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`In 2021 elections, Biden out-performs past 30 years of first-year presidents

• The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation, a troubling sign for President Joe Biden

Americans say inflation and the economy are their top concerns with just 12% focused on COVID: 

Democrats urge Biden to stop ignoring problems and Rep. says he ‘wasn’t elected to be FDR’

• The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation
• Troubling sign for President Biden and Democrats ahead of midterm elections 
• Just 12% of adults rated COVID a top issue, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found
• And 73% of adults want political leaders to focus on jobs and economic growth 
• Last November, a majority of voters – 61% – said COVID-19 was important
• Only 33% rated the economy a top concern, exit polls found
• Dems starting to worry after loss in Virginia and near-loss in New Jersey 
• ‘Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,’ Dem Rep. Abigail Spanberger told New York Times of Biden

The COVID-19 pandemic is fading as a top concern of voters and being replaced by the economy and rising inflation, a troubling sign for President Joe Biden and Democrats heading into the midterm elections. 

Just 12% of adults rated health issues like the coronavirus as a top national priority, down from 20% in February, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found for October. 

Meanwhile, two-thirds of the country, including the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents, say that ‘inflation is a very big concern for them.’The job market is also being closely watched as the poll found that 73% of adults want political leaders to focus on jobs and economic growth.

Democrats, meanwhile, are showing signs of panic and asking Biden to deal with this quality of life issues affecting voters. 

“We were so willing to take seriously a global pandemic, but we’re not willing to say, ‘Yeah, inflation is a problem, and supply chain is a problem, and we don’t have enough workers in our workforce,’ Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia told The New York Times. ‘We gloss over that and only like to admit to problems in spaces we dominate.’

She also said Biden needs to remind voters why voters put him in the Oval Office.  ‘Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,’ she said, referring to the sweeping net of social programs Biden is seeking to make into law. 

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Americans are getting hammered at the pump!  Bank of America predicts crude oil will skyrocket 43% to $120 a barrel by next summer. With gas prices already at a seven-year high of $3.40 ($6.73 in Mendocino CA).

Inflation in the United States has jumped to a three-decade high while wages haven’t kept pace and prices for food, gas and rent are rising – all putting a growing economic burden on households.  

Biden and his administration has argued that as the pandemic fades, the supply chain bottlenecks to unsnarl, more people will return to the workforce, the economy will strengthen and inflation will begin to ease.

The president also touts his Build Back Better package, which he argues multiple Nobel Prize winning economists say would reduce inflation. 

But his signature package of social safety net programs has yet to pass Congress and his aides concede that Americans would not see its benefits until next year. Moderate Democrats have raised concerns about its overall price tag, which Biden has cut nearly in half to $1.75 trillion as he tries to get it through the legislative branch. 

Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat from New York, told the Times she fears that Biden’s message isn’t resonating with voters. ‘I don’t understand some of my more progressive colleagues saying last night now shows us that what we need to do is get both of these bills done and shove even more progressive stuff in,’ she said. ‘What we’re talking about is not resonating with voters.’ 

And voters are starting to show their impatience. 

On Tuesday, Virginia voters elected a Republican, Glenn Youngkin, as governor, in a state Biden carried by 10 points last year. And, in New Jersey, incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy barely held on for a second term in a state Biden carried by 16 points and where Democrats have a 1 million voter registration advantage. 

The president offered a litany of excuses in a press conference on Wednesday, including the fact that his Build Back Better agenda hasn’t passed Congress and Donald Trump supporters.

‘Look, I just think people are at a point, and it is understandable, where there’s a whole lot of confusion. Everything from are you ever going to get COVID under control or are my kids going to be in school, are they going to be able to stay in school to whether or not I’m going to get a tax break that allows me to be able to pay for the needs of my kids and my family,’ he said.

‘People are upset and uncertain about a lot of things – from COVID to school to jobs to a whole range of things, and the cost of a gallon of gasoline,’ the president said.

Thursday’s Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the political landscape is dramatically changing for Biden, who came into office with a promise to end the COVID pandemic and bring back stability after the chaos of the Trump years.

Last November, a majority of voters – 61% – said COVID-19 was ‘an important factor’ in determining their choice for president, and those voters backed Biden with 52% of the vote. And, in the last election, only 33% rated the economy a top concern.

Additionally the president’s approval rating has been on the decline – another worrisome sign. 

Biden entered office with the approval of 55% of the country but has seen his popularity decline: 42% of adults say they approve of Biden’s job performance in an NBC News poll that was out Monday. 

That poll also found 71% say the country is headed in the wrong direction – a sign of trouble ahead for the political party in power.  The right track/wrong track question has proven a reliable forecaster of voter attitudes headed into the voting booth. 

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from Oct. 18-22 and gathered responses from 4,430 adults including 2,001 Democrats, 1,591 Republicans and 465 independents. The margin of error is between 2 and 5 percentage points. 

How hospitals and health systems are driving value during COVID-19.

Hospitals are striving to make health care more cost-effective and efficient for patients, while providing the nation’s most complex and resource-intensive care. 

• If the past eighteen months have proven one thing, it is that hospitals are critical to providing life-saving care to their communities. 
• This has been especially true throughout the pandemic, as hospitals have provided essential services despite facing financial and operational challenges. 

Why it’s important: Affordable health care is one of the biggest concerns facing many Americans. And health care spending likely will continue to rise to meet the needs of an aging population.

• Hospitals and health systems provide complex, life-saving care, but the country’s fragmented health care system often leaves many hospitals with a daily balancing act to maintain their mission to serve their communities. 

The background: Recent health care spending growth has been driven by the increased use and intensity of health services, not by rising medical prices.  

• More people are insured — the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans fell from 48 million in 2010 to 30 million in the first half of 2020. 
• People are living longer — The U.S. population over age 65 increased 60% from 2000 to 2020 and is expected to increase another 44% from 2020 to 2040. 
• More people have chronic diseases – Over half of American adults have been diagnosed with at least one chronic condition and 27% have two or more.

