say they approve of Biden’s job performance in an NBC News poll that was out Monday.
That poll also found 71% say the country is headed in the wrong direction – a sign of trouble ahead for the political party in power. The right track/wrong track question has proven a reliable forecaster of voter attitudes headed into the voting booth.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from Oct. 18-22 and gathered responses from 4,430 adults including 2,001 Democrats, 1,591 Republicans and 465 independents. The margin of error is between 2 and 5 percentage points.
How hospitals and health systems are driving value during COVID-19.
Hospitals are striving to make health care more cost-effective and efficient for patients, while providing the nation’s most complex and resource-intensive care.
If the past eighteen months have proven one thing, it is that hospitals are critical to providing life-saving care to their communities.
This has been especially true throughout the pandemic, as hospitals have provided essential services despite facing financial and operational challenges.
Why it’s important: Affordable health care is one of the biggest concerns facing many Americans. And health care spending likely will continue to rise to meet the needs of an aging population.
Hospitals and health systems provide complex, life-saving care, but the country’s fragmented health care system often leaves many hospitals with a daily balancing act to maintain their mission to serve their communities.
The background: Recent health care spending growth has been driven by the increased use and intensity of health services, not by rising medical prices.
More people are insured — the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans fell from 48 million in 2010 to 30 million in the first half of 2020.
People are living longer — The U.S. population over age 65 increased 60% from 2000 to 2020 and is expected to increase another 44% from 2020 to 2040.
More people have chronic diseases – Over half of American adults have been diagnosed with at least one chronic condition and 27% have two or more.
Hospitals Role: Hospitals and health systems have remained leaders in controlling costs within the healthcare field.
Key numbers:
Hospital price growth averaged just 2% annually from 2010 to 2020.
Meanwhile, health insurance premiums have increased 4.4% per year on average since 2010.
Hospitals face significant challenges as they work to reduce the cost of care while maintaining operations.
The challenge: Hospitals have a variety of costs associated with providing care, including wages, prescription drugs, food and medical devices.
Wages and benefits account for well over half of inpatient hospital costs.
Life-saving items such as cardiac defibrillators can cost more than $20,000, while more complex models can cost roughly $40,000.
Hospitals have invested resources in bringing new therapies and technologies to their patients, but this often raises the cost of providing care.
Steep increases in input prices, like rapidly escalating drug prices and labor costs, can undermine hospitals’ efforts to reduce the cost of care.
Prices for drugs purchased directly from manufacturers increased at nearly twice the rate of retail drugs over the past decade.
Additionally, meeting the unique burden of requirements of over 1,000 insurers, including extensive government regulations, results in tremendous administrative and cost burden to hospitals.
COVID-19 has heightened a number of these challenges, as hospitals faced steep financial losses estimated at $54 billion in net income in 2021, with more than a third of hospitals expected to have negative operating margins through year’s end.
Hospitals also experienced dramatic increases in expenses because of COVID-19’s care complexity, supply chain and labor shortages, travel nurses, personal protective equipment (PPE), vaccine testing and distribution.
A recent analysis of workforce data found:
Staffing shortages have cost hospitals approximately $24 billion so far.
Hospitals have also spent an additional $3 billion in acquiring PPE for the additional staff.
Hospitals’ use of contract temporary labor is up 132% for full-time and 131% for part-time staff.
Learn more about how hospitals are providing accessible and effective care.
Something Really Strange Is Happening At Hospitals All Over America BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, NOV 04, 2021 –
In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you. Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening. Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading. Let us hope that is true. With fewer people catching the virus, you would think that would mean that our emergency rooms should be emptying out, but the opposite is actually happening. All across the country, emergency rooms are absolutely packed, and in many cases we are seeing seriously ill patients being cared for in the hallways because all of the ER rooms are already full.
Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.
Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said in a warm Texas twang.
But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.
Can anyone explain why this is happening?
If the number of COVID cases was starting to spike again, it would make sense for emergency rooms to be overflowing.
Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.
That mention of “heart conditions” immediately got my attention, because I have been seeing this so much in the news recently.
The high school soccer manager ‘greatly enjoyed’ his team’s championship victory Saturday. Later that evening, he was dead.
Now, late student Blake Barklage’s high school is mourning his untimely death. As 6ABC in Philly reports, the tragedy occurred at La Salle College High School in Montgomery County, Pa.
In a letter to parents, the school announced that the senior died after ‘a sudden cardiac incident’ Saturday night.
Elsewhere in the same state, an otherwise healthy 12-year-old boy just suddenly died because of an issue with his coronary artery…
As family and friends grieve, the cause of death is for a 12-year-old taken way too soon while warming up for school basketball practice.
As TribLive in Pittsburgh reports, Jayson Kidd, 12, of Bridgeville, Pa., died of natural causes involving his coronary artery, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Heart problems kill elderly people all the time, but it is odd that so many healthy young people have been having these problems.
Over the weekend, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero suddenly collapsed on the pitch during a match.
Sergio “Kun” Aguero, a striker for the Barcelona soccer team, has been diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia after collapsing during Saturday’s match against Alaves.
The 33-year-old Argentinian was examined by medical staff at the stadium before being taken to a nearby hospital where he is still waiting to undergo further examination.
Just two days later, a match in Norway was brought to a screeching halt after a player experienced “cardiac arrest” right in the middle of a match…
A football match in Norway’s second division was halted on Monday after Icelandic midfielder Emil Pálsson suffered a cardiac arrest during play.
