Economic data is highly suspect as well. Massive Tech and finance layoffs happening, yet we are supposed to believe it’s the lowest unemployment ever? Eggs are $10 per dozen in some cities, yet we are supposed to believe inflation is coming down?
Yes! At least in USSR, the people could wake up , open Pravda, and say, "I wonder what the government wants me to think today?" In the US, the pretense of a free press has citizens ego-invested in assuming they are reading truth!
Yeah, but they've blown that credibility now. I cannot tell you the number of people who've said "I was never an anti-vaxxer before, but I am now."
Interestingly, EGM has expressed support for some vaccines in the past. I wonder if he will revisit the issue in light of his explication here of how rotten the data are. The only vaccine I'm sure about right now is diphtheria. Everything else I'd go for a deep dive in the data.
i am also convinced that a 3rd dose of MMR is pointless, and that flu vaccines, covid vaccines, HPV, are significantly negative risk/reward. i have some real doubts about bill gates's janky oral polio vaccines as well.
Having received all my childhood jabs, and given my kids all theirs...I will be encouraging my kids to allow my (future) grandkids to receive NONE...unless and until the vaccine makers have some reasonable LIABILITY.
I'd point out that the data on Covid vaccine efficacy is non-government sourced, from Pfizer, and it's janky. I think you linked to a story by Midwestern Doctor on the "soft fraud" in Pfizer data. Now I wonder how much other soft fraud is out there.
Your article about the case for childhood vaccines spoke loudly about your honesty and integrity, sir, and whether I agree with it or not, you gained respect as an honest broker writing it.
One thing about measles, from Dissolving Illusions, is that the vaccine immunity does not protect the child the way that natural immunity does. Most of the children who first received the vaccine were protected by immunity from mothers who had had and survived measles. Now infants do not get that protection until they get vaccinated, so we've created a danger there, and we've entered an MMR treadmill where we will have to continue vaccinating children against it because their uninfected mothers provide no immunity to them through breastfeeding.
Two books have been eye-opening for me on any vaccines: Dissolving Illusions (https://dissolvingillusions.com) and The Real Anthony Fauci (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58063409-the-real-anthony-fauci). So was the film Vaxxed. Add to that my experience as a med-ed writer for a company that mostly served our favorite big pharma company. I never bothered with adult vaccinations because I didn't see the need or benefit for myself, but I was not pro or con for anyone else. But in the past three years, I have become convinced that the reward from any vacc!ne is illusory and people have been deceived en masse by cherry-picked data like the climate change hockey stick.
Check with Dr. William Thompson on MMR risk/reward. He might not be able to offer the data from his CDC Atlanta study of children taking MMR--because the CDC ordered him to shred it. Wonder why?
Were the MMR clinical trials tested vs a saline placebo? It could be a great vaccine but without randomized, blinded, and matched trial participants, the great looking data after the fact can be confounded by many factors.
The refusal of trillion dollar industries and regulators to require this simple thing makes me skeptical of any benefits other than their bank accounts.
They tipped their hand. More mainstream moms are now questioning all vaccines. I don't think they meant for that to happen. Which is probably why Bill is moving it into the food supply.
The book "Turtles All the Way Down" does a good job discussing various problems with specific vaccines and how epidemiological studies are used to make way stronger claims than they probably should. It does a good job of pointing out there are serious concerns about claims of safety and providing herd immunity, but also acknowledges the vaccines the authors consider to at least provide the claimed benefit (though again, they never test against real placebos which creates a major safety concern).
As an engineering type, I'm a little annoyed at how vaccines swooped in and claimed credit for the MAJOR "vaccine" administered in the West since the 19th century: safe drinking water.
I'm going to read Turtles. I did read Dissolving Illusions, another book in the same category that debunked a lot of the junk science in vaccines.
Who believed those numbers back then?! Never mind ... same people who believe the government about the efficacy of the Jab and Ukraine!
When a citizenry is this gullible and stupid ... then I guess we have farther down to go before hitting rock bottom. Maybe in this case, there's no bottom.
Amazon is the biggest scam of all time. If you order through Amazon most of the stuff you buy never touches Amazon. It goes direct from the supplier to you. Yet Amazon counts that as a sale in its spreadsheets!! They were a website and a payment processor. It would be like Visa or Mastercard claiming revenues of $10 trillion. Or a local real estate company that sold $100 million worth of real
Estate and received $4 million in commissions, with $500,000 net claiming their revenue is $100 million. And then evaluating themselves as a $100 million company would. How they get away with this I really don’t know.
Look at Peleton. Peaked at $162. Now at $11. Still valued in the Bs. Market cap of a bit under $4B. Loses a ton of money. 80%+ owned by institutions. Valued at nearly $4 BILLION! How? What evaluation can possibly say anyone with half a brain would buy that company at $4B? And at one point an obvious fad company was valued at over $40 BILLION!!! WeWork. Another high flier down over 90%. What is it worth? Nothing. It was a good idea poorly executed. Peleton wasn’t even a good idea. How many pension funds are going to be hit hard when Peleton and WeWork go out of business.
You'd love how we do our unemployment figures over here.
If you are working or engaged in any kind of programme from social services, rehabilitation from injuries, in prison, or partaking in any kind of project run by county or unemployment office, you count as employed in the data.
It could be as little as one hour per week course of swedish for migrants.
If the US authorities aren't already up to that kind of fraud, they soon will be.
the commonly used u-3 measure (generally called unemployment rate in US) includes all part time as employed and excludes marginally attached workers or people who have stopped looking for work from the denominator.
After working for a refugee resettlement agency and seeing how them govt. contracts were structured and the data necessary to satisfy the requirements--I didn't get fooled again.
Ok i've gotta reply to this like that coach when asked about the playoffs:
Economic data? are you kidding me? They've been printing money since 2008 and holding interest rates at zero for almost a decade and you wanna talk about economic data now?
I work in an academic agricultural institution and I see the data. The shortage is due to the avian flu because they can justify $10 eggs and use the avian flu as the excuse. Support your local small farmer. 
Are the hens they cull sick? 🤷🏻♀️And how many hens are stacked floor to ceiling in those factories? There’s a reason there is that old saying “don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” I’m not PETA but there’s more problems with that system than just the emotional health of hens. Small diverse flocks are hardier and less susceptible. A hen starts looking funky and you can quickly separate her from the rest. Factory farming has pushed the local family farms out of the competition. I see them here and there but not enough of them left to pick up the slack when 100,000s of hens go “out of production.” There is more to an egg shortage than sick hens being slaughtered. I’d like to see data on how many we are exporting when there’s a shortage at home? I try to support my local farmers but that isn’t practical or possible for most.
One of the greatest questions I've come across in my life: is an egg a chicken's way of making more chickens, or is a chicken an egg's way of making more eggs?
It's the difference between bios (the meat machines, including us, of limited lifespan) and zoë, the essentially immortal sac of genes that transmits generation to generation.
I can’t remember where I read it but an association of smaller egg producers are now suing the big egg guys for price fixing and other economic crimes to drive them out. Only around 7% of the supply is really affected and the egg yield has been going up. Would any of this surprise any of us here? I could have the 7% wrong but I recall I was thinking of course this is happening. The store managers are under the thumbs of corporate and will always pass the buck. In re: Walmart.
A month ago, local store put up a sign about supply chain issues with eggs, and raised the price from $3.99 to $8.99. I went to a different store, and bought eggs for $3.99. Suddenly, the eggs at the first store have dropped to $5.99. Man, those chickens recovered quickly! And in winter, too.
Lol. A friend said there were no eggs in Walmart. I went to our local dollar store and the frig was stocked fully with 4.00 eggs. Walmart doesn’t have them— other store always has them. I buy some local eggs too when they’re laying. My favorites. I’d have chickens myself but the city doesn’t let us.
"Bird flu" narrative also bolsters the whole Infectious Disease Germ Theory narrative, which bolsters every freaking hyper-profitable "pandemic" they can dream up. The Goose that lays the Golden Egg.
HERE IS THE TRUTH ON THIS ONE... The large egg and poultry producers absolutely do already mass vaccinate their chickens. I worked for a large egg producer for a short while. I know it to be a fact and first hand the birds are routinely vaccinated. For a time I was employed with teams of workers who rotated though the buildings, vaccinating thousands of chickens who are housed in deplorable conditions every day. I stopped working there because I could not stand witnessing the bird's living conditions and the cruel practices they are subjected to every day.
