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Once The Herd Has The Perception That The Rocket Ride Is Over, It Can Rapidly Become Self-Fulfilling

A report from Inside Nova in Virginia. “‘Demand fell for each type of home in November,’ Bright MLS analysts said. ‘The higher-priced single-family segment posted the largest drop, but still recorded ‘Moderate’ demand.’ Median home prices also were up, although November’s figure for Fairfax County ($593,000) was below its year-to-date figure ($640,000).”

The East Valley Tribune in Arizona. “Mesa City Council wrapped up a busy year on Dec. 8 by trying to jump-start a stalled residential project that’s now just steel skeleton in the heart of downtown. Construction on a ballyhooed residential complex on city-owned land on the south side of Main Street began in March 2020. So far, however, The Grid remains an idle construction site because of financial snags attributed to the COVID pandemic.”

The Los Angeles Times in California. “Pharrell Williams is getting serious about selling his Hollywood Hills home. The Grammy-winning artist just trimmed the price of his glass-covered compound in Laurel Canyon to $10 million, or $2 million less than he was asking last year.”

The New York Post. “Steve Hafner has sold his Chelsea condo at the beautiful and scandal-scarred Walker Tower at 210 W. 18th St. for $23.5 million. The sale price is half a million dollars off his 2016 purchase price of $24 million, and far less than its $28 million ask in 2017. The classic Art Deco building has been tied to the 1MDB Malaysian sovereign wealth fund scandal. A penthouse there was bought with the stolen funds for $50.9 million in 2014. It was seized by the feds and sold for a pittance – $18.25 million.”

From News Manchester in the UK. “Although this year has been named a seller’s market, there are still some hard-to-sell homes that sitting on Rightmove. A variety of properties across Greater Manchester, listed for one million pound and more, have failed to attract a sale.”

From Stuff New Zealand. “ANZ now expects house prices to fall 4 per cent by the middle of next year, before resuming milder growth after that. The country’s biggest bank had previously expected house prices to edge up 1 per cent overall next year, still below the rate of inflation. It said current housing supply growth was ‘far outstripping’ new demand, describing population growth as ‘anaemic’ with the border closed.”

“‘It’s looking like the shine is well and truly coming off the housing market, with weaker sales, tighter LVR restrictions and new consumer lending protections seeing mortgage lending rapidly drying up, even as new listings surged to multi-year highs.’The narrative around house prices had shifted to a ‘more pessimistic stance’ in recent weeks, ANZ said. ‘There are fewer people at open homes, and auction clearance rates have fallen.'”

“The 4 per cent drop it was forecasting by mid-2022 would only bring prices back to where they were in September, it said. ‘Re-winding the clock a few months for house prices may not be ideal for people who have purchased a property very recently.’ ANZ saw little risk of a pricing collapse. ‘Unless the wheels fall off the economy due to some unforeseen shock, we’re unlikely to see a sudden and deep decline in house prices.'”

The New Daily in Australia. “Wisdom has it that nobody rings a bell for the top of the market – but those with keen ears heard a certain tinkling around Sydney property last weekend. Some closer to the ground were picking up vibrations before that. The auction clearance rate falling into the low 60s on Saturday said residential real estate in Australia’s most expensive city was no longer a rocket ride – now, at best, more of a glide.”

“A trusted North Shore real estate agent reported in conversation before the weekend that the lower end of the market had quite suddenly and definitely turned. The higher end was still strong, but the expected pattern was for the weaker trend to work its way up the ladder. And the turn, as usual, catches out vendors’ expectations. Having watched their neighbours’ house sell for a record, a vendor expects to do at least as well, if not better.”

“After every Sydney boom though, once buyers shed their FOMO and TINA (Fear Of Missing Out and There Is No Alternative) though, prices can drop by a few per cent and plateau for years. Now listings are soaring, not only are there no new government incentives but there are pretty constant headlines about when, not if, the Reserve Bank will lift the cash rate.”

“Once the herd has the perception that the rocket ride is over, that the market is indeed cooling and could well fall a bit, it can rapidly become self-fulfilling. Some very silly prices have been paid and it now might pay to wait. The bad news is twofold: Sydney loses the ‘wealth effect’ it has been enjoying – the sensation of your home being worth so much more encouraging you to spend more; and the boom-bust fallout for the housing building industry.”

From Vision Times. “In addition to the debt crisis, real estate companies in China are also facing another headache – slowing home sales. According to a survey by the E-house China Research and Development Institution, unsold housing stock rose to 2.1 percent in November compared to a year earlier. Over 521 million square meters of housing inventories remained unsold for the month and 44.95 million square meters of supply was added in November which saw only 34.37 million square meters in home transactions by volume.”

