Prices Continue to Surge: Here’s What’s
Becoming More Expensive
Posted By: earlybird, 11/14/2021 1:03:30 PM
With inflation running hot in October, American consumers paid slightly more for most goods and services compared to the previous month, and far more compared to a year ago. The Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI), a key inflation gauge that measures how much Americans pay for goods and services, rose 0.9 percent over the month in October and 6.2 percent over the year, with the annual figure reflecting the highest pace of price hikes in nearly 31 years. The agency’s report (pdf), released Nov. 10, breaks down how much prices have increased for certain key services and goods, including gas, food prices, electricity, and used cars.
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In his latest exhibition of post-graduate cognitive dissonance, Deese nuts, the primary architect of the JoeBama economic program, appears on NBC to proclaim that massive U.S. inflation is somehow connected to the fact that 5 to 11-year-old children are not yet vaccinated.
The Pneumo-Pathology Of The Covid Regime
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Smart people want to know: Why do so many people still buy into the patently unscientific and false narrative of the Covid regime? A Belgian psychologist, Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, has proposed that what we’re witnessing is a phenomenon that he refers to as “Mass Formation”. What he’s describing with this somewhat opaque term (in English) is a type of mass social hypnosis in which the mass of the population seems to share a “collective unconsciousness”—an obliviousness to reality and even a collective hostility to attempts to introduce them back into a relation to the real world. There’s an interview with Desmet on Youtube in
Wisconsin’s former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Monday against the Wisconsin Elections Commission for breaking state laws in the 2020 cycle.
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The Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents. The woke apparently do this out of some Freudian effort to square the circle of their own guilt or sense of privilege, by fobbing off their own fearful realities onto others. It is the atheist version of confession or medieval penance. In addition, in the spirit of “always being on the offense,” wokists know that those who slander do so most successfully when they lodge exactly those charges most familiar and applicable to themselves.
Take for example, the worn-out charge of “privilege,” (snip) This trope originates exclusively from the Left.
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“Fellow Conservative,
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Watching the news, one sees constant stories about COVID numbers rising, yet again, now almost two years into this pandemic, with COVID hospitalizations in some states higher than they have ever been except for the spike last December. In my state of Colorado, the test positivity rate is almost 10 percent, with 1 in 48 infected and if the current trend continues, this will be the worst COVID spike the state has seen.
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Our gas, already high, has increased. We buy ours at a nice station at a discounted price. Some majors are at $5. We are doing little driving, so measure our gas use in months rather than miles per gallon.