WATCH: ‘Indigenous’ Lady Shaman Brazenly Disregards Social Distancing at Davos BEN BARTEE JAN 21

In standard virtue-signaling fashion, the WEF technocrats recruited an alleged Indigenous Lady of Color™ (ILOC) called Chief Putanny Yawanawá in red facepaint, embodying some enlightened and esoteric spiritual tradition, to “bless” a set of panelists. Mystic Putanny — plucked from an obscure hunter-gatherer tribe in the Amazon, maybe, but just as plausibly from a Women’s and Gender Studies department at the local university — kicks things off with a jibber-jabber incantation that no one, perhaps including her, understands the meaning of. She then shuffles from panelist to panelist, festooned in her exotic getup, heaving her microbes all over their receptive, grateful faces — no masks, no “six feet to stop the spread.” (For the record, Warlord Fauci admitted in non-televised Congressional testimony that his “six feet” social distancing woo-woo was a pseudoscientific fantasy, dreamt up in his degenerate head to maximize COVID terror.) Via World Economic Forum: “Indigenous people and local communities steward one-third of the Earth’s territories, continuing cultural and spiritual practices that nurture their environments and communities. Indigenous voices are thus vital in adding a perspective that prioritizes long-term thinking and human experiences. Indigenous leaders from around the world are attending World Economic Forum’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland to share their unique perspectives in charting a way forward… Putanny Yawanawá is an indigenous leader and wife of Chief Nixiwaka Yawanawá. She is one of the the first women of the Yawanawá nation to receive the highest spiritual initiation from the elders. She is a respected spiritual leader, opening the way into this sacred path for other Yawanawá women and setting precedent for such breaks in tradition*. For this achievement, she has received a commendation from the Brazilian senate as recognition of their important role in Brazilian women’s empowerment. Putanny is dedicated to representing her people’s ancestry. She also resides in the Sacred Village, where she organizes spiritual retreats.” *So, Lady Putanny is ostensibly there at Davos because she represents a sacred traditional indigenous whatever, yet she’s also there because she’s a non-traditional feminist bucking the orthodoxy of her patriarchal tribe. That’s called “having your cake and eating it too.” Here’s the chief’s website where she advertises her “spiritual retreats.” Upon a brief query, one discovers that this Chief Putanny character has actually quite the digital footprint marketing her services, as one might expect an enlightened guru transcending the material realm to. Chief Punani was presumably well-compensated for her WEF performance in the service of laundering its crimes through her indigenous-washing ritual. Her business opportunities have likely expanded greatly following her invitation to such a prestigious platform. So, good for her. However, whatever sacred ancient culture this mystic lady purportedly represents, the WEF will stamp it out in good time as it spreads its monoculture across the planet like cancer. Then the question becomes: in the viper’s den of charlatans and sociopaths, who’s scamming whom? Ben Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff Substack. Also, keep tabs via Twitter. For hip Armageddon Prose t-shirts, hats, etc., peruse the merch store. Support always welcome via insta-tip jar. You're currently a free subscriber to Armageddon Prose. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid SHARE LIKE COMMENT RESTACK © 2024 Ben Bartee 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104

The Market Mosaic 1.21.24 The right stock sectors are leading the way.