“‘The biggest problem in current supply and demand is the prominent weakness in home transactions,’ the E-house report stated.”

The South China Morning Post. “China’s new home prices recorded their biggest month-on-month decline in more than six years in November. Some banks have offered a discount on interest rates to a select number of first-time buyers, as well as speeding up the mortgage application process, said Huang Tao, a project manager with Centaline Property in Guangzhou, another tier-1 city.”

“‘But this slight adjustment of lending rules is insufficient to boost buying significantly. Many homebuyers would prefer to stay on sidelines in face of the growing uncertainty in the property market,’ he said. ‘While new home prices have dropped 10 per cent in Guangzhou, there are nearly no transactions in the secondary market.'”

“‘New home prices fell for a third straight month, at a faster pace. This indicates the property market has gone from overheated to over-cooled,’ said Yan Yuejin, director of Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institute. ‘Home prices continue to fall largely due to slow sales amid slacking demand. This is also affecting Chinese developers, who are under severe pressure to shore up their cash flow,’ he added.”

From Bloomberg. “Turmoil in China’s junk bond market has been testing investors’ nerves – and that’s just concerning the debt they knew about. It turns out that property developers including China Evergrande Group, Kaisa Group Holdings, Fantasia Holdings Group and Agile Group Holdings also have lots of opaque liabilities that may or may not be reflected on their balance sheets, making it hard to assess the companies’ true credit risks.”

“Relatively short-term, high-yield obligations known as wealth-management products sold to retail investors, homebuyers and sometimes even developers’ own employees. Unlike wealth-management products offered by banks, those issued by developers are loosely regulated, if at all Public details are sparse on the value of products outstanding and their due dates.”

“Privately placed bonds, often issued by special-purpose companies with obscure names. One tactic to keep the debt off balance sheet – and off the radar of regulators – is to provide guarantees for the bonds that apply on all days except Jun 30 and Dec 31, when the developers compile their financial statements.”

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  2. ‘Privately placed bonds, often issued by special-purpose companies with obscure names. One tactic to keep the debt off balance sheet – and off the radar of regulators – is to provide guarantees for the bonds that apply on all days except Jun 30 and Dec 31, when the developers compile their financial statements’

    China-ron. This is the biggest financial clown car the world has ever seen.

      1. Do you remember the financial journalist who uncovered the first irregularity at Enron? All she did was look at the cash flow statement and ask, if you’ve got all this profit, where’s the cash? It all unraveled from there. I’d bet 5 bucks the same is to be found with these companies. No one is asking hey, where did that cash come from with no corresponding liability (or profit)?

        1. interesting …
          do we think that this applies to companies buying up realestate – like blackstone, goldman etc.

          I suspect that they are not being too transparent either. But dont have any evidence

  3. ‘Mesa City Council wrapped up a busy year on Dec. 8 by trying to jump-start a stalled residential project that’s now just steel skeleton in the heart of downtown’

    Here we go again Mesa. In the same paper even.

  4. ‘While new home prices have dropped 10 per cent in Guangzhou, there are nearly no transactions in the secondary market’

    Oh dear. While the media is putting their best face on, you can bet the people in the street are well aware of what’s going on. Open the gates!

    BTW, if you like photos of shacks and airboxes, the UK link has some. That one with the metal face is odd.

        1. Those are Seattle prices. TIs this a middle class or upper middle class tech worker neighborhood?

          1. One thing I noticed in London, that expensive real estate can be literally across the street from “council housing”. Meaning that your million pound townhouse can be just down the street from welfare housing, which in London is often chock full of vibrants.

  5. Real Journalists.

    New York Post — Inside the hypocrisy of media manipulators, censors who claim to fight misinformation (12/14/2021):

    “With $65 million in backing from investors such as George Soros and Reid Hoffman, the newly organized Project for Good Information also vows to fight fake news wherever it roams. As Recode reported, the group’s marketing materials claim, “Traditional media is failing. Disinformation is flourishing. It’s time for a new kind of media.” The project is run by Democratic operative Tara Hoffman, whose company ACRONYM created the app that spectacularly bungled the Iowa Democratic caucus vote in 2020.

    And as Ben Smith reported in The New York Times, the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University has been hosting a series of meetings with major media executives to “help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation.” Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologized for his platform’s role in spreading misinformation.”

    https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/hypocrisy-of-media-censors-claim-to-be-against-misinformation/

    Project for Good Information?

    Why don’t they just call it the Ministry of Love, as George Orwell originally named it?

    2. The globalist-funded Aspen Institute is launching a commission on “information disorder” led by such impartial arbiters of truth as MSM hack Katie Couric, who openly mused about “re-educating” 75 million Trump supporters. I see where you’re going with this, globalist scum. Anything non-Narrative Compliant will be officially labeled “disinformation” and banished from the Internet, if you get your way.

      https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/commission-on-information-disorder/

      1. “…about “re-educating” 75 million Trump supporters.”

