Reports Surface of CDC Overcounting U.S. Vaccine Rates


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 18, 2021 | Sundance | 332 Comments

This is likely not surprising to many Americans; however, Bloomberg {LINK} and now Axios {LINK} are reporting that official U.S. CDC vaccination rates are considerably overstated.

The issue stems from exceptionally high previous vaccination rates reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that remained static despite the same CDC reporting that vaccines continued.

Common sense would ask: if vaccination rates were long-ago in the 99% range for  age-groups the CDC reported, then how could the CDC continue assigning hundreds of thousands of new vaccinations into the group?   Thus, downward revisions are now being made to reconcile the issue.

Anecdotally, this would align with several tangential datapoints which have always seemed to be in conflict with the preferred government narrative.  Additionally, there’s also an obvious motive on behalf of the government to overinflate vaccination in order to generate peer pressure and the self-fulfilling prophecy needed to garner vaccine acceptance.

As now noted by Bloomberg:

[…] “CDC data show 240 million people with at least one shot, or about 72.5% of the population. But the agency says only 203 million are fully vaccinated, or 61.3%, an 11-percentage-point difference that is far larger than in other developed countries.

State and local officials say it’s improbable that 37 million Americans got one shot without completing their inoculations. Instead, they say, the government has regularly and incorrectly counted booster shots and second doses as first doses.” (more)

Perhaps this disparity reconciles why many people look quizzically at the high vaccine data while not finding any correlation to their own community, friends or family.  Indeed, there has always been a disconnect between the number of people the government reports as having been vaccinated, when contrast against the open admissions of those who have not wanted to participate in this wide-scale vaccination program.

Not only does this disconnect appear visible in the U.S., but clear examples of the seemingly odd disconnect also surface in Australia where the government vaccine mandate is perhaps the most extreme.

Vaccine hesitancy is not driven by pure opposition to vaccines in/of themselves; rather the commonsense hesitancy is driven by the reality of an mRNA vaccine potentially not being reversible if any long-term negative outcome was to eventually surface.

The unvaccinated population are essentially a real world control group, and in the interest of public disclosure, I am a member of that group.

Specific to the United States, we must also remember there is a large number, tens-of-millions of Americans, who have watched in real time how various institutions of government have been revealed to be corrupt.   Never before, in recent memory, have so many people lost trust in government institutions as a result of sunlight upon them.

Institutions including the U.S. Dept of Justice, the FBI and the various intelligence agencies, as well as corporate media, the U.S. education network, and now the medical establishment -writ large- have seen stunning collapses in trust and credibility.

The impact of the collapse in trust of those institutions is going to reverberate for generations. The issue of whether anything resembling their prior credibility ever being achieved again is an open-ended question for the next several generations.

Watching the metastatic virus of corruption and corporate influence infect the institutions of government is also not a unique issue for the United States.  Globally, one only has to glance around at the visible protests to see that trust in almost all government is now at its lowest point in memory.  That reality only provides more reason to doubt the vaccination rates being reported by those same corporate/government institutions.

The “we are doing it for your health” talking point seems absolutely ridiculous when you contrast that claim against the harm caused by the COVID dictates.  A solid argument can be made that the popular government deployed solution, totalitarian oppressions, has been far more detrimental than the virus itself.

Put all of that together with the visible anger amid the daily protests on almost every continent, and yeah, it makes sense to read that these vaccination rates are wildly over accounted by the government entities and institutions who have demanded them.

James Garrow, a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, which has worked with the state to blend data sets for a more accurate view of vaccination trends, said “we don’t have any faith in the numbers on the CDC website, and we never refer to them.”

As Neil Oliver has stated frequently, “We are the many – they are the few.”  And given that reality, there must be a great deal of fear amid a group of politicians that eventually they will be overwhelmed.  Indeed, the need for control is a reaction to fear.

I am reminded of Poland in the mid 1980’s.