Welcome back to The Market Mosaic, where I gauge the stock market’s next move by looking at macro, technicals, and market internals. I’ll also highlight trade ideas using this analysis. If you find this content helpful please hit that “like” button, share this post, and become a subscriber to this always free report if you haven’t already done so! Subscribed And be sure to check out Mosaic Chart Alerts. It’s a midweek update covering chart setups among long and short trade ideas in the stock market, along with levels I’m watching. Now for this week’s issue… Speakers from the Federal Reserve are keeping investors on their toes. Over a month ago, it was Fed Governor Christopher Waller’s unexpected dovish tone that helped set the table for interest rate cuts this year. However just last week, Waller tempered expectations by saying the central bank can take their time to do it right. Others echoed views that Wall Street is expecting too many rate cuts and too soon. For instance, Atlanta Fed President Bostic is targeting the third quarter for the first round of rate cuts. Following remarks from various Fed speakers last week, market implied odds for a March rate cut dropped sharply to 46% from 77% the week before (chart below). There is also one less rate cut being priced in for the year. Trying to follow and interpret the qualitative messaging from Fed speakers has become its own economic sideshow and captured plenty of headlines last week. But despite the attention lobbed at the Fed, that wasn’t the most important economic development last week. In my opinion, the most important data point belongs to Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), and is flying under most investors’ radar. TSMC is a semiconductor bellwether and reported fourth quarter earnings last Thursday. TSMC reported sales and earnings per share ahead of expectations, but it was the company’s outlook that drove its stock price out of a six month basing pattern (chart below). Regardless of Fed speculation and when 2024 will see its first rate cut, TSMC’s guidance provides another glimpse into the key catalyst needed to keep the stock market’s rally going. More Positive Signals for the Economy TSMC is a semiconductor foundry making chips for customers like Apple and Nvidia. They account for 58% of global chip making capacity, and their chips go into everything from consumer electronics to vehicles. Given the growing electronic content in everything from smartphones to cars, tracking chip stocks as an economic indicator is similar to using transportation stocks to take the temperature of the economy. That means TSMC has a front row seat to developments with the global economy. And in their release, the company now expects revenues to increase by more than 20% in 2024. Keep in mind that TSMC generated $69 billion in revenue in 2023. Moving that amount by more than 20% is no easy task unless demand trends are strong. And it’s not just TSMC sensing improving demand trends. Chip sales growth across the global industry (chart below) just went positive for the first time in 14 months…another sign of an improving rate of change showing up in other economic indicators that I highlighted here. And TSMC was hardly the only company with a notable earnings report last week. Industrial products giant Fastenal (FAST) saw its stock jump to new all time highs after reporting fourth quarter results. The company specifically highlighted manufacturing end markets doing well in its press release. They should be benefiting from the massive boom in construction spending across the manufacturing sector (chart below) that’s making its way through the economy. More than $2 trillion in federal spending coming from bills like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and CHIPS Act are making their way into the broader economy via construction spending. It is yet more evidence that economic growth could be set to accelerate despite prevailing talk around recession. Economic growth is central to my current view that an ongoing earnings recovery will support new highs in the S&P 500. Going into this earnings season, forward earnings estimates were already moving to new high ground as you can see below…ahead the the S&P’s breakout last week. As companies update earnings guidance based on the current dynamics of their respective end markets, that shows up in earnings estimates put out by analysts following these companies. More signs of recovering forward estimates are needed to keep the bull market going. Now What… Many seem surprised by the S&P 500’s jump to new all time highs on Friday. But forward earnings estimates are pointing the way higher and the S&P is hardly the first major index getting there. The Dow broke out to new highs back in December, and after trading in a tight range for the past month is making new highs again (chart below). Breadth still remains a concern right here. Recently I’ve been highlighting the percent of stocks across the market trading above their 20-day moving average. While that metric is near oversold levels, it still only stands at 35% despite new highs for the S&P. That largely reflects the bigger pullback and underperformance of small-cap stocks since late December. And while the S&P 500 was breaking out to new highs on Friday, the number of stocks making net new 52-week highs actually finished in negative territory the same day. That’s another sign of narrow leadership on this most recent move higher. I’m not arguing that stocks have to pull back from these levels, or that the breakout in the S&P 500 is somehow unjustified. After all, I value price action above all else. But the breadth trends under the hood still bear close monitoring especially as bullish sentiment is quickly reversing higher. Despite the near-term breadth divergences, I’ve maintained that the outlook for the economy and stock market remains solid based on signals from various corners of the capital markets. As TSMC’s report and stock price reaction shows, the right sectors are still leading the way. And when I updated my chart scans on Friday, there are many bullish tight continuation flags forming in cyclical stocks. Like with homebuilding supply stock Builders FirstSource (BLDR). You can see in the chart below that BLDR is trading in a tight range after moving to new highs in December. Many stocks across the homebuilding industry feature a similar pattern. I’m also following the action in several transport stocks, like with trucking company SAIA (SAIA). The stock has tested resistance near the $450 area several times since July, and is making a series of higher lows since October. A breakout would just add to the list of cyclical stocks putting in favorable moves. That’s all for this week. The coming week will see the pace of earnings reports pick up, with companies like IBM and Intel reporting results. I will be watching to see if other semiconductor and manufacturing companies are forecasting similar trends as TSMC and Fastenal, and how the overall earnings outlook evolves. I’ll also be tracking if breadth trends can improve following the S&P 500’s breakout. I hope you’ve enjoyed The Market Mosaic, and please share this report with your family, friends, coworkers…or anyone that would benefit from an objective look at the stock market. And make sure you never miss an edition by subscribing here: Thanks for reading The Market Mosaic! Subscribe for free and never miss an issue. 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Judicial Notice (01.20.24): Back To The Future The fate of Chevron, a major move in the D.C. boutique world, another Biglaw discrimination lawsuit, and other legal news from the week that was.

