A Distraction Posing As An Innovation
A holiday topic starting with the Dallas Morning News in Texas. “In 2021 the city’s office of homeless solutions launched an initiative to house 6,000 individuals, and despite the aggressive plan and $72 million, the office’s director said she doesn’t expect a significant change in the city’s homeless count. By 2025, Dallas wants to house 6,000 individuals – 1,600 more than currently exist – through its R.E.A.L Time Rehousing initiative. That’s no accident, according to Christine Crossley, director of the city’s homeless solutions office. When asked if the homelessness office could use more money to achieve that goal, Crossley grinned. ‘I mean, always yes,’ Crossley said to the question. ‘I’m never going to turn down more funding.'”
The American Statesman in Texas. “On the same day Austin’s second homeless strategy officer sent an email to her boss saying she planned to resign, Austin City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly sent an email imploring interim City Manager Jesús Garza to investigate living conditions at the city-operated Northbridge homeless shelter based on disturbing photos and videos shown to Kelly by a whistleblower at the facility. Andrea Gipson, a city employee hired in April 2022 as a program supervisor for the Austin Public Health Department, said she was placed on administrative leave July 31 after complaining about the state of the shelter. The Statesman reviewed some of the photos and videos captured by Gipson, which show housing units strewn with drugs and drug paraphernalia throughout trashed rooms, a gun and employees asleep on the job. One of the videos shows a room with an overturned bed, multiple cigarette butts scattered across a desk and open food containers and other debris on the floor.”
“‘It has come to my attention that there have been several deaths within the facility, reportedly linked to drug overdoses,’ Kelly said in the email. ‘Additionally, I have been informed that drugs are being sold and consumed by clients inside the building, along with reports of prostitution taking place on the premises. Disturbingly, there have been allegations of clients assaulting each other, and even the presence of weapons such as machetes, knives, and hammers. I have a photo of a gun that was found in a clients room there, as well as drugs that were on premises. Moreover, I’ve heard concerns that methamphetamine may be produced within the facility by clients. These issues, if accurate, are not only alarming but also deeply troubling.’ Despite the money, time and resources invested, Austin’s homeless population has grown to an estimated 5,000 people.”
Westword in Colorado. “In the shade of a tree-lined stretch of sidewalk near East Colfax Avenue and High Street, about a dozen tents used to sit on a public lawn in front of 1535 High Street, the headquarters of the popular Gathering Place day shelter. By Thursday afternoon, the encampment and its residents were gone — the result of what police officials are calling a ‘soft-enforcement operation,’ which the city and Mayor Mike Johnston first denied and are now downplaying. Over the past year, hypodermic — and often bloody — needles have been found on sidewalks and alleys outside homes on the block. In mid-July, a young girl had to be taken to the hospital because she stepped on a needle at the Gathering Place, according to the group’s records. The Gathering Place is located a few blocks from the Denver Center for 21st Century Learning, a school for students at risk of falling behind or dropping out. Neighbors have reported seeing children buying drugs at the encampment.”
KTVZ in Oregon. “Deschutes County is using a $1 million state grant to seek proposals from those able to provide new shelter and housing for men who as a result of court sentences can have no contact with minors, and/or must register as sex offenders.Deschutes County Adult Parole & Probation has received a grant of just over $1 million under a state Emergency Order to purchase a four-plus bedroom property to shelter ‘male justice-involved individuals’ – those who have a restriction on contact with minors or who have to register as a sex offender. Deevy Holcomb, director of Deschutes County Community Justice, says sex offenders are more likely to end up homeless, due to the nature of their crimes. Overall, about 10% of those on parole or probation end up in a permanent cycle of homelessness and transitional outcomes.”
KIRO in Washington. “The fentanyl crisis around the sound is gaining speed with no signs of slowing. Both King County and Snohomish County are seeing more people die from opioid overdoses this year compared to last. People who’ve stayed away from the drug for a while are also more likely to fall victim to it if they relapse. ‘That’s when you’re the highest risk for overdose because you get out and you think you can use the same amount you have but your tolerance is lower,’ said Dr. James Lewis, a Health Officer with the Snohomish County Health Department. That’s why the county is rolling out a Mobile Opioid Response Unit to bring treatment to the people who need it.”
The News Tribune in Washington. “Opioid-related overdoses are the most common cause of accidental death in Pierce County, taking more lives than traffic or firearm fatalities and inflicting younger people at faster rates across Washington, according to the local health department. Fentanyl, a fast-acting synthetic opioid prescribed to treat severe pain, has become a particular problem. It’s up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ‘Poisoning’ is a rephrasing of the oft-used and synonymous term ‘overdose,’ placing onus on the drug.”
“Jason Chudy, spokesman for ATF’s Seattle Field Division, said that while the vast majority of the agency’s investigations are related to firearms, ‘in many, many cases, drugs are involved in that.’ ‘Fentanyl is obviously a big, big concern,’ he said, adding that investigators will wear respirators and gloves if they know they are going to be dealing with the synthetic opioid. ‘The problem with fentanyl is fentanyl could be in anything.'”
NBC Los Angeles in California. “In a Highland Park neighborhood, a black tarp suggests a home under remodel. Feet away, a concrete slab shows what could have been left of it. Homeowner Liliana Nava was home around noon on Aug. 14 – one of the few luckier details. ‘I heard the neighbor banging on the metal fence,’ said Nava. ‘I looked out the window and she looked a little distressed. I ran down and she just said, ‘Fire!’ She says investigators told her the fire likely started on the other side of her fence, by neighbors living in an encampment. Because there was no suspect, there will be no arrest. And, she says, no arson investigation. ‘If it was somebody that had something to lose, or somebody that had an address, then you would point the finger,’ said Nava. ‘They would take them to court and go through the process. But because they’re homeless, they don’t care.'”
The Independent on California. “Even though Elon Musk very publicly moved to Texas a few years ago, he still frequently, albeit sometimes inaccurately, weighs in on the state of San Francisco and its well-documented public safety issues. Over the weekend, he made perhaps his biggest gesture yet, threatening to go to ‘war’ with the ‘snakes’ supporting a lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s homelessness policies. ‘They want war? Let’s give it to them,’ Mr Musk wrote on X. ‘We cannot let these snakes win or San Francisco will end up like Detroit.’ The ‘snakes’ in question? The global law firm Latham & Watkins, LLP, which has been assisting a coalition of housing advocacy groups, as well as the ACLU of Northern California, who are suing San Francisco, alleging the city is conducting sweeps of unhoused people without offering them adequate shelter.”
The New York Post. “San Francisco’s once-trendy downtown area has descended into a drug-addled hellscape — where addicts regularly overdose in city-funded ‘dens of death.’ Historic hotels in the Tenderloin neighborhood are now the face of the progressive California city’s deterioration. Around 20,000 rooms in about 500 hotels have been converted from coveted tourist destinations into roach- and vermin-infested ‘Single-Room Occupancy’ (SRO) housing for vagrants.”
“Many of the century-old buildings are now overrun with drug-addled ‘zombies’ high on fentanyl and the flesh-eating animal tranquilizer dubbed ‘tranq,’ residents told The Post during a tour on Tuesday. ‘It’s like living in a prison, but worse,’ Robert Blackburn said of his squalid room in one of Tenderloin’s SROs.”
From KPNX TV. “An old motel on the historic Route 66 is expected to be converted into affordable housing for individuals experiencing extreme poverty and homelessness. Catholic Charities Communities Services recently announced it had obtained $4.5 million in grant funding to buy the Route 66 Motel in northern Arizona and repurpose the 25-room building into affordable housing. The motel was built in 1963 along the section of Route 66 that cuts through Kingman. ‘Housing insecurity has grown considerably in recent years, in particular in rural Northern Arizona communities. In response to this crisis, we are placing an increased emphasis on more underserved populations within our state,’ said Steve Capobres, executive director of Housing for Hope.”
Cowboy State Daily in Wyoming. “A growing homeless population has the city of Casper taking notice, with what Mayor Bruce Knell estimates to be a population of around 200 people now roaming the city’s streets and parks, causing a situation he describes as ‘a mess.’ One of the most glaring examples is destruction Knell said homeless people have done to the local Econo Lodge motel, which is vacant and had been previously foreclosed due to flooding. What the homeless people squatting there did to the property would cost millions to fix and is much worse than any damage caused by water, Knell said.”
“‘They destroyed everything,’ he said. ‘It’s horrible.’ The city had to condemn the property and the bank that owns the motel was forced to board it up to keep squatters out. ‘It was inhabitable, and it was unsafe,’ Knell said.”
The Center Square. “In states like California, Colorado, Washington and Arizona, cities this summer are spending millions buying hotels and converting them to shelters for the homeless. The spending on homelessness is fueled by the federal pandemic money and a national movement led by the White House to address the problem of how to house the estimated 582,000 people in the U.S. are homeless. Michele Steeb, formerly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Stephen Eide of the Manhattan Institute stated housing homeless has become a ‘fascination’ with government in a 2022 commentary.”
“‘In the homelessness debate, the fascination with housing, including the technical details of how to finance and build as much as possible, has displaced interest in solutions to the problems of untreated mental illness, addiction, and chronic health conditions,’ they stated in the commentary. ‘Without a focus on treating these diseases, hotel conversions are a distraction posing as an innovation.'”
The Chicago Tribune in Illinois. “Behind a thick black curtain at O’Hare International Airport where a security guard with a German shepherd stood watch, dozens of migrants sprawled on the hard tile floor, awaiting placement to Chicago-run shelters, some saying they’d been there for weeks. The men and women, many with children, ate Popeyes and ramen and washed their clothes in the bathroom sink. Toddlers used brooms as toys. The lucky ones slept on cots, but most made do with thin blankets spread among bags and piles of trash. The ongoing crisis is an extraordinary challenge with no obvious parallels in recent years.”
“‘Nobody could have been prepared for something like this,’ said Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. ‘The onslaught was so massive … that you almost can’t really blame sanctuary cities for being unprepared.'”
The New York Post. “The migrant services company DocGo is looking to use its multimillion-dollar deal with City Hall to springboard to a massive $4 billion contract with the feds. CEO Anthony Capone said at a trade conference in Boston last month that DocGo’s $432 million no-bid emergency contract with the Big Apple has given it the ‘credibility’ to go up for the federal arrangement to provide medical services to migrants. DocGo was awarded an emergency contract by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration in March.”