This newest scare is a psy-op being pushed out now so THEY can openly justify routinely vaccinating their flocks with Nmra injections filled with graphine, and deadly nano technologies. If you won't take it in your arm, they'll put it into the eggs you eat for breakfast and the eggs and chickens that are cooked and baked into half of the foods you eat. We need to stay one step ahead of those who would poison their own kind... For what?
Source the foods and the restaurants you choose to eat from carefully. Eat organic whenever possible. Bring a magnet with you and check out every meat at a store before you purchase. Do not drink city water. Consider the source of water used in prepared foods and drinks you purchase.
Well, YEAH. How's Big Pharma going to survive, once enough ppl understand that disease can only result from parasites, malnutrition, and/or toxins, and that EMFs are TOXIC? To say nothing of Big Telecom....
El Gato Malo has nailed it again. He mentioned the climate data and I can vouch for his contention that is has been skewed from the gitgo. I have been on the conservative side of the "environmental" fiasco for nearly 30 years, and say unequivocally that the vast majority of the climate data used by "environmentalists" and their mindless minions and self-serving running dogs is intentionally twisted, exaggerated, and much of it flat out made up (look up the East Anglia scandal). However, to correct this in the US, it will be necessary to fire ALL of the middle and upper level managers of ALL the government departments, agencies, bureaus, etc., and bar them from EVER holding government positions again. "Climate change" has been the raison d'etre for damn near every freedom-killing rule an regulation for so many for so long, that only total extermination will rid us of it.
It might always have been the case but it was ramped up under Obama. Every quarter GREAT results. And then four weeks later quietly ratcheted down. Only to be repeated again the following quarter. For eight years.
Yeah, those are both data reporting manipulation as well.
Inflation isn't coming down, but the rate of its increase is coming down. Sort of. It's still 7% higher than it was in Jan 2022, but it's 0.6% lower than it was in Nov 2022 and that's supposed to be a good thing. The media, of course, reports that "inflation's peaked and is coming down!!!!" because there was a decrease in *something*.
Unemployment is indeed the lowest ever... because people are being laid off out of their well-paying single jobs and picking up multiple worse-paying jobs just to try to make ends meet. So yes, quantitatively, number of jobs is up. But qualitatively, people are doing more work for less money, and real wages are in the toilet. But the Potted Plant in Chief can chalk this up as a victory because the media only reports the number of jobs without context.
All this goes away when people are governed by constitutional principle...I’d go so far as to say, if a government fiat requires DATA to support it, the government should NOT be involved period.
Having a democracy would be nice. One with a constitution which includes an economic threshold beneath which nobody in the country is allowed to fall; e.g., one w/ a UBI as high as what politicians pay themselves. Which would be cheaper than allowing poverty, and paying hordes of bureaucrats to means-test the poor.
I think we'd prefer a Republic to a Democracy, as The Founders intended.
And UBI - productive people being forced to pay the way via taxes for absolutely everyone regardless of their efforts - is completely unconstitutional as they currently exist in concept. But they're also a pipe dream.
$175k/year - that's about what a Congress Critter pulls down these days - for, say, 200M UBI "earners" (adults in US) comes to $35,000,000,000,000 per year. That's $35 _quadrillion_.
FY 2022 the outlay was $1.5T . UBI would cost 20,000 times that. That's a Big Twinkie.
Taking a "more realistic" value: perhaps $1,000/month per "earner."
That still works out to $2,400,000,000,000 $2.4T - that is, it would more than double our annual outlay.
Point is, UBI is not only evil, it's completely unworkable.
IMHO, The Founders wanted a "democracy" FOR THEMSELVES, which was why They originally determined that ONLY white men w/ a certain amount of property (like themselves) were eligible to vote--something like 5% of the population back then. Naturally, ppl like that WANT us to think it's a democracy, good for everyone, that being a "productive person" in this economy requires nothing more than personal moral fortitude, and that UBI is evil & unworkable.
Of course, there's no reason the UBI would HAVE to be $179K/year--but then, there's no reason Congress--OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS--should get paid that much, or even one cent more than their poorest constituents. As for taxpayers, IMHO the top 2% of Americans who own 90% of all U.S. wealth should be paying All. The. Taxes. If they were, I bet they wouldn't stand for the insanity of forking billions over the the Ukraine, & all the other f*ckery that Congress & other parts of our regressively-funded gov't get up to, particularly if THEY were prohibited from owning the for-profit military industrial complex, medical-industrial complex, etc. Taxation itself is a whopping distraction from the fact that the Constitution allows Congress to create all the cash it needs wherewith to run the country by generating that cash out of thin air, debt-free, instead of outsourcing that job to private banksters for their own personal gain.
We had dinner with liberal friends last night. I have no family so I am loath to cut anyone out of my life at this point - but…..
They have every Covid shot that has come out, they still got Covid but proudly bragged on taking Paxstupid and then asked us if we had taken the latest ‘bi-valent (nightmare) shot’. When we said ‘no, and given we have had Covid and survived quite nicely - we aren’t taking another, not even a Flu shot’. After sputtering several statements masquerading as questions about ‘the science’ and not liking our simple refutations, we got: ‘well, then wallow in your ignorance!’.
And you as well my friends.
PS: we did not bring this topic up. They did through telling us about how a major gathering they sponsor had provided masks (occurred September 2022) and no one would wear them. They had to spend hours of volunteer time picking them up off the streets and in the venue plus - the waste of money.
I have cut ties with almost all 'friends' who think like that... fortunately my wife also believes we are floating in a sea of MORE-ONS so we are able to enjoy each others company.
I probably would have started with " Take as many injections ( they're not vaccines) as YOU want, but I'm not putting that experimental shot in my body. And you can easily prove they've never been approved. NO side effects listed on any Covid injection commercial, which is ILLEGAL for any medication.
Having said that - if someone told me to "wallow in my ignorance ", I probably would have told them I''ll see you at YOUR funeral.
I always conclude any such discussion by asking the enthusiasts what are the known long-term consequences of the multiple novel shots they've had pumped into them. Answer comes there none!
At my book club the other night, we were told by one member that she had recently had a heart attack. Later on she was speculating over the causes citing the stress in her life and then mentioning that perhaps the Covid case that she had almost 2 years ago may have contributed. I usually remain quiet these days after my early attempts to open eyes but I did add to her comment, "maybe also it was your vaccinations...after all if you think the spike from infection might cause harm and heart damage then an injection that also introduced the same spike protein would have to be considered." . There was a noticable intake of breath around the table but no one replied at all. And weirdly, the conversation just moved on. No one wants to confront what is right in front of them!
I believe side effects are only required if the manufacturer is advertising them. In this case the government is actually sponsoring the vax, so they are exempt.
"Vaccines" are not considered to be "medicine" - they are classified as "biologics" - which means they don't need to follow the usual safety study protocols that "medicine" follows. And likely the "biologics" opts them out of having to provide side effects when advertising. So, very conveniently it is like NOT illegal. This is all beyond belief!
At some level, these people KNOW that the "vaccines" don't work. If they did work, they wouldn't be afraid of being around unvaccinated or unmasked people - because their vaccines would protect them.
Ask them if they know "all cause" mortality has spiked around the world and is worse in many heavily vaccinated nations. Ask them why or how this could have happened ... or what they think the reason is for this.
I’m willing to bet these “friends” won’t want to get together any longer, even if you do. After all, you should be dead by now! And the fact that you’re not, and are healthy, is a direct affront to their stupidity (or at least, their naïveté).
Also, another segment of “ The Stupids Step Out.” Rather than litter, they should have worn the masks backward. My plan should they bring back mask wearing on planes....
You've written some important pieces, Gato, but this might be the most important one of all. This corruption of the source data by unknown and unaccountable sources cuts to the heart of every issue that confronts us.
Like! Like! Like! To emphasize: "cuts to the heart of EVERY issue that confronts us". Governments have ALWAYS lied to the governed. And they always will. But most, the ones who wished to remain in power, at least governed somewhat pragmatically. Now they are lying to themselves. Guess who pays the price for THAT insanity?
One of the best pieces you have ever written. Thank you. I stumbled over this data "issue" more than 10 years ago when I tried to make sense of these "climate models". You are absolutey right, it has got worse ever since, and is the very root cause how the powers that be manage to present the public with whatever "reality" they whish to be "real".
