People read stories about how a father kills his family and then commits suicide. They will typically dismiss the event, claiming he was just crazy. The real story is something people rarely understand. The pain of staying is far greater than leaving. But they often feel guilty about leaving their family behind. Will they suffer the same pains that drive them to want to leave? This is what results in someone murdering their family and then committing suicide. They feel guilty about leaving their family behind.
These COVID restrictions have resulted in a wave of suicides as people have lost everything. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), suicide came in as the tenth leading cause of death overall in the U.S., claiming the lives of more than 47,500 people. However, for people between the ages of 35 and 44, suicide was the fourth leading cause of death; for those between the ages of 10 to 35, it was second right behind unintentional injury.
I have reported that I was walking the beach and a man asked me how long I was here in Florida. His two teenage sons were surfing at the time. He said he moved here because his boys were becoming suicidal up north from being locked down, no school, and their vision of the future turned very dark. His boys were unable to play sports and their dreams were all lost.
It was becoming commonplace to see people jumping to their death during the Great Depression. When people lose everything, their future comes crashing down. Our politicians have such a callous view of us, the Great Unwashed. They have no problem partying behind closed doors as they destroy the lives of people they see as the scum beneath them.
Hopefully, the truckers will bring down the real leader of the Free World. No, it is not Trudeau or Biden — Klaus Schwab is pulling all the strings.
The Freedom Convoy trucker protest has now expanded and is starting to hit more U.S-Canada border crossings, while the main trucker convoy remains in downtown Ottawa. The Coutts border crossing, between Alberta and Montana, is shut down as truckers have closed every lane.
However, after 12 days of pressure – and a typical Alinsky response from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – things are beginning to escalate. Now, in Windsor, Ontario, the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit – the busiest land crossing on the U.S-Canada border, has been effectively blocked.
The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is starting to panic. “They’re essentially putting their foot on the throat of all Canadians,” Bill Blair, Canada’s minister of emergency preparedness, said Wednesday. “It can’t be allowed to persist.” Yet, the Trudeau government is quickly discovering their biggest Achillies’ heal in this issue. There is no logistical way to stop truckers from blocking the roads and bridges.
The logistics of trying to forcibly remove the big rigs with tow trucks is a nightmare. Additionally, the tow truck companies are not willing to support the government in a fight against their own profession. Slowly, the uber elite who think they are the rulers are starting to realize just how little power they have when the “workers of the world” really do “unite”. Trudeau really is starting to panic:
CANADA – Canada’s usually sleepy capital is under a state of emergency. It’s been nearly two weeks since the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” reduced its key arteries to a parking lot. Two crossings on the U.S.-Canada border, including the busiest, have been partially blockaded, and demonstrators were attempting to block a highway to a third.
[…] Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is warning that U.S. truckers are potentially planning to block roads in major metropolitan areas in protest of vaccine mandates, and that the protest activity could impact the Super Bowl in Los Angeles this Sunday as well as President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address March 1, according to a copy of the bulletin obtained by The Washington Post.
Canadian officials continued to condemn the “illegal” blockades – which have been boosted by far-right and anti-vaccine groups around the world and inspired copycat demonstrations from Europe to Australia – and detailed their deleterious effects on national security and the economy. But there were few indications of how or when authorities will bring them to an end.
Officials in some cities said they needed more police officers. Others said tow-truck operators were refusing to help. The federal government said it had set up a group of federal, provincial and local officials to respond – but the government of Ontario, the most populous province, and home to Ottawa, the capital, hadn’t sent a representative.
In Windsor, Ontario, the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit – the busiest land crossing on the U.S.-Canada border and a vital corridor for the auto industries on both sides – was blockaded by up to 100 people and 75 vehicles, police said Wednesday.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens appealed for more law enforcement resources. He said officials feared the use of force could “inflame” the conflict and there was a “need to plan for a protracted protest.” (read more)
Trudeau has really painted himself into a corner by first calling the truckers racist hate-filled bigots and saying he would never meet with them. Now, as their ranks and support grow, the majority of Canadians want him to do exactly that, meet the truckers and remove the covid mandates.
The Freedom Convoy truckers have all the leverage in this dynamic. The true irony is the socialist left constantly claiming the “workers of the world unite” mantra as part of their boutique leftism, yet here are the truckers doing exactly that – and the same liberals are decrying the audacity of the ruffians. You really cannot make this up.