“‘Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country,’ Capone said at the Canaccord Genuity’s 43rd annual growth conference in August. ‘It gives us enormous credibility. And we have references from the city who handles the largest amount.’ ‘Our application is a lot stronger,’” Capone said of the for-profit company.”
The Lebanon Reporter. “All that it has taken to explode the lazy cliches that have defined the progressive position on the issue is a heavy flow of illegal immigration. If immigration is an unalloyed good, this influx should be a boon to New York City and its future. Why stop at 100,000 if the city could have 200,000, or 300,000? If immigration has no cost, why is New York spending $5 billion this year absorbing this flow? According to Mayor Eric Adams, New York City ‘is being destroyed by the migrant crisis.'”
“There you have it – immigration, in and of itself, has the power to bring a great city to its knees. Long gone are the days when Adams pledged during his campaign to ‘lift up immigrants as high as Lady Liberty lifts her torch in our harbor, as a beacon of hope for all who come to our shores.’ Now, he sounds a lot like Donald Trump, or a late Roman emperor getting undone by an influx of Vandals and Goths.”
From CTV News. “With British Columbia on pace to break the annual record for drug toxicity deaths again – drug policy experts and the province’s chief coroner continue to press for an expansion of safer supply alternatives. According to the latest numbers released by the BC Coroner’s Service, 198 people in the province died from tainted street drugs in July. The total from the start of year to the end of last month is 1,455 – a record for that time span. ‘The toxicity of the unregulated market is ongoing and unmitigated. It is putting lives at risk every day,’ said DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition.”
“B.C.’s Chief Coroner is also calling for a rapid expansion of safer supply in an effort to save lives. ‘It’s taking too much time, frankly, because we are in a crisis where we are seeing six people die every day,’ said Lisa Lapointe. ‘It’s hard to imagine any other cause of death in this province where six people would be dying every day and there isn’t a massive public health response.'”
The Evening Standard in the UK. “Fresh concerns have been raised over the lack of accommodation for London’s homeless, as new data reveals how families with children are increasingly left in B&Bs for extended periods. Statistics from London Councils, a cross-party grouping of the capital’s borough authorities, reveal a 781 per cent increase in homeless families placed in bed and breakfast accommodation beyond the legal six-week limit. The figures come as more than 60 organisations, politicians and experts have now signed an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for action on homelessness in London. The Government says it has committed £2bn to tackling the crisis and that B&Bs should only be used ‘as a last resort.'”
The Daily Mail. “With Britain facing a permanent migrant backlog costing taxpayers up to £5billion a year in hotel bills alone, the asylum industry has proved to be a lucrative business opportunity for a host of companies who have cashed in on the Government’s demand for housing and processing services. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that these fatcat bosses are part of an industry known as ‘Asylum Inc’ where groups of lawyers, landlords, hoteliers and security firms benefit financially from the shambles of the Government’s flawed asylum policy.”
“More than 60 firms have such contracts – ranging from stock exchange-listed giants to hotel groups, transport firms, language-testing companies, technology corporations, creches, a host of digital intelligence firms, consultants and childcare services. Such companies will inevitably reap more dividends as the Homes Office continues to struggle with the cross-Channel small boats crisis, with a record 175,000 foreigners waiting in the UK for a decision on an asylum claim. That number increases daily with more than 20,000 crossing the Channel this year so far, including 5,369 in August, a new high for any month on record.”
“Those benefiting from this vast immigration and asylum processing system include a jet-setting former travel agent and an Essex-born caravan park operator who have raked in millions of pounds. Debbie Hoban is the boss of Leeds-based Calder Conferences, which is among several companies contracted by the Home Office to organise accommodation for asylum seekers. According to accounts filed with Companies House, these money-spinning taxpayer-funded deals have helped to provide a hefty payday for the 64-year-old, who last year received nearly £2.2million as one of Calder’s directors. She and her husband Peter have used profits to fund a lavish lifestyle which has included a string of exotic trips to events such as the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and jaunts to Dubai, Bhutan and India’s Taj Mahal.”
“Graham King, the former small-time Essex businessman is boss of Clearsprings Ready Homes, a company that holds exclusive contracts to house asylum seekers across southern England and Wales. In 2021, the firm’s takings from the Home Office, which controversially come out of the Government’s foreign aid budget, soared to around half a billion pounds. The 56-year-old’s personal share of the profits is well over £25million, meaning that he received more than the former British colony of Ghana did in foreign aid. Since landing his first government contract in 2000, King has profited handsomely from housing migrants, taking numerous luxury holidays while sending his son and daughter to a £44,000-a-year boarding school and purchasing a listed mansion in rural Essex.”
“Alex Langsam is the founder of the budget hotel group, of who watchdog Which? said in its ranking of the UK’s best and worst hotels: ‘Rundown, dirty and once again the worst hotel chain in the UK. Avoid at all costs.’ The company makes millions of pounds from taxpayers by housing asylum seekers across thousands of its rooms, sometimes alongside paying guests. Britannia is estimated to house one in ten people seeking asylum in the UK and reported a pre-tax profit of £33 million in the year to March 2022. Langsam, 85, who lives in a ten-bedroom former hotel in Cheshire worth £3.4 million, is estimated to be raking in £100,000 per day in profit, building up a fortune of nearly £250 million.”
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‘Jason Chudy, spokesman for ATF’s Seattle Field Division, said that while the vast majority of the agency’s investigations are related to firearms, ‘in many, many cases, drugs are involved in that.’ ‘Fentanyl is obviously a big, big concern,’ he said, adding that investigators will wear respirators and gloves if they know they are going to be dealing with the synthetic opioid. ‘The problem with fentanyl is fentanyl could be in anything’
When was the last time you heard of a big Chinese mafia/Mexican cartel bust by the feds? They tap every phone, text and email and they can’t make even one token bust?
The cartels & gang affiliates must be paying off the right people.
Fat brown envelopes everywhere.
FBI too obsessed with hunting down “insurrectionists” who took an unguided tour of the Capitol Building to go after Mexican drug cartel distributors who are killing 107,000 Americans a year with fentanyl poisoning.
‘An old motel on the historic Route 66 is expected to be converted into affordable housing for individuals experiencing extreme poverty and homelessness. Catholic Charities Communities Services recently announced it had obtained $4.5 million in grant funding to buy the Route 66 Motel in northern Arizona and repurpose the 25-room building into affordable housing. The motel was built in 1963 along the section of Route 66 that cuts through Kingman…A growing homeless population has the city of Casper taking notice, with what Mayor Bruce Knell estimates to be a population of around 200 people now roaming the city’s streets and parks’
Both of these areas are not ‘libtard voters getting what they voted for”. This is being pushed on everybody. BTW 4.5 million is way too much, they’re just squandering free money to turn it into a sh$thole.
The FED and .gov did this, with their ZIRP and QE turning shelter into speculative assets instead of a roof over a person’s head.
‘I looked out the window and she looked a little distressed. I ran down and she just said, ‘Fire!’ She says investigators told her the fire likely started on the other side of her fence, by neighbors living in an encampment. Because there was no suspect, there will be no arrest. And, she says, no arson investigation. ‘If it was somebody that had something to lose, or somebody that had an address, then you would point the finger,’ said Nava. ‘They would take them to court and go through the process. But because they’re homeless, they don’t care’
We all pay for this through insurance. And it’s getting worse very day.
‘In the homelessness debate, the fascination with housing, including the technical details of how to finance and build as much as possible, has displaced interest in solutions to the problems of untreated mental illness, addiction, and chronic health conditions’
In the short time I’ve been following this, “they” have changed the “narrative” again. Now it’s back to – you guessed it – shortage!
Give junkies an apartment and you get an apartment full of junkies. Give tweakers an apartment and you get an apartment full of tweakers.
Inpatient detox before housing, otherwise all this taxpayer money just wasted, and the Homeless Industrial Complex will only say they need more money.
Homeless Industrial Complex will only say they need more money.”
More homeless more money . Doom Loop
“Both King County and Snohomish County are seeing more people die from opioid overdoses this year compared to last.”
Why is everyone sad when they’re off to heaven?
Population replacement is very progressive.
‘Nobody could have been prepared for something like this,’ said Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. ‘The onslaught was so massive … that you almost can’t really blame sanctuary cities for being unprepared’
This article is something else.
The migrant services company DocGo is looking to use its multimillion-dollar deal with City Hall to springboard to a massive $4 billion contract with the feds. CEO Anthony Capone said at a trade conference in Boston last month that DocGo’s $432 million no-bid emergency contract with the Big Apple has given it the ‘credibility’ to go up for the federal arrangement to provide medical services to migrants. DocGo was awarded an emergency contract by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration in March’
‘Now that we are one of the largest care providers for asylum seekers in the country,’ Capone said at the Canaccord Genuity’s 43rd annual growth conference in August. ‘It gives us enormous credibility. And we have references from the city who handles the largest amount.’ ‘Our application is a lot stronger,’ Capone said of the for-profit company’
Trade conferences, for a now multi-billion $ global industry.
Capone said of the for-profit company’
What a fitting name.
Big Al wasn’t as corrupt
The medical establishment in the FUSA has been completely co-opted into pushing globalist & Big Pharma agendas.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/horrified-hospital-employee-leaks-dei-training-promoting-3-year-olds-identifying-as-trans
A lifetime of surgeries and drugs makes a lot of money for the Medical Industrial Complex
The result was that she was fired and accused of misconduct, which meant she could not collect unemployment benefits, according to The Maine Wire.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/hospital-fired-nurses-refusing-vaccines-now-begging-return/
“Once I challenged one of their policies, I immediately became a ‘threat to the health and safety of the community.’
https://www.westernjournal.com/doc-refused-jab-seeing-worst-covid-med-school-fired-3-words-expose-everything/
A Florida physician known for being outspoken about COVID-related topics has regained his board certification that was stripped because he publicly criticized COVID vaccines.
Now, Dr. John Littell is moving forward from the experience with plans to help future physicians defend themselves when disciplined for voicing viewpoints that are not in the majority, he told The Epoch Times.
Dr. Littell, a longtime family physician in Ocala and a medical school professor, began posting videos sharing his thoughts about COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines early in the pandemic. He was frustrated to find his content often was pulled down from his YouTube channel. But he fought against what he saw as censorship by moving the content to other platforms, such as Rumble, he said.