Hospitals Role:  Hospitals and health systems have remained leaders in controlling costs within the healthcare field. 

Key numbers: 

• Hospital price growth averaged just 2% annually from 2010 to 2020.
• Meanwhile, health insurance premiums have increased 4.4% per year on average since 2010.

Hospitals face significant challenges as they work to reduce the cost of care while maintaining operations.

The challenge: Hospitals have a variety of costs associated with providing care, including wages, prescription drugs, food and medical devices.  

• Wages and benefits account for well over half of inpatient hospital costs.
• Life-saving items such as cardiac defibrillators can cost more than $20,000, while more complex models can cost roughly $40,000. 
• Hospitals have invested resources in bringing new therapies and technologies to their patients, but this often raises the cost of providing care.   

Steep increases in input prices, like rapidly escalating drug prices and labor costs, can undermine hospitals’ efforts to reduce the cost of care.

• Prices for drugs purchased directly from manufacturers increased at nearly twice the rate of retail drugs over the past decade. 

Additionally, meeting the unique burden of requirements of over 1,000 insurers, including extensive government regulations, results in tremendous administrative and cost burden to hospitals.

COVID-19 has heightened a number of these challenges, as hospitals faced steep financial losses estimated at $54 billion in net income in 2021, with more than a third of hospitals expected to have negative operating margins through year’s end.

• Hospitals also experienced dramatic increases in expenses because of COVID-19’s care complexity, supply chain and labor shortages, travel nurses, personal protective equipment (PPE), vaccine testing and distribution.

A recent analysis of workforce data found: 

• Staffing shortages have cost hospitals approximately $24 billion so far. 
• Hospitals have also spent an additional $3 billion in acquiring PPE for the additional staff.
• Hospitals’ use of contract temporary labor is up 132% for full-time and 131% for part-time staff.

Learn more about how hospitals are providing accessible and effective care.  

Something Really Strange Is Happening At Hospitals All Over America BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, NOV 04, 2021 –

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you.  Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening.  Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago.  That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading.  Let us hope that is true.  With fewer people catching the virus, you would think that would mean that our emergency rooms should be emptying out, but the opposite is actually happening.  All across the country, emergency rooms are absolutely packed, and in many cases we are seeing seriously ill patients being cared for in the hallways because all of the ER rooms are already full.

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about.  The following comes from an article entitled “ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid”…

Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.

Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said in a warm Texas twang.

But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.

Can anyone explain why this is happening?

If the number of COVID cases was starting to spike again, it would make sense for emergency rooms to be overflowing.

But at this particular hospital in Michigan, we are being told that some of the main things that are being treated include “abdominal pain”, “respiratory problems”, “blood clots” and “heart conditions”…

Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.

That mention of “heart conditions” immediately got my attention, because I have been seeing this so much in the news recently.

For instance, a high school senior in Pennsylvania just dropped dead from “a sudden cardiac incident”…

The high school soccer manager ‘greatly enjoyed’ his team’s championship victory Saturday. Later that evening, he was dead.

Now, late student Blake Barklage’s high school is mourning his untimely death. As 6ABC in Philly reports, the tragedy occurred at La Salle College High School in Montgomery County, Pa.

In a letter to parents, the school announced that the senior died after ‘a sudden cardiac incident’ Saturday night.

Elsewhere in the same state, an otherwise healthy 12-year-old boy just suddenly died because of an issue with his coronary artery…

As family and friends grieve, the cause of death is for a 12-year-old taken way too soon while warming up for school basketball practice.

As TribLive in Pittsburgh reports, Jayson Kidd, 12, of Bridgeville, Pa., died of natural causes involving his coronary artery, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Heart problems kill elderly people all the time, but it is odd that so many healthy young people have been having these problems.

Over the weekend, Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero suddenly collapsed on the pitch during a match.

He was later diagnosed with “a cardiac arrhythmia”…

Sergio “Kun” Aguero, a striker for the Barcelona soccer team, has been diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia after collapsing during Saturday’s match against Alaves.

The 33-year-old Argentinian was examined by medical staff at the stadium before being taken to a nearby hospital where he is still waiting to undergo further examination.

Just two days later, a match in Norway was brought to a screeching halt after a player experienced “cardiac arrest” right in the middle of a match…

A football match in Norway’s second division was halted on Monday after Icelandic midfielder Emil Pálsson suffered a cardiac arrest during play.

The 28-year-old Sogndal player suffered the attack as the game against Stjordals-Blink entered the 12th minute, his club said in a statement.

I have been seeing so many stories like this.

So why are so many young people suddenly having such serious problems with their hearts?

Can anyone out there explain this to me?

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Yuri Nicholas Maltsev is an Austrian school economist and economic historian from Tatarstan. He earned his BA and MA degrees from Moscow State University and PhD in labor economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow. Before defecting to the United States in 1989, he was a member of a senior Soviet economics team that worked on President Gorbachev’s reforms package of perestroika. He is currently professor of economics at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has appeared on CNN, PBS NewsHour, Fox News, CBC, and Financial Network News across America, Canadian, and European television. He is the editor of Requiem for Marx (1993) and coauthor of The Tea Party and the American Counter-revolution (2012) and The Tea Party Explained: From Crisis to Crusade (2013). He is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute.

Jeff Deist: We’re speaking in mid-September, and President Biden just announced executive orders mandating vaccines for many employers. As a former Soviet citizen, what do you make of this?

Yuri Maltsev: – Bing video That’s awful. In the United States, fascism comes in the very strange form of an elderly dementia patient. Usually fascists are charismatic leaders, look at Hitler or Mussolini, but this one, what he’s doing is just unbelievable. He is a socialist, definitely, that he is mandating the private sector what they should do, what they shouldn’t do. Karl Marx in the manifesto of the communist party, he defined socialism and communism as abolition of private property and that private property can be abolished overnight, like what happened during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. But it can also take a gradual kind of process and that’s what is happening right now in the United States. Private property is becoming like having a title to wetlands. You have private property, but you cannot do anything with it.

