When People Were Looking To Sell At The Peak, The Decision Got Put Off, Now They’re Stuck In A Different Market
A report from The Chronicle in Washington. “From October to November, home prices fell 10.54% in Lewis County, dropping from $427,000 in October to $382,000 in November, compared to a monthly decrease of 3.63% in Pacific County, 5.62% in Cowlitz County and 6.99% in Thurston County. ‘So basically all the gains for the year have been wiped out but we’re still higher than the average we were at last year by about $13,000,’ said Eren Millam, a Lewis County-based realtor. ‘For everyone who thinks there’s a price crash coming, these numbers are showing everything is down 30% to 40%, but price is the one thing that’s still up. Over the last eight months, the average price has been around $430,000. I do believe that is our new baseline (in Lewis County). We’re not going back to our average of $140,000 like it was when I first got into real estate.'”
“According to Northwest MLS, the median home price statewide rose 0.88% from November 2021 to November 2022, increasing from $570,000 to $575,000. From October to November home prices statewide fell slightly from $595,000 to $575,000, a decline of 3.36%. During that time, the number of active listings in Washington more than doubled, rising 165% from 4,621 listings in November 2021 to 12,245 in November 2022. In Lewis County, the number of active listings for November stood at 274, up 107.58% from 132 listings in November 2021.”
The Islander News in Florida. “Fifteen residential properties, 14 in Brickell, were recorded as sold during the period of December 5-9. Each property on this list was sold for under the asking price, meaning that Key Biscayne and Brickell are solidly ensconced in the housing market correction happening across the US. $1,520,000. 2 bed/2 bath/1,523 square feet. 1425 Brickell Ave., Apt. 63A, Miami, FL 33131. This Four Seasons Brickell two-bedroom with direct views of Biscayne Bay was listed in April for $2 million.”
Bisnow Houston in Texas. “Just 10 months ago, manufactured housing couldn’t be cranked out fast enough to meet the demand of people looking for affordable homeownership. Now, business activity in the sector has slipped for the eighth consecutive month amid rising interest rates. ‘Supply ramped up and probably got past demand there for a little bit,’ said Rob Ripperda, vice president of operations for the Texas Manufactured Housing Association. ‘Production ramped up past the point of those order flows. We’ve seen a pullback of the manufacturers saying, ‘All right, we’re going to have to give the retailers time to clear some of this inventory.’”
The Dallas Morning News. “Texas added 33,600 jobs in November, the second-smallest monthly gain in over a year. But evidence of a slowdown is mounting after Friday’s release of new and revised job numbers. Texas’ construction industry lost 3,900 jobs last month. Statewide, construction has lost employment for four straight months and for five of the past six. Building permits issued for single-family homes in Texas have been falling since summer, and were 27% lower in October compared with a year earlier.”
“‘Builders have been working off their backlogs, and as their housing units are completed, some people are starting to lose their jobs,’ said Adam Perdue, an economist with the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University. ‘We know that higher interest rates have hit the real estate industry particularly hard.'”
Arlington Now in Virginia. “A project to redevelop the Key Bridge Marriott building appears to have stalled with no indication of picking back up. That may be related to signs of financial distress for the property owner and developer, Woodridge Capital Partners. The Arlington County Board approved the project at 1401 Langston Blvd in Rosslyn — on a prominent plot of land overlooking the river and parts of D.C. — on March 24, 2020. The applicant, Woodridge affiliate KBLH, LLC, proposed to partially demolish and renovate the existing hotel and construct two new residential buildings: one with 151 condo units and one with 300 apartments.”
“Six months after the Marriott shuttered the hotel in July 2021, the Washington Business Journal noted no signs of progress on the project. ARLnow checked permit records and found only one new permit has been filed since, back in February 2022. Meanwhile, a search of property records indicates Woodridge is behind on its 2022 real estate taxes, owing $426,488, which was due in October. Evidence of a worsening financial situation for Woodridge is stronger on the West Coast. In Los Angeles, where the company is based.”
“Woodridge finished the renovated Century Plaza hotel in the middle of the pandemic and the condo towers last summer, as L.A.’s housing market began to falter. Now, an affiliate of Woodridge called Next Century Partners is set to lose its stake in the project via a foreclosure auction scheduled for Dec. 14, commercial real estate data group CoStar reported. Farther north, a ritzy hotel in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood, owned by Woodridge, closed after the company defaulted on a $56 million loan from Deutsche Bank. ‘The only upcoming groundbreaking Woodridge will be involved on is one that will find it beneath a patch of clover,’ a reader quipped in a tip, suggesting that the project may need to change hands to move forward. ‘Next developer please!'”
The New York Times on California. “There was a time three years ago when a walk through downtown San Francisco was a picture of what it meant for a city to be economically successful. Today San Francisco has what is perhaps the most deserted major downtown in America. In any given week, office buildings are at about 40% of their pre-pandemic occupancy, and the vacancy rate has jumped to 24% from 5% since 2019. All of this was rooted in the cost of housing, which had been expensive for decades but had morphed into a disaster.”
“‘Imagine a forest where an entire species suddenly disappears,’ said Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies urban real estate. ‘It disrupts the whole ecosystem and produces a lot of chaos. The same thing is happening in downtowns.'”
From Market Watch. “The office sector has been the biggest drag on real-estate investment trusts in 2022, which is shaping up to be their second-worst year on record, according to Morgan Stanley’s REIT outlook. Total returns were pegged at nearly -37% (see chart) on the year through Dec. 9, ranking office as the biggest drag on REITs. Overall, REITs were headed for a roughly -22% total return, on pace for the worst year after 2008, according to the Morgan Stanley team.”
“REITs invest in all types of real estate, from hotels to office towers to industrial lots, and own an estimated $4.5 trillion in assets across the U.S., according to data from the National Association of REITs. The Dow Jones Equity REIT Index was down 24.7% on the year through Friday. Distressed commercial-property sales have been relatively few this year but could tick up in 2023, when billions of dollars in loans come due and landlords face much higher interest rates and likely lower property values. In another sign of potential stress to come, some $162 billion of maturing loans in commercial-mortgage bond deals come due in 2023, the most in the next decade, according to CRED iQ, which tracks property data.”
The Globe and Mail. “Couples grappling with the fraught decisions that come with separation and divorce are feeling an added burden this year: The downturn in Canada’s real estate market is causing more clashes when it comes to dividing the family home. Alyssa Bach, an associate with the Toronto-based family law firm of Shulman & Partners LLP is accustomed to dealing with distressed clients, but she has seen a noticeable increase in conflict since sales and prices began to slide in the housing market.”
“Some of the thorny issues that couples need to navigate include the timing of a sale and the all-important asking price, Ms. Bach says. She has encountered spouses who dragged their heels on listing a property for sale, only to face a host of new problems. ‘When people were looking to sell at the peak, the decision got put off,’ says Ms. Bach. ‘Now they’re stuck in a different market.'”
Bayshore Broadcasting in Canada. “Home prices and sales activity fell further in Grey Bruce in November as the housing market downturn continued. Home prices are down around 19 per cent since spring. RAGBOS reported in April the average was just over $744,000. RAGBOS explains active listings at the end of November 2022 are more than 159 per cent higher than last year and at their highest level in more than five years for the month, with 944 residential units available for sale. This as 283 new listings hit the market, the most in November in more than five years. RAGBOS says months of inventory numbered 7.4 at the end of November, up from 1.5 months recorded in the same month last year.”
The Korea Times. “Korea’s housing market is feared to be heading for a hard landing as multiple indicators show a steep downturn approaching. Home prices have continued on a downward spiral, while transactions keep falling and the number of unsold new apartments is rising. What is more concerning is that home prices in the nation have dropped more sharply than most other countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the midst of high interest rates, price misalignment and other downside risks in the region.”
“In its latest report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has shown that housing prices in Korea fell about 18 percent between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2021. The report also showed that Korea was only behind New Zealand and Australia, which saw a decline of about 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, during the cited period. The decline rate turned out to be nearly 10 percent for the entire world and nearly 15 percent for advanced economies.”
“On Sunday, KB Kookmin Bank said the prices of apartments, the most common form of housing in Korea, already fell 1.63 percent in the January-November period. ‘The 1.63 percent fall is the fastest since 1998 when apartment prices plunged 13.56 percent,’ it said. Also on Sunday, the Real Estate Board said that apartment prices dropped 4.79 percent in the first 11 months of this year and that the annual decline rate may reach 7 percent.”
News.com.au in Australia. “The Block has come and gone from most people’s memories for another season, but a sad reality has set in for the year’s unluckiest contestants. Gold Coast couple Dylan and Jenny are the only team whose house remains unsold. Dylan Adams and Jenny Heath now say they may have to concede their home will sell well under its value. ‘When it [the house] was about to go for $4.1m we were screaming ‘No, no, no’ at the TV because that’s not what you want [a $20,000 profit],’ Jenny told Newscorp on auction day.”
“Now this week Jenny has come out and said it was ‘crazy’ that their house ‘is worth so much more than what it will go for’, according to Daily Mail. ‘We’re still in the same position as when we left The Block,’ Dylan told Nine this week. ‘We did have a few people keen a few weeks ago, but we’ve heard nothing since then,’ Jenny said. ‘Honestly it’s crazy that it’s still on the market. We just don’t know whether we’re going to make nothing, or if we could make $10,000 or $100,000,’ Jenny said. The highest bid that Jenny and Dylan got on the five-bedroom, three-bathroom house on auction day was $4,075,000, just below the reserve price of $4,080,000.”
From Business Insider. “Tadeh Tarverdian, a customer of FTX who had $10,000 in his account when the exchange collapsed last month, said news of the Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest made him more anxious about getting his money back. He worries the arrest could delay the process of returning customer funds. The money represents around a decade’s worth of savings, and would have helped him fund his attendance to medical school. ‘It really wouldn’t change my life or anyone’s life if he goes to jail or prison. Maybe some people do get a sense of closure, but they’re still going to lose their funds,’ Tarverdian said.”
“Evan Luthra, an entrepreneur who says he lost $2 million when the exchange collapsed, also doesn’t find comfort in Bankman-Fried’s arrest. He’s already written off his investment, and says he’s not convinced Bankman-Fried will be convicted, or receive the proper punishment. Tarverdian said he wanted to see Bankman-Fried take accountability for the collapse, while Luthra said Bankman-Fried’s public apologies made him angry.”
“‘It really pisses me off that he can go around getting … respect from the New York Times to be put on stage,’ he said, referring to Bankman-Fried’s interview at the New York Times DealBook conference a few weeks after the exchange filed for bankruptcy. ‘He painted the story. He knew from the beginning what he was doing and he really got us. I am very pissed off and it makes me feel very, very deceived.'”
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SHUT. IT. DOWN.
New York Times — In the U.S., His Site Has Been Linked to Massacres. In Japan, He’s a Star (12/18/2022):
“Hiroyuki Nishimura has become a famous voice for disenchanted young Japanese. What he talks much less about is his ownership of the notorious website 4chan.
He has amassed millions of followers on social media, where he opines on the failures of Japanese society. He has appeared both on the catwalk at one of Japan’s biggest fashion shows and in a government video urging people to watch their finances. In a national poll, high school students said he was their top pick for prime minister.
By endearing himself to young Japanese who feel oppressed by their country’s rigid rules, Hiroyuki Nishimura has become wildly famous in Japan, a celebrity entrepreneur, author and commentator so ubiquitous that people simply call him Hiroyuki, a name roughly as common as Adam in the United States.
But there is one thing Mr. Nishimura is much less eager to talk about: his ownership of 4chan, the anonymous online message board.”
SHUT. IT. DOWN.
“Under his leadership, 4chan has become one of the most toxic places on the internet. But few in the United States have heard of Mr. Nishimura, even as the site has been linked to mass shootings and conspiracy theories. And few in Japan know much about 4chan, even as its name appears in nearly every recitation of Mr. Nishimura’s credentials.
In 2015, when Mr. Nishimura bought 4chan, he did something he has rarely done since: He answered questions about his vision for the site.
It was already one of the internet’s most notorious corners. But if he could make just one change, he told users, it would be for more interesting things to happen there, “even bad things.”
His wish came true. Since Mr. Nishimura took over, users of 4chan have birthed the QAnon movement, spread conspiracies about Covid vaccines and the 2020 election, and helped radicalize mass shooters, including the white supremacist who carried out a massacre last spring in Buffalo. A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol demanded that Mr. Nishimura hand over information about individuals linked to the attack. And the man accused of attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in October wrote that he was a frequent poster on the site.
With his websites, Mr. Nishimura — who declined to be interviewed for this article — has said he is merely filling a demand for outlets where people can exercise free speech. He has insisted that he has always followed the law and responded to requests for information from the authorities about suspected crimes related to posts.”
https://archive.vn/FkbEK
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Or Gab.
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https://westernrifleshooters.us/2022/12/18/sunday-edition-13/
http://housingbubble.blog/?p=6974#view_comments
This site ? Is it safe ? Will it trigger me …
‘housing prices in Korea fell about 18 percent between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2021. The report also showed that Korea was only behind New Zealand and Australia, which saw a decline of about 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, during the cited period. The decline rate turned out to be nearly 10 percent for the entire world and nearly 15 percent for advanced economies’
That’s some red hotcakes right there.
‘We did have a few people keen a few weeks ago, but we’ve heard nothing since then,’ Jenny said. ‘Honestly it’s crazy that it’s still on the market. We just don’t know whether we’re going to make nothing, or if we could make $10,000 or $100,000′
Magic 8 ball says nothing Jenny.
Don’t call us child, we’ll call you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjH-db8qnVM
So they got a bid within 5K of selling it ,on a 4 million $$$ house ? Wow , that really is a brain free thought zone …..
Wifey’s galactic sense of entitlement will be the undoing of many an FB couple.
TBF i think that was part of the rules for the show, because all the houses on the block (the show) had the same reserve. But yeah, they fooked now.
‘Evidence of a worsening financial situation for Woodridge is stronger on the West Coast’
So a company building hundreds of airboxes in LA and SF is handing back the keys? Yer giving it away cowards!
This guy does a good breakdown of the latest numbers out of CA.
Statewide y-o-y price declines. Didn’t think we’d see that till the spring. It’s going down as fast as it went up. Kind of unusual for RE. And almost all of this with less than 3 months of inventory which nicely illustrates a common theme of all bubbles: something can’t happen because nobody can remember it happening before so we can throw caution to the wind. And then boom the thing everyone said couldn’t happen happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8x0qUjl4E
Jason spends too much attention on sales volume declines, but I suppose if I were a commission junkie it would make sense. The highest sales price declines appear in the highest priced shacks, er mansions while the 3br/2ba “sixpack shacks” slipped the least. By next spring we’ll see who has more staying power. 🙂
Thanks for the URL.
Auburn, WA Housing Prices Crater 12% YOY On Skyrocketing Inventory Across Seattle Suburbs As Tech Layoffs Accelerate
https://www.movoto.com/auburn-wa/market-trends/
As a noted economist said, “Nothing accelerates the economy and creates jobs like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.”
‘War in Ukraine Has Been Good for Business’
💸$68B and Counting!
U.S. Defense Contractors Sponsor D.C. Party for Ukrainian Forces Amid Ongoing War
KRISTINA WONG
17 Dec 2022
Four major U.S. defense contractors sponsored a Washington, D.C., party for the 31st anniversary of the Ukrainian armed forces as they stand to gain billions from the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a report.