Then, in January 2022 and again five months later, he received warning letters from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the organization that issued his certification for his medical specialty.
The letter stated that his videos on YouTube and Rumble spread “medical misinformation” and could put his board certification in jeopardy, he said. The ABFM is the third largest of the 24 boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties. More than 100,000 family medicine doctors are certified by the board, according to its website.
In the letter, the board also criticized Dr. Littell for “offering to provide medical exemptions from vaccination” to patients across the country and “publicly comparing the U.S. public health system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic to Nazi Germany.”
After receiving the troubling letter, Dr. Littell sought the help of attorney Jeff Childers, a business attorney in Gainesville, Florida. Since the COVID-19 lockdowns began, Mr. Childers has become active in lawsuits around the country related to medical freedom. He authors a daily blog called Coffee and Covid, which started by chronicling COVID-19 issues and now tracks other social and political issues, as well.
Mr. Childers crafted a 64-page appeal to the board, dissecting every accusation made against Dr. Littell, an Epoch Times reporter confirmed. And as word of the threat to Dr. Littell’s board certification spread—a move that would prevent him from practicing medicine—medical freedom activists rose up to take his side. The Global Covid Summit, an international group of doctors focused on medical freedom in COVID-19 treatment, sent a letter signed by 169 doctors to the ABFM in support of Dr. Littell. In the letter, they argued that the board was false in every accusation made against Dr. Littell.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo also voiced support for Dr. Littell. “What they’re doing is being a bully,” he said in an interview with The Floridian. “It’s not going to age well. I read the letter from the Board, and it’s dripping with political animosity.” “I’ve got to believe it’s not in the dozens, but probably in the hundreds of people who called and sent letters to the American Board of Family Medicine,” Dr. Littell said. “I never asked them to, but that is what was happening.”
In July, Dr. Littell received word that the board had reviewed his case and retroactively de-certified him for three months, from March 16 to June 16. He never stopped seeing patients.
“It’s like a slap on the wrist so they’d feel good about it, but wouldn’t, presumably, have to face any legal action,” he said.
His attorney agreed.
“They did it in a very face-saving way,” Mr. Childers said.
But ultimately, he’s pleased with the decision.
“We were really surprised and gratified that we were able to achieve that result,” Mr. Childers said.
Dr. Littell credits it to being “a God thing” that he was able to keep caring for patients and face a decertification period only retroactively.
“If they had said I was decertified, I would not have been able to do what I was doing. I mean, especially with the hospital care patients. I could have gotten into big trouble.”
He still may face consequences for having the blemish on his record, he said. He’ll have to report it to the hospitals at which he works and explain what happened, he said.
“Every time I go up for privileges with a hospital or any other institution, they’re going to say, ‘Well, has your license ever been suspended or revoked, and has your board certification ever been revoked?’ So, it’s still an issue. It’s not like you can just forget about it.”
He’s been advised by some other doctors, such as cardiologist Peter McCullough, to pursue legal action for the disciplinary measure they feel was wrong, he said. Around the country, a slew of doctors had board certifications removed and licensure threatened for sharing their COVID-related opinions.
“Most people would probably be surprised to find out there’s a lot of this going on, now that the pandemic is over,” Mr. Childers said. “From what I’ve heard, there’s probably more challenges to doctor licensing right now than at any other time.” But because most doctors aren’t vocal about receiving discipline, it’s hard to know exactly how often it’s occurring, he said. Doctors who have been active on social media seem to be targeted more often by medical authorities, he said.
Dr. Littell has no plans to keep quiet about what he feels went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’m not letting up,” he said. He’s organizing his third annual medical freedom summit in November called “Food, Family & Medical Freedom” in Ocala, Florida at the World Equestrian Center.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/florida-doctor-reinstated-after-losing-board-certification-for-criticizing-covid-19-vaccines-5480957
“Screw Your Face Diapers!!” Mask Mandate Return Sparks ‘We Will Not Comply’ Trend
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1698478510824710527
Covid vaccines are poison.
The medical boards are criminal cartels working with big pharma
A federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had overstepped its authority in their ruling that three doctors will be able to move forward with their lawsuit over the use of ivermectin off-label to treat COVID-19.
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, one of three doctors who initially filed the charges, trumpeted the ruling as a victory for not only the truth, but patient rights.
“The FDA misled the public into thinking it has more authority than it does,” Dr. Bowden, a practitioner and founder of Coalition of Health Freedom, told The Epoch Times. “This decision confirms that the FDA is not your doctor and has no authority to tell doctors how to practice medicine.”
Judge Don Willett wrote for the three person panel that also included Jennifer Walker Elrod and Edith Brown Clement. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”
“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to. As such, the Doctors can use the APA to assert their ultra vires claims against the Agencies and the Officials.”
The anti-ivermectin messaging put out by FDA officials also drew the ire of Judge Willett, who wrote that “Left unmentioned in most of that messaging: ivermectin also comes in a human version. And while the human version of ivermectin is not FDA-approved to treat the coronavirus, some people were using it off-label for that purpose.”
In the ruling social media posts made by the agency were cited as evidence, citing that “Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond FDA’s statutory authority,” he wrote.
The FDA on Aug. 21, 2021, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
The National Institutes of Health COVID treatment guidelines recommend against using ivermectin for COVID treatment, citing a purported lack of evidence supporting its effectiveness. Other studies have found ivermectin to be effective.
The lawsuit was initially filed in June 2022 by Dr. Bowden, Drs. Robert L. Apter, and Paul E. Marik for interfering with both their authority to prescribe an approved medication and the doctor-patient relationship. All three alleged their reputations were harmed by the FDA campaign. Dr. Bowden lost admitting privileges at a Texas hospital while Dr. Marik alleged he lost his jobs at a medical school and at a hospital for promoting the use of ivermectin.
The ruling comes as a blow to the FDA. The agency had argued that the case should not be allowed to move forward, claiming that the complaints didn’t overcome the FDA’s “sovereign immunity,” which protects government entities from many civil lawsuits regarding their responsibilities.
The FDA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The refusal of pharmacists nationwide to fill prescriptions for ivermectin has become a hot-button issue, raising questions over medical autonomy and who ultimately has control over patient care.
Ivermectin has been around for decades but became the center of controversy in 2020 after medical opinion became divided over its effectiveness as a treatment for COVID. In the aftermath, many pharmacists refused to fill prescriptions for the medication.
On Aug. 8 a lawyer representing the FDA confirmed that doctors were allowed to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID.
“FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.
Dr. Bowden claims that despite the endorsement from the FDA, the practice of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for ivermectin continues.
“This needs to come to an end. In telling my patients what medicines they can and cannot have access to, we effectively have a large group of pharmacists practicing medicine without a license,” said Dr. Bowden told the Epoch Times on Friday. “They have no accountability for this yet they are allowed to dictate patient care.”
“I see it every single day. Enough is enough,” Dr. Bowden added.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-is-not-a-physician-appeals-court-sides-with-doctors-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-post-5485494
The FDA on Aug. 21, 2021, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
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https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indias-ivermectin-blackout—part-v-the-secret-revealed/article_9a37d9a8-1fb2-11ec-a94b-47343582647b.html
India’s Ivermectin Blackout – Part V: The Secret Revealed
by Justus R. Hope, MD Sep 27, 2021 Updated Dec 2, 2021
Each home kit contained the following: Paracetamol tablets [tylenol], Vitamin C, Multivitamin, Zinc, Vitamin D3, Ivermectin 12 mg [quantity #10 tablets], Doxycycline 100 mg [quantity #10 tablets]. Other non-medication components included face masks, sanitizer, gloves and alcohol wipes, a digital thermometer, and a pulse oximeter. See mark 2:33.
Campbell reports that the exciting things in the kit that grabbed his attention were: Zinc, Vitamin D3, Ivermectin, and secondary antibiotic treatment. “Interesting, that’s what the government decided to give.” See mark 3:40
John Campbell has reviewed repurposed drugs for COVID before. He has interviewed both Dr. Tess Lawrie and Dr. Pierre Kory. Repurposed drugs hold the potential for benefitting many conditions, not the least of which include viruses and cancers.
Dr. Campbell noted that there had been no recent cases in 59 Uttar Pradesh districts. In addition, out of 191,446 tests completed in the previous 24 hours, only 33 samples were positive for a test positivity rate of only 0.01%. Dr. Campbell called this low number “staggering.” See mark 5:05.
By September, cases had fallen dramatically. Out of the entire state of 200 million plus inhabitants, only 187 active cases were left compared to the peak in April of 310,783 cases. See mark 5:41.
Dr. Campbell attributes their success to many factors, including early detection and early treatment with kits costing a mere $ 2.65 per person. See mark 6:20.
Notice that Dr. Campbell does not mention a single person who had any toxicity from those ten 12 mg pills of Ivermectin – in the entire state of over 200 million. Not one poisoning was reported. No Indian poison control articles or telephone calls were reported. Out of millions of distributed medicine kits, each containing 120 mg of Ivermectin, not one person in Uttar Pradesh was reported to have had a problem with the drug.
Notice that Dr. Campbell at no time criticizes the medicine kit as “fringe” or ineffective. After all, it would be improper to accuse a WHO-sponsored program such as the Uttar Pradesh test and treat – coordinated by WHO – of being “fringe.”
Contrary to what little we receive – at great expense – from the government in the United States, these kits are efficient and contain gloves, a thermometer, and an oximeter. The last time I purchased an oximeter some ten years ago, it cost some $200.00. This entire kit – including the oximeter – costs only $2.65.
And notice that a government can purchase over one thousand home treatment Ivermectin containing kits for the price of one course of Remdesivir. Remdesivir runs $3,100, and it is an impractical drug as it must be given late in the disease during hospitalization. Moreover, it is a drug that does not save lives.
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https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/beyond-ivermectin-our-freedom-stolen/article_4f19cafc-515e-11ec-9c92-f7242894727c.html
Beyond Ivermectin: Our Freedom Stolen
by Justus R. Hope, MD Nov 29, 2021 Updated Dec 10, 2021
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https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/ivermectin—truth-and-totalitarianism/article_2e03f334-252f-11ec-a086-eb72bc65ec02.html
Ivermectin – Truth and Totalitarianism
by Justus R. Hope, MD Oct 4, 2021 Updated Dec 2, 2021
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Withholding treatment of ivermectin in the United States was a medical genocide.
