Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 192 Comments
The totalitarian regime in Australia has created a real mess after they granted tennis superstar Novak Djokovic, the #1 player in the world, a visa to enter the country and play in the Australian Open, and then detained him at the airport, cancelled the visa, and announced they will forcibly deport him.
The Serbs have promised to fight the Australians in the streets.
Why? Because of Djokovic’s vaccination status, of course.
Australia – […] Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Instagram he spoke with Djokovic over the phone and told him that “the whole of Serbia is with him and that our authorities are undertaking all measures in order that maltreatment of the world’s best tennis player ends as soon as possible”.
“In line with all standards of international public law, Serbia will fight for Novak Djokovic, justice and truth.”
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said that Djokovic had failed to provide sufficient proof to receive a medical exemption to enter the country and insisted that the Serb was not “singled out” for scrutiny over his visa cancellation. He said: “Rules are rules, especially when it comes to our borders”.
Having landed on a commercial flight at Melbourne Airport around 12.30pm, the Serbian was detained for hours upon arrival, with news of his visa cancellation coming a full nine hours later. According to his father, Srdjan, Djokovic had initially been kept alone in a room with guards outside. “Novak is currently in a room which no one can enter,” he had told the B92 internet portal. “In front of the room are two policemen.”
Srdjan also told Australian breakfast show Sunrise: “They are holding my son captive. If they don’t release him in the next half an hour, we will fight them on the street.”
Djokovic had gleefully announced on Tuesday that he had been given an exemption from having to be vaccinated against coronavirus before boarding a 14-hour flight from Dubai to Melbourne. (read more)
In a fight between the Serbians and the Australians, it’s likely the less woke Serbians would win… Just sayin’.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 299 Comments
The U.S. government does not operate in a vacuum without knowledge of what is happening and a solid perspective on what is likely to happen. Whether they listen to the commonsense advisors, or whether the control officers intentionally keep counter positions away from the principle, is another matter; however, the officials generally know what is most likely to happen.
The White House put Port Envoy John D. Porcari, who is also intricately involved in the supply chain taskforce, on the podium today to discuss supply chain issues. The full video of his remarks is posted below, but my spidey sense is telling me they know what we know, and they are starting to prepare for what will ultimately become impossible to ignore. WATCH:
It’s not just a port issue, as we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality sector (2020 lockdowns), the advisors and bureaucrats triggered a cascading series of events inside the food supply chain.
I know it sounds weird to try and wrap your arms around, but those early decisions in 2020 created a problem that only a very few people could see and follow to its natural conclusion.
The 60/40 supply chain for food away from home (restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, cafeterias etc.), and food at home (supermarkets and grocery stores etc.), is not something you can just fiddle around with. {Go Deep}
Supply chains are challenging on their own. However, within the various supply chains, the supply chain for U.S. food distribution is the most complex supply chain in the world. There’s nothing even close. It was created by decades of free market operators following efficiencies of scale to produce the best, most wholesome and reliable food supply chain ever created. In many ways it is our best national security advantage.
The free-market distribution system would eventually overcome the problem and reestablish its efficiencies. However, given the scale of disruption -and the fact that catch up harvests are seasonal- it was obviously taking several years.
Most Americans were not aware going into the COVID mitigation effort that food consumption in the U.S. was a 60/40 proposition. Approximately 60% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 40% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).
Food ‘outside the home’ includes restaurants, fast food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 60 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort, the ‘food away from home’ sector was reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still needed to eat. That meant retail food outlets, grocers, would see sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.
The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue noted in 2020, “There are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”
Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February 2020: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.
This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts. As a nation, we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply chain across the country
The stored food supply is the originating resource for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc.
For almost four months in 2020, the retail supply chain was operating way beyond capacity, as most “food away from home” was turned off or severely limited. The burn rate of raw food products in storage jumped a stunning 40 percent. Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, started to run low as the various states kept making rules about restaurant capacity and venue availability due to COVID.
Believe me, we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out. This “bigger picture” was not being considered by politically minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focused exclusively on using the politics of the virus for control.
Here we are, two years later, and the currently empty shelves, in combination with layers of new short-sighted policy, are a downstream consequence of that originating disruption.