The 28-year-old Sogndal player suffered the attack as the game against Stjordals-Blink entered the 12th minute, his club said in a statement.
I have been seeing so many stories like this.
So why are so many young people suddenly having such serious problems with their hearts?
Can anyone out there explain this to me?
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It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.
There are also tens of thousands of provisional ballots still out which could take until next week, enough to change the outcome since historically provisional ballots lean Republican.
Of course though the MSM decided to call it for Murphy prematurely.
In Bergen County, New Jersey dumped 40,000 ballots at 1:54am. HERE WE GO AGAIN! Bergen County, NJ had 100% reporting showing Ciattarelli won 52.2% to Murphy 47.3%….overnight it flipped to only 87% reporting w/Ciattarelli 47.6% & Murphy 51.8%!! That means his lead went from 42K to only 1,600!
THAT’S NOT AN ANOMOLY THAT’S AN IMPOSSIBILITY!
“Why would this be @nypost https://t.co/A3gR6lfTxz” / Twitter Western Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. Based on the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition, progressivism became highly significant during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, out of the belief that Europe was demonstrating that societies could progress in civility from uncivilized conditions to civilization through strengthening the basis of empirical knowledge as the foundation of society. Figures of the Enlightenment believed that progress had universal application to all societies and that these ideas would spread across the world from Europe.
Biden certainly helps with losing and suffering.
Now we can enjoy the opposite.
Biden united us in the opposite world, like the saying to know happiness, you must experience suffering, or to know winning, you must experience losing.
The DemoCrat’s never learn… SMDH
This was AFTER the official results showed that 100% of the vote was in. DEMOCRATS CHEATED! AGAIN! Never do these errors work in favor of republicans though.
Put politics aside and think for a second. 40k ballots dumped. At 2am. 95% went to 1 candidate. That’s a statistical impossibility. Again put politics aside for fucks sake Not in Michigan. Not in Pennsylvania. Not in Georgia. Not in Wisconsin. Not in New Jersey! Then why even have a deadline if you can continue to bring in late ballots? Why not make every election a month long and continue pouring in ballots?
I have 2 issues with this. 1) a judge ruled that all polls and counting end at 10pm eastern. 2). Where are the Republican representatives at this time? Not saying I don’t believe it but will need hard evidence to do so. A deadline is a deadline and if a county screws up and misses the deadline. TOO BAD!
I truly do not understand, how can we as a people not do simple counting in a timely manner and have this correct an hour or two at most after polls close? This large number of votes being dumped, whoever for, at a ridiculous hour is just plain ridiculous. What a joke!!!
Solution to this stupidity.. You folks keep allowing them to cheat.
How exactly does a candidate lose votes that were already counted for them? #AuditNewJerseyNOW!!!
They don’t even care to hide it anymore!
Seriously.. the Dems just so magically *find* 40,000 on the dot votes they “forgot to count” and that ironically tips the majority for the Dem to “win by a thread” of like 50.26% to 49.74% don’t buy any of it for a second. I saw them cheating in California. The numbers changed right on the TV. And then 70% of the people that walked in in Los Angeles to vote were told they already voted. This shit needs to stop….If the dems cheated again it’s only because nothing happens and they know they will get away with it. There needs to be consequences for these actions. If there are no consequences then it will keep on happening
People that are “judges” at the polls should have to be verified and also bonded before they can “assume the position “. That makes someone responsible for what goes on, in a whole new way. We can’t take anyone’s word for something so let’s do it this way. There is a special place waiting for Democrats. It’s very very warm and miserable. What happened is that Democrats found out the ballot number they needed to win. Then somebody was transporting the prepared fraud mail in ballots to dump. It has to happen later tonight, since Democrats have to ship the ballots from one location to the target county.
They’ve been doing it for a long time. You think 2020 was their first rodeo? Just the biggest. It will continue until the GOP stands up to it. Audit and find the source of this 40,000 vote dump. The election for Governor came down to 1000 votes. If the democrats did in fact cheat, then they as a party should be disqualified from this election cycle.
The Bible is my anchor to reality. “The entrance of the word giveth light.”
How Democrats lost the state Biden won by 10 points (msn.com) In Socialism, it’s “fundamental fatal flaws in the system that make it an inherently unsound economic philosophy.” In Capitalism, it’s “just supply chain issues.” All systems that are Man & Woman made are “Fundamentally Flawed” because of Power & Money & not following the “The Two Great Commandments.”
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” This is the first and great commandment. “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Communism: Their whole ideology is based on lies and deceiving people. They need to get rid of these voting machines and go to paper ballots that can be scanned.
Yuri Nicholas Maltsev is an Austrian school economist and economic historian from Tatarstan. He earned his BA and MA degrees from Moscow State University and PhD in labor economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev’s reforms package of perestroika. He is currently professor of economics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour, Fox News, CBC, and Financial Network News across America, Canadian, and European television. He is the editor of Requiem for Marx (1993) and coauthor of The Tea Party and the American Counter-revolution (2012) and The Tea Party Explained: From Crisis to Crusade (2013). He is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute.
Jeff Deist: We’re speaking in mid-September, and President Biden just announced executive orders mandating vaccines for many employers. As a former Soviet citizen, what do you make of this?
