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COVID-19 finally evolved to be far more virulent in dogs AND transmissible between them? Prior COVID-19 infection causing lung immunosuppression in dogs?
Canine respiratory mystery: What we know about the outbreak
https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2023-12/canine-respiratory-mystery-what-we-know-about-the-outbreak/
Just small excepts from that long and highly informative article:
“The ones who go down, who die, it comes on rapidly, very rapidly. You start supportive care and they don’t respond,” says Nicole Trenholme, DVM, MS, DCVECC, DACVAA. “It’s unnerving.”
Trenholme, medical director at AAHA-accredited Evolution Veterinary Specialists in Lakewood, Colorado, told NEWStat that she first noticed the uptick in the number of dogs coming in with a cough last September: “It was maybe seven to 10 dogs a week, at the start.”
Just what’s going on with these clusters of coughing dogs across the country?
What is this mystery respiratory infection?
Colorado is one of at least 10 states to have reported cases of this new respiratory infection, including Oregon, Rhode Island, Florida, and New Hampshire. The number of cases are estimated to be in the thousands nationwide, although official numbers aren’t available because currently there’s no definitive test for the illness and because symptoms often mirror those of many other ailments.
This infection is part of the canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC), a syndrome of diseases that can be caused by several different—and often highly contagious—bacterial and viral pathogens in which coinfections are common.
Clinical Signs
Clinical signs are frequently mild and self-limiting but some individual cases progress to severe disease and, in instances, death. That’s what’s happening in these clusters, and that’s what’s got veterinary professionals and pet owners worried.
In Colorado alone, veterinarians report that they’re currently seeing double the number of cases that are typically seen during a canine infectious respiratory disease outbreak, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Nationwide, reported cases appear to fall primarily within three general clinical syndromes:
Chronic mild to moderate tracheobronchitis with a prolonged duration of 6 to 8 weeks or longer that is minimally or not responsive to antibiotics. [“not responsive to antibiotics” = virus; “minimally effective” = only against associated bacterial infection associated with the viral infection, just as with humans with COVID-19 – W]
Chronic pneumonia that is minimally or not responsive to antibiotics.
Acute pneumonia that rapidly becomes severe and often leads to poor outcomes [i.e, “death” – W] in as little as 24 to 36 hours.
Trenholme says dogs who had purple or cyanotic mucous membranes were really struggling to breathe. And their pulse oximeter was in the 80s when normal is around 95.
“It was probably only or two cases a week that were extremely severely affected.” In addition to having an abnormal set of vitals, these patients also typically had a very elevated heartrate.
[snip]
What’s different about this infection
The first few serious cases at Evolution were dogs who’d been hanging around other dogs at dog parks or in boarding kennels, Trenholme says they figured it was likely kennel cough. “Then it was a matter of deciding if the dogs just needed time to allow their immune systems to kick in and take care of it naturally or to start them on a course of doxy.”
Doxy—or doxycycline—is an antibiotic that historically has proven effective in treating common bacterial causes of kennel cough. After three to five days on doxy, and assuming the infection was bacterial, most dogs would have shown marked improvement.
But that wasn’t happening to Evolution’s patients.
Trenholme and her colleagues were stumped. They decided it was time to reach out to other local hospitals. They learned that this uptick in respiratory cases was not isolated to Evolution patients; it was happening all over the Denver area. And it wasn’t going away. “We were seeing a lot of dogs still coming back in weeks later with persistent cough or progressive cough.”
The symptoms got worse. “In the past couple of months, we started getting these really terrible coughing cases where the usual history was three to seven days of coughing that seemed nonproductive and then sudden onset of respiratory distress.”
Very sudden, almost out of nowhere, she says. And very unnerving.
[snip]
Waves of hospitalizations
Cases of dogs who were sick enough to need hospitalization were sporadic and seemed to come in waves, Trenholme says. There was no particular pattern. Some had been around other dogs in kennels and dog parks, or around other sick and coughing dogs, but others hadn’t. Age didn’t seem to matter, either; patients ranged in age from 10 months to 10 years.
Trenholme says it was frustrating. “I’d tell clients, ‘Since I don’t know what this is, I recommend a diagnostic workup.’ But that’s expensive, and [I understand why] some owners were reluctant to go that route.” Especially when, after spending all that money, the tests typically came back negative. *“We began to worry this was some kind of novel virus.”*
[The vet clinic] sent a few of the dogs who died to Colorado State University (CSU) post-mortem so researchers could gather samples in the hope of figuring out just what was going on. “I’m hoping people smarter than I am at university settings are able to isolate and figure it out,” she says.
Perhaps the worst part was being unable to tell anguished owners just why their beloved pets died. She says that telling them that “some patients seem to succumb to [the infection] because they can’t get enough oxygen” was poor comfort.
Equally frustrating was their inability to advise clients on how to fully protect their pets. “It was kind of similar to what humans were told when COVID started,” she says. “We’d tell them to try and limit their dogs’ interactions with unfamiliar dogs, even though we vaccinate against canine influenza and kennel cough complex.”
Gloves, double-gloving, and booties were mandatory for staff selected to work exclusively with the coughing dogs, who were kept in isolation, as was the use of dedicated stethoscopes for each animal, all to try and minimize the risk of spread.
But despite their best efforts, they lost a few patients.
“I can think of three or four dogs that have died with some sort of respiratory signs in the past three months,” Trenholme says. “That’s not to say that they definitively had this type of complex. Again, there’s lots of causes for respiratory distress, but two of those victims were young, otherwise healthy dogs. So that makes me think it’s likely they did.”
[snip]
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Their only mention of COVID-19 is the same kind of BS used to explain continuing human excess deaths up to “wartime levels” in the UK YEARS after the start of the pandemic:
Those changes, just in the past few years—many of them COVID-related—include:
More dogs (23 million American households adopted a pet during the pandemic)
Disrupted veterinary care (remember curbside?)
Changes in human activities that change how dogs interact with other dogs.
Frequency of vaccination. [Really? For what is apparently a new pathogen? – W]
IDEXX SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) RealPCR Test for Pets Decision Flowchart
24 Apr 2020
https://www.idexx.com/files/covid19-pcr-test-algorithm.pdf
The decision block in that flowchart where tests cannot determine the cause of the illness indicate that a COVID-19 test should be given. Are any vets doing that?
Typically old info (2019!) from the CDC:
What You Need to Know About COVID-19 and Pets
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/covid-19-pets-prevention.pdf
Animals, including pets, can be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 We are still learning about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but we know it can spread from people to animals in some situations, especially during close contact with a person with COVID-19. A small number of pets worldwide, including cats and dogs, have been infected SARS-CoV-2, mostly after close contact with people with COVID-19 [because, typically, only a tiny percentage were tested for COVID-19; just as with injection adverse reactions and excess deaths which continue worldwide, you don’t find what you don’t look for or desire to cover up – W]. Based on the information available to date, the risk of pets spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low.
I’m NOT saying that IF this new canine pathogen turns out to be COVID-19 related that it will jump to human’s since I think we’d have heard about that by now.
August 3, 2022
Animal Reservoirs—Where the Next SARS-CoV-2 Variant Could Arise
JAMA Network
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2795140
As of this May (2022), 36 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe had officially reported SARS-CoV-2 infections in 23 nonhuman animal species [it’s 26 now -W] , including not only big cats like tigers and lions but also domestic cats and dogs, gorillas, white-tailed deer [Headline: 25 Jan 2022 Whitetails can catch COVID-19 virus and give it to other deer, study says- W], hamsters, farmed mink, otters, anteaters, manatees, hippopotamuses, and others, according to the World Organization for Animal Health, founded as OIE.
“With SARS-CoV-2, the remarkable thing is how many species have been infected with the human form of the virus,” evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes, PhD, a professor at the University of Sydney, said in an interview.
“SARS-CoV-2 is this kind of remarkable Swiss Army Knife type of virus that can use [ACE-2] receptors from a broad range of species,” Washington State University’s Michael Letko, PhD, a molecular virologist, said in an interview.
To identify susceptible species and areas for surveillance, epidemiologists, wildlife biologists, and others have homed in on animals that are likely to come into close contact with people in markets or agricultural settings.
BTW, something which no-one else I’ve seen has caught: Dr. Steven Quay testified in a Congressional hearing in 2021 that tens of thousands of animals of many different species were tested in China to prove the “natural virus” BS, but none were found to be infected. How then could the virus which has now proved itself to infect 26 types of animals have come from nature? The route was lab- human – nature.
Actually, Winston, because the “corona” and “rhino” virus families are extremely prone to sometimes-large mutations, it is possible that a more-virulent strain naturally evolved in nature. Viruses always find “hosts” other than humans, and may or may not be symptomatic in those hosts.
Your body’s main defense against these viruses, incidentally, is zinc. Plus an “ionophore” to get the zinc where it needs to go. Zinc disrupts the viral replication process in ways that we now completely understand. So, when mama fed you warm chicken soup loaded with leafy greens, and told you it would make you feel better and it did, well, there was a scientific reason for that. 😃 (It doesn’t take much zinc, and that soup contained both zinc and ionophores.)
“a more-virulent strain naturally evolved in nature.”