Fascinating article on the climate info and a couple of dunces involved. Colpo has destroyed the covid crazy too with Australian wit and a dose of “a knife? Now here’s a knife” style.
Yes, it was about that time for me too. I've always been extremely skeptical about the supposed ability to measure the temperature of the whole Earth with the precision that they profess. No way. Not a chance. And that's the whole game right there. Along with the whole slew of other problems with their "theory", of course.
I've come to the conclusion that this process is going on in literally every single field: vaccines, environment, medicine, construction, the economy, the deficit, food/nutrition, etc., etc., etc.
They control the levers of information and the broadcasting/publishing of the same.
Why would gangsters be honest about they're doing?
I heard a story this morning on the radio -- on a supposedly "conservative" station -- about coffee pods, and one of the reasons these were stated as being so excellent was because it would supposedly reduce coffee production, which would be good for "climate change".
Now, the radio yapper didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He read the "news" blurb because that's his job ... and someone wrote that crap because that was his job. The ubiquity of this garbage, however, is because a lie repeated a million times becomes completely accepted by the populace.
There is an agenda being pushed, and NO amount of evidence of fraud or error will be allowed to make a bit of difference. It's a top-down indoctrination, and no one will be allowed to change it. It's just that simple.
It's funny you say that. I have spent the last 30+ years in an audit function, going in and out of small & medium sized businesses in every field imaginable, all over the country.
I have spent the last 30 years also telling people how 99% of the people I interact with were honest and would answer anything I asked (even if it made them or the company look bad).
What I didn't realize until the last 3 years is that I was always interacting with "normal people". My interactions were never at a level of these mega corporations or government entities. THOSE people are a whole different animal.
I saw the news from the UK yesterday, it seems they have one of the worst winters I can remember. Some scientists now say that Europe is cooling instead of heating up. HM. Climate change LOL. Does anyone remember 2 days that the climate was exactly the same? Climate is changing all the time. Thankfully!
One of my cousins, who does (did) years of advanced post doc research on climate change, (I.E. glaciers), claimed climate has only been changing for 5 billion years. He figured today's climate gurus could stop that change in about the same length of time. After that comment was included in a "peer reviewed" paper, he was "offered" early retirement by his university. He said failure to accept that generous offer would have resulted in loss of tenure, and possibly his pension.
LOL thank you. I read a paper of the same tenure. I also read recently about scientists studying glaciers, who noticed that massive parts had frozen in one night. No global heating then. And also short while ago, several quotes proved that those talking about global warming, don't believe it themselves. And why would all these stinking rich buy ocean property if they believed it?
however, Ingrid, I heard that poor Switzerland has had to close down their ski resorts because of lack of snow?? and just watched a very heart wrenching video on accuweather, that I believe northern most Sweden is melting !!! !!! !!! and some houses were destroyed by avalanches!!!!!!!!! All of us that deny global warming are monsters
there is a large study, I unfortunately did not save the link, of scientists who have followed up over the last 100 years. The temperature rise was less than a degree C. Obviously I am a monster. Let me take a look in the mirror. WAAAAAA
Worst winter in the UK? It is freaking warm here in Germany, it cannot be really cold in the UK. We had 15 degrees Celsius here in January, very unusual.
I may have the terms mixed up (been a long time since I cared about vinyl discs) but wow and flutter is measured this way:
Cut a master disc with a zero distortion 1 KHz sine wave of a constant amplitude. When played back, any deviation from 1 KHz is the flutter (time based measurement), any change in the amplitude (voltage measurement) is the wow. Since the voltage generated in playback can be affected by a change in amplitude of a perfect waveform or by distortion of the waveform, they combine the terms as WRMS (wow rms).
Never heard of the SL-1400. Just looked it up. Looks like semi-automatic SL-1200.
Nice 👍
I’ve still got a pair SL-1200s from the late 80s. Can’t bear to part with them even though I hardly use them anymore.
Used the SP-10s in the studio when I had a community radio show. That’s why I thought I new what they were, they look almost the same expect for the gold platter.
Even with the warm bias in station data, they still can't squeeze enough warming out of the surface datasets to match the 'catastrophic' global warming projections of the climate models, so they're having to dial down the global warming alarmism and switch to trying to scare people with extreme weather instead, which they attribute to global warming using 'science' which puts even the Covid fraudsters to shame. The problem is, they are coming up against 'statistically impossible' temperatures - which are most likely due to land use changes, increasing urbanisation (poorly sited stations) and physical changes in weather patterns, which their simplistic attribution analyses based on long term global warming trends fail to account for. But rather than admit that these factors are primarily responsible for the observed 'impossible' temperatures during heatwaves, they torture the data to make these impossible temperatures fit into a new distribution, thus allowing them to claim that it was 'climate change wot dunnit' every time we get an alleged 'record-breaking' heatwave.
They also love to quote the "exploding" costs of damage from extreme weather . . . never mentioning of course that more and more people have moved closer to the coasts (only takes one hurricane to ruin that vision of Nirvana) and into the mountains (ditto, one forest fire). Even if they adjust for inflation, they never mention that the typical "beach house" of 75 years ago was a fishing shack, not the vacation mansions that have been popping up like weeds the last 30 years.
Using the exciting new pseudoscience of extreme weather attribution, they can now pinpoint the blame for those 'exploding costs' - the worst 'carbon polluters' - which allows climate activists to pursue damage compensation claims on behalf of the alleged 'victims of climate change'. They're already doing this.
Damage comp paid by?? We the taxpayers of course, as the govt pays these nitwits to rebuild in the same spot that just got annihilated by Mother Nature.
I wonder when big pharma will notice that they can't exist if fossil industries are eliminated? You can't get benzene from a windmill. (Sidebar: you can't make a windmill from a windmill.) You'd think these major industries would take a look at what happens to all of them if any of them get shut down.
I love this Substack. However, anytime I’ve shared it with a “narrative follower” the first comment is usually “it’s all in lowercase...how can I take this seriously?”
wanna bet that we could capitalize it all and they would say the same thing but with "it's just an internet cat." as an excuse?
i suspect the actual venn overlap of "will read data from internet cats that challenges my world views" and "but not if it's not capitalized" is actually pretty much indistinguishable from zero.
There's the Fauci Method practiced to a tee. Don't deal with the substance, attack the style or the author (or both).
The main thing that woke me up to the scam was how the skeptics spoke in terms of data and science, while the believers never rebutted with anything other than ad hominem attacks. Even though I didn't have the background to evaluate the science of the skeptics, the fact that they were never refuted with science told me all I needed to know.
You’re right. I look at the data and the argument. But there’s only so much preaching to the choir will help. We need the reasonable middle to switch to our side and they need to be spoon fed data in a way they’re able to absorb through their biases.
as soon as you hear the term antivaxx grifter, you know you've got cult members, and they are going to lie. most of them have been lying for so long they truly believe too, it's scary.
SO, la chevalier vit, Did anyone, tie you into a straight jacket, strap you to a chair and pin your eyelids open and force you to read here?
No? Well guess what, this is a free and open discussion platform. If you don't like it or the open discourse engaged by like minded folks who enjoy the discussions here, you are most welcomed to spend your valuable time elsewhere.
Thank you Angus. That is exactly what I meant. My bad for not being more explicit.
As an aside, truly I find it hard to understand being attacked for the offence of engaging in free and open discourse on a free and open discussion platform.
Disappointing to be sure, at the very least. We could wax on about the unfortunate mind captured perspective that was delivered at that site. Scanning through the comments clicked the offered url and took it 'la chevalier vit' was advocating this perspective. If such was not the case, my deepest apologies sir.
Empire Building in Government 101 - delay, obfuscate, classify and don't collect any data that might adversely impact your message or next year's budget.
In our modern era of "if we don't like something, we'll change the definition", we could somewhat accurately redefine "consensus" as analogous to "truth". It IS what we say it is." Period.
As referenced in a post below, I don't think many people realize that an early "case" of Covid cannot be "confirmed" (per the operative definitions of a "Covid case.) Basically, per the definitions used by public health officials, it requires a positive PCR test to "confirm" a case of Covid. Well, in America the first PCR test wasn't even administered until around Jan. 17, 2020. The only way to "confirm" an early case would be to take these PCR kits back in time via a time machine and administer them to people like Mayor Michael Melham who was sick with all the Covid symptoms in November 2019. Mayor Melham (and hundreds of other Americans) later got TWO positive antibody tests - but his obvious Covid symptoms and his two antibody tests were not enough to "confirm" he had this virus/disease two months before the first "confirmed" case in America.