Good News, Politico Is Rallying Support for Mitch McConnell


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 18, 2021 | Sundance | 155 Comments

At first glance, it might seem odd to think that Politico diminishing the MAGA movement in defense of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a good thing.  However, in the background of that motive exists the reality – they need to defend him.

…”And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”…

The story of Mitch McConnell as leader of the GOP DeceptiCon wing is well known on these pages.  Heck, for ten years we frustratingly battled against the members of our own team infected with ‘battered conservative syndrome.

Mitch controls roughly 20 members of the Republican wing in the Senate.  It’s the same names that repeatedly surface whenever Democrat legislation is supported, or rule changes are made, to support the goals and objectives of the UniParty in the upper chamber: Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney.

The Politico article is basically saying that despite Donald Trump’s repeated attacks against McConnell, the DeceptiCon senators have not followed any effort to replace the minority leader; which, when you know the nature of the system, is not surprising.

[…] To date, just two prominent GOP Senate candidates have called for McConnell’s ouster — Kelly Tshibaka, an Alaska Republican who is challenging incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Eric Greitens, the former governor of Missouri who is running for a seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Roy Blunt. (link)

The good news is that Donald Trump and more Republican voters now see through McConnell’s schemes and manipulation.  Thus, it takes a left-wing outlet like Politico to try and run cover.

Several DeceptiCon senators have already announced they will not run for re-election in 2020 [Shelby, Toomey, Burr, Portman, Blunt].  In the 2022 Senate races there are 34 seats up for grabs.  14 are held by Democrats and 20 are held by tenuous Republicans.  [Breakdown Here] Those exiting senators, among others, know what McConnell’s objective is.  They also know this time the damage is far greater than previous times McConnell set about to destroy the base of the party.

Most casual political observers have absolutely no idea how McConnell works.  However, for over a decade CTH has been trying –slowly succeeding– to awaken the base of commonsense voters.  In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the #1 priority for McConnell was to destroy the threat represented by the Tea Party.  In 2022 we are seeing an exact replay of the same intents and purposes, only this time the target is President Trump’s MAGA movement.

It is a motive and agenda all wrapped up in the Senate power structure.  McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty Senate does not matter to those underneath it.  McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority; factually, he makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them.  The entire thing is a rigged game.

Through his power structure, McConnell directly controls about 16 Republican Senators, we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney].  He also has four more that can join him when needed.

To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles CNN Part I and CNN Part II  – both showcase how McConnell works.   Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].

McConnell must preserve the trough.  Corporations (special interest groups) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.

Within every step of the process, there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial waypoints to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.

When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch, and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation, they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.

Yes, Democrats are the opponents; they are ideological enemies to freedom. However, Mitch McConnell is the man who builds the Trojan Horse.

The most transparent example of how DeceptiCon McConnell operates was the Trade Promotion Authority authorization that Mitch constructed in 2015 to help then President Obama advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.

The pragmatic conservative base of GOP voters were against the TPP, because we could see how the trade deal would lead to more job losses in the U.S.  However, the Obama White House, Wall Street DeceptiCons and Democrats needed to support it as required by their multinational donors.

Mitch McConnell created a legislative pathway for Obama to unilaterally construct a trade agreement by flipping the votes in the Senate under Trade Promotion Authority.  Instead of Obama needing 60 ‘yea’ votes to support TPP, Mitch flipped the terms so that Obama needed 60 ‘nay’ votes to deny TPP.   That’s what Trade Promotion Authority bill was really all about.

McConnell sneakily created a system so that all Republican Senators could give their base the illusion of voting against Obama’s TPP trade agreement, and yet the agreement still passed (which is what they wanted).  That’s the way the DeceptiCons roll.

If you think this sounds similar to how Mitch recently helped change Senate rules so that Democrats could raise the debt ceiling on their own, you would not be wrong.