But the original strain was not found in ANY of the animals desperately tested in an effort to “prove” the “natural origin” BS? And even the authorities are saying that the infections found in animals are FROM HUMAN CONTACT.
Sorry, you make no sense.
Yes, if it was naturally involved, then it should be out there in nature.
Yet we are told to believe that a strain located 1000 miles away, that had killed a couple of guano miners but not been able to spread in humans, miraculously jumped species and jumped location as it jumped forward in time.
I will admit one thing that was miraculous about it. A respiratory disease was able to make so many people lose their minds, even without catching it. Well, it had a lot of help, so the result of media hysteria wasn’t really due to the infection, nor was it miraculous.
Yes, there were two diseases the actual manipulated in a lab virus, and the manipulated in peoples brains perception, which generated FEAR, shutting down critical thinking, aka ‘common sense’ and it was the second that was used to kill 10’s of millions.
Because “corona” and “rhino” viruses are so prone to perhaps-significant mutation, it is rather pointless to look for “the original strain.”
For example, if a corona virus finds itself in a “host” that is “hosting” a now-inactive version of itself, it can actually exchange very large segments of RNA with it. This makes very extensive mutations possible, although the outcome cannot be predicted.
We can speculate that the infections “are from human contact,” but we actually have no way to know. “Biology is very funny like that …”
“We can speculate that the infections “are from human contact,” but we actually have no way to know.”
Actually, there are all kinds of ways to know – animals KNOWN to have exposure to humans becoming infected AFTER their human contacts were with exactly the same variant and white tailed deer in NORTH AMERICA getting human variants via aerosols and contaminated wastewater.
This study found evidence that SARS-CoV-2 spilled over from humans, circulated in white-tailed deer populations, and potentially spilled back into humans. Ah, yes, that zoonosis I’ve previously talked about, except no longer limited to some farmer’s unsanitary lot in the backwoods of some 3rd world hellhole. It’s now in your back yard or home. Tick, tick, tick…
10 July 2023
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x
Evolutionary analyses showed these white-tailed deer viruses originated from at least 109 independent spillovers from humans, which resulted in 39 cases of subsequent local deer-to-deer transmission and three cases of potential spillover from white-tailed deer back to humans. Viruses repeatedly adapted to white-tailed deer with recurring amino acid substitutions across spike and other proteins. Overall, our findings suggest that multiple SARS-CoV-2 lineages were introduced, became enzootic, and co-circulated in white-tailed deer.
Cum hoc ergo propter hoc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Also, vitamins D3 and K2:
Oct 2020
Vitamin D3 and K2 and their potential contribution to reducing the COVID-19 mortality rate
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406600/
Vitamin D3 supplementation also requires additional vitamin K2 intake.
https://www.petmd.com/dog/poisons/my-dog-ate-a-vitamin-d-pill-now-what
The only green in my mother’s chicken noodle soup was celery. It was an ingredient in both the broth and the soup. No leafy greens.
“Good enough,” actually . . .
Celery LEAVES are good, add flavor, cut em up small so almost like a spice.
Mine has carriots, corn, green beans, peas, sometimes Zuccinni, lots of Tarragon and curry powder,…oniona and celery, sure.
The “respiratory virus” in question could be “COVID-19,” or it could be any of several hundred others. There are very many “corona” and “rhino” viruses, including those that produce the “common” (emphasis: “common”) cold. We will never rid this planet of viruses. And, not every debilitating respiratory infection is “COVID.”
It is very important to keep your pets vaccinated each year – especially dogs, who are generally more vulnerable than cats or other animals. Some truly disastrous viral infections, such as “Parvo,” can be prevented with a $12 shot.
Right, it’s merely a coincidence that a new and often deadly canine pathogen with SYMPTOMS exactly like serious COVID-19 infections in humans just happened to occur after a human pandemic where domestic pets were also known to be infected.
That’s kinda’ like a new coronavirus just happening to occur in a city with a lab documented to have an inadequate BSL level which worked on coronavirus gain-of-function.
“Strange, yes, but it is actually possible for it to be true.” (I cage my words because it is of course impossible to “know.”)
Vaccines kill.
I just had a very difficult time trying to get a veterinary appointment for a pet. Yes, I was aware of the litany of causes, including the fact that a certain number of veterinarians have reached retirement age, but I can’t help but think that at a time when it has been announced by self-appointed world government bodies that we should not be owning pets, has there been something developed in a laboratory to do them harm.
We have already seen an attack on our pets from tainted pet foods, remember? That may have been purely accidental, this may be too.
If they’d do what they did to humans, they won’t hesitate when it comes to dogs.
The award-winning Doctor Fauci was involved.
I see NO MENTION of the OBVIOUS question of whether any COVID-19 tests INDICATED by the pet testing flowchart I linked to are being done and that should tell us something.
This is the typical Modern medicine response.
” If we can just find the bug we can find a medicine…”
Everything comes down to just the right chemical to treat . This is A bogus Approach to health. it is more important to decide how do we help the body improve its defense Mechanisms.
insert Ivermectin thought bubble here?
A lot more consideration needs to be for immune support
Put ivermectin paste in their dog food. Save your pet.
https://www.petmd.com/dog/poisoning/ivermectin-toxicity-in-dogs
DO NOT do that!
It has not been established what this is yet.
a few points regarding the article and your assertions:
1. pneumonia not responsive to the STANDARD choice in respiratory cases (doxycycline).
no mention if, or what, other a/b’s have been tried.
2. causative agent(s) have NOT been identified so far. not known if viral, bacterial, or other.
3. private practice vet (think internist) ultimately, and correctly, chosen to send path samples and necropsies to
CSU. Cornell’s diagnostic lab also working on this, i suspect NC State is involved as well.
so you have the best minds in veterinary clinical pathology on the case.
until there are some definitive answers, speculation is counter productive.
a novel pathogen does not have to be covid related,
and, IMHO, for the covid connection theories to be true, a greater population of dogs would likely be affected.
as always, the goal is effective VETERINARY treatment for veterinary patients.
i worry that by trying to draw an immediate parallel to covid, inappropriate care may be considered by owners of affected patients.
“so you have the best minds in veterinary clinical pathology on the case.”
Like they were in the human case when there were certain things they didn’t want the public to know?
The very fact that a simple, fully established and previously used COVID-19 test for pets could be made to RULE OUT that possibility and then EXPLICITLY STATE in that extensive article that it IS NOT a COVID variant makes me EXTREMELY suspicious.
“i worry that by trying to draw an immediate parallel to covid, inappropriate care may be considered by owners of affected patients.”
Which would be another valid reason to EXPLICITLY STATE that it is NOT a COVID variant, no? So, why aren’t they?
Table 1: When Animals Should be Tested for SARS-CoV-2
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/animals/toolkit.html#table1
This table is not intended to be prescriptive but may help guide testing priorities. Animals that meet one or more of the following criteria (A-E) are recommended for testing. Animals must meet both the Epidemiological Risk AND Clinical Features in the criteria row to be recommended for testing. Some clinical features are applicable to multiple rows.
D – Animals in a mass care or group setting (e.g., farm, animal feeding operation, animal shelter, boarding facility, zoo, or other animal holding) including companion animals, livestock, and other species, where their exposure history to people with COVID-19 is unknown.
Clinical Features – A cluster of animals show clinical signs consistent with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
After some digging to find this which should have been made clear in the original, extensive article I linked to, they DID test for COVID and it’s apparently NOT a COVID variant:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/28/december-28th-2023-presidential-politics-resistance-day-1073/#comment-10448671
the pcr referenced in the article appears to be a proprietary test from idexx, a good, but private veterinary clin path lab.
have seen no data on specificity, etc. which would convince me that it is 100% diagnostic for covid and not detecting other corona viruses, or indeed other canine influenzas, in dogs.
Texas A and M and Purdue are good alternatives.
When MRSA was the big fear about 10-15 years ago…Texas A and M did some cultures possibly for a study and found the MRSA bug in the nares (nose) of dogs, cats and horses…so if that then why not COVID?
One way to piss off the populace is to deliberately hurt our beloved pets….
Spoiler alert. This still doesn’t rule out immune suppression from prior COVID-19 infection, but it’s not a COVID variant.
New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
https://colsa.unh.edu/new-hampshire-veterinary-diagnostic-laboratory/canine-respiratory-outbreak
Respiratory Syndrome of Unknown Etiology in Dogs 2022-3 in New England: Diagnostic Investigation
11-21-2023
Has the lab tested the K-9 samples for COVID-19/Coronavirus?
Yes, samples from this investigation were tested for COVID-19 and were NEGATIVE.
…and because the above is so, nothing punctuated the Richard III description like this trenchant opening from the great JJ Sefton this morning on Ace of Spades HQ.
Sefton….like Mark Steyn, a wordsmith par excellence who spares nothing and no one.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407646
A horse…my kingdom for a horse…Battle of Hastings…
Fitting… there is the horse’s a**.
Mike Johnson needs to fire the capitol police officers involved in this shakedown.
He needs to fire them loudly and proclaim that they would do best by retiring from LE because they are now worthless for life as prosecuting witnesses (untrustworthy to a jury).