Vox reported Saturday that the celebration, hosted by the Ukrainian Embassy last week, took place in downtown D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, located less than a mile from the White House, and that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was in attendance.
The invitation said the event was “supported by” Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratty & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin — their logos emblazoned on the invite, reportedly prompting some observers to “laugh out loud.”
“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” a think-tank expert told Vox’s Jonathan Guyer. An academic also told Guyer, “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting.”
“The explicit sponsorship indicates how intimate major military contractors have become with Ukraine, and how much they stand to gain from the war,” Guyer wrote, adding:
https://www.breitbart.com/
“$68B and Counting!”
Still a drop in the bucket considering the $7,000-Billion spent to make Israel feel safe from Iran. This excludes huge diplomatic expenses in the region, replacement weapon systems, ongoing medical care for wounded veterans, disability payments, etc., a gift that will continue costing for decades.
Israel’s national anthem: Onward Christian Soldiers.
‘From October to November, home prices fell 10.54% in Lewis County, dropping from $427,000 in October to $382,000 in November, compared to a monthly decrease of 3.63% in Pacific County, 5.62% in Cowlitz County and 6.99% in Thurston County. ‘So basically all the gains for the year have been wiped out’
Another sh$thole rolls over YOY.
‘but we’re still higher than the average we were at last year by about $13,000…For everyone who thinks there’s a price crash coming, these numbers are showing everything is down 30% to 40%, but price is the one thing that’s still up. Over the last eight months, the average price has been around $430,000. I do believe that is our new baseline (in Lewis County). We’re not going back to our average of $140,000 like it was when I first got into real estate’
Keep hanging on to that average stat Eren. Where ever Lewis county is. Do you guys have telephones? Or at least party lines?
He boldly proclaims that the tripling of real estate prices is here to stay. Has anyone asked him how wages will support that? Because they don’t. Lewis County is indeed another nowhere sh!thole with few jobs, and what jobs there are don’t pay much.
I’m honestly floored that Lewis County has a median over $400k. This bubble is much worse than even I thought. Back in the day, early 2000s, there were $35,000 houses galore that were hard to sell. You could find a rental house for $300 per month.
Washington Post — DeSantis reverses himself on coronavirus vaccines, moves to right of Trump (12/17/2022):
“Early in the pandemic, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly praised President Donald Trump for the expedited development and rollout of a coronavirus vaccine. The governor’s office pushed for $480 million in pandemic resources, including media campaigns promoting the shots, according to state budget documents. And DeSantis, a Republican, even lauded the Biden administration for helping to expand access to vaccines.
But this past week, DeSantis threw himself into misleadingly disparaging the vaccines, convening skeptics to buck guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seeking to investigate vaccine makers for fraud.”
Sad trombone noises 🙁
“These companies have made a fortune off this federal government imposing or at least attempting to impose mandates, and a lot of false statements,” DeSantis said at the roundtable event on Wednesday. “I think people want the truth and I think people want accountability, so you need to have a thorough investigation into what’s happened with these shots.”
A review of DeSantis’s public positions on the vaccines shows a full reversal that has unfolded gradually since 2021, seizing on the shots’ waning efficacy against new virus variants and portraying evolving scientific advice as deliberate deceit.
The hard-line position he’s now staking out is taking on additional significance: DeSantis is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2024, with many Republicans wanting him to challenge Trump for the GOP nomination and some seeing vaccines as a potential wedge issue to outflank the former president to his right.”
https://archive.vn/FonWP
STOP NOTICING. Stop noticing the blood clots. Stop noticing the heart attacks. Stop noticing the strokes. Stop noticing the died suddenly. Stop noticing ALL OF IT.
Related video segment.
From this morning’s Washington Journal on C-SPAN, callers asked about lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic (1h5m):
https://www.c-span.org/video/?524770-2/washington-journal-news-headlines-viewer-calls
C-SPAN
I only got half-way through. The callers were awful, each in their own way (IDK if it improved.) When the host was reading the article and said “so if we squirreled down…um, it says” (25:53), I was done.
Oh my, how the tables have turned for the Real Journalist propagandists.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550753/Taylor-Lorenz-suspended-Twitter-just-tweeting-Elon-Musk-seeking-comment-story.html
The savior of free speech. 🙄 Anyone surprised has only been paying attention to MSM.
MSM
LOL. I never heard of her.
Mainstream Media.
That I heard of. Taylor Lorenz, not at all.
Taylor Lorenz
Vaguely recognize but don’t care.
The Washington Post’s technology culture writer Taylor Lorenz has been permanently suspended from Twitter amid the company’s owner Elon Musk’s ongoing purge of journalists from the platform.
Her removal from Twitter comes just after the tech giant announced new policies on doxing, something that Lorenz has been accused of in the past.
The Libs of TikTok account tweeted about Lorenz’s video announcing her suspension saying: ‘It’s incredible watching these “journalists” just in absolute shock at finally being held to the same standard as everyone else. They’re so used to living by a different set of rules.’
Twitter has served as an essential real time news source and played a crucial role in the journalism world, but Musk’s arbitrary suspensions of journalist’s who report on him should worry anyone who values free speech and expression,’ Lorenz continued.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550753/Taylor-Lorenz-suspended-Twitter-just-tweeting-Elon-Musk-seeking-comment-story.html
Yer a threat to democracy Taylor.
This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy (1m36s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
+1. Anyone still getting their news & information from the corporate media in 2022 is a complete tool.
Any society that lets sick creatures like this anywhere near its children is doomed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550365/Kayla-Lemieux-trans-teacher-Z-cup-breasts-seen-audience-childrens-dance-recital.html
“The Halton District School Board suggested it would be a violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code to criticize or stop la Lemieux…”
Nothing better than liberal progressives being fed a heaping plate of their own schitt, a result of their LGBTQ+ wokeness.
Back in my day 3 or 4 dads would have taken care of that quietly later.
108,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdoses last year. Huge numbers of them didn’t even realize they were taking fentanyl-laced drugs. At what point do we get serious about combating the Mexican drug cartels and their treasonous enablers & business partners?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11550681/Boy-17-tried-murder-adult-16-year-old-girl-met-church-dead.html
I think the fentanyl scourge fits right in with the depopulation agenda.
All of this was rooted in the cost of housing, which had been expensive for decades but had morphed into a disaster.”
Wrong, Real Journalist hack. SF’s decline is rooted in Neo-Bolshevik malgovernance.
Imagine actually paying property taxes to the City of San Francisco.
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/human-wasteland-map-plots-all-of-san-franciscos-poop
“They’re not sending their best”
“Citing human waste reports made in San Francisco, software engineer Jenn Wong mapped the city’s most poop-ridden neighborhoods, and it is a feast for watery eyes.”
An ambitious project and contribution to humanity.
Keep paying those federal income taxes, slaves.
Breitbart — U.S. Defense Contractors Sponsor D.C. Party for Ukrainian Forces Amid Ongoing War (12/17/2022):
“Four major U.S. defense contractors sponsored a Washington, D.C., party for the 31st anniversary of the Ukrainian armed forces as they stand to gain billions from the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a report.
Vox reported Saturday that the celebration, hosted by the Ukrainian Embassy last week, took place in downtown D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, located less than a mile from the White House, and that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was in attendance.
The invitation said the event was “supported by” Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratty & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin — their logos emblazoned on the invite, reportedly prompting some observers to “laugh out loud.”
“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” a think-tank expert told Vox’s Jonathan Guyer. An academic also told Guyer, “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting.”
You’ll never be seen as anything more than cattle to these globalists.
“The explicit sponsorship indicates how intimate major military contractors have become with Ukraine, and how much they stand to gain from the war,” Guyer wrote, adding:
The invitation is a clear expression of how the war in Ukraine has been good for business. As Ukraine fights a defensive war against Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukrainians in Washington have been pushing for the US to send Ukraine more weapons. So far, President Joe Biden’s administration has committed a substantial $19.3 billion of military assistance since February.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/17/u-s-defense-contractors-sponsor-d-c-party-for-ukrainian-forces-amid-ongoing-war/
Pay those federal income taxes. And STOP NOTICING.
Stop noticing that Zelensky’s parents live in a $8 million house with a $12,000 a month security detail.
Stop noticing this:
Russia Today — 70% of Western weapons sent to Ukraine don’t reach troops – CBS (8/7/2022):
https://www.rt.com/russia/560419-ukraine-weapons-lost-cbs/
Stop noticing this, too:
Fox News — CBS News deletes tweet claiming only ‘like 30%’ of US military aid for Ukraine ever reaches the front lines (8/8/2022):
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-news-deletes-tweet-claiming-only-like-30-us-military-aid-ukraine-ever-reaches-front-lines
Seriously. You have to stop noticing.
Dylan Adams and Jenny Heath now say they may have to concede their home will sell well under its value.
Um, the value is set by Mr. Market, greedheads, so whatever it sells for IS its value.
A reader sent these in:
Rick Palacios Jr.
Replying to @NipseyHoussle
Yes on non-primary buyer market share trends last few years. Investor share actually eclipsed last cycle in many markets, and last cycle was high. It’s interesting that the growth in investors across so many categories this cycle wasn’t touched on in WSJ housing piece today.
https://twitter.com/RickPalaciosJr/status/1604171023288369153
Presented without further comments 👇 $ARKK
https://twitter.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1604052890200449024
18 countries in the EU report official inflation rates above 10%… This week the ECB raised rates to 2.00% to “fight” inflation… 🤔 Yet countries like Italy are saying the ECB is crazy for keeping rates so high… 😂
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1604199673107197952
Uh Oh …… 🔥 🔥 🔥 The Fed giveth, and the Fed taketh away.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1604305773856972800
The Kobeissi Letter
Economic Update:
1. U.S. households lost $7 trillion in net worth this year
2. 63% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck
3. Interest rates now higher than 2008
4. Household debt hits record $16 trillion
5. 150,000+ employees laid off in tech in 2022
This can’t end well.
https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1604145171418972161
It’s almost like the rich and politicians need fed welfare
@ThomTillis why do you need socialism
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1603956136079634432
Phoenix condo prices in freefall
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1604146083516424192
Rick Palacios Jr.
“The investors are NOT buying.” Comment (and use of all caps) straight from Atlanta real estate agent in our December resale market survey.
https://twitter.com/RickPalaciosJr/status/1604149060276887554
“It isn’t overpaying if the market bears it” -Everybody at Lehman Brothers
https://twitter.com/Stimpyz1/status/1604152649539932160
That the resort real estate markets are going to implode in spectacular fashion.
https://twitter.com/Stimpyz1/status/1604157037696274433
The San Antonio Housing Market is Not Okay
https://twitter.com/texasrunnerDFW/status/1604121662139797506
Bill Wendel
#REReckoning: RU a homebuyer who purchased during #GreatREPanic & has been hit by #REWhipLash?
In US: 1 in 3 buyers admitted they OVERPAID by May 2022, 279,000 underwater now
In CA: Prices already down by $142K
https://twitter.com/RealEstateCafe/status/1604187626114015232
CarDealershipGuy
These are all retail-ready cars being advertised to other dealers – likely at a big loss.
https://twitter.com/GuyDealership/status/1604115075417214976
We’re entering the 2nd stage where we find out fake auditors were conducting fake audits for fake companies who were selling fake money.
https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1604272585084207105
Lance Lambert
This decade’s historic divergence between U.S. home price growth and inflation has begun to reverse.
https://twitter.com/NewsLambert/status/1604154999671607299
Filecoin went from $240 to $2.40.
https://twitter.com/scottmelker/status/1603952102409179136
Nasma Ali
Know that the City of Toronto is now enforcing the 180 nights short term rental maximum allowance. They will investigate you and audit you if they catch you. And it’s highly likely they will. Not even worth taking the risk.
https://twitter.com/nasmadotali/status/1604248572777697283
Zestimate meet reality
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1601343966678433793
via MS – housing affordability across the US’e deteriorating at its fastest pace in history
Higher prices + rates have made it much harder to afford homes
Now Inventories are soaring YoY in some metro areas (like 170% in PHX and 125% in Nashville) – lower prices ahead IMO
https://twitter.com/RadicalAdem/status/1604287156477775872
Tesla’s most prominent investors now openly feuding with Elno.
https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1603942515723436033
Protest growing. So these are not about THs but 1.9M+ detached homes 100+ buyers of Valley Oaks Detached subdivision by Paradise
https://twitter.com/LakhTek/status/1602041150461853706
That last link is FBs protesting (looks cold!) their K-da a$$poundings. Comments:
3 quick points – No one forced them to book a 2m home in Brampton. Lets see what their reported CRA income is and get some understanding how they plan to get approved for mortgage. And lets see how much RE these people own. You can’t make money way up n cry foul way down!
This is ridiculous these people all need to pay every penny in their contract. The public is with you @ParadiseDev
and demanding you get every penny from these gambling spectators who have other assets. These speculators need to be held accountable. Make them PAY as they have $.
My heart bleeds for these buyers of multimillion $ properties. #Toronto
LOL!! where were the protests when homes were skyrocketing???
every penny from these gambling spectators who have other assets. These speculators need to be held accountable. Make them PAY as they have $.
A lot of Canadians own property in S. FL and Arizona. Wonder how many of those may need to be sold.
No one forced them to book a 2m home in Brampton.
They’ll be fine renting out these “homes” for $2k/mo, right!
You can’t make money way up n cry foul way down!
Yeah, I’m already sick of hearing the wailing of speculators now that the FED is breaking it off in all their aszes. Where was their outrage when the working class and the poor were shafted out of a roof over their heads. F**k these people. F**k them right in the aszs!
“F**k them right in the aszs!”
There’s a nice way to say that and…
As the liberal group Democracy for America approached insolvency following the midterm elections, staffers faced a related problem: their CEO, Yvette Simpson, was on vacation at a vineyard in California.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/18/democracy-for-america-yvette-simpson-00074451
That piece is a great find.
It’s a true wake-up call to the imbeciles who think the poor huddle together helping each other, and one day wake-up to the reality of uncooked oatmeal for thee, and vacations, served meals and fancy clothes with bling for the king!
their CEO, Yvette Simpson, was on vacation at a vineyard in California.
She doesn’t fit in in Napa at all. She’s a low class grifter and it’s transparent. It’s like a pimp shopping for a Cadillac. The dealership will smile in his face, but look nervously around like “wtf?”
By the way, it’s not about her skin color, it’s about they type of person she is within her own community. Watch Chris Rock’s “Black People versus N****s.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
Farragut, TN Housing Prices Crater 28% YOY As Rural Lot, Land And Housing Prices Plunge Across Tennessee
https://www.movoto.com/farragut-tn/market-trends/
As one national broker explained, “Demand for all types of housing is cratering. Prices are cratering too.”
Fun fact: Farragut’s naval career began when he was added to the U.S. Navy’s rolls with the rank of “boy” in the spring of 1810. Through the influence of his foster father, Farragut was commissioned a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on December 17, 1810, at the age of nine. A prize master by the age of 11, Farragut fought in the War of 1812, serving under Captain Porter, his foster father. While serving aboard the frigate USS Essex, Farragut participated in the capture of HMS Alert on August 13, 1812.
Back then a kid could just stake a claim on the river and build a shack, those were the days!