What was I up to this week? When I wasn’t freezing my tuchus off—have I mentioned how much I hate the cold?—I did a lot of podcast recording. In addition to the next installment of the Original Jurisdiction podcast—in which David Boies, who argued Bush v. Gore for Al Gore, offers his take on the Donald Trump disqualification case headed to the Supreme Court—I recorded a great new installment of Movers, Shakers & Rainmakers. Zach Sandberg and I caught up with Supreme Court superstar Kannon Shanmugam, who this month celebrates the fifth anniversary of his move to Paul, Weiss. And as you’d expect from an acclaimed appellate advocate, Kannon ably fielded my probing questions about the sustainability of the firm’s aggressive expansion. I also appeared on Friday night’s Dateline, a two-hour, in-depth examination of the Dan Markel murder case. Much of it will be familiar to folks who have followed the case, but the end of the episode includes fascinating audio and video footage from the night of Donna Adelson’s arrest at Miami International Airport. This week’s testimonial for Original Jurisdiction comes from Peter Kalis, Chairman Emeritus of K&L Gates: “Original Jurisdiction has assumed must-read status in my life. There is very little writing in our legal culture that qualifies at once as extraordinary analysis and extraordinary synthesis. David accomplishes this in Original Jurisdiction. The fact that he pulls this off in real time as events break in the legal world is humbling to us mere mortals. Keep it up, David. We depend upon you.” Considering that Peter is one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of Biglaw, I’m especially grateful for his gracious praise. And I’m still happily taking testimonials; if you’d like to submit one, please complete this form. Now, on to the news. Lawyers of the Week: the attorneys at the Cause of Action Institute and the New Civil Liberties Alliance behind the Loper Bright and Relentless cases. The biggest legal news of the week were the Supreme Court oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, challenges to the 1984 landmark precedent of Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. As discussed in more detail below (see Litigations of the Week), these cases have the potential to dramatically transform administrative law as we know it. Chevron, in a nutshell, calls for showing deference to an administrative agency’s interpretation of a statute in cases where the statutory language is ambiguous—and is therefore hated by conservatives for allegedly aggrandizing the administrative state. The cases were ably argued by Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy, for Loper Bright; Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins, for Relentless; and Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar for the federal government. All three have been previously recognized as Lawyers of the Week—and Clement and Prelogar are three-time winners, reflecting my admittedly heavy focus on the Supreme Court. Today I’d like to spread the love and shine the spotlight away from One First Street. Setting aside cases within the Court’s original jurisdiction (holla), cases like Loper Bright and Relentless typically get to the Court only after years of intense legal battle. So the lawyers who file those cases in the first place and shepherd them through the lower courts deserve much of the credit (or blame) for Supreme Court outcomes. My latest Lawyers of the Week are the attorneys at the Cause of Action Institute and the New Civil Liberties Alliance who back in 2020 filed Loper Bright and Relentless, respectively. The Loper Bright complaint was signed by Ryan Mulvey and Eric Bolinder of the Institute—who have stayed on the case all the way up to the high court, with their names on the Supreme Court brief (along with Clement, who argued). The Relentless complaint was signed by John Vecchione and Kara Rollins of the Alliance (along with Kevin Holley, local counsel in Rhode Island)—and Vecchione is actually counsel of record at the Supreme Court, even though Martinez argued. Also on NCLA’s SCOTUS brief, besides Vecchione, Rollins, and Martinez, are Mark Chenoweth and the Alliance’s founder, Philip Hamburger. (NCLA is busy these days: this coming Thursday, Greg Dolin will argue before Judge Christopher Cooper on behalf of Judge Pauline Newman, whom I interviewed and featured this week in both audio and video recordings—so you can watch, listen, and evaluate the 96-year-old judge’s mental acuity for yourself.) Conservatives have been trying to get Chevron overturned for years, but I suspect that the Court’s willingness to finally hear a frontal challenge to the doctrine was helped by the well-chosen plaintiffs and well-constructed complaints in these cases. The plaintiffs are fishermen who earn modest wages but must shoulder the cost of paying for monitors aboard their vessels who ensure compliance with various fishing regulations. If the justices are going to overturn an important, 40-year-old precedent, doing so in favor of fishermen—or is that ”fisherpeople”?