He needs to trigger democrat protests over this so that the world gets another red pill on j6 and the villainous dems.
It would be refreshing to also see Speaker Johnson shut down all those Capitol Police satellite locations that Pelosi set up in other cities as her private police force.
Great observations, Justaverb and Bessie. Write your congressman. Make those suggestions let’s see what Speaker Mike is made of. The capital police should be Law and Order guys. If they’re not, they should have to go. I don’t understand how tolerance of corruption has become the norm in law enforcement in Washington DC.
We are waiting for a sign that something is going to change. First, we waited for McCarthy to do something, now we are waiting for Johnson to do something. Is Nancy still in charge?
I am not ‘waiting’ for MJ to show me anything, his time for that has already expired.
Anybody still waiting for Him to ‘show his true colors’ I hereby label a “Delta-Dawn”.
Speaker Johnson was only elevevated into position because McCarthy has exceeded his ‘best buy’ date, and burned thru his usefulness in backstabbing us.
Gaetz is the Sumbitch that put McCarthy and then Johnson up, and is the playwrite scripted the manipulative b.s.
I support Gaetz. He disrupted the machine. Now we and our elected representatives actually have to work
Johnson disrupted the machine, huh?
How so?
Like more CRs, more aid to Ukraine and Israel, nothing on the border, impeachment against anyone, blurring our faces on J6 tapes and further delaying their release, etc?
–“…I hereby label a “Delta-Dawn”.”–
Depends on what “flower you have on”. <smiles>
I am going to go out on a limb here (h/t to WORDMAN):
Mike Johnson is my rep. I sincerely believe him to be a good man. Unfortunately, he was thrown in the lake and told “Learn how to swim.” Like Jimmy Carter, he is in way over his head.
The entire uniparty fights against him. He can count the number of allies on one hand.
Don’t expect a whole lot out of him as speaker. His hands have been effectively tied.
Herding cats ain’t got nothin’ on what he is doing.
The uniparty did the same thing to DJT when he was president. What makes anyone think that Mike Johnson is better at herding cats than DJT was?
The vast majority of sens/reps in DC are compromised.
If Mike Johnson is the person he has led us to believe he is, through his original actions of prayer, then he has the power of God directing and guiding him. Hopefully, he will continue to look at the light not look away and begin sinking into the lake. Peter was walking on water as he looked at Jesus but when he began looking at the water and the waves he began sinking.
He has the power to introduce bills……..or not.
Retired Magistrate here: Johnson is doing something; he is lining his pockets just like the rest of them.
AGREED. THEY MUST GO!
I watch “supernatural” the series still on Netflix, and when a demon possesses a person they can be shot and stabbed and what not ‘on the show’ and still function but when the demon leaves they are dead.
Reminds me of our government. People are thinking “do we really want to kill it all? I mean all the yummy handouts and free crap, not to mention all the money we save through Obama care and Medicare, (huge ridiculous joke)’
Thats the alternative, kneel or stand on your feet, and my mentioning this is a prelude to this. Its also our individual choice as well. That’s what all of this is about, and it is repeated over and over throughout history.
Or task them to pick up Antifa members. Time to use LE for true Law Enforcement activity against the real criminals and insurrectionists
“speaker” johnson is a useless traitor and he already proved that in his first week in office.
no one is coming to save us but us. and thats IF we withdraw consent.
USCP Lt. Tarik John talked about this. The people who sat on their a$$e$ in front of monitors watching, doing absolutely nothing, including not responding to calls for assistance and evacuations, while all of the officers they set up took the brunt of the Fedsurrection they initiated, pushed and allowed to happen and continue.
LE should be suing Evans.
Hindsight…
My 75 yr old Mom will now only go to stores that has real people cashiers. Target is one of them 🥵 But I certainly don’t think her budget is going to make or break them.
Speaking of Mom and her budget, I see FJB has given Fed employees a 7.2% salary hike. Funny Mom only got a 3.2% cost of living increase in her Social Security even though she paid in for 60 years as did her late husband. Part of the work she did in the 80s was for Motorola checking bomb and missile detonators. What have the Feds done besides be federal employees and actually blow stuff up.
Ahhh, you seem to have forgotten the standards established during the lockdowns: essential versus non-essential. Social Security recipients are NON-essential.
Federal employees are essential.
We all need to understand that some animals are more equal than others. Sorry.
I still haven’t decided what I am going to do with my extra 3.2%.
My mom lives in a 55+ community they were all commenting how innately stupid it was to give those $1,200 Covid stimulus checks to people on SS. It was a fascinating conversation.
My Mom decided she was going to bag of groceries and a tank of gas with her 3,2%
Given the size of my increase I think that should read, “a bag of groceries or a tank of gas”.
Dantes…: You don’t need to decide what to do with the “extra” money. It’s gone!
Don’t worry, the massive self checkout operation at the grocery store will self destruct for self protection of the store’s bottom line.
Ya see, for over a century, the checker was a major part of the “asset protection” plan in all retail operations run by those ol’ white guys.
Some Harvard / Yalie super-woke grad came up with the “self-stealing” concept and their Harvard / Yalie inept woke CEO thought it was a swell idea.
The shareholders will have to go back to the ol’ white guy’s ideas if they want to save their operation from going out the door, gratis / no charge.
Unless those ol’ white guys have gone fishin’ without a cell phone to be bothered by.
They think they have figured out what % will steal and it is baked into the cake….but what they are not considering is inflation and how it will affect that stealing %
“They think they have figured out what % will steal ”
The same Harvard/Yale super woke grads came up with that %…..
It is way too low and that is why there is a much bigger loss on the bottom line.
BSL4 labs handle the VERY nasty stuff. I think this is far, FAR more likely to lead to worldwide catastrophe than nuclear war.
King’s College – London
Global Biolabs Report -2023
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/assets/global-biolabs-report-2023.pdf
Key Message: BSL4 labs are rapidly increasing in number
The number of BSL4 labs is rapidly increasing, with most of the new construction taking place in Asia.
In 2021, we identified 59 BSL4 labs that were in operation, under construction, or planned in 23 countries. By the beginning of 2023, that number had increased by ten to 69 labs. There are 51 BSL4 labs in operation, three under construction, and 15 planned, all spread over 27 countries.
The number of BSL4 labs around the world has grown steadily since the 2001 anthrax letter attacks in the United States and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Asia stoked fears of naturally occurring and human-made biological threats.
Additionally, approximately 75 percent of existing operational BSL4 labs are in cities, where dense populations could exacerbate the impact of an accidental release… More than half of the BSL4 labs that work with infected animals – ABSL4 labs – are in the United States.
In terms of personal protective equipment, the majority of BSL4 labs require personnel to work in full-body, positive pressure suits with their own air supply. Only seven BSL4 labs conduct their work solely in biosafety cabinets.
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Laboratory Escapes and “Self-fulfilling prophecy” Epidemics
By: Martin Furmanski MD
Scientist’s Working Group on Chemical and Biologic Weapons
Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
February 17, *2014*
https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Escaped-Viruses-final-2-17-14-copy.pdf
Introduction
The danger to world or regional public health from the escape from microbiology laboratories of pathogens capable of causing pandemics, or Potentially Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) has been the subject of considerable discussion including mathematical modeling of the probability and impact of such escapes. The risk of such releases has generally been determined from estimates of laboratory infections that are often incomplete, except for the recent 2013 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, which is a significant source of recent data on escapes from undetected and unreported laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs).
This paper presents an historical review of outbreaks of PPPs or similarly transmissible pathogens that occurred from presumably well-funded and supervised nationally supported laboratories. It should be emphasized that these examples are only the “tip of the iceberg” because they represent laboratory accidents that have actually caused illness outside of the laboratory in the general public environment. The list of laboratory workers who have contracted potentially contagious infections in microbiology labs but did not start community outbreaks is much, much longer. The examples here are not “near misses;” these escapes caused real-world outbreaks.
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INCREDIBLY DAMNING video. Emails prove they KNEW they should have used a lab with a much higher BSL level than the WIV.
GAIN OF FUNCTION SCIENTISTS DOWNPLAYED SAFETY RISKS (6:58)
The HighWire with Del Bigtree
23 Dec 2023
https://rumble.com/v42te52-gain-of-function-scientists-downplayed-safety-risks.html
All this lab created death, brings a word to mind.
Wormwood, from the book of Revelations in the Bible.
On Monday, a bill was introduced in the Ukrainian parliament which would radically alter military service in the country. Among other things, it provides for harsh punishments for draft dodgers. People failing to report for duty would be denied basic rights under the proposed system, including control over their assets and the permission to drive vehicles.
In addition, “partial eligibility” – a medical status that people with certain disabilities can currently be assigned – would also become a thing of the past. Conditions that warrant the status include having one eye or leg, lacking a kidney or bladder, or having a growth deficiency resulting in being under 130cm tall, according to Ukrainian media.
Estonia has found a pretext to stop feeding Ukrainians – Moscow
Tallinn is eager to hand over fighting-age men to Kiev to cut costs, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed
Draft dodging Ukrainians in Poland ‘queuing for passports’.
Some Ukrainian news outlets shared similar images purportedly shot in other European cities this week. Klymenko Time claimed a queue in Valencia, Spain reached the length of 550 people, forcing Ukrainians to spend the night to keep their places.
