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LuckyR wrote: April 30th, 2020, 4:13 pm In the ten days since I answered this stuff the first time, US deaths are now more than 62,000, in less than 2 months, compared to flu deaths in 12 months.
As mentioned, previous data has been found incorrect because of inaccurate testing and fraudulent reporting (listing covid as cause of death when patients weren’t tested for covid &/or had life-threatening pre-existing health problems).

Another important consideration is covid is statistically LESS fatal than seasonal flu. Based on USC study findings, mortality risk for covid for most is about 0.025%.
Seasonal flu mortality risk is about 0.095%, though some years flu rates have been higher without quarantine: “Influenza and pneumonia are among the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for around 2 percent of all deaths in 2017.”

“Department of Public Health on Monday released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread — and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought...”

https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-te ... es-county/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu ... virus.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184 ... ince-1950/

COVID-19 Lethality Not Much Different Than Flu, Says New Study
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/covid-19- ... new-study/
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Newme wrote: April 30th, 2020, 10:11 pm
Where’s all this free money coming from? What costly strings attached?
As my teacher had posted in his classroom: “There is no free lunch.”
Basic Income Guarantee is welfare to those in need of income: the unemployed and the underemployed. Welfare payment, like free education, is public expenditure coming from government revenue. Strings attached is your taxation, to help the poor who also happens to be your fellow citizen. Being a citizen, and in turn being a taxpayer, is costly.
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Newme wrote: April 30th, 2020, 10:20 pm
LuckyR wrote: April 30th, 2020, 4:13 pm In the ten days since I answered this stuff the first time, US deaths are now more than 62,000, in less than 2 months, compared to flu deaths in 12 months.
As mentioned, previous data has been found incorrect because of inaccurate testing and fraudulent reporting (listing covid as cause of death when patients weren’t tested for covid &/or had life-threatening pre-existing health problems).

Another important consideration is covid is statistically LESS fatal than seasonal flu. Based on USC study findings, mortality risk for covid for most is about 0.025%.
Seasonal flu mortality risk is about 0.095%, though some years flu rates have been higher without quarantine: “Influenza and pneumonia are among the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for around 2 percent of all deaths in 2017.”

“Department of Public Health on Monday released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread — and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought...”

https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-te ... es-county/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu ... virus.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184 ... ince-1950/

COVID-19 Lethality Not Much Different Than Flu, Says New Study
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/covid-19- ... new-study/
Wiggle all you want. Dead is dead. 65,000 in 2 months is still bigger than 62,000 in 12 months.
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gad-fly wrote: May 1st, 2020, 11:02 am
Newme wrote: April 30th, 2020, 10:11 pm
Where’s all this free money coming from? What costly strings attached?
As my teacher had posted in his classroom: “There is no free lunch.”
Basic Income Guarantee is welfare to those in need of income: the unemployed and the underemployed. Welfare payment, like free education, is public expenditure coming from government revenue. Strings attached is your taxation, to help the poor who also happens to be your fellow citizen. Being a citizen, and in turn being a taxpayer, is costly.
So from where exactly does government revenue come? ;)
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LuckyR wrote: May 1st, 2020, 4:47 pm
Newme wrote: April 30th, 2020, 10:20 pm

As mentioned, previous data has been found incorrect because of inaccurate testing and fraudulent reporting (listing covid as cause of death when patients weren’t tested for covid &/or had life-threatening pre-existing health problems).

Another important consideration is covid is statistically LESS fatal than seasonal flu. Based on USC study findings, mortality risk for covid for most is about 0.025%.
Seasonal flu mortality risk is about 0.095%, though some years flu rates have been higher without quarantine: “Influenza and pneumonia are among the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for around 2 percent of all deaths in 2017.”

