Tag Archives: SARS-VOVID-2

Feb 10 2022

Suicide is now the Second Leading Cause of Death for Ages 10-35


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Feb 10, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

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.

Feb 10 2022

Freedom Convoy Border Blockades Expand, Justin Trudeau Cries for Help


February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 538 Comments

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:

Feb 10 2022

Canadian Liberals Deeply Worried They Might Lose COVID and Be Forced to Return to Normal


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 353 Comments

According to Canadian media, the Liberal party is deeply worried the Pandemic might end, and they will be forced to return to normal.

Anxiety over losing COVID-19 as a justification for their fear and worried state is creating even greater feelings of nervousness and trepidation.

Liberals are not yet ready to accept the loss of their pandemic sense, and the reality of having to live normally is a burden too great to contemplate.

CANADA – […] Psychology experts expect stress and anxiety to run high among those who remain wary of letting their guards down. It will take time for many to adjust, they say, but the quick approach some provinces are taking could make the transition more jarring.

[…] After two years of being told to avoid the virus, it will be hard for some people to switch their mindset, Joordens said.  Limited PCR testing, which previously helped indicate how much COVID-19 was circulating, adds another complicated wrinkle by removing some of the information people used to weigh their own risk. (read more)

The leftists are desperately hoping their Justin can protect them from having to experience a life without fear of a virus.  It is a very unsettling time for a Canadian Liberal, as the larger Canadian public are so easily willing to let go of the pandemic fear.  Greater compassion is demanded.

The Liberal members of Canadian politics are demanding more time, more time to prepare their delicate sensibilities, as the government will have less rules and regulations for them to follow.  Returning to life as an arbitrary endeavor, fraught with all its natural risks, is like forcing Canadian Liberals to fry bacon naked in the kitchen.

Fear is at the core of modern liberalism, and love/trust is at the core of conservatism. Modern liberalism, most commonly evolved to leftism, is about control. Conservatism is about self-empowerment.

Control is a reaction to fear. Think in terms or politics and society – the fear behind liberalism is the fear that someone might withhold things (opportunities, money, whatever) from me, fear that if you live your life in a way I dislike that it might affect my life, fear that if you get that job, there will be nothing left for me. Fear that if you make tons of money, it’s means there’s less money out there for me. So people who believe in leftist ideologies seek control as a means of trying to create guarantees and safeguards against those circumstances they fear.

Modern “liberals”, leftists, try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness. Which, as we know, is an endless quest. Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset, so that government can try to control others, will also – shocking – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.

The leftist believes the system must be perfected in order to enable success. Therefore, disappointment is channeled as anger and blame at the system. Voids are left to be filled by faith in the govt, which they surely then want to come in and “fix” things.

And therein lies the roots of love and fear respectively. For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he knows he has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the modern leftist, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve. Happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.

One blames himself. The other blames anyone and everyone but himself.

And there it is. There’s where the meanness comes from. The leftist ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” He constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, mean, blame-casting existence.

The need for COVID is a mental disorder.

(TWEET SOURCE)

Feb 10 2022

RCMP Again Threaten Enforcement Action at Alberta, Coutts Crossing Trucker Blockade


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 363 Comments

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.

Feb 10 2022

They Did It Again, White House Jen Psaki Proactively Frames Media for Tomorrow Inflation Data


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 153 Comments

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.

Feb 10 2022

Fed Hopes Inflation Moderates As Interest Rate Hikes Are Triggered


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 152 Comments

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.

Feb 10 2022

Viral Video, Freedom Will Win if Canadians Stand Together


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2022 | Sundance | 437 Comments

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.”

~ John Stuart Mill

Feb 9 2022

BRUSSELS – WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?


Posted originally on Rumble by TruthDeclared Published February 1, 2022

Feb 9 2022

Ivermectin Controversy Continues in Alabama


Posted originally on TrialSite New by StaffFebruary 1, 2022

Ivermectin Controversy Continues in Alabama

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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.  

Call to Action: See the letter here.

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Feb 9 2022

Greenpeace to Take Over Environment & Secretary of State for Germany


Armstrong Economics Blog/Germany Re-Posted Feb 9, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

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.

It is Time to Turn Out the Lights on Europe