        On Reddit ideas included 10-sec w/head in a paint shaker.

      3. And things were bad enough before the global narrative was enforced across the consolidated media outlets. Learned a lesson as a kid. We all happened to be hanging out on a corner and witnessed a car accident. Being kids we stayed until it was over, news vans gone. When I read the newspaper account, it bore only a slight resemblance to what we had seen.

        1. I’ve had similar experiences, having been a witness to something and then been shocked by the resulting fabricated “news”.

  6. The Virginia UHS have this T3 index. Check out the crater detail at the link.

    ‘Tesla is developing driverless cars on California’s public roadways using its own customers as test drivers and shrugging off test-reporting requirements — and, so far, the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles has been largely content to look the other way.’

    ‘But as drivers participating in the “beta test” post videos of their cars making potentially disastrous mistakes, state legislators are growing concerned about the danger that the DMV’s stance poses to other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and scooter riders.’

    ‘Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has repeatedly stated his intention to sell fully autonomous vehicles that owners can rent out as robot taxis.’

    ‘YouTube videos, whose veracity has not been challenged by Tesla, have shown FSD beta cars crossing double yellow lines and heading toward oncoming cars, failing to stop for road construction barriers and cars crossing the street, and steering toward metal posts and other common objects. One YouTuber described FSD’s errant steering as an “assassination attempt.” After FSD aimed the Tesla at another car, the driver said that “FSD tried to murder us.”

    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-11/is-teslas-full-self-driving-public-experiment-safe-legislators-want-answers-from-dmv

  7. Anecdotal: on some of the forms I reviewed and signed for the closing on my property in Southern Colorado last week, I am identified on the form as the “borrower.”

    This is hate speech. Implying that I borrowed money from, and pay interest to, a bank is a hate crime.

    Calling me a “borrower” is worse than calling me a Realtor or calling me a globalist.

  8. I got this from Wendy Rogers in Arizona:

    ‘Pima County had an unusually large number of anomalies for the size of the county. A private investigator who investigated the 2020 election and allegations of fraud had a lot to report.’

    ‘Liz Harrington reports: Canvass of 172 homes in Pima County found 62 early ballots where voter is not a resident 45 PERCENT were potentially fraudulent . And only 52% of houses responded.’

    ‘In fact, there were a number of towns with more registered voters than voting age population! Topawa, Arizona. Voting Age Population: 182. Registered “Voters”: 288. 158% Registration Rate. With single locations having 173 registered “voters”.

    ‘Then there’s this town: Welcome to Sells, Arizona. Voting Age Population: 1,375. Registered “Voters”: 2,762. More than DOUBLE registered voters than population.’

    ‘This one is my personal favorite: Frat house in Arizona has 27 registered voters. Their average age? 45.’

      1. Mark Brnovich is worthless. He isn’t going to do anything expect promise that elections will be fair if he is elected governor.

    3. ‘This one is my personal favorite: Frat house in Arizona has 27 registered voters. Their average age? 45.’

      hmm, maybe a disguised halfway house? when my kids were young I’d often take them to a nearby park to play:
      unknown to me, the Fair Oaks park on Fair Oaks & Madison was also a morning rec spot for a nearby offender outplacement home.

      which I only discovered, after several mornings of the park resembling a prison yard w/tatted-up males doing chin-ups on the monkey bars, by following the group walking to their home just down the street.

      the front of this group house had no identifying signs as such, which I’m sure would enrage the local Karen’s if publicly known. I just shrugged it off but was puzzling why the park suddenly turned into Folsom Prison exercise yard for an hour every day!

  9. ‘It said current housing supply growth was ‘far outstripping’ new demand’

    Wa? NZ is toast.

    I read the other day, but unfortunately didn’t save it, that K-da is currently building more shacks and airboxes than the US.

  10. So far, however, The Grid remains an idle construction site because of financial snags attributed to the COVID pandemic.”

    So now that the chickens are coming home to roost after years of Keynesian monetary fraud and profligate government overspending, it’s all due to the scamdemic?

  11. “ANZ now expects house prices to fall 4 per cent by the middle of next year, before resuming milder growth after that. The country’s biggest bank had previously expected house prices to edge up 1 per cent overall next year, still below the rate of inflation.

    New Zealand cucks elected a globalist Quisling, the loathsome Jacinda Ardern. Her globalist oligarch puppet masters in concert with their captured central banks have perfected the art of orchestrated boom/bust cycles to transfer the wealth and property of the soon-to-be-extinct middle class to the banksters and vulture funds. New Zealander FBs who bought into that country’s insane housing bubble have no inkling of how schlonged they are, once the Fed’s Everything Bubble bursts and the next Great Financial Crisis, aka the Great Muppet Reaping, is unleashed upon the formerly sovereign countries of New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Eurozone, the U.S., etc.

