Friday, March 11, 2022
It's Time To Kill This Big Fat Biden Lie Once And For All...
Biden says it over and over again. Here’s a sampling over the past year:
“We’ve turned the tide on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. And families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.”
“Look, when we came to office, we knew we were facing a once-in-a-century pandemic and a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.”
“When I was sworn in as president, the nation was struggling to pull out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”
In his State of the Union, Biden claimed that his “American Rescue Plan” was one of the “few pieces of legislation” to have “done more at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of a crisis.”
This is a lie. A big fat lie. A big fat Biden-sized lie.
If President Donald Trump were to repeatedly claim a phony economic crisis, the media would preface each statement with “Trump’s false claim that …” – if they were feeling generous. Instead, they give Biden a pass.
So, even though we have said it in this space many times before, it’s time to spell it out as plainly as we can:
The country was not in an economic crisis, or a crisis of any kind, when Biden took office.
It is a crisis now, however, thanks to what Biden has done since taking office.
Here are the facts.
On the day Biden signed his “American Rescue Plan” into law, the COVID-lockdown recession had been over for more than a year.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the official scorekeeper of downturns and recoveries, says that the 2020 recession lasted all of – wait for it – eight weeks. It was, in fact, the shortest recession in modern history. It started in February 2020 and was over by April 2020.
The recession was also completely avoidable since it was caused by the catastrophically ill-informed and wrongheaded decision by governments, enacted in a panic and with no empirical support, to force the economy into a lockdown to “flatten the curve” on COVID outbreaks. We know that, based on scientific studies done since, these lockdowns were worse than doing nothing.
As university researchers who did a “meta analysis” of studies on the effectiveness of lockdowns concluded, “Lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” adding that “they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
This once-in-a-generation mistake threw the then-booming economy into a tailspin, tossed millions out of work, and sparked trillions in deficit-financed spending to spare the country a worse fate.
But once cooler heads prevailed and businesses reopened, the economy rebounded much faster than the experts had expected. The consensus view on jobs, for example, was that unemployment would still be around 10% by the end of 2020. It dropped to 6.7% by November and was falling fast. The jobless rate would have come down faster still if Democrats hadn’t insisted on ridiculously large unemployment “bonuses” as part of Trump’s COVID bills, which kept millions out of the labor market.
Meanwhile, GDP growth in the third quarter of 2020 was a jaw-dropping 33.8%, followed by a 4.5% gain in Q4. At the start of 2021, the typically pessimistic Congressional Budget Office forecast real GDP growth for the year would be close to 5%, which would have been the biggest annual gain since 1999. That was assuming nothing Biden proposed was enacted.
And in the month Biden took office, the GDP had recovered all the ground it had lost from the COVID recession, according to the monthly figures by Macroeconomic Advisors. It was $21.92 trillion in February 2020, plunged to $18.5 trillion by April 2020, and topped $22 trillion by January 2021. (See the nearby chart.)
To call this situation a crisis is a lie. A blatant lie. A big fat blatant lie. A big fat blatant Biden lie.
So why does Biden do it? And why doesn’t the army of media fact-checkers and the self-appointed Big Tech misinformation police call him on...
Government of Canada confirms Fully Vaccinated account for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths over past month despite accounting for just 5 in every 10 Cases
The Government of Canada has confirmed that triple and double vaccinated Canadians are responsible for the vast majority of Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths to have occurred in the latest wave of the virus to rip through the country, calling into question the validity of the Draconian restrictions that have been placed on the unvaccinated population.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced in January 2021 that he planned to charge adults not vaccinated against coronavirus a “health contribution” fee. The amount to be charged was not revealed but Legault said at the time that the fee would be “significant”.
“Those who refuse to get the shot bring a financial burden to hospital staff and Quebecers,” said the Premier of Quebec.
Thankfully the Premier has since dropped the plans to unfairly tax the vaccinated, probably due to the will and determination of the truckers protest that took place in the capital Ottawa against Covid-19 injection mandates. But this gives you an idea of the mindset of the leaders in the country, and what unvaccinated Candians are unjustly having to go through.
But there could be another reason why the Premier decided to drop the plans to fine the public for not submitting to an experimental injection, and that could be, as hard as it is to believe, that he actually looked at the official data and realised it’s the fully vaccinated population who are the biggest financial burden to hospital staff and Canadians in general. Because that’s precisely what official Government of Canada data shows.
The Government of Canada publish a daily COVID-19 epidemiology update, and the daily report contains data on Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status which instead of being updated daily, seem to be updated as and when the Government of Canada pleases.
It appears they haven’t wished to publish an update on these specific figures for a while now because the most recent data only covers up to 13th Feb 22. (see figure 5, number)...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #954
Before You Click On The "Read More" Link,
Please Only Do So If You Are Over 21 Years Old.
If You are Easily Upset, Triggered Or Offended, This Is Not The Place For You.
Please Leave Silently Into The Night......