Novoe Izdanie published photos, which it said were taken in Berlin, Krakow, Prague, and Cologne and shared online by Ukrainian citizens.
Why? To avoid the new conscription law. That would mean they would not be able to renew their passports, undermining their legal status in hosting nations.
what they do is up to them.
i am far more interested in what our fascist regime will do to coerce the people of the former republic to fight for these oligarchs, soon.
DO NOT COMPLY.
The walls are closing in on the Biden family
By Devin Nunes
27 Dec 2023
https://rumble.com/v43kbek-the-walls-are-closing-in-on-the-biden-family.html
BTW, sounds like someone has been chatting with Sundance. 😉
Or listening to MSNBC or CNN…
You obviously did not listen to the conversation.
A reminder that when we support people like Kristi Noem for public office, we are cementing this nuttery into the fabric of society, because corporations call the shots.
Then we blame the girls for their predicament.
BTW Thomas is a fully intact male, who lowered his hormone levels slightly. They don’t make the men get castrated to compete as women anymore, because it’s all about them.
BREAKING: Lia Thomas is newly engaged.
He may have been willing to give up his penis to win a couple swim meets but he wasn’t willing to give up women I see.
I don’t blame him!
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“Girlfriend”/fiancee is another “trans (fake) woman”.
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Talk about sick.
Normalizing deviant sexual behavior was a bad move.
Pardon me while I projectile vomit.
I could’ve gone a lifetime without seeing that photo. 🥵🤮
i DIDN’T LOOK
( i READ the Passage about LOT’s Wife… )
Sorry.
“It” finally lured in a catch by dangling “it’s” worm in the face of other people.
ICYMI: Jan 6 “Justice”: The Farce Continues with guest Julie Kelly
By Devin Nunes
3 Dec 2023
https://rumble.com/v405il2-jan-6-justice-the-farce-continues-with-guest-julie-kelly.html
Gay men and lesbians are being called bigots if they oppose the “trans” movement, which has nothing to do with sexuality.
If you want to know more, click on this, but warning, it is TMI for many people.
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Real women who are lesbians made this anti-trans website: https://reduxx.info/
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Still waiting,…..
To see the female to male trans insisting they be allowed to compete in mens sports, or be incarcerated in a mens prison.
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Yeah… Notice it’s similar to the lack of feminists who choose to say, do mud-logging or operate garbage trucks…
Notwithstanding that for decades there’s been female infiltration of: men’s clubs, men’s schools, certain military specialties, men’s pro-sports lockerrooms as reporters…
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There was a boy who forfeited a chance to win a state tournament because he refused to wrestle an actual girl.
I don’t know what was going through the organizers’ minds.
Or the parents of the girl in the mixed-sex tournament.
This is indeed the Land of Confusion!
Pardon the anti- Reagan theme of the video. Phil Collins has never been accused of being the sharpest pencil in the box. Perhaps someone can cover this video with a montage of current events based on reality ( with Trump in the role of Superman, of course)!
Phil Collins and the Crowd KIND ah MISSED the Correction of the ” Wrongs ” , eh ?
Spitting Image did a Great Job on the puppets
much of the gay community realizes that their original argument that there was a genetic component to their behavior – is out the window if they accept the concept that you can just declare yourself whatever you want and then cut things off or sew things on to pretend.
There is also that if a gay man can accept a woman pretending to be a man as a partner, he can just as easily accept a woman not pretending to be a man as a partner, so the whole concept of being gay is erased.
I remember when Brandon Straka, #WalkAway, talked about this before. Very interesting guy, horribly treated by the jackboots in our fake gubt. He says when he was fighting for gay rights he never intended for those rights to be turned into this whole alphabet soup trans religion, and he’s told them he’s not on board, so they call him names. He says you would have nothing if I didn’t fight.
Seth Dillon, founder of “The Babylon Bee” has a conversation with Tucker. He talks about being in Twitter jail until Elon bought the platform, having The Babylon Bee fact checked for disinformation when it is a humorous site, censorship and how satire is more difficult when reality is so absurd.
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-seth-dillon/
“satire is more difficult when reality is so absurd.”
I have found myself wondering if some of the BB articles are actually true. Nothing astonishes me anymore. Which of course, is the whole point of the left blowing up every traditional belief this country was founded on.
In fairness, a lot of the articles come true a few months — or weeks — after they’re published.
“AOC Goes on Price is Right. Guesses Prices on Everything Free!” One Babylon Bee headline that made me laugh.
BB may have inspired one of my all-time favorite memes – they published this headline:
“Brilliant Trump Puts Himself On All Postage Stamps, Forcing Democrats To Push For Abolishing USPS”
Some genius elsewhere created the meme of the postage stamp with Trump’s face on it (55c, 2020, “Greatest President Ever”) with the caption:
“In a Genius move, Trump forces Democrats to lick his backside”
I am sad, sorry, & full of regret I don’t know who the original meme-maker is.
When the Left Can No Longer Dream
“Over the past few years, many high-profile leftist figures, writers, and politicians have turned right. They defected to the other side, and embarrassed leftists don’t know what to do about it.”
…”The Goldberg article claims there are three problems plaguing the left that help explain the apostasy of its celebrities. All of them require acting outside its old orthodoxy.
The first is the culture of the right is more welcoming than the left. Those approaching rightists are treated better—and although she does not say it—with Christian charity. The left does not have anything similar within its ranks.
It is hard to admit it, but the left’s unwelcoming culture can be rather nasty, sarcastic, and crude.”
When the Left Can No Longer Dream ~ The Imaginative Conservative
My MIL was like that, she disliked anyone until they proved they were worthy.
Ricardo Muti is one of the world’s top symphony orchestra conductors: in an interview he made this observation, which is something to contemplate.
“A symphony orchestra today costs less than one football player, what legacy do we hope to leave our children?
Culture does not exist to make profit, but to educate.
If this does not change, in the future, generations will be very shallow, and very dangerous people will prevail.“
We have already passed that point.
One only has to look at the total addiction to the entertainment industry to know this.
I remember a time when as a young person, we knew the names of astronauts and scientists but now most only know the names of the entertainers of the week.
Even here, I’ve watched the daily thread turn all atwitter about how exiting it was when a choreographed bitch slap on some TV awards show brought all the TV addicts to the edge of their seat.
Oh, well.
In the 1940’s, Bugs Bunny could parody Leopold Stokowski by treating a baton as a nasty stick…and everybody understood the joke, because they knew who Stokowski was and that he conducted with his hands, not with a baton.
NBC had a symphony orchestra with Arturo Toscanini, CBS would show Leonard Bernstein‘s concerts in prime time, there were interviews with world-class authors and artists and real poetry was written by authors like Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg.
The “poets” of today write unmetrical and uninteresting prose and are rightly ignored. Those who are not ignored write doggerel with a political agenda. Taylor Swift, who cannot hit one note correctly, cannot compose one line of properly metered poetry, but can prance around like a whore on a stage shouting and jabbering into a microphone, is a billionaire.
Artists with great talent like Frederick Hart are ignored while idiots with spray-paint make graffiti and deface buildings and are called geniuses.
Great writers are ignored, while the writers of cheeseburgers like Mr. King up in Maine and many other incompetent but politically correct scribblers still get attention.
The popularity of such “artists, writers, and musicians” condemns the taste of our sad era.
Too late.
Jack Smith’s filing yesterday was more significant than put forward yesterday. I have thought all along that no criminal trial against President Trump would begin before the election, if only because of legal timelines. Jack’s latest move to exclude the J-6 exculpatory evidence in violation of a stay is so out of bounds that it is what Sundance would call pretending by Smith and Judge Shitcan or K- Theater.
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I think that the government is signaling they don’t want to try the cases because of what president Trump might reveal. Trumps’ attorneys are not colluding with this but would be committing legal malpractice to exposing him to a certain legal conviction in DC and loss of campaign time on the trail. Ironically, a la Lee Harvey Oswald , having the pressure of having criminal may be the last chance to reveal the truth.
Smith, Shitcan and the Deep State will blame all delays on Trump, keep the pretend suspense up that a trial could still procede and move the goalposts that Trump still shouldn’t be nominated or elected because he is still under four indictments. The courts ultimately have a cover up motive to delay. They are all bullies but cowards.
The Gestapo won’t charge “Insurrection” because of “Discovery”.
the gestapo can do whatever they want because “discovery” is a concept in LEGAL trials of the republic, not whatever is ruling now.
we’ve literally watched them deny discovery in trial after trial lately – why would you still think that?
I have said all along the lawfare wasn’t about convictions, it was to give the RNC an excude to deny him the nomination.
Most, but not all, bullies are cowards.
The abusive giant of Ferguson was a bully. But neither coward nor brave. Just an idiot who let his anger control him.
Viral Levels in the Water Supply Skyrockets
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/shocking-discovery-viral-levels-water-supply-skyrockets
Dec 2023 CDC graphic:
What they’re not telling you.
Unsurprisingly, the biggest COVID-related story was completely buried by the mainstream media: despite vaccine status, repeat infections of COVID may actually compound negative effects.