  12. “Once the herd has the perception that the rocket ride is over, that the market is indeed cooling and could well fall a bit, it can rapidly become self-fulfilling.”

    Charles MacKay: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

    “Some very silly prices have been paid and it now might pay to wait. The bad news is twofold: Sydney loses the ‘wealth effect’ it has been enjoying – the sensation of your home being worth so much more encouraging you to spend more; and the boom-bust fallout for the housing building industry.”

    This boom-bust fallout is what drives most of these debt-driven consumer-based economies. The fallout isn’t limited to the housing building industry, as we shall soon see.

    Some free investment advice: Go long on lawn chairs and popcorn.

  13. The DNC’s FBI Chekists can’t be expected to follow the rules.

    Four FBI agents ‘had sex with prostitutes while on assignment overseas and lied about it during a polygraph test’: Agents have since retired or quit

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10311733/Four-FBI-agents-sex-prostitutes-assignment-overseas-lied-polygraph.html

    A Department of Justice investigation has found four FBI officials had sex with prostitutes while on assignment overseas while a fifth agent attempted to, but failed.

    The findings go directly against policies of how FBI agents should behave with the policies of the Bureau and the DOJ outright banning employees or agents paying for sex at any time.

      1. four FBI officials had sex with prostitutes while on assignment overseas while a fifth agent attempted to, but failed.

        You could also interpret that as “attempted to have sex but couldn’t get it up.”

  14. ‘Unless the wheels fall off the economy due to some unforeseen shock, we’re unlikely to see a sudden and deep decline in house prices.’”

    Meanwhile, the central banks and oligarchs are putting the finishing touches on the next 2008-style Great Muppet Reaping.

  15. “Another cause of today’s instability is that we now have a society in America, Europe and much of the world which is totally dominated by the two elements of sovereignty that are not included in the state structure: control of credit and banking, and the corporation. These are free of political controls and social responsibility and have largely monopolized power in Western Civilization and in American society.
    They are ruthlessly going forward to eliminate land, labor, entrepreneurial-managerial skills, and everything else the economists once told us were the chief elements of production. The only element of production they are concerned with is the one they can control: capital.”

    — Professor Carroll Quigley, Oscar Iden Lecture Series 3, 1976

  17. Washington Post — An emotional Sergio Aguero retires because of heart condition (12/15/2021):

    “Six months after joining Barcelona in a high-profile transfer, Sergio Aguero has retired from soccer because of a heart condition.

    The former Manchester City player, one of the best strikers of his generation, wiped away tears and fought his emotions as he made the announcement Wednesday on a stage at Camp Nou.”

    Note that this article does not mention, once, that he was crippled by the alleged COVID vaccines.

    “And so his playing career ends at 33.”

    https://archive.md/OBnos

    Career ends at 33. I don’t even watch soccer, but this is yet another great example of the medical genocide these globalists are conducting.

    Happy twenty two month anniversary of “two weeks to flatten the curve.”

      1. RT — Hockey player dies from cardiac arrest after passing out during game (12/15/2021):

        “Sarmations player Alexander Frolov was on the sidelines during a match in the Russian amateur Night Hockey League (NHL) when he suddenly fell ill and fainted, organizers announced.

        Doctors and medics attempted to resuscitate Frolov during his ordeal while the game against the Crimean Wolves was taking place.

        He was on his way to an intensive care unit when he died because of a heart problem.”

        https://www.rt.com/sport/543250-hockey-player-death-russia-night-league/

        Dead at age 39.

          1. RT can’t math, his wikipedia bio says he was born in 1982.

            And mRNA or not, all of these vaccines are poison as far as I’m concerned.

            COVID ends when we decide it’s over. It ends when I walk into the grocery store sans mask and zero f*s given.

            COVID is over.

          3. Deplor, we’re talking about different Alexander Frolovs. Yes, there is a 39-year-old Alexander Frolov who played in the NATIONAL hockey league (NHL) for several American teams. The guy who died was a 63-year old player in the NIGHT Hockey League, an amateur fun league in Russia. In fact, the amateur team was in the Age 40+ Division, so a 39-year-old couldn’t play.

            https://tass.ru/sport/13202321
            (you can translate to English)

          4. Just give it up, playing a doctor when you’re only a secretary isn’t convincing. This entire Covid-19 spectacle is the biggest failure in the history of medicine. The vaccines and “prevention measures” have made millions sick and killed hundreds of thousands (most likely MILLIONS) of people who would not have died of Covid-19 otherwise.