The best thing government could do to avoid a crisis would have been to do nothing. Just let people go back to normal, and that would have allowed the market process to eventually correct itself. However, they didn’t stop -and worse- the Biden administration started implementing massive policy changes (energy policy, regulatory policy, legislative policy, monetary policy) while simultaneously pumping COVID bailout money into the economy.
As the food sector tried to gain its footing, the wave of price increases driven by energy policy only made things worse. We have been seeing these staggering price increases at the grocery store. Then, at the worst possible time, the new Omicron narrative “a winter of death awaits” was pushed. Now, the labor side of the supply chain equation is hit even harder stressing out every facet of the food distribution system.
Instead of just preparing for massive price increases, we are now preparing for massive shortages in this most important sector.
People are starting to see completely blown-out empty shelves and slow replenishment. Soon, as a result of this situation worsening, there is very likely to be public pressure on government to solve the problem which, ironically and insufferably, the government intervention created.
How will the White House respond to demands that someone fix the problem of empty shelves?
You already know the answer to that question, and it isn’t good.
Here’s the full presser with John D. Porcari (prompted):
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 663 Comments
Oh dear, this statement by Senator Ted Cruz is going to put Ms. Julie Kelly in quite a pickle. Earlier today, Senator Cruz called the J6 protesting groups a bunch of “violent terrorists … who should go to jail for a long, long time.”
Readers of these pages will not find this mask slip by Cruz to be a big surprise; however, for the legions of Cruz-bots, who have avoided watching him turn into a wolfman type hybrid, literally, this could be problematic. You only need to watch the first few seconds of this one minute video to see where Senator Cruz stands. WATCH:
If the 2016 RNC convention speech didn’t shake off his supporters, perhaps this latest revelation will. Wolfman Cruz is one small nudge to the right of the one-eyed Cheney from Texas.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 253 Comments
Serrez plus fort, mes amis – squeeze harder. This only ends one way.
The communist leftists in France have always had a problem with their citizenry. Their biggest challenge is that France, has a strong historic sense of nationalism. The modern political left in Europe has worked earnestly to erode that cultural truth, and the leftists in the U.S. have tried to assist them throughout. This is the essential reason why the U.S. State Department deployed the “Rivkin Project.”
Like Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron was installed by the larger assembly of Vichy Communists; and just like the previous Tea Party rose up to confront President Obama, in France the Yellow Vest movement appeared to confront President Macron. We are finally at a time where people are able to see these connective tissues, and that my friends is a very good outcome.
We the people, those who understand the deepest values of nationalism in the cultural and political battle against globalism, need these installed leaders to remain visible.
We need them to squeeze harder because every time they do, more people awaken.
French President Emmanuel Macron feels emboldened by the rise of COVID fear. Pretenses are being dropped as these words were spoken yesterday about the citizens of France:
(EuroNews) […] Macron told Le Parisien that he had decided to act against the non-vaccinated, by “limiting as much as possible their access to social life activity”. “The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, to the bitter end. That’s the strategy,” the head of state said. “When my freedom comes to threaten that of other people, I become irresponsible. An irresponsible person is no longer a citizen.”
The president’s language is being seen as an inversion of a comment by one of his predecessors Georges Pompidou, who said it was time to “stop pissing off the French people” in 1966 when he was prime minister.
“I am not going to put them in prison, I am not going to forcibly vaccinate them,” Macron went on. “Therefore you have to say to them: from January 15 you can no longer go to a restaurant, you can no longer go for a drink, you can no longer go for a coffee, you can no longer go to the theatre, you can no longer go to the cinema,” the president said. (read more)
Barack Obama was installed; the American people are starting to realize.
Justin Trudeau was installed; the Canadian people are starting to realize.
Jacinda Ardern was installed; the people of New Zealand are starting to realize.
Emmanuel Macron was installed; the French people are starting to realize.
Ursula von der Leyen was installed; the people captured by the EU are starting to realize.
And yes, when they installed Joe Biden, they went too far, and this installation process started to become transparent.
The beta testing for the globalist (World Economic Forum) controlled and installed efforts became highly visible to many close observers when Barack H. Obama traveled to Cairo, Egypt and triggered the beginning of what became known as “The Arab Spring.” There it was the visible delivery of what we knew was taking place, but for the first time it was transparent which processes they were deploying.
The Obama visit to Cairo was needed, because it was around the same time when the socialist movement in the European Union was running out of financing for their multi-cultural experiment. The state department effort was coordinated by Charles Rivkin, hence the Rivkin Project specifically targeting the peskiest country for the globalists pushing multi-culturalism in the EU, France.
