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The Ruling Class Claims They Are Getting the Covid-19 Vaccine

[Ed. Note: Ok, so Vladimir Putin claims to have taken the Sputnik V vaccine, and all of these same people, along with the FDA are still dismissing it as unsafe… Almost as if they, themselves do not believe these “great leader gets a saline injection” dog & pony shows.]

by Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all say they will be getting the new Coronavirus vaccine. As if we didn’t trust the ruling class already, this should seal the deal. This is an obvious bit of propaganda.

The three former presidents from both sides of the aisle (political parasites and members of the ruling class) have all pledged to take a COVID-19 vaccine on camera when it’s available to them, hoping to assuage fears at a time when recent polls have shown that just under half of Americans said they would not take a vaccine, according to a report by Today.

As Brian with High Impact TV says, “anytime a world leader takes a V-A-double-X on TV, it might behoove the general public to take a closer look.”

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Russell 2000 Rules with Nick Santiago (Ep. 169)

from Daily Market Wisdom with Nick Santiago

For more than 20 years, Master Trader Nick Santiago has been beating the markets. He’s made some incredible calls along the way and now he’s looking to spread the word. There’s no reason that the average trader should be coming up short. So now we’ve started a daily show to bring you up to date on the latest market developments. Nick will be sharing trades and concepts and discussing current trends.

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The First Freedom

by Andrew P. Napolitano
LewRockwell.com

“But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.” – Supreme Court of the United States, November 25, 2020

When teaching law students about the Bill of Rights, professors often ask on the first day of class which is the first freedom protected by the First Amendment. The students invariably answer, “freedom of speech.” It is not. If the framers were trying to tell us which freedom is the first among equals, they did so by listing the religion clauses ahead of the freedom of speech.

The religion clauses prohibit the government from respecting the establishment of religion and from interfering with its free exercise.

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LA Imposes Toughest Lockdown Yet to Avoid “Devastating Tipping Point” as Covid Hospitalizations Soar

from Zero Hedge

Echoing the situation back in March when California was the first state to issue a ‘stay at home’ order, the Mayor of Los Angeles late last night ordered Angelenos to stay home, warning that the city is approaching a “devastating tipping point” as the US and the state of California see unprecedented numbers of new cases, deaths and hospitalizations.

Last night the state of California reported more than 20k new COVID infections, the highest daily tally of any state. LA County has been particularly hard hit.

“Our City is now close to a devastating tipping point, beyond which the number of hospitalized patients would start to overwhelm our hospital system, in turn risking needless suffering and death,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said late on Wednesday. “We must minimize contact with others as much as possible,” he added.

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Forgiving Student Debt Wouldn’t Be a Major Economic Stimulus

Despite Elizabeth Warren’s contention that it is the “single most effective economic stimulus that is available through executive action,” forgiving student debt is a bad idea.

by Sam Rutzick
Reason.com

Some progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.), are trying to pressure President-elect Joe Biden to waive large amounts of student loan debt. They argue that doing so would be a huge economic stimulus and necessary relief for Americans who borrowed heavily to attend college.

But student loan forgiveness would have less of a positive economic impact than many of its proponents say—a point that even some progressives openly acknowledge.

There is more than $1.68 trillion of student debt. There is more student debt than there is auto loan debt, or credit card debt. In a sense, it’s a self-perpetuating cycle. The federal government guarantees and issues student loans, colleges raise their prices, which means students need more loans, which leads to an increase in government-guaranteed lending, which inspires cost increases.

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Don’t Trust the News: Matt Taibbi on Media’s Failure

Award-winning journalist explains how the media is badly failing us

by Adam Taggart
Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.” ~ Mark Twain (apocryphal)

If you feel you can’t trust the news anymore, you have good reason.

Award-winning — and newly independent — journalist Matt Taibbi (of “vampire squid” fame) returns to Peak Prosperity to break down for us how the news media industry became corrupted by the profit motive and now intentionally produces content to “entertain” rather than “inform”.