D: Biden brings to mind another kindly old man, Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom you worked in the late eighties as a Soviet labor economist. In your introduction to the Requiem for Marx book, you go in depth about how Gorbachev managed to absolutely snow the Western media and snow George Bush senior.

M: Yes, he absolutely did. He was portrayed as a great liberator, however, he was a Communist. On another hand, we should give him some credit because he was talking about socialism and giving it a human face, which nobody understood at the time.

There is this joke that James Bond was sent to Moscow to find out what’s happening there under Gorbachev and he goes to the bakery and there is no bread, and he writes in a little notebook “No bread”; he goes to the butcher shop, no meat, and writes “No meat.” There was a KGB officer following him and the officer looked over his shoulder and said, “A year ago, you would be shot for doing that.” And Bond then writes “No bullets anymore.” When there were no bullets, people stopped working, because under socialism, the only way to work is under a threat to your life or to the life of your loved ones, because there is absolutely no incentive to do anything. And that’s what Mr. Gorbachev did not understand.

In the beginning of his reign, Gorbachev sounded confused. For example, he was saying that central planning actually works, the problem is we never had a good plan, and so on. That definitely didn’t show him as he knew what he was doing. But definitely, he played some positive role in destroying that evil empire.

Today, we have Mr. Biden, who is building a new evil empire. I think that his vaccine mandate speech is just telling us that he is right now on a warpath. He is desperately looking for enemies and who those enemies can be. So, he picked unvaccinated people as his enemies, because he lost the war in Afghanistan so dramatically. He completely screwed up the evacuation and now he needs to attract the attention of the masses to something else. That’s what I’m thinking is going on.

And they are also, I think, trying the water, to see if they can get away with this mandated vaccination, with forced vaccination, with dragging people into vaccination centers, which reminds me of forced abortions in China, then that will be the ultimate goal: your loss of freedom. If you remember John Locke, his major question was who owns you. Do you own yourself? If you do, you are a free man, and if somebody else owns you, you’re a slave. If you don’t own your body, then who does? The government acts as if it owns your body and knows better what to put in it. And now, if they will forcibly vaccinate us that would be the end of whatever we think we are living in and would be the beginning of slavery.

D: Let’s continue this Biden versus Gorbachev comparison, because I like it. You write about glasnost and perestroika being basically fraudulent cronyist schemes in practice, not at all what the Western media reported. You quote Gorbachev saying, “What we want is a planned, regulated socialist market.” That’s essentially what the World Bank types advocate today.

M: Absolutely. We must have this economy which is run by the government, not by the private sector. Everything Mr. Biden has been doing since his inauguration is heading in that direction, more regulations for everything, for industry. People don’t like his predecessor, Mr. Trump, but under him regulations were being removed, 20 percent of them, but Biden has restored everything that was removed. His vice president, she’s just not only a socialist, but kind of a Stalinist. Look at her speeches, most recently in California. This is a very sad time that we are living through, but the people inflicted it on themselves. I don’t know if elections were fair or not, but I think it’s very simple if you are voting for a socialist or you are voting for a capitalist.

D: You mentioned that your time working with Gorbachev convinces you he didn’t know any economics at all. He was completely illiterate on the subject. I suspect that’s equally true of Biden.

M: Yes, yes. In his fifty years in government his working record is just atrocious. When he was the chairman of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, it was unbelievable to listen to him. I don’t know, however, whether he is stupid or he is evil, and I think both. He’s a power-hungry kind of person as well as the people around him.

D: You left the Soviet Union and came to the United States in 1989. A lot of Soviet expatriates in the US became neocons or cold warriors, but you managed to avoid that.

M: Yes, because neoconservatism is just another side of Trotskyism. That we should impose our will on other people against their will. You see what is happening, how we trap people in Vietnam or in Afghanistan or in Iraq or in Syria, trying to start wars which we do not intend to win. It’s to make some people happy and richer and impose all kinds of left-wing social theories on them. It’s like imposing democracy—these kinds of things cannot be done from above or from the outside of the country.

D: In the eighties and nineties, especially, Conservatism Inc. loved nothing more than a Soviet defector willing to denounce the USSR. The Buckley It right purged the Old Right on the grounds we had to defeat the Soviets above all, so the Cold War justified accepting a bigger government at home.

M: It definitely was a threat. I would agree with that part, but from another hand, how did we oppose the Soviets? The CIA provoked the revolution in Hungary, we didn’t support those people as we had promised, so many of them were murdered including the very reformist prime minister, Mr. Nagy, and about three hundred thousand   Hungarians fled. We did the same with Czechoslovakia and the war in Vietnam was the same thing. So that’s a problem that we have, that we are engaging in wars, which are designed only to feed some people, to feed the military-industrial complex of which President Eisenhower was telling us back in 1961.

D: As a new arrival in the early 1990s, did you think America was generally capitalist and free at the time or did you already sense there were deep problems here?

M:  I worked, if you can call it work, for the federal government in Washington, DC, at the United States Institute of Peace, which is still there. It’s a congressional think tank. It’s huge right now. I could see there were deep problems.

D: They have an enormous building by the Lincoln Memorial. I wonder what their budget is relative to the Mises Institute?

M: Oh, probably several hundred times more if not thousands. And they also built, just maybe four or five years ago, a huge campus in southeastern Washington, DC, just unbelievable.

D: Apparently there’s no more peace than when they started.