            You sound like the maitre-d on the Titanaic making the last call for dinner service. IOW, idiot would be too complimentary an adjective in this situation.

          7. Whatever the topic you’re only a secretary is incorrect in oxide’s case, and a bit cringey.

            How about “Bottle Washer” instead? When Covid-19 emerged, suddenly everybody was an expert in the science of molecular biology, pharmacology, infectious disease epidemiology, vital statistics, hospital discharge data, virology, infectious disease and pulmonary medicine. Oxide isn’t an expert in any of these so being a “secretary”, accountant, lawyer, mechanical engineer, street sweeper, baseball umpire or actor makes no difference. These people are all just secretaries.

        1. Lockdown Lovers image file, 99.8 Percent Edition:

          https://ibb.co/44Tpm0x

          I’m on vacation (sadly, not in Florida) until after Christmas and we’re gonna have too much fun on this blog, people are gonna be calling the Fun Police on us!

          1. “fun police”

            London Breed, is that you again?!

            (ironic how it’s just “fun” when the overlords break rules but “criminal” for the hoi poloi)

    2. Six months after joining Barcelona in a high-profile transfer, Sergio Aguero has retired from soccer because of a heart condition.

      The English premier league is already suspending games because some clubs cannot field a complete team, due to covid outbreaks and other “reasons”. Note: the EPL is close to fully vaxxed. There is little doubt that Aguero is vaxxed. So, not only is his lucrative career over, he probably won’t make it to 40.

      1. Do Real Journalists really believe they can cover up on these incidents, indefinitely? EVERY DAY another young athlete is either forced into retirement or dies from this CCP Flu poison.

        We used to joke about “Real Journalists” on this blog but what they are doing is not funny at all.

  18. Real Journalists.

    Fox News — MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC ignore ousted CNN producer accused of child sex crimes (12/15/2021):

    “MSNBC, CNN’s closest liberal rival on cable, has not mentioned Griffin once since his arrest Friday, according to transcripts. ABC, CBS and NBC also failed to acknowledge the shocking charges on their morning and evening newscasts.

    Additionally, CNN did not address the controversy on the air.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-abc-cbs-nbc-ignore-cnn-producer-john-griffin

    Let’s call this what it really is: media pedophiles circling the wagons to protect their own.

    Hollywood has a serious pedophilia problem, going back decades and decades and decades.

    This is who the globalists are. This is what the globalists do. Globalists rape children. Globalists are kid f*ers.

    1. And on the subject of raping kids.

      “Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney raked in almost $55,000 from the same donors who fund the Lincoln Project, according to a Federalist analysis of public finance records.”

      https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/14/lincoln-project-donors-are-bankrolling-liz-cheney/

      Let’s be fair.

      RINO Republicans rape just as many kids as the Democrat Party rapes kids. If there was a contest between them to see who could rape the most kids, I wouldn’t place a bet on it, because it would be such a toss up.

      Sounds like a globalist thing…

      1. She’s going to be summarily tossed in next summer’s primaries and everyone knows it, including her. Her only chance is if there are more than one GOP challengers who could split the vote.

      2. a toss up

        It’s how our politicians are compromised and controlled. The farce that is Ghislane Maxwell’s trial with Maureen Comey as one of the prosecutors shows you that.

      4. “Sounds like a globalist thing…”

        It’s a human thing. I’ve seen managers use a company car for vacations, charge over-time while staying late to bang the copy room hottie, etc., we’re predators beneath the fancy suit.

        1. Adult males sexually abusing 9 year old girls (CNN) and 14 year old boys (the Lincoln Project) is not a human thing.

          Pedophilia is now the BRAND of the Democrat Party.

          FDR? Nope. JFK? Nope. Bill Clinton? Getting closer.

          When somebody says Democrat Party, the first thing everyone should think is raping some kids.

          2. People are gonna be killed. I’m fully supportive of their executions. Hit me up if a trap-door releaser is needed. I’ll find a way to “ease” it open real slow.

        3. It’s a human thing.
          Ask any young girl, or any woman for that matter. I have plenty of stories from riding the NYC subway for years. Hell, my mother had her own bunch of stories. Upsetting enough, but not be compared with pedophilia and human trafficking.

  19. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect Wednesday requiring all people to wear masks indoors in a bid to contain a troubling rise in new coronavirus cases.”

    Weird? Rich liberal areas exempt from their own hysterical laws

  21. Article published in the last hour.

    CNBC — UK reports highest number of daily Covid cases since the pandemic began:

    “It underlines the dramatic surge in infections that the country is seeing ahead of the Christmas holiday period with one senior British health chief warning that there could be a “staggering” numbers in the next few days.