Yuri Maltsev: – Bing video That’s awful. In the United States, fascism comes in the very strange form of an elderly dementia patient. Usually fascists are charismatic leaders, look at Hitler or Mussolini, but this one, what he’s doing is just unbelievable. He is a socialist, definitely, that he is mandating the private sector what they should do, what they shouldn’t do. Karl Marx in the manifesto of the communist party, he defined socialism and communism as abolition of private property and that private property can be abolished overnight, like what happened during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. But it can also take a gradual kind of process and that’s what is happening right now in the United States. Private property is becoming like having a title to wetlands. You have private property, but you cannot do anything with it.
D: Biden brings to mind another kindly old man, Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom you worked in the late eighties as a Soviet labor economist. In your introduction to the Requiem for Marx book, you go in depth about how Gorbachev managed to absolutely snow the Western media and snow George Bush senior.
M: Yes, he absolutely did. He was portrayed as a great liberator, however, he was a Communist. On another hand, we should give him some credit because he was talking about socialism and giving it a human face, which nobody understood at the time.
There is this joke that James Bond was sent to Moscow to find out what’s happening there under Gorbachev and he goes to the bakery and there is no bread, and he writes in a little notebook “No bread”; he goes to the butcher shop, no meat, and writes “No meat.” There was a KGB officer following him and the officer looked over his shoulder and said, “A year ago, you would be shot for doing that.” And Bond then writes “No bullets anymore.” When there were no bullets, people stopped working, because under socialism, the only way to work is under a threat to your life or to the life of your loved ones, because there is absolutely no incentive to do anything. And that’s what Mr. Gorbachev did not understand.
In the beginning of his reign, Gorbachev sounded confused. For example, he was saying that central planning actually works, the problem is we never had a good plan, and so on. That definitely didn’t show him as he knew what he was doing. But definitely, he played some positive role in destroying that evil empire.
Today, we have Mr. Biden, who is building a new evil empire. I think that his vaccine mandate speech is just telling us that he is right now on a warpath. He is desperately looking for enemies and who those enemies can be. So, he picked unvaccinated people as his enemies, because he lost the war in Afghanistan so dramatically. He completely screwed up the evacuation and now he needs to attract the attention of the masses to something else. That’s what I’m thinking is going on.
And they are also, I think, trying the water, to see if they can get away with this mandated vaccination, with forced vaccination, with dragging people into vaccination centers, which reminds me of forced abortions in China, then that will be the ultimate goal: your loss of freedom. If you remember John Locke, his major question was who owns you. Do you own yourself? If you do, you are a free man, and if somebody else owns you, you’re a slave. If you don’t own your body, then who does? The government acts as if it owns your body and knows better what to put in it. And now, if they will forcibly vaccinate us that would be the end of whatever we think we are living in and would be the beginning of slavery.
D: Let’s continue this Biden versus Gorbachev comparison, because I like it. You write about glasnost and perestroika being basically fraudulent cronyist schemes in practice, not at all what the Western media reported. You quote Gorbachev saying, “What we want is a planned, regulated socialist market.” That’s essentially what the World Bank types advocate today.
M: Absolutely. We must have this economy which is run by the government, not by the private sector. Everything Mr. Biden has been doing since his inauguration is heading in that direction, more regulations for everything, for industry. People don’t like his predecessor, Mr. Trump, but under him regulations were being removed, 20 percent of them, but Biden has restored everything that was removed. His vice president, she’s just not only a socialist, but kind of a Stalinist. Look at her speeches, most recently in California. This is a very sad time that we are living through, but the people inflicted it on themselves. I don’t know if elections were fair or not, but I think it’s very simple if you are voting for a socialist or you are voting for a capitalist.
D: You mentioned that your time working with Gorbachev convinces you he didn’t know any economics at all. He was completely illiterate on the subject. I suspect that’s equally true of Biden.
M: Yes, yes. In his fifty years in government his working record is just atrocious. When he was the chairman of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, it was unbelievable to listen to him. I don’t know, however, whether he is stupid or he is evil, and I think both. He’s a power-hungry kind of person as well as the people around him.
D: You left the Soviet Union and came to the United States in 1989. A lot of Soviet expatriates in the US became neocons or cold warriors, but you managed to avoid that.
M: Yes, because neoconservatism is just another side of Trotskyism. That we should impose our will on other people against their will. You see what is happening, how we trap people in Vietnam or in Afghanistan or in Iraq or in Syria, trying to start wars which we do not intend to win. It’s to make some people happy and richer and impose all kinds of left-wing social theories on them. It’s like imposing democracy—these kinds of things cannot be done from above or from the outside of the country.
D: In the eighties and nineties, especially, Conservatism Inc. loved nothing more than a Soviet defector willing to denounce the USSR. The Buckley It right purged the Old Right on the grounds we had to defeat the Soviets above all, so the Cold War justified accepting a bigger government at home.
M: It definitely was a threat. I would agree with that part, but from another hand, how did we oppose the Soviets? The CIA provoked the revolution in Hungary, we didn’t support those people as we had promised, so many of them were murdered including the very reformist prime minister, Mr. Nagy, and about three hundred thousand Hungarians fled. We did the same with Czechoslovakia and the war in Vietnam was the same thing. So that’s a problem that we have, that we are engaging in wars, which are designed only to feed some people, to feed the military-industrial complex of which President Eisenhower was telling us back in 1961.
D: As a new arrival in the early 1990s, did you think America was generally capitalist and free at the time or did you already sense there were deep problems here?
M: I worked, if you can call it work, for the federal government in Washington, DC, at the United States Institute of Peace, which is still there. It’s a congressional think tank. It’s huge right now. I could see there were deep problems.
