Enablers Of Price Gougers

Companies like Amazon, eBay, and others, are the perfect Platform for price gougers, as the images clearly demonstrate.  One of other companies, shown below, reflects a reasonable price for the 3M N-95 Respirators but is out of stock but they help to show us what the prices were before the Corona Virus outbreak.  There is no doubt, these platforms benefit from price gouging because their fees are greater with these inflated prices.




Price is $43.06



Price is $15.75

 "Price gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock. Common examples include price increases of basic necessities after hurricanes or other natural disasters. In precise, legal usage, it is the name of a crime that applies in some jurisdictions of the United States during civil emergencies. In less precise usage, it can refer either to prices obtained by practices inconsistent with a competitive free market or to windfall profits. Price gouging may be considered exploitative and unethical.

As a criminal offense, Florida's "state of emergency" law^[2] is an example. Price gouging may be charged when a supplier of essential goods or services sharply raises the prices asked in anticipation of or during a civil emergency or when it cancels or dishonors contracts in order to take advantage of an increase in prices related to such an emergency. The model case is a retailer who increases the price of existing stocks of milk and bread when a hurricane is imminent.

United States. In the United States, state laws against price gouging have been held as constitutional at the state level as a valid exercise of the police power to preserve order during an emergency, and may be combined with anti-hoarding measures." 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging

So far, to my knowledge, the US Government has not provided an easy way to report price gouging; I know at the local level it is very cumbersome for the ordinary citizen.

Please share your experience under the Comment Section; if sufficient comments are posted, I will forward this post to the office of the President, as I have in the past, on other occasions.  They have reacted in the past.

Double Virus Threat Revelation

Dr. John Day, M.D. tells Congress

Woman Tulsi Gabbard that we'll need 6 billion doses of chloroquine to treat coronavirus in the US.

Dr. John Day, M. D. reports about the recent revelation regarding the newer "L" strain explosion in Wuhan, China, as follows:

The new coronavirus information yesterday was that there are 2 strains, with different fatality rates. The original "S" strain continues to spread through China, where the data was collected, and causes fewer fatalities. It is less aggressive of a pathogen. The newer "L" strain exploded in Wuhan, and appears to have been responsible for most of the deaths there. Of course we still don't know the real numbers, but most estimates are vastly higher than official numbers, and based on cremation rates.

These 2 strains are significantly different, and the rapidity of the arising of the very differently mutated L strain suggests that it entered the ongoing epidemic in Wuhan, and transformed it into a horror-show. The Chinese authorities may have been acting upon the milder illness of the first S strain wave for their early decisions, leading into Chinese New Year. Of course I wonder what strains are circulating where in our world, but I also really wonder where that deadly L coronavirus strain came from.

The question of how this lab virus got into human circulation is still unsettled in public discourse. I do not believe pangolins got it from bats. This new information again brings up the question of "accident" or "attack" and it is now a 2-pronged question.  Whether the initial novel coronavirus S type was accidental or offensive, I really must favor the second L type coronavirus being an offensive attack. The killer wave came at a particularly vulnerable moment, with China having set the defensive response way too low. The aggressor could be assured of deeper penetration and more damage, once the defense was set as mainly-propaganda.

How may China respond? To whom might China respond in kind?

(The article below carries on with the approved narrative that these strains are naturally occurring, but points out that "neutral site" mutations diverge by 17%, a vast divergence in regions of the genome, which are not subject to evolutionary selection pressure as viruses multiply and spread. This excludes a natural series of mutations as cause.)

Population genetic analyses of 103 SARS-CoV-2 genomes indicated that these viruses evolved into two major types (designated L and S), that are well defined by two different SNPs that show nearly complete linkage across the viral strains sequenced to date. Although the L type (∼70%) is more prevalent than the S type (∼30%), the S type was found to be the ancestral version. Whereas the L type was more prevalent in the early stages of the outbreak in Wuhan, the frequency of the L type decreased after early January 2020. Human intervention may have placed more severe selective pressure on the L type, which might be more aggressive and spread more quickly.  

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463#authorNotesSectionTitle

Please read all comments for latest information.