I hope I live to see the day when all of these criminals & their enablers stand in orange jumpsuits & shackles before honest judges, awaiting summary justice for their roles in perpetrating the scamdemic and the immense harm inflicted on so many by vaccines & lockdown mandates.
I see what you did there, globalists.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1698441014170567091
And a lot of those 1.2 million who lost their jobs and were replaced are going to join the coast to coast tent city and fentanyl OD party.
More “extend & pretend” in China.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-stocks-hong-kong-jump-020324230.html
Our better ancestors would’ve never put up with this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12476861/Squatters-Wyoming-city-Vagrants-leave-millions-dollars-worth-damage-motel-500lbs-human-feces-downtown-area-Casper-fights-homeless-invasion.html
In Casper? That had to be planned. I’m gonna guess that this is The Empire Strikes Back, and they are shipping homeless to places like Casper, as a reminder that no matter how deep you are in flyover, you are not safe.
Every state needs to ship their homeless and illegals to DC
Wyoming has become unbelievably expensive the past few years. It is possible locals were priced out and left homeless.
I suspect that when the SHTF, those with ancestral roots in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho are going to make short work of the libtard infestations that have ruined these formerly great states.
https://thecarousel.substack.com/p/theres-gonna-be-a-war-in-montana
I looked Casper up in realtor dot com. Lots of houses under 200K. I know that’s not “cheap”, but compared to most other places it is. It isn’t Jackson.
Not saying that none of the homeless are locals, but I strongly suspect that many, if not most, were bussed in. After all the mayor seemed genuinely surprised by their appearance. Also, the fact that they commandeered a closed down motel makes me suspect it was all carefully coordinated by outsiders.
I looked up Indeed and Casper has lots of sub-$17 an hour jobs. It’s not Jackson, but the locals are still priced out.
“Wyoming…”
I drove through there once on the 80, and everything was closed. The wind wouldn’t let up either.
Wind and road kill. That is what I remember.
From Chicago to Omaha it’s nothing but corn, and then the land is mostly barren until Reno. It’s a huge country by automobile.
Beautiful country. Spectacular. Loved it!
‘More subterfuge!’ Anthony Fauci is branded a ‘fraud’ and a ‘liar’ after admitting there IS a lack of evidence showing mask mandates stopped the COVID pandemic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12477321/More-subterfuge-Anthony-Fauci-branded-fraud-liar-admitting-lack-evidence-showing-mask-mandates-stopped-COVID-pandemic.html
Rand Paul
Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1698372490639327556
#DoNotComply
https://twitter.com/BettaLivesMattr/status/1698701602519949783
Fake. Here’s The Nuremberg Code.
“Fauci admits that masks don’t work…”
I thought this giant of a midget retired?
Ivermectin Reduces Excess Deaths by 74%, New Study Shows
https://slaynews.com/news/ivermectin-reduce-excess-deaths-74-percent-new-study/
A Toronto supervised consumption site has been in the spotlight after an employee was charged in connection with a fatal daytime shooting near the centre in July, spurring a provincial government review of all sites in the province. But when it comes to who’s responsible for the sites, the answer is complex.
People in the community around the SRCHC have pointed to increasing concerns in the past year on safety and cleanliness in the area. As a not-for-profit, the site says the more funding it dedicates to security, less gets spent on providing care for clients. Meanwhile, the city councillor for the area hopes the province will provide more funding to help offset that cost.
Jeri Brown lives in the community and helped organize a town hall for residents to voice their concerns around the centre after 44-year-old Karolina Huberner-Makurat was killed by a stray bullet.
“There’s no clarity at all in terms of how these programs are supposed to run from a government and city perspective in terms of who’s responsible for what,” Brown said. “It’s a tangled web that we’ve been working hard for the past several weeks to try to untangle.”
One man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of the mother of two. A second man has been charged with manslaughter, robbery and failure to comply with probation. And a woman employed by the centre, charged with accessory after the fact to an indictable offence and obstructing justice, is currently on bail.
Supervised consumption sites do provide multiple benefits, says Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi, a physician and researcher at St. Micheal’s Hospital in Toronto. Bayoumi was part of a team that was tasked with looking at whether the cities of Toronto and Ottawa would benefit from the implementation of supervised injection facilities.
“There is research showing that people who use supervised consumption sites have lower rates of overdose and lower rates of fatal overdose than people who don’t,” Bayoumi said. “The sites help to connect people to other services that are useful, both social services and health services, things like stable housing and employment.”
Coun. Paula Fletcher, for Ward 14, which includes the Leslieville neighbourhood, says the site is responsible for maintaining security within a 15-metre perimeter and wants the province to help them do that.
“[The province] should be funding for the clients that use it inside and they should be funding for the perimeter, to make sure there’s enough security people working there outside as well,” she said.
Meanwhile, Fletcher says the SRCHC has increased security since the tragic death of Huebner-Makurat. But she’s worried about the long term.
“I don’t think that’s sustainable without some funding.”
When asked if the security implemented by the centre was sustainable, the SRCHC said most of its funding goes toward servicing its clients and patients.
“We are a not-for-profit organization with limited resources, so putting more funds into security means fewer resources for other areas of our operations. If this is identified as an effective long-term solution to community safety concerns, we will look for ways to ensure that this service can be sustainably funded.”
When asked if the SRCHC agrees with Fletcher that it needs more money for security, it said its open to effective solutions that support community safety.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/when-it-comes-to-torontos-supervised-injection-sites-whos-in-charge-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ar-AA1fROY7
Anxiety is mounting over the future of two supervised consumption sites in northern Ontario as funding for them is set to run out at the end of the year.
The northern cities of Sudbury and Timmins – where opioid overdose rates are well above the provincial average – have been paying for the sites in their communities for several months but say long-term support isn’t sustainable, which is why they’ve appealed to the province for permanent funding.
Both communities are so far waiting on the Ontario government to respond.
“It’s extremely concerning and I don’t know what we’re going to do,” Timmins Mayor Michelle Boileau said during a recent phone interview.
“This is a medical crisis and these sites should be funded by the Ministry of Health.”
Boileau said she’s worried that opioid overdose deaths will spike if the Timmins site – which opened in July 2022 – is forced to shut down in January.
“Before the site opened, it was getting to the point where weekly, and some weeks it was daily, Timmins was hearing about overdoses,” she said.
“For a municipality of 42,000, that means your neighbours, your loved ones, people you went to school with, your colleagues, were all being impacted by this.”
The site reversed about 130 overdoses in the first year it was open, the mayor said, calling it a great success.
“Provincial officials don’t want to see safe consumption states as being the be-all and end-all solution for municipalities and I would just say that’s not at all how we look at it,” she said.
“If we received the permanent funding for this site, it would just give us that opportunity to start focusing our attention elsewhere, such as building affordable housing, because we would know that the site is preventing deaths.”
Data from Ontario’s coroner’s office shows that from April 2022 to March 2023, the public health unit for Timmins and its surrounding areas had a fatal opioid overdose rate of 41 per 100,000 in population, the fourth highest in the province.
In the Sudbury public health unit, the rate was approximately 50 per 100, 000 population – the third highest in the province after the Thunder Bay and Algoma public health units, also in northern Ontario.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/extremely-concerning-two-northern-ontario-safe-consumption-sites-fear-closure/ar-AA1fVftH
Notice how many times the word “funding” is used in these articles.
Notice how many times the word “funding” is used in these articles.
Usually the poverty pimps say “investment.”
A violent clash between two groups shut down traffic in a northeast Calgary neighbourhood Saturday evening.
The confrontation, between two Eritrean groups, closed Falconridge Boulevard in both directions between Castleridge Blvd. and McKnight Blvd. N.E.
“Around six o’clock, maybe 150 to 200 young guys gathered in this parking space and then they were holding long sticks in their hands and then they rushed towards the other side,” said Mian Wahid, who was in the area when the fight broke out.
“It was looking like they were going there to attack some other people or some other group,” Wahid said. “Initially, I thought that they were protesting, but suddenly they started rushing towards the side.”
In video captured by bystanders, men from both groups can be seen carrying long sticks and bats, some appear to be wearing helmets as well.
Some wore white shirts printed with the Eritrean flag, while others donned blue T-shirts or and carried blue flags with the former Eritrean flag.
Another witness said he was parked in a lot on Castleridge Blvd. as the conflict broke out.
“People were coming out of their cars with two-by-fours and pipe, so I put my phone up and started taking videos,” he said. “One guy told me they were protesting the dictatorship in Eritrea and I thought, ‘Why do they have two-by-fours and pipes if they’re protesting a dictatorship?’
“I had to leave, but when I came back, all hell was breaking loose with cops.”
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/all-hell-was-breaking-loose-rival-eritrean-groups-clash-in-northeast-calgary-saturday-night-1.6546333
Maybe this needs to stay in Eritrea instead of being exported to civilized countries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/2/dozens-of-people-injured-in-clashes-between-rival-eritrean-groups-in-israel
How is this fraud not in prison?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/03/fauci-pushes-masking-again-with-a-ridiculous-word-salad-n1724192
After 16 years in San Francisco’s Mission District, popular vegan Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre closed this week.
The owners of the establishment, which used to generate extremely long wait times before the pandemic, posted a note outside stating that the economy and state of the Mission forced this decision.
“Our mission was always to honor the mothers who give so much to serve, care for and live in hope for their families, especially those of Mexico. It has been an honor to work on behalf of their generosity and sacrifice all these years,” the farewell note said in part. “The condition of life in San Francisco has deteriorated and made running a small business nearly impossible.”
Former general manager Joseph Donohue said the business never recovered from the pandemic, and the street conditions drove away customers, especially at night.
“A lot of people would say that it was a little bit too dangerous to come at night, because there wasn’t any places to park your car, and if you did park your car you didn’t know whether it was going to get broken into or not,” said Donohue. “So a lot of customers did say that they wouldn’t come at night.”
He said Gracias Madre tried to stay open until 10 p.m., but didn’t have enough business to do so. The owners did not have enough cash to stay open another month.
Donohue said going home after work on nearby BART was not an option. “It’s just a little shady in the area, the streets are not cleaned on a regular basis. It’s almost as if it’s like a forgotten side of the city,” he said.