D: They have an enormous building by the Lincoln Memorial. I wonder what their budget is relative to the Mises Institute?
M: Oh, probably several hundred times more if not thousands. And they also built, just maybe four or five years ago, a huge campus in southeastern Washington, DC, just unbelievable.
D: Apparently there’s no more peace than when they started.
M: No, they’ll never be shut down. And for me, what was amazing was that I was awarded this very prestigious position. I became a fellow of the United States . . . the full title was even more feudal, something like Senator Jennings Fellow of the United States Congress in Peace. I thought that maybe they will study peace. My neighbor with an office on the right was Eugene Rostow. Eugene Rostow was possibly the most prominent warmonger in United States history and he almost single-handedly started the Vietnam War. The chairwoman of the board was Elspeth Rostow, who was his wife. This formed kind of a Rostow dictatorship. There were generals and the like, rather a nursing home for the neoconservatives. The worst thing was not that they were funding these people who didn’t need the stipends because they were already rich, but they were dispensing tens of millions of dollars. Now they are dispensing hundreds of millions of dollars, to poison our academia, to provide so-called grants to study conflict resolution. And how you can resolve conflicts, by accusing everybody of racism or paying the left-wing academia to develop critical race theory and other stuff like this?
D: At this point, in the early nineties, you had already discovered Austrian economics.
M: Well, I was leaning toward Austrian economics since my days in the Soviet Union. When I was a third-year student at Moscow State University I was given a book by Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, and at that time I could be punished anywhere from eight to ten years of imprisonment, just for having the book.
D: Just for possessing it?
M: Just for possessing it. And the person who gave it to me would get fifty years, because he would be accused of disseminating anti-Soviet slander. That was the so-called Article 57 of the Penal Code of the USSR. This is even an innocent book. But it was on the KGB forbidden list, as well as Solzhenitsyn and Orwell.
Because of Hayek’s influence, I changed my major. Instead of studying history and social science, I began to study economic history and history of economic thought. It was at this point that I received a letter through the Lenin’s Library, now the Russian State Library, that since I was engaged in a critique of the vulgar bourgeois political economy, I should be given access to the contents of the library. How can you criticize something without knowing what it is? So I got real access. While there I read a lot of other stuff, as well. You go to a marked room and you sign a pledge that you’ll never tell anyone about what you read there. The unfortunate thing is at that time I didn’t know about Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises and so I was insatiably reading Hayek.
When I came to the United States I was invited to the Shevchenko Jamestown Foundation, which is a very interesting think tank, kind of like the world defectors’ club. They would not pay me anything, but they were very nice in providing me with a computer and office space and a telephone, and while there I wrote an article on perestroika for The Freeman.
I was invited to the Mises Institute, to teach at Mises University, at that time at Stanford University, and then I met Murray Rothbard and we became very good friends. He became my real mentor. I met a lot of great people like Tom DiLorenzo, Walter Block, Bob Higgs, and many, many others. It was not a conversion moment, because I was already converted, but I remember Murray, he took my interview from me and he titled that interview “Mises from Moscow.” He was very enthusiastic about the future of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in finding the path to freedom.
I think it was 1990, the Mises Institute organized a conference in Washington, DC, to honor Gottfried Haberler. Haberler was a great Austrian economist, but then he turned more mainstream. He began to teach at Harvard and he was not associated with the Institute at all and the Institute also didn’t like him for his mainstream leaning. I knew him rather well because I had lunch with him every Wednesday in Washington. I advised Murray to lure him back where he belonged, and so the Mises Institute put on a wonderful conference in Washington, DC, and Haberler addressed this conference.
Attending the Washington conference was a delegation of twelve Lithuanian businesspeople and politicians who came to the United States right after Lithuania became an independent country. They were all enthralled, and today we have a very strong Austrian economics kind of school in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute is doing a great job in promoting Austrian ideas and some are very visible in the Seimas, which is the Lithuanian parliament. It was an interesting time because nobody knew what was happening. Murray wrote quite a lot on the economics of transition and he had this wonderful slogan: land to the peasants, and factories to the workers, and bureaus to bureaucrats, that was his approach. That was his major message to them. And he praised the Baltic states because they were ahead of the other former Soviet Republics and they are ahead today in promoting freedom.
D: We have the whole history of the twentieth century to see the failure of the Soviet Union. You lived it. But as you’ve pointed out, Mises predicted all of this in 1920, without the benefit of hindsight, in his essay “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” What an achievement.
M: True, absolutely. I read Ludwig Mises’s “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” and his book Socialism only when I came to the United States, and I was honored to write an introduction to “Economic Calculation” published by the Mises Institute. A lot of things just became really clear.
When you live in the Soviet Union, especially if you are an economist, you understand that the system does not work. You understand that the prices are all phony, that the prices are made up, that they’re being ignored. But after reading Socialism by Mises, then it all becomes crystal clear. It’s like processing film when the image is already there, it is only after developing the film that the image becomes clear. That was the role of Hayek for me with The Road to Serfdom. And so it was an interesting time.
In the Soviet Union at this time, they came up with the idea of the 500 Days Program. This is how long it would take to make the transition from a socialist slavery to economic freedom. My point was why five hundred days? In five hundred days, you cannot do anything. If you make a transition like this, you should do it immediately in one fell swoop. And sure enough, while I was writing this, Margaret Thatcher made an interesting comment. She said something like, “if we in the United Kingdom would decide to move from left-hand driving to right-hand driving and do it in five hundred days, that would be havoc on the road.” So, it is with all economic reforms. I believe strongly, and Murray Rothbard was very supportive in this, that a gradual transition is transition to the third world only. You can either make a transition right away or don’t even try to do it.