M: No, they’ll never be shut down. And for me, what was amazing was that I was awarded this very prestigious position. I became a fellow of the United States . . . the full title was even more feudal, something like Senator Jennings Fellow of the United States Congress in Peace. I thought that maybe they will study peace. My neighbor with an office on the right was Eugene Rostow. Eugene Rostow was possibly the most prominent warmonger in United States history and he almost single-handedly started the Vietnam War. The chairwoman of the board was Elspeth Rostow, who was his wife. This formed kind of a Rostow dictatorship. There were generals and the like, rather a nursing home for the neoconservatives. The worst thing was not that they were funding these people who didn’t need the stipends because they were already rich, but they were dispensing tens of millions of dollars. Now they are dispensing hundreds of millions of dollars, to poison our academia, to provide so-called grants to study conflict resolution. And how you can resolve conflicts, by accusing everybody of racism or paying the left-wing academia to develop critical race theory and other stuff like this?

D: At this point, in the early nineties, you had already discovered Austrian economics.

M: Well, I was leaning toward Austrian economics since my days in the Soviet Union. When I was a third-year student at Moscow State University I was given a book by Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, and at that time I could be punished anywhere from eight to ten years of imprisonment, just for having the book.

D: Just for possessing it?

M: Just for possessing it. And the person who gave it to me would get fifty years, because he would be accused of disseminating anti-Soviet slander. That was the so-called Article 57 of the Penal Code of the USSR. This is even an innocent book. But it was on the KGB forbidden list, as well as Solzhenitsyn and Orwell.

Because of Hayek’s influence, I changed my major. Instead of studying history and social science, I began to study economic history and history of economic thought. It was at this point that I received a letter through the Lenin’s Library, now the Russian State Library, that since I was engaged in a critique of the vulgar bourgeois political economy, I should be given access to the contents of the library. How can you criticize something without knowing what it is? So I got real access. While there I read a lot of other stuff, as well. You go to a marked room and you sign a pledge that you’ll never tell anyone about what you read there. The unfortunate thing is at that time I didn’t know about Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises and so I was insatiably reading Hayek.

When I came to the United States I was invited to the Shevchenko Jamestown Foundation, which is a very interesting think tank, kind of like the world defectors’ club. They would not pay me anything, but they were very nice in providing me with a computer and office space and a telephone, and while there I wrote an article on perestroika for The Freeman.

I was invited to the Mises Institute, to teach at Mises University, at that time at Stanford University, and then I met Murray Rothbard and we became very good friends. He became my real mentor. I met a lot of great people like Tom DiLorenzo, Walter Block, Bob Higgs, and many, many others. It was not a conversion moment, because I was already converted, but I remember Murray, he took my interview from me and he titled that interview “Mises from Moscow.” He was very enthusiastic about the future of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in finding the path to freedom.

I think it was 1990, the Mises Institute organized a conference in Washington, DC, to honor Gottfried Haberler. Haberler was a great Austrian economist, but then he turned more mainstream. He began to teach at Harvard and he was not associated with the Institute at all and the Institute also didn’t like him for his mainstream leaning. I knew him rather well because I had lunch with him every Wednesday in Washington. I advised Murray to lure him back where he belonged, and so the Mises Institute put on a wonderful conference in Washington, DC, and Haberler addressed this conference.

Attending the Washington conference was a delegation of twelve Lithuanian businesspeople and politicians who came to the United States right after Lithuania became an independent country. They were all enthralled, and today we have a very strong Austrian economics kind of school in Lithuania. The Lithuanian Free Market Institute is doing a great job in promoting Austrian ideas and some are very visible in the Seimas, which is the Lithuanian parliament. It was an interesting time because nobody knew what was happening. Murray wrote quite a lot on the economics of transition and he had this wonderful slogan: land to the peasants, and factories to the workers, and bureaus to bureaucrats, that was his approach. That was his major message to them. And he praised the Baltic states because they were ahead of the other former Soviet Republics and they are ahead today in promoting freedom.

D: We have the whole history of the twentieth century to see the failure of the Soviet Union. You lived it. But as you’ve pointed out, Mises predicted all of this in 1920, without the benefit of hindsight, in his essay “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” What an achievement.

M: True, absolutely. I read Ludwig Mises’s “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” and his book Socialism only when I came to the United States, and I was honored to write an introduction to “Economic Calculation” published by the Mises Institute. A lot of things just became really clear.

When you live in the Soviet Union, especially if you are an economist, you understand that the system does not work. You understand that the prices are all phony, that the prices are made up, that they’re being ignored. But after reading Socialism by Mises, then it all becomes crystal clear. It’s like processing film when the image is already there, it is only after developing the film that the image becomes clear. That was the role of Hayek for me with The Road to Serfdom. And so it was an interesting time.

In the Soviet Union at this time, they came up with the idea of the 500 Days Program. This is how long it would take to make the transition from a socialist slavery to economic freedom. My point was why five hundred days? In five hundred days, you cannot do anything. If you make a transition like this, you should do it immediately in one fell swoop. And sure enough, while I was writing this, Margaret Thatcher made an interesting comment. She said something like, “if we in the United Kingdom would decide to move from left-hand driving to right-hand driving and do it in five hundred days, that would be havoc on the road.” So, it is with all economic reforms. I believe strongly, and Murray Rothbard was very supportive in this, that a gradual transition is transition to the third world only. You can either make a transition right away or don’t even try to do it.

D: David Gordon and Gary North also wrote about Marx the man, in your collection of essays. Marx was not necessarily that bright. He wasn’t that accomplished. Gary North tells us Friedrich Engels was a lot smarter and ambitious. Marx lived a fairly pampered and subsidized life, and had far more money than the average Soviet worker. And yet this apparent mediocrity seems to have enduring influence. Why?

M: Because he provides a very good argument for so-called intellectuals to grab power. Because the whole idea of Marxism is that the proletariat, the great masses, are oppressed. But what should they do? They should follow the people with the vision, the professional revolutionaries. And who would be better for that than the intellectuals. So, that’s the point. Hayek is also saying it in his wonderful essay “Why Intellectuals Love Socialism.” Marx, he was a very power-hungry individual. He never had real power, but from another hand, his writing is about power, how to get power. And today he is popular for what reason?

