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There’s Even More Gold in Those Cell Towers – Hugh Odom

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

The advent of 5G means a veritable bonanza for existing cell tower property owners who lease their land to cell companies. That’s where Hugh Odom comes in. With over 20 years of legal experience in real estate and telecommunications, Hugh has a vast range of expertise in acquiring, disposition, and managing both real and personal property assets. In 2010, he founded Vertical Consultants, a telecom consulting firm specializing in property owners’ monetary rights within their cell tower and rooftop telecom lease agreements. With the need for connectivity more essential than ever, Hugh is poised to discuss the significant changes in wireless services due to COVID-19 and how property owners can navigate through all the financial, legal, and development aspects of a cell tower deal.

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Home Invasions: All the Ways the Government Can Lay Siege to Your Property

by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute

“How ‘secure’ do our homes remain if police, armed with no warrant, can pound on doors at will and … forcibly enter?” – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the lone dissenter in Kentucky v. King

Americans are not safe in their homes.

Not anymore, at least.

This present menace comes from the government and its army of bureaucratized, corporatized, militarized mercenaries who are waging war on the last stronghold left to us as a free people: the sanctity of our homes.

The weapons of this particular war on our personal security and our freedoms include an abundance of laws that criminalize almost everything we do, a government that views our private property as its own, militarized police who have been brainwashed into believing that they operate above the law, courts that insulate police from charges of wrongdoing, legislatures that legitimize the government’s usurpations of our rights, and a populace that is so ignorant of their rights and distracted by partisan politics as to be utterly incapable of standing up to the government’s overreaches, incursions and power grabs.

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Warren Buffett: “Retirees Face a Bleak Future”

by Simon Black
Sovereign Man

Warren Buffett minced no words in his most recent annual shareholder letter (which came out over the weekend) when he told investors that “retirees face a bleak future.”

Buffett was referring to the pitifully low interest rates that dominate fixed income investments (like bonds and annuities).

In September 1981, he writes, investors could buy a 10-year US government bond yielding nearly 16%.

Now, inflation was a lot higher in the 1980s than it is today. But even after adjusting for inflation, the average annual yield for any investor who held that 1981 bond to maturity over the next decade would have been 5.7% per year.

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Homosexuality Can Be Deemed ‘Mental Disorder’ in China, Says New Court Ruling

from Zero Hedge

After the Chinese Communist government previously decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the country’s official list of things deemed mental disorders in 2001, a major court decision in China this week has “shocked” various rights monitors by once again classifying homosexuality as among “common psychosexual disorders.”

According to South China Morning Post, this latest ruling began with a legal dispute over a higher education textbook, namely the 2013 edition of Mental Health Education for College Students, published by Jinan University Press. A lawsuit filed by a student challenged the book given that it

…listed homosexuality under “common psychosexual disorders” – along with cross-dressing and fetishism. It stated that homosexuality “was believed to be a disruption of love and sex or perversion of the sex partner”.

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The Quality of Life in the United States is Going Down the Toilet

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

Is the quality of life in America getting better, or is it getting worse? Americans certainly have a lot more “money” than they did when I was a kid, but that doesn’t mean much because the U.S. dollar has only a fraction of the value that it did back then. And without a doubt our electronic devices have become much more advanced, but that doesn’t mean that we are happier. In fact, everywhere I look people seem to be deeply unhappy. It is rare to see someone actually smiling in public, but of course there is a good reason for that. If you smile too much, someone might accuse you of being creepy. As Americans, we are being trained to not express emotions and to keep to ourselves. Being friendly is considered to be “suspicious”, if you tell a joke there is a very good chance that you will deeply offend someone, and if you express strong opinions you might just get “canceled”.

Even though we are far more “wealthy” than they were, I imagine that our culture is not too different from what East Germans experienced before the Berlin Wall came down.

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Paul Krugman Thinks You’ll Be Happier with Fewer Choices. Nonsense.

It’s true that the freedom to make your own decisions comes with both benefits and consequences, but Krugman is squarely focused on just one side of that equation.

by Eric Boehm
Reason.com

Writing in The New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman offers a unified theory of everything wrong with America: We’re just too free to choose.