    Long lines have been seen outside vaccination centers in many U.K. cities and towns with the government putting its booster program on overdrive to try to get a third vaccine shot to as many people as possible.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/15/uk-reports-highest-number-of-daily-covid-cases-since-pandemic-began.html

    There is no such thing as a “case” of COVID.

    1. From the BBC, also published just now:

      “There were 165 deaths of people who tested positive for Covid in the previous 28 days.”

      The vaccine is the virus.

    2. a “case” of COVID

      It’s a thing of beauty, the case count is. We can give you any number you want. Just dial it in on the testing lab amplifier. Pure genius.

  22. Chicago dad beaten to death hanging Christmas lights outside home

    By Emily Crane
    December 14, 2021

    A Chicago father was beaten to death in front of his young daughter while hanging Christmas lights outside his home, police said.

    Jose Tellez, 49, was attacked by two men who struck the father of three in the head with “blunt objects” outside his Gage Park home on Saturday evening, according to cops.

    A neighbor told Fox32 that she found the victim holding the Christmas lights and bleeding profusely in his front yard after hearing Tellez’s young daughter screaming during the attack.

    “My dad, my dad, he’s hurt,” the little girl told the neighbor.

    Tellez was still breathing when he was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead hours later.

    https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/chicago-dad-beaten-to-death-hanging-christmas-lights-outside-home/

    1. I’m not sure why an auto dealership also sells luxury watches, but some Sons of Obama stole eight of them worth over a million dollars in Chicago a few days ago.

      Could you imagine, could you even conceive of, the idea of paying property taxes to the City of Chicago and Crook County?

      “They’re not sending their best”

  23. A pair of CNN pearl clutching articles, using the Archive website, because we don’t give clicks and revenue to these globalist kiddie diddlers.

    Omicron and Delta be damned: Americans won’t stop flying (12/14/2021):

    “Despite the newest variant’s detection in at least 32 states so far, airlines and airports in the US are likely to see lots of full planes and crowds as we approach Christmas and the end of 2021.

    Were it not for the Omicron variant, domestic air traffic this holiday season would probably have approached 2019 volumes for the first time since the start of the pandemic. But even after the variant’s emergence in the US, domestic airline capacity — a measure of seats available and the distance they’ll fly — stands at 94% for the Christmas season, the highest level attained in 2021. That’s based on our analysis of airline schedule data.”

    https://archive.md/NyozJ

    I am so looking forward to wearing a face diaper for 5 consecutive hours tomorrow while flying. Clown World gonna clown.

    Murder plots and threats from anti-vaxxers pose challenge for Germany’s new chancellor (12/15/2021):

    “Just a week into the job, new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz finds himself confronting an increasingly radical anti-vaccination movement that, according to police, has plotted to murder elected officials and is actively threatening others.

    Authorities raided several properties in Dresden on Wednesday morning after uncovering plans to murder Michael Kretschmer, the pro-vaccine governor of Saxony, police in the state said.

    Politicians and media outlets in recent days have also reportedly received packages containing raw meat and threats from alleged anti-vaxxers, Berlin police spokeswoman Heidi Vogt said.

    Scholz, who took office on December 8, used his first declaration to parliament to castigate the actions of a “tiny minority of unhinged extremists.”

    “We will counter this tiny minority of people filled with hate, that attacks all of us with torch-bearing marches, violence and murder threats, with all the tools of our democratic state based on rule of law. Our democracy is a combative democracy,” Scholz said, drawing applause from a chorus of lawmakers.

    https://archive.md/IUMbS

    The United States military liberated Germany from the genocidal Nazi regime in 1945, and this is what Germany has become today.

    P.S. also on the CNN website home page is a puff piece about Don Lemon cooking with his mom. We don’t talk about Don Lemon fondling his own junk in a bar in Long Island and then assaulting a bar patron with his Lemony fresh junk-scented hand. Nooooo we don’t talk about that, we talk about him cooking with his mom 🙂

    3. The United States military liberated Germany from the genocidal Nazi regime

      When I think of all the brave men who gave their lives to stop the Nazis, I wonder what they would have thought had they known they were spilling their own blood to protect a nation that would turn into what we are today.

      1. The one I grew up with would say (again) “Don’t harm anyone if it can be avoided. If it can’t be avoided, win.”

    4. The United States military liberated Germany from the genocidal Nazi regime in 1945

      Then imported them via Operation Paperclip.