Officials were also using the very few available PCR tests to test only people who had recently returned from China. That is, in the first weeks of the official pandemic, they were NOT testing any Americans with Covid symptoms who had NOT been to China. This also ensured that there could be no "early" cases that originated in America.
They control the definitions of "cases" - including what was or was NOT an early case. Because of this, I argue that MILLIONS of early cases were probably "missed." This knowledge, if acknowledged, would have changed the entire Covid narrative. Certainly, 'lockdowns" to "slow" or stop the "spread" of this virus would not have been pursued as everyone would know the virus horse had already galloped across the globe.
Here's an article I wrote about how officials in Washington will still not "confirm" two almost-certain early cases (from December). It's disturbing how easy it is to control the narrative by simply writing a few definitions.
I went to urgent care in early Jan 2020 for a sinus infection. Normally the doctor would look down my throat and in my ears and then prescribe an antibiotic. This time they did that plus used the long q-tips up the nose, a chest x-ray and asked if I had been overseas. I don’t know what they did with the q-tips. I think they knew back then that something was going on.
With the economic definitions, the BLS changed how "Unemployment" is counted. They now don't count people who have "dropped out of the labor force." They have also changed the way they calculate real inflation multiple times. For example, the new definitions don't adequately capture "shrinkflation" - which is so obvious these days.
I did a story once on all the "workarounds" families must employ to deal with this non-inflation. Things like cutting the cable TV cord, eliminating dry cleaning, getting rid of the maid service, going to fewer movies, getting fewer haircuts, going to the dentist less often, dropping out of civic clubs, playing fewer rounds of golf or hunting less (expensive hobbies) ... even using cremation instead of traditional burials.
I identified about 30 "workarounds." All of these are examples of how people must deal with real inflation. None of these "workarounds" would really be necessary if inflation was as low as officials said it was for years.
Love your workarounds. Cutting the cable TV cord, eliminating dry cleaning, getting rid of maid service, etc. Oh, my heart weeps for such folk. The hardships they must endure!
Come down here to the Trailer Park (sorry, mobile home community) where folks have done without such things long before inflation was a thing. Our workarounds are: going to the food pantry instead of the grocery store, having to make a choice between food and medical care, being late on rent and other payments (or even skipping them!). Going to the thrift shop to buy clothes. Having a garage sale to raise money. Cleaning people's homes (oops, that's not an option any longer). Working several crappy low-wage jobs just to make ends meet. Working under the table. Doubling up on roommates, and hoping the landlord doesn't find out and evict all of you. Keeping that piece of s**t car running just a little longer instead of trading it in; when you do have to trade it in, you buy another slightly better piece of sh**t and keep that going as long as you can. Lowering the thermostat in the winter and the air conditioning (if you have it) in the summer. Turning off lights and appliances when not being used to squeeze out a few pennies from your electric bill. Not going to the doctor unless absolutely necessary. Combining multiple errands in one trip. Putting a new hard drive in your laptop rather than buy a new one. Shall I go on?
I believe there was a country song that had the lyrics "Somebody told us Wall Street fell, we were so poor we couldn't tell." That's how I feel about this inflation bit.
Okay, you have middle class "work-arounds" and lower-income workarounds. The point is that there are a ton of people using workarounds to make ends meet. If inflation was no big deal and the economy was fine, you'd see (for example) a lot more people playing golf. I wonder when the last golf course was built in America. Jack Nicklaus's company used to build dozens every year. He might still build a few ... but they are in China or Saudi Arabia.
I just got an email from Amazon advertising Titleist ProV1 balls for $64 a dozen . . . as of Christmas they were $49.99. A nice 30% bump.
That said, in New Jersey where I live the golf courses have been thriving. The lockdowns have created so many flexible working arrangements that weekday rounds have been flooded with 30 and 40 somethings. Remains to be seen whether this continues as companies require more in-office time and prices continue to climb.
Economic data is highly suspect as well. Massive Tech and finance layoffs happening, yet we are supposed to believe it’s the lowest unemployment ever? Eggs are $10 per dozen in some cities, yet we are supposed to believe inflation is coming down?
absolutely.
they started playing severe games on CPI back in the 90's.
did you see the philly fed recently revise job growth down from +1.1 million to +10.5k?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-comes-job-shock-philadelphia-fed-admits-us-jobs-overstated-least-11-million
doopsie.
Perfect timing to revise after the midterms. The soviets would be proud.
Yes! At least in USSR, the people could wake up , open Pravda, and say, "I wonder what the government wants me to think today?" In the US, the pretense of a free press has citizens ego-invested in assuming they are reading truth!
Yeah, but they've blown that credibility now. I cannot tell you the number of people who've said "I was never an anti-vaxxer before, but I am now."
Interestingly, EGM has expressed support for some vaccines in the past. I wonder if he will revisit the issue in light of his explication here of how rotten the data are. The only vaccine I'm sure about right now is diphtheria. Everything else I'd go for a deep dive in the data.
the data on many vaccines is non-government sourced and looks quite robust.
i remain convinced that MMR , for instance, offers an excellent risk reward.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/assessing-the-case-for-childhood
i am also convinced that a 3rd dose of MMR is pointless, and that flu vaccines, covid vaccines, HPV, are significantly negative risk/reward. i have some real doubts about bill gates's janky oral polio vaccines as well.
Having received all my childhood jabs, and given my kids all theirs...I will be encouraging my kids to allow my (future) grandkids to receive NONE...unless and until the vaccine makers have some reasonable LIABILITY.
I'd point out that the data on Covid vaccine efficacy is non-government sourced, from Pfizer, and it's janky. I think you linked to a story by Midwestern Doctor on the "soft fraud" in Pfizer data. Now I wonder how much other soft fraud is out there.
Your article about the case for childhood vaccines spoke loudly about your honesty and integrity, sir, and whether I agree with it or not, you gained respect as an honest broker writing it.
One thing about measles, from Dissolving Illusions, is that the vaccine immunity does not protect the child the way that natural immunity does. Most of the children who first received the vaccine were protected by immunity from mothers who had had and survived measles. Now infants do not get that protection until they get vaccinated, so we've created a danger there, and we've entered an MMR treadmill where we will have to continue vaccinating children against it because their uninfected mothers provide no immunity to them through breastfeeding.
Two books have been eye-opening for me on any vaccines: Dissolving Illusions (https://dissolvingillusions.com) and The Real Anthony Fauci (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58063409-the-real-anthony-fauci). So was the film Vaxxed. Add to that my experience as a med-ed writer for a company that mostly served our favorite big pharma company. I never bothered with adult vaccinations because I didn't see the need or benefit for myself, but I was not pro or con for anyone else. But in the past three years, I have become convinced that the reward from any vacc!ne is illusory and people have been deceived en masse by cherry-picked data like the climate change hockey stick.
Check with Dr. William Thompson on MMR risk/reward. He might not be able to offer the data from his CDC Atlanta study of children taking MMR--because the CDC ordered him to shred it. Wonder why?
Were the MMR clinical trials tested vs a saline placebo? It could be a great vaccine but without randomized, blinded, and matched trial participants, the great looking data after the fact can be confounded by many factors.
The refusal of trillion dollar industries and regulators to require this simple thing makes me skeptical of any benefits other than their bank accounts.
They tipped their hand. More mainstream moms are now questioning all vaccines. I don't think they meant for that to happen. Which is probably why Bill is moving it into the food supply.
The book "Turtles All the Way Down" does a good job discussing various problems with specific vaccines and how epidemiological studies are used to make way stronger claims than they probably should. It does a good job of pointing out there are serious concerns about claims of safety and providing herd immunity, but also acknowledges the vaccines the authors consider to at least provide the claimed benefit (though again, they never test against real placebos which creates a major safety concern).
As an engineering type, I'm a little annoyed at how vaccines swooped in and claimed credit for the MAJOR "vaccine" administered in the West since the 19th century: safe drinking water.
I'm going to read Turtles. I did read Dissolving Illusions, another book in the same category that debunked a lot of the junk science in vaccines.
Yeah, I wonder if we'll ever be able to file a public information request from Google?
Probably not, since it's certain that Google, etc. de facto is the Pravda of our government.
Convenient eh?
Who believed those numbers back then?! Never mind ... same people who believe the government about the efficacy of the Jab and Ukraine!