Like I’ve said, IMO those who focus exclusively on the injections causing the continuing, large excess death figures are incorrect since both the injections and the illness create the cytotoxic spike protein and very few are still getting the injections. Ignore COVID-19s deceptively low CFR. It’s more likely a slow acting killer.
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Do Repeat COVID Infections Increase the Risk of Severe Disease or Long COVID?
Many repeat infections are mild, but some studies suggest people who have been infected with COVID more than once are at a greater risk of severe disease or long COVID
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-repeat-covid-infections-increase-the-risk-of-severe-disease-or-long-covid/
Reinfections with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, are on the rise, dashing hopes that vaccination or prior disease confers long-lasting immunity to infection. As more people get reinfected, they may be wondering: Do repeat infections lead to more severe COVID symptoms?
Evidence is still limited, but the available data show that while most reinfected people recover within a few days, “others are having a much rougher time,” says Josh Fessel, a pulmonologist at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, in Bethesda, Md. Evaluating the impacts of reinfection—especially with new viral variants arising that are successively more contagious—is an urgent priority, Fessel and other experts say.
The evolution of the virus is following the path Geert has long been worried about. Video is cued to the excellent, greatly simplified explanation of what has happened and what the possible danger is.
Geert Warning: Predicts Large (Highly Virulent) Covid Eruption (14 minutes long from cue)
Vejon Health
23 Dec 2023
Full disclosure. I am not an expert of any kind concerning epedemiology.
Also, I am not an actual cat.
I am, however, suspicious of articles such as this for a couple of reasons.
The title leads the reader to believe the “water supply” is at risk of Covid-19 viral contamination. The article content and the map graphic indicate they are actually referring to “wastewater”. I don’t know the significance of that distinction, but it makes me suspicious.
There are no references to support the conclusions.
The entire article is an advertisement.
Again, I am not an expert nor a cat. When I’m asked to take information at face value and buy stuff – just suspicious.
Unfortunately, some may be turned off by this approach and fail to follow up on what may be a severe threat to their health. I don’t mean to injure the messenger here, just pointing out a couple of things which seem a bit off with this particular article.
“The water supply is contaminated” story has been running on Breitbart as an advertisement for days.
They are obviously selling something.
They are. Same article running on TGP as “Promoted Post” for the past week or so.
furthermore….waste water surveillance for corona virus is relatively a new approach. The surveillance programs also are SELECTIVELY FOCUSED. Yes, you guessed it…the highest majority of these surveillance sites are located near hospitals, and aging populations and cities.
reminds me of the observation paradox. you can only see what you are looking for, and only as far as your observation can allow you to see, AND if you have never been observing before then all “new discoveries”, will appear to be spectacular and enigmatic…which is a form of fallacy.
here is an example with a twist: for how many years and decades now has “science” presented the idea that the universe has a beginning, the big bang. there was no real observations, just theories to support this guess. And upon that was developed all the modern standard models. And then James Webb Telescope launches and observes entire nebula (millions of light years across) and massive black holes, and fantastically large galaxies, at or about 400 million years AFTER the supposed big bang event. These large nebulas structures, massive black holes and ginormous galaxies were ALWAYS THERE….we just could never see them. So this reverses literally decades of assumptions and guesses about what existed and when…it’s just not possible within the standard model that these massive objects could exist so soon after the big bang. So we got that one wrong, and we can assume that all standard model theories are also likely wrong that were built upon that “science”. Which is okay with me…that’s how science goes. But it is important to notice those who would obscure inconvenient facts and to remain stubborn and cling to bad ideas.
how do we know that corona viruses have not had quite a high concentration and variability is waste water, like forever? it would be reasonable to assume that would be true. We just simply started recently to test and observe it.
If I look at an ant hill. I see few ants. If I kick it, they come out in the thousands. The ants were always there, I just could not observe them until I DID SOMETHING.
I will also say this as well: the type of pcr tests used to isolate corona viruses and to determine if it is sars-cov-2 relative is dubious. I’ve seen the standard methods and the controls, and there does not appear to be much quality control as in a level 3 plus lab would provide nor the more sophisticated and costly RT-PCR laboratory examinations.
here is a good way to think about this: right now, me and you probably have some variant of SARS-COV-2. but we are not sick because it’s either a very small viral load, the variant type is not as infectious (compared to say delta), and/or our bodies are now sturdy immuno energized having been subjected to just about every single variant of this highly mutable and highly transmissible virus for what now…3 years. And if me and you were to take a 15 minute parking lot PCR test, we would likely be positive. But that does not mean, obviously, that we are sick, or that we are ever going to get sick. The bigger picture provides the truth…very few people are getting sick from sars-cov-2 and even fewer are having serious infections and dying from it.
what they are seeing in waste water is probably normal….as normal as one can expect, given that sars-cov-2 is NEVER GOING TO GO AWAY…it will be just like the common cold, which also mutates rapidly and so ever now and again some people are going to get sick….you would expect to see sars-cov-2 in waste water. We only know about THIS because we just started doing the surveillance of waste water at this scale recently. And when I say scale, I am talking about thousands of collection sites with constant testing.
these are solely my own opinion…also not a doctor, have no letters behind my name, but I can train a dog to hunt. So I do.
God Bless America
The Ethical Skeptic has been following the waste water theory from the beginning of the ‘pandemic’, his focus included the use of waste-water in farmland irrigation n the midwest and mapping the timing of the rise and fall of the various outbreaks in relation to the seasonal nature of farming.
Interesting hypothesis that makes it easy to not quickly dismiss the possibility; he also is the one who came up with charts way back in the beginning how these variants of the original ‘virus’ could not have developed as quickly as they have if they hadn’t already been around for quite some time.
for example, this November 2021 article looks at the timing of the variant development (and am sure a search of is website will find the articles on the waste-water possibility for determining areas of spread of the ‘virus’)
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
67,284 illegal voters on the voter rolls in GA. Now multiply that by 50 states and my assertion still stands; had this been a fair election President Trump would have swept the nation the same way President Reagan did in 1980.
Now will Fani drop her bogus RICO cases?
“BREAKING: Now There’s Proof! Brad Raffensperger Lied to President Trump When He Told Him in Jan 2021 Phone Call There Was No Fraud in 2020 Election”
Here are the numbers of ineligible votes from the 2020 election via True the Vote’s Aftermath Report.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger knew about these illegitimate numbers but lied to President Trump anyway – insisting the election in Georgia was clean!
Raffensperger knew this was not true when he spoke to President Trump.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-now-theres-proof-brad-raffensperger-lied-president/
Sadly none of this is news.
It’s one thing to have ineligible voters on the rolls…
It’s another thing when they are actually voting.
And that other thing is fraud in high enough numbers to steal elections.
What you have asked is in blue on the graph.
Europe’s actions in manning up for Operation Prosperity Guardian…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-us-allies-reluctant-red-133406049.html
What does Europe’s actions say about the future of NATO?
What does Europe’s actions say about Qatargate?
What does Europe’s actions say about Iran bribing european politicians?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55962-european-officials-bribed-into-accepting-iran-nuke-deal
F*ck Europe.
Shipping through the Suez Canal helps Egypt. Lower shipping costs puts money in the pockets of your average european. Granted, the shippers want longer routes for added cash and premiums…
Here is an example of the meaningless practise of speaking to a mirror:
https://www.politico.eu/article/david-cameron-annalena-baerbock-sustainable-cease-fire-in-gaza-but-not-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza/
“We must do all we can to pave the way to a sustainable cease-fire, leading to a sustainable peace,” they said.”
That is never going to happen. Hamas and Islam demand the Jews in Israel be eliminated.
They will never cease firing at Israel.
“far right extremists” – so almost certainly that means regular citizens.
What is a far right extremist in Germany? Someone opposed to illegal mass immigration?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/far-right-extremists-reichsburger-rural-land-grab-germany
DEC 23 2023 – Osnabruck Germany – Truckers + Farmers
DEC 21 2023 – GERMANY -Stuttgart
DEC 19 2023 – GERMANY – Berlin – Farmers protest
DEC 19 2023 – GERMANY – Berlin
if we are indeed back to that point, what does it say about us that we will not stand and remove this illegitimacy from our midst?
Dumbed down , don’t care until……
remove the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act first, and then maybe we will talk
remove the government, and THEN we can fantasize about all this other stuff.
that will NEVER happen as long as they remain in power. NEVER.
The many states authorized the formation of a federal government. Will have to change the Constitution to accomplish what you talk about which it seems to me would be anarchy.
Hmm, anarchy or tyranny……..
You just described Trumps chances as president.
I know everyone here remembers how the IRS tax system was always brought up at voting time……promises never happened even though majority support. Did it ever come up for a vote? Even though they collect MORE taxes by lowering Capital Gains Tax……they would rather have the CONTROL over you and me.
Add the Patriot Act …….
How does a Flat Tax keep us from being taxed to death? Right now, I get Social Security at $26,000-ish per year and barely pay income taxes. Will a Flat Tax force me to pay more on ALL of my SS?
Why don’t they stop confiscating OUR INCOME and get their money from TARIFFS, FINES, and ILLLEGAL INVADERS??