Younger generations are watching these masks drop. The only thing we need to do is point out the hypocrisy, and the opposition falls silent.
For a really good review of the background dynamics and party politics, this interview with Mark Steyn is well worth the 15 minutes. Video begin at 26:54 prompted. WATCH:
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With the U.S. White House announcing their intent to get involved in the Canadian Freedom Protest, the RCMB now announces their intent to begin an enforcement action at the Alberta truck blockade in/around the border crossing between Coutts, Alberta (CA) and Sweet Grass, Montana (USA).
Last night Alberta Premier Jason Kenney gave a weak sauce speech claiming he would begin to remove COVID mandates. However, a closer review of the proposal showed it was a head fake. The truckers then moved back into position to close the roads and the Coutts border crossing was blocked.
It is not yet known how the Canadian federal police (RCMP) plan to remove the blockade as the big rig towing companies have previously refused to participate.
CANADA – Enforcement will begin Wednesday afternoon to reopen traffic to the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts which is being blocked by an ongoing protest, according to RCMP.
The blockade has been ongoing for more than a week, in solidarity with the trucker protests in Ottawa and other parts of the country.
Lanes have been open in each direction, however traffic was shut down once again about 8 p.m. Tuesday, soon after Premier Jason Kenney announced the province was ending the Restrictions Exemption Program and lifting mask mandates for schools and children age 12 and under.
[…] RCMP are asking protesters at the Highway 501 site to move to an area north of Milk River, off the highway to allow traffic to flow, otherwise face enforcement, said Supt. Roberta McKale.
“Really it’s going to be up to them,” she told reporters. “Up until this point it’s been us asking them and this afternoon we don’t have an option, we’re going to have to use our enforcement options to have that happen.” (read more)
Workers of North America are united in the demand for FREEDOM.
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Last week the White House did a weird proactive talking point seminar on Monday, preparing the media for official unemployment data which would follow four days later. {Go Deep} Everything about the new econ talking points, added to the press briefing book, indicates the White House knows it’s the economic policy that is the most politically damaging for them.
Today, the same proactive approach to head off negative economic consequences is evident, this time regarding inflation. Tomorrow, the official Bureau of Labor and Statistics inflation numbers will be released for January and for 2021 in total. The White House has been again tipped-off.
Watch how Jen Psaki attempts to proactively establish the talking point about the month-over-month rate of inflation change as the important element to focus on. If you’ve read the previous post, you can clearly see what they are doing now. Also, this is entirely scripted and coordinated with the press pool to ask a very specific question. WATCH, prompted:
You only need to watch for a minute or two to see the strings on the marionettes.
It’s also worth noting, the people behind Joe Biden were meeting with energy executives today to work out the terms and conditions for their bribes from the White House to trigger the Green New Deal. The energy company bribe amounts, known as direct subsidies in the talking points, were being negotiated as Psaki was talking to the press pool.
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Whenever we discuss inflation, it is absolutely critical for people to understand that inflation itself is the measure of the percentage increase in a price over a period of time.
It is entirely possible, I would say absolutely guaranteed, that prices will increase even more this year as inflation begins to drop. This will be the economic story on the backside of the inflation hurricane as the Fed starts to increase interest rates. Example:
♦ 2021: A loaf of bread increases in price 50¢ from $1.00 to $1.50, a rate of inflation of 50%.
♦ 2022: That same loaf of bread increases in price by 60¢, from $1.50 to $2.10, a rate of inflation at 40%.
The price of the bread increased more in 2022 than 2021, but the rate of inflation dropped from 50% to 40%.
The White House and Federal Reserve state, correctly, that inflation is likely to drop. However, the actual prices of the products are rising at a greater rate. This is the critical component of the inflation story that will remain with us throughout 2022. Inflation is not measuring the increase in the price of an item. Inflation is measuring the rate of the price increase as a percentage.
This is the context for the Federal Reserve to state today, they “hope” inflation slows down, because they are going to raise interest rates regardless of what is happening with the price of goods and services:
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. economy may be nearing a turn lower in inflation, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said on Wednesday, though he added he is still leaning towards a slightly faster pace of interest rate increases this year.
“I am very hopeful we are going to start to see that decline … There is some evidence we are on the cusp of that,” Bostic said in an interview with CNBC.