When a citizenry is this gullible and stupid ... then I guess we have farther down to go before hitting rock bottom. Maybe in this case, there's no bottom.
The markets have been completely faked for years... whenever a correction threatens the plunge protection team charges in to drive it back up
That is how desperate the central banks are
Yup they've driven us into a boxed canyon like so many Buffalo.
By design and out of "necessity" no doubt.
They love us.
They love us as we love the animals https://cubeoftruth.com/av
Amazon is the biggest scam of all time. If you order through Amazon most of the stuff you buy never touches Amazon. It goes direct from the supplier to you. Yet Amazon counts that as a sale in its spreadsheets!! They were a website and a payment processor. It would be like Visa or Mastercard claiming revenues of $10 trillion. Or a local real estate company that sold $100 million worth of real
Estate and received $4 million in commissions, with $500,000 net claiming their revenue is $100 million. And then evaluating themselves as a $100 million company would. How they get away with this I really don’t know.
Go through a few dozen high fliers. Most of them don’t make a dime and never will. The evaluations are so bloated as to be ludicrous.
Look at Peleton. Peaked at $162. Now at $11. Still valued in the Bs. Market cap of a bit under $4B. Loses a ton of money. 80%+ owned by institutions. Valued at nearly $4 BILLION! How? What evaluation can possibly say anyone with half a brain would buy that company at $4B? And at one point an obvious fad company was valued at over $40 BILLION!!! WeWork. Another high flier down over 90%. What is it worth? Nothing. It was a good idea poorly executed. Peleton wasn’t even a good idea. How many pension funds are going to be hit hard when Peleton and WeWork go out of business.
It's even harder than we may think to unravel these games.
There are thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices and services replete with overlapping responsibilities and divided accountability.
This assures infidelity.
Which is music to the ears of the self serving state and the individuals that benefit from this muddying.
The goal is to get the individual to reject the difference between what one wants to hear and what is actually the case.
"Tis time to fear,
when tyrants seem to
kiss"
- Shakespeare
And the media reaction was “hey...shit happens”. 🤷🏻♂️
Which will be similar to what their final position (er shrug) on the Covid debacle will be:
"We have learned so much over the last three years. It's a good thing because the next pandemic could be soooo much worse if we hadn't"
Geez....with all we've "learned", one could be forgiven for thinking they were planning on botching the next crisis
That's a matter of a few zeros... 🤥
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/dont-be-fooled-recession-is-really?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Thanks for the link - I think he’s right, and I’ve just added his Substack to my subscriptions!
You'd love how we do our unemployment figures over here.
If you are working or engaged in any kind of programme from social services, rehabilitation from injuries, in prison, or partaking in any kind of project run by county or unemployment office, you count as employed in the data.
It could be as little as one hour per week course of swedish for migrants.
If the US authorities aren't already up to that kind of fraud, they soon will be.
the US plays a lot of games as well.
the commonly used u-3 measure (generally called unemployment rate in US) includes all part time as employed and excludes marginally attached workers or people who have stopped looking for work from the denominator.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Wow! A joke that is not funny.
After working for a refugee resettlement agency and seeing how them govt. contracts were structured and the data necessary to satisfy the requirements--I didn't get fooled again.
befriend or become farmers
IF you have land
Get it now, before our government continues allowing it to be sold unabated to China.
I thought Bill Gates was buying it all.
Both. I'm sure that's good for the average American....
Ok i've gotta reply to this like that coach when asked about the playoffs:
Economic data? are you kidding me? They've been printing money since 2008 and holding interest rates at zero for almost a decade and you wanna talk about economic data now?
I read that in Jim Mora's voice. Well done.
I asked recently why the price of eggs is so high. The answer I got from the store manager is that there has been a shortage due to avian flu.
I work in an academic agricultural institution and I see the data. The shortage is due to the avian flu because they can justify $10 eggs and use the avian flu as the excuse. Support your local small farmer. 
How is it an excuse when they've culled hundreds of thousands of chickens "due" to bird flu? (That they used the illustrious PCR to diagnose.)
Are the hens they cull sick? 🤷🏻♀️And how many hens are stacked floor to ceiling in those factories? There’s a reason there is that old saying “don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” I’m not PETA but there’s more problems with that system than just the emotional health of hens. Small diverse flocks are hardier and less susceptible. A hen starts looking funky and you can quickly separate her from the rest. Factory farming has pushed the local family farms out of the competition. I see them here and there but not enough of them left to pick up the slack when 100,000s of hens go “out of production.” There is more to an egg shortage than sick hens being slaughtered. I’d like to see data on how many we are exporting when there’s a shortage at home? I try to support my local farmers but that isn’t practical or possible for most.
No. It's based on our good friend, PCR.
chickens make eggs, eggs make chickens, shouldn't be too difficult
One of the greatest questions I've come across in my life: is an egg a chicken's way of making more chickens, or is a chicken an egg's way of making more eggs?
It's the difference between bios (the meat machines, including us, of limited lifespan) and zoë, the essentially immortal sac of genes that transmits generation to generation.
See above your comment.
I can’t remember where I read it but an association of smaller egg producers are now suing the big egg guys for price fixing and other economic crimes to drive them out. Only around 7% of the supply is really affected and the egg yield has been going up. Would any of this surprise any of us here? I could have the 7% wrong but I recall I was thinking of course this is happening. The store managers are under the thumbs of corporate and will always pass the buck. In re: Walmart.
What we should do is introduce a leaky vaccine into the chicken population. Then we can end the chicken or egg first debate forever.
Oh wait, that's already been done.
Certainly it would be a different outcome if we subjected humans to an experiment with leaky vaccines.
Let's start with a small sample of 4 billion people...just to be safe.
As idea man Billy Blazejowski would say “beak masks for chickens”! It’s right up there with feeding mayonnaise to tuna fish.
Which is an outright lie!
Uh-hunh.
A month ago, local store put up a sign about supply chain issues with eggs, and raised the price from $3.99 to $8.99. I went to a different store, and bought eggs for $3.99. Suddenly, the eggs at the first store have dropped to $5.99. Man, those chickens recovered quickly! And in winter, too.
Lol. A friend said there were no eggs in Walmart. I went to our local dollar store and the frig was stocked fully with 4.00 eggs. Walmart doesn’t have them— other store always has them. I buy some local eggs too when they’re laying. My favorites. I’d have chickens myself but the city doesn’t let us.
"Bird flu" narrative also bolsters the whole Infectious Disease Germ Theory narrative, which bolsters every freaking hyper-profitable "pandemic" they can dream up. The Goose that lays the Golden Egg.
HERE IS THE TRUTH ON THIS ONE... The large egg and poultry producers absolutely do already mass vaccinate their chickens. I worked for a large egg producer for a short while. I know it to be a fact and first hand the birds are routinely vaccinated. For a time I was employed with teams of workers who rotated though the buildings, vaccinating thousands of chickens who are housed in deplorable conditions every day. I stopped working there because I could not stand witnessing the bird's living conditions and the cruel practices they are subjected to every day.
This newest scare is a psy-op being pushed out now so THEY can openly justify routinely vaccinating their flocks with Nmra injections filled with graphine, and deadly nano technologies. If you won't take it in your arm, they'll put it into the eggs you eat for breakfast and the eggs and chickens that are cooked and baked into half of the foods you eat. We need to stay one step ahead of those who would poison their own kind... For what?
Source the foods and the restaurants you choose to eat from carefully. Eat organic whenever possible. Bring a magnet with you and check out every meat at a store before you purchase. Do not drink city water. Consider the source of water used in prepared foods and drinks you purchase.
Heleneg - Tell us more about bringing a magnet to check the meat - thanks!
Well, YEAH. How's Big Pharma going to survive, once enough ppl understand that disease can only result from parasites, malnutrition, and/or toxins, and that EMFs are TOXIC? To say nothing of Big Telecom....
Well OF COURSE, gotta push as many vax as possible, QUICK, b4 ppl start catching on to the scam & the gravy train screeches to a halt.
El Gato Malo has nailed it again. He mentioned the climate data and I can vouch for his contention that is has been skewed from the gitgo. I have been on the conservative side of the "environmental" fiasco for nearly 30 years, and say unequivocally that the vast majority of the climate data used by "environmentalists" and their mindless minions and self-serving running dogs is intentionally twisted, exaggerated, and much of it flat out made up (look up the East Anglia scandal). However, to correct this in the US, it will be necessary to fire ALL of the middle and upper level managers of ALL the government departments, agencies, bureaus, etc., and bar them from EVER holding government positions again. "Climate change" has been the raison d'etre for damn near every freedom-killing rule an regulation for so many for so long, that only total extermination will rid us of it.
