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CNN Panel Paints Joe Rogan's Millions of Listeners as Stupid Rubes (VIDEO)
[Gateway] It’s Sunday which means CNN is attacking Joe Rogan and calling for his highly popular podcast to be cancelled.

CNN cannot compete with Joe Rogan’s podcast so like the true Communists they are, they are calling for Rogan to be cancelled.

It’s not enough for the Cosmopolitan elitist snobs on the CNN panel to attack Rogan, so now they’re attacking Rogan’s millions of listeners.

Joe Rogan has a huge audience because people enjoy hearing different opinions.

The truth about Joe Rogan's controversial guests: 'Father of mRNA' Dr Malone pointed out that hospitals get COVID bonuses and said Biden government is 'out of control' - while Dr McCullough said US is hypnotized and 'pandemic is plandemic'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Joe Rogan has been strongly criticized for promoting COVID-19 misinformation, but he insists he is simply debating the issues

  • On December 13 he invited Dr Peter McCullough onto his podcast, and McCullough made a series of false claims about COVID
    ...the Daily Mail writer forgot to put scare quotes around “false claims”...
  • On December 31, Rogan hosted Dr Robert Malone, who shared his contentious views with Rogan's 11 million listeners

  • Spotify, which hosts Rogan's podcast, is under pressure to drop their huge star from their rosta

  • Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are among the musicians to remove their music from Spotify in protest, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are 'concerned'
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/02/2022 07:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I feel the same about anyone who watches CNN.
Posted by: Chris || 02/02/2022 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ But you're right.
Posted by: Matt || 02/02/2022 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Doesn't Rogan have a larger audience than CNN?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 02/02/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Rogan's ads have a larger audience than CNN
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Yes. With all the talk about musicians pulling their material off Spotify, where's the usual gleeful announcements from the left about the advertisers pulling out?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/02/2022 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  The ads within the advertisers have a larger audience, such as Black Rifle Coffee's 'Master the French Press'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  All six viewers agreed with the panel.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/02/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Joni, Neil and their fellow Geritol-flower children are fighting a losing battle. The whole rotten structure of lies and BS is collapsing now, thanks to the judge's order forcing Pfizer to start releasing their heretofore secret documents from their vaccine trials.

The Pfizer trials data is coming out. Biostaticuans around the world are starting to comb through what's been released -- and it's worse, far worse, than anyone suspected:

Pfizer's Own Data from the First 3 Months of the Vaccine Rollout: 3% Death Rate

This is the Pfizer data they tried to get buried for 50 years. The figures in it are truly monstrous.

Out of 42,000 trial participants 1227 died in the first 3 months.

At a death rate of 1% per month the human race would be extinct in less than 10 years. This cannot be written off as 'no proof of causality'.

In addition, 31% of adult participants experienced long term adverse effects and among children the figure is 40%!

The most significant chart can be found on page 7.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/02/2022 12:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Never underestimate the ability of religious zealots to ignore the facts. COVIDians would probably make Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite blush.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/02/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Joel Smalley's substack ("Metatron") has an excellent roundup, with frequent additions, of actual data and analysis by biostatisticians and others from around the world.

The data are overwhelming. This is the biggest policy debacle in modern history.

With the Pfizer data coming out now, the end is nigh. There will absolutely be political consequences.

The blame game will begin soon. Prime Minister Ron Klain and His Crapulosity's Government will sacrifice Fauci.

The Democrats will try to fix elections but their support will crater and the GOP will sweep the elections outside of CA NY IL and a few corrupt rotten boroughs like Fulton County, Wayne County MI, Philly etc.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/02/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#11  Forgot Washington state. It will always be Democrat no matter how its voters 'vote'. Mail in voting is mandatory and the fix is firmly entrenched.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/02/2022 12:21 Comments || Top||

#12  The one to watch now is American Pravda aka NYTimes. Their science and finance writers are smart enough to realize that the game's over.