The five media behemoths who own more than 90% of all US media outlets (Comcast, Viacom, Disney, Time Warner, Newscorp) have discovered that it’s much more profitable to focus on discrete audience segments and give them the information they want to hear.

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House Hearing: Wall Street Gets Bailed Out by Fed; Main Street Gets Sold Out

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade

Sparks were flying throughout yesterday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing. After Fed Chair Jerome Powell and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, they were grilled for 2 more hours yesterday by members of the House Financial Services Committee. The atmosphere was far less cordial than the prior day, which wasn’t exactly tea and crumpets either.

There was good reason for the hostility. For the second time in a dozen years, another former Goldman Sachs banker holds the reins at the Treasury Department as it bails out Wall Street while crushing Main Street businesses and American families. This time it’s Mnuchin rather than Hank Paulson, who served as Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush during the financial crisis.

Before we get into the guts of yesterday’s hearing, it’s important to have the background on how Wall Street was bailed out and Main Street was sold out the last time around – as the parallels are downright eerie.

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Here Comes the Trucking Boom in the Weirdest Economy Ever

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Never a dull moment in the land of consumer stimulus and heavy trucks.

Boom and bust cycles are guaranteed in this business. And now, this is the Weirdest Economy Ever, powered by the $3 trillion the Fed threw at the markets, and by $3 trillion in government stimulus and bailout spending, and by a huge shift to work-from-home and learning-at-home that required all kinds of spending on laptops, network equipment, office chairs, desks, and, well, hot-tubs, and powered also by huge shifts on what consumers actually spent their money on.

Spending shifted from services, such as plane tickets, hotels, gyms, haircuts, manicures, rent (encouraged by eviction bans), and mortgage payments (made possible by forbearance), to stuff. And ecommerce is booming, and this stuff needs to be transported, much of it from overseas, and so imports are booming, and all this stuff has to then be shipped by truck or rail, and so all heck has broken loose in the container shipping business.

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CDC Director Warns the Next Three Months Will Be ‘the Most Difficult’ in Public Health History

About 90% of U.S. hospitals are in ‘hot zones’ with high levels of coronavirus spread, Dr. Robert Redfield says

[Ed. Note: What sort of horsesh!t is this? You’re being asked to believe that a virus with a 99.99%+ survival rate is going to be – suddenly – more severe than Spanish Flu and Small Pox epidemics of the past. How dumb would you have to be to say, or believe this?]

by Nicole Lyn Pesce
Market Watch

A trio of promising coronavirus vaccine candidates has raised hopes that America appears poised to finally turn the corner in the pandemic. But the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that there’s still a cold, hard winter ahead.

“December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation, largely because of the stress that it’s going to put on our health care system.” – Dr. Robert Redfield

That was CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield speaking at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on Wednesday — the same day that the U.K. government granted emergency-use authorization to the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer PFE, -1.02% and BioNTech BNTX, -0.55%. The vaccine is still in Phase 3 trials — as are the vaccine candidates from Moderna MRNA, +5.05% and AstraZeneca AZN, -1.84% in partnership with Oxford University. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet on Dec. 10 to review the Pfizer-BioNTech candidate and possibly issue an emergency-use authorization for the vaccine.

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Nihilism: The Zeitgeist of Our Age

by Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?” – Emil Cioran

The zeitgeist in 2020 is abrasive nihilism paired with impotent rage. “Nothing means anything.” Like a virus, it’s permeated music, television, “journalism” (to the extent that bona fide journalism is practiced at all), and politics.

The media, the distributors of the corporate/state-approved zeitgeist, is the top contender for most culpable. The self-hate and hopelessness they have foisted on the American population — which filter by now through every medium of mass communication — is tantamount to a spiritual genocide.

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What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami?

Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed.

by Francesca Mari
New York Times

We’ve all been so concerned about the transition on Jan. 20 that many of us have forgotten another critical date for American democracy: Dec. 31. That’s when the federal eviction moratorium — which has held the pandemic-related eviction tsunami at bay — expires. After that date, more than 30 million Americans are at risk of losing their homes. Congress must act to stabilize the country’s rental market, prevent widespread displacement and curtail the growing domination of housing by big corporations.