Now, thanks to various governments’ weaponizing COVID as a tool for control, people around the world are starting to sense and even see that something is controlling all of this – at least something is coordinating all of this. Indeed, the political exploits of the multinational corporate elites from Davos and the World Economic Forum are starting to become much more visible.
Squeeze harder I say…. this awakening needs more urgency. The line of acceptance is different for all people. We need the forces driving that line to move rapidly in order to assemble the largest army possible. Squeeze harder.
It takes moments of great consequence to overcome generational complacency. That is the opportunity we are being given with COVID-19 and the government exploitation of it.
The hidden totalitarian nature of government and the ruling class is being revealed, this is a good development for those who were trying desperately to get people to see it before.
I am optimistic, like the moment in the battle when the disproportionate brutality becomes visible, and the tides change in favor of victim. The cheers around the colosseum do not have to start out supporting the gladiators in order for the gladiator to ultimately become victorious. Indeed, any gladiator worth his salt knows the primary goal is to change the chant and instill fear in one gilded chair.
The need for control is a reaction to fear. Extreme measures to retain control are reactions to equally extreme senses of fear.
All around the world, right now, there are mini dictators tenuously clinging to power and trying to control a much larger mob. They have multitudes of advisors helping them, they have financial resources, and they have enforcers. However, just as Gaius Julius Caesar lost control with the entire Roman army around him, so too are these dictators and totalitarians subjects to a much larger citizenry.
Squeeze harder…. please, squeeze harder.
As fast as possible, we need to get to the point where we are finally going to deal with them. Simultaneously, they are trying to avoid being dealt with. Squeeze harder, says the slave gladiator as others surface to join the fight. Squeeze harder.
This will not end well for the ruling class. So, let’s get on with it…
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 194 Comments
It is not coincidental that Chicago becomes the place where the insufferable communist activist teachers become most visible in their attacks against parents and students. In the method of using the sector of education as a weapon, the Marxists in Chicago are the epicenter of communist ideology.
Chicago is Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and of course, Barack Obama. The teacher’s union in Chicago is a fully communist education movement, with an entrenched belief that all children belong to the grand communal outlook they represent.
So, it does not come as a surprise to see the Chicago Teachers Union tell the city officials ‘they are in charge‘ and they will dictate COVID policy.
CHICAGO – Classes were canceled Wednesday in Chicago, the country’s third-largest school district, as union leaders and city officials failed to reach an agreement over how to operate schools safely amid the surge in coronavirus cases – an impasse cemented with a late-night vote from Chicago Teachers Union that could lock students out of in-person learning until mid-January.
“Right now, going into school puts us at risk, puts our students and families at risk,” union President Jesse Sharkey said in a press conference Wednesday morning. “That’s the simple truth of the matter. This is a virus that’s raging through the city.”
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot rebuffed the claims by union representatives that the entire district should operate remotely until the rapid spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant subsides or until city officials enforce more stringent safety protocols.
“I cannot stand here in good conscience as the mayor of this city,” she said, “and tell you that it makes sense to shut down an entire system. If I thought it did, if I heard that from our public health experts, then I would be the first one to tell you that’s what we must do.” (read more)
Modern Democrats are communists. Their modern tools for power retention are based on Marxism. Their increased influence and success are the downstream consequence of their use of Barack Obama.
After decades of effort and positioning, using racism as a weapon, Obama became the tool and inflection point to mainstream communism as an acceptable political effort inside U.S. politics. Everything after, including the issues today with Omicron et al, is simply a consequence.
AOC has been partying it up on vacation in Miami, Florida while enjoying the freedoms that she denies to those in the state of New York. AOC has been spotted in numerous crowded public venues without a mask, hugging strangers, and certainly not socially distancing. This is the person who jumps on a soapbox at every opportunity to shove restrictions down the throats of Americans while completely disobeying her own rules.
“We hope you’re enjoying a taste of freedom here in the Sunshine State thanks to @RonDeSantisFL leadership,” a Team Desantis Twitter account tweeted. “Hasn’t Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks?” the confused politician snarkily replied. Yes, in fact, Governor DeSantis has been away aiding his wife as she undergoes chemotherapy treatments.