Concrete Blonde – Joey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ
‘He painted the story. He knew from the beginning what he was doing and he really got us. I am very pissed off and it makes me feel very, very deceived.’”
Did you stamp your little feet, Evan? Funds from your account helped fund the systemic corruption and impunity for the perps that you are now whinging about. Lie down with the dogs (D), wake up with the fleas.
Replacement Theory? Seriously, stop noticing.
Breitbart — Biden’s Migrants Are Displacing Americans from Homeless Shelters (12/17/2022):
“Tens of thousands of economic migrants invited by President Joe Biden are displacing Americans from homeless shelters just before Christmas, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reported on December 15 from El Paso, Texas, where the many job-seeking migrants are being released by Alejandro Mayorkas’s easy migration policies. The numbers are so high that many migrants cannot find seats in departing buses and aircraft …
Most of the migrants are single men, who are eager to take low-wage jobs, share crowded apartments, and compliantly accept abuse from employers. They migrate because U.S. jobs — many of which are paid in tax-free cash — pay far more money than they could earn at home and allow them to quickly pay smuggling debts and send money back to their families.
Mario D’Agostino, a deputy city manager [in El Paso] …. outlined a new strategy that might ferry migrants to large, nearby transportation hubs, such as Dallas, Denver and Phoenix. He said federal immigration authorities are preparing to possibly process and directly release migrants at a bridge that connects Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso.
“Two days after the city of Denver opened an emergency shelter to accommodate more than 100 migrants who arrived in the city from the country’s southern border, another 20 arrived on Thursday, city officials said,” according to a December 8 report in Denver Post.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/17/bidens-migrants-are-displacing-americans-from-homeless-shelters/
Related article.
New York Post — The end of Title 42 will increase soaring fentanyl deaths (12/17/2022):
“President Biden’s border insanity isn’t just killing migrants and US law enforcement officers; it’s killing kids and destroying families via the massive inflow of drugs the White House has invited.
Title 42 — a Trump-era rule and one of the few brakes on our current massive migrant inflows — will expire this week. That’s going to supercharge illegal migration, and with it the deadly movement of fentanyl over our southern border.
Our open border is an open invitation to sophisticated, violent and vast Mexican cartels. For over a decade, these syndicates have been shifting their production and distribution efforts from cocaine and heroin to synthetic drugs: meth and fentanyl.
Those drugs are much easier to overdose on and far more addictive, and their flood into our country is clearly responsible for the brain-shattering increase in drug deaths. In 2007, the nation saw 27,000 ODs. Last year? 107,000, per CDC data. Of those, the agency estimates around 71,000 were fentanyl-involved.”
71,000 is that a lot?
“And it’s not only ODs these drugs are supercharging. As Sam Quinones — a journalist who’s helped spearhead the investigation into our opioid epidemic — has noted, the increasingly ultra-pure forms of both poisons are a huge driver of the homelessness epidemic in blue-state cities. The drugs are so potent, in other words, that users would rather live in the open as long as they can continue to get their fix.”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/17/the-end-of-title-42-will-increase-soaring-fentanyl-deaths/
That last paragraph right there? That’s Denver. Zero consequences for shooting up or smoking drugs off tinfoil in public, or for public urination or defecation.
Keep paying those property taxes, suckers.
That last paragraph right there? That’s Denver.
Reap, sow: Denver’s Democrat-Bolshevik mayor says city is “on the verge of reaching breaking point” as Democrat-on-Arrival illegals keep flooding in.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1604242570158170117
Hizzonor the Mayor will soon find out that no one is coming to help. Not the Governor and certainly not Brandon. Dumver is on it’s own.
Even funnier, no one, not Abbot , not DeSantis is sending illegals to Dumver. They are coming on their own. No doubt they are expecting good gibs in Dumver. I hope all those Venezuelans enjoy the cold.
“Hizzonor…”
I see you are also familiar with Ebonics too. LOL
I see you are also familiar with Ebonics too. LOL
I thought that was more of a NYC thing.
“I thought that was more of a NYC thing.”
Could be, but it’s still a great bastardization.
Hizzoner
They used to call Ed Koch “Hizzoner” (NYC Mayor January ’78 – December ’89.
well if those deaths were college educated people, we would have clamped down long ago, but most are functionally illiterate and will never have a “good” job, so ……….replace them with illegals who come to work and support families
well if those deaths were college educated people
Some are. The regime still doesn’t care. Why would they? They tried to force people to accept an experimental poison.
President Biden’s border insanity isn’t just killing migrants and US law enforcement officers; it’s killing kids and destroying families via the massive inflow of drugs the White House has invited.
Do we need any more proof that they want to harm the country?
These waves of invaders began long ago as you all know, but they really ramped up during Obama/Biden. Biden subsequently went on record saying he wanted an unlimited wave of immigrants. He is also on record stating that he is a zionist. No one should be surprised at what is occurring.
What people need to realize is that these waves of people don’t just disappear. They stack up. In some parts of LA they share beds in 8 hour shifts and have been for many years. As they are given licenses and buy cars there is not one parking spot left to be had in these neighborhoods past 7pm. This is now coming to all of the big blue cities. Couple this with restrictive land use policies and you get a market that is permanently broken for the average citizen. This current flood of people is going to cause a lot of ruin in a lot of places. If you live in one of these places you might want to start making some fight or flight plans.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Dumver just declared a state of emergency over a few busloads of Venezuelans and is demanding state and federal aid to deal with the future astronauts and doctors.
The globalists’ creepy Orwellian tech companies need to be held accountable for their collusion with the Deep State and EU Quislings to censor and ban COVID-19 truth-tellers.
https://twitter.com/Rob_Roos/status/1604131049805467650
Rob Roos MEP 🇳🇱
🚨 IMPORTANT:
I would hereby like to invite @ElonMusk
to provide testimony before the European Parliament.
The subject: Big Tech censorship during #COVID.
Did Big Tech collude with EU govts?
Mr. Musk, your courage is needed to reveal the truth.
The Cloward–Piven strategy beiing implemented at the Southern Border since the 2020 election was stolen is going nicely.
White Christmas
Sung by The Drifters. Cartoon by Joshua Held.
https://youtu.be/Ooc5eJc5SHA
Amusing watching our Parliament of Whores unload SBF’s donations.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/12/16/lawmakers-quick-to-unload-ftxs-founders-contributions
The globalists & their Democrat-Bolshevik Quislings want to normalize such freakshows in our NEA indoctrination mills.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/trans-teacher-with-z-sized-prosthetic-breasts-sparks-photo-ban/
The Hill — COVID response coordinator: People ‘confused’ about whether they need updated booster (12/18/2022):
“Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Americans seem “confused” about whether they need an updated COVID-19 vaccine booster, urging people to get another shot if it’s been six months since their last one.
Jha told ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that people are still “learning about the new COVID vaccine,” referring to the bivalent booster that now targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the omicron variant.
“There are still a lot of people that are confused about whether they need one or not,” he said. “We’re being very clear about this — if you’ve not gotten a vaccine in the last six months, it is essential to go out and get the new, updated bivalent.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3779712-covid-response-coordinator-people-confused-about-whether-they-need-updated-booster/
There is no confusion about the blood clots.
There is no confusion about the heart attacks.
There is no confusion about the strokes.
There is no confusion about the died suddenly.
As the HBB’s resident Online Safety Expert, I demand that you have to stop noticing.
COVID response coordinator: People ‘confused’ about whether they need updated booster
I’ve never been confused. Never had one, never will.
CTF is growing by the day.
Townhall — Jordan Peterson Warns the Left Is Planning a ‘Totalitarian Social Credit System’ (12/17/2022):
“The Left has been slowly pushing a socialist agenda in the U.S. for some time. However, it wasn’t until the Covid-19 pandemic that Americans began to realize it.
During an interview with Australia’s Sky News, anti-woke thinker Jordan Peterson warned that a “totalitarian credit system” is coming to western countries.
When asked if he thinks what happened during Covid could usher in a version of a social credit system, Peterson answered that it is “highly probable.”
“And that it will be accepted by many people?” the reporter asked.
“They won’t even notice,” Peterson said. “You can’t believe how much people don’t know these things.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/12/17/jordan-peterson-warns-the-left-is-planning-a-totalitarian-social-credit-system-n2617262
They won’t even notice? Noticing, did you say, Dr. Peterson?
The only thing worse than the noticing is people noticing all of the noticing. Online Safety Experts are here to help. If you fear that you’ve started noticing, let us talk you down off of the ledge. Let us safely guide you back on to the plantation.
With enough porn, weed, sportsball, and high fructose corn syrup, you’ll stop noticing. Let us help you.
Townhall — City of El Paso Declares State of Emergency as Thousands of Illegal Migrants Storm the Border (12/18/2022):
“El Paso, Texas officials declare a state of emergency as they prepare for thousands of illegal migrants to storm the southern border of the state.
During a press conference, Mayor Oscar Leeser announced a Declaration of Disaster, saying that he could no longer keep residents safe from the influx of migrants coming in through the border as Title-42 is about to expire on Wednesday.
“Talking to some of our federal partners they believe that on Wednesday our numbers will go to 4-, 5- or 6,000, and when I asked them, I said do you believe that you guys can handle it today, the answer was no. And when I heard the answer was no, I knew we had to do something right away,” Leeser said.
The Trump-era policy, which allowed border agents to expel to Mexico certain migrants upon encounter, will be lifted in a matter of days. Officials expect at least 6,000 illegal immigrants to arrive at the border every day.
“We know the influx on Wednesday [December 21] will be incredible it will be huge. On Wednesday our numbers will go from 2,500 to 4,000, 5,000, maybe 6,000,” Leeser said.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2022/12/18/city-of-el-paso-declares-state-of-emergency-as-thousands-of-illegal-migrants-storm-the-border-n2617274
6,000 every day? That’s a lot to not notice (cashes checks from the ADL and SPLC) but we’re gonna help you not notice.
The sooner you stop noticing, the better off all of us will be.
Linked from The Burning Platform (3m24s):
“GREETINGS FROM LOS ANGELES: Happening now, the homeless crisis is out of control on West Coast. @RJBalpha sending me real-time vid driving through parts of California right now. These are truly America’s slums. It looks like a war zone. #LosAngeles #LA @GavinNewsom @KarenBassLA”
https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1603912900862939136
You are not allowed to notice any of this. No noticing allowed.
How do you like them apples, Taylor?
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1604521909911175168
Crazy in the head, probably crazy in bed.
Time is of the essence in destroying the fake vaccines. Some people are saying “Stop the Shots Now”, and the time has run out on ignoring the death and injury they are causing..
In response to Ron DeSantis calling for a Grand jury regarding Covid, Dr FAUCi claimed that 3.2 million lives were saved,18.5 million hospitalizations prevented and a trillion dollars saved, according to a Study Fauci cited.
The problem is the Study was junk science, based on models, not real data… It was enough for fake news to go wild repeating
the not based on data STUDY.
Dr Fauci is asserting the ” We saved lives defense” based on made up science.
Just as they fear mongered the globe by their faulty model that 2.5 Americans would die if they didn’t follow the face of science Fauci, they are making up the gains by the lockdowns, masks and fake vaccines.
The excess mortality is off the charts following the vaccine rollouts, that is the opposite of “saving lives”.
The Fauci pushed protocols in hospitals killed thousands, while drugs that cured Covid were obstructed.
This man Fauci is a psychopathic killer that funded the toxin or virus that was released on the World, and they make him the authority on the Covid Response.
So some people are getting frustrated with being into this scam for almost three years and the poison hasn’t been withdrawn, and
time is of the essence to save people from the fake vaccine/boosters.
Stop the Shots now, and hold parties accountable now. Governors could order at least for the clot shots to be suspended until investigations have been conducted.
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“into this scam for almost three years”
March 2020: two weeks to flatten the curve.
Summer 2020: rioting for Fentanyl Floyd is okay because wacism is a greater threat to public health than CCP Flu.
Late Summer 2020: Sturgis biker rally is a super-spreader event attended by grandma killing Drumpfers.
November 2020: mail in ballots and stolen election.
March 2021: hurr-durr neanderthal thinking for Gov. Abbott lifting face diaper restrictions in Texas.
Spring 2021: 100% safe and effective.
May 2021: get a free donut.
Summer 2021: Governor Polis implements a lottery to award free gibs to vaxxtards.
Autumn 2021: get injected with mRNA poison or get fired from your job.
December 2021: Google manipulates search results for “mass formation psychosis” after Dr. Robert Malone appearance on Joe Rogan podcast.
Winter 2021-22: unelected president advocates “winter of death” for purebloods.
Spring 2022: life insurance statistics of rise in all cause mortality are revealed detailing stats since one year of mass rollout of mRNA poison.
Summer 2022: statistics on learning deficiencies and behavioral problems for children kept out of school for 2 years revealed.
November 2022: another stolen election.
December 2022 (<– you are here): release of Twitter Files is beginning of confirmed reveal of Twitter and other globalist social media corporations' role as subsidiaries of FBI and other alphabet agencies in censorship and suppression of CCP Flu information.
But seriously, please stop noticing.
As Expected, The Gateway Pundit was the Top Target of the Big Tech-Govt. Alliance – Their Public Report Even Devoted Entire Section to Gateway Pundit:
“With the recent release of “Twitter Files 6,” avid Gateway Pundit readers and listeners of my podcast know that we have been discussing these very “portals” of government and non-profit censorship that have existed within Twitter and other social media platforms for non-profits like the EIP/CIS/EI-ISAC and government agencies to use for months in order to censor American citizens.
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai has been talking about the EI-ISAC and CIS since early 2021 when he discovered these connections during his lawsuit against Massachusetts over his election “loss”. ToreSays has also been talking about the DHS contracts with the EI-ISAC/CIS for perhaps even longer.
It wasn’t just the EI-ISAC or CIS though that were colluding with social media platforms and other cohorts alike to censor the American people during the 2020 election. There were household names as well. Non-profits most of us would recognize: Common Cause, the NAACP, Defending Digital Democracy, MITRE, the National Conference on Citizenship, but perhaps, most notably, the AARP.
The EIP was not only using teams of federal agents and government election officials to censor the American public, they were also encouraging and recruiting retired senior citizens to do the same. So much for “professional fact checkers.”
The Long Fuse by the EIP mentions “The Gateway Pundit” at least 34 times in their report. There is actually an exclusive dedicated section titled “The Gateway Pundit.” We’re flattered.
The Gateway Pundit was suspended from Twitter back in February 2021 for spreading “misinformation”: Open Records CCTV footage requested and paid for of a van dropping off 60+ boxes of ballots in the back of the TCF Center in Detroit around 3:30am and 4:30am. The footage is consistent with sworn affidavits by former MI State Senator Patrick Colbeck and Shane Trejo. Those boxes of ballots were brought inside, with no known chain of custody, and set aside until the next shift came in at 6am to start counting. That shift, of course, had no idea that those ballots came in almost 8 hours after the deadline for ballots. But yes, “misinformation”. Even MI state representative Jack O’Malley didn’t know what he was talking about when he said that the footage was “debunked” as camera equipment (33:50 mark), not realizing he was referring to a completely separate incident.
This segment doesn’t mention The Gateway Pundit specifically, however, the “Philadelphia USB memory cards” story was not only factual, but widely reported on numerous “mainstream” news sites. Here’s CBS News telling the story. The Associated Press. And a local NBC affiliate. Did the AARP “fact checkers” or the EIP determine that there was no harm done from a stolen laptop and USB sticks in a Philadelphia election center just a month before the election and while early voting was underway?