There is another side of Marxism. It’s not only proletariat and bourgeoisie, workers and capitalists, but it is also oppressors and oppressed. Because if you read Marx, especially Das Kapital, the twenty-third, twenty-fourth chapters, I still remember all this stuff, he’s writing that the whole of human history was a fight between oppressors and oppressed, an influence that would be like slaves and slave owners and feudal lords and peasants and now we have workers and whatnot. That’s easy for the so-called intellectuals of today to put whomever they want, to put any kind of group they believe is a victimized group, and to present them as oppressed. This victimization agenda will be taken up by the intellectuals of the Left. It is important for them to have something to point at, take the so-called environmental crisis, that’s another invented crisis that we have, and also race issues. And these two issues, they believe, can destroy capitalism, destroy the United States, destroy the society that we live in, and provide them with unlimited power, because that’s what it is: if you control energy, for example, you control culture, then you are in charge of everything. Education, today, I’m sorry to say, but I think we are losing this cultural war to these people because they control the mass media, control Hollywood, control the production of culture.

D: Let’s continue with that thought. There’s this concept of cultural Marxism, where the focus on economic class shifted to identity politics because the economic arguments weren’t working. The US middle class, the union workers, weren’t buying it. So the Left shifted its focus. Today we have a lot of loose terms like “woke” and “SJW” and “PC” to describe this phenomenon. As someone who teaches young people on campus, how much have things changed since you arrived in the US?

M: It’s so sad because when I began to teach, and I began to teach almost immediately when I came to the United States, I was teaching first as an adjunct professor at George Mason University on the Arlington campus and then I moved to Wisconsin. I am now in academia for thirty-two years. And at that time, students were very curious, they were way to the right of the faculty. The faculty always was, at least the faculty that I dealt with, very much to the left of center. They had an agenda to reproduce themselves, because that means that left-wing faculty will only hire left-wing faculty, and now they are a majority. We have very few really free market academics, but a lot of socialists and radical socialists and communists and democratic socialists, so-called, which is an oxymoron. Mr. Bernie Sanders visited my college, Carthage College, and many faculty were sitting there from three in the morning because they were afraid that they will not get in to meet the great leader.

D: Were students camping out overnight as well?

M: Some, yes, those that are already brainwashed.

D: And presumably very few kids at Carthage College are in any way oppressed.

M: [Laughs] True. Except when they are looking for parking in the morning.

D: I want to clarify: Do you think the students in some of this country’s liberal arts schools are actually to the left of their faculty?

M: I would say not very many, but there are some. There are some activists who are just fanatics, who became fanatics because they were screwed up in high school and then they came to Carthage. We have faculty who reinforce their views. I’m not saying all faculty. We have some mild socialists also. We have even on our campus some people who are still on the side of freedom, but not many, the majority is not. What is going on today with this masquerade, if you will look at what the faculty says in their blogs, for instance, “Yesterday I saw a student who was sipping coffee without a mask and he was sipping coffee very slowly, because he enjoyed not wearing a mask.” I can’t imagine that a professor is writing that.

D: One thing that’s changed a lot in the US since you arrived is secularization. There is far less religious observance in the United States today than thirty years ago. Rothbard’s essay in your Requiem for Marx collection compares Marxist theory to the return of the messiah in Christian theology, Marxism will put an end to history and establish a new heaven and a new earth. The establishment of communism marks an end point to human history, a final perfected state of mankind. So the secularization of America is a necessary Marxist goal.

M: True, yes. Murray wrote “The Religious Eschatology of Marx.” Eschatology, that’s the end of history. Marx hated religion, he called it opium of the people, and in the Soviet Union alone they murdered over a million clerics of all religions. I was just reading a gruesome historical article. In Odessa, for example, they were putting boiling lead into the Christians, saying that this is a communion for you. And they were hanging monks and nuns and priests from belfries. Why such atrocities? Because it’s obvious that if you are a believer, you believe in God, no matter what denomination or religion you are, then you don’t have space in your mind for Marx and Lenin and Stalin to be gods. That would be a very unchristian or very non-Islamic or very non-Jewish thing, to believe that there is a god, in the Kremlin or in the White House or somewhere else. That’s why they needed to clean out the place and why religion was prohibited until 1942.

In 1942, the Soviet Union legalized the Russian Orthodox Church. For what reason? Because there were about 3 million defections from the Soviet Army over to the Germans. Stalin was afraid that the whole thing would fall apart without that. And most would believe that Stalin and others were kind of the antichrist. That’s one thing, to destroy religion, then next is the family. When families are destroyed then civil society is destroyed and then you’re naked before them. Then you don’t have any support mechanisms. I’m not a religious person myself, but religion is a very important social institution, because it provides a lot of social support for people.

D: Did the Soviets view religion as a competitor with the state for people’s loyalty?

M: Yes and no because some, for example, the Russian Orthodox Church were just a state institution under Stalin and his successors run mostly by the KGB.

D: So the state co-opts the church like it co-opts other institutions.

M: Yes. Under Gorbachev, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell apart on the glorious Christmas Eve of 1991, the state collapsed as we know it. If you look at the Russian Orthodox Church today, they are blessing the Russian aggression against the Ukrainians, against others, they’re holding masses to support the Russian troops. They’re blessing tanks and rockets. There are some denominations that are not really statist denominations. There are some Protestant denominations in Russia which believe that you don’t need any intermediaries between you and the God. And that brought the idea even to John Locke that we are all equal before the Lord.

D: Let’s talk about academic freedom. A well-known philosophy professor at Portland State University, Peter Boghossian, resigned yesterday over harassment he’s endured from faculty and the students. Do you worry about your own academic freedom?

