"Masks Make Us Slaves"

"Debra Birx doesn't even have a medical license anymore."

The mask issue really irks me, so it is with good cheer that I learn here from Pam Popper of Ohio's 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, headed by Maurice Thompson whom she praises justly. This is the case that Pam mentions first.  I wonder if California has such a center. 

Pam cites another mask ban from Georgia Governor, Brian Kemp.  

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa resident, Jeffrey Dickstein, a former California attorney, is suing the Tulsa governor to stop the mask mandate.  

Pam cites a fourth champion for freedom, Warren Davidson, a House Rep. from Ohio's 8th Congressional District.  Davidson is introducing a Defend Freedom Act.  "

Jena Powell, an Ohio nurse and House Representative from Ohio's 80th Congressional District, delivers some terrific common sense.  Common sense is rising in Ohio.  

The Supreme Court held that the government must have a warrant to use cell phone data to track someone. 

At the 9:36 mark, Pam outs Debra Birx, the scarf lady, by telling us that she doesn't have a medical license anymore.  And yet she holds a national position advising Americans on how to protect themselves?  

"You're Putting My Health At Risk"

Thanks to Laurence Vance for this cartoon, titled "A Tale of 4 Masks." 

Thanks to Laurence Vance for this cartoon, titled "You're Putting My Health At Risk."

Pharma bought the Media?

The video quality is terrible, but the reporting is unmatched to anything you see or hear on television today.  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., writes

I thought some of you kids ought to see what journalists once did for a living before Pharma bought the Media. Google recently signed a $700 million deal with GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s 2nd biggest vaccine maker. Google has its own vaccine companies working on developing universal flu vaccines and other immunizations. The sordid buying and selling of American journalists is all in the past; Pharma now owns all of them and they’re not selling.  

The point for sharing this video is to remind people of the dangers of vaccines.  Yes, it's true that lots of people get them.  I knew of one man who used to get the annual flu vaccine, and he lived to be 85 years old.

The business of vaccines is so serious to nutritional reporter, Bill Sardi, that he has created a vaccine consent form.  Find it here.

STARBUCKS IS SERVING ROBUSTA BEANS, A LOWER-GRADE THAN THEIR USUAL ARABICA. IT IS ESSENTIALLY INSTANT COFFEE.

Thank you, Lew Rockwell.  

Well, here I go again, coffee, my favorite subject.  This time ZeroHedge has the skinny on Starbucks using lower-quality beans.  Ugh!!  I should have known.  I knew I felt an extra jolt from the java.  Is Starbucks merely serving up hot cups of instant coffee?  It appears so.  

An unintended consequence of the virus-induced recession, lockdowns, and people working from home is a massive demand shift from expensive coffee beans, commonly found at Starbucks, and called Arabica, to cheap beans, found in instant coffee, called Robusta. 

The chart below, a ratio between Arabica/Robusta prices, shows how Robusta demand surged at the start of the lockdowns. And this makes perfect sense, mainly because Starbucks, the world's largest coffeehouse chain, uses only "high-quality arabica coffee grown at high altitudes." So when tens of millions of people were locked down, and many coffeehouses closed, people were forced to buy instant robusta coffee from grocery stores. 

But even after the lockdowns ease, the economy is stuck in a deep recession where millions of jobs have been eliminated, people are working at home, and millions of vehicles are off the road. 

The shift in coffee demand is bad news for Starbucks, that's why it announced, last month, over 400 stores will be closing in the next 18 months. The world's largest coffeehouse must shrink its corporate footprint as the economy evolves to where workers are staying home and are reducing costs to weather the economic storm. 

The shift in demand is being seen in surging Robusta coffee prices on ICE. In the last 19 sessions, September contracts have gone parabolic, up 19%, hitting 1,363 on Thursday morning, or a six month high. 

The latest upswing in prices is because the virus-induced recession is "prompting a shift in consumption toward cheaper, instant coffee blends," reported Reuters.

​"I'm hearing demand is quite strong; there's been a switch in consumption from Arabica to Robusta. Home consumption is more Robusta intensive," one coffee trader told Reuters.

Another coffee trader said despite the switch, Arabica prices were rising too, mainly because of sharp gains in the Brazilian currency.

​The virus is having profound changes in the economy - one major shift are consumers gravitating towards cheap coffee beans. This is bad news for Starbucks and a reflection of consumers who can no longer afford an expensive cup of Joe.