—looks much better than doing so to benefit an oil giant like Chevron. So congratulations to the Institute and the Alliance on getting their cases heard by the high court. Other lawyers in the news: In a follow-up on the most recent Lawyers of the Week, damaging revelations continue to surface about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her alleged paramour Nathan Wade, whom she hired to serve as a special prosecutor in her sprawling prosecution of Donald Trump and more than a dozen co-defendants. Willis is trying to get out of testifying in Wade’s ongoing divorce case—but she’ll have to explain herself by February 2, the deadline set by Judge Scott McAfee for Willis’s office to file a written response to allegations that she and Wade engaged in an illicit relationship and mishandled public funds. Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken, who presided over YLS during a series of controversies over free speech, is reportedly a “frontrunner” for the presidency of Yale University, according to Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon. Judge of the Week: Judge Don Willett. If you’re a lower-court judge who aspires to be Judge of the Week, try releasing two or more interesting or important opinions in a single week (outside of May or June, when it’s all SCOTUS, all the time). It worked last week for Judge Kevin Newsom (11th Cir.), and it worked this week for Judge Don R. Willett (5th Cir.)... © 2024 David Lat 1200 Morris Turnpike, Suite 3005, Short Hills, NJ 07078 Unsubscribe Get the appStart writing

Niccolò Machiavelli, Adam Smith, and the crisis of modern science What assumptions should we make about human nature and the path to the good society?

You have 98 unread notifications to review A lot has happened on Facebook since you last logged in. Here are some notifications you've missed from your friends. NOTIFICATIONS 1 friend request 7 group updates from JUJA RENTALS and 2 others 29 photo tags from Fred F. Swartz II and 3 others 61 other new notifications Candida63 (60). I am completely obsessed with the question of whether liberalism failed in response to Covid. As I’ve written before, I think it is perhaps the most important question in the world right now. If liberalism failed then we are now seeking an alternative to liberalism. If liberalism did not fail (or was lynched) then perhaps we are seeking a return to liberalism (or the introduction of “true” liberalism for the first time). I believe that figuring out this question will provide a map to guide us out of the valley of death that we are currently in. In the search for answers I’ve read two books recently, Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen (published in 2018) and Liberalism Against Itself by Samuel Moyn (published in 2023). They are very different books — Patrick Deneen is a conservative who is criticizing liberalism from the right while Samuel Moyn is a liberal who is trying to defend liberalism from its misguided proponents. Today I want to focus on Why Liberalism Failed because I think it unwittingly offers us a stunning insight into our present dilemma. The essence of Deneen’s argument is this: In an earlier era (ancient Greece and Rome but also many other ancient wisdom traditions) the passions (emotions, desire) were seen as the source of suffering — a type of slavery. Thus freedom was attained through the development of personal virtues that restrained the passions. This is also the prevailing ethos of Christianity throughout the Middle Ages. The “classical liberalism” that starts to develop in the 1500s and is best expressed by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations (1776) is a radical break from most of human history in that it sought freedom through unleashing the passions from any and all constraint. This modern conception of freedom has produced remarkable economic growth but it has run its course and produced the very sort of degradation predicted by pre-modern scholars. Deneen’s conclusion in Why Liberalism Failed (and a subsequent book titled Regime Change) is that we should return to the ancient notion of freedom through personal restraint because that’s the better path to happiness and fulfillment in this life. Deneen argues that the hinge point in history — that flipped our understanding of freedom from restraint to unrestraint — is the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli: It was Machiavelli who broke with the classical and Christian aspiration to temper the tyrannical temptation through an education in virtue, scoring the premodern philosophic tradition as an unbroken series of unrealistic and unreliable fantasies of “imaginary republics and principalities that have never existed in practice and never could; for the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover that he has been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself.” Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior — especially self-limitation— that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli proposed grounding a political philosophy upon readily observable human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory. He argued further that liberty and political security were better achieved by pitting different domestic classes against one another, encouraging each to limit the others through “ferocious conflict” in the protection of their particular interests rather than by lofty appeals to “common good” and political concord. By acknowledging ineradicable human selfishness and the desire for material goods, one might conceive of ways to harness those motivations rather than seeking to moderate or limit those desires. (p. 24-25) (The rest of this essay is all me, applying Deneen’s work to the iatrogenocide.) The paradox of Machiavelli is that he is