"No slave left behind"...
It might always have been the case but it was ramped up under Obama. Every quarter GREAT results. And then four weeks later quietly ratcheted down. Only to be repeated again the following quarter. For eight years.
Yeah, those are both data reporting manipulation as well.
Inflation isn't coming down, but the rate of its increase is coming down. Sort of. It's still 7% higher than it was in Jan 2022, but it's 0.6% lower than it was in Nov 2022 and that's supposed to be a good thing. The media, of course, reports that "inflation's peaked and is coming down!!!!" because there was a decrease in *something*.
Unemployment is indeed the lowest ever... because people are being laid off out of their well-paying single jobs and picking up multiple worse-paying jobs just to try to make ends meet. So yes, quantitatively, number of jobs is up. But qualitatively, people are doing more work for less money, and real wages are in the toilet. But the Potted Plant in Chief can chalk this up as a victory because the media only reports the number of jobs without context.
economics is a political science, theyy use log scale to ease manipulating the message and claim it is mathematics.
a new cpi is coming in next month and the old measures will not be revised!
a faction says they can print $$ forever bc the bank of japan has for 30 years of stagflation inthe domestic economy.....
and no recession, yet!
https://mishtalk.com/economics/alice-debates-the-mad-hatter-and-the-red-queen-on-timing-the-recession
All this goes away when people are governed by constitutional principle...I’d go so far as to say, if a government fiat requires DATA to support it, the government should NOT be involved period.
Having a democracy would be nice. One with a constitution which includes an economic threshold beneath which nobody in the country is allowed to fall; e.g., one w/ a UBI as high as what politicians pay themselves. Which would be cheaper than allowing poverty, and paying hordes of bureaucrats to means-test the poor.
I think we'd prefer a Republic to a Democracy, as The Founders intended.
And UBI - productive people being forced to pay the way via taxes for absolutely everyone regardless of their efforts - is completely unconstitutional as they currently exist in concept. But they're also a pipe dream.
$175k/year - that's about what a Congress Critter pulls down these days - for, say, 200M UBI "earners" (adults in US) comes to $35,000,000,000,000 per year. That's $35 _quadrillion_.
FY 2022 the outlay was $1.5T . UBI would cost 20,000 times that. That's a Big Twinkie.
Taking a "more realistic" value: perhaps $1,000/month per "earner."
That still works out to $2,400,000,000,000 $2.4T - that is, it would more than double our annual outlay.
Point is, UBI is not only evil, it's completely unworkable.
IMHO, The Founders wanted a "democracy" FOR THEMSELVES, which was why They originally determined that ONLY white men w/ a certain amount of property (like themselves) were eligible to vote--something like 5% of the population back then. Naturally, ppl like that WANT us to think it's a democracy, good for everyone, that being a "productive person" in this economy requires nothing more than personal moral fortitude, and that UBI is evil & unworkable.
Of course, there's no reason the UBI would HAVE to be $179K/year--but then, there's no reason Congress--OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS--should get paid that much, or even one cent more than their poorest constituents. As for taxpayers, IMHO the top 2% of Americans who own 90% of all U.S. wealth should be paying All. The. Taxes. If they were, I bet they wouldn't stand for the insanity of forking billions over the the Ukraine, & all the other f*ckery that Congress & other parts of our regressively-funded gov't get up to, particularly if THEY were prohibited from owning the for-profit military industrial complex, medical-industrial complex, etc. Taxation itself is a whopping distraction from the fact that the Constitution allows Congress to create all the cash it needs wherewith to run the country by generating that cash out of thin air, debt-free, instead of outsourcing that job to private banksters for their own personal gain.
Next stage must be by stealth...
Jean-Claude Juncker — 'When it becomes serious, you have to lie.'
I concluded that things were always serious for Druncker.
We had dinner with liberal friends last night. I have no family so I am loath to cut anyone out of my life at this point - but…..
They have every Covid shot that has come out, they still got Covid but proudly bragged on taking Paxstupid and then asked us if we had taken the latest ‘bi-valent (nightmare) shot’. When we said ‘no, and given we have had Covid and survived quite nicely - we aren’t taking another, not even a Flu shot’. After sputtering several statements masquerading as questions about ‘the science’ and not liking our simple refutations, we got: ‘well, then wallow in your ignorance!’.
And you as well my friends.
PS: we did not bring this topic up. They did through telling us about how a major gathering they sponsor had provided masks (occurred September 2022) and no one would wear them. They had to spend hours of volunteer time picking them up off the streets and in the venue plus - the waste of money.
Ahem: there’s your sign.
I have cut ties with almost all 'friends' who think like that... fortunately my wife also believes we are floating in a sea of MORE-ONS so we are able to enjoy each others company.
Well that's a shame cuz I always got a kick out of all your stories about the MORE-ONS you hung out with.
I'd laugh even harder thinking what your face would look like when they were saying all that stupid shit.
I probably would have started with " Take as many injections ( they're not vaccines) as YOU want, but I'm not putting that experimental shot in my body. And you can easily prove they've never been approved. NO side effects listed on any Covid injection commercial, which is ILLEGAL for any medication.
Having said that - if someone told me to "wallow in my ignorance ", I probably would have told them I''ll see you at YOUR funeral.
I always conclude any such discussion by asking the enthusiasts what are the known long-term consequences of the multiple novel shots they've had pumped into them. Answer comes there none!
Ask them if they had expected to have to take 3 shots per year when they got their first jabs.
Then ask them when they think they won't have to worry about getting Corona.
Whatever they estimate then I say; what other vaccine have you taken "X" amount of times in your life that didn't prevent you from getting infected?
Then I say something like; that's a lot of shots. Do you have any concern that the dose could be the poison?
At my book club the other night, we were told by one member that she had recently had a heart attack. Later on she was speculating over the causes citing the stress in her life and then mentioning that perhaps the Covid case that she had almost 2 years ago may have contributed. I usually remain quiet these days after my early attempts to open eyes but I did add to her comment, "maybe also it was your vaccinations...after all if you think the spike from infection might cause harm and heart damage then an injection that also introduced the same spike protein would have to be considered." . There was a noticable intake of breath around the table but no one replied at all. And weirdly, the conversation just moved on. No one wants to confront what is right in front of them!
"NO side effects listed on any Covid injection commercial, which is ILLEGAL for any medication. "
A good point!
That had never occurred to me, but is obvious in hindsight
I believe side effects are only required if the manufacturer is advertising them. In this case the government is actually sponsoring the vax, so they are exempt.
I've read similar. It is apparently illegal to directly even advertise a EUA product, too. And if the taxpayer is paying your ad budget, why complain?
You are correct, it's still an EUA ,they just do what ever they want. Screw the laws. Laws only apply to us plebs.
"Vaccines" are not considered to be "medicine" - they are classified as "biologics" - which means they don't need to follow the usual safety study protocols that "medicine" follows. And likely the "biologics" opts them out of having to provide side effects when advertising. So, very conveniently it is like NOT illegal. This is all beyond belief!
Interesting. They're marketed as "vaccines". I realized the lack of side effects when I recently saw an ad for the shingles vaccine.
I have friends who always bring up the New Big C, and then as soon as I calmly show them their error, they "don't want to talk about it".
At some level, these people KNOW that the "vaccines" don't work. If they did work, they wouldn't be afraid of being around unvaccinated or unmasked people - because their vaccines would protect them.
Ask them if they know "all cause" mortality has spiked around the world and is worse in many heavily vaccinated nations. Ask them why or how this could have happened ... or what they think the reason is for this.
"Well then, wallow in your ignorance."
Your reply, smiling sweetly, "And you yours."
I enjoy a good wallow. My wife worries that I have some hippo genes.
I’m willing to bet these “friends” won’t want to get together any longer, even if you do. After all, you should be dead by now! And the fact that you’re not, and are healthy, is a direct affront to their stupidity (or at least, their naïveté).
Also, another segment of “ The Stupids Step Out.” Rather than litter, they should have worn the masks backward. My plan should they bring back mask wearing on planes....