They talk to the Mass General doctors who've said omicron's about finished and it's now just seasonal flu. They see that the North European nations, every one of them except the Teutons, are abandoning lockdowns and mandates and have gone 180 degrees in reverse: UK NL DK SE IE--all of them, opening up now.

If the NYTimes starts covering the release of this horrific Pfizer data, there will be a political earthquake.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/02/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Fauxi is going under the bus, and the people who originally chose him specifically for his megalomaniacal mountebank style know he won't go quietly. So, he goes "unexpectedly." IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/02/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#14  "Sorry, Tony. It's just bizness. That would've been a sweet pension, too"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#15  Obviously we need much more time to dive into those (incomplete, also redacted) Pfizer trials data documents. It can't be the case that 3% of those jabbed in the first three months died, so the denominator here must be far larger than what the Canadians (linked above) inferred.

But here's the point: we know from Pfizer that this three month rollout caused, minimum, 1,227 deaths. In the US, the first 3 months' rollout was severely limited to a few elderly and healthcare workers -- just a few million or so. A death rate from the vaccine of 1,227 / 3m would be about 400 per million. Even the highest estimates of COVID death rates in a three month period are not much higher than 400 per million population.

IOW it seems clear from even this limited dataset that the Pfizer vaccine did not significantly reduce the COVID death rate and actually killed a significant number of those who took the Pfizer jab.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/02/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#16  So the death rate is higher from the vaccines than the actual virus. Sure thing let me hop on down the CVS and get my sheep jab.
Posted by: Chris || 02/02/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||


#18  What has 3 teeth and an IQ of 70? CNN's entire audience.
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/02/2022 19:48 Comments || Top||


ATF Admits To Secret Database Of "Nearly One Billion Gun Records"
[ZeroHedge] What always proceeds gun confiscation historically? A Registry.

A Registry of guns and gun owners is a tool that the federal government, the DOJ, and the ATF have had on their wish list for decades now. Anti-gun politicians and lobbyists have sold a registry as a tool for stopping crime, enforcing universal background checks, and ensuring public safety.

In reality, a Registry guarantees that large-scale confiscation will happen at some point. That's why the ATF is forbidden explicitly from keeping a searchable database by law.

Today, Gun Owners of America announced that the ATF has nearly 1 Billion records of firearm purchases, with over 850 million of those records in digital format. These records contain all sorts of personal information on gun owners in addition to the gun they've purchased. Important personal information, including their names, addresses, place of birth, sometimes even social security numbers, can all be found on these records.

The firearm transaction records that the ATF is referring to is the ATF Form 4473. Federal law currently states that a firearms dealer can destroy 4473 forms after 20 years. If a firearms dealer goes out of business or closes before those 20 years, federal law says dealers must hand over those forms to the ATF.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  ..yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/02/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The ATF needs to be abolished. Along with most of the government.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/02/2022 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  "Federal law currently states that a firearms dealer can destroy 4473 forms after 20 years."

The "Bureaucratic State" will do what it wants to do regardless of laws.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/02/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like it is time for a ‘National Trade your gun with your friends’ day.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/02/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Do you think they will share what guns they think we have. So I can put them in an easy location and hide the rest! The
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/02/2022 19:39 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The real Nicholas II: The Lena Mine Massacre
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Oleg Nazarov

[Regnum] On January 30, Channel One aired the documentary “The Romanov Case. Investigation found…” As a result of various and numerous examinations, it was concluded that the remains found in the Piglet Log near Yekaterinburg belong to the Romanovs and their servants.

On the night of July 16-17, 1918, in the basement of the house of the Yekaterinburg mining engineer Ipatiev, which after the revolution became the House of Special Purpose, the former emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, daughters Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia and son Alexei were shot. Doctor Yevgeny Botkin, a footman Alexei Trupp, a maid Anna Demidova and a cook Ivan Kharitonov, who were with the Romanovs, also became victims of the massacre.

The murder of ten people - members of the royal family and servants is a crime and has no justification.