Hopefully the “new” discoveries in the Twitter Files will be enough to really open up the minds of Americans so they may realize and understand what has been happening right under our noses in terms of government collusion with social media platforms, using non-profits and NGOs as “go-betweens.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/expected-gateway-pundit-top-target-twitter-govt-alliance-public-report-even-devoted-entire-section-gateway-pundit/
STOP. NOTICING.
Related article.
HuffPaint — Trump Ominously Evokes Jan. 6, Tells Backers It’s Time To ‘Deal With’ FBI, DOJ ‘Thugs’ (12/17/2022):
“Donald Trump was slammed for another round of threats and incitement Saturday after evoking last year’s Jan. 6 insurrection — and then telling his followers it’s now time for the FBI and Justice Department “thugs” to be “dealt with.”
Don’t threaten the Feds, kidz, or it’s off to the January 6th gulag you will go.
“Critics considered the threatening messages to be a clear dog whistle to his followers, many of whom are armed. Some 62% of gun owners voted for Trump in the 2016 election. And his Oath Keeper supporters had a “massive stockpile” of weapons stashed in the Washington, D.C., area last Jan. 6 to support Trump in the event he tried to seize control of the government and remain in power, according to trial evidence.
Trump baselessly insisted in a Truth Social post that the FBI was “absolutely” involved in a “coordinated effort to change election results” to make him a loser. That justified last year’s violent Jan. 6 “protest” at the U.S. Capitol, he insisted, even though nearly 1,000 rioters have been indicted for crimes related to the insurrection that day.
Critics believe Trump’s vile attacks reveal how terrified the former president is about the looming prospect of criminal indictments against him. The House Jan. 6th committee is considering making at least three criminal referrals against Trump to the Justice Department, including incitement of insurrection, obstruction and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-truth-social-deal-with-fbi-doj-thugs-incitement_n_639e5393e4b0f4895adc174d
The Atlantic — Like Uber, but for Militias (12/18/2022):
“One problem with defining extremism in America today is how many people think the U.S. government is what’s extreme.
This fall, I set out to meet today’s version of such alienated activists, who were looking for solace in a civilian defense group. On a street corner in West Covina, just outside Los Angeles, one of them, Vincent Tsai, told me: “We need to be armed and ready. We need to be our own self-defense.” After being suspended from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department for refusing to comply with mask and vaccine mandates, he was running for State Senate in November’s elections.
Tsai told me that the globalists and the Chinese Communist Party were taking over the U.S., and he lamented the erosion of American masculinity and fighting spirit. “If our Founding Fathers were like these soy boys nowadays, we wouldn’t have America”
Soy boys? See also: all of Reddit.
“He called it neighborhood watch on steroids—a group that will mobilize to respond to a range of threats, “from your business being looted downtown to [Child Protective Services] trying to take your child.” The arrival of the pandemic was a catalyst for the growth of People’s Rights, which found a large, receptive constituency in those who saw their liberty threatened by public-health mandates they deemed unconstitutional.
“The pandemic was a wonderful time for extreme patriot groups, and People’s Rights fit very easily into that patriot militia setting,” Travis McAdam, an official of the Montana Human Rights Network, told me. “You have people who were scared, looking for answers, angry at the government”
When I went to a series of weekly People’s Rights meetings, I was struck by the dissonance of how innocuous an organization labeled as an extremist group can appear.
In particular, it was difficult to square a measured and sober-seeming activist and candidate for office like Tsai with a human-rights group’s report on People’s Rights that described it as “a dangerous new network of militia members, anti-maskers, conspiracists, preppers, and anti-vaxxers.”
So how to make sense of this Venn diagram of political activism with its apparently overlapping circles of people who simply want to participate in civic life at a grassroots level and those willing to take up arms against government tyranny?”
How to make sense? First and foremost, stop noticing.
“What united People’s Rights activists was a sense that society had lost its bearings: Traditional policing was no longer reliable for maintaining freedom, and a continuum of government overreach now threatened them—they believed that what had started with mask mandates would end in concentration camps. Because of this, they reasoned, an armed standoff between citizens and anyone denying their liberty might be necessary.”
Concentration camps? I would suggest to see also: Australia, but it’s probably better if you stop noticing.
“Across Southern California, People’s Rights members were promoting candidates like Tsai. At a campaign event Tsai convened in Pomona, Daniel Bocic Martinez, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress, told the group about how the pandemic was part of a larger conspiracy “organized by a small group of elites who want as many dead bodies as possible.” Other candidates, such as Ryan Maye, a full-time plumber running for state assembly, mingled with a small crowd. Martinez explained how encouraging people to get electric vehicles was a deadly ruse, so that “they” could control people by switching off the grid. “It’s a war against us”
Tsai was undeterred by his lack of success with voters. “We can never comply our way out of tyranny. It’s always been a small group of warriors that risked everything—their families, their lives, their property—and fought back against tyranny to create a better country, a new world for people to live in,” he told me.
“I’m still canvassing door to door and teaching people skills,” he said. “People should journal and spend time in nature. Modern society is too weak for an actual insurrection. People are fat, lazy, untrained, and unmotivated.”
Fat, lazy? See also: all of Reddit.
“He invited me to come shooting with him in the desert the next weekend. “The globalist plan is accelerating,” he said. “Things are going to be chaos by next year.”
https://archive.ph/h3RHz
Tsai was undeterred by his lack of success with voters. “We can never comply our way out of tyranny.
After the 2020 & 2022 elections, 75 million “MAGA Republicans” learned they aren’t going to vote their way out of tyranny, either. That is going to have far-reaching implications.
“The globalist plan is accelerating,” he said. “Things are going to be chaos by next year.”
This is plainly obvious: stolen elections, and not just in the US. The coming engineered global famine (which I think will be truly horrific) which will make this years CPI look like a walk in the park. More countries embracing euthanasia and strong arming people into it. A return to face diapers and mandatory jabs. Economic collapse and far worse than depression era unemployment.
A datapoint I find interesting: Catholics as a rule do not obsess about “the end times” the way Protestant Fundamentalists do. But that is starting to change. More than a few are now quietly discussing Pope Leo XIII’s vision: that Satan would be given free reign to attack and corrupt the world for 100 years before the second coming. Many now believe that vision is coming true.
Matthew 24:36
Matthew 24:36
He didn’t say when it would happen, and those who think the 100 year period has started aren’t sure when it started. Some Say WW2, others think the 60’s, but they agree that they don’t really know when. Others think that maybe nothing has happened yet, and what we are experiencing now is merely the end of the west and not the end of time.
and those who think the 100 year period has started aren’t sure when it started
1913?
1913?
In that case, it would already be over, I think. WWI was bad, and Communism got its start. Many died and suffered, and there was much destruction. But it does seem that humanity shifted evil into an even higher gear with WW2, and it was also the time when weapons of mass destruction were first created and used. While it is only a guess, I would go with WW2 as the beginning.
I would go with
The Garden of Eden?
The Garden of Eden?
That is when evil was introduced. The vision was about the Holy Spirit removing His protection from the world. That said it’s only a vision. Leo never made an ex cathedra statement on it, and for a long time it has been consigned to the pile of curiosities, much like Medjugorje was not too long ago.
But now with what appears to be an unprecedented and sudden rise in depravity and insanity in what once was Christendom, some are beginning to wonder.
“From October to November, home prices fell 10.54% in Lewis County, dropping from $427,000 in October to $382,000 in November, …”
That happened at an annualized rate of decline of 1-(382/427)^12 = 73.7%.
🔪 Try not to catch yourself a falling knife. 🗡️
Over 10 years that’s 99.9998%.
Eventually it’s just a banana peel.
It’s too bad the Cartel charging $3k a head to move the Illegals across the border isn’t a publickly traded company because that would be a great investment.
I guess it would have to be a publicly traded company.
Biden’s Migrants Are Displacing Americans from Homeless Shelters
NEIL MUNRO
17 Dec 2022
Tens of thousands of economic migrants invited by President Joe Biden are displacing Americans from homeless shelters just before Christmas, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reported on December 15 from El Paso, Texas, where the many job-seeking migrants are being released by Alejandro Mayorkas’s easy migration policies. The numbers are so high that many migrants cannot find seats in departing buses and aircraft:
Most of the migrants are single men, who are eager to take low-wage jobs, share crowded apartments, and compliantly accept abuse from employers. They migrate because U.S. jobs — many of which are paid in tax-free cash — pay far more money than they could earn at home and allow them to quickly pay smuggling debts and send money back to their families.
The El Paso migrants are being sent to other cities by the government-backed network of migration-support groups. The TexasStandard.org reported on December 17:
Ruben Garcia, the executive director of Annunciation House, a network of temporary shelters in El Paso for migrants and refugees, told the Texas Standard that his group sent a bus of refugees to a faith community in Kansas City, Mo., on Monday and that he had spoken with some of the people who had crossed.
“I asked them, what were the numbers like? And, you know, I heard words like ‘indescribable,’ the lines longer than you could even see,” Garcia said. “So we’re just seeing many, many refugees that are crossing the border at this particular time. And of course, it’s creating a tremendous challenge.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/17/bidens-migrants-are-displacing-americans-from-homeless-shelters/
I watched a YT video the other day of what sounds like an older white woman ferrying a bunch of invaders in her SUV for big bucks. An Arizona Sheriff pulled her over and called her out for it but she didn’t face any charges. Let me see if I can find it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAhIFxj1Ek
The reality is that we are our own worst enemy in all of this. You don’t need to wait for public shares just head to the border and offer rides. You can probably even double dip by getting the invaders to pay you as well as the feds.
I realized long ago while living in San Diego that this is never going to stop. Whenever the uniparty is in charge they are just going to open the gates and the majority of people will encourage it. The natives have a history of being displaced in this country.
I realized long ago while living in San Diego that this is never going to stop
The previous admin did slow it down, and I’m wondering why the Brandon admin hasn’t started sending ships to bring them in directly, a la Camp of the Saints. Lease cruise ships and bring them in 5,000 at a time. Give them their Green and EBT cards as they disembark (jab optional, of course).
“Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a growing concern in meeting global targets for TB control. In high-income low-TB-incidence countries, a disproportionate number of MDR-TB cases occur in migrant (foreign-born) populations, with concerns about low adherence rates in these patients compared to the host non-migrant population. ”
Is this bad ?
Farm laborers in the Columbia Basin are frequently exposed to tuberculosis from fresh faces illegally entering the workforce, but the county’s health department jumps right on it.
R u holding out hope for a Santa Claus rally to make your stonks go up?
Yahoo
Fortune
2022 was a no good very bad year for the stock market. Will 2023 be any better?
Will Daniel
Sun, December 18, 2022 at 4:00 AM PST·5 min read
Investors are celebrating the end of 2022 after soaring inflation and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes made it a brutal year for stocks.
The S&P 500 is down 20% year-to-date, and with bonds simultaneously experiencing their worst year in history, there’s been nowhere to hide. After more than a decade of strong returns following the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, most investors are unaccustomed to this kind of carnage.
Between 2009 and 2021, the S&P 500’s average annual return was a hefty 16.4%, according to New York University. But don’t expect anything like those gains in 2023.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2022-no-good-very-bad-120000441.html
Bloomberg
Markets
Stock Market’s Brutal Year Leaves Wall Street With Little Faith in a Rebound
– Worries about recession poised to replace 2022 inflation fears
– Fed’s path is key, with market at mercy of rate hikes
By Jess Menton
December 18, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST
A brutal year for US stocks is drawing to a close with little conviction on Wall Street that the outlook is brightening any time soon.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-18/stock-market-outlook-shows-little-optimism-for-recovery#xj4y7vzkg
Barron’s
The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price
By Ben Levisohn
Dec. 16, 2022 8:29 pm ET
We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023.
Those concerns were front and center this past week, following the Federal Open Market Committee’s December meeting. The Fed didn’t do anything to surprise the market as it raised the federal-funds rate by a half-point, just as everyone expected, and suggested a terminal rate of just over 5%, a level investors had slowly come around to. But the dot plot reflected the Fed’s belief that rates would have to go high and stay high, while Chairman Jerome Powell continued to strike a hawkish tone.
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/fed-interest-rates-stock-market-51671240434
It sure would wreck a whole lot of pensions and other retirement savings vehicles. But as they say: easy come, easy go.
Yahoo
Bloomberg
Stock Market’s Brutal Year Leaves Wall Street With Little Faith in a Rebound
Jessica Menton
Sun, December 18, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST·4 min read
(Bloomberg) — A brutal year for US stocks is drawing to a close with little conviction on Wall Street that the outlook is brightening anytime soon.
After charting a rebound since October on speculation the Federal Reserve is nearing the end of its most aggressive rate hikes in decades, stock prices have retreated over the past two weeks on renewed concern that the tighter monetary policy will smother economic growth through the first half of next year. The S&P 500 has lost nearly 20% this year. Rate-sensitive growth stocks have been hit even harder, driving the Nasdaq 100 down more than 30%.
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The key question now facing Wall Street is how close the Fed is to ending its rate increases — a moment that historically has delivered double-digit returns for equities.
To Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management, the tighter financial conditions are poised to shift investors’ focus next year from inflation to the risks posed by a slowdown in the economy. He’s bearish on US stocks over the next three-to-six months and is watching three key factors that could bring an end to the bear market: a trough in corporate earnings estimates, a steeper bond-yield curve and cheaper valuations in stocks most sensitive to cycles in the economy.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-brutal-leaves-wall-190007426.html
“The key question now facing Wall Street is how close the Fed is to ending its rate increases — a moment that historically has delivered double-digit returns for equities.”
I thought the Fed already answered this one: No loosening in 2023.
The serial bottom callers seem to think denial is a river in Egypt.
At least I know I won’t be alone in missing the entire World Cup this year.
https://youtu.be/kaxoaKwx8tU
Never cared for soccer the field is too large and the scoring is too low. fix that and Americans will watch.
FWIW, Major League Soccer has been steadily growing, from 9 teams in 1996 to 29 teams now, so Americans are watching, more than ever. Most MLS teams have their own stadiums too.
Remember the old NASL? They tried to Americanize the sport, changed the rules so there would be more scoring. It’s been gone for a long time.
That said, the NFL doesn’t have anything to worry about, for now.
Say what you will about it, it’s the biggest sportsball event in the world. And next time (if there is a next time) the US is hosting it, well most of it as Canada and Mexico will be co-hosting it. And I say “if there is a next time” because by 2026 I expect most of the planet to be in a global climate lockdown, and maybe another scamdemic. So no flying to another country to get drunk, arrested and maybe attend a game or two.
Also, former England player and now football pundit, Gary Lineker, says that 2026 shouldn’t be held in the US, because we’re raycis. To be honest I prefer it not be held here, for other reasons. Let China host it.
Say what you will about it, it’s the biggest sportsball event in the world.
I was in Panama during the World Cup and people would stop on the sidewalk and watch the TVs in the bars and restaurants blocking the sidewalk. You would be walking down the street and hear huge cheers/jeers from all around you when someone scored. I had no idea who was playing. I was watching the LA Rams playing one Sunday on the big screen and soccer came on and “American Football” were delegated to the small TV in the corner. They are serious about their “Football.”