despised even though his ideas were the catalyst for the liberalism that most people love today. I don’t wish to defend Machiavelli so much as to trace his influence on liberalism. Machiavelli is widely seen as immoral. But perhaps there is an entirely different way to read his motivations. Machiavelli was trying to solve a series of problems — the Florentine government he served was often violently overthrown (in one instance Machiavelli was captured and tortured). Furthermore France, Spain, and the various states of the Holy Roman Empire were continuously at war with each other. Machiavelli was a republican who sought to unify the Italian states. The realpolitik that Machiavelli is known for aimed to play the passions of people off against each other to achieve a more stable system than could be attained by appealing to people’s virtues. One could make the case that Machiavelli sought neither anarchy nor authoritarianism but rather balance through realism. (“The Florentine” by Claudia Roth Pierpont in The New Yorker is a wonderful short biography of Machiavelli and I used it as a source for this paragraph. But it’s behind a paywall.) Machiavelli’s writings influenced Anglo-Dutch philosopher Bernard Mandeville whose book, The Fable of the Bees (1714), argues that “vices, such as vanity and greed, produce publicly beneficial results.” Adam Smith then applied Machiavelli’s and Mandeville’s arguments to economics in the Wealth of Nations (1776) that claims that self-interest in a market economy produces a virtuous society: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Our entire economic system is built on the idea that individual greed in the marketplace produces the most efficient allocation of resources. (By the way, I have not seen other scholars make the connection between Machiavelli and Smith before, probably because Machiavelli is so hated and Smith so beloved, but the connection is as plain as day.) Then the revolutionary leaders who founded the United States of America applied Machiavelli’s arguments to politics pitting the different branches of government against each other as embodied in the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The British system was based on the idea that the nobility was more virtuous and better able to make decisions. The American idea of government is that all people are corruptible but if we can set the legislative, executive, and judicial branches against each other, government will not have as much time, energy, and ability to tyrannize the citizenry. We have lived under a Machiavellian system — based on the notion that self-interest produces a more virtuous society than appeals to virtue — ever since. As a good lefty I have railed against the notion that self-interest could somehow produce virtue (if one sets up the rules of society correctly) for my entire life. It is absurd on its face, the reasoning of a child who just wants to eat cookies all day. But when one actually reads Smith, he’s not the hedonistic cartoon character that modern American society has turned him into. Smith really did want a moral society. But he believed that paradoxically, self-interested individuals in competition with other self-interested individuals actually produces the most virtuous outcomes. And what if he is right? When two selfish jerks negotiate against each other in a market economy, engaging in rigorous due diligence on the assumption that the other person is trying to screw him, one genuinely can end up with a fair deal for both sides. Furthermore, as we learn from game theory, since this is an infinite game where these transactions are repeated over and over, players can punish each other for bad behavior, which leads to more fair play and something akin to virtue over time. Think about everyone you know — do appeals to virtue actually work? Or are you better off anticipating that they will act in a self-interested way and proceeding accordingly? And if you proceed based on this more pessimistic assumption, are you better off in the end? Furthermore, think about every institution or system in the world that is/was based on appeals to virtue. Communist systems the world over that were based on appeals to virtue ended up as immoral dystopias. The Catholic Church, the exemplar of appeals to virtue, has been engulfed in the pedophile priest scandal for two decades (and the problem has probably been going on for millennia). I spent a lot of time in American Buddhist circles in the early 2000s and they are a hot mess filled with endless scandals because there are no checks and balances on the leaders. American non-profits, an entire system of the tax code that assumes that some activities are more virtuous than others, are a dysfunctional hellscape.