          1. “In the summer of 1944 the U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry R. Morgenthau, Jr. and Assistant Secretary Harry Dexter White devised the Morgenthau Plan, more formally known as the Treasury Plan for the Treatment of Germany. Morgenthau was outraged by the Nazi Holocaust, details of which were just becoming known in Washington DC, and seemed to be looking for revenge. He visited the battlefields in France that August. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, urged him to punish all Germany. Morgenthau then flew to London for talks with Mr Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, and his advisers, and they met again in Quebec. If adopted, the Morgenthau Plan would have led to the death by starvation and pestilence of ten million Germans in the first two years after the war ended, in addition to the one million who had perished in the saturation bombing and the three million killed in the enforced expulsion from Germany s eastern territories. Both Roosevelt and Churchill unthinkingly initialled the Plan, as these documents show. While important elements of the Morgenthau Plan including the not-so-subtle re-education of the Germans by their own refugees and the dismantling of their heavy industry to bolster British exports were indeed secretly put into effect in the punitive Directive 1067 which the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff issued to Eisenhower, the more controversial elements of the Plan, including Morgenthau s proposed lynch law – orders to liquidate entire classes of suspected Nazi war criminals upon simple identification – and the instruction to leave the German nation to stew in its own juice, were not formally implemented. But it was a close-run thing.” —David Irving

      2. Lots of people believe the Nazis never were defeated (oooh, conspiracy theory). In my yout, I briefly dated a guy who was Argentinian but had a German last name. Ran away!!!

    5. “confronting an increasingly radical anti-vaccination movement that, according to police, has plotted to murder elected officials”

      The Germans, so efficient. Gotta love them!

  24. CAUGHT! Rep. Adam Schiff ‘Doctored’ Text Messages in January 6 Committee

    by Jamie White
    December 15th 2021

    “‘On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,’” Schiff read aloud, showing an accompanying graphic of the text showing what he said.

    “You can see why this is so critical to ask Mr. Meadows about,” Schiff told the House committee. “About a lawmaker suggesting that the former vice president simply throw out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional in order to overturn a presidential election and subvert the will of the American people.”

    But according to The Federalist, this portion of text actually came from former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz to Jordan, who forwarded the message to Meadows (emphasis added).

    On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence.

    ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).

    Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.

    This means Schiff omitted the last two paragraphs and inserted punctuation that wasn’t there, and presented his own version to the J6 committee as fact.

    So Schiff lied about the substance of the text message and its source and even doctored the actual message and graphic displayed on screen for the committee in his remarks.

    Schiff has a documented history of lying and doctoring evidence for political purposes.

    For example, during the second impeachment crusade against Trump in 2019, Schiff read aloud to the House Intelligence Committee a fake conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

    Schiff claimed he was acting out a “parody” after he was caught.

    And during the Russia collusion witch hunt, Schiff insisted for two years that he had seen “plenty of evidence” that Trump “colluded” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to meddle in the 2016 election.

    No such evidence was ever presented, because Schiff was lying.

    https://www.infowars.com/

    2. One of my neighbors has a massive Trump 2024 flag prominently displayed in their front window, very very visible to passing motorists and pedestrians.

      This being Denver, I wouldn’t be surprised if their house gets tagged with graffiti, that window smashed and the flag stolen, or worse yet the house gets firebombed and everybody inside burns alive.

      And regarding firebombing, I doubt it would violate Twitter’s terms of usage if Antifa used Twitter to publicly plan and enact it…

  25. The Wall Street Journal
    U.S.
    California Population Loss Accelerated During Pandemic
    Decrease in people moving to the Golden State was particularly severe in the San Francisco Bay Area, where new arrivals fell 45%, study finds
    In and around San Francisco, exits increased by 21% between March 2020 and September 2021.
    Photo: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
    By Christine Mai-Duc
    Dec. 15, 2021 5:30 am ET

    California is losing more than twice as many people to domestic migration as it was before the pandemic, a new report from University of California researchers shows.

    The research released Wednesday shows the change is largely being driven by a drop in the number of people moving to California from other parts of the U.S. and is most acute in the high-cost San Francisco Bay Area.

    The researchers examined anonymized credit bureau data and found that the downward trend in net domestic migration has been accelerated by a 38% decrease in the number of new arrivals between March 2020 and September of this year. The number of new arrivals declined in all of the state’s 58 counties.

    “Entrances have been really stable over time, but they did dip pretty substantially since the pandemic,” said Natalie Holmes, a UC Berkeley doctoral student and one of the authors of the report from the nonpartisan California Policy Lab.

    Meanwhile, the number of Californians leaving has increased by 12%, a return to pre-pandemic trends. In total, 150,000 more people on average left California than entered in the third quarter of 2021, compared with 60,000 net exits in the first three months of 2020. The actual volume of the flows is likely even bigger, Ms. Holmes said, since the analysis relies on credit data and is less representative of younger and lower-income residents.

    The report didn’t explore why fewer people are coming to the state than before. Previous research has suggested housing costs and affordability are key factors. Many Americans re-evaluated where to live during the pandemic as businesses closed and larger numbers of people were able to work remotely.

