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I hear the roar of a big machine
I hear empire down
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I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill
I hear dive bombers and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don’t make sense
I don’t see much evidence
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
But I don’t feel
A long…
Barring fans with AstraZeneca jab from Springsteen NY concert is treating them as second-class citizens – it’s a dangerous path
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/527043-astrazeneca-vaccine-concert-springsteen/
Chris Sweeney
June 18, 2021
Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines.
FILE PHOTO: Singer Bruce Springsteen performs during the closing ceremony for the Invictus Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.© Reuters / Mark Blinch.
You had a choice, Bruce, and you sided with the dark side. Up yours ye sold-out cunt.
Banning the recipients of vaccines that are not approved by the US from Bruce Springsteen’s concert in New York may spark global tit-for-tat responses and lead to people being cast as undesirable due to their vaccine status.
Trust America’s egotistical and imperial authorities to spark another “US vs. Them” battle. The decision not to recognise the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is not only unnecessary, but xenophobic.
It’s been highlighted after a Canadian gentleman booked tickets to see Bruce Springsteen concert in New York next week, but then noticed that entry was on condition of being vaccinated – and his AstraZeneca-Oxford jabs do not qualify him to attend.
The reason is because the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved jabs from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson. It’s no surprise that US firms manufacture all of these.
One explanation could be they are looking to boost the income of domestic companies and hoping as a consequence to benefit American workers. Even if that is the case, it’s still ridiculous. AstraZeneca have worked alongside the world-renowned Oxford University to develop their vaccine and it’s why Britain is the country furthest forward in Europe with respect to vaccination rates.
For much of the pandemic, the UK was in a panic and that was only tamed when the vaccine rollout began, powered by AstraZeneca. Notably, the vaccine is being sold at a cost price of around $3 per dose, while the American vaccines cost approx $10-25 per jab.
It’s not only AstraZeneca-receivers who are being discriminated against. There are also all those who’ve taken Russia-developed Sputnik V, which has been recognised by the worldwide scientific community as both safe and effective. The World Health Organization also judged China’s Sinovac as a valid vaccine and supports its use.
Clearly any separation of vaccines into ‘good or bad’ is going to undermine the efforts to encourage people to take jabs. Vaccination rates are already faltering in some places. The US, for instance, has witnessed a 68% drop in uptake. There’s an extremely low uptake in Japan due to cultural reasons, while research shows that outright vaccine refusal in France stands at around 30% but will be significantly higher for a Chinese-made vaccine, compared to an EU-manufactured alternative.
If the authorities continue with favouring some vaccines, vaccination rates may slow down as people will feel there is justification to reject or look down on certain jabs. It is creating a division that is wholly unjustified and is scientific imperialism.
We all know that when one nation places a tariff on another’s goods the other nation does the same in reverse. It’s diplomatic warfare and the Americans have fired the starting pistol on the vaccine version.
Anyone who has taken AstraZeneca will be deemed a second-class citizen on arrival in America, unable to enter certain venues or buildings. Due to a very slight chance of blood clots, a great number of younger people will tend not to have been offered AstraZeneca. So if a fully vaccinated British family arrives in New York, will the parents and grandparents be refused admission as their kids are ushered in just because they received different vaccines? Imagine the carnage and confusion that could cause if applied to somewhere like Disneyland. Then it’s going to swing the other way when an American family lands somewhere else that has decided to bar entry for anyone who hasn’t had AstraZeneca.
Notwithstanding leisure trips, chaos will reign supreme when this hits the commercial world. Business people, artists, lawyers, accountants and many others could be held hostage by these draconian rules. There’s no doubt that rogue operators will exploit them for their own personal gain. Some things can’t be done over Zoom, so there’s leverage to be harnessed for untoward purposes if this vaccine apartheid is allowed to prosper.
The next step will be to shut borders based on a person’s vaccine status, turning someone into a pariah for having the temerity to agree, often without choice, to a non-American vaccine. This was already the case in Guam, which was only permitting quarantine-free entry to FDA approved vaccinated travellers until a few days ago, when they added AstraZeneca.
The next stage is for larger countries to close borders using vaccine rules as a pretence, but really to make political points and to win popularity contests. No longer will your passport be the only determinant for a foreign government to allow you entry.
America must desist from its high-handed behaviour and dispel any notion that its vaccines are the gold standard. They are not much different from the others that have been approved and rigorously tested. The pandemic has raged on longer than anyone initially anticipated. Even with vaccination programs well underway in the developed world, variants have sprung up and are why there are legitimate worries that we may have to almost start the fight all over again.
Separating people into vaccinated and non-vaccinated is one thing but deciding who is vaccinated ‘properly’ is sheer arrogance and nationalistic hubris. We do not need more discrimination. This is a time for the world to come together. Covid-19 will keep on killing until we halt its progress.
We are going down the same road that the Weimar Republic once did, but our leaders keep insisting that somehow we will get a much different result.