Morning Dantes. Worth yours & the Treehouse’s time. Charley is one my big 5 Populist writers, Sundance is one of them. He points out the Uniparty Hegelian Dialectic decades ago. Allot of pressure was put on the Orlando Sentinel to get rid of him over the years.
545 People Are Responsible For The Mess But They Unite In A Common Con
https://peoplespatriotnetwork.com/news/politics/545-people-responsible-mess-unite-common-con/
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This is not as “simple” or as “fair” as it may seem.
E.g. compare two guys with small businesses. One has $100K of gross income from selling $80K of widgets. Another has $100K of gross income from a consulting business with minimal expenses of $5K. A “flat tax” would require the guy who made $20K in profits to pay the same amount of money in taxes as the guy who cleared $95K. Won’t happen. Complex rules about income, expenses, profits, and losses cannot be eliminated.
Ultimately, all a “flat tax” does is eliminate the progressive tax scheme. So a struggling family barely able to earn enough to cover expenses will pay the same percentage of their incomes as someone earning millions.
We long have recognized that another form of “flat tax” — the sales tax — disproportionately burdens the poor. Ditto the social security/FICA taxes that support old-age entitlements and disproportionately burden low-income earners.
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I agree, but feel compelled to add that our current income tax disproportionately burdens the poor, and those that work for a living, as well.
It is a mathematical certainty that we can’t continue to run the SS Ponzi scheme with an aging population barely replacing itself domestically.
What do you think of this idea?
Ultimately, I am in favor of a return to constitutionality (abolish the Fed and the IRS), but I don’t see how that happens short of calamity.
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Summarize the idea, please. I skipped through but just heard a lot of generalizations without explanation, seeming connection, or documentation.
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What does it matter anyway? Our problems don’t stem from how the federal government collects a portion of what it spends.
If Rand Paul is in any way putting real stock into this idea he is either completely out of touch or he is creating a diversion.
How about this…PASS A BUDGET!
“E.g. compare two guys with small businesses. One has $100K of gross income from selling $80K of widgets. Another has $100K of gross income from a consulting business with minimal expenses of $5K. A “flat tax” would require the guy who made $20K in profits to pay the same amount of money in taxes as the guy who cleared $95K. Won’t happen. Complex rules about income, expenses, profits, and losses cannot be eliminated.”
Not if the flat or fair tax was point of sale by the consumer. The purpose of a flat tax is to eliminate all forms of income tax.
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That’s just an expanded sales tax with the creation of a new federal bureaucracy to enforce it (currently sales tax is state and local).
It places the collection and reporting burden on sellers (of all kinds, including private individuals making isolated occasional sales), and does not eliminate the need for extensive, intrusive auditing. Moreover, it disproportionally burdens “consumers” who purchase necessaries of life, rather than spend money in foreign jurisdictions where the tax won’t be collected (that vacay home in Mustique, e.g.)
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But sellers would be relieved of the business/payroll burden. Whats your solution? Plus no touching inherited assets…..Tax was already paid…I don’t care if bezos can leave his kids tax free money. He made more …good on him.
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Not sure, but you may have flat tax and sales tax confused.
Sales tax is on the revenue.
A flat tax on the gross profit would require x% on the gross profit.
So, in your example, x% would be paid on the 20K and that same x% would be paid on the 95K, making it equitable.
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I don’t think that I have it confused. (I’m a tax lawyer, by the way.) I was addressing Booger’s “point of sale” collection idea.
“Revenue” for sales tax purposes is on gross revenue (or income). “Profit” is what the seller (or service provider) has after deducting the expenses of getting that gross income. It cannot be calculated without the maintenance of complicated rules of the sort we currently have in place, the filing of returns, audits, etc.
The “flat tax” simplifies NOTHING. “Flat tax” is a set percentage, rather than a progressive or varying percentage of “something”. When politicians refer to it, they virtually always are referring to “income”. The problem is: how is that “income” calculated. Gross income? Net income after the costs incurred of earning or producing it? A fair or reasonable amount of income? That’s what the tax code is about, and what the IRS enforces. The percentage that then is applied to calculate “tax owed” is not what is causing the complicated system.
“Sales tax” is collected by sellers (quite burdensomely) for the state, on their gross proceeds of sale, again without calculating their actual net incomes (because it includes sales made at a loss). It is theoretically added to the price of goods/services sold. It requires the submission of sales tax returns and subjects sellers to intrusive audits for enforcement.
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I’m with you on that. Business person myself with a Paralegal BAR certified background.
But I think that on a flat tax, a lot of those “expenses” could be curtailed to figure out the gross and or net profits. I think that ‘income’ could be streamlined and lot of things that the higher incomes write off that really isn’t necessary to conduct business could be overhauled.
For instance, tools, equipment, fuel, etc could be deducted, within reasonable bounds
But vehicles need to be in modesty (limited so folks don’t buy Benz when a GM will do).
Things like lunches and entertainment gone.
I just feel like it could be done.
However, I’m more of a fan of going back to tariffs, fees, etc before we had a Fed and income tax pre-1913 in all honesty. And limit what the government can do with a budget.
20k was not gross it was net after expenses. Would require additional rules to change.
EBITA – earnings before TAXES, depreciation and amortization.
Used to be known as “operational income.”
I know the difference between gross and net. I’ve worked it for 35+ years.
Perhaps a flat tax on AGI is the way forward. I have a construction and renovation business. We do $12‐$20 million a year in business (except this year things have literally fallen off a cliff to about 1.5 million). Before paying any overhead to my actual business, there’s about 10% of “profit” (after buying material, paying subcontractors, etc). Once all the staff has been paid, business space, phones, insurance, workers comp, etc…my highest grossing year was about $160k in 2021 (but of course that was before my expenses also like my own fuel, insurance, mileage, maintenance, etc). This year I will clear about $92k before expenses. Or roughly $70k AGI. If a flat 17% tax (all inclusive of FICA, and income tax)….I would be about the same as I am now, although now I have a stack of paperwork from my tax person whereas a flat tax would be maybe 5 pages. I come up with 17% from our economy being about 30 trillion and the gov currently collecting about 5 trillion in taxes. So tax 17% of the economy and you get about 5.2 trillion, and move a lot of tax preparers to the “learn to code” line
Only corporations pay 0……If they did away with all corporate loopholes , taxed even more if out of country, then they could lower the income tax burden on the middle class…By the way lower income do not pay federal income tax and actually get income tax credit back to the tune of thousands. They get free healthcare via medicaid and Ocare even deductibles and out of pocket are subsidized. Something has got to be figured out for the small business people and middle class. I really didn’t get a tax break after the Trump fix if I am being honest. One way to help would not affect the “poor” would be to stop taxing interest income and capital gains. Stop taxing everything from gas to yard sale profits…..it is onerous.
I know you all are talking about the small business nightmare for taxes which are a different animal. I did my ex’s business taxes for years. Maybe smarter heads can explain why just a sales tax wouldn’t work. (Calling Dekester here for clarity).
When I went to Canada, years ago, I bought, say a dollar drink. The town had a %, the state/province had a %, and the country/fed had a %. Three different taxes. My one dollar drink had (made up #’s) 2%-town, 4% state, 5% country. The total was .11 added to my dollar=1.11. If all sales were taxed like this, small purchases = smaller taxes. If I bought something for 1M, the taxes would obviously be more. Rich pay more, blah, blah, blah. Am I misunderstanding what a flat tax is? Wouldn’t this work besides the fact that gov’ts want ALL our money?
Did Rand just wake up?
Steve Forbes was saying this twenty years ago.
This is your motive. We already know they had the opportunity.
This is why you don’t let them get away with what they have done to humans, but who is running on bringing them to justice for their crimes against humanity?
Sorry, dogs and cats. We don’t care enough.
WEF Wants To Slaughter Millions of Pet Cats and Dogs To Fight Climate Change
December 11, 2022
The World Economic Forum is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the “carbon pawprint” they produce as a result of eating meat.
The WEF, which has ordered mainstream media outlets to begin pushing the narrative, wants to introduce an international policy that would require the majority of pet owners to euthanize their animals.
CNN, always at the forefront in pushing the globalist agenda, has begun urging its viewers to starve their pets to death in an effort to combat climate change.
https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au/news/wef-wants-to-slaughter-millions-of-pet-cats-and-dogs-to-fight-climate-change/
Slaughtering unborn humans is A OK with the rabid left, but killing pets might just get them off the chain!
That’s true.
So they do it by stealth, with a disease created in a lab somewhere…
That is true. This reveal could reverse the mass formation hypnosis many mentally ill liberals that have dogs & cats. This would be a great way to fracture them and perhaps reverse the hypnosis
Genuine environmental protection would be stopping immigration & deporting would really save the environment
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Insane and specious. What about all the meat-eating wild animals around the world? OTOH, maybe anyone who falls for this probably shouldn’t be allowed to have pets.
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Heartless monsters.
‘I’ll give you my pet when you pry it from my cold, dead hands” 😠
Easy to say…..But when they control the money/food.
Someone should send Klaus the old signage: Forget the dog, beware of owner.
That will never happen. Pet owners will never agree to do that and will revolt big time. If nothing else motivates people to see the light, this will. Underestimating pet owners is a very risky path to go down for TPTB. They will have a whirlwind to deal with. Trust me because I will be one of those revolting big time.