Note by Frank M.

I  often refer to Dr. John in this Blog, and I thought it is about time to let you all know who he really is.  In my almost 85 years I have been looked after by many doctors but only three of those I considered to be a Doctor's Doctor, and Dr. John Day is one of them.  As the picture shows, when Dr. John Day talks people pay attention.

The Prohibition Against Chemical And Biological Weapons

I offer the following as food for thought, and my comments are purely an expression of my opinion, based on what is readily available in the media and on the Internet.

Despite the "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, London, Moscow and Washington, 10 April 1972, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, p. 163."  Practically all major nations maintain Laboratories, developing toxic agents and live destroying Pathogens.

https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cpdpsucw/cpdpsucw.html
https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000280101653

Even the development of such weapons is prohibited, and yet their production is ongoing.  Why else have these highly secretive Labs, in the first place (see video and other links below).  Just because these developed pathogens are, supposedly, secured does not make their development and possession lawful.  We all know of stories where some of these dangerous pathogens were simply stored in cardboard boxes under some lab tables, instead of being locked up.  In a number of instances serious life-threatening pathogens were accidentally released into the atmosphere infecting and killing innocent people, and livestock.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1GnYs4LOc0
http://armswatch.com/the-pentagon-bio-weaponshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/28/biolabs-pathogens-location-incidents/26587505/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXd4DFjNcM4
https://apnews.com/0cf158200e674f41bd3026133e5e043d/Russia-claims-US-running-biological-weapons-lab-in-Georgia
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/notorious-war-research-facilities/

There is of-course much more reading and watching available, and the foregoing links are just a sample of what is out there.  The history of chemical/gas usage during conflicts goes back a while. 
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/a-brief-history-of-chemical-war

The use of Pathogens is now the new wave of criminality, employed worldwide.  If things go wrong, or if field testing is the purpose of release, mother nature takes the blame for the damage done.  It is near impossible to hold the guilty responsible, and it is doubtful that anybody would seriously do something about it, other than talk.  In the present instance, some Chinese food vendor was blamed for the outbreak.  The fact that a chemical weapons lab is in very close proximity of the food market, had nothing to do with it, so the story goes.

"The misuse of science or of scientific achievements to create weapons that poison and spread disease has always provoked alarm and abhorrence in the public mind. The [International Committee of the Red Cross] ICRC summed up the public horror at the use of such weapons in its appeal in February 1918, calling them "barbarous inventions" that can "only be called criminal". For centuries there have been taboos against such weapons, but the use of poisonous gas in World War I led to the first international agreement – the 1925 Geneva Protocol – banning asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and bacteriological methods of warfare."  Emphasis added.

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/chemical-biological-weapons.

This clearly appears to demonstrate that the peoples of this world are governed by a bunch of individuals of low morals and character, aided by callous Scientists.  We, the people, complain and, on occasions, demonstrate about this or the other issue but few, apparently, shout to the heavens about these planned and/or executed crimes, by the use of lethal pathogens, against humanity.

This major virus assault on the populations of this planet appears to go the way some control forest fires go, out of control.  In my humble opinion, no callous scientist would work on a deadly pathogen without having the cure in his or her lab safe.  If this is indeed a developed virus, then logic says somebody has a cure/vaccine for it, which will be very expensive, and above all, a fantastic moneymaker for many.

Some Scientists Work Hard For Eliminating The Human Species

The following link, shown below, was send to me by Dr. John, via a Mr. Joe.

The end of time will most likely be orchestrated not by God but by willful acts of men.  Between the awesome power of Nuclear weapons and the insidious power of Chemistry, combined have the ability to wipe out, just about, all homo-sapiens (humans) on this planet.

History has shown that whenever men manage to create a weapon of mass destruction, sooner or later it has to be tested, to see its effectiveness.  This is just the way it is; lab tests are fine but until it is tested on a large scale, one can never be sure of its destructive power.  During WW II, men tested the power of the Atom-Bomb, to the great satisfaction of all interested parties.