Krugman says this is the lesson to be learned from last month’s energy crisis in Texas that left some of the state’s residents—people who had freely chosen to sign-up for variable rate offerings from their electric service providers—with sky-high bills when demand surged as the state’s generating supply crashed. People can’t be trusted to choose their electric service, he argues, because some will make ill-informed decisions that come with unexpected costs. From there, he expands this thesis to a general principle, one that he says is to blame for everything from rising health insurance premiums to the subprime mortgage meltdown of a decade ago.

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Neo-Racists in State Government Prioritizing Blacks and Latinos for Covid Vaccination

by Thomas Lifson
American Thinker

If you are an 85-year-old in Virginia living at home and hoping to get vaccinated for COVID, you’d better be black or Hispanic if you’re in a hurry. A new wave of racism is sweeping across the country in the guise of “anti-racism” or “equity.” A better term is “neo-racism,” for unlike the previous waves of state-sanctioned racism under slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow (all of them largely at the hands of Democrats), this wave of racism claims to be about fighting racism, though, in fairness, it is also largely being implemented at the hands of Democrats.

Judicial Watch explains:

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Market Talk for March 2nd, 2021

by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics

ASIA:

Bank of America economist said China stands a good chance of doubling the size of its economy by 2035 — and surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest economy along the way. Helen Qiao, head of Asia economics at BofA Global Research, said some reform measures would help China get there. Doubling of China’s GDP requires an average annual growth of 4.7% for the next 15 years, which some observers said may be hard to achieve. China was one of the few economies globally that grew in 2020 despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Official data showed the Chinese economy expanding by 2.3% last year, and the International Monetary Fund has forecast an 8.1% growth for China this year.

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How is Chris Cuomo Still on the Air at CNN?

by Maureen Callahan
NYPost.com

Is there a bigger joke in broadcast news than Chris Cuomo?

Now, he says, he cannot cover his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, because it’s a conflict of interest. You don’t say? Apparently no such conflict arose when Chris constantly hosted his brother during the height of the pandemic, tastelessly turning his nightly news show into “The Cuomo Brothers Variety Hour.”

The governor took time out of his busy schedule — consisting of daily ego baths dressed up as press conferences and writing a book about leadership while allegedly sexually harassing at least one young employee and eugenically shunting old people with COVID into nursing homes and certain death — to answer hard-hitting questions and accusations such as these, posed by little brother Chris:

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Why Are AstraZeneca and Pfizer Immune from Liability for Vaccine Damage?

by Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell

In 2007, decades of unchecked Manhattan greed culminated a financial meltdown that threatened the entire world economy.

Consultants to the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical firms AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna evidently learned valuable lessons from the events that followed.

In a functional society, the 2007 collapse would have triggered a groundswell of legal schadenfreude in response to the bankers’ malfeasance.

Disgraced executives would have been made to offer nightly live-streamed tsunamis of tear-filled mea culpas in bids to avoid the death penalty.

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The World Technocratic Forum is Working with Kill Gates to Give You Your Daily Pass

by Jeff Berwick
Dollar Vigilante

Everything that is going on now is to increase the pressure on you to get a vaccination and become a permanently tracked part of the system. Everything.

Microchipping will be next. Because it will make your life so much eeeeaaaasier…

No more anal swabs, or brain needles; no more vaccine shots every time you want to travel out of your country. (Yes, that’s a thing now, being promoted by Oxford University)

  • The vaccine scanner at the supermarket: Just flash your “special” tattoo.
  • Want to pay for anything? Use your chip, because cash is dirty (and untraceable)
  • Going to a sports event? If you’re chipped, you’re in.
  • Airport scanner for electronic Covid Pass: Check.
  • Your bank details –– don’t worry, it’s a secret between your nanochip and the Banksters and the tax man.

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Recall Effort Launched Against Soros-Funded LA County DA

by Damjan Tutarkov
LaCorte News

Less than three months into office, Los Angeles County’s progressive district attorney George Gascon is already facing a recall initiative led by families of crime victims.

