"All You Need To Know About ..."- According To Whom?

Are you, like many of us, sick and tired of the new fake media engaged in selling Snake Oil instead of presenting high quality Journalism?  Without a doubt, the media is undergoing a revolution, sadly it is not for the better.  The current media present a clear and present danger to not only the current generations but also to future generations, by selling lies as facts.  Honestly, it does not matter which news one reads, or which news channel one watches (BBC, CNN, etc. etc.), the 'Mantra' is always the same, "all you need to know about ...".  Who in the world are these arrogant ignoramuses, who decide what we need to know?  Why not give us the full story, and let us decide what, if anything, we need to know?  In most instances, we need absolutely nothing of their spin.

More and more, the media treats us in a condescending way, as if we were born yesterday, and therefore need them to spoon-feed us, with their view of the world.  All the while they are bent on trying to brainwash us, to facilitate them to inject us with their highly concentrated bullshit.  Sadly, this applies to all media equally; some want to feed us the Bull from the 'Right while others do it from the 'Left', depending on who owns the media outlet they are working for.  They brutally fan the Angst (fear) already present among the people, for political gain of the institution they represent.  We urgently need an honest and unbiased media to hold the Governments' as well as the Oppositions' feet to the fire; is that asking too much?

Right now, these second-grade media have become the propaganda machines for their adopted political ideology.  Their dangerous repetitions of outright lies, by politicians, give our future generation the idea that lying is OK, as long as one is not caught doing it.  More and more we hear about people lying in their Resumes, granting themselves Degrees they have not earned, or graduating from Universities they have never attended.  We must remove credentials of news outlets (by ignoring them) that have obviously become company papers, so to speak.  If we fail to hold our media to a higher standard, it will assure that the current negative spiral will continue to the detriment of any Democracy.

From observing the media from various major countries, it is evident that we truly have no longer any independent media, in my opinion.  It naturally follows that many thinking individuals, are tuning out, enough is enough, they say.  In evidence, Email Spam folders, of likely voters, are loaded, daily, with bilateral election 'crap'; it is becoming truly sickening.  It follows that some people are turned-off to the point that they will no longer care to vote.  Consequently, eligible voter participation, for example, is very low in the U.S.; in 2016 voter participation was only 55.4%.

How much of this childish back and forth nonsense do they think a normal human brain can digest, without being nauseated?  One just has to follow the published statements of the candidates, and their political ads, shown on TV, to understand the real lack of meaningful solutions, for the urgent needs of the people. Likewise, their political statements, on or off-stage, are no longer about substance and policy, but about assassinating each other's character.  These candidates should focus on the future and stop dissecting the past, and embellish it with distorted truths, and outright shameless lies.

In days gone by, there probably was some spin, however, it was more of the refined, sophisticated type, and definitely very little of outright lies, safe Pearl Harbor, etc.  These days, the vast majority of what we are told is based on shameless outright lies, pure and simple.  It does not matter anymore who is in power, all over the world; the public is deliberately lied to.

Honorable people stay away from politics; it became that bad; who needs this unethical drama in their lives?  As a result, the Governments of the world are saturated with scoundrels of every dimension, looking out only for their personal gain; it is no wonder that nothing good is achieved for the benefit of the citizens of the lands.  In the final analysis, the people keep voting for the old guards, who have grown very rich and powerful, over the years in office.  The system is rigged so that only candidates backed by big money can afford to run for office, with the result that we finish up with the Governments that Big Money bought, expecting a big return on their investments.  How dumb is that?

One just has to watch, on Netflix, 'Saving Capitalism', featuring Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, and you will better understand that the system is truly rigged against the people.  Of course, the media will never tell you that; they are far too busy spinning 'their news' to serve their masters.

 

It’s Not The Race Inequality; It's The Economic/Income Inequality Stupid

Let us examine the graph, shown below, which clearly demonstrates that the income gain of, for example, the U.S. was anything but fair.  In fact, inflation outstripped the gain shown for the 'Bottom 20%, and middle 60%, resulting in a net loss for the period in question (1979 -2016).  In fact, the bottom 20% (who paid little or no taxes) fared better than the middle 60%.  The top 1% gains are totally out-of-line, they too pay often little or no taxes, thanks to their tax attorneys.