The situation with Nicholas II is different. In modern Russia, the monstrous crimes committed during the years of his reign are not often remembered. But the number of victims of Bloody Sunday was in the thousands.

On January 9 (22), 1905, in different parts of St. Petersburg, pre-concentrated troops used weapons against peaceful processions of workers exhausted by problems. They went to Nikolai to tell about their troubles and aspirations. “The owner of the Russian land,” as Nicholas II called himself, answering the questions of the 1897 census, did not want to communicate with them. Instead of fatherly words, the workers and members of their families heard the whistle of bullets.

Ten days after the bloody massacre, on January 19 (February 1), the emperor received a working delegation, the composition of which was carefully selected. "Compassionate" Nikolai did not find anything better than to tell the workers that he forgives them ...

The entry made by the emperor in his diary on January 11 (24) is also noteworthy: “After breakfast, I received Rear Admiral Nebogatov, who was appointed commander of an additional detachment of the Pacific Ocean squadron.”

By that time, Port Arthur had already fallen, and the squadron under the command of Vice Admiral Zinovy ​​Rozhdestvensky was stationed in Madagascar. In this situation, the Japanese fleet had a clear superiority in forces. Yes, and he was based in his ports. Nicholas II was not embarrassed. Rozhdestvensky received his order:

"The task entrusted to you is not to break through to Vladivostok with some ships, but to take possession of the Sea of ​​Japan."

As a result, on May 14-15 (27-28) in a two-day battle near about. Tsushima, the Russian fleet suffered the most severe defeat in its history. In it, according to Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, Nicholas II "could not blame anyone but himself ".

The loss figures are horrifying: the Japanese sank 21 out of 38 Russian ships, and captured seven. Six ships were interned in neutral ports. The Almaz cruiser, the Anadyr transport, the destroyers Grozny and Bravy broke into Vladivostok. Of the 16,170 sailors, 5,045 were killed, and 7,282 sailors, led by the fleet commander, were captured. However, these victims in Russia are remembered 1000 times less often than the execution in the Ipatiev house. But each of the dead had relatives and friends, many sailors had children.

The situation with the memory of the Lena massacre is even worse - in 2012, its centennial anniversary passed completely unnoticed. Meanwhile, the Lena massacre and what preceded it is an extremely interesting and instructive topic. It helps to get rid of illusions about how wonderful life was in Russia under the last emperor.

On the eve of the 110th anniversary of the Lena tragedy, it is worth telling about it in detail.
Go to this link to read the rest of the article in English
Posted by: badanov || 02/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Socialist-Revolutionary mutinies and the crisis of Soviet-German relations in1918
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] On July 6, 1918, the German ambassador to the RSFSR, Count Wilhelm von Mirbach, was killed. His name was often heard at the Fifth Congress of Soviets and on its sidelines as a symbol of violence and German imperialism.

The murderers of the German diplomat were Ya. G. Blyumkin and N. A. Andreev, who arrived with documents from the Cheka "in connection with a case directly related to the Ambassador."

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 02/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
UNEXPECTEDLY: US Lost 301,000 Jobs in January vs Predicted 200,000 Gained
[PJMedia] Payroll firm ADP says the US lost more than 300,000 jobs in January, and omicron is taking the blame.

December’s impressive jobs gains were also revised downwards.

“Unexpectedly” is the code word once again, as Wall Street had predicted the economy would produce 200,000 new jobs instead.

January is the first month since December 2020 that the economy has lost jobs.

Despite White House boasts that 2021 produced more jobs than any other year, we’re still more than 3.5 million jobs shy of where the economy was in February 2020, before the demonstrably useless COVID shutdowns.

The Biden economy hasn’t been creating new jobs. it has been recovering needlessly destroyed jobs — and far too slowly. Or at least it was until now. The expected “v-shaped recovery” has been impeded by continuing lockdowns in two of our biggest states, Democrat-run California and New York.