Will the Congress ride in to rescue crypto in the wake of the FTX collapse?
Cryptocurrency
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Sen. Sherrod Brown leaves possibility of crypto ban open as momentum builds for stronger regulation
BYSteve Mollman
December 18, 2022 at 12:11 PM PST
Senators Sherrod Brown (right) and Jon Tester (left) are coming down hard on crypto—and they’re not alone.
Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images
Cryptocurrency firms reeling from the epic collapse of FTX and its aftereffects received yet another unwelcome development on Sunday’s talk shows.
Senator Sherrod Brown, chair of the Senate banking committee, took questions on NBC’s Meet the Press today about how lawmakers should approach cryptocurrencies after the FTX debacle.
Host Chuck Todd asked the lawmaker whether regulating crypto would give a “green light” to something that many people think should be banned.
Brown, referring to government agencies—the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission—replied, “We want them to do what they need to do…maybe banning.”
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https://fortune.com/2022/12/18/sherrod-brown-crypto-ban-ftx-senate-banking-regulation-coinbase/
Should the government regulate the beanie baby trade, beyond what current commerce laws stipulate. If someone wants to buy crypto and keep it in an exchange, they can knock themselves out’ but they shouldn’t expect bailouts when said exchanges become insolvent. The whole point of crypto is to keep the gooberment out of your “coin”, or so I’ve been told. If you want your savings insured, there are federally insured banks that accept USD.
“The whole point of crypto is to keep the gooberment out of your “coin”, or so I’ve been told.”
Seems like they want complete freedom from government intervention, unless in the form of bailouts to save them from a crisis of their own design.
Can’t have it both ways.
I call BS on the strawman claim that people are trying to discredit the blockchain following the FTX collapse.
By contrast, the blockheads who tried to get rich buying cryptocurrency and lost a bundle of money in the effort might be a worthy target for discreditation.
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Don’t let FTX’s fall discredit blockchain
by Luke Hogg, opinion contributor – 12/18/22 7:00 PM ET
Samuel Bankman-Fried, center, is escorted out of the Magistrate Court building the day after his arrest in Nassau, Bahamas, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. The U.S. government charged Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, with a host of financial crimes on Tuesday, alleging he intentionally deceived customers and investors to enrich himself and others, while playing a central role in the company’s multibillion-dollar collapse.
(Austin Fernander/The Tribune Bahamas via AP)
Congress’s frustration with the cryptocurrency industry was on full display last week when the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to investigate the collapse of FTX. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are fed up with fraud and malfeasance among crypto companies, making it all but certain that Congress will take action to regulate the industry next year.
But in the haste to call FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to account, Congress should take care to craft legislation that distinguishes bad actors and scams from the promise of continued innovation in blockchain technologies.
Once an industry darling, Bankman-Fried is now being charged with defrauding millions of investors out of billions of dollars. Last month, information came to light indicating that FTX and Alameda Capital—a venture capital firm also founded by Bankman-Fried—were commingling customer funds, leading to a run on the exchange and eventual bankruptcy. In the aftermath of the collapse, court filings and other watchdogs claim that he misappropriated customers’ deposits to make investments, including the purchase of real estate and options trading. Only a fraction of FTX’s assets have been secured by its new management, and millions of creditors are likely to experience a total loss.
Lawmakers are understandably incensed and demand answers about Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now the poster child for hubris and fraud within the crypto industry. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was one of the first to act, calling for Bankman-Fried to testify before the House Financial Services Committee, which she chairs. Bankman-Fried agreed to testify until he was arrested by Bahamian authorities at the request of federal law enforcement.
Fortunately, Bankman-Fried is not the only individual capable of giving Congress insight into the collapse. FTX’s new CEO, John J. Ray III, did appear before the committee and his testimony was as eye-opening as it was damning.
After over 40 years of experience in corporate restructuring, including management of the Enron bankruptcy, Ray has seen his fair share of corporate malfeasance. “But never in my career have I seen such an utter failure of corporate controls at every level of an organization,” he told the committee.
Many members of the committee used this opportunity to criticize the crypto industry and blockchain technologies as a whole. Rep. Jesús Garcia (D-Ill.) opined: “FTX isn’t an anomaly; its collapse isn’t the case of one corrupt guy stealing money. It’s about an entire industry that refuses to comply with existing regulation, that thinks it’s above the law.” Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) went further: “I really don’t get the point of blockchain and cryptocurrencies … other than if you’re a terrorist or someone who wants to hide money.”
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https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3780084-dont-let-ftxs-fall-discredit-blockchain/
Cryptocurrency
Published December 18, 2022 9:34am EST
Many of crypto’s greatest defenders abandon the cause amid FTX fallout
FTX was the third major crypto market to declare bankruptcy this year
By Anders Hagstrom FOXBusiness
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/many-cryptos-greatest-defenders-abandon-cause-ftx-fallout
Tech
The FTX disaster has set back crypto by ‘years’ — here are 3 ways it could reshape the industry
Published Sun, Dec 18 2022 9:03 PM EST
Updated 3 Hours Ago
Ryan Browne
Key Points
– The collapse of FTX, once a $32 billion crypto exchange, has shattered investor confidence in cryptocurrencies.
– Louise Abbott, a partner at law firm Keystone Law, told CNBC the exchange’s demise is “devastating for investors.”
– The disaster has set back adoption of crypto assets by “one or two years,” according to Evgeny Gaevoy, CEO of crypto market maker Wintermute.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/three-ways-the-ftx-disaster-will-reshape-crypto.html
“…adoption of crypto assets…”
Crypto assets are already plenty widely adopted. How else could investors have lost trillions of dollars this year when their crypto HODLings CR8Red?
Is $5 bn alot?
Trading | On December 18, 2022
$5,000,000,000 in Crypto Exits Binance in 48 Hours As Solvency Concerns Grow: Analytics Firm
By Alex Richardson
$5,000,000,000 in Crypto Exits Binance in 48 Hours As Solvency Concerns Grow: Analytics Firm
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, is being tested by a wave of large outflows as traders seek to withdraw their coins.
According to crypto insights firm Delphi Digital, Binance saw over $5 billion in net outflows on December 13th and 14th.
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https://dailyhodl.com/2022/12/18/5000000000-in-crypto-exits-binance-in-48-hours-as-solvency-concerns-grow-analytics-firm/
“…traders seek to withdraw their coins.”
How do you withdraw imaginary coinage?
I assume what the journalist meant to say is that the Binance customers want to sell their cryptocurrency HODLings for worthless dollars. I’d love to hear a true believer in cryptocurrencies explain to me the advantage of doing that.
The Buzzcocks — Why Can’t I Touch It:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1G0jl0Vc64
The Jam — Town Called Malice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbDD6NF13E0
Blondie — Once I Had A Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjeAt0KrL8
Talking Heads — Don’t Worry About The Government:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-e3waxCNNs
The Clash foretold the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ82BX0hGBM
China’s Covid Economy Ends Over Night – Millions Are Now Out of Work!
China Fact Chasers
Dec 18, 2022
Now that China has ‘ended’ zero covid a lot of people are now out of work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lrsRQwhtr8
8:50.
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Impact the Heart
American Thought Leaders
I sit down with two leading cardiologists from two sides of the Atlantic, Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra, to understand how the COVID-19 vaccines impact the body, especially the heart.
“There has been a suggestion—and I think this is probably subterfuge from the PR industry of pharma—that mild COVID may be causing all the sudden cardiac deaths. And the evidence is just not there for that at all,” says Malhotra. Once an outspoken advocate of the COVID-19 genetic vaccines, Malhotra changed his mind after the sudden death of his father compelled him to take a closer look at the data.
“Roughly 15 percent of people who have taken the vaccines are damaged by them,” says McCullough, one of the most published cardiologists in America and the Chief Scientific Officer of The Wellness Company.
McCullough says the risk of adverse effects from the mRNA vaccines is particularly high for those who were previously infected with COVID-19. “There are patients who are triple vaccinated, and then they get COVID. So they have a fourth exposure now of the spike protein. There is a cumulative risk here,” he says.
In this episode, the two doctors break down the data on the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, bias in the scientific literature, and what people should do if they are concerned about their health.
Below is a rush transcript of this American Thought Leaders episode from Dec 17, 2022. This transcript may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Jan Jekielek:
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Dr. Peter McCullough, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
Dr. Peter McCullough:
Thank you.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra:
Great to be here again.
Mr. Jekielek:
Of course the topic of our episode today is going to be COVID-19 and the heart. Sitting in front of two esteemed cardiologists from different backgrounds, from different countries, different medical systems, and we’re going to find out what you think. So Dr. McCullough, let’s start with just the basics. COVID-19 and the heart. And you can expand as far as you would like to start us off.
Dr. McCullough:
Looking back, there’s been a published history of the coronaviruses, specifically the betacoronaviruses, and the heart. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published in 1992 that he could create animal models with coronaviruses that would damage the heart and cause cardiomyopathy and heart failure. That was in 1992. So it was well known that there were models, given enough of the virus in the right routes of administration, the right experimental conditions, to cause this. The part of the virus that causes the heart damage is called the spike protein. So this was well known, 1992, well known ahead of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. And when the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak occurred in the United States in 2000, within a few months, multiple entities were aware of this possibility. So the U.S. military had a screening program for myocarditis with COVID, the respiratory illness, so did the Big Ten NCAA athletic league. And so people were on alert to look for myocarditis in SARS-CoV-2, the respiratory infection.
Mr. Jekielek:
And Dr. Malhotra, your thoughts.
Dr. Malhotra:
I think one of the things that became quite apparent early on in the pandemic is that the people who had risk factors for heart disease, who also even had underlying heart disease, were actually at higher risk for adverse outcomes from COVID-19. So the issue with the heart and COVID isn’t just about the vaccine, clearly, which we’ve discussed in detail before. It’s about the fact that one was also in a worse off position potentially from having a bad outcome from COVID if you had underlying heart disease.
Mr. Jekielek:
And that would extend to potentially bad outcomes from the vaccine. Do we know that?
Dr. Malhotra:
Could be. Certainly the four bits of data that the WHO put out in terms of potential adverse effects from the vaccine were based upon COVID itself, animal studies on the vaccine, the technology that was being used in previous harms from vaccines. But the fact that COVID itself was part of that as a problematic issue with the vaccine suggests that that was just building on what we already knew with heart disease and COVID.
Mr. Jekielek:
The typical thing that we hear about is myocarditis, and we know that because that’s probably the most developed of the cardiac issues when it comes to vaccination with these genetic vaccines. Why don’t you just give me an overview?
Dr. Malhotra:
So first and foremost, there’s been a lot of debate about whether COVID increased myocarditis itself, and the totality of the evidence, I’m sure Peter will agree with me, doesn’t suggest that compared to any other viruses, it’s particularly more prevalent. When it comes to the vacc- Well, we’ll talk about the vaccine in a second. Myocarditis in general, viral myocarditis, pre-vaccine, something we learn in medicine is a rule of third. So a third of people are going to get worse and die when they get myocarditis, and it’s thought to be essentially an autoimmune type phenomenon. So it can happen to anybody. In fact, my elder brother died from viral myocarditis. So either a third will die and get very sick, a third will have impairment of the heart muscle pump function and will live with that for a long time but not die, and a third will be sick momentarily and then they will get back to normal. And that’s what we know about viral myocarditis.
With the COVID-19 myocarditis, a slightly different kettle of fish. In some ways, there’s not that obvious or apparent death rates from myocarditis that we see with viral myocarditis, but of the people admitted to hospital, MRI scans show that about 80% of them are left with some kind of myocardial scar, which means that is potentially a problem moving forward as a substrate for arrhythmias or even deterioration of heart muscle pump function over time.
Mr. Jekielek:
And now we’re just talking about the virus itself, right?
Dr. Malhotra:
No, this is, sorry, with the vaccine.
Mr. Jekielek:
Oh, this is with the vaccine. Okay, great.
Dr. McCullough:
With the virus, if we just stay on the virus, there was a big paper that was published out of the Veterans Administration. They used ICD codes, but it was a huge study. First author I believe is Xie, X-I-E. Showed that virtually every cardiovascular event was elevated after a COVID infection, that was serious enough to be in the hospital. So the risks were giant for those who were in the hospital with COVID. Outpatient COVID, the risks were much less, but it included with COVID and afterwards a traditional myocardial infarction, the decompensation of heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias, atrial arrhythmias, and myocarditis. Now, myocarditis on the inpatient studies is a problem, because it’s not adjudicated. And a blood test is commonly done in almost all hospitalized patients called troponin. Troponin is the most abundant protein in the human heart, and it’s a reliable indicator of heart damage. But a troponin being elevated in COVID-19 respiratory illness doesn’t establish a diagnosis of myocarditis, because it’s elevated in bacterial sepsis and other ICU conditions.
So the literature, and there’s some papers written on this, that say COVID-19 itself causes more myocarditis than the vaccine. Those papers are not valid, because they’re not adjudicated cases of hospitalized patients developing myocarditis. But what’s of interest in community outpatients, the Big Ten had a screening program, a paper by Daniels and colleagues published in JAMA looked for myocarditis in thousands of athletes, 30% of them got COVID. They found a handful of cases that would’ve met a definition by multiple testing, and there were no hospitalizations and deaths. And then a paper by Joy and colleagues did very prospective cohorts, detailed screening of patients who developed COVID, no evidence of heart injury.
So I agree with Dr. Malhotra, with the respiratory illness as it all settles out, there is a risk for traditional cardiovascular events because of this big inflammatory insult that the body gets with COVID respiratory illness. But there is a small negligible risk of myocarditis with COVID, the respiratory infection, probably because the body doesn’t get this massive exposure to the spike protein as it does with the vaccines.
Mr. Jekielek:
But unless the disease is allowed to progress, and once someone’s in the hospital, now we’re seeing big issues. Is that right?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah, absolutely. I think that, as Peter said, the cardiovascular event rates, certainly in the people with severe COVID… And we’re talking now, going back in time a little bit to the ancestral strain really, because that’s what we saw at the very beginning, the Wuhan strain, does seem to, through an inflammatory mechanism, increase cardiovascular events. However, this is something we have known about in cardiology anyway, with all sorts of infections. If you’ve got predisposition as cardiovascular disease, you have an infection or pneumonia, it’s going to exacerbate all these cardiovascular problems. It’s going to increase the likelihood of plaque rupture and heart attacks, that kind of thing. So in that sense, it’s not that new. And I think the point that has been made more apparent recently is that there has been a suggestion, and I think this is probably subterfuge from the PR industry of pharma, that mild COVID may be causing all these sudden cardiac deaths. And the evidence is just not there for that at all, actually. So I think people shouldn’t be distracted by this false narrative that mild COVID may be causing a massive surge in cardiac arrests.
Dr. McCullough:
There’s a paper by Singer and colleagues that’s notable, because Singer again used this unadjudicated troponin elevation in the hospital by ICD codes, and proclaimed that COVID-19, the respiratory illness, has many-fold higher risk of myocarditis than taking a vaccine. So therefore you should take a vaccine and risk myocarditis in order to avoid myocarditis later on with the respiratory illness. And that type of logic is… It should be flawed to anybody listening to this. It’s built on a house of cards. We never administer a product to cause a problem, to later on prevent a problem. It just doesn’t work that way.