M: The only thing I like from Marx’s quotes is that we don’t have anything to lose except chains on our feet. And so, I’m not worried, because I just fight back. I am fighting. Fortunately for me, I was tenured twenty-five years ago and that’s why I’m saying that if you give up on something, then they will take over everything. And that was the greatest message from Solzhenitsyn in the gulag, don’t give up. They survived and they were even respected by their jailers, by the prison guards. Besides that, I would say all my classes are full and I have waitlists! I would say that the great change came with Ron Paul. Especially when Ron Paul was very active, many students were his followers and he was the best ambassador of ideas of liberty on campuses. We definitely need leaders like him for students, to be seen as role models.

D: Dr. Maltsev, I think that’s a perfect place to stop. Thank you.

2015 Jade Helm conspiracy – Bing

Millions of Americans are already using MediGreens CBD Gummies on a daily basis. Many say it works like magic. Some say it works better than prescription painkillers like Vicodin and Oxycontin.

Is “Nature’s Miracle Medicine” The Real Deal… Or Just Another Gimmick?

The story of how MediGreens CBD Gummies was created is fascinating. 

MediGreens CBD Gummies was discovered by 92-year-old Mary Richardson, Jamie’s mother, and a retired doctor from Yuba City, California. 

READ MORE:   World Health Organization Cbd | NCPR News – North Country Public Radio – CBD Oil News (bestcann.com)
Most commonly asked questions about CBD Oil — Pure Sunfarms

CBD history – CBDsafely.com

Viewpoints can change if facts are provided. 
Newsflash, weed works! Film at 11 but you can’t possibly choose cannabis on your own!! Ffs – never buy this stuff over the Internet. Always go to a dispensary!!! Before using cbd, learn about the human endocannabinoid system and how it works. Cbd must be used properly, tinctures are a waste of money because the cbd oil isn’t water soluble

I took prescription pain medication for over twenty years but now use cbd extract.

Always buy CBD products from a reputable source – such as a health store or a reputable company online with plenty of reviews; but always make sure they’re a mixture of the good and not so good reviews.

An honest online seller will not hide the bad reviews.

Learn to make your own with the magic butter machine!!!

Before using cbd, learn about the human endocannabinoid system  and how it works
My advice is to go with Lime OG, the real deal. A little CBD in a hybrid to cut the Sativa buzz. What Is Limonene & What Are Its Benefits in Cannabis? | Leafly, CBD works for some people, but before you buy, ask these questions:

1) how much CBD is in the product?

2) any other isolates in the product?

3) is this a DODGY company who will put me on a SUBSCRIPTION and charge me a FORTUNE? A reputable company @lazarusnaturals will post their test results https://test-results.lazarusnaturals.com and have a very generous assistance program for disabled, low income, veterans, etc.

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HISTORY OF CANNABIS IN CANADA

As quoted from the Senate of Canada, Library of Parliament, Green and Miller, — **Canada is better served with more reliable information than in the United States!!*

“In 1962 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported only 20 cases connected with cannabis.  In 1968 the number of cannabis related cases had risen to over 2300, and in 1972 there were nearly 12000 cannabis convictions in Canada.” Some would go on to say that the increase in cannabis usage in Canada can be correlated with the ” Hippie ” movement in the United States of America. 

In the early 1970’s the Le Dain Commission was appointed in Canada to undertake a complete and factual study of marijuana use and its effects.  It concluded that, “Canada’s prohibition laws had only served to create a subculture with little respect for the law and law enforcement, as well as diverting law enforcement capability, clogging the judicial system, and providing a base of funds for organized crime.”

Despite this and many other positive movements to decriminalize cannabis in Canada, it wasn’t until the 1990’s that things really changed. 

HISTORY OF CANNABIS ON DRAGONS’ DEN

Fast forward to 2021 and by now Canadian television shows like the Dragon’s Den host cannabis entrepreneurs excited to talk about their business in the newly emerging THC / CBD marketplace.  It was interesting to see a season 13 contender walk away without an investment from the Dragons.  They felt like CBD chocolate may be too appealing to youth and that others would use it to self medicate. 

WHAT IS CBD AND DOES IT GET ME HIGH?

When you hear about someone growing cannabis or smoking weed, most people usually relate this to the THC experiences that Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle had gone through in their 2004 film.  However, the cannabis plant actually contains hundreds of chemical substances, NOT just THC.  CBD is the second most common cannabinoid found in cannabis. And in order to produce CBD in Canada, you need to abide by the Cannabis Regulations set out by Health Canada. 

CBD is not intoxicating and may reduce some of the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); however, it does have an effect on the brain and body.  The benefits of CBD have been widely discussed and mostly recently the Harvard Medical school published evidence of the benefits of CBD.  For a more comprehensive understanding of cannabis and cannabinoids, visit this Health Canada post.

Now that CBD is allowed for purchase in Canada at licensed cannabis stores, more and more first time buyers are beginning to explore using CBD.

IS CBD OIL RIGHT FOR ME?

With an increased demand from consumers for CBD, recreational cannabis brands are adapting their grow rooms to create CBD products.  With so many new brands offering CBD products, it may be a little tricky to determine if CBD oil is right for you.  We’ve actually found that consumers may prefer trying CBD edibles or CBD beverages because they are already pre-dosed and find the experience to be more consistent.  Some first time CBD users find understanding the CBD dosage to be a bit difficult so they try an alternative that is already pre-measured, like CBD capsules. 

There are many CBD brands that are competing against each other to be the “Best CBD Oil Company.”  With these brands having so many competing priorities, iit can be a bit overwhelming to determine which is the best CBD oil to buy.  The staff at our cannabis dispensary are a great resource that you can access for more information on CBD brands.  The staff at cannabis stores tend to have some great first-hand consumer insights they can share. 

The staff at Budders Cannabis does our best to provide education on CBD.