WASHINGTON DC – […] The Senate minority leader spent Tuesday selling his members on a convoluted strategy that would require at least 10 Republicans to approve legislation that would later allow Senate Democrats to raise the debt ceiling by a simple majority vote. After a leadership meeting and a Senate GOP lunch, McConnell said he’d done enough work to clinch the deal in a vote expected on Thursday. (read more)

So the Senate DeceptiCons once again *claimed* to be against the multi-trillion ‘Build Back Better’, fundamental change, spending bill.  Yet they have facilitated the Democrats not having to negotiate or eliminate anything inside the BBB bill, by removing the leverage of the debt ceiling raise.

Yep, Uniparty gotta Uniparty – all courtesy of the Senate DeceptiCon caucus.

This, and the Machiavellian scheming and conniving they do to hide their UniParty alignment, is why I have openly said for 15 years, I hate them.

New York State Assembly Advancing Legislation to Create Involuntary COVID Quarantine Camps


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 18, 2021 | Sundance | 319 Comments

Admittedly, it takes quite a bit to raise my blood pressure, but this is one of those real-world issues that does it.  There are a lot of really good people in upstate New York and outside the boundaries of that crazy city they are best known for.  The New York state assembly passing a bill [A416 LINK HERE] to set up involuntary COVID quarantine camps needs to be stopped right now.  This is nuts.

The bill is obtuse in the extreme, and grants the state permission to remove and detain someone defined as “a significant threat to public health.”  Those of you who have watched the creation of Quarantine Camps in Australia, and those who noted the ongoing activity in Australia seems designed to be a beta test for the USA, will quickly see the common thread with this proposal in New York.

The bill, A416, was originally introduced in January 2021 and made its way into committee.  According to The National Pulse, New York is about to vote on this bill on the floor on January 5, 2022 (about three weeks away).  You can provide feedback directly at the public link to the proposal [SEE HERE]

I am a firm believer in federalism, and the independent right of states to construct their own laws and choices.  However, that said, it is also important for everyone to stand up for our brothers and sisters, regardless of their location behind enemy lines, and assist them in the fight to retain their own freedom when possible.

Good grief, is there anything more anti-freedom than arbitrary power given to a governor and state bureaucracy that will enable the state to force people into detention camps.

The bill also says the government can, “require an individual who has been exposed to or infected by a contagious disease to complete an appropriate, prescribed course of treatment, preventive medication or vaccination.”  That seems like this bill gives the state the right to detain anyone they want and forcibly vaccinate them.

It seems unfathomable that New York citizens would grant the government this much power over their lives.  However, given what we are witnessing in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe, our confidence that this New York legislative effort will not succeed is considerably less than it was a year ago.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Pravda…. Everywhere You Turn


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 18, 2021 | Sundance | 142 Comments

Interesting short segment from Sky News interviewing the smiling U.K. Health Minister Gillian Keegan about the intense U.K. response to the Omicron variant and the new restrictions announced by government officials.   Great Britain is preparing for hundreds-of-thousands of Omicron cases.

Video prompted to 05:42 just watch for around 45 seconds. No commentary from me needed. WATCH:

Ivermectin: The Ongoing Court Sagas


TrialSite New Staff Posted originally on December 17, 20213 Comments

Ivermectin. The Ongoing Court Sagas

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In what seems to be a daily occurrence, ivermectin is being administered to a COVID-19 patient after yet another legal battle. TrialSite News reported on Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, being held in contempt of court for the facility’s refusal to administer ivermectin to one of its patients, Kathleen Davies, as she struggled for survival with a severe case of COVID-19. Davies had been on a ventilator since November 3rd even after her doctor had prescribed ivermectin as a treatment. The hospital refused to administer the drug, claiming there wasn’t any “medical, legal or pragmatic basis” for doing so. Her adult children had to lawyer up.

Ralph Lorigo, the Buffalo, NY-based attorney who’s been profiled by TrialSite News, stepped in to help the Davies family. Lorigo and Christopher Davies, Kathleen’s son, filed suit against Fauquier Hospital. According to The Washington Post, Fauquier County Circuit Court Judge James P. Fischer ruled against the hospital and allowed ivermectin to be administered to Mrs. Davies. The judge didn’t rule on the efficacy of ivermectin but cited the “Right to Try” laws that allow terminally ill patients to use “unproven cures” when all other options are exhausted. 

