from The Money GPS
Covid Propaganda Roundup: Mounting Evidence Covid-19 Created in Lab, After Vaccinations Still Cower in Fear
by Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell
There’s what the corporate-state media says, and what it really means…
Fauci Pilots ‘Forever’ Timeline for Mandatory Mask-Wearing
The social engineers are beta-testing new messaging surrounding masks and lockdowns to gauge the public’s response.
The bottom line: You are going to be wearing masks indefinitely.
[…] On Feb 21, corporate news actor Dana Bash questioned Fauci on the mask mandates and when they will end.
Why Gold and Silver?
by David Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics
To paraphrase JP Morgan’s (the man) 1912 testimony to Congress: “Gold is money, everything else is credit.” – JP Morgan, 1912
The question you’ll need to answer for yourself is “what alternatives are there for big investments right now?” The stock market, residential real estate market and bond markets have been inflated into bubbles of historic proportions. The Fed has created a financial market Frankenstein of Biblical proportions.
Commodity inflation is raging now, and eventually this will transmit into soaring food, energy and capital/consumer goods price inflation. This dynamic is just getting started. It will soon get worse, as the Treasury earlier this month released its plan to flood the financial system with cash by reducing its balance on its general account at the Fed by $1.229 trillion. This was money printed by the Fed and transferred to the Treasury via “QE.” Yesterday, Fed Chairman Powell reiterated the Fed’s commitment to continue printing money for the foreseeable future.
Twitter Cracks Down on Coronavirus-Vaccine Misinformation
Under new rules, 5 strikes will result in ban from platform
by Associated Press
Market Watch
The company said Monday that it has started using human reviewers to assess whether tweets violate its policy against COVID vaccine misinformation. Eventually, the work will be done by a combination of humans and automation, it said.
Twitter had already banned some COVID-related misinformation in December, including falsehoods about how the virus spreads, whether masks are effective and the risk of infection and death.
“Through the use of the strike system, we hope to educate people on why certain content breaks our rules so they have the opportunity to further consider their behavior and their impact on the public conversation,” Twitter said in a blog post Monday.
The 4% of Stocks You’re Not Buying – But Should Be
by Jason Bodner
Casey Research
In statistics, an outlier is a data point that differs significantly from other observations. That’s why outliers are often excluded from data sets. They can muddy an otherwise clear picture.
Imagine your kid feels sick. You measure their temperature with a touchless thermometer. The first reading says 99.2°… a little high, so you do it again. The second reading says 145°… obviously wrong. So, a third and fourth time each says 99.2°. You obviously throw out the outlier in this case.
This makes sense in most scientific scenarios. But it doesn’t always…
Don Jr. Calls on Book Publisher to Cancel Cuomo’s Book Amid Scandal: ‘Rules Should Be Applied Equally’
[Ed. Note: Hooray! Because cancel culture is so much better when people on the right call for it! Three cheers for brain-dead hypocrisy, and a lack of due process!]
by Ryan Saavedra
Daily Wire
Donald Trump Jr. highlighted the double standard of the political Left on Monday evening by calling out the publisher of Andrew Cuomo’s book and asking if they would be canceling the governor’s book contract in light of the recent scandals that have threatened to topple New York’s governor.
“With everything that is coming to light, when will @CrownPublishing be cancelling @andrewcuomo ’s contract?” Trump Jr. tweeted alongside a screenshot of a press release that stated: “Crown to Publish NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s AMERICAN CRISIS: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Gretchen Whitmer Uses $155,506 in Taxpayer Funds to Buy Former Health Director’s Silence
by Kyle Olson
Breitbart.com
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) reportedly paid former state health department director, Robert Gordon, over $150,000 to stay quiet about his abrupt departure.
The Detroit News reported Gordon, whose surprise resignation occurred in January, took home “$155,506 in a separation deal that also required the two sides to maintain confidentiality about the circumstances that led” to him leaving:
On Feb. 22, one month after Gordon resigned without explanation, he and Mark Totten, Whitmer’s chief lawyer, signed the four-page agreement. The state agreed to pay Gordon a total that represents nine months of salary and health benefits, and he released the state from any potential legal claims.