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1654
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Garland says Capitol riot investigation is ‘most urgent’ in DOJ’s history
Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department’s investigation into the Capitol riot is the “most urgent” in DOJ history, more than a year after the U.S. Capitol Building was stormed on Jan. 6, 2021.
The claim by President Joe Biden's chief law enforcement officer comes as Republicans have said the Biden DOJ has not put the same effort into prosecutions tied to the violent riots of 2020 as the storming of the Capitol and have criticized the department for its decision to shutter the China Initiative despite a growing threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.
"This is the most urgent investigation in the history of the Justice Department. It is the most resource-intensive. We have thrown 70 prosecutors from the District of Columbia and another 70 around the country,” Garland said of the Capitol riot in an NPR interview on Thursday. “Every FBI office, almost every U.S. attorney's office in the country is working on this matter. We've issued thousands of subpoenas, seized and examined thousands of electronic devices, examined terabytes of data, thousands of hours of videos. People are working every day, 24/7, and are fully aware of how important this is.”
Garland added: “This had to do with the interference with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another. And it doesn't get more important than that."
The attorney general's claim that the Capitol riot inquiry is the most urgent in DOJ history is notable. The Justice Department was established in 1870 to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments after the Civil War. It famously sought to stop Nazi saboteurs during World War Two, established a Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List, enforces civil rights laws, and is tasked with stopping cartels and other criminal organizations.
The DOJ and FBI were deeply involved in investigating the 9/11 attacks and are responsible for preventing and prosecuting terrorist attacks. The department deals with foreign espionage cases, prosecutes assassination efforts, and goes after violent crime. John Durham’s special counsel criminal investigation is scrutinizing the origins and conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation.
FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed in January that the FBI is working just as hard to punish participants in the 2020 riots as those involved in the Capitol riot.
Garland said in January “there is no higher priority” at DOJ than prosecuting the Capitol riot cases. He compared the deadly Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 to the Capitol riot in June. The attorney general indicated in May the DOJ was prioritizing prosecutions related to the...
‘Global Food Crisis’ Ukraine War Will Have ‘Catastrophic’ Effect on Global Food Supply
The world is heading into a global food crisis thanks to the war in Ukraine, according to the head of one major Agri organisation.
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is going to have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on the world’s supply of food, the head of one of the world’s leading fertiliser companies.
Both Russia and Ukraine account for a significant portion of the global grain supply, with both nations also having significant roles within the supply of fertiliser, as well as its raw materials.
However, with trade grinding to a halt as a result of the latest stage in the ongoing conflict, the head of one major fertiliser company is sounding off alarm bells.
“Half the world’s population gets food as a result of fertilisers… and if that’s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50%,” Svein Tore Holsether, who heads up agri company Yara International, told the BBC.
“For me, it’s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis – it’s how large the crisis will be,” he went on to say.
Holsether emphasised that there was already significant supply difficulties before the start of the current conflict, with the BBC noting that the increased cost of gas prices was already resulting in a steep rise in the cost of fertiliser.
The Yara International boss also is reported to have pointed out that around a quarter of key nutrients used in food production come from Russia, with sanctions now looking likely to further constrain in supply.
“At the same time we’re doing whatever we can do at the moment to also find additional sources,” he emphasised. “But with such short timelines it’s limited.”
Unintended consequences: European farmers, who depend to a great extent on Ukrainian and Russian grain to feed their animals, will "suffer" as a result of war, sanctions cutting supply https://t.co/U9wyutmO7ASvein Tore Holsether is not the only person putting forward a bleak picture of future food security, however.
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 3, 2022
Michael Scannell — a senior figure in the EU’s Agriculture Department — has said that the knock-on effects of the war in Ukraine will be “painful” for Europe’s Agri-Food sector, with a lot of the bloc’s fertiliser and animal feed being sourced from either Russia or Ukraine.
However, the EU bureaucrat was convinced that the European bloc would be able to get through the crisis.
“The consequences of this Russian aggression will have a major impact on our agri-food sector, and it will be painful, but, we have to suffer that pain,” Scannell said, noting that “Ukrainians are paying with their lives, not in Euros”, and so the cost did not seem so steep for the EU within that context.
Local politicians within the EU appear to have also grown increasingly concerned regarding the possibility of future shortages.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said his country must stay out of the conflict in Ukraine, noting the country’s reliance on Russian imports, while his government’s agriculture minister has emphasised that the country’s food supply must be protected.
“We condemn the war, especially that it is here in our neighborhood; we say no to violence, we stand together with our allies, and all this is important, but the most important thing is that Hungary should stay out of this war conflict,” Orbán is reported as saying.
Ireland also appears to be on a war footing in regards to the crisis, with the country’s minister of agriculture confirming that he will be asking farmers to increase grain production in the hopes of combatting supply shortages, mirroring government policy implemented within the country during the Second World War.
However, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned officials against taking top-down measures without consulting farmers first.
“It would be very unwise of the Government to make any decisions on this before engaging fully with...
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