Omicron is more infectious than Delta, but at this point the data shows it is in no way more deadly than Delta! What seems to be the biggest impact of continued news media/government fear mongering over the Pandemic, is economic, and apparently that is the true motive.
A spat of news media reports offer overwhelming proof that a major housing price crash is coming for The Gem State of Idaho, and this comes just as many home owners just got another big county assessed increase in their property tax/fee schedules!
Despite main stream news sources, and housing developers/speculators, blaming Idaho’s high prices on lack of housing, this Good News Reality Group video report claims Boise’s housing inventory is actually up by 300%, as well as homes for sale are sitting on the market for longer, and that property tax/fee increases are driving locals out, warns that “even dual income families are gonna have a hard time qualifying”:
KTVB news report about ‘luxury’ student apartments for Boise State University, replacing what were once affordable housing (this is called gentrification), warns it is a trend favoring out of state developers being allowed to happen by government officials:
In July 2021, Local News 8 reported that the housing situation in Pocatello is being driven by housing developers seeking high profits, the situation in Idaho is so bad that low income workers must work an impossible 76 hours per week to afford a one bedroom apartment, Idaho is 5th ranked in the country for evictions & foreclosures:
I recently got a notice from the car insurance company I use (which is the cheapest I could find) and it stated that my eleven years old used car (I’m the second owner) is now “undervalued” and to meet its new valuation would require an increase to my insurance rate.
I have not been able to afford a new car since 1990, not just because of my income, but because of outrageous insurance rates for new vehicles (Anybody in the U.S. as old as me should remember when industry and government officials promised that making vehicle insurance mandatory would make it cheaper!). The news media wants you to believe that used vehicle prices are skyrocketing because of Pandemic shortages affecting the new vehicle manufacturers, my research shows used car prices started going up years before the Pandemic hit, and insurance rates are more about the switch to artificial intelligence than consumer ‘demand’.
An article published today, by The New Yorker, refers to insurance company Hagerty as reporting that second-hand pickup truck prices have gone up by 50% over the last four years. This is partly because people in the United States can actually make money ‘flipping’ a used pickup truck. Another reason is that old pickup trucks are seen as being easier for the owner to work on, compared to new vehicles which almost require you to take them to an expensive mechanic (some countries, like Germany, made it illegal for you to work on your own vehicle, unless you become a government licensed mechanic with a government inspected shop). This might seem logical for people with limited money who can’t afford to pay a mechanic, but the article makes an ironic point by blaming high-paid computer savvy tech workers for driving the demand for used pickups precisely because they don’t like the new computerized pickups!
In the United Kingdom, a recent article somehow connects the rising number of used car purchases to the rising number of accidents, at least that’s what one insurance company is claiming in order to justify jacking-up insurance rates. What the U.K.’s biggest vehicle insurance company claims is that when a used car gets into an accident it is most likely written-off, or what we call in the U.S. being totaled, due to the cost of repairs exceeding the value of the vehicle. Apparently a vehicle write-off is more expensive in the U.K. than in the U.S.? The insurance company also states that they’ve gone ahead and repaired some crashed vehicles, rather than write them off, because it was actually cheaper to do so. However, the Association of British Insurers claims that overall vehicle insurance rates have actually gone down precisely because there are fewer people driving due to Pandemic lockdowns!
On 10NOV2021, the U.S. military gave away yet more vehicles to Peshmerga forces at Erbil, Iraq. At least 170 vehicles were given away. U.S. Army video by Corporal Isaiah Scott:
Video report by Rudaw, 08NOV2021, explaining how small groups of so called Islamic State are scaring off Kurdish villagers in the area of Kirkuk, which is home to more than 20 oil fields:
On 01NOV2021, the U.S. Army’s Task Force Spartan revealed that expansion work is being done on Erbil Air Base. For about three months now, engineers with 806th Route Clearance Company, 111th Theater Engineer Brigade, have been improving gravel ‘parking lots’ with limestone: “The limestone is a softer stone that will break up easier and in return ‘lock in’ to itself when packed down. This creates a solid surface that can still be packed down and have a smooth top layer that vehicles will not sink into and get stuck. At the same time, it allows for drainage through the limestone that does not create a muddy surface.”-Sergeant First Class Stephen Jones, NCO in command of the project
Role 3 Hospital, Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, U.S. Army photo by Major Andrew DeStefano.
On 20OCT2021, the U.S. Army’s Medical Logistics Command revealed that a FRAM (Forward Repair Activity-Medical) team from California was deployed to Iraq at the end of September, to repair and return to ‘operability’ medical equipment at a ‘Role 2 hospital’ on Erbil Air Base, as well as a ‘Role 3 hospital’ at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center, for the specific purpose of “boosting overall readiness.”
U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sergeant Jose A. Torres, Junior.
During 16-29OCT2021, Exercise Phoenix Fires was conducted near Al Asad Air Base. The purpose was to ‘hone the skills’ of Iraqi Tactical Attack Controllers (ITAC), who call in airstrikes to support ground forces. The training concluded with a live-fire exercise near Mosul Dam.