When AOC received continued criticism for her hypocrisy, she replied akin to a pre-teen child by accusing Republicans of secretly having a crush on her. You can’t make this stuff up.
“It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women, & LGBT+ people in general. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird,” AOC embarrassingly stated while failing to deflect blame. This woman is an embarrassment to American democracy and has become a sensationalized celebrity rather than a representative of the people.
AOC does not believe in the laws or restrictions that she blindly supports in an effort to be the most progressive of the progressives. It is not the first time she has been seen breaking the laws she imposes on others. This woman does not have the best interest of the people in mind, and no, the criticism does not come from a secret desire to date her. I would rather be alone for eternity.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has completely surrendered to Beijing after condoning the shutdown of Hong Kong’s last independent news outlet. Hong Kong police raided the Citizen News building on Sunday, seized all records, and arrested several board members and editors for conspiracy and sedition. Stand News and Apple Daily suffered the same fate for allegedly inciting hate and promoting fake news.
“Seditious acts and activities and inciting other people through public acts and activities could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting,” Carrie Lam said. “These actions are law enforcement actions. These actions have nothing to do with ‘suppression of press freedom’ or ‘suppression of democracy,’ as some will put it.” Lam went on to use the age-old excuse of “national security” being at risk as the truth would lead to civil unrest.
The people of Hong Kong no longer have access to independent news sources. The government has made it clear that anyone attempting to report the honest news will become an enemy of the state who is too dangerous to exist among society. The people of Hong Kong warned us in 2019 that if this tyranny happened there, it could happen anywhere.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 4, 2022 | Sundance | 75 Comments
[REPOST by request with note: We will get the December data in about a week from now]
You might remember: October 13, 2021, Joe Biden delivered widely carried remarks about specific actions his administration was taking to increase operations at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB).
Here we take a closer look at the claims since the original announcement, and then highlight the actual results from the ports. The port operations are actually doing worse today than they were in October. They are less efficient, less productive and have handled less freight in November than they did in October. The factual results are exactly the opposite of the administration claims.
The October 13, 2021, White House fact sheet is HERE, “announcing a series of public and private commitments to move more goods faster, and strengthen the resiliency of our supply chains, by moving towards 24/7 operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.” On November 17, 2021, the White House gave an update, “Recent Progress at Our Ports: Moving Cargo and Filling Shelves” and claiming the increased hours of operations were delivering on the White House expectations of increased productivity and offloading capacity.
Throughout these past 11 weeks, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg have been claiming their supply chain task force has been successful in generating exceptional results. They claimed changing the hours of operations increased the port capacity, specifically targeting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. However, if we look at the actual records from both ports, we find exactly the opposite:
Ports record their data in 20-foot equivalent units, or TEU’s. The Port of Los Angeles data shows they handled 468,713 import containers in October, and 405,309 in November. That’s a decrease of 63,404 import containers from the prior month. [DATA LINK]
The Port of Los Angeles is the largest port of the two. The POLA also showed a decrease in Total TEU’s handled (import and export). As you can see above, the total TEU’s handled in October was 902,643. The total TEU’s handled in November was 811,459.
That’s a decrease of 91,184 total containers handled. This is the exact opposite of what Biden, Harris and Buttigieg are claiming.
♦ Next, we look at the Port of Long Beach (POLB). [DATA HERE]
Again, we note the Total Loaded containers (carrying cargo) in October 2021, the month of the White House announcement, was 507, 214. In the full month of November 2021, the total of loaded containers handled was 472,215. That’s a decrease of 34,999 containers.
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There is a disconnect between what the White House, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are saying, and the actual results of what is taking place at the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles. They claim hours of operation have expanded to increase capacity, yet fewer containers are being handled?
Perhaps the administration did not expect anyone to check when they claimed on November 29th:
“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which handle 40 percent of the country’s containerized imports—continue to show improvement in moving containers out of the docks and into warehouses.” [White House link]
Despite what the White House Supply Chain Disruption Taskforce is claiming, the actual records from the ports do not concur. Someone is clearly lying, and/or not expecting anyone to check.