D: David Gordon and Gary North also wrote about Marx the man, in your collection of essays. Marx was not necessarily that bright. He wasn’t that accomplished. Gary North tells us Friedrich Engels was a lot smarter and ambitious. Marx lived a fairly pampered and subsidized life, and had far more money than the average Soviet worker. And yet this apparent mediocrity seems to have enduring influence. Why?
M: Because he provides a very good argument for so-called intellectuals to grab power. Because the whole idea of Marxism is that the proletariat, the great masses, are oppressed. But what should they do? They should follow the people with the vision, the professional revolutionaries. And who would be better for that than the intellectuals. So, that’s the point. Hayek is also saying it in his wonderful essay “Why Intellectuals Love Socialism.” Marx, he was a very power-hungry individual. He never had real power, but from another hand, his writing is about power, how to get power. And today he is popular for what reason?
There is another side of Marxism. It’s not only proletariat and bourgeoisie, workers and capitalists, but it is also oppressors and oppressed. Because if you read Marx, especially Das Kapital, the twenty-third, twenty-fourth chapters, I still remember all this stuff, he’s writing that the whole of human history was a fight between oppressors and oppressed, an influence that would be like slaves and slave owners and feudal lords and peasants and now we have workers and whatnot. That’s easy for the so-called intellectuals of today to put whomever they want, to put any kind of group they believe is a victimized group, and to present them as oppressed. This victimization agenda will be taken up by the intellectuals of the Left. It is important for them to have something to point at, take the so-called environmental crisis, that’s another invented crisis that we have, and also race issues. And these two issues, they believe, can destroy capitalism, destroy the United States, destroy the society that we live in, and provide them with unlimited power, because that’s what it is: if you control energy, for example, you control culture, then you are in charge of everything. Education, today, I’m sorry to say, but I think we are losing this cultural war to these people because they control the mass media, control Hollywood, control the production of culture.
D: Let’s continue with that thought. There’s this concept of cultural Marxism, where the focus on economic class shifted to identity politics because the economic arguments weren’t working. The US middle class, the union workers, weren’t buying it. So the Left shifted its focus. Today we have a lot of loose terms like “woke” and “SJW” and “PC” to describe this phenomenon. As someone who teaches young people on campus, how much have things changed since you arrived in the US?
M: It’s so sad because when I began to teach, and I began to teach almost immediately when I came to the United States, I was teaching first as an adjunct professor at George Mason University on the Arlington campus and then I moved to Wisconsin. I am now in academia for thirty-two years. And at that time, students were very curious, they were way to the right of the faculty. The faculty always was, at least the faculty that I dealt with, very much to the left of center. They had an agenda to reproduce themselves, because that means that left-wing faculty will only hire left-wing faculty, and now they are a majority. We have very few really free market academics, but a lot of socialists and radical socialists and communists and democratic socialists, so-called, which is an oxymoron. Mr. Bernie Sanders visited my college, Carthage College, and many faculty were sitting there from three in the morning because they were afraid that they will not get in to meet the great leader.
D: Were students camping out overnight as well?
M: Some, yes, those that are already brainwashed.
D: And presumably very few kids at Carthage College are in any way oppressed.
M: [Laughs] True. Except when they are looking for parking in the morning.
D: I want to clarify: Do you think the students in some of this country’s liberal arts schools are actually to the left of their faculty?
M: I would say not very many, but there are some. There are some activists who are just fanatics, who became fanatics because they were screwed up in high school and then they came to Carthage. We have faculty who reinforce their views. I’m not saying all faculty. We have some mild socialists also. We have even on our campus some people who are still on the side of freedom, but not many, the majority is not. What is going on today with this masquerade, if you will look at what the faculty says in their blogs, for instance, “Yesterday I saw a student who was sipping coffee without a mask and he was sipping coffee very slowly, because he enjoyed not wearing a mask.” I can’t imagine that a professor is writing that.
D: One thing that’s changed a lot in the US since you arrived is secularization. There is far less religious observance in the United States today than thirty years ago. Rothbard’s essay in your Requiem for Marx collection compares Marxist theory to the return of the messiah in Christian theology, Marxism will put an end to history and establish a new heaven and a new earth. The establishment of communism marks an end point to human history, a final perfected state of mankind. So the secularization of America is a necessary Marxist goal.
M: True, yes. Murray wrote “The Religious Eschatology of Marx.” Eschatology, that’s the end of history. Marx hated religion, he called it opium of the people, and in the Soviet Union alone they murdered over a million clerics of all religions. I was just reading a gruesome historical article. In Odessa, for example, they were putting boiling lead into the Christians, saying that this is a communion for you. And they were hanging monks and nuns and priests from belfries. Why such atrocities? Because it’s obvious that if you are a believer, you believe in God, no matter what denomination or religion you are, then you don’t have space in your mind for Marx and Lenin and Stalin to be gods. That would be a very unchristian or very non-Islamic or very non-Jewish thing, to believe that there is a god, in the Kremlin or in the White House or somewhere else. That’s why they needed to clean out the place and why religion was prohibited until 1942.