With an accidental or designed release of live threatening viruses (pathogens), the creators and their masters, can assess the degree of efficacy of their creations.  This latest outbreak of a Corona Virus, no doubt, can be called a scientific success because its efficiency of infecting a vast number of people, in a very short time, is amazing, to say the least.  Air travel automatically ensures worldwide distribution.  If one has the cure for it, it can determine the last man standing, so to speak.

Francis Boyle drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, and is very aware of what is going on, in this field.
https://greatgameindia.com/dr-francis-boyle-creator-of-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-biological-warfare-weapon/

When reading Dr. John's writings, I learned that it might be a good idea to take daily 10,000 units of vitamin D3 for one month, and then 5,000 units of it daily forever.  Remember, one ounce of prevention is better than one pound of cure.  One might still become infected, however, the outcome may be different.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CONFLICTS

If one is old enough to remember the product quality of the past, one will most likely lament about the lack of quality of most products now offered in the market place.  One may wonder why with all the propaganda ads flashed everywhere, shouting how great their products are, one can't find very little that compares with the good quality of days gone bye?

The Buzz phrase 'Continuous Improvement' does not mean the same to everybody.  Are we talking about continuous quality improvement or continuous profit improvement? These two ideas are in constant conflict; profit improvement, most of the time, spells less product quality. Experience tells us that quality lost against profit, and we the consumers go along with this twisted situation, instead of insisting on quality products, the result of continuous quality improvement.

Naturally, the younger generation is at a disadvantage because they have no idea what good quality used to be, i.e. really is.  For example, major department stores used to carry pretty descent leather shoes, at fair prices, now these stores, in the main, carry shoes with all man-made materials, which most likely make your feet sweat and smell.

If these inferior products, made with inferior materials, would be significantly cheaper, then one could say the buyer has a choice, buy good quality for more or inferior quality for less, however, these inferior products demand about the same price, or more, as good products used to cost.  This in part explains why so many new Billionaires are made every year; their substandard products (or services) are way over-priced and thus generate enormous profits.  To add insult to injury, since these inferior products don't last as long as good quality products, their short-term repeat business is assured, enhancing their profit picture even more.

By dealing with a new inexperienced consumer generation, every 20 years, these merchants (manufacturers and sellers) of substandard products succeeded with their 'Continuous  Profit Improvement' scheme, by trashing the quality of their products.  These disingenuous merchants now prey on an unsuspecting new consumer, who has been convinced, through clever marketing, of the new normal.  Let us just look at their product warranties, If one gets a one (1) year written Warranty, one can thank our maker; the manufacturers fully know that is about the time their product, generally, will last.

How can we get back to good quality products?  First, we must ignore all the hype about a product.  Second, we must use common sense to judge whether it is worth the money.  Third, we must evaluate if we truly need the product.  Whenever, some new product makes people stand for hours inline for it, you can be sure the item is way overpriced, there usually is a less expensive alternate product in the marketplace.  For example, Amazon has some Tablets at much lower prices that may work for you; I know I have two in my home.

When consumers shop with more discrimination, and reject inferior products, the merchants with poor quality products will have less business volume, which will force them to examine the causes for it.   They then have to make a choice, lower their price, or improve the product quality, while maintaining the current price level.  Either way, the consumer stands to win; we have the power, we truly could be the King, and add truth to the slogan, "The customer Is King".

POVERTY IN THE USA - IS AMERICA TRULY GREAT AGAIN?

About 88% of us have little or no idea what the other 12% plus is enduring, even though many of them are hard working people, and still cannot afford a roof over their heads.  Especially around Thanksgiving, when millions travel long distances, by car or planes to share meals with their families, the people they love.  We are so busy with our organized lives we hardly ever give a thought about our brothers and sisters, who are part of the 12% plus population.

My Thanksgiving resolution is to do something nice for someone who belongs to the 12% plus in America; a trusted organization, in my area, which has a clean record of doing good for the down-and-out, will be my target.  I highly recommend that you watch the documentary by the DW (Deutsche Welle), to get into the spirit of giving; it worked for me.  Please see the link shown below.