Return to economic normalcy has also been delayed by Bidenflation, Biden’s war on domestic energy production, and Biden’s return to ruthless overregulation.

“Service-providing industries were responsible for 274,000 of the job losses,” reports CNBC, “with goods producers falling by 27,000.”

The Biden administration knew this was coming, too.

On Monday, White House spokesweasel Jen Psaki pre-spun the lousy numbers, falsely claiming that the “nearly nine million people [who] called out sick in early January” might be counted as unemployed.

But that’s not how the Bureau of Labor Statistics (their report is due out Friday) or ADP counts job losses.

ADP’s chief economist, Nela Richardson, said, “The labor market recovery took a step back at the start of 2022 due to the effect of the omicron variant and its significant, though likely temporary, impact to job growth.”

Left unsaid: How omicron caused 300,000 people to lose their jobs.

The Fed is also keeping a close eye on the jobs report. Our “transitory” inflation problem seems to have settled in for at least the medium term, but the Fed won’t raise inflation-killing interest rates so long as the job market is weak.

There’s a word for economic stagnation combined with inflation, something economists once believed could never happen at the same time: Stagflation.

That word was coined during the 1970s, the last time government over-regulation and funny-money policies combined to strangle growth and spark inflation.

Related: More from CNBC courtesy of Lord Garth has a deeper dive into the numbers.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/02/2022 13:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All that economic destruction so someone could make that stupid little graph.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#2  BLS data due 830 Friday.

The past 6 months, the BLS has reported fewer job gains than the ADP survey and by several hundred thousand in some months. So I wouldn't be surprised to see a much different result
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/02/2022 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  ...So many Administration spokespeople will be tap dancing so fast to try and make this look good that it's going to sound like full auto day on the range.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/02/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm super impressed with the decision to claim a modest 200k increase and any disparaging numbers are due to people taking a couple weeks off for sniffles and quarantine.

Now they look off by a cool half million, which even the dunderheads and tru-believers know is way outside a rounding error, and everyone who has had to take a sick leave is like, "That isn't how it works."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2022 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Service Industry loss is 274k of that number.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/02/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Here are the best jobs for 2022
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/02/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Cybersecurity too. Huge demand, not enough qualified people.

Man ever time I see a ransomware attack on some company the details show what a fuckup their cybersecurity is.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/02/2022 14:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Jen Psaki is already dancing. She said it's because 9 million people were out sick. She really thinks we are all stupid.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/02/2022 14:53 Comments || Top||

#9  What's funny is that the rig companies are DESPERATE for people right now. Every rig company I know is trying to hire people.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/02/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Fvcking liars.

This was so predictable. Pay people not to work + shut down Main Street / mom & pop businesses... WTF did they expect?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/02/2022 15:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Institute soviet era policies, get soviet era motivation to work.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/02/2022 15:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Shocking that only 51% want him to be impeached.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/02/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#13  Some peoples' position on anything is whatever the media and / or some celebrity tells them it should be. That's what's keeping the number from being higher.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/02/2022 15:58 Comments || Top||

#14  And yet the unemployment rate unaccountably dropped, amirite?
Posted by: KBK || 02/02/2022 19:10 Comments || Top||

#15  #12 Shocking that only 51% want him to be impeached.
Posted by ruprecht


Chain of succession nightmares
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2022 19:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Chain of succession nightmares

If only there were a way to impeach all of them at once. Economies of scale and all that.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/02/2022 19:42 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Amnesty: We reject Israel's bare faced lie that we are antisemitic
[JPost]"It just appears that way because of all the time we hate/oppose the Juice. It's a coincidence"
Amnesty International released a report accusing Israel of apartheid.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I reject Amnesty International's existence.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/02/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Amnesty International, the original AI, died with the original members that knew what horror was seeing the Holocaust and the Berlin Wall. The 'Red Diaper Babies' that took it over in the 90's.
Posted by: magpie || 02/02/2022 10:38 Comments || Top||



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