There’s a strong possibility they did not expect anyone to notice, because part of their logistical scheme involved telling the ship operators to wait further offshore so that it would give the illusion of less congestion near port:
CALIFORNIA – […] “Starting Nov. 16, ships waiting to anchor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will have to wait for a green light about 150 miles from the coast, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., the Pacific Maritime Assn. and the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in a statement Thursday. That compares with 20 nautical miles (23 miles) now. North- and southbound vessels must remain more than 50 miles from the state’s coastline.” (read more)
Apparently, what the White House taskforce did was to move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible. Then, it appears, the White House just started making up talking points about productivity at the ports increasing and capacities expanding; neither claim is based on facts that surface in the actual operations of the ports.
The outcomes speak for themselves. Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo and fewer containers in the first full month of the “new expanded operations” than they did in the previous month when the expanded operations were announced.
In order to remind ourselves how big an issue this was for the White House, watch the Biden announcement from October 13, 2021, again.
It looks like the media need to start asking questions….
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 4, 2022 | Sundance | 378 Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the November job openings and turnover data today [DATA HERE] showing 370,000 workers quit their jobs in November bringing the quits rate now to 4.5 million people.
From the report, “Quits increased in several industries with the largest increases in accommodation and food services (+159,000); health care and social assistance (+52,000); and transportation, warehousing, and utilities (+33,000).”
Over the 12 months ending in November 2021, hires totaled 74.5 million and separations totaled 68.7 million, yielding a net employment gain of 5.9 million for 2021. However, while the unemployment rate drops with fewer people working, the employment picture overall appears to be tenuous.
The FRED personal savings rate for Americans overall [DATA HERE] has been dropping rapidly since March 2021, the last federal COVID employment bailout injection. All of the federal assistance has created massive data skews in the savings rate, as federal subsidies gave an artificial boost to the U.S. savings rate.
It appears that the aggregate American worker is now using their savings, created by COVID bailouts, to offset the massive inflation created by the COVID bailouts. The net result is a workforce going into negative savings each month as inflation driven expenses (energy, fuel, food) are higher than earnings. This is an unsustainable situation.
There is obviously a large retirement factor in the quits rate; however, it does appear the vaccination mandate is also a major influence. Additionally, when talking about people living paycheck-to-paycheck, rapid inflation almost always causes job-jumping for workers to get higher wages.
According to the BLS data, in November the job openings rate decreased in small establishments with 10-49 employees. This could be due to employees returning to small business, and/or there are fewer small businesses around to be hiring.
The hires rate rate increased in very large employers with 5,000 or more employees. However, the quits rate increased in both small businesses with 1-9 employees and in medium-sized businesses (1,000 to 4,999 employees). The I9 contracted workers are also leaving small and mid-size employers.
Then comes a significant aspect, “both the layoffs and discharges rate -and the total separations rate- increased in the larger establishments with 1,000 to 4,999 employees.” This could indicate mid-sized businesses are starting to see contractions in sales or demand and lowering their payrolls. This outlook would match the productivity drops we noted last month.
(DECEMBER CTH) – “The value of all products and services generated increased by 1.8 percent. However, the labor cost of generating that small amount of added value increased by 7.4 percent. The difference between those two numbers is a drop in productivity of 5.2% over the entire quarter.
This is the largest quarterly drop in productivity since 1960 !
The Biden administration will blame the drop in productivity on a lack of material to produce the end product (ie. the COVID excuse). Which means employed people were sitting around waiting for goods to arrive and being less productive. There is a small amount of that which might be true. However, it is not the biggest factor, at least not on this scale. Keep in mind we are talking about both goods and services.
The more likely cause of such a massive decline in productivity is a genuine decline in demand. In the aggregate, consumers needed less goods and services. This likelihood aligns with the diminished and softened retail sales figures recently noted. It is a simple cause and effect. When gasoline, energy, and essential products like food cost more, consumers have less money for other stuff. Demand for the non-essential products drop.” (more)
When we look at the macro picture, things look a lot clearer than the financial pundits talk about.
After the March 2021 peak of savings rate (massive fed spending bill), sometime around June of 2021, the U.S. economy overall started to jam up. In May of 2021 the first round of massive inflation started, what the Fed and White House called “transitional”, but we noted it wasn’t.
Then, new home housing starts, and contracts for new homes yet to be built suddenly stopped; while at the same time (June/July 2021) new permits for construction dropped. From that moment forward prices for food, fuel and energy related products started a massive upward spike. Despite the Fed and administration “transitional” talking points, the prices continued to climb and inflation was growing month over month.