In 1942, the Soviet Union legalized the Russian Orthodox Church. For what reason? Because there were about 3 million defections from the Soviet Army over to the Germans. Stalin was afraid that the whole thing would fall apart without that. And most would believe that Stalin and others were kind of the antichrist. That’s one thing, to destroy religion, then next is the family. When families are destroyed then civil society is destroyed and then you’re naked before them. Then you don’t have any support mechanisms. I’m not a religious person myself, but religion is a very important social institution, because it provides a lot of social support for people.
D: Did the Soviets view religion as a competitor with the state for people’s loyalty?
M: Yes and no because some, for example, the Russian Orthodox Church were just a state institution under Stalin and his successors run mostly by the KGB.
D: So the state co-opts the church like it co-opts other institutions.
M: Yes. Under Gorbachev, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell apart on the glorious Christmas Eve of 1991, the state collapsed as we know it. If you look at the Russian Orthodox Church today, they are blessing the Russian aggression against the Ukrainians, against others, they’re holding masses to support the Russian troops. They’re blessing tanks and rockets. There are some denominations that are not really statist denominations. There are some Protestant denominations in Russia which believe that you don’t need any intermediaries between you and the God. And that brought the idea even to John Locke that we are all equal before the Lord.
D: Let’s talk about academic freedom. A well-known philosophy professor at Portland State University, Peter Boghossian, resigned yesterday over harassment he’s endured from faculty and the students. Do you worry about your own academic freedom?
M: The only thing I like from Marx’s quotes is that we don’t have anything to lose except chains on our feet. And so, I’m not worried, because I just fight back. I am fighting. Fortunately for me, I was tenured twenty-five years ago and that’s why I’m saying that if you give up on something, then they will take over everything. And that was the greatest message from Solzhenitsyn in the gulag, don’t give up. They survived and they were even respected by their jailers, by the prison guards. Besides that, I would say all my classes are full and I have waitlists! I would say that the great change came with Ron Paul. Especially when Ron Paul was very active, many students were his followers and he was the best ambassador of ideas of liberty on campuses. We definitely need leaders like him for students, to be seen as role models.
D: Dr. Maltsev, I think that’s a perfect place to stop. Thank you.
God bless President Trump for exposing the Woke Supremacy.
. Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
[2] Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD, or declare all his praise? [3] Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times! Psalm 106:1-3 ESV
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Brown Cloud over China The skies over Beijing turned dark and black in the middle of the day on Thursday, as the Communist Party came together for an annual meeting. Chen Beingzhong, a life-long Beijing resident described it in one report to the Epoch Times “as an alarm from god.” Brown clouds have been seen all over the world, including the US , Europe, India and China. Earlier, our focus was on South Asia; so we called these clouds the Asian Brown Cloud. Several Indian scientists and politicians criticized this appellation as politically-motivated.
US President Joe Biden has criticized the leaders of China and Russia for not turning up to the COP26 climate summit. In a speech on Tuesday night, Mr. Biden said climate was “a gigantic issue” and China “walked away” – adding it was the “same thing with Russia and Putin”. Neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor Chinese leader Xi Jinping are at the summit. Both countries however have sent delegations to the talks, which are due to run for two weeks until 14 November. China is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, followed by the US. Russia is the fifth largest after the EU and India. More than 120 leaders turned up at the conference in Scotland’s largest city. Countries have already announced major deals, including a global pledge to slash methane levels by 2030 as well as to end and reverse deforestation by the same year. Mr Biden made his comments when asked about the role that other countries – including China, Russia and Saudi Arabia – have played in talks so far. “The fact that China is trying to assert, understandably, a new role in the world as a world leader – not showing up, come on,” Mr. Biden said, adding that Xi Jinping’s absence was “a big mistake”.
He said the same about Mr. Putin, saying that Russia’s wilderness is burning and their president “stays mum” about the issue. Mr. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave no reason why Mr. Putin would not attend when they announced the decision in October, although he said climate change was an “important” priority for Russia. Also in October officials warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that China’s President Xi Jinping was not expected to attend. It is thought that President Xi has not left China since early 2020.
Both China and Russia have sent delegations to the summit. COP26 climate summit – The basics Climate change is one of the world’s most pressing problems. Governments must promise more ambitious cuts in warming gases if we are to prevent greater global temperature rises. The summit in Glasgow is where change could happen. You need to watch for the promises made by the world’s biggest polluters, like the US and China, and whether poorer countries are getting the support they need. All our lives will change. Decisions made here could impact our jobs, how we heat our homes, what we eat and how we travel.
The climate change hoax wrongly puts the earth above God “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator…” Romans 1:25
Humans can, and should continue to mitigate pollution as we have been doing better than any other nation on earth. But, the thought that we can control the weather, much less climate, is ludicrous arrogance.
But everyone went on about their business as if nothing had changed. There was no hysteria, no mandates, nothing. Covid hysteria is all because Trump was in office when it hit. Our biggest mistake was accepting the 15 days and admitting it we did because we support trump. We somehow forgot to notice that all the swing states had dem governors who just ran with it. Yup totally missed that and they took time Absolutely! But that’s not to say Covid is not real. I believe a portion of what we hear and read is exaggerated but I do know of some otherwise healthy people in their 40’s that passed without other underlying health issues to change their voting laws. And the gop challenged none until after the election. Governors and judges can’t change election law. Only legislatures. It was still fixable after the election if legislatures acted and they didn’t. The Arizona audit is great. Except it started in July. Maybe starting November 4th might have been better but what do I know?