He said its location next to an empty building on 18th Street wasn’t enticing, though it is scheduled to become teacher housing in the future. “I don’t feel secure sometimes walking the streets,” said a longtime Mission resident who did not give his name.
He used to get on the hours-long waitlist for Gracias Madre. He’s lived in the neighborhood for 23 years. “The street conditions in the Mission is very bad right now, at this moment, because not only the garbage, but the homeless, the drugs,” he added.
Gracias Madre still has two Southern California locations that will stay open.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vegan-mexican-restaurant-gracias-madre-closes-owners-say-san-francisco-has-deteriorated/ar-AA1g0vvy
It’s a new twist and a new tune to Oakland’s homeless problem. The High Street Home Depot store is blasting classical music in the parking lot. Some believe it’s to push out the nearby homeless population. The store, located at 4000 Alameda Avenue, is surrounded by RVs and a large illegal encampment.
“The music is very loud and annoying,” said Kaitlyn Ferguson, who lives in an RV.
“To me, it’s good,” said Home Depot customer Fidel Gutierrez. “You can hear it all the way to (the Shell gas station,) which is a block and a half away.”
“I enjoy classical music but I’m surprised to hear it here at the Home Depot parking lot,” said Oakland councilman Noel Gallo, who represents the area.
Store workers said they started playing classical music in the front and back parking lots about three weeks ago. Customers and neighbors say it’s one way to make it uncomfortable for the people who are unhoused.
“All day, all night. I can certainly hear it and I know it’s wearing on my nerves,” said neighborhood watch captain Deb, who asked KPIX not to use her last name due to safety concerns. “Doing nothing is not the right solution either. So, I think, playing classical music is the kindest solution I’ve heard.”
While Deb supports the solution, she wants Home Depot to lower the speaker to street level. She said the speaker is placed too high and the music is travelling to nearby homes. Deb and about a dozen families live behind the store.
After she spoke with the store manager recently, the store shut down the speaker in the back parking lot. The speaker in the front lot is still blasting classical music.
“To make us feel like we’re less than anybody else is not cool. With the people around here, I think it would kind of eventually backfire. It’s going to get broken or sabotaged,” Ferguson said.
The music is getting mixed reviews from customers.
“I will not come to buy from Home Depot. It’s too loud,” complained customer Amed Segarra.
“It’s relaxing music. I love it,” Gutierrez countered.
Councilman Gallo understands why Home Depot is doing it. Each time, after the city cleared the RV’s and the encampment, they came back within a week and neighbors complained the stolen and stripped cars are linked to the encampments.
“Certainly, it’s a creative way to maybe get some other people frustrated to move out but I don’t think that’s going to be the solution,” said councilman Gallo.
A Home Depot spokeswoman declined to comment but, at a city hall press conference in Oct. 2022, a regional director of operations pleaded for city enforcement and more resources to clear the nearby encampment.
“Out of our 2,200 stores throughout the country, Oakland is our biggest pressure when it comes to malicious thefts, along with other incidents as well.” said Adriana Martins-Gregus speaking for Home Depot.
Many neighbors like Deb want the city to do more so the store doesn’t leave town. She believes the best solution is if the city can provide more housing and mental health services.
“We support (Home Depot), we support them. It needs to be cleaned out. Doing nothing is not the solution,” she said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oakland-home-depot-blares-classical-music-at-nearby-unhoused-campers/ar-AA1g8asq
I’d be playing the Ramones……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tpu_XoNABA
Ramones – I wanna be sedated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4
i always loved this song.
Not My Slave. Oingo Boingo –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZE978JbYc
I’m a huge fan of Danny Elfman’s music.
The High Street Home Depot store is blasting classical music in the parking lot. Some believe it’s to push out the nearby homeless population. The store, lo
I recall that convenience stores did this decades ago to shoo away vagrants.
It’s also a repellent for yooooouths
“…blasting classical music…”
Evokes visions of, “A Clockwork Orange.”
This will drive them crazy, especially the soprano:
https://youtu.be/ZOTdIhaGEuw?si=t5WfGJy-4FwAv9gm
Then a little Beethoven:
https://youtu.be/N1JWz8jwWsQ?si=GLum4sBZHxTS3NL3&t=46
Then hit them with some Stravinsky (a virtuoso orchestral piece):
https://youtu.be/qXnsiZeh__g?si=1MxzBSa7UANkF2hR
Can’t leave out Tchaikovsky:
https://youtu.be/lOu1nOTQA7A?si=oRvGW8vUNixR2P89
This is where John Williams got all material:
https://youtu.be/7mI4WLAhjj0?si=jqEJKiooe96eSUBw
Can’t forget Mahler:
https://youtu.be/PsGEPLgH1Us?si=lUu0yeSX9e8ehJsQ
https://youtu.be/PKKVP5PscG8?si=ju7-mNUG-vP8VSR4
And now for some Verdi!
https://youtu.be/up0t2ZDfX7E?si=6tlZrP6B6nglmq2Q
And since we’re in the “New World”:
https://youtu.be/RCct_tSQ8WY?si=SmukGdrGylpsLscd
And now some music from Finland:
https://youtu.be/fE0RbPsC9uE?si=oQCduiqaeO3QQCeo
Mozart gets them every time!
https://youtu.be/0T7eMctuJLQ?si=pb2xp4eizfCIx-7q
In Praise of the Lord!
https://youtu.be/c0cLeRk93Gc?si=BghjoXs419VL8GaG
The repeat.
And now for some Verdi!
If that wasn’t on the list, I was going to add it!
Verdi has Mozart beat for the Dies Irae.
Not much can compare with this little tune:
https://youtu.be/elFhQgXOrqA?si=wckmLktNkp8pZyAm
This is something that might have heard. It’s Mahler with a BIG orchestra–180 degrees away from Mozart. Something to take your mind away from the din of life.
https://youtu.be/jvUego50gVg?si=-AJOUetRlA7OI8DL
this little tune
Reminds me of his Lacrimosa.
It’s Mahler with a BIG orchestra
Not a Mahler fan.
The Sing-Along Messiah I attended in Los Angeles while I was in college was AMAZING!! I miss singing and never tire from watching conductors.
In a former life when I played the violin as a music major, I got to play the Messiah many times. For two Christmas Eve midnight mass performances at a Catholic church in Orange County playing this piece was a real religious experience. It’s one of Western Civilization’s crowning achievements and a miracle that Handel wrote the entire thing in 24 days in 1741!
One of my favorites–it’s an old recording and not in fashion today, but using a full modern orchestra just sounds better IMHO:
https://youtu.be/pkv7IeuUCOU?si=1UivZQ64A4Hiwfz6
Verdi had a lot bigger orchestra to work with. Mozart was way ahead of his time. Compare, which is which:
https://youtu.be/Y9hL78g3Sj8?si=KCGu2nQ_pD0BObaN
https://youtu.be/lLTCQ8BRhes?si=AWF6QGevKiEkajG0
Musicians say that Mozart needed only a few notes and players to create something great, as in this from the Marriage of Figaro:
https://youtu.be/OaLSjoRQkTI?si=m0I2ebvkYsM_bFRQ
Compare
Lacrimosa 😀
I do not know how the homeless would respond but…well, it’s stimulating 😉
Tim Curry – I Do The Rock
https://twitter.com/BOWIESTARSHIP/status/1698191298639917166
I do not know how the homeless would respond but…well, it’s stimulating
You don’t want them to like the music, you want to drive them crazy. All of these classical pieces are like the Top 100 Hits of all time. But most people can’t stand them, just look at the response here!
It’s funny because it’s true.
I’m aware of that. However, as much as I like the song, I think it would get on my nerves on repeat. And the stores don’t always play classical. A 7-11 played Toto’s “Africa” over and over and the homeless vamoosed.
Watch: 7-11 takes drastic measure to deal with LA’s homeless problem… chasing them away by blasting yacht rock 24/7
August 09, 2023
https://notthebee.com/article/this-los-angeles-7-11-solved-the-homeless-problem-outside-its-store-by-playing-africa-by-toto-on-loop-24-hours
And for something completely different:
https://youtu.be/-GhK4X-hMKA?si=i9NxsPO7CuwqBuk2
https://youtu.be/qVTWC11zGJs?si=v-t7k5lXqv4ZjZ2z
And something nobody here has ever heard:
https://youtu.be/mKHfQ33LsWo?si=49MmVUMsWDrNwEFc
A reader sent these in:
Canadian cities are turning into the next San Francisco … 🔊… sound on
This is Justin Trudeau’s vision of a prosperous Canada 🚨🚨🚨
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1697861246672867390
Hawaii Governor Josh Green’s top priority to deal with Maui?
🔊 … (sound on)
“Don’t use social media. Get off your phone. We are the one source of truth that you can rely on. If you didn’t hear it from us, it didn’t happen.”
I don’t know what exactly happened in Maui fires. But the fact that the governor is most concerned about social media talking about it, as opposed to helping the people who lived there, that is telling you a lot.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1697971228525363485
The entrance/exit for these luxury LA lofts is literally located in the middle of Skid Row. 🔥🔥 Why would anyone live there and call it “luxury”?
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1698154908942291455
The most dramatic price cuts the world has ever witnessed. Crazy or genius. You decide.
https://twitter.com/GuyDealership/status/1698059181297676795
The era of immaculate credit is ending. Credit card delinquencies surpassed pre-pandemic levels, and stand at the highest since 2012. More worrying is that the rate of increase accelerated sharply in 2Q23 – the fastest since 2008. If 1994 redux, this needs to level off soon.
https://twitter.com/LastBearStandng/status/1697625426066104357
A shoplifter in Las Vegas used pepper spray while loading stolen merchandise from Home Depot
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1696706478193995929
US National Debt has now increased by $1.45 trillion since the debt ceiling was suspended 3 months ago and is fast approaching $33 trillion. In the past five years the national debt has increased by 53%, from $21.4 trillion to $32.9 trillion.
https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1698068336402116942
US Bonds are down 7% over the last 4 years, their worst 4-year return in history.
https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1697974698460463284
US Average Hourly Earnings increased 4.29% YoY in August, the slowest growth rate since July 2021.
https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1697607814334550491
The housing bubble in Canada is going to pop … Change in house prices for G7 countries since 2000: 🚨🚨
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1698365484457165302
My house in Nanaimo has increased 5-fold in assessed value in the 21 years I’ve owned it (2002-2023). That’s typical for BC. People’s incomes have not gone up 5-fold. Hence the housing crisis. Govt builds more housing, but what’s needed is affordable rents & home prices.
https://twitter.com/KimPigSquash/status/1698369990888739167
I must’ve heard three or four times this week, from people who should know better, that “the Fed has been doing $95 billion a month of QT.”