  

To level the playing field, the bottom 20% and the middle 60%, should not pay any income taxes; the ultra rich (individuals and corporations) must be forced to pay their fair share of taxes, thus supporting the very system that allows them to earn these astronomical incomes.  These extreme wealth accumulators are, in the main, not beneficial to any democratic society because they suck the wealth out of the economy, for the purpose of hoarding it for consumption by their equally 'Schmarotzer' descendants.

Schmarotzer m (genitive Schmarotzers, plural Schmarotzer, female Schmarotzerin) (biology) parasite. (derogatory) freeloader, sponger (male or of unspecified sex)  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schmarotzer 

This current economic inequality cannot go on for ever; the great depression thought this lesson already, however, the top 1% are so blinded by their riches that the fail to understand that their game will come to an end, sooner than later.  Revolutions of the past did not end well for the wealthy.  So far, the super rich (including corporations) managed, through the media, and their hired agitators, to misdirect the public, by making it a race issue instead of identifying the root cause of the social problems facing the public at large, namely, economic inequality.  As throughout history, sooner or later, the people will awake and realize that they have been had, and then much hell will break loose, when people of all races will join together to eliminate the power brokers.  The police and military will ultimately join the people, and help eliminate all the 'Smarotzers' of the world.

Instead of sucking the life-blood out of the economy, the wealthy must share their ill-gotten financial resources, by paying their proportional share of taxes, and not cheat the country of which they are a citizen of, by operating with off-shore shell companies, to avoid taxes altogether.  The reason they can do this, is with the help of the paid politicians, who write laws for the average citizen, who is taxed on his/her world income (pensions incl.), whereas the rich are treated preferentially, and they can hide their income by classifying it as fake offshore income, using Shell companies, and legally at that, apparently because the rigged system looks the other way.

Black Lives Matter is nothing but an Oxymoron because as Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. and humans as a whole, we know that all live is precious, and therefore matters, the skin color has nothing to do with it.  Divide and conquer is nothing new, the worse that could happen to the greedy rich is that people of all races unite against them.  Therefore, their priority will always be to seed discourse among the people, let us face it, their survival depends on it.  As long as, we fall for this strategy they have nothing to fear, and their exploitation will continue.

 

Why Would Anyone Analyse Questionable Numbers?

Many of the U.S. Death Certificates may be based on opinions, such as likely, probable or presumed causes of death.  Apparently, verification by a test is not mandatory.  This fact makes much of the data reported suspect.  The quotes, shown below, were taken from the CDC Technical Notes.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/tech_notes.htm

"Cause-of-death classification and definition of deaths"

 “Coronavirus disease deaths are identified using the ICD–10 code U07.1. Deaths are coded to U07.1 when coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 are reported as a cause that contributed to death on the death certificate. These can include laboratory confirmed cases, as well as cases without laboratory confirmation. If the certifier suspects COVID-19 or determines it was likely (e.g., the circumstances were compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), they can report COVID-19 as “probable” or “presumed” on the death certificate (5, 6). COVID-19 is listed as the underlying cause on the death certificate in 94% of deaths (see Table 1).”  Emphasis added.

“Pneumonia deaths are identified using multiple cause-of-death codes from the 10th Revision of ICD (ICD–10): J12–J18, excluding deaths that involve influenza (J09–J11). Influenza deaths are identified from the ICD–10 codes J09–J11, and include deaths with pneumonia or COVID-19 listed as a contributing cause of death.”

"Why are pneumonia and influenza deaths included in this report?"

“Pneumonia and influenza deaths are included to provide context for understanding the completeness of COVID-19 mortality data and related trends. Deaths due to COVID-19 may be misclassified as pneumonia or influenza deaths in the absence of positive test results, and pneumonia or influenza may appear on death certificates as a comorbid condition. Additionally, COVID-19 symptoms can be similar to influenza-like illness, thus deaths may be misclassified as influenza. Thus, increases in pneumonia and influenza deaths may be an indicator of excess COVID-19-related mortality. Additionally, estimates of completeness for pneumonia and influenza deaths may provide context for understanding the lag in reporting for COVID-19 deaths, as it is anticipated that these causes would have similar delays in reporting, processing, and coding.”  Emphasis added.