The agreement is the clearest evidence yet that the split between Gordon, a central figure in the state’s response to COVID-19, and Whitmer was not amicable, and it shows that the Democratic administration used taxpayer funds to ease his departure.
Gordon and Whitmer’s aides both agreed not to discuss publicly his leaving “in the interest of protecting deliberations among government officials,” the paper reported, citing the document obtained through a freedom of information act request.
Vaccine Central Planning Fails Too
by Phillip W. Magness
The American Institute for Economic Research
Three and a half months have passed since we first received news of a highly effective Covid-19 vaccination, yet in all but a few locales the rollout has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Part of the lag comes from an understandable push to prioritize the most vulnerable persons for a disease with a pronounced age gradient, yet simply being 65+ is still not sufficient to qualify for a vaccination in many states.
Instead, you’ll find that large swaths of the country remain mired in the early substages of “Phase 1-A” in a hyper-bureaucratized vaccine rollout plan. Depending on the state, this might entail some sensibly prioritized groups such as nursing home workers and patient-facing healthcare professionals, although it also displays a noticeable overlap with other “essential” jobs in government, law enforcement, and education.
New Zealand’s Largest City, Auckland, on Lockdown Again! for This?
by Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan
The New Zealand government, the ruling class masters who think they own everyone within their illegitimate territorial lines have locked down the nation’s largest city once again. The reason: one new case of COVID-19 was discovered.
All lives will now be ruined because one new case of the disease that hasn’t been isolated yet and for which the tests cannot even confirm, has been found in the city. “We are in the unfortunate but necessary position to protect Aucklanders again,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said according to propaganda outlet, NBC News. If people don’t wake up soon, we are all going to face a dire future of slavery that we won’t be able to escape from.
Auckland, went into a seven-day lockdown from early morning on Sunday, after a new local case of the coronavirus of unknown origin emerged.
This lockdown comes two weeks after Auckland’s nearly 2 million residents were plunged into a snap three-day lockdown by the ruling class when a family was diagnosed with the more transmissible U.K. variant of the coronavirus.
A Highly Resistant New Covid Variant That Originated in Brazil is Being Compared to “an Atomic Bomb”
[Ed. Note: Yeah, “an atomic bomb.” Ok. This article would be less idiotic if atomic bombs were known for killing 0.028% of the people in the impact zone… and only killing people who have 17 other diseases. Do you ever get tired of writing doom-porn, Snyder?]
by Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Global health authorities had been hoping that 2021 would be the year when the COVID pandemic was brought under control, but COVID just keeps mutating over and over again. I have written articles about other new COVID variants in the past, but now scientists are warning us that a highly resistant new variant in Brazil could be the most dangerous one of all. In fact, down in Brazil it is being compared to “an atomic bomb”. This new variant is known as “P.1”, and according to a new study that was just released it is “between 1.4 and 2.2 times more transmissible than other variants”. But that isn’t why this variant is considered to be so dangerous. What is really alarming experts is the fact that tests have shown that P.1 is “able to evade 25-61 percent of protective immunity elicited by previous infection”. If those that are supposed to have built up immunity against COVID are not protected, that could potentially render all existing vaccines useless against this new strain.
I understand that this is not going to be welcome news for a lot of people.
Most Americans have been looking forward to getting back to their normal lives as this pandemic fades, but instead this pandemic could soon enter a deadly new chapter.
Ex-CIA Chief Brennan Says He’s “Embarrassed” to Be a “White Male”
[Ed. Note: Don’t worry John, it’s 2021… If you like, you can just start identifying as a black, female houseplant.]
by Infowars.com
Info Wars
Former CIA Director John Brennan revealed his shame for being a white male on MSNBC.
During a Monday interview on “Deadline”, Brennan claimed his status as a white male embarrassed him because white Republicans won’t call the Capitol riot an insurrection.
“To Claire’s point, I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days, with what I see other white males say,” Brennan told host Nicole Wallace, who laughed in reply.
[…] “It just shows, with very few exceptions, like Mitt Romney, Liz Chenny, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity. And so they’ll continue to gaslight the country, the way Donald Trump did.”