No. They’ve averaged just over $50 billion a month since their fun coupons peaked 16 months ago in April 2022.
https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein/status/1698435230934196243
Since the Fed’s peak (so far) holdings of MBS hit $2.74T in April 2022, they’ve “run off” $242B, about 8%, over 16 months. In just TWO months in 2020 they monetized $500B. At that time, Case-Shiller home prices were up near 5% YOY, on their way to 22%. They owned $0 MBS in 2008
https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein/status/1697653760670261587
Every 2023 #jobs report has been revised significantly lower. Seven downward revisions in a row is not random. The labor department has been consistently over-estimating job growth. No doubt that today’s August 187K job number will also be revised significantly lower next month.
https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1697597334941516060
BIGGEST spread between mortgage rates and 30YR Treasury rate EVER
https://twitter.com/peruvian_bull/status/1696975876037251254
Fidelity recently came out with its average and median 401(k) balances by generation. They are as follows:
Gen Z: Average $7,100, Median $2,500
Millennials: Average $44,900, Median $15,500
Gen X: Average $145,500, Median $44,000
Boomers: Average $215,000, Median $61,200
https://twitter.com/MsResJudicata/status/1698312744779313184
*Between 1970-2023:
The avg home price has risen 20x
The avg cost for bachelor degree has risen 18x
The avg new car price rose 16x
The avg gasoline price rose 11x
Yet nominal avg income has only risen ~6x
This is why credit/debt has soared, incomes can’t justify costs
https://twitter.com/RadicalAdem/status/1697948351789212086
BREAKING: Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1698471181010305498
Canadians collectively getting poorer. Their Children will be even poorer. It started when they decided to use real estate as primary growth engine and then rent seeking to maintain living standards. Led to loss of productivity. Have fun staying poor with your real estate bags.
https://twitter.com/geoeconomic10/status/1698307609525125477
Being trapped at Burning Man seems almost as bad as being trapped in a conversation with someone who went to Burning Man
https://twitter.com/sammorril/status/1698363353046171769
I cannot unsee this image of Neal Katyal, the Supreme Court attorney who among other things successfully defended a company’s use of overseas child slave labor, at Burning Man.
https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1698346846681551213
Worldwide Google search traffic for cryptocurrency is near its lowest point in 5 years.
https://twitter.com/Dynamo_Patrick/status/1697928017039765581
First they will lose the LOCs and HELOCs. Then tenants will stop paying rents when they lose their jobs. Thanks for playing slumlords.
https://twitter.com/geoeconomic10/status/1698455760777183348
Looking through the past 30 days of rental applicants. 50% of the denials were due to the applicant using fake ID or Social Security Number
https://twitter.com/DallasAptGP/status/1698416250693541938
The labor market is undoubtedly softening because at maximum employment there are only so many more jobs that can be created (outside of people picking up a 4th job as a cocktail waitress at the Wynn to cover their $797 car payment). Here’s our updated August employment index:
https://twitter.com/DonMiami3/status/1698402996814557507
Just a reminder, sales VOLUME leads sales PRICES
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1698386607488045204
95% of Boomer generation “success” is due to pensions and 40 years of falling interest rates.
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1698386044675342505
I have it on good authority that 84% of office CMBS were not paid off in August. 16% pay-off rate, 84% were either modified/extended or entered maturity default. Hosted a commercial real estate panel w/ the heaviest of hitters for @ForwardGuidance … it will shock you
https://twitter.com/JackFarley96/status/1698107786138415563
This whole ‘get back to the office now!’ push is coming from the top down due to collapsing CRE values.
The idea that you are more productive after a stressful 2 hour commute sitting in a cubicle with an office and a paid vending machine is absolute nonsense. The only thing it does it put fear back in employees & give bosses full control again during a softening labor environment. List the academic studies that say otherwise & I will read.
When bosses lost in office control over their employees – employees felt no need to stay at a company (as it should be), they moved laterally and vertically to better opportunities in quick periods of time – the FAANG bosses don’t like this so they’re trying to put an end to RW w RTO orders. Back in your cuck cubes!
https://twitter.com/DonMiami3/status/1698088862457749847
Millenials control just 4.6% of US wealth despite being over one third of the workforce 💸
https://twitter.com/Mayhem4Markets/status/1697948375436402781
Just a reminder, on paper it doesn’t look like we have a lot of subprime mortgages, but I wonder what a 580 credit score 96.5% LTV investment property acquired through fraud is?
https://twitter.com/GRomePow/status/1690071772476112900
The market has definitely shifted in Dallas
“For Sale / For Lease” signs popping up. For example, multiple houses in a row in this neighborhood are listed both for sale or for lease – whatever sticks. Excellent school district. Walking distance to a park.
Still struggling.
https://twitter.com/akm515/status/1697997741081665865
The mortgage to income ratio (% of disposable income needed to cover the cost of a mortgage) is at its highest level in history
https://twitter.com/Barchart/status/1697888795499081788
My fav comments are from people that literally have real state pro or mortgage pro in their title. “Your wrong the market is strong people need to hurry and buy.” Lmao oh really ? Why because your bills are due? And transactions are at a record low?
https://twitter.com/RawQuantum/status/1697640668007641196
Can anyone remember the last time a cutting-edge “technology” company disrupting the legacy dinosaurs in its industry was forced to slash prices 6 times in a single year? The only thing $TSLA is winning is the race to the bottom in profit margins
https://twitter.com/Ross__Hendricks/status/1697660789149094293
I work for a non-profit debt management company. The biggest bank in the US is giving us ~400 new accounts per month, people about to be delinquent on CC payments.
https://twitter.com/AnyBarSpecial/status/1697698311279611945
An owner said to me this week: “If it doesn’t appraise for at least $2M, I’m going to have some questions for you.” Nice.
https://twitter.com/SacAppraiser/status/1698420947504767364
It’s wild to me how many prominent RE families were wiped in that late 80s/early 90s downturn. The Reichmanns, the Brascan half of the Bronfman family, etc. Typically you’d assume family businesses to be under-levered.
https://twitter.com/sinstockpapi/status/1698327452878033103
‘Just a reminder, on paper it doesn’t look like we have a lot of subprime mortgages’
This stuff is why I have a hard time taking puddle watchers seriously. This clown doesn’t even know what subprime is.
I work for a non-profit debt management company. The biggest bank in the US is giving us ~400 new accounts per month, people about to be delinquent on CC payments.
But…but…Yellen the Felon said credit card debt soaring about $1 trillion was evidence of a “strong consumer.”
“Don’t use social media. Get off your phone. We are the one source of truth that you can rely on. If you didn’t hear it from us, it didn’t happen.”
Almost word to word the same phrase used by the former Kiwi tyrant, Jacinda Ardern.
Same thought.
“The most dramatic price cuts the world has ever witnessed. Crazy or genius. You decide”
Crazy or genius? Neither. Just necessary….with more to come.
And just like that Tesla owners go from feeling like they’re the coolest cats in town to wearing a mask while driving so you won’t recognize them for the morons they are. I love it when trendy lemmings take a massing corn-holing.
Crazy or genius?
Desperate.
The only thing $TSLA is winning is the race to the bottom in profit margins
Sine they don’t have dealerships where unsold inventory can pile up and be seen by all they can sort of hide it. But now they have EV competition and those brands do have dealerships. As I mentioned yesterday, unsold Mustang EVs outnumber ICE Mustangs almost 9 to 1. A good proxy for the number of cars piling up at Tesla’s factories. The price drops are not a surprise.
The $TSLAQ Twitter community knows/knew(?) where the inventory is/was stashed. I’m no longer able to follow it.
Typically you’d assume family businesses to be under-levered.
They probably thought they were shooting fish in a barrel and went all in. Why just be millionaires when we can become billionaires?
“An owner said to me this week: “If it doesn’t appraise for at least $2M, I’m going to have some questions for you.”
Rough to be an appraiser in these times. Especially if the homeowner who tells you this looks like Tony Soprano.
“The mortgage to income ratio (% of disposable income needed to cover the cost of a mortgage) is at its highest level in history”
Funny how people are seeing this everyday now yet will hold fast to life that home prices will not drop.
BIGGEST spread between mortgage rates and 30YR Treasury rate EVER
That’s one scary chart!
The idea that you are more productive after a stressful 2 hour commute sitting in a cubicle with an office and a paid vending machine is absolute nonsense. The only thing it does it put fear back in employees & give bosses full control again during a softening labor environment. List the academic studies that say otherwise & I will read.
But the water cooler! Bumping into each other after taking a poo!
Video: Fauci Squirms As CNN Anchor Confronts Him With Data Showing Masks Don’t Work
https://summit.news/2023/09/04/video-fauci-squirms-as-cnn-anchor-confronts-him-with-data-showing-masks-dont-work/
More evidence that what most people were under was mass formation psychosis. Despite saying himself masks don’t work, all the way up to wear 3 masks, the globalist scum media deified this murdering rat bashtard. Now everybody laughs at him, or just hates his sorry a$$.
The Hollyweirdo late night TV hosts were particularly fond of him, soon as they caught wind he was at odds with “The Orange Man.” Anybody at odds with “Orange Man Bad” was automatically and immediately propelled to rock star status, no questions asked.
Masks have traditionally offered Asians reassurance that they would not catch whatever viral strain was going around.
During the pandemic, Western politicians required everyone to self- and mutually-reassure that they were protected from spreading and acquiring airborne covid.
Now that the pandemic is over, we are back to a world where only Asians wear masks.
I’ve noticed an uptick in non-Asian mask-wearers.
A memorable scene from “The Big Short.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9GyzMh8xAY
Those are Assians.
My son is sick already; only two weeks back in college.
Covid!?
I have two sons away to college, two weeks in…no reports yet of new illnesses, though with young adult sons, no news sometimes is bad news.
“Covid!?”
Don’t know. Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
Why?! My family’s had it twice and we’re just fine. It’s not a Marburg virus! Those are the ones you REALLY don’t want to catch!!!