DW reports:
"Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDkALRz5Rk

Despite the good intentions of President L. B. Johnson's war on poverty, the truth is it was and is a total failure.  "The War on Poverty was declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964: This administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America. ... In January 1964, President Johnson gave Sargent Shriver the task of developing a bill to wage the war against poverty in the United States. The bill was presented to Congress in March, 1964."

Like all the many other wars we proclaim against this or that, the war on poverty is a disgrace for our nation, as it is an utter failure by any measure.  We always have money for external adventures, and buying the good will of other countries/regimes, but when it comes to the needs of our fellow men, we suddenly have the urge to reduce the national debt, by cutting necessary social services.

I am not suggesting to start a fund for the unfortunate brothers and sisters among us but I am suggesting an individual act of kindness by all of us, and by all means urge the people in your circle of family and friends to do the same.

Thanksgiving has come and is gone now but the perils of poverty are an ever present problem for too many of us; it is never too late to act and give a little.  We in the 88% group have so much to be thankful for.

Olympics Of Greed

When is enough, enough?  When someone amasses billions of dollars, somewhere along the line that person robbed the public, by overpricing their products and/or services.  How else could they become so filthy rich, while the general population is getting poorer by the year?

"Where did the phrase 'filthy rich' come from?

The pejorative nature of the phrase is lessening all the time, and it’s increasingly used just to denote very rich. The origins of the phrase come from term filthy lucre, which was first used in print in the 16th Century, and was then used to denote money that had come from foul means. This led to filthy being a slang word for money."

In my opinion, the foregoing still applies more than ever. 

https://www.bing.com/search?q=definition+of+filthy+rich&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=definition+of+filthy+rich&sc=1-25&sk=&cvid=3094128499AE44579377CBB06E03006F

Forbes 400 listing of the wealthiest in America is the scoreboard of the addicted to money crowd.  Yes, money, like sex for example, is addictive and these on the Forbes list work (more like steal) their way to the top to earn the gold medal of ultimate greed.  If it were not so sickening, one could feel sorry for these, apparently, addicted individuals because in the end, they cannot take it with them.  Can you imagine, the vast number of poor souls waiting for them to arrive, so they can get even for making their lives miserable on earth?

Assuming all is true what most religions teach, one would have to ponder this singular question, which is longer the suffering of a life span on earth, or the suffering for all eternity?  Now, one could say everybody knows the answer to that question.  Well, it appears, the filthy rich have no idea about this time-span question, why else would they risk everything?  The answer is twofold, addiction to money and greed; nothing else seems to matter for them.

It is a common belief, among most people that death is the great equalizer, if these greedy rich ones would just die and enjoy bliss for all eternity, what great equalization would that be? One hopes that there is justice somewhere, if not in the afterlife, where?  One can suspect that the religions of the world are in the service of the filthy rich, mandated to keep the populous quiet with the promise of great rewards in the afterlife for their inflicted suffering on earth.  Granted, this promise keeps the sufferers going, in the service of the wealthy and powerful, i.e. mission accomplished but is this just and fair?

Going back in history, were not the biggest scoundrel assuming the position of the Pope through money and power?  These often criminals became, according to church doctrine, infallible men;  what a crock this was.  The political systems of the world are so engineered that, most of the time, only the wealthy and well-connected can enjoy positions of power.   In the USA it takes, apparently, one billion dollars to get elected President.  Influenced perhaps by church doctrine, the public trusts that whoever is elected has now their interests at heart; nothing could be further from the truth.

Whoever had the most self-serving money contributions from the elites, and is elected, is now ready and empowered to serve not the interest of the people, who elected them, but the interest of those who provided the money to get them into position of power.  The Forbes 400 list is just the tip of the iceberg, it shows those who have managed to do it better than the herd of the also wealthy; it is nothing but the scoreboard of the greed Olympics.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#249787f77e2f

Nowadays, when a politician brags that he or she is very rich the public now applauds; the wealthy politician has now star qualities, go figure.  The perceived logic goes like this, when we elect a very wealthy person, he or she won't need to steal from us while in office, however, we overlook the fact that this person now has to make it easier for his friends and sponsors to steal from us.  In reality nothing has changed, the former middle-class and the poor still get shafted, overtly or covertly.