And with the vaccines, there’s quite a history of myocarditis with vaccines. Smallpox, monkeypox vaccine clearly causes myocarditis, well published cases of myocarditis. Viral infections can cause it, parvovirus and others. And a paper by [inaudible 00:10:04] and colleagues from Finland, published in one of the best cardiology journals before COVID, established a rate. It’s very important. They studied everybody in the entire country, and they had very solid case identification. Four cases per million is the background rate of myocarditis before COVID. And the very first number of the CDC came out with… And the CDC was dividing safety events by the total number of people that took the vaccine, assuming other people didn’t get it. That is a flawed statistical approach. But even doing that, the first CDC estimate was 62 cases per million, and then it rapidly escalated.
Tracy Høeg at UC Davis, different data analysis, 250 cases per million. Sharff at Kaiser Permanente found 527 cases per million. And now the two prospective cohort studies, [inaudible 00:10:51] and colleagues and [inaudible 00:10:53] and colleagues, two separate papers, when they finally do all the measurements before and then after vaccination, [inaudible 00:10:59] was on the second shot of Pfizer in children age 13 to 18, [inaudible 00:11:04] was in healthcare workers on the third shot of messenger RNA vaccines, they find together [inaudible 00:11:10] estimate now 25,000 cases per million.
Mr. Jekielek:
So this has basically accelerated as the vaccine rollout or the number of boosters, or how do you understand this?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. Myocarditis itself, absolutely. I think all cardiovascular conditions have got worse because of the vaccine, and anything and everything that can go wrong with the heart has gone wrong with the heart as a result of these mRNA vaccines. There’s no doubt about it. And that’s why me and Peter both separately had essentially said… Because if doctors are not aware of a possible diagnosis, they’ll never diagnose it. So many doctors still unfortunately, including cardiologists, are not even conceiving of the possibility that the mRNA vaccine can cause these problems. But the list is there, it’s endorsed by the WHO, whether it’s cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, heart attacks, myocarditis, heart failure. And I’ve managed all of these people in the community who have been vaccine injured, where their doctors have missed it, but I picked it up.
Mr. Jekielek:
Fascinating. Let’s pause for a moment. I’m remembering this video that I watched that someone had put together online. You both came up with a particular phrase, which was “Until proven otherwise.” Some of the viewers might be familiar with this. I want to figure out, did you independently… What does it mean, number one? And two, did you both independently come up with it? And third, I’m going to ask you how you know each other and when you started talking to each other, because you’ve come to some similar conclusions.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. I think in terms of the until proven otherwise, I think we came up with it independently. Because I got to think that… It was trying to capture people’s attention for cardiologists, doctors, to understand that these so-called unexplained events that were happening where it doesn’t fit, if that’s the case with a cardiac issue, then you have to include as part of your differential diagnosis the side effect of the vaccine in there. So it’s trying to just shift the discussion rather than, as a default, until you’ve got another clear explanation why someone suffered a sudden cardiac death or had a heart attack or a arrhythm problem, that you have to consider it being the vaccine until you’ve proven that there’s another more likely cause. So that was really to capture… And I’m sure Peter probably did the same thing. And then in terms of… I can’t remember, Peter, when we started actually speaking to each other or [inaudible 00:13:38].
Dr. McCullough:
It’s been a while. He uses texting a lot. He’s younger, so he’s in the text generation. I have really a substantial experience on data safety and monitoring boards for the NIH, for big pharma. I’ve done this for decades. When people are in a study, or it’s in a post-marketing period in a brand new drug, when someone dies within a few days, or certainly within 30 days of any new drug or injection, it is that drug until proven otherwise. If this was in a regulatory dossier, even something that’s seemingly disconnected… Believe it or not, in clinical trials, if someone’s taking a drug and they have a car accident, it’s attributed to the drug, because the drug may have made them dizzy or foggy or what have you. So we always, to be conservative, we actually put it on the new drug or the new injection or the new vaccine. That’s just good regulatory science. So when the deaths started to come in after the vaccine, unless we had something very obvious, a drug overdose of something else, a suicide attempt, or just something obvious… [inaudible 00:14:51]
Mr. Jekielek:
A very clear cause.
Dr. McCullough:
Yeah. Or there was an autopsy that said they died of a perforated appendix or something. It is the vaccine until proven otherwise. Then once we learned that the vaccine causes myocarditis, that was in June of 2021, the FDA says it causes myocarditis, the WHO anticipated this, the NIH anticipated this, and then the myocarditis cases started coming in, with the publication of fatal cases. So there’s fatal cases, they undergo an autopsy, and the pathologists agree they died of fatal myocarditis. Now it’s in the peer reviewed literature, 2021 New England Journal of Medicine, by Verma and colleagues from Washington University in St. Louis. We had Choi in Korea, [inaudible 00:15:34] from Connecticut and Michigan and Minnesota, that trio published on two boys who died of Pfizer vaccine. And it’s clear now in Circulation, our best cardiology research journal, [inaudible 00:15:46] colleagues from the UK, 100 fatal cases where the UK doctors put as a number one diagnosis on the death certificate, fatal vaccine induced myocarditis.
We have it now. The next person who dies, the next person who dies out there, and there’s no explanation, it is the vaccine until the family comes out and tells us they didn’t take the vaccine. And every family that remains silent, the assumption is they took the vaccine, and now the family is in a spiral of regret, remorse, feeling guilty about what happened. That’s probably what’s going on [inaudible 00:16:21] families can clear this up. Anybody listening to this tape, if the families come out and say they did not take the vaccine, then we can take the spotlight off the vaccine.
Mr. Jekielek:
It seems to make perfect sense as you’re describing this right now, but I feel like I’ve been programmed to believe otherwise.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. I think the other thing to add in, which we haven’t discussed yet as well, is I think an element of people almost accepting to some degree that these side effects, which they wrongly believe are rare, is acceptable, is because they also have a false perception of benefit of the vaccine. So one of the discussions I’ve had with even doctors who are, in normal circumstances, good critical thinkers… Hold on a minute, Aseem. Haven’t we ended the pandemic because of the vaccine? How about all these lives that are saved? How come COVID is not… It’s not killing people anymore. No. COVID mutated independent of the vaccine. It’s become milder. That’s what happens to these viruses. You can take the vaccine… Somebody asked me the question the other day. If we didn’t have the vaccine at all, would we be in a better or worse position than we are now? Honest answer is we don’t know, but I think we’d be better off if we didn’t even have the vaccine at all. We would have had probably less harm to the population.
Mr. Jekielek:
Okay. Big statement. And why? What is the data that supports this?
Dr. Malhotra:
You go back to the very basics of the original randomized control trial. The vaccine showed you were more liked to have a serious… And this is in a healthier subgroup population, which were chosen by Pfizer and Moderna. You were more liked to suffer a serious adverse event from the vaccine than to be hospitalized with COVID. And that is during the original ancestral Wuhan strain. Think about that. You’ve got the same effect of harm from the vaccine, and even in the worst possible wave, it was still more harmful. The virus has mutated to become less harmful, and you’ve still got the same level of harm with the vaccine. It’s a no-brainer. I think you can make a very strong case that societies would have been much better off without this mRNA technology.
AstraZeneca, that was in effect suspended in the UK, even though it wasn’t made public, they slowly phased it out. But when you look at the Yellow Card reporting, and this is in a country of a population of 60 million, we had 1 million Yellow Card reports from AstraZeneca, which is just extraordinary. And it was publicized in news reports of a rare clotting effect or a rare issue. We know now it wasn’t rare at all. So I think these vaccines have had a hugely negative impact on society, on health, and of course everything that’s gone with it has eroded trust as well in medicine.
Mr. Jekielek:
And just to add to what you were saying, that these vaccines were designed for this original variant, so basically they would’ve been most efficacious, if they were efficacious, on those early variants than the ones today.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. Absolutely. And I think something else which I…. We talk about the psychopathic determinants of health. I think what was most criminal is telling people who had natural immunity to take the vaccine, because some evidence suggests you were three times more likely to suffer a serious adverse event if you had COVID and then you took the vaccine, certainly within the first few months after it. It’s beyond criminal. Let’s just call it out for what it is.
Mr. Jekielek:
Let’s talk about this. Natural immunity is something that, since time immemorial, has been known to be something that is effective. Basically, if you’ve had the disease, chances are that you’re going to be in a much better situation with respect to disease. In many cases, you just won’t get it anymore. You’re immune. So what is the deal with natural immunity today?
Dr. McCullough:
There are two… The biggest question I get from my patients is, “Doctor, if I get COVID, how can I avoid being hospitalized and dying?” Those are the two bad outcomes. I think anybody who gets the illness [inaudible 00:20:23] if I can get through it at home, I’m good. So the only factors that have been consistently related to reductions in hospitalization and death by risk is early treatment. Every study looking at early treatment, doesn’t matter what drugs were tested, drugs in combination, they always take an edge off the illness and reduce the proclivity to be hospitalized. An analysis by [inaudible 00:20:46] and colleagues, mathematical analysis, demonstrating we actually knew that with a P value of less than 0.01, that forms of early treatment were stopping hospitalizations by December of 2020. Very important. Multiple studies across the world. And then natural immunity.
And so early on, the FDA and the vaccine manufacturers, when they were actually working on the registrational trials, they strictly excluded anybody who had previously had COVID, even suspected patients with COVID, they were excluded. They couldn’t even receive a vaccine. Also pregnant women and women of childbearing potential. So when we have exclusion criteria in clinical trials, the exclusions must be justified. And the rationale to justify the exclusion was, they did not have an opportunity for benefit, and they had an opportunity for harm. And so a golden rule in medicine is, once people are excluded from the original randomized trials, we never immediately start applying this in practice. And in the first week of the U.S. vaccine program, we saw people who already had recovered COVID, were told they should take it, and our CDC, NIH, and FDA and hospital systems and others all agreed. And we saw pregnant women and women of childbearing potential.
Those breaches, those are breaches of regulatory science, breaches of medical ethics, they are completely off the rails. That was in December 10th of 2020. At that moment, we knew things were off the rails. We had never done that before. We had never done that before. Papers by [inaudible 00:22:23] clearly showed, if one had natural immunity, there was an explosion of risk afterwards, including going in the hospital. And I still think today, one of the reasons why the adverse event profile is so bad on the vaccines, even way worse than the original trials, I think is because people with previous COVID have actually been taking these.
Mr. Jekielek:
Yeah. So let’s look at that data. People that have had COVID and then took the vaccines, versus people who hadn’t had COVID and took the vaccines. You mentioned it was a three times… [inaudible 00:22:56]
Dr. Malhotra:
Almost threefold increase in systemic side effects. Yeah. If you have the vaccine after having natural immunity. Absolutely.
Dr. McCullough:
Everything was worse. There’s a paper from the UK [inaudible 00:23:04] I specifically remember that paper. Everything was worse. The reactogenicity, the pain in the arm, lymph node swelling, fever, events that landed people in the hospital was worse. And we have data from the V-safe data now, which is extraordinary. CDC did not want to release that to the public. V-safe is a cell phone app that people are told, if you have side effects, fill it out on the cell phone app, in terms of something happened to you. 10 million Americans did it. The CDC wanted to withhold it. Under court order they were forced to release it to the NGO ICAN, and the results are bombshell. 25% of people who take the vaccine are incapacitated the next day. They can’t go to work or school the day after. 7% to 8% are hospitalized or go to the ER. This is the most toxic vaccine by the CDC data that we’ve ever seen in clinical medicine. And my hunch is, a large number of those individuals had previously had COVID.
And I’ve mentioned this on national TV, and I’ve reported events through the VAERS system, a separate system, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. In the VAERS system, there’s no checkbox to indicate if they’ve previously had COVID. It is a massive oversight, when the data were clearly showing us recovered people were excluded from clinical trials, they were going to have side effects with the vaccine, you’d think the CDC would at least want to capture that information so they could mitigate risk with new recommendations.
Mr. Jekielek:
How does this compare with the UK data?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah, it’s similar. It’s similar. I think it’s trying to… For me, there is always going back to trying to make sense of this kind of behavior when the evidence is so clear. There was no precautionary principle applied. And it still comes back that these regulatory bodies failed in their duty to protect the public from the excesses of and manipulations of industry who were there just wanting to mass vaccinate as many people as possible, irrespective of the consequences and irrespective of the harm. And people need to understand that. The regulators in our country, the MHRA, the FDA in the U.S., people [inaudible 00:25:08] realize that, as long as they’re captured by industry funding, they are not going to be independent, they’re not rigorous, and they cannot be trusted. It’s very simple. Let’s just call it out for what it is. They have acted as essentially sock puppets or slaves to the psychopath. This is the only explanation, Jan, I have for this behavior. It’s psychopathic.
Mr. Jekielek:
So we’ve talked about this, your understanding of the psychopath or psychopathic entities in the past. Briefly for the benefit of our audience who don’t know about that conversation, tell me what you mean.
Dr. Malhotra:
Sure. Yeah. So evidence-based, Robert Hare, forensic psychologist, preeminent expert in the original international definition DSM criteria for psychopath. He describes consistently that pharmaceutical companies, many big corporations, that the way they carry out their business is psychopathic. So for example, callous, unconcerned for the safety of others, conning, deceiving others for profit. Several criteria they fulfill, which you would normally give a definition as a psychopath in psychiatric definitions, terms you can apply to these big corporations. So for me to try and explain this kind of behavior, many of the people that have been propagating misinformation on the COVID vaccines, who have been callous in terms of not regarding and understanding the safety concerns, are really slaves to the entity that’s driving it, and the entity is psychopathic. So I would say, for example, the FDA that are captured by industry as well, effectively by promoting and not stopping this vaccine being rolled out when they knew there was significant harm are behaving like slaves or puppets to the psychopath.
Mr. Jekielek:
Something that… It’s still hard to fathom. Is it just simply this mania with making sure that every single person gets vaccinated, and it’s just too complicated to test for natural immunity? Is that what you think?
Dr. Malhotra:
No, I don’t think so. No, I don’t think there’s any… I can’t see any rational reason for them doing it. I know from direct conversations with people linked to the FDA when they’ve… So one of the things that’s been used is a surrogate marker of antibodies. But the FDA themselves in May 2021 on their website actually put out a statement saying the public and doctors need to understand that current SARS 2 COVID antibody tests do not give any indication of protection or immunity to COVID-19, especially after receiving vaccination. They knew that it was essentially a useless marker. And yet that’s all they’ve used to try and justify the perpetuation of vaccines or use studies where they’re showing slightly high antibody titers with people who had natural immunity and then had the vaccine. It is the worst possible science.
Dr. McCullough:
The term is called surrogate. Surrogates in our field, cardiology, have actually… That’s a bad word. Surrogate means we trust something that’s not a real clinical outcome, in hope that reducing this is actually going to improve something meaningful, like reducing hospitalization and death. And when the FDA put out that warning, in fact I think it was June of 2020 when they said, we should not measure antibodies. Don’t do it to try to assess for immunity. Don’t try to do this. And the antibody manufacturers were correct. If you actually read their package labels, it says the purpose of measuring this test is to ascertain prior infection. That’s the whole reason to do it. So the knowledge of prior infection is a very useful piece of information.