Blackwater identified the training of domestic police as a potentially lucrative part of its business.
This excerpt was originally published on Salon.com. By the time President Obama announced the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, PMSCs [private military and security companies] were in line to collect billions of dollars in contracts for at least another five years. They included SOC, Inc. (the firm with the extensive training site in Nevada, whose contract to safeguard the Baghdad embassy would bring in nearly $1 billion), Triple Canopy (a five-year $1.53 billion contract for embassy security), ArmorGroup, Control Risks Group, DynCorp, Erinys, and Aegis. And as always, there were many smaller firms working as subcontractors, though these were not listed on the government’s Baghdad Embassy website. What was noted on the site, however, was a rather big caveat: “The U.S. government assumes no responsibility for the professional ability or integrity of the persons or firms whose names appear on the list.” These contracts hardly resembled the feeding frenzy of the Iraq PMSCs surfacing in Iraq, some without track records and many in search of subcontracts. There were, in fact, enough unknown firms with unfamiliar names popping up in Baghdad that some underwriters at Lloyd’s of London were uneasy. Insurers typically demanded that these companies produce what were called security protocols from the military if the companies wanted insurance for operating in unstable environments.
The Iraqi contracts would cushion some of the top firms during the industry’s transition from wartime. And while the gold rush in Iraq was ending, the pursuit for the next rush of markets had already begun. Where exactly were these markets? Wherever instability threatened development; wherever the military commitments of states exceeded their capacities; wherever preventive war was a ruling principle; wherever governments were viewed as incapable of supplying defense and security fast enough in times of sudden conflict; wherever maritime terrorists threatened the shipping industry; and wherever kings, dictators, or presidents felt endangered by mass protests, such as the nations involved in what became known as the Arab Spring in 2011.
To be sure, there was plenty of work for PMSCs during the Arab Spring, especially protecting companies trying to operate in the midst of the political unrest. For example, in Bahrain, where Aegis had an office in Manama, the capital, the firm, according to its own release, implemented a “crisis management plan” for an unnamed multinational energy company and evacuated 100 or more people. A few months after the protests abated, the United Nations released a study showing that the use of “mercenaries in armed conflict” had vastly increased in recent years. Examples included Arab countries during the spring protests. Muammar Gaddafi, it noted, had brought in hired guns from Eastern Europe and from African nations to fight pro democracy protests. Although leaders in the PMSC industry argued that the hired guns in the Arab Spring were not the companies that formed the backbone of their industry, there were clearly some mainstream companies acting as brokers of combatants deployed to stop the protests. The U.N. stressed that the presence of private forces, whether employed by companies or self-employed, was growing worldwide without enough control to stop “an onslaught of human rights problems.” *** In America, too, business was picking up for PMSCs. The idea of preventive war at home was seeping into the collective consciousness of Americans, echoing that familiar rationale for using private-sector security when governments appeared unable to come through with mandates to safeguard its citizens. Case in point: the Mexican-American border. If unstable environments stimulated the market for PMSCs, then the Mexican-American border was a candidate for another bonanza. Capitalizing on such potential in the summer of 2011 was the firm International Security Agency, or ISA. With headquarters in Houston, ISA employed former Special Forces members as well as former police, and told the press that it had done work in thirty-three nations. Its rationale for security work was, as the Texas Tribunedescribed it, “If the government cannot protect its citizens, it’s up to the individual.” In August 2011, ISA announced that it had received the “required licenses to operate” in McAllen, Texas, on the Mexican border. At the time, ISA President Jerry Brumley told the press: “I love my country. If I were king or emperor of America, I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan did. [Reagan said,] ‘You know what? You hurt an American citizen—I don’t care where you are—and I am coming after you.’ And we’re in America.”
In its presentation to the McAllen business community that summer, ISA showed a newsreel clip of a car chase along the U.S. border that ended with one car in the river. Another clip displayed the devastation following the explosion of car bombs on the Mexican side of the border, and an animated rendering of Glenn Beck telling the audience that drug dealers were tantamount to terrorists and that the government would not and could not protect Americans from the violence they caused. In its corporate slide show, the company then informed potential clients about the expertise of its employees, who were trained in military skills and who, as the ISA president implied, had aggressive rules of engagement.
The presentation harkened back to Iraq in 2004 or 2005. “Our practice,” said Brumley, “is if someone raises a weapon to me and I feel threatened, with my life or the life of my client, I am taking action. I am not going to lose an American because my rules of engagement say ‘Well, you know, they have to shoot at you [first].’” The Texas Tribune commented, “[The presentation] demonstrates what a military-style ‘cadre’ is, complete with a photograph of a camouflaged soldier raising a weapon and taking aim.” ISA, according to its website, required its applicants to be “former military with at least four years of service and an honorable discharge, a federal law or civilian law enforcement officer with at least two years of service, a security officer with six years of experience or a personal protection agent with more than three years of experience.” Pay scales ranged from $200 a day per agent, to $2,500 a day promotional material, was to stop drug-cartel-instigated violence in the United States before it started—the Wild West version of preventive war.