* *Not all communists, Catholics leaders, Buddhists priests, and non-profits, but far too many. Let’s go one step further in this argument. A strong case can be made that the reason why we are in the middle of an iatrogenocide is that we (as a society) mistakenly thought that scientists and doctors were somehow better people than the rest of us — that their training and perspective made them more virtuous than others. The result has been an absolute disaster. Science and medicine have colluded to profit from the mass poisoning of children at least since 1986 (one could also posit the start of the poisoning of children as the 1962 Vaccination Assistance Act or the introduction of aluminum into vaccines in 1931). Nearly all of science and medicine have been engaged in mass genocide of the entire population throughout the developed world since March 2020. Given that, wouldn’t we be infinitely better off if we proceeded from the assumption that nearly all scientists and doctors are liars — greedy assholes who just want power, money, fame, and control — and then set up systems to pit scientists against each other and regulators against each other and the public against scientists and regulators? There are lots of ways that one could do this: Repealing liability protection for Pharma would enable us to debate scientific facts in the courts in front of a jury of our peers. Repealing the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 would prevent academics from profiting from federally funded research. Paying bonuses to whistleblowers who identify flaws in clinical trials or FDA reviews would incentivize honesty. Removing intellectual property protections for pharmaceutical drugs would drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the system and cause capital to go elsewhere. Making all scientific data publicly available (see proposals by el gato malo here and here) would empower independent researchers to identify flaws with drug trials. Closing the FDA, CDC, and NIH entirely would return power to the local level and decision-making to individuals and families. I’m sure you can think of lots more reforms that would stem from the assumption that scientists and doctors are mostly just greedy liars who are in it for themselves (and I’m eager to read your recommendations in the comments). So I’m grateful to Patrick Deneen for his wonderful history of philosophy that sparked these ideas. However, at least for now I stand in opposition to his notion that we should seek to return to an earlier era founded on virtue. Given our current crisis, it sounds appealing. But that is also the logic of the Taliban, ISIS, ayatollahs, and mullahs — that we must return to an earlier, more principled era where the family, father, custom, region, and religion are paramount. I’m still agnostic on the question of whether liberalism failed in the current crisis. It seems to me that the evidence is overwhelming that liberalism has always depended on empire, conquest, and genocide and our current crisis stems from the fact that biochemistry, CRISPR, and gain-of-function viruses are just the latest way for the ruling class to manage its assets. Then again, any system that steals lots of land and labor will look successful for a while (Great Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, the Roman Empire, ancient Egypt, etc.) — that’s not the fault of liberalism. At the end of the day though, I’m not at all convinced that appeals to Aristotelian virtue are the way out of this mess (even though I very much want people to be virtuous). I believe that the way forward is either some radical reform of liberalism or a higher synthesis that we have not yet identified. Blessings to the warriors. 🙌 Prayers for the revolutionaries fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏 Huzzah for the innovators building the parallel society our hearts know is possible. ✊ In the comments, please let me know how you would reform science and medicine in America. As always, I welcome any corrections. © 2024 Toby Rogers 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. 20500

Just this past week

"medical emergencies" had cars crashing in Connecticut, Ohio, Virginia, Arizona, Massachusetts, Canada, UK and Italy (and one even smashed into the White House gates) Here the New York Times seeks to explain (away) the current spike in fatal car accidents, first of all by focusing exclusively on the US (although this spike is global), and, second, by ascribing it to lockdown (even though that ended years ago) and cellphones (despite their use for many years before this deadly uptick started). Also, the Gray Lady notes the increase in such accidents in 2020, but without mentioning the widespread use of masks by drivers, and the hypoxia resulting from that practice, making deadly driving not just likely but inevitable. News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Below are nine reports, from just this week, of (thankfully, non-fatal) “vaxxidents” all over the US, and some in Canada, UK and Italy. So let’s ignore the Times’ version of reality, and focus on the evidence that this new plague is related to the countless “medical emergencies” that started with the worldwide “vaccination” drive, and that have been multiplying ever since. January 10, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/magazine/dangerous-driving.html UNITED STATES Driver arrested after vehicle crashes into White House gate January 8, 2024 Reuters A picture of the car involved in the crash A man has been arrested after crashing a vehicle into a gate outside the White House complex, the US Secret Service said. The incident occurred shortly before 18:00 local time (23:00 GMT). The "vehicle collided with an exterior gate", Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi posted on X, formerly Twitter. President Joe Biden was not in Washington DC and was travelling from South Carolina to Texas. No injuries were reported in the Monday evening incident. One person was taken into custody, Mr Guglielmi said, adding that the crash is still under investigation. The driver's name has not been released and prosecutors