Why?!
I don’t want him to fall behind in his studies.
Here in Denver they’re back to wearing them while driving alone.
“They’re not sending their best”
At the height of the pandemic, some of my single neighbors would walk around the block fully masked, despite social distancing of 30 feet or more, and a rather low local population density. It was like they thought the atmosphere was radioactive toxic.
around the block fully masked
The saddest thing I saw was two lovers on a park bench, holding each other affectionately, both with masks on.
Me an the dog were the only others at the park.
Glowies gonna glow. Looks like the Deep State needs to hype a “growing extremist threat” to justify a new raft of repressive Orwellian surveillance & control measures, not to mention weaponized FedGov bureaucracies.
https://americanwirenews.com/so-called-nazis-resurface-in-orlando-voice-support-for-biden-over-trump-he-sends-rockets-to-ukraine/
Glowies gonna glow.
They look like Antifa.
They’re Neo-Nazis, but I’m guessing they have sponsorship from 3-lettered agencies.
I understand they’re supposed to be Neo-Nazis but they look like feds dressed like Antifa.
Laura Loomer’s on the case.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1698757602669174904
The Three Things The Amish Dislike The Most
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pnQih7s88lVn/
1:23.
I watched this last night. Journalist invited to dinner by the Amish. The letters’ traditional values, focus on the nuclear family, and obedience to the “Kingdom of Christ” as they put it, rather than the all-powerful State, will inevitably bring them into conflict with an increasingly oppressive and overreaching regime in Panem on the Potomac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgY1SVXiBrU
Masks were useless, lockdowns were useless, and fake expiermental vaccines were useless. But we are suppose to “trust the science”, when the results were a disaster.
And we are suppose to ” trust the science” on alledged “Climate Change Emergency” and the alledged radical solutions.
Withdraw of Co2 as the alledged culprit of Climate Change and no other solution exists, is cast in concrete, with no allowance for debate.
People eating bugs, being enslaved , Banks controlling humans consumption, solar and windmills and deprivation of what sustains humans, mass starvation , etc doesnt seem like a valid solution.
This radical change to human existence, to save the earth they say, should be debated on a global level, especially since 1500 Scientists declared recently to the UN that there is ,”No Climate Change Emergency. ”
And it should be debated on what the real solutions should be to such a alledged emergency like this claim of doomsday climate change.
Is blocking out the sun, or cutting down and burying trees, or cutting crops by 30 to 40 %, or humans eating bugs the solution, or is co2 the actual culprit in the alledged emergency?
It seems like a justification to take all that sustains humans, crops and animal life , with humans forced into it.
And we are suppose to trust entities that created bio- weapon disease virus and unleashed it on world, faked or not. Do I trust that Science .
Science is bought off, and so has Government been compromised by forces with a agenda that is anti humanity.
They are trying to make it so human populations have no choice in their fate, just do what we dictate.
Oh the under 1 % gets to rule the 99 % based on this power grab takeover, based on alledged emergencies, that they have been planning for decades.
They attacked the 99%, and they will continue to assert their One World Order/Great Reset take over, with no choice for the 99%.
Masks were useless, lockdowns were useless, and fake expiermental vaccines were useless.
If only. They were all extremely harmful.
So much for X being a free speech platform. RFK had interview where he exposed the real science of the damage by the vaccines was taken down and censored.
So the narrative of “safe and effective” vaccines cannot be disputed, even if you have concrete scientific evidence that shows the risks of damage by Covid vaccines.
So, if we live in a world that we are not entitled to know valid risks of taking the fake vaccines, than informed consent is not operative, than forget me complying with just being a lab rat to some industry that is exempt from scrunty, liability and evidence of a dangerous and defective product.
So, if we live in a world that we are not entitled to know valid risks of taking the fake vaccines
The fact that the adverse effect page on the data sheet included with every sample of the jab says “Left blank on purpose” says all anyone needs to know.
Interesting.
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Maui’s largest commercial laundry facility is laying off more than 100 workers in the wake of the fires.
In a letter to the state labor department Maui linen supply is letting go 179 workers. The company said the fires, followed by a drop in tourism and business, prompted the cut.
Maui linen supply mainly services hotels and restaurants.
The company said there are no plans to close the plant.
The labor department said workers can access the online disaster recovery jobs portal to find work.
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/maui-company-announces-layoffs-in-wake-of-fires-drop-in-tourism/
Globalist scum media are clutching their pearls over Trump’s massive popular support and readiness to back him no matter what as a middle finger to the corrupt, unaccountable status quo.
https://archive.ph/JpxH1
Globalist scum media are escalating their assault on the nuclear family – the cornerstone of any healthy society since the dawn of human history.
https://archive.ph/1I9Bi
Yeah, I’m sure all the mighty families who rule the world are adopting instead of having their own kids. “Evolving values” for thee, but not for them.
Adoption has always been considered a noble act, and there have always been barren couples willing to adopt. But abortion and welfare have reduced the number of kids available for adoption. All I ever hear from couples who want to adopt is that there are no kids available.
The “evolving values” are that along with your car, gas stove, furnace and A/C, you really shouldn’t have children either, because by doing so you are destroying the world.
no kids available
My cousin and his wife were scammed domestically some years ago. Given a baby girl then she was taken back. I recall a number of other families going abroad.
Do you believe in magical thinking and wizardry?
Neither do I.
The ‘Wizard of Wharton’ says stocks are on solid ground – and house prices are shaking off mortgage pain
Theron Mohamed
Sep 4, 2023, 6:26 AM PDT
Jeremy Siegel. Getty Images
– Jeremy Siegel says the US stock market is on firm ground and house prices are proving resilient.
– The “Wizard of Wharton” says investors view stocks and homes as valuable hedges against inflation.
– A softer labor market could mean the Fed doesn’t hike interest rates until December at the earliest.
…
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/siegel-wharton-stock-market-outlook-house-prices-mortgages-fed-inflation-2023-9
Financial Times
Global economic growth
Economists grow gloomier on 2024 as central banks delay rate cuts
Combination of stronger US economy in 2023 and stickier inflation trigger downgrades for next year
Pedestrians cast long shadows on the ground as they walk past Wall Street
Global output will expand 2.1% in 2024, according to an aggregation of forecasts by Consensus Economics, down from the 2.4% the economy is expected to log this year
© Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
Valentina Romei in London yesterday
Persistently higher interest rates in major economies mean global growth is likely to slow next year after outperforming expectations so far in 2023, economists say.
Output will expand 2.1 per cent in 2024, according to an aggregation of forecasts by the consultancy Consensus Economics, down from the 2.4 per cent the economy is expected to log this year.
Economists have upgraded their expectations of this year’s performance by 1 percentage point since the start of the year because of unexpectedly strong consumer demand and labour markets.
Part of the 2024 slowdown will be the result of “some basic arithmetic effects”, of better output this year flattening growth next, said Simon MacAdam, senior global economist at Capital Economics. However, he added that economists had also “genuinely become more downbeat about prospects in 2024”.
The caution centres on the belief that persistently high demand will keep inflation higher for longer, forcing rate-setters in advanced economies to keep borrowing costs elevated well into next year.
“Services demand continued largely unabated, the labour market has stayed strong, wages have continued to rise,” said Nathan Sheets, chief economist at US bank Citi. “Some of the weakness [anticipated for this year] is being pushed in to 2024.”
In many countries, including the US, “there will be a recession, it’s just going to come later”, said Sheets.
…
Dow Jones Futures Fall With U.S. Markets Closed For Labor Day; ‘Magnificent 7’ Near Buy Points
ED CARSON 01:26 PM ET 09/04/2023
Dow Jones futures and S&P 500 futures fell slightly Monday afternoon, while Nasdaq futures edged higher. U.S. markets are closed for the Labor Day holiday.
…
https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-futures-how-to-handle-this-market-rally-magnificent-7-all-near-buy-points/
Economist David Rosenberg says a recession will hit in 6 months. Here are his 7 best quotes from a new interview.
Phil Rosen Sep 4, 2023, 8:15 AM ET
– Top economist David Rosenberg expects a US recession to hit within 6 months.
– He broke down his outlook in a new interview with Blockworks’ Forward Guidance.
– Here are his best 7 quotes on the economy, credit card debt, China, and comparisons to 2008.
…
https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-outlook-forecast-markets-investors-rosenberg-economist-consumer-jobs-spending-2023-9
Have mortgage rates creeping towards 8% left you in a state of shock and grief?
Yahoo Finance
Mortgage rates at 7% a ‘tragedy’ for homebuyers
Seana Smith
Sun, September 3, 2023 at 9:00 AM PDT·2 min read
Mortgage rates above 7% are further exacerbating the nation’s affordability crisis with many would-be buyers forced to the sidelines.
Home affordability is in a “state of arrested development” for younger buyers, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told Yahoo Finance, as higher rates along with rising prices further erode buying power.
This is the main reason millennials are lagging behind their parents’ generation when it comes to buying a home. Last year, fewer than two-thirds of 40-year olds owned a home, compared to 69% of baby boomers at that same age.
…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mortgage-rates-at-7-a-tragedy-for-homebuyers-160045568.html
This is the main reason millennials are lagging behind their parents’ generation when it comes to buying a home. Last year, fewer than two-thirds of 40-year olds owned a home, compared to 69% of baby boomers at that same age.
Yeah, the $100,000+ down payment has nothing to do with it. It’s all the rates. What a clown.
fewer than two-thirds of 40-year olds owned a home, compared to 69%
I guess they’re depending on readers not knowing that two-thirds (is that really supposed to be hyphenated?) is 67%.
MoneyWatch
Mortgage rates continue to climb — and could soon reach 8%
moneywatch
By Khristopher J. Brooks
August 18, 2023 / 11:58 AM / MoneyWatch
US mortgage rates surged to highest level in 21 years
Even though mortgage rates have already reached their highest point in 20-plus years, there’s a chance they could climb even higher — even as high as 8%. It all depends on how the Federal Reserve decides to tackle stubborn inflation in the next few months, economists told CBS MoneyWatch.
Fed officials said they believe high inflation is still enough of a threat to the U.S. economy to possibly warrant additional interest rate increases to help combat the issue, according to minutes released this week from their July policy meeting.
Should the Fed decide to raise rates again at its next meeting in September, it would be the 12th in 18 months and could mean even higher costs for homebuyers.