When asked whether it was appropriate to hire private security firms to guard the border and what his concerns for accountability might be, Texas Governor Rick Perry, then a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, said, through his deputy press secretary: “Let’s be clear here: It is the federal government’s responsibility to protect Americans by securing the international border between the U.S. and Mexico. Since the federal government is not fulfilling that responsibility, it is unfortunate but not surprising that the citizens living along the U.S.-Mexico border feel so unsafe on their own property that they could be looking to hire personal security.” Quelling fears along the Mexican border promised to become a profitable business, and it extended beyond the realm of guarding homes, individuals, and businesses. There was money to be made, for example, in the crackdown on immigration. PMSCs could run and sometimes own detention centers. This was a high-growth market. In 2005, there were 280,000 detentions and by 2011 there were 400,000. The demand was such that the close proximity to the Mexican border of some training sites—for example, Playas, only forty miles from the border—meant they could easily be used as future detention centers. After all, immigration enforcement had become another growing market for PMSCs, especially in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
By 2011, for example, private contractors controlled half of all immigration detention beds in the United States. Although it was a niche market, it was often identified by analysts as one source of potential growth for the PMSC industry. Detention attracted the large multinational firms known for their vast offerings of what were once government services. G4S, with more than 600,000 employees in 125 countries, was one. G4S owned both the British ArmorGroup and the large American security company Wackenhut. It had been one of the corporate participants in the 2008 meetings at Montreux. As part of its immigration work, it was under contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to escort illegal border-crossers back to Mexico. But despite the Border Patrol work and immigration-related armed security, PMSCs remained nearly invisible to the American public. That they would continue to have a presence and an influence in Iraq or Afghanistan would have surprised most Americans. But that they would play a bigger role back home, within U.S. borders, would have been more surprising. And yet they were establishing a presence on Main Street. By the fall of 2011, there were dozens of municipalities, counties, and townships in the United States that had hired a private military and security company to train their police forces—often Blackwater. Big cities on the list included Atlanta, Washington, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
There was no law prohibiting the training of police in military methods. Blackwater figured that out, thus identifying the training of domestic police as a potentially lucrative part of its business, and then cornering the market. In the beginning, the market consisted mainly of the Department of Homeland Security, which was in a hurry to improve local police protection in the event of a terror attack. It was quick to utilize Blackwater’s police-training services, funding and supporting police departments nationwide to employ Blackwater. In addition, some municipalities were considering contracting PMSCs for special duties, such as patrolling a city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The theory was that this saved the city’s proof vests and uniforms. The difference between a police officer trained to “keep the peace” and a soldier was quite easy to identify. A policeman was legally required to protect and to serve the citizens of the state, to assume innocence unless there was a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity, and to use weapons against a citizen only as a last resort. A soldier was trained to identify enemies and if necessary to kill them while protecting any non enemies in the vicinity. “I stand ready to deploy, engage, and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat” was their creed. And although most policemen trained by a private military company would remain dedicated to their oaths to serve and protect the public, there was the possibility of the exception.
Evidence of potential problems bubbled up in autumn 2011 when the Occupy Wall Street movement inspired demonstrations in U.S. cities and towns and on university campuses, as people protested the greed of what they called “the 1 percent” of the U.S. populace. Although there was no direct involvement of PMSCs, as had been the case in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina when Homeland Security brought in Blackwater, there were clear signs of the militarization trend in policing. The protests began on September 17 in New York with the occupation of a park near Wall Street. These were nonviolent political protesters using their First Amendment rights to express their views, thus inspiring some journalists to refer to “the American Autumn” following “the Arab Spring.” But in early October things began to change. In their black full-battle uniforms armed with assault rifles, sometimes even M4s like the ones the military used in Iraq and Afghanistan, some police began to act the way they looked.
In Oakland, for example, police kicked and attacked demonstrators, including war veterans, shooting them in the face with teargas canisters. An ex-Marine who had spent two tours of duty in Iraq was hit so hard in the head with a police projectile—while he was texting—that he was taken to a hospital in critical condition and for nearly two months lost his ability to speak. As if in a flashback scene from the disaster at Nisour Square, Oakland police threw a “flashbang grenade” at the people who ran to help the wounded vet. In November, a former Washington State peace officer who had earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart while serving in Iraq teamed up with a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia, to warn in the Atlanticabout the consequences of bringing military-style training to domestic law enforcement: “When police officers are dressed like soldiers, armed like soldiers, and trained like soldiers, it’s not surprising that they are beginning to act like soldiers.”
It was a potentially shameful situation for the United States, especially when the U.N., the watchdog of human rights violations across the globe, turned its gaze on the nation that considered itself the world’s icon of freedom and human rights. In early December, Frank La Rue, the U.N.’s special envoy for protecting free expression, drafted a memo to the U.S. government demanding to know why it was not protecting the rights of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. From his view, as long as they were peaceful nonviolent demonstrators occupying public spaces, the government had an obligation to protect their rights and not to exert excessive force against them. What was at risk, La Rue wrote, was America’s credibility as a model democracy. In late 2011, another affront to democracy was taking shape as the government was outsourcing jobs to design, maintain, and operate cyber capabilities for national security. This included devising defenses against cyberattacks, and even orchestrating offensive cyber tactics. In what some government officials were calling the cyber contractor complex, there was a shift in 2011 from internal defense of the infrastructure to offensive strategies, including cybersurveillance sometimes aimed at American citizens—a startling reality that would soon be exposed to the world by former private contractor Edward Snowden. Equally unsettling was the fact that a few of the new surveillance systems operated by companies under contract to the United States had customers other than the United States.
For the industry, it meant yet another market to inspire “the incubation of new and more powerful capabilities from within the industry [of PMSCs],” as a British journalist wrote. At least cybersecurity was not armed security and it was not on the list of usual services offered by most PMSCs—not yet anyhow.