had not announced any criminal charges as of Monday evening. Mr Gugliemi told the Washington Post that it remains unclear "if it was intentional or accidental". Man in hospital after crash involving ‘at least’ four vehicles in Richmond January 19, 2024 Richmond, Va. — A man is in the hospital after police say he suffered an apparent medical emergency and crashed into “at least” three other vehicles on Belvidere Street in Richmond. The man was taken to a hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening, others were treated at the scene. Worcester gravestones damaged after driver suffers medical episode January 19, 2024 A driver lost control of their car and damaged several headstones in Notre Dame Cemetery recently. Worcester, MA — A car, being driven by a man who experienced a medical emergency, knocked down three gravestone monuments at Notre Dame Cemetery on Jan. 13. A recently planted tree was also damaged, according to a spokesperson for the Diocese of Worcester, which operates the cemetery. Robert Russel, with Entwistle's Garage in Leicester, was called to the cemetery to help tow the vehicle that crashed into the monuments; he shared photos of the incident and said the car was totaled. "I've been in the business for 25 years and I've seen some pretty interesting stuff, but this, pulling a car out of the middle of a cemetery, a car sitting on top of gravestones, that's a first." Russel said the driver had attended a final burial service for a family member and was about to leave when a medical incident involving his leg led to him losing control of the accelerator. The driver was uninjured. Bridgeport News: Crash Involving City Bus January 16, 2024 Bridgeport, CT– One passenger on the bus was transported with injuries in this crash involving a city bus and van. First responders said the driver of the bus was unconscious and he might have had a medical emergency that caused the crash. Medical emergency leads to partial closure of Loop 202 in Mesa January 16, 2024 Mesa, AZ — A stretch of Loop 202 was closed in Mesa Tuesday afternoon due to a crash that resulted from a medical emergency. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says troopers responded to a medical emergency in the eastbound lanes of the Red Mountain Freeway and that the closure is to allow first responders to access the area. DPS says troopers found a man in his car experiencing some type of medical problem and that he was taken to a hospital in “extremely serious condition.” One sent to hospital from accident on Himrod in Youngstown January 13, 2024 Image Youngstown, OH - One person has been sent to the hospital after crashing his car into a utility pole on Youngstown's east side. The accident happened around 5 p.m. on the 1200 block of Himrod and was caused because of a medical emergency the driver was having. The car crashed into a utility pole, causing it to nearly collapse on top of the car. CANADA OPP responds to transport driver ‘suffering apparent cardiac event’ on Highway 401 January 18, 2024 Members of the Grenville County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a medical emergency on Highway 401 in Augusta Township. Officers and Leeds Grenville paramedics attended, according to a post by OPP East Region on X, formerly Twitter, around 8:30 a.m. today, Jan. 18. “Transport driver suffering apparent cardiac event,” reads the post. “Our Mobile Crisis Response Team RN from @BrockvilleGener provided medical care until EMS arrived to transport. #TeamWork.” UNITED KINGDOM Driver 'suffered medical episode' before car crashed into parked van January 11, 2024 Manchester - A man is believed to have suffered from a 'medical episode' before a crash in south Manchester yesterday. A car collided with a parked-up van. The driver of the car - a man aged in his 70s - suffered serious injuries. He was rushed to hospital from the scene. The Manchester Evening News understands that he is believed to have suffered a medical episode at the wheel. No further updates on his condition have been released at this stage. ITALY San Martino Di Lupari - 20 year old seriously injured in one car accident January 17, 2024 Hours of anguish are being experienced in San Martino di Lupari for the fate of a twenty-year-old girl who ended up off the road at 7.30 pm on Monday evening 15 January while she was behind the wheel of her car. Her condition, in the immediate circumstances, immediately appeared serious. She arrived at the Cittadella hospital with a reserved prognosis, but in the middle of the night she was transported to the hospital in Padua. She is now hospitalized in the intensive care unit. The next few days will be decisive to find out the possible recovery times. The woman who lives not far from the accident site, also in San Martino di Lupari, went off the road on her own as she faced Via Remondina. Other motorists passing by gave the alarm to the emergency numbers. After hospitalization it was learned that the twenty-year-old suffered from previous physical pathologies. The hypothesis that she was betrayed by a sudden illness which actually caused her to lose control of the vehicle cannot therefore be ruled out. As soon as we got the picture from the Company carabinieri of Cittadella who proceeded, the public prosecutor on duty, Benedetto Roberti, ordered the seizure of the vehicle. News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. © 2024 Mark Crispin Miller New York City Unsubscribe Get the appStart writing