The middle class and working class started to really feel the inflationary pain in the second half of 2021. It was not the Delta variant driving this economic pain, it was inflation and the collapse of disposable incomes. By the time we go to November 2021, suddenly the low employment gains shocked the financial pundits. A few weeks later, we saw sales data from November go down, and retail hiring for the holiday season was non-existent.
Take a look at the timeline in hindsight. At exactly the wrong time last year, September 2021, Joe Biden mandated vaccination for all U.S. workers. The economic data was sending signals that things were tenuous, but no one was paying attention. The already tenuous economy and labor pool (economists ignoring) was hit with an ultimatum of forced vaccination or get fired.
It’s not a single factor leading to this quits rate data. As you can see, there is a snowball effect inside the data. Wages earned, including any pay raises, have been chewed up by much higher inflation. When we look back upon this economy in a year, I am quite certain we will identify the inflection point as June of 2021. That’s when things peaked and started to go down.
Keep in mind, inflation has a big impact on job turnover. When people feel inflation, they look for pay raises. Larger employers are slower to respond to pay raises driven by worker needs, and many have very structured pay raise guidance.
Ex. if a worker needs a raise (immediate inflation driven), and the boss or organization is less responsive (structured pay raise schedule or performance review), the worker can get a faster pay raise by quitting their employer and going to work at a higher entry wage rate with another firm. If the job market is tight, the worker can make much more doing this. This is called job-jumping. In my opinion, this is a big factor right now.
So, what does the labor market look like in your town? What is going on in/around your community and local economy? Are you seeing a drop in spending habits overall for the people around you? The workforce hunkering down, forced to spend savings to survive and dealing with massive rising costs, will ultimately lead to less employment.
As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.
What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large fraction of the population is completely unable to process new scientific data and facts demonstrating that they have been misled about the effectiveness and adverse impacts of mandatory mask use, lockdowns, and genetic vaccines that cause people’s bodies to make large amounts of biologically active coronavirus Spike protein.
These hypnotized by this process are unable to recognize the lies and misrepresentations they are being bombarded with on a daily basis, and actively attack anyone who has the temerity to share information with them which contradicts the propaganda that they have come to embrace. And for those whose families and social networks have been torn apart by this process, and who find that close relatives and friends have ghosted them because they question the officially endorsed “truth” and are actually following the scientific literature, this can be a source of deep anguish, sorrow and psychological pain.
It is with those souls in mind that I included a discussion of the mass formation theory of Dr. Mattias Desmet during a recent talk I gave in Tampa, Florida to an audience of about 2,000. As I looked out into the audience and spoke, I could see relief on many faces, and even tears running from the eyes of stoic men.
Unknown to me, someone recorded the speech and appended the vocal track to a series of calming images of natural landscapes, producing a video that has gone viral throughout the world. A link to the video, as well as some notes to clarify and supplement the talk are appended below. Many have told me that they find it very healing. I hope it may help you also.
A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr. Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the University of Ghent in Belgium. I think Dr. Mattias is onto something about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:
MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS
So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:
CROWD PSYCHOSIS
The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.
As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view. Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong.
Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms. It isn’t so easy with mass formation. Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative. This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19. The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution. Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.
Of course, the obvious example of mass formation is Germany in the 1930s and 40s. How could the German people who were highly educated, very liberal in the classic sense; western thinking people… how could they go so crazy and do what they did to the Jews? How could this happen? To a civilized people? A leader of a mass formation movement will use the platform to continue to pump the group with new information to focus on. In the case of COVID-19, I like to use the term “fear porn.” Leaders, through main stream media and government channels continuously feed the “beast” with more messaging that focus and further hypnotize their adherents.
Studies suggest that mass formation follows a general distribution:
30% are brainwashed, hypnotized, indoctrinated by the group narrative
40% in the middle are persuadable and may follow if no worthy alternative is perceived
30% fight against the narrative.
Those that rebel and fight against the narrative, become the enemy of the brainwashed and a primary target of aggression.
One of the the best ways to counter mass formation is for those against the narrative to continue to speak out against it, which serves to help break the hypnosis of some in the brainwashed group as well as persuade the persuadable middle to choose reason over mindlessness.
Dr. Desmet suggests that for something as big as COVID-19, the only way to break the mass formation psychosis is to give the crowd something bigger to focus on. He believes that totalitarianism may be that bigger issue. Of course, after COVID-19, global totalitarianism may be the biggest issue of our time.
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