Knowledge is power and it’s going to be a key factor in determining IF and what CBD oil is right for you. We hope that this CBD guide will serve as an unbiased source of information. We believe that it’s one of our duties as a cannabis store to provide our consumers with a basic understanding of what’s actually in YOUR CBD Oil, capsules, topicals, drinks and more. 

Types of CBD Available in Canada

When first-time CBD users begin their search for what CBD does…. one of the biggest areas of confusion is over the many “types” of CBD that exist.  And we aren’t even talking about capsules, oil, drinks, topicals.  We sometimes see some confusion around industry-specific terms like “full-spectrum,” “broad spectrum,” and “isolate,” so we’ll give you a breakdown of what they all really mean. 

In order for us  to help you fully understand what you’re getting when buying CBD oil, let’s explore the most common types of CBD and what they mean to you.  If you need more information, please consider visiting a Budders Cannabis Dispensary near you.

What is Broad-Spectrum CBD?

An easy way to think of broad-spectrum CBD products is to consider them in between full-spectrum CBD and CBD Isolate.  Full-Spectrum CBD products contain trace amounts of THC and CBD Isolate products are just pure CBD.  

The thought process behind broad-spectrum CBD products is that by producing a full-spectrum CBD product and then removing only the THC molecules from the mixture, you can create a great hybrid product for new CBD consumers.   

What is Full-Spectrum CBD?

The CBD  “full-spectrum” simply means that you get the full range of terps and cannabinoids that were actually present in the strain from which your CBD was extracted.  Hence the term, ” full spectrum.”  It’s important to note that this method will also include trace amounts of THC.  Generally speaking, the amounts of THC present in this shouldn’t have an intoxicating effect, but we do not guarantee this.  Especially if you are a heavy user, trace amounts of THC may build up in your system and COULD show up on a drug test.  If you are sensitive to THC or want to avoid THC all together, we would not recommend trying a full-spectrum CBD product. Make sure you research the CBD brand and product or ask a budtender at a cannabis dispensary near you. 

Another thing to consider about CBD full-spectrum products is that the method in itself does not guarantee a high or lower CBD potency.  The potency of the full-spectrum CBD product is based on the potency of the strain that was grown.

What is CBD Isolate?

CBD isolate is considered to be the  “purest” form of CBD on the market. That’s because isolates only contain CBD.  Brands that make CBD isolate products do this through an extraction process that strips away all other cannabinoids and terpenes, leaving only CBD molecules behind.

As an update on a Leafly Post on CBD, The legal cannabis market in Canada has actually caught up and started to provide cannabis consumers with CBD isolates. CBD isolate-based products seem to be most appreciated by consumers getting into the world of cannabis-related products for their first time.    

WHY IS HOW CBD EXTRACTED IMPORTANT?

It’s exciting knowing that Health Canada Licensed Producers are now in control of the regulated CBD products being put out in the market.  We now have high standards of quality and production for our CBD products; that is some great peace of mind.  Canadian CBD producers are making the right investments to help deliver fresh CBD to its Canadian consumers.  That being said, there are essentially two methods in which Canadian Licensed Producers extract CBD from the plant.

1. Ethanol ExtractionEthanol extraction is perhaps the most known CBD extraction process.  It’s been known to be relatively simple and effective. In this method, high-grade grain alcohol (ethanol) is used as a solvent to separate CBD and other cannabinoids from the plant itself. We see this method used in 510 Vape Cartridges as well.   Ethanol extraction can be done under warm or cold conditions, and is considered extremely time-efficient when compared to other CBD extraction processes like CO2 extraction.  However, the drawback is around using the ethanol solution itself.  Many veteran consumers prefer CO2 extraction vs Ethanol in our experience. 
2. CO2 Extraction –  CO2 extraction is a method that involves using carbon dioxide that is under very high pressure and low temperatures.  This process helps strip the cannabis plant of all cannabinoids and terpenes. CO2 extraction has been found to be highly accurate and has been known to produce some of the purest cannabinoid extracts when done effectively.  With more licensed producers building out facilities with this type of expensive equipment, there is much to look forward to in the CBD market in Canada.

WHY BUYING LEGAL CBD FROM LICENSED CANNABIS DISPENSARIES MATTERS 

According to the blog article on the OCS about the Value of legal CBD some may believe that buying illegal CBD may be harmless because, ” CBD Doesn’t Get you High.”  Well that couldn’t be further from the truth.  When you buy from GREY-market, you really have no reliable indicators on if you are  even buying real CBD.  Much less if it’s pure CBD, broad-spectrum or full spectrum CBD.   Who knows what’s in those products…. They have no Health Canada licensed labs testing their products.  

In case you’re wondering what laboratories are licensed to conduct activities with analytical testing under the Cannabis Act… here is the link :

Labs licensed under the Cannabis Act 

Now knowing this, we hope that you understand that CBD products that can be bought from illegal sources…such as vape shops, convenience stores or even at pet stores, are NOT regulated and have not been subject to any testing by an approved Health Canada Laboratory linked above.

SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CANADIAN CBD BUYERS GUIDE 

• CBD does not generally produce psychoactive effects, but it can have an effect on both the body and mind.
• illegal CBD products, aka the CBD products that are sold in stores that are NOT licensed by the AGCO, are risky to buy. 
• Legal CBD products can be found in a cannabis dispensary like Budders Cannabis.  Buying legal CBD from a Health Canada Licensed Producer allows you to know the actual active ingredients you are consuming in the CBD product.  Make sure to shop for CBD at a legal cannabis store near you. 
• Legal CBD in Ontario can be consumed through CBD Oil, CBD Gummies, CBD Chocolate, CBD Beverages, CBD lotions.
• There are 3 Types of CBD Products – Full-Spectrum, Broad-Spectrum and CBD Isolate.
• The two most common extraction processes associated with CBD are Ethanol and CO2 extraction.
•  History of Cannabis on The Dragon’s Den – Bing video
•  Canadian Cannabis Kitchen- Green dragon – YouTube