While Bostic still expects three quarter-percentage-point rate increases will be appropriate this year, he said: “I am leaning a little towards four. We are going to have to see how the economy responds as we take our first steps,” with an initial rate increase expected in March. (read more)
Energy prices rose approximately 40% throughout 2021, with gasoline increasing around 60%. It is likely that prices will increase even higher in 2022 than they did in 2021; however, the rate of price increase will be lower (the inflationary measure). This is why the backside of the inflation hurricane is actually stronger and more damaging to the middle class than the original front side impact.
Highly consumable goods like food, fuel and energy, will have even higher price jumps in 2022, but the rate of inflation may drop.
Last point. Remember, the Biden economic agenda (and the energy, trade, monetary, fiscal policy behind it) is what the Obama economic team always wanted to do; however, they were limited in execution, because they did not want Obama to suffer the political damage. With the disposable Joe Biden in office, their previous restraints are removed.
The economic team behind all of these policies do not know the scale of what damage will happen, but they do know the damage will be severe. The economic outcome is not as important to them as the underlying ideology they are chasing.
They justify the damage, amid themselves internally, by saying the ends (Green New Deal) justify the means (economic collapse), and that approach inherently makes Build Back Better a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The message here is right over the target. {Direct Rumble Link} Make it viral.
Every institution and agency are aligned against freedom, but they are the few – we are THE MANY.
They may control and twist the legacy and corporate media, but we are no longer reliant upon them to see what is happening, and what is happening is beautiful. WATCH:
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
The ongoing controversy over ivermectin continues. In Alabama, a retired Marine Corps veteran Dale Pufahi’s 87-year-old father in law had been diagnosed with Covid-19 and all other treatments had failed. A doctor prescribed ivermectin for the ailing octogenarian but when Pufahi went to the pharmacy to pick up the medication the pharmacist asked Dale why his father-in-law needed the drug. Pufahi said it was because his father-in-law had COVID-19. The pharmacist, Deborah Collette, then refused to fill the prescription saying the medication was no longer in stock. Dale reminded Collette that they had spoken about an hour prior and that she confirmed that they in fact did have ivermectin at this Kroger pharmacy. Finally, the pharmacist admitted the drug was in stock but still refused to fill the prescription. When Dale asked why, the response was because the pharmacist’s mother had a bad reaction to ivermectin. But did this pharmacist have the right to withhold the prescription due to her own personal experience with this drug? After several attempts and refusals by the druggist, Pufahi left and a few days later found another pharmacy to fill the prescription. But during the time it took to finally secure the prescription filled, Dale’s father-in-law’s condition worsened and has now deceased.
Because of the frustration of the incident, Pufahi wrote a letter to the Alabama Board of Pharmacy and filed a complaint which triggered an investigation. The board response letter, authored by the Director of Compliance Cristal Anderson, Pharm D, declared there were “no regulatory violations that could be determined during the course of the investigation”. The board also said they appreciated Pufahi’s position but had to adhere to Alabama law. Yet the letter, included herein as an attachment, failed to disclose the true matter according to Mr. Pufahi. They completely ignored the facts upsetting Mr. Pufahi who approached the TrialSite. Why would the Director of Compliance completely ignore the nature of the complaint in her investigation? Did Pufahi, a U.S. armed services veteran not deserve an honest and straightforward response?
The American Pharmacist’s Association (APhA) maintains “pharmacists have the right to refuse to fill medications—especially ivermectin-containing products—if they believe that it is not being used for a legitimate medical purpose, even if the dosing is appropriate for another FDA-approved indication.” The pharmacist’s association also warns against “misinformation”.
Dale Pufahi’s case is not unusual. At one time earlier in the pandemic, physician-prescribed ivermectin was easy to find in pharmacies and many front-line physicians are certain that this has saved thousands of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. But since prescriptions for the drug skyrocketed with a growing awareness that the generally low-cost antiparasitic drug may help treat COVID-19, the drug has suddenly become “unavailable” in many pharmacies. Apparently, pressure has come from the Biden administration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and at least certain players in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) not to fill prescriptions for the medication. In fact, TrialSite reported in “Feds Coming After Doctors & Pharmacies that Market Ivermectin as Effective & Safe for COVID-19” that the federal government was warning national pharmacy and physician board associations to pressure members not to prescribe or fill ivermectin prescriptions.
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This was on the basis that the FDA only recommends the drug for clinical trials. But what about a physician’s right to prescribe an approved drug off-label? Apparently, those rights have been usurped by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now pharmacies merely claim the drug is not “approved.” TrialSite conducted a pharmacy survey back in October revealing access to the therapy was severely diminished.