Stocks and Precious Metals Charts – Everybody Knows, but Who Could Have Seen it Coming?
[…] I just thought these statements were an interesting reminder, and a modern truth to be relearned, bluntly and plainly stated.
Promises and commitments these days are writ on the water of the fine print, and in the laws which the corporations have paid to have written.
Who can say where and when the next Madoff moment will appear.
Gold and silver rallied strongly overnight.
Alas, they were hit in the London and NY trading, finishing slightly lower.
The Dollar drifted sideways, managing to hold a toe over the 91 handle.
Stocks soared today, taking back much of their recent losses, but still falling short of their recent highs.
Who could see it coming?
Risk on.
This is Staggering: Anxiety, Depression Surges as More People Can’t Pay Their Bills, Plus Silver and What You Really Have to Pay to Buy Gold
from King World News
This is staggering: anxiety, depression surges as more people can’t pay their bills, plus silver and what you really have to pay to buy gold.
This Is Staggering
March 1 (King World News) – Adam Tooze, Director of European Institute: If taken at face value this is staggering. In December 2020 40% of US adults self reported symptoms consistent with depressive or anxiety disorder! Up from 11% in Jan-June 2019. I guess 2020 really was a bad year!
Mickey Fulp’s Monthly Major Market Review for February, 2021
from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network
Mickey Fulp returns for another monthly market review… Stock markets reversed course for the month: Dow added 3.2% to 30932, S&P 500 up 2.6%, Nasdaq finished up 0.9%, Russell 2000 chugging higher at 6.1%, TSX added 3.9% TSX.V up another 10.5%. VIX down to 28. Dollar was .5% to 90.94 and Euro down .5% to. 10 Year yield skyrocketed to 1.44%. Bitcoin went parabolic again up 38.2% to a record 47672. Gold off 6.1% to 1735. Silver went off 1% to 26.70. PT up 10.8%. PD rose 3.2% for the month to 2229. Dr. Copper up again 18.3% to $4.19, breaking $4 per pound. WTI up another17.8% to 61.50. Brent up a bigly 18.3% to 55.88. Natgas up slightly 8.2% to a still anemic 2.77. Uranium kept losing down 5.3% to $27.88. Ratios: Au/Ag 65 – Pt/Au .68 – Pt/Pd .53 – BRT/WTI 1.08 WT/HH 22.2 and AU/WTI coming back down to earth 28.4.
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Our Government and Medical System: Murderous Pricks
by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
Before I begin for those who want to call health-care workers “heroes”: Damn near every single “doctor” and hospital are included in the title of this article, and throughout I shall prove it.
Let’s start with President Trump and his HHS jackass who put into place financial incentives for people to wind up in the hospital, particularly those over 65 who are on Medicare, with even more financial incentives if you were put on a ventilator.
USA Today, hardly a “right wing conspiracy rag”, said this back in April of 2020:
We rate the claim that hospitals get paid more if patients are listed as COVID-19 and on ventilators as TRUE.
Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it’s considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases.
May I remind you that on the data from Wuhan we knew that 90+% of the time being put on a ventilator was futile for Covid-19 patients, and again, we knew that in March.
Doubt me? Here’s the study data which I reported out at the time — March of 2020.
More than a Year Later, Americans Have No Idea Where $9 Trillion of Fed Money Went
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Beginning on September 17, 2019 – months before there was any report of a COVID-19 case anywhere in the world – the Federal Reserve turned on its money spigot to the trading houses on Wall Street. By October 23, 2019 the Fed announced that it was upping these loans to $690 billion a week – again, months before any report of COVID-19 anywhere in the world. Earlier in October 2019, the Fed had also announced that it would be buying back $60 billion a month in Treasury bills.
Within a span of six months, the Fed had pumped out a cumulative $9 trillion in loans to Wall Street’s trading houses, according to its own spread sheets, with no peep as to which Wall Street firms were getting the bulk of that money. It’s more than a year later and the American people still have no idea what triggered that so-called “repo loan crisis” or which Wall Street firms were in trouble or remain in trouble.