You've written some important pieces, Gato, but this might be the most important one of all. This corruption of the source data by unknown and unaccountable sources cuts to the heart of every issue that confronts us.
Like! Like! Like! To emphasize: "cuts to the heart of EVERY issue that confronts us". Governments have ALWAYS lied to the governed. And they always will. But most, the ones who wished to remain in power, at least governed somewhat pragmatically. Now they are lying to themselves. Guess who pays the price for THAT insanity?
One of the best pieces you have ever written. Thank you. I stumbled over this data "issue" more than 10 years ago when I tried to make sense of these "climate models". You are absolutey right, it has got worse ever since, and is the very root cause how the powers that be manage to present the public with whatever "reality" they whish to be "real".
And, as the article points out, someone made an active decision to change the definitions.
Fascinating article on the climate info and a couple of dunces involved. Colpo has destroyed the covid crazy too with Australian wit and a dose of “a knife? Now here’s a knife” style.
https://anthonycolpo.com/junk-science-alert-more-biased-misleading-nonsense-from-naomi-oreskes-geoffrey-supran/
People who drive Teslas saving the planet, shoot boosters and suck on the global warming lolly should be fed to the pigs
Why do you want me to have to refrain from eating bacon? I like bacon!
At least wait until the clot-shots bring about their untimely end!
Yes, it was about that time for me too. I've always been extremely skeptical about the supposed ability to measure the temperature of the whole Earth with the precision that they profess. No way. Not a chance. And that's the whole game right there. Along with the whole slew of other problems with their "theory", of course.
AMAZING post on climate data!
97% of climate scientists funded by Bill Gates agree with Bill Gates, so "we have a climate consensus"
"97% of scientists agree with whoever provides their funding."
This is why we need to DEMAND TRANSPARENCY.
We need to DECENTRALIZE.
We also need to collaborate better.
Everyone is doing a great job of revealing the problems, but who is talking solutions? The root problem of almost everything is this:
Our Systems are Corrupted.
How do we fix that? We form think tanks of problem solvers. For example:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite
THIS
I've come to the conclusion that this process is going on in literally every single field: vaccines, environment, medicine, construction, the economy, the deficit, food/nutrition, etc., etc., etc.
They control the levers of information and the broadcasting/publishing of the same.
Why would gangsters be honest about they're doing?
The numbers are faked because it's purposeful.
I heard a story this morning on the radio -- on a supposedly "conservative" station -- about coffee pods, and one of the reasons these were stated as being so excellent was because it would supposedly reduce coffee production, which would be good for "climate change".
Now, the radio yapper didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He read the "news" blurb because that's his job ... and someone wrote that crap because that was his job. The ubiquity of this garbage, however, is because a lie repeated a million times becomes completely accepted by the populace.
There is an agenda being pushed, and NO amount of evidence of fraud or error will be allowed to make a bit of difference. It's a top-down indoctrination, and no one will be allowed to change it. It's just that simple.
How do these people sleep at night. Oh I know... it is our money, not theirs, they are spending.
They sleep because they're psychopaths.
you are absolutely correct.
I think of this very often, how do they go home and sleep?
I am grateful for your answer. I think that is truly accurate
It's funny you say that. I have spent the last 30+ years in an audit function, going in and out of small & medium sized businesses in every field imaginable, all over the country.
I have spent the last 30 years also telling people how 99% of the people I interact with were honest and would answer anything I asked (even if it made them or the company look bad).
What I didn't realize until the last 3 years is that I was always interacting with "normal people". My interactions were never at a level of these mega corporations or government entities. THOSE people are a whole different animal.
yes indeed.
My husband was a contractor for DIA US govt for 30 years.
Absolutely horrible to work with government people.
One of his employees read the paper all day. so just talk on the phone or do Christmas shopping etc. They do not work
You can not fire govt employees.
Karma’s a bitch!
I saw the news from the UK yesterday, it seems they have one of the worst winters I can remember. Some scientists now say that Europe is cooling instead of heating up. HM. Climate change LOL. Does anyone remember 2 days that the climate was exactly the same? Climate is changing all the time. Thankfully!
One of my cousins, who does (did) years of advanced post doc research on climate change, (I.E. glaciers), claimed climate has only been changing for 5 billion years. He figured today's climate gurus could stop that change in about the same length of time. After that comment was included in a "peer reviewed" paper, he was "offered" early retirement by his university. He said failure to accept that generous offer would have resulted in loss of tenure, and possibly his pension.
LOL thank you. I read a paper of the same tenure. I also read recently about scientists studying glaciers, who noticed that massive parts had frozen in one night. No global heating then. And also short while ago, several quotes proved that those talking about global warming, don't believe it themselves. And why would all these stinking rich buy ocean property if they believed it?
however, Ingrid, I heard that poor Switzerland has had to close down their ski resorts because of lack of snow?? and just watched a very heart wrenching video on accuweather, that I believe northern most Sweden is melting !!! !!! !!! and some houses were destroyed by avalanches!!!!!!!!! All of us that deny global warming are monsters
there is a large study, I unfortunately did not save the link, of scientists who have followed up over the last 100 years. The temperature rise was less than a degree C. Obviously I am a monster. Let me take a look in the mirror. WAAAAAA
yes I have read that study too
Also, my hubbs is retired and he researches EVERYTHING as a hobby.
He tries to have discussions with climate freaks. He always makes them unhappy hahahhahahhaha
Worst winter in the UK? It is freaking warm here in Germany, it cannot be really cold in the UK. We had 15 degrees Celsius here in January, very unusual.
there's weather manipulation going on full time. Dane Wigington of geoengineeringwatch.org is the man on the topic.
this week they were plowing the snow off the roads in the UK.
"beginning stereo buffs get impressed by speakers and amplifiers, by wattage and weight."
Back in the 1970's we used to obsess over a turntable's wow & flutter.
Nowadays, most will come to worry about cardiac wow and flutter.
That beauty in the picture be a Technics SP-10 if I’m not mistaken. Never seen a gold platter on one. Must be a special edition.
Original version:
Wow and flutter: less than 0.03% WRMS (don’t know or care what it actually means)
Later editions even better.
Very nice and expensive bit of kit.
Edit: I am mistaken. It’s a SL-1000R
AU$33k 😱I thought the SP-10 was expensive. No wonder I’ve never seen one in the flesh.
I may have the terms mixed up (been a long time since I cared about vinyl discs) but wow and flutter is measured this way:
Cut a master disc with a zero distortion 1 KHz sine wave of a constant amplitude. When played back, any deviation from 1 KHz is the flutter (time based measurement), any change in the amplitude (voltage measurement) is the wow. Since the voltage generated in playback can be affected by a change in amplitude of a perfect waveform or by distortion of the waveform, they combine the terms as WRMS (wow rms).
Now back to our regular program…
I still have an sl-1400 I bought in Japan in the mid 70s.
Never heard of the SL-1400. Just looked it up. Looks like semi-automatic SL-1200.
Nice 👍
I’ve still got a pair SL-1200s from the late 80s. Can’t bear to part with them even though I hardly use them anymore.
Used the SP-10s in the studio when I had a community radio show. That’s why I thought I new what they were, they look almost the same expect for the gold platter.
appropriate username haha.
Had to have direct drive and not belt.
belt driven or direct drive?
Even with the warm bias in station data, they still can't squeeze enough warming out of the surface datasets to match the 'catastrophic' global warming projections of the climate models, so they're having to dial down the global warming alarmism and switch to trying to scare people with extreme weather instead, which they attribute to global warming using 'science' which puts even the Covid fraudsters to shame. The problem is, they are coming up against 'statistically impossible' temperatures - which are most likely due to land use changes, increasing urbanisation (poorly sited stations) and physical changes in weather patterns, which their simplistic attribution analyses based on long term global warming trends fail to account for. But rather than admit that these factors are primarily responsible for the observed 'impossible' temperatures during heatwaves, they torture the data to make these impossible temperatures fit into a new distribution, thus allowing them to claim that it was 'climate change wot dunnit' every time we get an alleged 'record-breaking' heatwave.
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-evolving-pseudoscience-of-extreme
They also love to quote the "exploding" costs of damage from extreme weather . . . never mentioning of course that more and more people have moved closer to the coasts (only takes one hurricane to ruin that vision of Nirvana) and into the mountains (ditto, one forest fire). Even if they adjust for inflation, they never mention that the typical "beach house" of 75 years ago was a fishing shack, not the vacation mansions that have been popping up like weeds the last 30 years.