By the way, my spell checker was not very happy when spell-checking the quoted texts published by the CDC.

Conclusion:
From the foregoing, it is now clear that the reported number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths is likely inflated, by definition.   Many of these deaths could very well be attributed to pneumonia and/or influenza; only mandatory 100% testing would add credibility to these cause of death reports.  Why this reluctance regarding the verification, by simply testing all these deceased before stating the cause of death?  There should be no guessing.

The CDC is concerned about COVID-19 cases being classified as pneumonia or influenza, what about the other way around, where pneumonia, or influenza cases are classified as COVID-19?  If the number of COVID-19 deaths is in question, what about the COVID-19 infection number?

Lately, I also noticed that the number of deaths of another major country, without explanation, was reduced by several thousands.  We all know about China's questionable statistics, reflecting their death toll has not changed for months.  It appears, some if not all countries torture their COVID-19 numbers until they confess to a certain desired result.

In any event, there is nothing worse than getting questionable data for statistical analysis, and since this data can no longer be trusted, in my opinion, I decided to stop analyzing it because only a fool would keep on analyzing numbers that he now knows are suspect, at best.

Accordingly, my sample analysis of 10 counties affected, early on, ended with my last analysis, issued last Sunday.  Regardless of the validity of the numbers published, COVID-19 will be with us for some time to come, it appears.

Other major infection events are reported by the CDC, as shown by following the link below, when many more millions were infected than are so far, infected by COVID-19.  No businesses were shut down, schools were mostly operating normal, no social distance requirements were enacted, and very, very few were wearing a face mask, life was pretty normal.  Helpful medications were not maligned for the benefit of, probably, Big Pharma.  This callous action alone is, very likely, responsible for a great number of excessive deaths.  Doctors, in the main, were allowed to treat their patients, as they saw fit.  As a result, the number of deaths was much lower, by comparison.

From the CDC Flu-data, referenced above, the following was extracted for the 2017 - 2018 Season. According to the CDC report for the 2017 – 2018 Flu-Season Estimate 45,000,000 were infected (95% Conf.-limit range is 39,000,000 – 58,000,000 infected) 21,000,000 medical visits (95% Conf.-limit range is 18,000,000 – 27,000,000 visits) 61,000 deaths (95% Conf.-limit range is 46.000 – 95,000 deaths) Note: The true number lies within the 95% confidence interval, shown for each category. See Table 1 by following this link,  https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

What changed?  What is different this time?  For one, this is an election year, and the strong economics up to 2019, made it very hard to dislodge the current Administration, in the upcoming 2020 election.  Let us put ourselves into the shoes of the Opposition, facing this issue calls for drastic actions, does it not?  If one could destroy the economy, the hurdle would be removed.  Along came COVID-19, convince everybody that to shut down the economy is a must, to defeat the Corona Virus; and, it was done.  The control by fear is an old and tried weapon; it worked every time throughout history, recent and past.  Let us ponder about the following three examples.

First, let me assure all, I am not affiliated with neither party; I usually vote for the lesser of two evils.  In my blog post on Saturday, January 5, 2019, I wrote:
“Egos and turf war are the priorities of these gangs; if it were not so, they would compromise for the good of the people.”  Nothing has changed, if anything, it is getting uglier and uglier by the day.

1) Pearl Harbor convinced a very reluctant population to enter the European war after all.

2) Nonexistent 'Weapons of Mass-Destruction' facilitated to convince the public to support the invasion of Iraq.

3) 911 convinced the public that limiting their civil rights is OK, in order to achieve better national security.

Another opportunity surfaced, Police brutality prompted a major civil unrest across the country; it spread even across the Globe.  Peaceful demonstrations were hijacked by radical agitators; rioting, looting and destroying of private property followed.  Politicians in power, working for a takeover in November, allowed this situation go on for months, in some cities.  Only when the polls showed that the public was getting very upset by it all, came the thought to them that maybe riots are no longer helpful.

Now, what not too long ago was a no-go situation, flourished into a piece of cake circumstance; the Opposition is leading in the polls in a major way.  Mission accomplished!  Was it all engineered?  No, not entirely but opportunities that came along were and are still exploited to the fullest.  All this is known as dirty politics; today there is no other.

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