U.S. Army Phoenix Fires video explainer interview by Staff Sergeant Jose A. Torres, Junior:
Al Asad Air Base. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
On 12OCT2021, Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 135th Medical Area Support Company conducted combat life-saving skills training for Iraqi special forces medics, as well as Iraqi air force clinic medics, on Al Asad Air Base.
U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant James Mason.
On 11OCT2021, Task Force Spartan revealed that the 1022nd Engineer Company, 111th Theater Engineer Brigade, had engineers working on ‘vertical construction projects’ on Erbil Air Base. This is because more U.S. and Coalition personnel are operating on the air base, and it was deemed that existing structures were not safe.
Also on 11OCT2021, the U.S. Air Force revealed it had deployed Joint Expeditionary Tasked/Individual Augmentees (JET/IA) to Al Asad Air Base, to support AC-130W Stinger-2 operations. The AC-130W is a USAF Special Operation Forces gunship: “We’ve been assigned to support the AC-130W and provide them with all their logistical needs…whether that be transportation, aerial port, anything like that.”-Master Sergeant Charles Willis, Special Operation Forces and Logistics
One of the JET/IA Airman (Senior Airman Autumn Rivas), deployed for the AC-10W ops, intimated that combat action had increased when he said “You know any attacks that happen here, I would say like the other day we had to stay up all night and work all day. It hasn’t been the easiest thing. We do what we need to do to get things done, work at different paces and stagger things when they need to be staggered.”
This has nothing to do with the infrastructure debt financing plan just passed by the U.S. Congress, it is a sneaky part of the March 2021COVID-19 Stimulus Package (aka American Rescue Plan Act, aka ARPA [not to be confused with DARPA’s original acronym]). Starting 01JAN2022, every time anybody uses an electronic payment processor to make a transaction of $600 or more (this includes $600 transaction for one item, or a single transaction for multiple items totaling $600 or more), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gets notified with one or more 1099 forms.
To make things more confusing, there are different types of 1099 forms and according to an accountant, interviewed by CNN, the IRS could get two different types of 1099s for the same transaction because the ‘language’ in ARPA makes it sound like both 1099-K and 1099-MISC (miscellaneous) will be filled: “Again, the taxpayer will have to explain to the IRS that the two 1099s are for the same transaction.”-Mark Luscombe, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting
Each payment processor will be forced to create its own way of reporting the transactions, and even create a way to identify the type of transaction, to the IRS. Government officials, like Janet Yellen, say this is all about catching tax evaders and if your transaction is legitimate then you have nothing to worry about, yet it is 100% on you to prove to the IRS that the transaction is a legitimate non-taxable transaction or you could be taxed on it!
All my adult children use electronic payment processors, they do not use banks, this means every time they pay their outrageous monthly rents (they live in an area that has lead the U.S. in skyrocketing housing costs) the IRS might be notified, and then they’ll have to explain to the IRS what it was for!
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President who signed Federal Reserve Act in 1913
“Money always moves with a purpose. It’s fun to be able to be this close and be able to determine what that purpose is and to be able to influence it, to be able to disrupt, or inform to prevent or disrupt, an adversary’s ability to raise, use, move, or store money.”-Major Jon P. Evans, U.S. Army’s 266th Finance Support Center (based in Germany), 03NOV2021
That’s correct, the U.S. Army has launched what it calls CTF (Counter Threat Finance) operations, in Kuwait. The CTF operation is being conducted by what is called a Finance Support Center (FiSC), a typical finance unit that is normally the ‘bean counter’ of a larger Army unit.
“First is what we call fiscal preparation of the environment. We’ll go in and do an economic analysis of a country or a region and see who the key trading partners are, how much U.S. spending goes in there, look at their banking network, and just look at some other macroeconomic indicators like unemployment, inflation, levels of corruption. We use that fiscal preparation of the environment, the FPE, to develop a finance support package, and then that FSP will go into a targeting process to look at individuals or companies to either prevent them from doing business with the government or to produce other effects.”-Major Jon P. Evans, 266th Finance Support Center
An FBI agent conducts the first CTF course for National Guard personnel, 09DEC2011. Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Betty Squatrito-Martin.
At the end of 2011, the DoD ordered the U.S. National Guard Bureau (NGB) to begin training for CTFs under the guise of counter-drug training. The 26 new counter threat finance personnel attended a three week training course at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, November 29th-December 16, 2011: “This is a start to a whole new effort for the Guard. This effort that the Guardsmen are a part of helps build a skill base that I predict is going to be a growing part of what we do in the future.”-William F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats
In May of 2014, National Guard Counterdrug CTF Program Manager, Captain Mesha Cichon, stated “The Counter Threat Finance career field is in its infancy, so any training our Soldiers and Airman can get to improve their skill set, is imperative.” Also, the boss of CTF at Joint Interagency Task Force South, Tammy Bowers, stated “CTF analysis is so new, we have to reach out to each other… In a few short years, we’ve developed an impressive cadre….”
Also in 2014, the DoD ordered that “a common lexicon for CTF, target nomination procedures, and guidance in defining measures of performance for CTF activities” be created regarding CTF operations globally.