How a Leader Spends Money Tells You Who They Really Are ADMIRED LEADERSHIP JAN 21

Take a glimpse of how a leader spends money, both professionally and personally, and you will learn a lot about their values. It’s easy to espouse the expected virtues, but how a leader spends money reflects their true priorities. What a leader purchases, invests in, and acquires displays what matters most to them and how they see themselves. Leaders, like everyone else, have a distinct relationship with money and resources. Money means many things. It can buy things, create experiences, give people access, support those in need, and grow and expand existing assets. Both professionally and personally, leaders use money to make a statement as to how they expect to influence people and outcomes. Think about the many inferences those observing leaders often make regarding their spending choices. For example, leaders who invest in their teams with compensation, experiences, and skill development tell team members they are valued and appreciated. While team members are not always privy to the tradeoffs, they believe that leaders who find a way to invest in them do so to recognize their commitment and sacrifices. Leaders who overspend and take risks with where they place their money are often seen as bold but unpredictable. When these monies disappear without a payoff, others may view the leader as wasteful or as needing to control outcomes (without having a sound understanding of how to do so). Those who personally make status-enhancing or lavish purchases illustrate their need to keep score and to show others how well they are doing. This reveals their insecurities and their need to feel relevant. Leaders who set aside money and time for charities are often viewed as more grateful and less self-serving. When charitable contributions are a mainstay and not an afterthought, leaders are often seen as highly compassionate and empathetic. In contrast, leaders who are overly frugal and count pennies are often viewed as small and short-sighted. They see money as something to hoard rather than something that can expand support and goodwill. While these are broad generalizations, how leaders spend money and what it reflects is fairly obvious to everyone around them. Over time, colleagues, friends, and family members come to know how a leader views money and uses it to represent their values. Whether they put their money where their mouth is can suggest a mismatch between values and spending habits, revealing what really matters to the leader. We always give more credibility to the money trail than we do to the values leaders say they hold. How a leader spends money is a barometer of their self-concept and how they orient to the world. Money is a tool that allows a leader to live their values and invest in what matters most to them. Money talks. What is it saying about you? Twice a month, we take 30 minutes to connect leaders to our Admired Leadership content and coaches. These sessions are specifically tailored for leaders who are craving universal, simple and actionable leadership content. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of Admired Leadership’s behavioral approach as well as valuable insights to implement immediately. No slides, no frameworks, no psychometrics. This is a chance to sit in on a conversation with an expert in leadership and learn something that most people don’t know. For those brand new to Admired Leadership, as well as those who have connected with us previously… find an upcoming date to join us. © 2024 Admired Leadership Admired Leadership®, 7518 Elbow Bend Rd, Carefree, AZ 85377

Penetential Psalms Psalm 37 PEREGRINUS JAN 21

Lord, ne wyþ-nyme me noȝt in þyn ire.¹ For þyn a-sautes ben ficched to me, and þou confermed vp me þyn helpe. Helþe nys nouȝt in my flesche for þe charge of myn synȝes. For myn wickednesse ben ouergon myn heued, and as a greue charge hij ben greued up me. Min helynges oþer helþes a-bouen roteden, and ben corrumped of þe charge of myn vncunninges. Ich am made wroched and croked vnto ende, and ich entred al day sorȝful. For myn baches ben fulfild of illusiouns; and helþe nys nouȝt in my flesshe. Ich [am] turmented, and ich am michel lowed; and ich cried fram þe sorweyng of myn hert. Lor, al my desire is to-fore þe; and my waymentyng nys nouȝt hid fram þe. Myn hert his tribled in me; my uertu haþ forsaken me, and þe liȝt of myn eȝen, and þat nys nouȝt wyþ me. Myn frendes and myn neȝburs com to-wardes me and stoden. And hij þat weren by me stoden fer fram me, and hij þat souȝten my soule made force. And hij þat soȝten iuels to me speken uanites; and aldai hij þouten trecheries. Ich for-soþe [as defe] herd nouȝt, and as doumbe nouȝt openand his mouþe. And ich am made as man nouȝt herand and nouȝt hauand vnder|nimynges in hys mouþe. For ich hoped in þe, Lord; Lord, my God, þou shal here me. For y seid, þat myn enemys ne ioien nouȝt vp me, and spoken grete þynges vp me, þer-whyles þat my fete ben stired. For ich [am] made radi in tourmentes, and my sorowe ys alway iu my syȝt. For ich shal tellen my wickednesse & þenche for my sinȝe. Myn enemys for-soþe liuen, & ben confermed vp me; and hij, þat hateden me wickedlich, ben multiplied vp me. Hij þat ȝelden iuels for godes, bakbytyng me, for þat ich folwed godenes. Ha Lord, my God, ne forsake me nouȝt, and ne depart nouȝt fram me. Lord God of myn helþe, vnderstonde in-to myn helpe.