And we know now, there’s a recent paper, one of the ones I quote the most, by Chin and colleagues, New England Journal of Medicine, end of October 2022, 59,000 prisoners, 17,000 staff, all in a closed setting. They know everybody who’s getting COVID, they know everybody who’s being hospitalized and died. If someone’s had any prior version of COVID, and they now get the Omicron strain, zero risk of hospitalization and death. Zero. Doesn’t matter if you took a vaccine or not. The vaccine had no impact. And even those where it was not clear if they had prior COVID, very, very low risks. Very low risks across the board, and no difference with whether or not someone took a vaccine. That’s a massive sample size, but it gives reassurance. When people know they’ve had prior COVID, we can operate on that.
As a doctor, I get called all the time. “Dr. McCullough, I have COVID.” My first question is, “Is this your first episode or a second or more episode?” “It’s my second episode.” Okay. I know that that patient has a negligible risk of hospitalization and death. I behave differently. When it’s the first episode, it could be more severe. But as Dr. Malhotra said, we’re now in the Omicron era of which we have very, very few serious cases. The current estimate right now is in the United States, and we’ve heard Rochelle Walensky say this, that there are 300 Americans “dying per day who are COVID positive.” From our CDC data, we know that 90% of that is something else is contributing, driving to death, like a hip fracture, pneumococcal pneumonia, and they’re just testing positive probably from a prior COVID infection months earlier, and 10% really have adjudicated COVID.
So now we’re down to 30 deaths per day. 30 deaths per day. Let me give you an idea. In the United States, there’s 2,000 cardiac deaths per day of heart attacks and heart failure and fatal arrhythmias. So COVID-19, in the Omicron era, for the last year, has been a negligible public health threat. There is absolutely no criteria for President Biden to declare this a continued health emergency.
Mr. Jekielek:
Yeah. And that’s actually an interesting… Is that how you assess the death data now?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yes. Absolutely. It’s very mild now. It’s very, very mild. So it’s not an issue. It’s not a public health issue. Shouldn’t be. The pandemic is over. So we’re dealing with a cold. We’re dealing with a cold. In fact, I got COVID early on this year, I’ll be honest with you. Fine, I’m in my forties. I’ve had worse colds. And I effectively by that stage was unvaccinated, because it was more than a year since I’d had two doses. People need to be told the truth. We need to stop scaring people.
Mr. Jekielek:
It’s interesting that some of the criticisms that I’ve heard about both of your respective work actually is that you focus on… You cherry pick your studies. You basically pick the studies that will give you the outcomes that you want. And I’d like each of you to respond to that criticism, because it’s a common one.
Dr. McCullough:
I have 60 peer reviewed publications on COVID-19. That’s a pretty solid performance over the last three years. People have said, “Dr. McCullough, you’re not an infectious disease specialist.” I said, “I am now. I’ve done three years of dedicated study on this. I’ve studied my patients, I’ve received grants, I’ve investigational drug applications. I’ve done everything I could to apply my scholarship to this topic, and I’m all in on it.” We’re at 300,000 papers on COVID-19. We’re at 300,000. There is a clear cut bias in the medical literature coming from the major publishers, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis and others, all the way down to the editorial offices, to promote mass vaccination. We’ve seen a clear and present trend. And so for those reasons, we actually have to look in less prominent journals and evaluate the data to see what’s out there. We have to rely on the pre-print literature right now.
And what really matters are the data [inaudible 00:32:52] tables and figures. I’m at the point now where I just ignore what the authors write. A typical paper on myocarditis, for instance, will start out like this. COVID-19 vaccination has saved millions and millions of lives, and it’s the most valuable thing that’s ever come in human medicine. Now we want to describe all these fatal cases of myocarditis. Conclusion. This justifies COVID-19 vaccination. It doesn’t… You’re laughing, because it doesn’t add up right now. We just simply look at the data, and many times we have to look in the supplemental tables.
Mr. Jekielek:
I’ve read a number of these papers as you describe them right now, and I wonder if people aren’t subversively putting good data into the system while including those paragraphs at the beginning and the end, because it’s the only way they can get them published in these journals. What do you think?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah, absolutely. But to be honest, that’s just cowardice as far as I’m concerned. Absolute and total cowardice. Let’s call it out for what it is. The medical profession, people who are doing that, they might as well be complicit in the problem, to be honest, if they’re not being clear with what they want to say.
The second thing I would say, Jan, in terms of the cherry picking… So I’ve been involved in this advocacy space for a long time. I’ve had attacks from the food industry, from pharma on statins and that kind of thing. And I’ll quote actually a tweet from John Cleese, the comedian, in response to the accusations of cherry picking, which I haven’t done. One of the old rules of the KGB is to accuse your enemy of exactly what you are doing.
Mr. Jekielek:
There’s something called the ironclad law of woke projection, which is… It reminds me of what you just said.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah.
Dr. McCullough:
Jan, in medicine, if we take any major therapeutic, a blood pressure lowering drug, a certain class of cholesterol lowering drugs, there will be papers written that say the risk of this drug far outweighs the benefits. And there’ll be other papers that are written that say the benefits far outweigh the risks. It’s a debate. It’s a battle. And we go through this, we actually go to our meetings, and we revel in these debates. With COVID-19 vaccines, there isn’t a single paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, where the conclusion is, the risk of the vaccines outweigh the benefits. There is an absence of balance in the literature. That tells me as a former editor, and as one of the most published people in the world in the history in my area, that there is a deep seated bias to only promote the vaccines in their peer reviewed literature. Because otherwise we’d have balance. We’d have papers that come in and hear a different viewpoint.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. To come back to the cherry picking issue as well, what I try to do with my paper is just break it down. What are the absolute benefits, and what are the absolute harms? No-one’s really effectively… I’ve not had a single rebuttal. I’ve had a few character assassination attempts in blogs, but there hasn’t been any… And I’ve been involved in publications for a while, and there’s not been anything effective in combating it. So for me, these accusations of cherry picking don’t really stand up to scrutiny. And we’re talking about very good level of data quality to make those conclusions.
I think the other thing that was thrown out around there, you may have heard this as well Peter, there was a paper not so long ago that made news headlines that the vaccine has saved 20 million lives globally. And that was a modeling… It’s the lowest quality level of evidence, extrapolations from a modeling study. It doesn’t… It’s basically bull (beep).
Dr. McCullough:
It assumes…
Dr. Malhotra:
Let’s just call it for what it [inaudible 00:36:27] bull (beep). It’s science fiction, it’s marketing, it’s fraud.
Dr. McCullough:
Any paper that assumes the vaccines are beneficial and then multiplies at times large numbers is basically committing fraud. They’re defrauding the readership. We should look at the data at hand. And the letters to the editor, by the way, speak volumes. So he’s published part one and part two in very well-respected journal, and the letters to the editor have not come in with any serious threats to validity. When I published the very first paper on treatment in [inaudible 00:37:00] American Journal of Medicine, and then the second one in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, I watched the letters to the editor come in very carefully. Not a single one provided any threat. In fact, it was a wonderful discussion. I’d say, “I’m really glad you wrote this letter to the editor. Now here’s even more data that we have to treat patients, and here’s another.” And at the end I was inviting them, overcome your fear, and let’s start treating patients. And those letters to the editor just went away.
Dr. Malhotra:
And I think another thing that’s really important that we are also missing out on without the acknowledgement… So we’ve got to remember, a lot of people aren’t even walking, we’re running in terms of understanding vaccine injuries are real and they are common. Without even acknowledging that this exists as a major issue, we are losing out on dedicating time, resources, and research towards helping people who are genuinely vaccine injured. We are in complete dereliction of our duty as doctors by not acknowledging this is a problem. And the longer we go on, the worse the problem’s going to get.
Mr. Jekielek:
And just to be clear, this data that we saw, one of you mentioned it earlier to me, it was just like seven or eight out of 100 people who have taken the vaccine had a serious outcome. That’s the number, right?
Dr. McCullough:
That’s V-safe data.
Mr. Jekielek:
That is astounding. That is a whole different ballgame.
Dr. McCullough:
We have currently in the United States, 90% of Americans are not taking any more vaccines. They’re not taking any boosters. That’s the CDC COVID tracker data. There’s only a 10% take rate now. Remember, the vaccines run out of any theoretical effectiveness after a few months. One has to keep taking boosters. In terms of people keep taking boosters, we’re down to about 10% of Americans. So how do 90% of Americans, how did they know to stop taking vaccines? I don’t think it’s by watching CNN. This is where it’s coming from. It’s coming from the fact that 7% to 8% of people end up in the ER or in urgent care and the family members talk to each other.
There’s a Zogby survey, a representative survey, that asked people about the vaccines. Two thirds of Americans in the Zogby survey said they took a vaccine. And they asked them, “What happened?” 15% of people have some new medical problem that they’re now seeking care after taking the vaccine. Those 15% talk to other people. There’s a Michigan State survey. 22% of Americans know somebody who’s either died or been seriously injured after a COVID-19 vaccination. That 22% talks to other people. So it’s rare now that you’d ever encounter anybody who says that they haven’t heard something.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. And it’s a really interesting point, because prior to this, historically when it comes to side effects of drugs, people are more likely to trust the experiences of their friends and family to influence whether or not they take a drug than their doctor, when it comes to side effects. And I think we’re seeing this now with the vaccine.
Mr. Jekielek:
This has always been the case, you’re saying.
Dr. Malhotra:
This is even pre the COVID vaccines. So the truth is getting out. It’s obviously there under the surface, there’s clearly a disconnect now between what the government authorities are telling people to do and what’s really happening. In the UK, every week I’m getting a message for the last several months from my general practice, my surgery where I’m a patient, to come and have the booster. Every week I’m getting a text message, come and have your booster. I’m just ignoring it. And I’m a low risk guy in his early forties. People are not turning up, people are not going. That’s a really, really bad situ- In some ways I’m glad, because people are being saved, but it’s also not good where we are having a great disconnect now between what authorities are telling people to do, people who should be trusted in those roles and those guardianship roles, and the public ignoring that advice. What’s going on with the trust?
Mr. Jekielek:
It’s a complete breakdown of trust in public health. And this type of trust is very hard to earn back, especially if the breakdown of trust is warranted, as you’ve been telling me today.
Dr. McCullough:
Can you imagine if things were different? Pfizer is approved December 10th 2020. Moderna is December 18th. J&J comes out in February. But you can imagine early on… Pfizer knew about 1,223 deaths worldwide when their product was released. Can you imagine if Pfizer, after about 5, 10, 15, no more than 50 deaths said, “Wait a minute, we got to stop. We got to stop.” They probably knew about that even before Moderna came out, and said, “We have to analyze these deaths. We’re just going to pause the program, and let’s analyze how people are dying after the vaccine.” There could have been a deep investigation and say, “Geez, people who has polyethylene glycol allergies, there’s anaphylactic deaths that are occurring right in front of us. There’s reactogenic deaths or people dying with a fever and shortness of breath in nursing homes. There are people dying within a few days of heart inflammation, myocarditis. There are fatal blood clots.” There could have been risk mitigation.
And high quality science could have delivered an answer that, you know what? For these groups here, this is unsafe, but we’re going to continue with these other groups. There could have been a… And of course this idea of only applying the vaccine in the highest risk individuals. So people have asked me, “Dr. McCullough, were you against the vaccines before they came out?” I said, “I published a cautionary paper regarding it in The Hill.” But what I said is, maybe 2.7 million Americans at the most should consider a vaccine initially. And that would’ve been nursing home residents, nursing home workers, very, very frail people. The patients in my practice who I know couldn’t survive two hours of COVID, and I have had patients in my practice die of COVID, those are the ones who should have potentially considered the risk of a vaccine.
But we saw it being widely applied to young people, and before you knew it, the newsreels were off of the senior citizens and they were onto children. And there’s been this incredible training of the public eye on children, even down to infants six months of age. It seems so out of proportion to risk. The risk has always been in the ultra frail and elderly.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. So again, coming back to it, the only explanation, or the best explanation so far for this type of behavior, is an entity, an organization, that is not behaving in a moral or scientific way. They’re behaving in a psychopathic way. And that’s for me the most likely explanation behind this behavior, until proven otherwise.
Dr. McCullough:
The thing that really worries me is, it’s not just pharmaceutical marketing. Can’t be Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca, Novavax. It can’t. The Department of Health and Human Services and the White House poured billions of dollars into an effort starting in April of 2021. April, four months into the campaign. And it was called the COVID-19 Community Corps. Billions of dollars. It went to churches, community groups, medical societies like the American College of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to the NFL, to the media companies, all the Hollywood production, hundreds and hundreds of entities received cumulatively billions of dollars. Why did HHS send money to the American College of Pediatrics before it ever came up for pediatric review? Think about that. Our government was basically monetarily preparing the American College of Pediatrics to be in line with pediatric vaccination before the studies were even done.
Mr. Jekielek:
It speaks to what you just said. And in the UK is it a similar reality? I don’t know what the spending looked like, but it sounds from what I’ve read in that ballpark.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. I think not the same kind of scale of the U.S., but the same sort of thing. Absolutely.
Mr. Jekielek:
Because there was this whole government effort to nudge the population into… Using basically fear to elicit the behavior of, I guess, taking vaccines. Is that what happened?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah, it was. I think we were a little bit luckier in the sense that we didn’t push or mandate it for everybody, at all. In fact the closest we came, which was unprecedented in the UK, was this initial announcement mandating it for NHS staff, even though it went against traditional British Medical Association policy, but we overturned that. So that’s a good thing. But it shouldn’t have been… This level of coercion should never have happened.
Mr. Jekielek:
But what about the vaccination rates? How do they compare, U.S. to the UK?
Dr. Malhotra:
Still pretty high. Still very high.
Mr. Jekielek:
Yeah. So it’s interesting to see… [inaudible 00:45:54]
Dr. Malhotra:
They’ve gone down though massively, in the last six months to nine months. In fact, we’re actually seeing, which is more concerning, that other safe, traditional vaccines like MMR, the uptake is down there. So there is clearly a good evidence of decreasing trust, and that’s not good at all. It’s not good at all.
Mr. Jekielek:
So we started talking about the heart of course, and COVID-19, the heart, and of course vaccination related to the heart. We talked about myocarditis, a bit about heart disease, but what are the other effects that exist?
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. Electrical disturbances of the heart are quite common. So I’ve been managing people who, for no clear reason, are having conditions like atrial fibrillation, irregular heartbeat, non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, which could potentially be fatal if it becomes sustained ventricular tachycardia. A number of patients with cardiomyopathy, so in other words, conditions affecting the heart muscle’s ability to pump blood around the body. So people with… There was a lady in her fifties, I wrote about her, who was very fit and well, and developed progressive breathlessness after a few months of having the vaccine. Wasn’t unwell enough to go to hospital [inaudible 00:47:04] didn’t feel right, and a heart scan showed that her heart muscle was severely impaired in terms of its ability to pump. Awful. And again, the most likely… She didn’t have COVID. The most likely explanation is a vaccine.
So anything and everything that go wrong with the heart is being caused unfortunately by the mRNA vaccines. I think many people are not aware. There are people coming to me where, as a doctor, you make a diagnosis as the likely cause, they have risk factors for atrial fibrillation, whatever, and they haven’t got any of that, but the clear common denominator is they’ve had the Pfizer vaccine. So it’s a real problem. It’s massive. It’s huge.
Mr. Jekielek:
And I want to… [inaudible 00:47:37]
Dr. Malhotra:
And most people don’t know about it. That’s the worst part. I think most people are not getting diagnosed. They don’t realize that the vaccine is causing them a problem.