Criminal Analysts Open Source Techniques training, May 2017. Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Betty Squatrito-Martin.
In May 2017, National Guard personnel attended counter-drug/CTF training (officially called Criminal Analysts Open Source Techniques) in Indiana, which focused on Social Media: “The online tools, techniques and methods we use to support law enforcement efforts are constantly evolving. We must continue to advance and train our Counterdrug members to meet this demand.”-First Sergeant Donald Cooley, criminal analyst
The Trucking and Bus Regulation is supposedly about the environmental impact of semi-trucks and busses, but there is another law known as AB5 (aka Gig Worker Law), it is the law that caused so much problems with home delivery service operations, such as Uber and Door Dash. On 05OCT2021, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to hear a challenge brought by a shipping company to California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). The shipping company relies on what federal law calls ‘owner-operator’ truck drivers. There is another pending lawsuit by a different shipping company waiting to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
19OCT2021, Mid-West truck driver posts video showing huge warehouse with plenty of open loading docks while at the same time truckers are being told they have to wait to unload, the result creates domino effect causing truckers to miss or cancel their next pick-ups, also, trucks are being refused entry for piddly paperwork reasons. Pay attention to the amount of open/not in use loading docks at this massive warehouse/distribution center:
Federal Department of Transportation (DoT) rules governing the trucking industry basically apply to truck drivers who cross state lines (interstate commerce), truck drivers who do not only have to comply with state laws.
On 14OCT2021, the gov’na of Idaho, along with the State Police, admitted to something most of us living in Eastern/Southeastern Idaho already knew; crime is indeed up because of illegal drugs trafficked by illegal immigrants!
In fact, Gov’na Brad Little went so far as to say little ol’ city of Pocatello was the ‘Gate City’ for the illegal drugs coming from Mexico, saying there’s “an arrow going right to Pocatello”, and “Of the drug trafficking organizations investigated last year, 96% identified Mexico as the source country for drugs trafficked into the region.” (Gate City is the unofficial name for Pocatello, I say unofficial because several decades ago the residents voted on adopting the nickname and they voted against it, yet the local news media keeps using it)
During the press conference, State Police trooper Sergeant Curt Sproat said “Since 2018, the Idaho State Police forensic lab has seen a more than a 200% increase in the amount of fentanyl…” :
Blind Bat News has been following the illegal drugs/illegal immigrant debacle in The Gem State of Idaho, and the rest of the world, for the past decade:
05OCT2021, Kurdistan24’s interview of politician with British Empire’s United Kingdom explains (poorly, full of typical diplomatic rhetoric) why Kurdistan is suddenly now important (do your research to learn that after World War One the British Empire threw the Kurds under the bus when it, along with France, created the modern day Middle East):
04OCT2021, Iraqi real estate investment company called HappyLand For Investment releases video promoting massive development programs in Erbil-Kurdistan, apparently as a result of massive oil industry investments funded by foreign governments:
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
04-06OCT2021, on Al Asad Air Base yet another U.S. taxpayer funded giveaway of weapons, ammo, and other equipment, to the Iraqi Qwat al-Khasah (Special Forces).
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez.
The U.S. Department of Defense admits that for fiscal year 2021 (October 2020 to September 2021) more than $500-million worth of military stuff has been given to Iraqi military and Peshmerga! Don’t forget, these ‘divestments’ have been going on for more than a decade!
30SEP2021, Rudaw English interviews China’s envoy to Kurdistan (Erbil) as to why China is now heavily involved with Kurdistan:
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“We’re excited to be developing a fully-integrated, purpose-built HD Suburban in partnership with the U.S. Department of State.”-Steve duMont, GM Defense
While Joe Biden and his team cry about the self-imposed debt limit of the United States government being too low, his Department of State just went and paid General Motors Defense (GM Defense) $36.4-million for ten prototype armored Suburbans, and if the State Department is happy with those ten, they’ll (you’ll) pay for“a fleet of 200 HD Suburbans per year for nine years”!
All you happy taxpayers need to pay attention to news releases about government contracts, notice that they are officially described as ‘awards’, meaning the corporate world considers your future enslaving tax funded contracts (government debt financing) as prizes in some kind of contest you didn’t even authorize!
GM Defense says their ten ‘development’ up-armored Suburbans will use existing parts (“off the self”) and be completed by May 2023, after that GM Defense expects the State Department to ‘award’ a nine years long production contract for 2-hundred of these up-armored fuel wasters per year!
Taxpayers need to ask the question; why does the State Department need so many new armor-ized silly-vilian vehicles when it already has hundreds? Yes, the U.S. Department of State already operates hundreds of up-armored Suburbans! And don’t forget about all those armored Suburbans operated by other federal government agencies!
So why now, when the U.S. government is about to run out of debt financing, is the State Department/Secret Service issuing “first-of-their-kind contracts” specifically for development of a Suburban armored car?
According to a 16SEP2021 press release, the first ever contracts with GM Defense, and Ford, are intended “to ensure a viable and robust AV supply chain.”
SKYROCKETING USED CAR PRICES & INSURANCE RATES STARTED YEARS BEFORE THE Pandemic SHORTAGES!