Mortgage rates don’t necessarily mirror the Fed’s rate increases, but tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. Investors’ expectations for future inflation, global demand for U.S. Treasurys and what the Fed does with interest rates can influence rates on home loans.
Higher mortgage rates can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting how much they can afford in a market already deemed unaffordable to many Americans.
…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mortgage-rates-highest-in-20-years-could-hit-8-percent/
What percentage of former sheeple got red-pilled during the scamdemic?
https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1698625676260073883
What’s wrong with World.
Government supported and propped up Big Industry and Corporations, Military complex and welfare state. Examples:
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Medicare enacted because insurance company didnt want to cover people over 65 because they wanted higher profits.
– Government backing higher education loans, propping up higher school costs and demand.
– Government backing real estate loans propping up higher real estate costs and demand, based on faulty lending.
– Government taking away liabilty from vaccine companies, putting liabilty on gov, causing Big Pharmacy to not care about safety or effectiveness.
-Commie Obamacare making people pay based on income, as a extraction of wealth from middle class. Propping up high costs of medical system.
-Creating gov welfare state that produced sub cultures of state dependant long term wards of state, stuck in lacking social mobility.
– Military industries being propped up by never ending war, charging outragous prices for war stuff.
-Well Street propped up by gov , and the Fed printing money. Gov investment banks and bank bailout by Government.
-Gov funding pharmacy research, where Pharmacy benefits.
– Gov free trade agreements causing the gutting of US jobs and manufacturing to foreign Countries, propping up places like China and making US non competitive.
Just tell me anything the Goverment has done to help the hard working middle class private sector. Big Industry, military , the rich and poor, other countries have been the greatest beneficiaries of the Gov, funded by the tax payers.
So, it not surprising that Big monopoly Corporations , the Banks, the United Nations and probably China are trying to take over the world, after these decades of looting of the USA citizens.
What is it about the government that didnt sell out, and how can you say we had capitalism, when it was nothing but rigged systems for big industry.
Nixon taking the country off the gold standard in 1971, and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2000. And don’t forget that NAFTA was a “bipartisan” achievement, Ross Perot was right about that in 1992, two years before it was signed.
Globalists gonna globe.
“If you wish to find out who rules over you, simply learn who you are not allowed to criticize.” — Voltaire
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-04/musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-for-x-s-us-ad-sales-slump?
One the sheeple understand the link between “carbon tax” and inflation, they might start turning on their globalist Quisling overlords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkWGSzJXDpY
EU’s Pfizer Cover-Up 🇪🇺 More Details Revealed!
Mahyar Tousi TV
3 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEchDtpAho
8 minutes.
Covid “vaccines” are not vaccines they are deadly experimental mRNA poison designed and intended to kill you ☠️
mRNA is naturally occurring. modRNA is not. The jabs with their pseudouridine modifications meant to evade the immune system are more correctly described as modRNA rather than mRNA.
Update: Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vax Patent Battles
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to
deceive!
“Which brings me to the present. Pfizer is now claiming that the Moderna patents, which Moderna sought to weaponize against Pfizer/BioNTech, are invalid because the technology and invention of using mRNA for vaccination purposes was first disclosed and reduced to practice in 1990. In other words, Pfizer/BioNTech are now citing my work (and that of my close colleagues) to dispute the Moderna patent infringement claims – precisely as I had recommended in my August 2022 essay. Please keep in mind that Thompson/Reuters has close ties (at the board of directors level) with Pfizer, my initial reporting on which conflict of interest was one of the key reasons I was deplatformed by Linked-In (the first time).”
‘Opioid-related overdoses are the most common cause of accidental death in Pierce County, taking more lives than traffic or firearm fatalities’
“…or firearm fatalities”
And the 2nd Amendment gets a press break. Whew!
‘Nobody could have been prepared for something like this…The onslaught was so massive … that you almost can’t really blame sanctuary cities for being unprepared’
Welcome the daily reality of border towns and farmers for the last 40 years Todd.
Globalist scum media talking heads “shocked” by the strength of national support for DJT.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/03/sunday-talks-stephanopoulos-crew-flummoxed-at-strength-of-national-support-for-donald-trump-easily-leading-biden-in-polls/
‘The panel struggles with the reality of Godzilla Trump destroying the professional political class, while simultaneously the panel tries to promote and defend the customary leftist narratives. The pearl-clutching is exceeded only by the number of fainting couches provided by the ABC production crew. ‘
El Monte, California jeweler fights back
https://www.bitchute.com/video/takmYnP9BKJd/
1 minute.
Inspirational!
There was a folding metal chair sitting against the wall outside. Somebody should have picked that up, and as the perp exited the jewelry store just cleaned his clock with it like Hulk Hogan would have done, WWF style. Put that fat f*ck to sleep and then call the paramedics.
At this point in time I am almost hoping I happen across one of these armed robberies in progress. I will do my best to make the evening news as I break every tooth out of the perp’s head. I am sick and tired of this crap.
‘Long gone are the days when Adams pledged during his campaign to ‘lift up immigrants as high as Lady Liberty lifts her torch in our harbor, as a beacon of hope for all who come to our shores.’ Now, he sounds a lot like Donald Trump’
Zing!
‘With British Columbia on pace to break the annual record for drug toxicity deaths again – drug policy experts and the province’s chief coroner continue to press for an expansion of safer supply alternatives…‘The toxicity of the unregulated market is ongoing and unmitigated. It is putting lives at risk every day’…’we are seeing six people die every day’
These idiots jumped head long into an experiment libertarians like myself had wrestled with explaining for decades. And no one in their right mind would have let libertarians devise a system that has obviously failed get away with no political consequences.
To the point: a yuuge advantage to decriminalized drugs should be accurate drug levels, not ‘The toxicity of the unregulated market is ongoing and unmitigated.’
Or: ‘‘The problem with fentanyl is fentanyl could be in anything’
‘‘The problem with fentanyl is fentanyl could be in anything’”
Conversely,
The SOLUTION to the problem with fentanyl is fentanyl could be in anything.
There’s always that: ban narcan!
Chicago Residents SCREAM AMERICANS FIRST and Send Back the Migrants.
Nate The Lawyer
6 hours ago
Chicago Resident Scream AMERICA FIRST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w01DlTl82I
13:42.
‘I heard the neighbor banging on the metal fence,’ said Nava. ‘I looked out the window and she looked a little distressed. I ran down and she just said, ‘Fire!’
It was cheaper than renting Liliana.
‘She says investigators told her the fire likely started on the other side of her fence, by neighbors living in an encampment. Because there was no suspect, there will be no arrest. And, she says, no arson investigation. ‘If it was somebody that had something to lose, or somebody that had an address, then you would point the finger,’ said Nava. ‘They would take them to court and go through the process. But because they’re homeless, they don’t care’
It’s comforting to know you pay a whopping property tax Liliana. Maybe not, just thought I’d throw that in there.
Trudeau told to “butt out” on New Brunswick resisting the push for gender ideology in the classroom.
The Celtic Canuck
1 hour ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsx69SGqm8
10:41.
“EU Plizer cover up.”
It looks like Pizler made a contract with EU Governments that they would have no liability for vaccines that were Nuremberg type experiments, that they could not know the results.
Can two Entities contract to violate the Nuremberg codes . Is it a void able contract because it broke greater laws. Can Government break the law and turn Citizens into expiermental lab rats and even mandate Citizens take the jab.
This is especially true in that they were using a new technology vaccine.
For instance someone can’t contract with someone to kill a third party, because its a crime to kill and that contract would be rendered void, and parties to that contract would be liable.
All the marketing on these vaccines was “safe and effective” with anybody disputing it being censored.
looks like Pizler made a contract
We knew this two years ago. Countries that wouldn’t sign got no vaccine. Lucky them!
I seem to recall that a few African leaders who refused to sign met untimely ends.
I think this was the first tape about what was in a Contract between Plizer and EU Countries.
Is it true that September is a bad month to HODL stocks?
Financial Times
FT Alphaville Sovereign bonds
Why Treasuries have been clobbered lately
It’s the economy, stupid
Robin Wigglesworth August 21 2023
The renewed surge in US government bond yields despite falling inflation and signs that the Federal Reserve really is finally going to stop hiking rates seems to have mystified some people.
The 10-year Treasury yield has climbed by about half a percentage point over the past month to 4.32 per cent at pixel time. Here’s JPMorgan’s rates team on the myriad drivers that people have pinpointed in recent days:
There is no shortage of theoretical drivers of the recent move given the perfect storm of events over recent weeks — upward revisions to growth forecasts, as economic resilience in the face of tighter monetary policy has driven expectations of higher neutral policy rates (r*); Fitch’s downgrade of the US sovereign rating the same week that Treasury announced plans for increasing longer-duration debt issuance, in the wake of a BoJ YCC tweak that drove BoJ yields higher, and a Fed that signaled QT could extend well beyond the timing of the first rate cut.
However, of all these, JPMorgan’s analysts Phoebe White, Liam Wash and Holly Cunningham reckon that the surprisingly resilient economic backdrop — and the implications for inflationary pressures — is the biggest factor.
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TREASURIES-US yields fall after non-farm payrolls report
Fri, September 1, 2023 at 5:33 AM PDT
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields fell on Friday after data showed the world’s largest economy created higher-than-expected new jobs in August, but also showed a rise in the unemployment rate, affirming expectations the Federal Reserve will pause rate hikes at a policy meeting later this month.
The benchmark 10-year yield slipped 1.8 basis points (bps) to 4.073%, while the U.S. two-year yields, which reflect interest rate expectations dropped seven bps at 4.789% .
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasuries-us-yields-fall-non-123343373.html
Updated Tue, Sep 5 20232:42 AM EDT
U.S. stock futures dip Tuesday morning
Pia Singh
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 31: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 31, 2023 in New York City. Stocks on the major indexes opened up high amid the release of inflation data and Department of Labor’s jobs report. Both figures come weeks before the Federal Reserve holds their next interest-rate policy meeting. The gains have helped the major indexes cut their monthly losses.
(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on August 31, 2023 in New York City.
Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images
Stock futures are lower Tuesday morning at the start of the holiday-shortened week.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 79 points, or 0.23%. S&P 500 futures were lower by 0.23%, while Nasdaq 100 futures slid 0.24%.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/04/stock-market-today-live-updates.html