We Should Be Shocked By What Inflation Is Doing To Home Prices, Because We Have Never Seen This Before
June 16, 2021
If you are shopping for a home right now, I really do feel sorry for you. Home prices in many areas of the country have officially crossed the line into “absurd” territory, and they just keep going higher. Thanks to wild spending by the federal government and the economic malpractice that has been happening at the Federal Reserve, we now have way too many dollars chasing way too few goods and services. Inflation is showing up in every sector of our economy, but it is not showing up equally in all sectors. One area where inflation threatens to spiral completely out of control is in home prices. Right now we are seeing the wildest bidding wars in U.S. history, and in many, many cases buyers end up paying way over listing price.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. When a fairly ordinary three bedroom home in Berkeley, California was recently listed for more than a million dollars, the real estate agent that listed the property was absolutely stunned by what happened next…
A three bedroom, mid-century home on a cul-de-sac in Berkeley, California, with an expansive view of the San Francisco Bay was nearly a one-of-a-kind property, said Jill Carrigan, an agent with The Grubb Company who listed it this spring.
“It ticked all the boxes for a lot of people,” she said. “I’ve never had a property with 29 offers and buyers were upping their offers without us even countering. The Bay Area is always competitive, but this was something I’d never seen before.”
This wasn’t a property that was particularly special. You can see a photo of it right here. In my opinion, there is no way in the world that such a house should ever sell for a million dollars.
Of course it didn’t sell for a million dollars.
When the dust finally settled, it sold for 2.3 million dollars…
Listed at $1.15 million, the home sold in two weeks for $2.3 million in cash, double the asking price.
You might think that such extreme bidding wars are rare, but they aren’t.
In fact, CNN is reporting that 940 U.S. homes sold for more than half a million dollars above listing price in March, and 310 U.S. homes sold for more than a million dollars above listing price in that month alone.
That is just one month!
Now that our leaders have turned the U.S. dollar into “wheelbarrow money”, this is the sort of thing that is going to happen.
In this sort of an environment, a “fixer upper” in Colorado Springs that was completely trashed by a former tenant can sell for $590,000…
A ‘formerly majestic’ Colorado Springs home left in ruin and covered in graffiti by an angry former tenant has gone on the market for $590,000.
Listed as an ‘investor special’ on Zillow, the 3,598 square-foot home is advertised as a fixer upper after it was destroyed by the prior tenant who covered the walls with spray-painted messages including ‘evict me b***h’ and left a pile of rotten meet in a freezer.
As long as this frenzy continues, I am going to recommend that young couples look to rent instead of buy, but rents are going up rapidly too. This week we learned that rental prices just increased at the fastest pace in 15 years during the month of April…
Single-family rents were up 5.3% year over year in April, rising from a 2.4% increase in April 2020, according to CoreLogic. That is the largest gain in nearly 15 years.
Rents for single-family detached homes (not townhomes), were up an even stronger 7.9% compared with a year ago, as millennials in particular seek more outdoor space. Nearly half of millennials surveyed by Corelogic, and 64% of baby boomers, said they, “strongly prefer” to live in a single, stand-alone home.
Yes, the U.S. has wrestled with inflation at various times in the past, but what we are witnessing here in 2021 is completely insane.
Just look at what is happening in the restaurant industry. In upstate New York, the cost of chicken wings has gone up 99 percent and the cost of fryer oil has gone up more than 120 percent so far in 2021.
How are you supposed to run a profitable restaurant with prices spiking like that?
Since the beginning of the pandemic, our leaders have pumped trillions and trillions of fresh dollars into the system, and all of that money is creating a tremendous amount of inflationary pressure. At this point, things have already gotten so crazy that pieces of “artwork” that Hunter Biden has created are selling for up to $500,000…
President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has taken a turn into artistry and the first paintings he’s selling are going for as high as $500,000.
The first son’s first foray into the art world has seen his pieces picked up by art dealer Georges Berges, who has priced the younger Biden’s artwork between $75,000 and $500,000 depending on the size and scope of the collage artwork.
Now that Hunter Biden is trying to go clean and sober, I suppose that he has to try to make a living somehow.
But are there people that will actually be willing to pay half a million dollars for a piece of his “art”?
I find that hard to believe, but of course I find a lot of things hard to believe these days.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve finally took a few very small steps in the direction of acknowledging the crisis that we are facing…
As expected, the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee unanimously left its benchmark short-term borrowing rate anchored near zero. But officials indicated that rate hikes could come as soon as 2023, after saying in March that it saw no increases until at least 2024. The so-called dot plot of individual member expectations pointed to two hikes in 2023.
Though the Fed raised its headline inflation expectation to 3.4%, a full percentage point higher than the March projection, the post-meeting statement continued to say that inflation pressures are “transitory.” The raised expectations come amid the biggest rise in consumer prices in about 13 years.
Of course those moves by the Fed won’t actually do anything to get the “inflation monster” that they have created under control.
As long as our politicians in Washington continue their wildest spending binge ever, and as long as the Fed continues to pump more money into the financial system, the “inflation monster” will continue to grow.
So if you are looking to buy a home, there might not be any relief for the foreseeable future.
We are going down the same road that the Weimar Republic once did, but our leaders keep insisting that somehow we will get a much different result.
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I hear the roar of a big machine
I hear empire down
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I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire downI hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill
I hear dive bombers and
Empire down
Empire downI hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don’t make sense
I don’t see much evidence
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
But I don’t feel
A long…