“Department of Public Health on Monday released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread — and the fatality rate much lower — in L.A. County than previously thought...”

https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-te ... es-county/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu ... virus.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184 ... ince-1950/

COVID-19 Lethality Not Much Different Than Flu, Says New Study
Possible really good news from a population screening antibody test study in Santa Clara County, California
https://reason.com/2020/04/17/covid-19- ... new-study/
Wiggle all you want. Dead is dead. 65,000 in 2 months is still bigger than 62,000 in 12 months.
What were the causes of death? Jumping to conclusions will only hurt the economy and people more. A study on Italy covid-reported deaths revealed that 99% had pre-existing health problems. So, eg., a person who had struggled with cancer for years was about to die of cancer but then got covid, & to inflate numbers and panic, covid was listed as the cause of death. Statistically, most people infected with covid overcome it fine but like the flu, those already in weakened states with health problems - may not overcome it. It’s very much like seasonal flu - in terms of fatality risk. These massive harmful shut downs are unwarranted. The question that ought to be asked is why? What are the ulterior motive$?
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Newme wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 10:38 am
gad-fly wrote: May 1st, 2020, 11:02 am

Basic Income Guarantee is welfare to those in need of income: the unemployed and the underemployed. Welfare payment, like free education, is public expenditure coming from government revenue. Strings attached is your taxation, to help the poor who also happens to be your fellow citizen. Being a citizen, and in turn being a taxpayer, is costly.
So from where exactly does government revenue come? ;)
government revenue comes from taxation, stamp duty, fees, and so on. The public sector funds education, welfare payment, and so on. You know that. Each item can be costly, but that is what government is here for.
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Newme wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 10:46 am
LuckyR wrote: May 1st, 2020, 4:47 pm

Wiggle all you want. Dead is dead. 65,000 in 2 months is still bigger than 62,000 in 12 months.
What were the causes of death? Jumping to conclusions will only hurt the economy and people more. A study on Italy covid-reported deaths revealed that 99% had pre-existing health problems. So, eg., a person who had struggled with cancer for years was about to die of cancer but then got covid, & to inflate numbers and panic, covid was listed as the cause of death. Statistically, most people infected with covid overcome it fine but like the flu, those already in weakened states with health problems - may not overcome it. It’s very much like seasonal flu - in terms of fatality risk. These massive harmful shut downs are unwarranted. The question that ought to be asked is why? What are the ulterior motive$?

So what's your point, that flu fatalities can magically avoid cancer etc? COVID and flu exist in the same environment, with potential victims who have comorbidities, so the fact that COVID is killing many times more people is legit.

As to monetary reasons, are you seriously supposing that a billionaire in the hotel/travel industry would close down the leisure industry for fake reasons? You are free to believe such a thing, but fantastic ideas require fantastic proof. So where's your proof?
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gad-fly wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 11:34 am
Newme wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 10:38 am
So from where exactly does government revenue come? ;)
government revenue comes from taxation, stamp duty, fees, and so on. The public sector funds education, welfare payment, and so on. You know that. Each item can be costly, but that is what government is here for.
It would be nice if that were it. The US has debt of +$25,000,000,000,000!!
With so much national debt, how can the US afford to pay so much in defense, welfare etc? If you tried to print your own money, you’d be imprisoned... unless you’re the Federal Reserve who magically can make money out of nothing and without going to jail.

“Though unconstitutional, as only “The Congress shall have Power…To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…” (Article I, Section 8, U.S. Constitution) the Federal Reserve Act was passed in December 1913...

Although called “Federal,” the Federal Reserve system is privately owned by member banks, makes its own policies, and is not subject to oversight by Congress or the President. As the overseer and supplier of reserves, the Fed gave banks access to public funds, which enhanced their lending capacity.

Peter Kershaw, in “Economic Solutions” lists the ten major shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank System as: Rothschild: London and Berlin; Lazard Bros: Paris; Israel Seiff: Italy; Kuhn- Loeb Company: Germany; Warburg: Hamburg and Amsterdam; Lehman Bros: New York; Goldman and Sachs: New York; Rockefeller: New York. (That most, if not all of these families just happen to be Jewish, you may judge the significance of yourself). The balance of stock is owned by major commercial member banks...

https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2013/ ... rld-order/

Now, everything has a cost - what will this cost be of inflating the dollar without limit? And it has been said the greatest asset of a country is their workforce - which welfare destroys.
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LuckyR wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 11:35 am
Newme wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 10:46 am What were the causes of death? Jumping to conclusions will only hurt the economy and people more. A study on Italy covid-reported deaths revealed that 99% had pre-existing health problems. So, eg., a person who had struggled with cancer for years was about to die of cancer but then got covid, & to inflate numbers and panic, covid was listed as the cause of death. Statistically, most people infected with covid overcome it fine but like the flu, those already in weakened states with health problems - may not overcome it. It’s very much like seasonal flu - in terms of fatality risk. These massive harmful shut downs are unwarranted. The question that ought to be asked is why? What are the ulterior motive$?
So what's your point, that flu fatalities can magically avoid cancer etc? COVID and flu exist in the same environment, with potential victims who have comorbidities, so the fact that COVID is killing many times more people is legit.