Why aren’t we revolting now? When our own lives, childrens lives, food, livelihoods, assets, freedoms, liberties, heck our country is under threat. This should have been motivation enough.
Reading that headline am reminded of the movies about serial killers and psychopaths – neither could stand their families having pets. Symbols, signs, indications that WEF may indeed be populated with like-minded individuals.
They want to kill you.
They want you to die.
You mean so little to them that they can’t be bothered to run a blind test on the medicine that they are pushing upon billions of people.
Do you get that?
It is not incompetence.
They want you to die.
They want you to die.
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/i-feel-like-my-unborn-grandchildren-are-saying-please-fix-this/
They wanted it buried for 75 years.
Hell has a lot of room and torment for the evil ones to spend eternity in.
😳
Stew Peters
@RealStewPeters
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Anne Frank’s step sister, Eva Schloss, tells @piersmorgan on Good Morning Britain that the Auschwitz Liberation was faked with photographers and crisis actors
-“there’s no snow”
—“much later they (the army) took pictures”
Does she march for Hamas?
Is there a link to watch?
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Japan Tries To Deflect
Karl Denninger
Since the virus enters through the respiratory passages and the heart is not directly connected to same, and thus something has to enter the circulation to get to the heart it is therefore deductively obvious that it is not possible for a person who did not suffer viremia to have the heart damaged by the virus since it never got there.
However, we changed the game in 2021 did we not?
We sure did.
What did we do that guarantees the spike protein will get into the circulation? We started jabbing people with a substance that is guaranteed, at least in part, to get into the circulation — every single time. Further, we know it did every single time too despite the basic logic behind all injections because the Japanese found concentrations of it all over the body well-distant from the arm including the ovaries in women which have, as their only connection to the arm, the circulation.
Thus we know on a factual basis that every single case said injection in fact got into the circulation. The degree to which it did in a given person is of course subject to variation but that it happened to every person who took such injections is a medical and physical fact.
And further, if that’s not bad enough, we now know that class-shifting occurs if you take more than two jabs in a very large percentage of the population, it occurs in some people who took just two shots and IgG4 class-shifting causes your body to tolerate rather than attack an invading thing. This means that one must presume that an infection that occurs after such a class-shift may become persistent in the body and thus inevitably viremic simply because your body does not identify it as foreign and kill it before it can. That, in turn, would be expected to lead to an extended low-level insult all through the circulation including in the heart.
Yeah.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=250384
Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
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This is not a fight between Republicans and Democrats.
This is not a fight between liberals and conservatives.
This is nothing less than a fight between Good and Evil, between Darkness and Light, between the Godly and the Godless.
And if we fail, America will step off into 1,000 years of darkness.
Former Rep George Santos Exposing That US Congress Gets Classified Information & Are Actually Told To Do Certain Trades In The Stock Market
They’re Told To Trade On The Exact Day The Stock Jumps 80% Making A Fortune. This Is A Criminal Enterprise
Once upon a time I would laugh at this, but in today’s Babylon DC, I see credibility.
We know he’s not the most honest guy; but that’s who would know dishonesty when he sees it, right?
Who is the “she” he is referring to?
LINK and Think of the FACT that the DOMINATE VOICES for His REMOVAL was FROM the New York State Members ( like the LEMMINGS – THEY ARE, the Majority DID ” THEIR ROBO-VOTES ” like they WERE TOLD )
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3943844-these-lawmakers-traded-bank-stocks-amid-the-banking-crisis/
Nicole Malliotakis, or Nicole MalioStockTips as he calls her.
Nicole Malliotakis. Or, as he calls her, Nicole MalioStockTips.
Lol on “it takes a very competent fib agent to just look at her trading”
Alex Berenson
@AlexBerenson
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I am Berlin’s Mayor. The air raids are NOT NICE. You are literally killing us. What is this, a war or something?
– The New York Times, Jan. 2, 1945
Have Americans thought about this. We harbor some of the worst criminals in the world in our government. Would we be confused if the bombs fell on us also?
We need them out, gone, away, they have no place here. Porn in our houses of government?
Murray Rothbard wrote about two years before he died that his views on immigration had shifted. He explained that malicious states can use mass immigration to change the demographic composition of a society in a way that shifts political allegiances toward a tyrannical regime. I had my doubts that he was correct about this, and continued and even intensified my support for open borders.
Babylon Utopia
“Democrats are moving toward an “open door” policy on the U.S. border, an open borders embrace of any and all who wish to come.
America, apparently, does not belong to those who live here and love the country. America belongs to anyone who chooses to come. America belongs to the world.”
Bernie Leads His Party to Open Borders
https://buchanan.org/blog/bernie-leads-his-party-to-open-borders-137743
FJB
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/biden-secretively-vacations-knab/
Psalm 103
19 The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all.
20 Bless the Lord, you His angels,
Mighty in strength, who perform His word,
Obeying the voice of His word!
21 Bless the Lord, all you His angels,
You who serve Him, doing His will.
22 Bless the Lord, all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, my soul!
Amen!
Rest in the Vine: “What Lurks in the Depths of Your Ocean”–Diana Larkin
Actually, I’d prefer to hear the proof of this which he claims would take an hour.
Notice he never says a word about the invasion.
Agree 100% this isn’t hard to predict. They have the power we do not the elections prove it over and over. They are fraud and will not be addressed it is the root of the power. Add every dirty politician placed in and every appointed judge and we get what we have now.
Trump won in 2020, no doubt, the very fact they make people denounce that or be crucified is plain to see the corruption.
Where we go from here will be a train off the rails until we do not resemble America.
And Mr. Ramaswamy thinks “they” will let him get near the finish line?
We are witnessing the mass memory-holing of the lockdown era
Nobody wants to look in the mirror.
JORDAN SCHACHTEL
The very same ruling class that panicked the masses and instituted authoritarian dictates over the rebranded flu — which also proceeded to parasitically debase the wealth and prosperity of society — remain in charge today.
Very few, if any of the people in government today continue to defend the policies they put in place from 2020 to 2022. Some of them are indeed hooting and hollering about issues we’re all passionate about, but in a way that seeks to redirect attention away from their actions during this time.
They were complicit, or worse, actively undermining our rights when it mattered, and a true inquiry would drag those Covid skeletons out of the closet for the world to see. An accountability process wouldn’t just implicate the likes of Fauci and Pharma, but the entire system itself.
https://www.dossier.today/p/we-are-witnessing-the-mass-memory?r=qemk4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Ah yes, Gruesome Newsome still smiling while lying through his shiny white teeth.
There will never be “Covid accountability” when the entirety of D.C. (minus a select few individuals) was complicit in the power grab. Nobody is holding anyone accountable. They all have blood on their hands. It’s not in their interests to expose it. They’re all complicit.
“They’re all complicit.”
YEP!!!!
“And for the vast majority of Americans, their unnecessary and sometimes humiliating overreaction to the Wuhan sniffles era is something they’d rather not think about. So most benefit to sweep it under the rug.”
Agree with everything but the “Wuhan sniffles” claim. It increasingly appears from studies that the low CFR should be totally ignored and that long term effects even from minor infections can be serious with multiple reinfections possibly causing increasingly severe cases in some.
Collins claims that the GBD “was an effort to take a very fast track of something which would have potentially been a major change in national policy without the opportunity for any debate or discussion.”
Yet that is EXACTLY what Collins ADMITS to doing with lockdowns.
Got a population with births WAY under the replacement rate? Japan’s fertility rate stands at 1.3 with 2.1 required just for a stable population count.
What do you mean exactly when you say Powerhouse? Sounds like they’re getting ready to wreck their country? Who exactly are they importing? And who in the Japanese government green lit this? There is no model, except for the Middle East where this works.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the assassination of PDJT’s MAGA friend? China which is the Globalists “New” world Order, hates Japan. They are the most Westernized. Heritage America is on the same trajectory, with us just one generation behind.
Look up the US Census Records for 1940 as opposed to now. Western Civilization never really recovered from Wall St WWII
At the exact time of the IC’s statement that COVID was not manmade, an internal memo from the State Department revealed the exact opposite assessment. That government officials knew that Covid almost certainly originated at a Wuhan lab.
The State Dept memo, dated April 2020, stated that of five possible origins for Covid, a lab leak was by far the most likely.
The memo also suggested that alternative theories had been introduced to prevent a lab leak from being investigated.
The memo was released by @USRightToKnow
. Read for yourself.
Lab origin? I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you!
8,111,195 views – Jun 15, 2021
Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory
The pathetic part is that Colbert seems to think Stewart is going to extremes for laughs.
What do people think science is? A sports team?
It was obvious from the beginning this would only end with a negotiated settlement that included Russia claiming a large swath of land. That settlement could’ve been agreed to years ago, before hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Everyone with a brain and a soul knew it.
And the only reason they were sent into the meat grinder is because a bunch of politicians in Washington and London decided years of death and misery were worth it because a profit could be made for their benefactors in the military-industrial. That’s not my opinion, as the war’s backers proudly said as much out loud.
