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COVID-19 Deaths are a Western Phenomenon
Something is amiss.
The death rate in the countries in the West, which are reputed to have the best healthcare and medicine, have death rates that far exceed those in the East.
Some people are saying that China is under-reporting its true death rate, but looking at all these countries, it’s obvious that the China data is not materially out of line in the East, and that these countries are not in collusion in regards to hiding deaths.
Deaths per million population in the East:
Deaths per million population in the West:
Aloha! From the KGB in 1984 to your colleges and riots today!
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
Trump gaining among the money bettors this weekend
The Biden-Trump spread has narrowed -4 points in the past three days as Trump has gained +2.3 points and Biden dropped -1.7 points
Biden still leads by +18.4 points
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/2020_president/
Mount Printmore …
Aloha! This is a video on FOX 13 SEATTLE Facebook page about antifa types with black hoodies killing two people at the Seattle CHAZ. Facebook took it down. It turns out without police you’re not even safe from Facebook or Marxists!
Seeking Alpha now has a separate Life & Politics discussion board Kanye West announces 2020 presidential run on Twitter Jul. 5, 2020 3:15 AM ET By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” Kanye West wrote on Twitter. “I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION.” It’s not immediately clear if the rap star was serious, or if he had filed paperwork to appear on state election ballots just four months before the Nov. 3 election. This is also not the first… Read more »
The strength of America was on display on July 4 With a nation caught up in chaos, it took the celebration of its birth through fireworks and music to revisit its strengths. For those who watched the four-hour spectacle on CNN TV, the evening led us to be thinking about the power of imagination and creativity and love. With Jewel’s moving renditions of “Hands” and “Grateful”, I could not but stop to think about the August 1969 concert at Woodstock NY, and how a new America evolved from the 1967 and 1968 race riots in cities like Detroit, Chicago, and… Read more »
And once again, on Independence Day 2020, in and around our Nation’s Capital, we have on crystal clear display for all to see the stark contrast between the forces of light who celebrate and love our great Nation, its founding, its Flag, its history, its heroes and its heritage using soaring and uplifting rhetoric, and the forces of darkness who denigrate and loathe the United States Of America and who exhibit that loathing with actions and acts of disgusting vulgarity, destruction and intimidation by groups and gangs of semi-paramilitary operators and organizers affiliated either directly or not-so-directly with the Democratic… Read more »
Another phenomenal coincidence while watching Dr House tonight. We are up to around Episode 11 Season 1 (2004) and there is a young boy who the doctors are treating for what they think is anthrax, but it’s not. They now think it’s sarcoidosis, which is a disease that for me got so bad in the hospital I thought might kill me. That was the first week of February 1976. But I fully recovered. Last summer I got Rheumatoid Arthritis that is being treated with Prednisone, which I am trying to get off. Now back to the TV show where the… Read more »
It’s also never a good idea for a US president to call a huge segment of the American people fascists as I heard him say last night.
Only in Trumpworld.
But I am pleased to see that he is entertaining hundreds of thousands of fans at his event tonight. LOL At least the rest of us will get to see a breathtaking fireworks show from the safety of our homes.
What a truly remarkable and stark contrast we have witnessed over the past few weeks and culminating the night of July 3 at Mount Rushmore between the would-be destroyers of America and its Preservers. In the streets were (and are) the lawless progressive Democrat destroyers, anarchists, arsonists, marauders, murders, nihilists and pillagers, going so far as to contemplate and espouse the symbolic (or actual) burning of the Declaration Of Independence and the Constitution. At Mount Rushmore were (and are, as I write this) a new generation of American Preservers, celebrating a uniquely great Nation and its courageous Creators, Founders, Framers,… Read more »
Aloha! HAPPY FOURTH!!!! This guy has spent some 14 years in China and traveled all over China even the rural areas. If you only saw the shiny big cities you missed the abject poverty most of the country lives in. No modern miracle there! This guy raises the same points I do about China and globalization for years as it relates to supposed climate change or as Al Gore called it Global Warming in 2005. He and Oprah, two highly unqualified non-scientists, sprung this on the world, but totally neglected to mention anything about India or China. Even Great dismisses… Read more »
Notice one thing the Left and Marxists Don’t want to disband ? …. Federal Law Enforcement…… correct, they need someone to enforce their Federal policies.