    An analysis published in May by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California showed that people who move to California tend to have higher incomes and higher education levels than those who move out.

    California has been losing more people to other states than it gains for years, census data and state estimates show. Last year, its population decreased for the first time in recorded history. In another first, California will lose a congressional seat in the once-a-decade redistricting process now under way.

    The shift is especially large in and around San Francisco. The number of new arrivals to the Bay Area plummeted 45% between March 2020 and September 2021, while exits increased by 21%.

    Between 2016 and the first quarter of 2020, the three Bay Area counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara were the only ones statewide to see more people move in from other states than leave. But that trend reversed during the pandemic, with all three losing population through domestic migration.

    The median sale price for existing single-family homes in the Bay Area was $1,275,000 in October according to data from the California Association of Realtors, one of the highest in the nation.

    Most Californians who move in any given year remain in-state, data show. A previous Wall Street Journal analysis of postal service change-of-address data found that the pandemic increased the flow of residents from the state’s coastal counties to cheaper inland areas by nearly 50%.

    The Policy Lab report found an increasing share of Californians who move are choosing to go out of state. More than one in five California movers left the state entirely in the third quarter of 2021, up from 16.3% in 2016.
    …

  26. Sometimes I find these random Substack authors that are just so good I wish I started reading them earlier.

    Niccolo Soldo (10/4/2021):

    “Canada is a vast dumping ground for the former subjects of the British Empire. It continues to fulfill that function even after that once-great empire vanishes into the dustbin of history. The effect is a little strange, because it is as though the country is a cultural orphan. Into the absence left by the departed Metropole, the main thing that his filled the void is capital. Toronto is a great monument to this because it is perhaps the most post-historical place on earth. It has embraced completely the politics of homogenous globalization, something that can be seen its anonymous mass-produced architecture and absence of identifiable civic culture. The city, and indeed entire country, is run less as a nation than as a free economic zone. There is a lot of immigration and it is supported by elites on every side of the political spectrum. But this is less out of ideological conviction than for the short-term economic benefits it brings to people already here; waves of new peoples from around the world are needed to keep the gigantic real estate Ponzi scheme (Please look at the charts on Canadian housing prices) underpinning the economy in motion. That’s all that’s going on.”

    https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-khyber-pass-interview-murtaza

  30. Kyle Rittenhouse cleared of all charges in Kenosha shootings

    By Associated Press Michael Tarm, Scott Bauer and Amy Forliti Updated Nov. 19, 2021 7:20 pm

    “Rittenhouse defense attorney Corey Chirafisi asked: “It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him … that he fired, right?”

    “Correct,” Grosskreutz replied. The defense also presented a photo showing Grosskreutz pointing the gun at Rittenhouse, who was on the ground with his rifle pointed up at Grosskreutz.”
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    At this point the overweight prosecutor put his face in his hands and thought…

    https://youtu.be/O7B5jXYRy3Q?t=136

  31. Democrats – a criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party – are completely incapable of providing law and order with their Soros-installed DAs, corrupt and incompetent City Hall officials, and “woke” police departments led & staffed by unqualified diversity hires.

    San Francisco’s woke Mayor London Breed issues furious broadside against ‘reign of criminals who are destroying’ the city and calls for less tolerance of ‘bullsh*t’ progressive policies as she announces plan for ‘more aggressive’ policing

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10314279/Woke-San-Francisco-mayor-London-Breed-calls-aggressive-policing-end-crime-reign.html

    San Francisco’s notoriously woke mayor is calling for ‘more aggressive policing’ in an effort to end ‘the reign of criminals who are destroying our city.’

    Mayor London Breed launched an emergency police intervention Tuesday aimed at curbing open drug use, brazen home break-ins and other criminal behaviors taking place in San Francisco’s crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood and across the city.

    1. Democrats – a criminal enterprise

      If the Mafia ran San Francisco, it would be a lot safer than it is now.

        2. Nobody makes music like this now 🙁

          You mean you don’t like Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish or Ed Sheeran?

  35. From WaPo no less:

    CDC advisers to weigh limits on Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of continued blood clot issues
    New data appears to show the rate has increased since April, although the problem remains rare. About nine deaths related to the issue have also been reported.

    “Vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting Thursday to weigh possible limits on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because of continued blood clot issues, mostly in young and middle-aged women, according to clinicians familiar with the agenda.”

    1. Alarmist headlines brought to you by Pfizer, I bet. I wouldn’t put it past them. (stay out of the comment section 😮 )

      1. brought to you by Pfizer

        Probably, but the blood clot issues across the mRNA and DNA delivery platforms points to the encoded spike protein.

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