Mr. Jekielek:
I just want to reiterate also that we discussed earlier how, because this is a as of yet untested product, you have to assume that it’s involved. That’s the proper procedure.
Dr. Malhotra:
Absolutely.
Dr. McCullough:
In a real hierarchy of safety, cardiovascular safety is typically number one on the list of being very cautious. The paper by [inaudible 00:48:08] and colleagues from Bangkok, Thailand, the first prospective cohort study, children ages 13 to 18, second shot of Pfizer, 29% had cardiovascular symptoms. 29% of the kids, when they carefully assessed, had cardiovascular symptoms. 2.3% had bona fide myocarditis. Two children hospitalized. That’s out of 333 children. So this gives you an idea. Usually 333 children, that’s not going to be enough to even find a signal. In fact, the signal was quite loud.
I think there’s some signature syndromes with the COVID-19 vaccines. One of them is what’s called POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. People feel their heart rate being elevated inappropriately at times, blood pressure being labile. There was a paper published in the journal Hypertension, one of our best circulation family of journals, showing skyrocketing of blood pressure in some people who received the vaccine, to the point where it could put them at risk of stroke. And then [inaudible 00:49:05] and colleagues published in JAMA a paper from three small Nordic countries, and it’s stunning. 7,750 intracranial hemorrhages or blood clots within 28 days of taking the vaccine. And there in those countries it’s Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca. And they strictly excluded anybody who had COVID during this time period. This is a stunning number. Thousands of neurologically devastated people within 28 days of taking the vaccine, I think hypertension playing a role.
I’ll tell you another one. Aortic dissection. It’s been well described now that the major blood tube in the body, with this surge of blood pressure, can actually rip and [inaudible 00:49:46] and this has been published in the peer reviewed literature. Dr. Malhotra mentioned all the different arrhythmias, young people with atrial fibrillation who shouldn’t have it. There’s been a study of people with defibrillators in. And [inaudible 00:49:58] defibrillator is great because you can actually measure what’s going in the heart before and afterwards, and sure enough, there is a burst of ventricular tachycardia and other arrhythmias with the vaccine. This is undeniable.
And then I think this big broad brush of cardiovascular disease that falls into the area of thromboembolic disease, blood clots, and this was a big feature in that recent documentary about sudden death, but blood clots. And the FDA agrees, and the peer reviewed literature is loaded with every permutation of blood clots possible. Intracranial hemorrhages, deep venous thrombosis going in lungs, pulmonary embolism. We’ve heard about ESPN, my favorite collage announcer Herb Kirkstreit, our favorite weatherman, Al Roker. These are just a… Deion Sanders had an arterial emboli syndrome. These are public figures now. Hailey Bieber has a thromboembolic event. These are public figures now, of which they’ve either come out and said they’ve taken the vaccine, or we have enough information to suggest they probably did, and they certainly have not refuted they didn’t take the vaccine, that have had these blood clotting events, both on the arterial and the venous side.
What I’m finding out in my practice, and the literature supports this, if somebody has a family history of a tendency towards blood clotting or they themselves have a tendency, then watch out. Any other factor that promotes blood clotting like supplemental estrogen, birth control pills, immobilization, smoking, all of those up the risks that someone who takes a vaccine is going to get a blood clot. And the blood clot syndromes are just… The alacrity that we need to have in clinical medicine is extraordinary. In my practice, I’ve seen two blood clots that have occurred in the arm. There’s a common syndrome called thoracic outlet obstruction syndrome in athletes, and so a blood clot conform in the arm because of some stasis and flow. Second best golfer in the world, Nelly Korda, blood clot in her arm. She needs to have surgery. And she said [inaudible 00:51:57] she took the vaccine, sends out a cryptic message, “Well, I think I know what caused this,” but didn’t come out and say it.
For my patient who’s had it, it was an emergency. She had to have her first rib removed and we actually physically get out the clot, the arm’s not the same. I can tell you, these cardiovascular syndromes are real. We’re both cardiologists. This is right in our wheelhouse. And I’m not having anybody come up to me and give me any other explanation outside of the fact that indeed it’s due to the vaccines. The literature agrees, the regulatory agencies agree, and at this point in time these injuries and problems don’t stop until the vaccines stop.
Dr. Malhotra:
Yeah. And what’s the conclusion from this? I recently got sent a text message from a very well known, he doesn’t want to be named, cardiologist in the UK. And to summarize everything Peter’s just said, in his view, he said, we are dealing probably with the biggest crime against humanity since World War II.
Mr. Jekielek:
So as we finish up, I want to do a couple of things here. You just mentioned a crime against humanity. That’s some of the strongest language you can possibly have. I want to get you to reiterate for me what the real risk is to people who have taken this vaccine, these genetic vaccines, and might feel concerned, what they can do personally. And then also we’ll round that out with what we need to do as a society just to obviously move forward.
Dr. Malhotra:
I think first and foremost, people should be reassured that most of these issues appear to be apparent in the first few weeks to months after taking the vaccine. I would say one exception to this is corona artery disease. So for example, my father had a sudden cardiac death six months after the second dose. We’ve seen case studies explaining vaccines can even do that several months later. So the acceleration of coronary artery disease is definitely one thing which may be more long term, and we may see more and more heart attacks play out over the next few years because of that.
Having said that, as a cardiologist that focuses on heart disease reversal, people should… This is a great opportunity for people to really get themselves in shape, and that means eating properly primarily, cutting out ultra processed foods and low quality carbs and sugar, moderate exercise, getting stress levels in check. I think optimizing one’s health through lifestyle anyway is going to be a good antidote to reduce a risk of complications from the vaccine. That’s what I would say for sure.
And then maybe we need to think about a campaign. I remember, was it Nancy Reagan launched this Just Say No campaign in the ’80s against drugs? I think we maybe need to have a Just Say No campaign to drug companies and their excesses. Certainly in terms of what needs to happen on a political and government level, first and foremost, it should be the end of drug companies testing their own products and holding onto the raw data. That should never happen ever, ever again. We should never allow this situation to ever happen again. FDA should not be taking money from industry. They need to be independent of industry funding. Party political donations should not come from big pharma. Governments cannot do their job properly if they’re taking money from pharma, when it comes to the health of the population. It’s a no-brainer.
And I think that I’m… I believe in true democracy, Jan, and any person, any citizen, any good [inaudible 00:55:08] any citizen you may ask in the United States or the UK or Europe, whatever else, and if you put this to them, all of them, 99% of those people would agree that these links, these cozy relationships with pharma and regulators and government shouldn’t exist. And that means you need to change the law through democratic means.
Dr. McCullough:
You remember the Big Tobacco settlement, in the end when there’s finally a recognition that smoking caused all these problems, the tobacco industry had to pay, and a lot of that payment went to research. We should have a vaccine settlement where there’s a massive amount of money that comes back from the vaccine manufacturers, as well as HHS, they actually promoted this, to fund vaccine injury research. We need strategies for screening, detection, diagnosis, prognosis, management. We need an approach, an agreed upon approach, for the serious syndromes, the cardiovascular, neurologic, immunologic syndromes. And we need a complete overhaul of the peer reviewed literature. We can’t have vaccine injury papers being blocked from publication. How can doctors possibly learn to manage them if we can’t publish a paper on how to manage vaccine induced myocarditis or vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura?
So we need this immediate about-face, and understand that the vaccines themselves have caused a public health crisis. A public health crisis. And I think the V-safe data, the Zogby survey, are consistent. Roughly 15% of people who have taken the vaccines are damaged by them. Most of them, the damage starts early, within the first few days. Some of these syndromes extend. And I would say the one wildcard that I’ve seen in my clinical practice is subsequent COVID infection. So there’s patients who are triple vaccinated and then they get COVID, so they have a fourth exposure now of the spike protein, and then here we go. That’s recently happened with Al Roker, the weatherman, and he’s in the hospital with blood clots. I’ve seen this in my practice where it’s been 18 months since someone’s taken a vaccine, but they end up with blood clots, pulmonary emboli. What’s happened in between? They’ve gotten COVID, because the vaccines don’t work, and so they end up getting COVID on top of it.
So the vaccines, the farther we get away from the vaccines in time, the better we can manage what’s going on. If people continue to take shots every six months, we’re in trouble. I think there is a cumulative risk here, where we could get deep into it. There’s blood clots that we can’t dissolve with blood thinners. There’s heart damage that we can’t recover, we can’t get it back. And so my fear is that this cumulative exposure… COVID is still out there. The vaccines haven’t ended the pandemic. So the fact that vaccinated people are getting COVID, then taking more vaccines… And we’ve seen public figures, we’ve seen President Biden, Walensky, Fauci and others [inaudible 00:58:02] and they’ve had COVID, they’ve had shots, Bill Gates, and they still keep taking more shots.
When Anderson Cooper and Bill Gates got together, I’ll never forget when Anderson asked Gates, he goes, “Hey Bill, we got COVID. You took three shots. I’ve taken two or three shots. Should we take more shots?” And Gates says, “We got to be safe, we should take more shots.” I would say, as a cardiologist, no. Stop taking more shots. You’ve already taken an enormous risk. Remember, people who’ve taken one, two, or three shots and nothing’s happened, doesn’t mean they’re risk free. That fourth shot can be the one that precipitates a cardiovascular event.
Dr. Malhotra:
I think Peter makes a very good point. There is an accumulative risk. So one of the things is, we don’t want to scare people too much, but what we need to tell them is just say no right now. Make sure they tell everybody, their kids, their family, their parents, do not take any more of these shots. It’s all risk and no benefit.
Mr. Jekielek:
Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Peter McCullough, it’s such a pleasure to have you on.
Dr. McCullough:
Thank you.
Dr. Malhotra:
Thank you.
Mr. Jekielek:
Thank you all for joining Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Peter McCullough and me on this episode of American Thought Leaders. I’m your host, Jan Jekielek.
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So we need this immediate about-face, and understand that the vaccines themselves have caused a public health crisis.”
That’s not what “Dr.” Jill says.
Jill Biden and Fauci urge Americans to get another booster before Christmas because ‘we care about you and want to make sure you stay healthy’
First lady Jill Biden teamed up Friday with Dr. Anthony Fauci for one of the last events he’ll host before retiring from government
They pressed Americans to get the latest COVID booster shot before Christmas, alongside AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins and COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha
‘I just got mine too. So join me, because your president and I care about you and we want to make sure you stay healthy,’ Dr. Biden said
By NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:14 EST, 9 December 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11522637/Jill-Biden-Fauci-urge-Americans-booster-Christmas.html
I just got mine too. So join me, because your president and I care about you and we want to make sure you stay healthy,’ Dr. Biden said
Three lies in just 25 words.
I see four.
Fake doctor?
I just got mine too.
your president
I care about you
we want to make sure you stay healthy
Dr. Biden
Now I see five. Thanks for the help!
The jaundiced baby with black veins because of a blood transfusion against his parents’ wishes is the last thing I can stomach.
This is the most toxic vaccine by the CDC data that we’ve ever seen in clinical medicine.
Well, the money was good.
LA taps hotel rooms as estimated 40,000 people live homeless
Dec. 18, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotels and motels through a new program that launches Tuesday.
Bass told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host, Chuck Todd, that her plan to move homeless people into rooms immediately will not “address everybody, but it is going to address, hopefully, a significant number.” She said people will not be forced to move, but that sanitation crews will stand by to clean up areas after people have left.
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/LA-taps-hotel-rooms-as-estimated-40-000-people-17662735.php
The new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotels and motels through a new program that launches Tuesday.
This is a windfall for hotel/motel operators. More picking winners and losers.
This is a windfall
A windfall leading to bankruptcy.
aren Bass, said Sunday her administration will start moving homeless people from tent encampments into hotels
Thus guaranteeing that even more homeless will show up in LA.
There’s an article in the Dumver Post about nat gas prices doubling and Denverites getting shocked when the bill arrives. The article is behind a paywall, but they interview a few people who can’t believe how much it’s gone up and who are claiming they are enduring hardship.
It’s pointless to point out to them that this is because of crazy leftist policies. These people could get a $10,000 bill for heating their shack and they just won’t get it, they will keep voting D. The shelves at Kings or Safeway could be all empty and they will keep voting D.
On NextDoor a lunatic was raving that Xcel is gouging us. I reminded her that 1) wholesale prices are up almost 100% 2) the Public Utilities Commission sets the rates, not Xcel and 3) If Xcel is forced to sell at a loss, it will go out of business and we would have no gas at all. Her response was that I was ignorant.
Cue in the Criticsl Drinker’s maniacal laugh …
And it gets better:
So what’s the message here? The only way to “save the world” is to kill everyone?
Link below
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/your-cotton-tote-is-pretty-much-the-worst-replacement-for-a-plastic-bag
Net thing they’ll be telling us is that bunny farts are destroying the world.
A few days ago in thread #6951:
rms wrote: “It’s the deliberate killing of civilians and destroying their cities that has turned opinion against Russia.”
BlueSkye responded: “…against Ukraine and NATO over the past eight years or so. A key item left out of the narrative. It was a genocide in Donbass et al. Well documented. Can be researched if one is at all interested.“
So I did some snooping…
According to ethnologist and historian Lesia Gasydjak (author of the book Unknown Donbas: Historical myths and cultural reality) a famine engineered by Stalin (Holodomor) wiped out 3,941,000 Ukrainians. In 1933, the Kremlin regime directed 147 trains filled with Russian peasants who occupied the empty houses of deceased Ukrainian families in Donbas. And the forced immigration of Russians into Donbas continued up to the 1960s.
FWIW, it reminds me of the Palestinian issue.
Thanks for the nudge as I wasn’t aware of this history.
I was surprised by your comments as I presumed the fact that Russian nationals and ethnically russian people settled those areas was mainstream knowledge. One of the problems is Zelenskys Azov bridgade has been shelling these people for a good number of years.
What I don’t understand is how is it that Zelensky is still alive? Russia has a long history of reaching out and touching someone with relative ease.
the fact that Russian nationals and ethnically russian people settled those areas was mainstream knowledge
Despite my admittedly pathetic knowledge of history, even I knew that after not much research. Ruskies bad is about as deep as most people are these days.
I doubt there’s much difference between Russians and Ukrainians to the causal outsider. I mean it’s only 550-miles driving distance from Kyiv to Moscow after all.
However, I was totally unaware of Russia’s relocation program following Stalin’s terror famine. Realize that a similar program has been underway in the West Bank for decades, and the U.S. is picking-up the tab.
Ironically, there was a migration of Adolf’s followers following Germany’s defeat in WWII to Ukraine. Today, some of them call themselves Azov. The US has been paying their tab too. The enemy of my enemy is my friend I guess.
In Germany, my wife comes from the liberal Rhineland while just a few hours drive south to the Alps they are very conservative. They still view each other skeptically, have different dialects, etc., still very cast, very European. We are fortunate to have one spoken language from the Atlantic to the Pacific, envied around the world.
Schwaben?
Köln.
I worked for a technology company based there for many years!
Ever visit the Kölner Dom?
Kölner Dom
Only the outside. Most of my visits to Germany were to Hamelin.
Irish mortician John O’Looney speculating, as many others have been for quite a while, about predominantly young, male illegal aliens. Where are the women and children refugees?
JOHN O’LOONEY: BLACK WATCH TROOPS HAVE TOLD ME THIS IS THE PLAN …
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5RzRERutrrqI/