More than half of renters pay 30 percent or more of their income on rent, according to the 2019 American Housing Survey, and more than half of lowest-income renter households reported some loss of employment income between mid-March and mid-September. Although CARES money has been flowing to states, which have established various rental assistance programs, all of them are oversubscribed.

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The Stasi Comes to America

by Brian Maher
Daily Reckoning

IS the tattle-tale the new American patriot?

This Thanksgiving weekend, we hosted family members. One afternoon — having explored fully our own hamlet — a spirit of wanderlust seized them.

Washington, D.C., some 25 miles distant, was the destination selected.

We stepped into our waders, plugged our nostrils… and trekked into the foul, treacherous swamp.

Our travels concluded in upscale Georgetown and the splendid settings of its eponymous university… where we lolled among the “dreaming spires” of academia.

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The Horrifying Origins of Left-Wing Gender Ideology

by Matt Walsh
Daily Wire

It is now taken as self-evident that something called “gender” exists, and that it is distinct from biological sex, and that the former (and perhaps even the latter, they tell us now) is an artificial social construct. But these ideas were not always self-evident. In fact, they weren’t evident at all for the entire history of the human race up until about a century ago. Thousands of generations lived and died, engaging in art and science and philosophy and everything else that comprises human civilization, all while assuming that there were only males and females, and rarely finding any need for other categories.

In the 20th century, that all changed. Considering the magnitude of suddenness of this shift in our understanding of human nature, we should probably take the time to acquaint ourselves with the people responsible for it. And when it comes to the concept of “gender” and “gender constructs,” there is no better place to start than Dr. John Money. A prominent psychologist and sexologist, Money was one of the early pioneers of the gender theories that are currently taught in grade schools and universities.

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Court Upholds North Carolina Voter ID Law Previously Struck Down for ‘Racial Discrimination’

by Dylan Housman
DailyCaller.com

A North Carolina federal appeals court ruled that a 2018 voter ID law was not passed with racist intent on Wednesday, according to the Charlotte Observer.

A lower court had previously ruled against the state legislature on New Year’s Eve 2019, citing past cases of racist voter suppression in the state, according to the Charlotte Observer. Trial court judge Loretta Briggs said at the time that the law was tainted because “racial discrimination and racial polarization have historically pervaded North Carolina’s political climate — and still do.”

Advocates for the law aren’t in the clear yet, as a related case is simultaneously advancing through the state court system as well, the Observer reports. The federal case could also be appealed, once again, to a higher court.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic is a Global Fraud Perpetrated by China, Abetted by the Powerful

More than a year into the pandemic, we still don’t know its full story

by Tucker Carlson
FOX News

You’ve heard a lot recently about “voter fraud” and “election fraud.” But now comes more profound news, of a global fraud that began long before Election Day and has ruined millions of lives, killed hundreds of thousands, and deeply affected the outcome of our presidential election.

We speak, of course, of the coronavirus pandemic. Simply put, we’ve been lied to.

The latest evidence comes from samples collected during Red Cross blood drives last year and analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a study published on Monday.

Researchers tested 39 blood samples from California, Washington and Oregon that were collected between Dec. 13 and Dec. 16, 2019. At the time, no one in the United States had heard of COVID-19. The Chinese government didn’t even acknowledge its existence until Dec. 31. And yet, every one of those samples came back positive for coronavirus antibodies. Keep in mind that antibodies don’t develop for at least a week after exposure to the virus.

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40 States Will File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook

by Lucas Nolan
Breitbart.com

A recent report claims that a group of at least 40 states led by New York is set to file an antitrust lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook as early as next week.

A recent report from CNBC states that sources believe that a lawsuit could be filed against social media giant Facebook as early as next week. A group of 40 states led by New York have been investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit against the company, according to four sources.

The lawsuit would be the second major case taken against a major tech firm this year following the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google in October. Over 40 states reportedly plan to sign on to the Facebook lawsuit one source said, but would not provide the list of states.

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