I doubt very much that these costly wealth extractions in other countries serve the innocent voter, and his family, it surely serves the filthy rich whose wealth increases exponentially.   There has never been such a stark wealth inequality, as we experience now.







Need I say More?

Hypocrisy On Steroids

It was reported on Newsy 10/26/19, a TV network, that Our Secretary of State ordered new restrictions on the travel to Cuba, to support the people of Cuba, and to punish the Cuban Government for supporting Venezuela's Maduro.

NBC News reports 10/26/19, that "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao that the flights are being suspended indefinitely because of Cuba's repression of its people and support for Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-bans-all-flights-to-cuba-outside-havana-in-latest-crackdown/ar-AAJmWjU

I believe the second part but in no way is this helping the Cuban people, it will result in job losses for them.  It will surely hurt the very people our Government pretends to care about.  The same thing happens in Venezuela where extreme sanction by the US is hurting mainly the people we are, so called, concerned about.

My social issue with all this is simply this, first we increase the suffering of innocent people, and second I fail to see where in a democracy a Government can tell its free (?) people where they spend their vacations, or when they can visit their families back home.   And all that only for political reasons, and not for safety reasons.  Are we that far down the line on our way to a dictatorship?

I guess, the game is to bring the people of these foreign countries to the brink of starvation, so that they will get enough desperate to bring their own elected Governments down, since other dirty tricks did not work.  Is this normal?  No wonder that Americans are disliked all over the world, how could it be otherwise?  Instead of protecting us, our Government brings us in harms way abroad.

Trump says, we should stop being the police of the world, I say, we should stop being the Bully of the world. 

  

Let's Face It Our Nation - The USA Has Gone Mad

The very fact that our Government (past and present) has all these great amounts of money to engage in all these (past and ongoing) external wars for oil and/or regime changes, is the very proof that we are way overtaxed in our country.  We are not using these great sums of tax and new debt monies to improve the human conditions of the USA, but to support these geopolitical wars around the world, for profit and wealth accumulation by some, and that is wrong in my opinion.  Please refer to the charts shown near the end of this post, which clearly show that something is wrong.

People like Tulsi Gabbard, who speak out against these wasteful policies, resulting in not only money losses but more importantly, the losses of millions of lives, are attacked and framed as 'Russian Assets', for example.  These 'Slanderers' hope that we, who have been brainwashed for so long, will fall for this without questioning the motives for this type of slander.  I hope they are wrong with their assumption, and that we will resist this kind of character assassinations, and see it for what it is, slander pure and simple.

When living in Hawaii, I personally met and spoke with Tulsi Gabbard, at a gathering, about a local issue we had at that time, and one cannot find a nicer person to talk with than Representative Tulsi Gabbard.  Our politicians in their stump speeches always talk about how much they appreciate our armed services personnel, well, by slandering one of them, they demonstrate that their appreciation is nothing but fake.

Even our so called independent media (read corporate media) is in on the character assassination, one only has to watch the biased questioning of the victim, by one of them, to understand that they are in concert with the 'Slanderer'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjzBJWUyWI

My concern here is that whenever the truth tries to surface, with the help of someone, like Tulsi Gabbard, the smear campaigns are in full operation, to not only kill the truth, but also the messenger, and that to me is a social issue, and not a political one. In a true and fair democracy this must not be allowed and/or rewarded!

Now let us look at what people, like Tulsi Gabbard, are talking about.  Our national debt is currently over 22 Trillion dollars.



Now let us look further into the past to appreciate the madness that is going on.


 It is all about the cost of wars. - Debt per family of four (4).

Author/Source unknown.

It does not matter anymore who is in office the borrowing continues.  The debt ceiling is now like a Helium filled balloon.


Can you imagine how much it costs to service 22 Trillion dollars of debt?  If we, the citizens, would run our households like this, we would end up in jail.  Why are these politicians still at large, free to do more damage to our nation, by placing so much debt onto our backs ($250,000 per family of four)?