Shark Tank CBD Oil? Jamie Richardson As Seen On Shark Tank Available Here – PK Baseline- How Celebs Get Skinny and Other Celebrity News

Dragons’ Den Peter Jones stunned as CANNABIS sold on TV ‘Is this an illegal drugs ring?’ | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV | Express.co.uk

Bottled Water Ranked: Why Some Brands Are Above The Rest – HealthyGemShark Tank CBD Oil Episode  [Top 5 CBD ACTUALLY On TV] (dr john.org)

Dr. Stumbles. CBD OIL – Bing video

War Room Pandemic – Bing video

Immunization expert: ‘Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous for others’ – America’s Frontline Doctors
Immunization expert: ‘Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous for others’ – America’s Frontline Doctors (america’s frontline doctors.org)

How’s Cuba doing with child vaccines? “Our country would not put (infants) even at a minimal risk if the vaccines were not proven save and highly effective when put into children,” Aurolis Otaño https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-09-cuba-vaccinating-children-young.html… via @medical_xpress
You need only prove it’s an experimental vaccine…how hard can that be? Has it been held up to the standards of other experimental medical procedures? No..it was rushed through..and is being forced on people not through legislative consideration..but through executive order. Ten red flags in the FDA’s risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer’s EUA application to inject American children 5 to 11 with its mRNA product – by Toby Rogers – uTobian (substack.com)

It’s an unapproved fda vac and still no one is doing a damn thing about this legally to put an end to this unethical and undemocratic lunacy. This has nothing to do with a simple influenza, it has more to do with their INFLUENCING US psychologically to give up our demoCRATIC rights.
If you want a better tomorrow for your family, rely on real research not fear. Fear will trip you up every time. If you are going to claim to do your own research, do your own research using peer-reviewed source documents. This from the sponsor’s briefing document:

https://fda.gov/media/153409/d
Experimental mRNA “va—ine” “Climate change” deception

“For this reason God sends them a powerful DELUSION… they will believe the LIE…”

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 Be alert for false prophets

Pope Francis: Vicar of the New World Order http://youtu.be/L-19FOFwyk8@YouTube The next generation will live in tyranny!
If WE sit back and do nothing there won’t be a next generation.
We are all wondering what the hell is up 2 next (OBiden)
Because we are going to pay higher taxes for all his new policies .

People who wear seatbelts still die in car crashes, but they are generally worn because they reduce risk.  WHAT?? I can take the seat belt off after driving HOWEVER tell me how to remove the “Vaccine” (Not A Vaccine) when we find out the long term damage it is causing??  If you had to have a seat belt medically attached to your body you would gain more traction with this argument.  Does your seat belt work better if I wear mine also? Do you inject seatbelts into your body?
Such a horrible comparison. Seatbelts are 100% effective at what they were designed to do. You can test them and see for yourself. Charts of survival before and after seatbelts clearly show benefits every time. You cannot say the same for any “precaution” or the vaccine.  Bad comparison. Seatbelts don’t lose their effectiveness over a period of months, you don’t need additional seat belts to be added periodically for them to work, and can be fully removed or replaced if they stop working or harm the user in any way.
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD COMPARE A SEAT BELT WITH A DEADLY Because once you get the rna vaccine you can’t get it out of your body,
THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE you can at any time remove the seat belt i cant believe you said that …it is so stupid!  
You compare seatbelts to experimental gene therapy injection? (They can’t paralyze you)
“AstraZeneca testimony: 3 days after the dose, this healthy 21 year old man was paralyzed on the entire left side of his body.”

I don’t know what kind of car you drive but my seat belt doesn’t come with a side of…..
Clotshot is worthless at best, deadly at worst  

Knowledge is Power.

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Knowledge is knowing why you lost power. Knowledge leads to freedom. Suppressing knowledge leads to power. #GenX was taught this well. And growing up during the Cold War, we also got a glimpse of totalitarianism. That’s why it’s a no for me on anything coerced/forced like a vaccine mandates/passports. The APPLICATION of Knowledge through human Action is Power. MAGA .

BIG PHARMA’S KILL CHART ttp://whale.to/c/big_brother.html
Big Tech is EXPOSED BIG TIME here.

They are after both conservatives AND liberals. Learn how to defeat

Big Tech and protect your family. Get it before it’s banned.

#bigtechhttps://amazon.com/dp/1642932906/  No, power is power.

There are plenty of knowledgeable people that are powerless.    

Knowledge is power to those who withhold it and use it against others.  

Knowledge is a burden, wisdom has the Answers!  

Please don’t equate education with knowledge.

According to Cersei Lannister, “Power is power.”
Actually power is power. The dumbest, most ignorant people I know who project a huge ego and won’t shut up rise to positions of power without knowing a blessed thing. We have to take down the stupid who’ve worn their way into those positions. Common sense knowledge. School of hard knocks knowledge. Not the kind of knowledge the Educated liberal idiots possess.

And people wonder why nobody believes the government or the CDC..

How many times have they been wrong I’m officially convinced, these “medical experts” are clueless idiots and have no idea what their talking about

Mike Yeadon, ex Chief Scientist(former Vice President of Pfizer) has stated that it is now too late to save any person who has been injected with any Covid-19 vaccine. Around 0.8% die within 2 weeks. Life expectancy of 2 years on average. 2 years decreases with every booster.

Do people realize what the white liberals are doing to the black race?! In MN passing blacks even if they fail a class calling it equity Will it be equal when black kid can’t get a job because he can’t read or do math ends up in crime Or is that their plan to eliminate their race Nothing scares Marxists more than a USA with a masculine Christian culture. They need it to have a weak godless PC culture because that makes it easy to divide, conquer, manipulate, and rule. Please watch this 4 minute video if anyone wants to be saved.

THE CLEAR GOSPEL IN 4 MINUTES (Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold).

My one of the favorite. http://youtu.be/xm4wAmsGyN0

COP26: World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030.