TrialSite’s founder Daniel O’Connor reports that “We now have multiple examples of evidence where even when doctors are prescribing ivermectin for bad cases of scabies they are rejected by insurance companies who are monitoring for ivermectin use.”
Several state legislatures have moved forward with bills to allow ivermectin to be prescribed as treatment for COVID-19. In one case, in Kansas, a state senator proposing the change in the law is a doctor who prescribed the controversial drug for a patient. There is a paradox here. In many cases when the prescription for ivermectin is filled it’s paid for by a health insurance company. A recent study by the University of Michigan found insurance companies had paid at least $130 million in ivermectin prescriptions as reported by TrialSite.
Despite government and pharmacists’ objections to ivermectin, the so-called “horse de-wormer” is still being prescribed and the controversy over the drug continues.
In the meantime, Mr. Pufahi is both furious and saddened at the same time, telling TrialSite’s Daniel O’Connor “It’s time to vote politicians out that don’t have the patient’s interests in mind.” Pufahi shared with TrialSite he has never seen anything like this in America—it’s like an evil cloud has blown over the country, he suggested. Pufahi was prescribed an approved drug by a licensed physician, yet because of a confluence of political, economic, and healthcare agendas, the Kroger pharmacist, undoubtedly under pressure from above, rejected his legitimate prescription. The Alabama Board of Pharmacy could have at least dealt with Pufahi in a straightforward manner, addressing his real complaint. Rather they completely bypassed his grievance.
Jennifer Morgan of Greenpeace has been behind Greta Thunberg, and I believe was caught even writing her speeches. She is friends with Al Gore who succeeded in inserting Greta into the movie on Davos, “The Forum.”
Now the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has brought Greenpeace’s boss Jennifer Morgan into the German government. It will soon be time to just turn the lights out on Germany, and hence all of Europe. Morgan, an American, has been brought in to the Federal Foreign Office as a special representative for international climate policy. This climate conspiracy states that Jennifer Morgan, despite being an American, will later become Secretary of State.
The entire problem with this climate agenda is they are ONLY focused on eliminating fossil fuels and in Germany they are also against nuclear. If you burn wood that still releases CO2, so it is impossible to eliminate CO2 and stay warm in winter.
Because Morgan is an American, she will initially occupy the post of a special representative. She will later become State Secretary in the Federal Foreign Office. Morgan is receiving German citizenship to become Secretary of State. She has ZERO experience in military or geopolitical affairs. She has been the head of Greenpeace since 2016. She will prepare the annual world climate conferences. Her only focus will be to end fossil fuels in Europe.
Shrinkflation is here to stay now that inflation has reached a 39-year high. It will be impossible for the Fed to tame the monster politicians have unleashed by COVID restrictions, not artificially lowering rates that have been in place for over a decade. Political governments could take immediate action to help the current supply chain crisis which they created, but they lack any competence to understand even what they have done. Shrinkflation, by the way, occurs when products remain the same price or rise, while the product size decreases.
“Portion sizes are shrinking. Prices are going up. It’s just insane what’s happening in the restaurant industry,” former McDonald’s USA CEO Ed Rensi told Fox News. “It’s also true of every other small business. They’re all suffering terribly from this federal inflation.” Yet, McDonald’s saw 7.5% growth in Q4 2021. Regardless, the fast-food giant is recommending that franchises raise their costs between 6% to 6.5% next year.
“The biggest single problem we’ve got is the…truckers shortage and a disruption of imports coming into this country,” Rensi added. “This truckers’ situation is enormous and is having a big impact.” So while the jobs situation is improving, with the US boasting a 4% unemployment rate, the mandates have devoured the supply chain.
As for other examples of shrinkflation, Chobani decreased its flip yogurt by 15% in size. Crest decreased its whitening toothpaste from 4.1 oz to 3.8 oz, while Gain decreased its laundry detergent from 165 FL OZ to 154 FL OZ. Inflation is so severe that products are increasing in price while shrinking in many instances. Barilla pasta formerly sold its spaghetti for under a dollar at 454 g, yet decreased the package to 410 9 and increased the price by nearly 100%. This level of inflation is completely unsustainable and consumers are suffering the consequences.
As former CEO Rensi said in his insightful interview, “Let’s lighten up a little bit, let our bodies handle it, instead of government handling it.” End the mandates to help boost the suffering supply chain that is contributing to inflation. This is one variable that the government has instant control over.
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