Lindsey Graham was happy to fight to the last Ukrainian. Mitch McConnell all but said wiping out a generation of Ukrainian men was a worthwhile trade for rebuilding America’s defense industry. Major national newspapers and networks published and broadcast that propaganda in both their news and editorial products. Joe Biden and the remnants of the Obama administration decided Zelensky had to be protected at any cost because of all the money that flowed to the Biden family through Ukraine.
These people are monsters, who care nothing for peace or stability or human life. They are evil. They want money and power above else, but what they deserve is your total contempt.
But what they are going to actually get is: “Unconditional military surrender.” On Russian terms.
On 4/30/20 Trump said he has a high degree of confidence COVID came from a laboratory.
– ON THE SAME DAY, the office of then-acting DNI @RichardGrenell
said that “the IC also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID–9 virus was not manmade.”
Hello?
I have read the above along with what I can see via SD’s twitX via nitter. It includes Richard Grenell’s explanation, Ezra Cohen’s and possibly unanswered question via TechnoFog (sp).
I must say this is still so confusing to my small brain. I trust RG yet so far I don’t see a linkage to how his belief of ‘manmade etc.’ got switched to not manmade.
Most, not all, of the screamers trying to get MAGAs to focus on the u-crane, covid, etc.,etc., etc. are voices for the enemy trying to distract us…. “negative influencers” to use the more fashionable term.
But, the same disciplines and people that won the House back in 2022 and fired pee-low-ski, are still hard at work to reclaim the whole federal government with the HUGE win for President Trump in 2024.
He will come into office wielding the “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate” like “Alexander the Great”, severing the unconstitutional Gordian Knot tied around the Executive Branch, freeing all Americans from the weaponized federal government. Believe it. Occam’s razor principle at work.
The MAGA workers numbers have grown and spread like wildfire throughout the state and local entities across America. The IA manipulators of the Overton Window are hard at work trying to hide the state and local success stories but it is getting harder and harder for them to do.
The MAGA movement has the numerical, economic, moral, intellect and armed majorities in America and the best leader, G.O.A.T. President Trump.
That is why the globalists / democrats / GOPe / RINOs of the “COW-coup-d’état” are running around in smaller / tighter & tighter circles looking for an exit that doesn’t exist.
Ya see, attempting to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States of America and its president, President Trump, is treason. A serious crime with severe punishment attached. And, it has made Americans very, very mad.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
“Personnel is policy.” I suspect that during his term, President Trump believed that his deal making skills would allow him to guide people to act in their own interests as Americans. Evidently, he missed the part where many voted for him because he was known as the “You’re fired!” guy.
We can’t really focus on issues until we are rid of the bureaucratic, congressional, and judicial toads that act contrary to the interests of all of the American people (their immediate selves excepted).
CarpeTrachea
Thanks for the comment and good points.
To use your term, concentrating on the unconstitutional, administrative-state toads in the Executive Branch will allow for quick and vigorous action eliminating the majority of the “weaponized personnel and departments” without any hinderance from any stinkin’ congressman, senator or jurist toads.
Most of the toads eliminated in the Executive Branch were also the toads that put roadblocks up in front of President Trump during his first term.
Loose ends, for sure, but President Trump, the superior executive and negotiator can handle those while he is fulfilling his promises to the American citizens.
Thanks again and have a great MAGA day.
So let it be.
The hack of the DNC was a false flag operation.
Mark my words.
To launch the Trump-Russia Collusion. Which was really allowed to go full steam ahead after VP Mike Pence claimed General Flynn the National Security Adviser for the PDJT MAGA Administration and the “Firewall” against the coup traitors had ‘lied’ to him.
1) Who Fired General Michael Flynn?
“Let’s begin with Mike Pence’s least favorite question: “Why did you insist that President Trump fire his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in the opening days of the administration?” The official story is that Gen. Flynn had lied to Mike Pence about Flynn’s contacts with Russian diplomats. Nobody has bothered to ask Pence exactly how he was informed about Flynn’s private conversations. Think about it: somebody went to Pence with transcripts of Flynn’s calls, and told Pence that Flynn was a national security risk. Who would have access to such phone calls? Who would want to lie about the nature of those phone calls to get Flynn fired?
It almost certainly must have been disgraced FBI agent Peter Strozk.
It’s likely that Strzok was the one who pushed for VP Pence to fire Flynn because we know that Peter Strozk’s assistant was Katherine Seaman — the wife of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Josh Pitcock. We also have the text exchanges between Strozk and Page discussing infiltrating the Trump White House in great detail. (This was the subject of an extraordinary letter from Senator Grassley and Senator Johnson to AG Bill Barr.) What did Pence know about the FBI’s attempts to spy on the Trump White House? Is it even possible that Mike Pence was totally unaware that his chief of staff’s spouse worked directly for the chief of the counter-espionage unit of the FBI?
We know that President Obama warned President Trump not to hire Flynn in 2016. We also know that Flynn himself believes that Obama advised Trump against hiring him because Flynn knew about the Obama administration’s role in spying on Trump’s presidential campaign. Removing Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor was a top priority for the Deep State.
In other words, Mike Pence was the first person to set the Russia Hoax into motion.”
The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained
Who fired General Flynn and started the Russia Hoax in the first place?
https://www.emerald.tv/p/the-treachery-of-vp-mike-pence-explained
Great analysis.
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
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20h
You read press releases. You don’t know the real story.
Dont be so confident about a system you have no access to.
NACs (Natural Asset Companies) and carbon credits will be the biggest scam the world has ever seen. Leftists always double down (here, after being exposed on ESG).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GB5uDv8XUAAUBZs?format=jpg&name=small
Build Back Bolshevik.
(Former Democrat Virginia Senator) James Webb had a sensible op-ed in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago criticizing “diversity” affirmative action which often privileges recent immigrants over working class whites:Webb vs. “Diversity”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/webb-vs-diversity/
It seems like NYC is going to be the first to attempt something to curb the invasion. But they won’t repeal their Sanctuary City/State laws, since that’d be the obvious thing to do.
I’m awaiting the Bolsheviks to start putting them in houses as depicted in Dr Zhivago. Of course the Bolsheviks at the top will not have to house them in their mansions. I think the Blacks are going to be the first to fight back, as its hitting them directly plus they are mad that their ‘free stuff’ is getting diverted to the Brown invaders.
Believe me the Black/Brown solidarity movement is mostly fiction as is most of the current reality being programmed by the Babylonian Council On Foreign Relations media
Until Dr. Scott Atlas’ arrival, no one on the White House covid task force had a background in public health policy.
You don’t allow people with the mindset of Frances Collins to make decisions for others, or even recommendations. They aren’t competent to do that, they aren’t “experts.
Even if they aren’t dishonest, which he is.
The MSM made a big deal about Dr. Atlas’ background as a radiologist and not an expert on viruses. Neither were Fauci or Birx. Dr. Atlas had public health policy expertise.
Just about a year ago, @elonmusk
invited me to visit Twitter HQ in San Francisco and see for myself how, under previous management, Twitter blacklisted me the day I first joined in 2021 for posting a link to @gbdeclaration
.
Though things are still dire for free speech, I’m grateful to Elon for using his great wealth to try to restore a basic civil right that our government is still conspiring to take away from every citizen.
I will know Elon is serious about free speech on X, when he gets around to replacing the Twitter censorship program.
Talk about the IC getting you six ways from Sunday, Twitter easily had a dozen ways from Tuesday to censor you.
Ukraine warns of pension and salary delays
If Kiev does not receive more foreign aid, it may be forced to postpone salary payments to 500,000 civil servants and 1.4 million teachers, as well as delay benefits for 10 million pensioners, she added.
Oh, my heart breaks (NOT)!!!
Which only goes to tell ya where all the US funding has actually been going, eh?
I may be speaking out of turn on this Presidential thread. However….Yesterday there were several comments posted on this very thread bemoaning the fact that they had to scroll down to get past the beautiful prayers of Stillwater. One of the reasons I love and admire this site is the steadfast faith in the truth of a Just and Righteous God.
Here is the reason those posts are so important for this thread. This was from Stillwater today.
“Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.” ~ James 5:10, 11
**If I give you one message to hold in your hearts today, it’s this… Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Relish the opportunity to be an outsider, because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
The more that a broken system tells you that you’re wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead, you must keep pushing forward.” ~ President Donald J. Trump
I thank brother Stillwater always for his generosity, patriotism, and love for our country and fellow patriots.
Although you might not see my name on a comment here for days or sometimes weeks, 90% of the time I’m still around reading Stillwater’s daily prayers..Stillwater for me is my reminder that GOD is NOT dead and GOd is still in control.
Yes, I might need a break from the barrage of the craziness going on in America, but never from knowing that we still need God in our daily life. Stillwater is and should be an inspiration to us all…
Stillwater is keeping grandma coffefe’s dreams going.
And there are frequently complaints. Pointless. But frequent.
Some people just can’t see that the site supports these prayers.
And it is really easy to skip past them. Easier than complaining.
A federal court in NY just ruled that the CIA under Pompeo — and the Spanish firm it hired to spy on Julian Assange and those visiting him in the Embassy, including American citizens (UC Global) — violated Americans’ Constitutional rights of privacy.