This all happened after the court issued a contempt order against Fauquier Hospital, threatening the facility with fines of $10,000 to $50,000 per day. Ivermectin is, apparently, a “flashpoint” for the court system in the United States. TrialSite News has reported on several successful lawsuits against hospitals for the administration of the controversial drug. In some of these cases, ivermectin has saved lives.

But there still is hospital resistance to the use of ivermectin. In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Judge Richard M. Hughes III has denied an emergency injunction to force PA-based Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center to use ivermectin on a covid patient. According to The Morning Call of Lehigh Valley, Pa., Karen Ostopick has been on a ventilator since November 24th. The attending physicians have offered “no answers of their own” and refuse to administer ivermectin. Once again, this case has fallen under the purview of Ralph Lorigo who filed the petition to get the hospital to administer the drug. The patient’s daughter Katelyn Ostopick is a health care proxy for her mother. Katelyn secured a prescription from a licensed physician for ivermectin and offered to sign a document releasing Geisinger Hospital from any liability. The judge found no compelling evidence that administering ivermectin “will restore the patient to any previous status quo.” No decision on an appeal has been made.Subscribe to the Trialsitenews “Ivermectin” ChannelNo spam – we promise

Apparently, until there is a consensus on ivermectin, lawsuits will continue. Until then, is this a story that will be repeated? What about the patients? If the hospital protocol doesn’t work and the patient’s family signs a release of any liability claims, why on earth wouldn’t the hospital at least work with the patient’s family to try to save the patient’s life?

Facebook Fact Checkers getting Fact Checked


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We really have desperate need of independent investigation of both government and Facebook. But the likelihood of an honest investigation is up there with admitting that climate always changes and there is no global warming. The Office of Inspector General is really the ONLY hope of ever having anyone investigate the government. People ask all the time what can we do? The Biden Administration is as corrupt as it can possibly be and I am not talking about Biden and his family. I believe they use that to ensure that they get to do whatever they want and Biden will look the other way or find himself and id son the first criminally charged President in history.

The Office of Inspector General should be inundated with demand to investigate the connection between BigPharma, the government, and the fact-checkers of Facebook who are costing people’s lives. One of the more respected medical journals that called into question Pfizer’s questionable trial data had their articles black-listed by Facebook. Anything that questions this agenda is black-listed. There is something seriously wrong here and the corruption runs very deep. Without overthrowing the Biden Administration, there is ZERO chance of the Department of Justice doing anything to protect the people against this corruption.

Los Angeles Police: “We Can’t Guarantee Your Safety”


Armstrong Economics Blog/Crime Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The head of the LA Police Protective League, Jamie McBride, has issued a strong warning to tourists — do not visit Los Angeles. After successfully defunding the police, the city has become rampant with crime. “We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie ‘Purge,’ you know, instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these people have 365 days to commit whatever they want,” McBride said.

In October, homicides in the city had increased by 17%. “They’re compounding,” Moore said of city killings. “Homicides are up 17%, and people will say, ‘Well, many other cities are actually higher.’ But when we look over a two-year period, they’re up 49%.” During the same period, there had been 1,202 shooting victims, marking a 20% increase from the same period a year prior, and a 50% increase from 2019.

Los Angeles is one of many US cities facing a surge in crime. The politicians who feel it is unnecessary to fund police departments drive around with heavily armed security guards in bulletproof cars. Resources need to be allocated to stop this rise in VIOLENT crimes across the nation.

Super Saturday Shopping


Armstrong Economics Blog/North America Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

A shopper takes part in Black Friday sales at a Target store in Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 27, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

Retailers have their eyes set on Super Saturday, the last Saturday of December to shop before Christmas. Yes, consumerism is still strong enough to require a third shopping-related holiday in December after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates 148 million consumers will be purchasing gifts this Saturday, down slightly from last year’s estimate of 150 million.