Aloha! BLM AND ANTIFA ARE MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY TERRORISTS! Watch this video. Stop calling them “protesters”. I protested in the 1960s and I never saw this! If murder, rape and arson is protesting then Websters needs to redefine the word! As they say “silence is complacency”!!! URGENT MUST WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbDeQfWO6UQ None of this is “white supremacy”! lol! If you gave money to BLM then you are complicit in marxist revolution! If you vote DEMOCRAT you vote to approve everything in this video because neither Nancy or CNN condemn this! So long as Nancy and Chuck call these people “protesters” like CNN… Read more »
Like Bert said … Twitter does force one to be brief. Saw this in the AM …
TheHuBLife @GeneralDilley
Geoffrey Berman was fired two weeks ago.
He was the SDNY prosecutor who was stonewalling the Epstein case.
Want to know what other case he buried? The Weiner laptop case.
Seems Barr fired Berman for some Very Good Reasons …
I’ll add this …
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/07/bill-barr-is-still-on-job.html
The other side of braggadocio We all believe in the spirit of America, but the most serious of us today weigh all the evidence, not just the numbers that Trump has defiantly stated in his two events at the White House. Roughly seven million jobs have returned since the end of March, but 20 million more jobs are still lost, many perhaps lost permanently, and today’s true unemployment rate is biggest in history, so why brag? The greatest percentage of residential and commercial tenants in history are not paying rent today or financially cannot, causing financial distress to landlords, so… Read more »
A news conference like no other We all want to hear good news, but this morning’s news conference by Trump (aka political speech) was over the top. This morning Trump exclaimed massive increases in new jobs, positive economic data, and stock market gains both in the recent month and over the 3.5 years he has been president. Sounding like a snake oil salesman, he told us that these numbers have never been seen in history and certainly not under any president before him. In my view, he was selling us beachfront property in Miami when in reality it is nothing… Read more »
Binge-watching outstanding television
Spending so much time at home, we binge-watched TV programs that we highly recommend:
A blast from the past was delivered by Facebook today
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10222941729430059&set=a.1585063464830
That’s me with the Nassau Hash House Harriers, and this Vimeo is about the group
If you get to Nassau and want to meet and enjoy a terrific group of people, look up the Hashers. Once the pandemic is passed, they will be running every Sunday, and you are invited.
Aloha! It has been a bittersweet mixed blessing with my Mother’s passing. If there ever was an “oppressed” generation then I elect the Greatest Generation to be at the top of the list. My Mother went through the Great Depression as a kid where she had to pick cotton on the family farm to survive because they could not afford to pay for laborers. Right after the Great Depression she went right into WW2 where all Americans either had to send their sons to Europe or Asia and if that was not enough they had to go on food rations… Read more »
Aloha! This is a debate between a liberal tenured college professor at a major US university. Can we please defund colleges instead of police!
LINK: https://www.prageru.com/video/the-candace-owens-show-marc-lamont-hill/
I am so very sorry, Kaimu …. God bless you and your family ….. You will see her again.
And so a heretofore totally obscure, unaccomplished and problematic man in the upper mid-west of the United States of America is murdered by a sociopath or psychopath who never should have been licensed to use deadly force (or any form of force for that matter) against civilians and then that Nation instantly descends into a bizarre paroxysmic death spiral. Breathtaking in the extreme, don’t you think? The American people of 2020 have now demonstrated that they are the most foolish, fragile, malleable, manipulable and self-destructive citizens of that Nation since its founding, unworthy of being viewed as a collective possessing… Read more »
Our New World
When and why Trump’s lead in the betting odds collapsed Like I do when considering the timing of an investment, I always look for the timeline of a trend change. Regarding the November 2020 election, here is what I see: On the Memorial Day weekend, with COVID-19 deaths approaching 100,000 and just over 1,000 new deaths being reported daily, Trump let the world know that it was time to get out to enjoy life. He played golf most of the weekend. News reports showed Americans out at the beaches and in bars across the country in record numbers in many… Read more »