Using the exciting new pseudoscience of extreme weather attribution, they can now pinpoint the blame for those 'exploding costs' - the worst 'carbon polluters' - which allows climate activists to pursue damage compensation claims on behalf of the alleged 'victims of climate change'. They're already doing this.
Damage comp paid by?? We the taxpayers of course, as the govt pays these nitwits to rebuild in the same spot that just got annihilated by Mother Nature.
They're going after fossil fuel corporations and industries which burn fossil fuels too, trying to take down the entire sector.
I wonder when big pharma will notice that they can't exist if fossil industries are eliminated? You can't get benzene from a windmill. (Sidebar: you can't make a windmill from a windmill.) You'd think these major industries would take a look at what happens to all of them if any of them get shut down.
I love this Substack. However, anytime I’ve shared it with a “narrative follower” the first comment is usually “it’s all in lowercase...how can I take this seriously?”
wanna bet that we could capitalize it all and they would say the same thing but with "it's just an internet cat." as an excuse?
i suspect the actual venn overlap of "will read data from internet cats that challenges my world views" and "but not if it's not capitalized" is actually pretty much indistinguishable from zero.
What passes for 21st century scientific analysis - if it disagrees with the narrative de jour it's not valid data. Discard it.
And you might be *clutches pearls* from Spain!
A capital excuse not to read it?
one might get an impression of anti-capitalism
There's the Fauci Method practiced to a tee. Don't deal with the substance, attack the style or the author (or both).
The main thing that woke me up to the scam was how the skeptics spoke in terms of data and science, while the believers never rebutted with anything other than ad hominem attacks. Even though I didn't have the background to evaluate the science of the skeptics, the fact that they were never refuted with science told me all I needed to know.
You’re right. I look at the data and the argument. But there’s only so much preaching to the choir will help. We need the reasonable middle to switch to our side and they need to be spoon fed data in a way they’re able to absorb through their biases.
that's the shorthand way, and pretty infallible.
as soon as you hear the term antivaxx grifter, you know you've got cult members, and they are going to lie. most of them have been lying for so long they truly believe too, it's scary.
Astute
Doesn’t that just perfectly capture the lack of critical thinking skills displayed by blue pillers?
Tell them, out of deep respect for the convention of capitalization, he keeps CAPS LOCK on and types with shift for lower case.
Occam's Razor FTW!
Reading through the comments on this post is a truly disappointing experience
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7022312030917320704?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7022312030917320704%29
SO, la chevalier vit, Did anyone, tie you into a straight jacket, strap you to a chair and pin your eyelids open and force you to read here?
No? Well guess what, this is a free and open discussion platform. If you don't like it or the open discourse engaged by like minded folks who enjoy the discussions here, you are most welcomed to spend your valuable time elsewhere.
Thank you Angus. That is exactly what I meant. My bad for not being more explicit.
As an aside, truly I find it hard to understand being attacked for the offence of engaging in free and open discourse on a free and open discussion platform.
Ha, Touche !
I think you misunderstood the Knight who lives. They were saying the comments on the referenced linkedIn post was disappointing.
Disappointing to be sure, at the very least. We could wax on about the unfortunate mind captured perspective that was delivered at that site. Scanning through the comments clicked the offered url and took it 'la chevalier vit' was advocating this perspective. If such was not the case, my deepest apologies sir.
Excuses sincères acceptées
hehe
Empire Building in Government 101 - delay, obfuscate, classify and don't collect any data that might adversely impact your message or next year's budget.
Yup.
And don't forget "consensus". That's their "feeding tube" for the masses who just want to be told what to do or think.
In our modern era of "if we don't like something, we'll change the definition", we could somewhat accurately redefine "consensus" as analogous to "truth". It IS what we say it is." Period.
yeah, that's your truth, they say.
no, that's the truth, there's only one, I reply
exactly. couldn't said it better myself
As referenced in a post below, I don't think many people realize that an early "case" of Covid cannot be "confirmed" (per the operative definitions of a "Covid case.) Basically, per the definitions used by public health officials, it requires a positive PCR test to "confirm" a case of Covid. Well, in America the first PCR test wasn't even administered until around Jan. 17, 2020. The only way to "confirm" an early case would be to take these PCR kits back in time via a time machine and administer them to people like Mayor Michael Melham who was sick with all the Covid symptoms in November 2019. Mayor Melham (and hundreds of other Americans) later got TWO positive antibody tests - but his obvious Covid symptoms and his two antibody tests were not enough to "confirm" he had this virus/disease two months before the first "confirmed" case in America.
Officials were also using the very few available PCR tests to test only people who had recently returned from China. That is, in the first weeks of the official pandemic, they were NOT testing any Americans with Covid symptoms who had NOT been to China. This also ensured that there could be no "early" cases that originated in America.
They control the definitions of "cases" - including what was or was NOT an early case. Because of this, I argue that MILLIONS of early cases were probably "missed." This knowledge, if acknowledged, would have changed the entire Covid narrative. Certainly, 'lockdowns" to "slow" or stop the "spread" of this virus would not have been pursued as everyone would know the virus horse had already galloped across the globe.
Here's an article I wrote about how officials in Washington will still not "confirm" two almost-certain early cases (from December). It's disturbing how easy it is to control the narrative by simply writing a few definitions.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/can-a-case-of-early-spread-even-be
I went to urgent care in early Jan 2020 for a sinus infection. Normally the doctor would look down my throat and in my ears and then prescribe an antibiotic. This time they did that plus used the long q-tips up the nose, a chest x-ray and asked if I had been overseas. I don’t know what they did with the q-tips. I think they knew back then that something was going on.
With the economic definitions, the BLS changed how "Unemployment" is counted. They now don't count people who have "dropped out of the labor force." They have also changed the way they calculate real inflation multiple times. For example, the new definitions don't adequately capture "shrinkflation" - which is so obvious these days.
I did a story once on all the "workarounds" families must employ to deal with this non-inflation. Things like cutting the cable TV cord, eliminating dry cleaning, getting rid of the maid service, going to fewer movies, getting fewer haircuts, going to the dentist less often, dropping out of civic clubs, playing fewer rounds of golf or hunting less (expensive hobbies) ... even using cremation instead of traditional burials.
I identified about 30 "workarounds." All of these are examples of how people must deal with real inflation. None of these "workarounds" would really be necessary if inflation was as low as officials said it was for years.
Love your workarounds. Cutting the cable TV cord, eliminating dry cleaning, getting rid of maid service, etc. Oh, my heart weeps for such folk. The hardships they must endure!
Come down here to the Trailer Park (sorry, mobile home community) where folks have done without such things long before inflation was a thing. Our workarounds are: going to the food pantry instead of the grocery store, having to make a choice between food and medical care, being late on rent and other payments (or even skipping them!). Going to the thrift shop to buy clothes. Having a garage sale to raise money. Cleaning people's homes (oops, that's not an option any longer). Working several crappy low-wage jobs just to make ends meet. Working under the table. Doubling up on roommates, and hoping the landlord doesn't find out and evict all of you. Keeping that piece of s**t car running just a little longer instead of trading it in; when you do have to trade it in, you buy another slightly better piece of sh**t and keep that going as long as you can. Lowering the thermostat in the winter and the air conditioning (if you have it) in the summer. Turning off lights and appliances when not being used to squeeze out a few pennies from your electric bill. Not going to the doctor unless absolutely necessary. Combining multiple errands in one trip. Putting a new hard drive in your laptop rather than buy a new one. Shall I go on?
I believe there was a country song that had the lyrics "Somebody told us Wall Street fell, we were so poor we couldn't tell." That's how I feel about this inflation bit.
Okay, you have middle class "work-arounds" and lower-income workarounds. The point is that there are a ton of people using workarounds to make ends meet. If inflation was no big deal and the economy was fine, you'd see (for example) a lot more people playing golf. I wonder when the last golf course was built in America. Jack Nicklaus's company used to build dozens every year. He might still build a few ... but they are in China or Saudi Arabia.
I just got an email from Amazon advertising Titleist ProV1 balls for $64 a dozen . . . as of Christmas they were $49.99. A nice 30% bump.
That said, in New Jersey where I live the golf courses have been thriving. The lockdowns have created so many flexible working arrangements that weekday rounds have been flooded with 30 and 40 somethings. Remains to be seen whether this continues as companies require more in-office time and prices continue to climb.