The NRF anticipates that the average consumer will spend $997.73 on holiday purchases this year. Consumer behavior has shifted this year due to supply chain crisis fears. Around 180 million Americans purchased gifts during the five-day period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Not to be outdone, the NRF believes sales during the week following Christmas will increase between 8.5% and 10.5% to between $843.4 billion and $859 billion. Sales during the overall 2021 holiday season are expected to increase 11.5% from the last holiday season. This is why around two-thirds of America’s GDP is consumer spending.

Pelosi Fleeing to Florida?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Pelosi appears to be preparing to retire. Pelosi said in response to the infrastructure bill, “I just told members of my leadership that the reconciliation bill was a culmination of my service in Congress because it was about the children.” In Washington lingo, they call the “c” word the retirement hint. She has been pushing this Build Back Better bill and there are democrats rejecting this disaster.

Pelosi has been spotted looking at property in Naples Florida. It looks like she is going to retire but she is going to flee California herself for the taxes there are devastating and will only get far worse. The state has been bleeding the high-end taxpayers well beyond Elon Mush. Pelosi’s district, San Francisco, has increasingly devolved into crime, mass homelessness, and open drug use. Some of the city’s historical family residents have been fleeing in search of greener pastures in Texas and Florida. I find it to be the most hypocritical position to have Pelosi retire in Florida, an increasingly Republican state, which amounts to the ultimate example of a limousine/private jet liberals fleeing the consequences of their own policy preferences. She has spent a career bashing the rich but will retire with more than $100 million in assets fleeing to one of the 7 states with no income tax, strongest economy, and stores that are not the targets of wholesale gang shoplifting sanctioned by law.

6th Circuit Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

The White House fearmongering over the Omicron variant appears to have influenced a judicial review of the federal vaccine mandate. Perhaps, this explains part of the fear-porn motive.  [Court Opinion pdf Here]

More than two dozen legal challenges to the federal vaccine mandate for employers over 100 employees were consolidated into the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.  That federal appeals court has reinstated Biden vaccine mandate for U.S. workers.

OHIO – A federal appeals court has reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine and testing requirement for private businesses that covers about 80 million American workers.

The ruling by the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted a November injunction that had blocked the rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which applies to businesses with at least 100 workers.

In the decision Friday, the 6th Circuit noted that OSHA has historical precedent for using wide discretion to ensure worker safety and “demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers—unvaccinated workers in particular—in their workplaces.”

[…] “COVID-19 is spreading in workplaces, and workers are being hospitalized and dying,” the Justice Department argued in a court filing on Friday. “As COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise and a new variant has emerged, the threat to workers is ongoing and overwhelming.”

[…]  OSHA, which polices workplace safety for the Labor department, developed the vaccine and testing requirements under emergency powers that allow the agency to shortcut the normal rulemaking process, which can take years. OSHA can issue an emergency workplace safety standard if the Labor secretary determines a standard is necessary to protect workers from a grave danger.

The White House has repeatedly argued that Covid presents a grave danger to workers, pointing to the staggering death toll from the pandemic and rising Covid infections across the U.S. (read more)

Was the judicial branch influenced by a highly political medical establishment pushing the administration talking points that Omicron will kill people?   It would appear from the appeals court ruling [pdf here]; the answer is yes.

How do we know the U.S. medical establishment is politically motivated on behalf of their allies in Big Pharma?

Consider this recently released email from NIH Director Francis Collins:

A Nobel Prize winner and two renowned epidemiologists from Harvard and Oxford University refute the COVID-19 narrative as pushed by Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH.

What is the response from the NIH?  To get someone to quickly to publish something, anything, that will “take down” the premise of their educated argument.

That my friends, is the essence of political motivation in the medical and scientific community.

The courts are staking their conclusions on a flawed predicate belief that national health services are operating in the best interest of the public health.  As a result of that false assumption, they trust the government to be looking out for the people.

“And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them.”…

…As a result, this long national nightmare continues.