The recall effort: Shortly after taking office, Gascon issued a special order that, among other things, eliminates the death penalty, cash bail, and sentencing enhancements. On the last issue, Gascon partly reversed course Friday and said in some cases prosecutors will be allowed to pursue sentencing enhancements, which allows for stricter punishment against certain violent offenders.

Gascon’s actions were met with backlash from people concerned the policies would lead to the release of violent criminals.

Over the weekend, families of crime victims launched a recall petition after gathering the 20 minimum signatures to formally begin the initiative, according to Fox News.

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Texas School District Immediately Echoes Abbott: No More Masks Required

by Hank Berrien
Daily Wire

After Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that the state would no longer require people to wear masks, the Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District announced it was rescinding the district’s mask mandate as of March 10.

The statement from LCISD read:

Lubbock-Cooper ISD has been in compliance with Governor Abbott’s order regarding facial coverings, GA-29. As of Wednesday, March 10, order GA-29 is rescinded, and the State of Texas will no longer require individuals to wear facial coverings. Accordingly, Lubbock-Cooper ISD will no longer require individuals to wear facial coverings. Students and staff members who wish to continue wearing facial coverings are certainly permitted to do so. In following the guidance of Governor Abbott and other state officials, the district will continue to adhere to all mandates as written and will not impose any additional restrictions. The district will continue disease mitigation practices, including frequent hand washing and enhanced cleaning processes. Additional information regarding COVID-19 guidelines will be provided by campus administrators in the coming days.

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WHO Defends Appointing U.S. Scientist Mired in Alleged Conflicts of Interest to Coronavirus Origins Investigation

The World Health Organization is defending its decision to appoint Dr. Peter Daszak to its investigative panel that probed the origins of COVID-19 in China in early 2021.

by Andrew Kerr
DailyCaller.com

The World Health Organization is defending its appointment of a U.S. doctor with prior financial ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to be a part of its investigative team that probed the origins of COVID-19 in China in early 2021.

Peter Daszak’s involvement in the WHO’s investigative panel has been described as a conflict of interest by U.S.-based epidemiologists and medical groups. Prior to the pandemic, Daszak, as president of the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance, routed $600,000 in taxpayer funds to the WIV in the form of National Institutes of Health subgrants to fund studies into bat-based coronaviruses.

And during the early stages of the pandemic, Daszak orchestrated a statement published in The Lancet medical journal that condemned “conspiracy theories” suggesting COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.

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Joe Biden’s Deputies Set 2021 Goal of Welcoming 117,000 Migrant Youths

by Neil Munro
Breitbart.com

The White House has dramatically raised the number of migrant youths and children it expects to welcome into the United States’ economy this year.

The new goal is 117,000 youths and children, up from the 30,000 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) migrants who were brought to the border by coyotes during 2020, and well above the record inflow of 76,000 delivered in 2019.

The goal of 117,000 was leaked to Axios as part of a media campaign in which administration officials argue they have no moral choice but to let the migrants into the United States. The campaign is also intended to fend off theatrical criticism from the left, whereby progressives say the youth and children do not need to be kept in the shelters where they are provided with health screens and the legal paperwork needed to get jobs and residency.

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Lockdowns Could Reshape American Politics for a Generation, or Several

by Jeffrey A. Tucker
The American Institute for Economic Research

Lockdowns or not? That’s been the primary question for social, economic, and political organizations for the past year. It’s a new question for humanity. Lockdowns were previously unconscionable and contrary to settle public-health practice. Suddenly, and for reasons never explained, that changed. Then everything changed.

[Note: the day I filed this article, the governor of Texas announced a complete repeal of all lockdowns, including mask mandates, curfews, capacity limits, and quarantines.]

Never before has such a globalized and comprehensive regime of closures, curfews, quarantines, travel restrictions, and surveillance been deployed for any excuse much less under the guise of virus control. A century of high-level public health practice never deployed anything like this, and that’s for a reason. No matter how bad the virus, such policies turn a challenge into a catastrophe.

Continue Reading at AIER.org…