As to monetary reasons, are you seriously supposing that a billionaire in the hotel/travel industry would close down the leisure industry for fake reasons? You are free to believe such a thing, but fantastic ideas require fantastic proof. So where's your proof?
“The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.”

Here is a look at what the “news” is really doing to people... (& we wonder why we have smart phones and stupid people now)
https://youtu.be/rUDP6e5N9gw


As far as obvious financial gain - as if the stimulus package wasn’t enough...

The following is a patent for coronavirus originally applied for in 2014 by PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.

Abstract

The present invention provides a live, attenuated coronavirus comprising a variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation in one or more of non-structural protein(s) (nsp)-10, nsp-14, nsp-15 or nsp-16. The coronavirus may be used as a vaccine for treating and/or preventing a disease, such as infectious bronchitis, in a subject.”

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10130701B2/en

Shows connection between the institute & Bill Gates...
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We- ... OPP1201470

In a 2015 Ted Talk, Bill Gates said we need to have a “practice pandemic” like a war games pandemic - and to pair up military with healthcare to deliver (hi$ ;) ) vaccine$ (Trump recently said he would deploy military to give people shots, and some congress members suggested mandated vaccines for this coronoviru$.
https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

If that’s not enough to at least get you wondering, I don’t know what would be.
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Newme wrote: May 26th, 2020, 7:24 pm
gad-fly wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 11:34 am

government revenue comes from taxation, stamp duty, fees, and so on. The public sector funds education, welfare payment, and so on. You know that. Each item can be costly, but that is what government is here for.
It would be nice if that were it. The US has debt of +$25,000,000,000,000!!
With so much national debt, how can the US afford to pay so much in defense, welfare etc?
Now, everything has a cost - what will this cost be of inflating the dollar without limit?
"government revenue comes from taxation . . . and so on". And so on includes debt.

"With so much debt , how can?" By with, I take you to mean without. If so, no argument on this point. You can also say: Without taxation, how can?

"Now everything has a cost." Agreed, including debt. The cost of debt is interest payment, which must come from public revenue. Like welfare and education, this payment is not necessarily inflationary.

"Without limit." Limit on what? Please clarify.
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Newme wrote: May 26th, 2020, 7:54 pm
LuckyR wrote: May 22nd, 2020, 11:35 am
So what's your point, that flu fatalities can magically avoid cancer etc? COVID and flu exist in the same environment, with potential victims who have comorbidities, so the fact that COVID is killing many times more people is legit.

As to monetary reasons, are you seriously supposing that a billionaire in the hotel/travel industry would close down the leisure industry for fake reasons? You are free to believe such a thing, but fantastic ideas require fantastic proof. So where's your proof?
“The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.”

Here is a look at what the “news” is really doing to people... (& we wonder why we have smart phones and stupid people now)
https://youtu.be/rUDP6e5N9gw


As far as obvious financial gain - as if the stimulus package wasn’t enough...

The following is a patent for coronavirus originally applied for in 2014 by PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.

Abstract

The present invention provides a live, attenuated coronavirus comprising a variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation in one or more of non-structural protein(s) (nsp)-10, nsp-14, nsp-15 or nsp-16. The coronavirus may be used as a vaccine for treating and/or preventing a disease, such as infectious bronchitis, in a subject.”

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10130701B2/en

Shows connection between the institute & Bill Gates...
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We- ... OPP1201470

In a 2015 Ted Talk, Bill Gates said we need to have a “practice pandemic” like a war games pandemic - and to pair up military with healthcare to deliver (hi$ ;) ) vaccine$ (Trump recently said he would deploy military to give people shots, and some congress members suggested mandated vaccines for this coronoviru$.
https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

If that’s not enough to at least get you wondering, I don’t know what would be.
OK I'll play your game. If you want to compare apples to apples, the Case Fatality rate of COVID is about 6%, but as you note that is a falsely high number. The Infection Fatality rate of COVID was estimated to be 0.6% by the Columbia study, but just as it may be 0.26% due to undercounting total cases, the typically reported Infection Fatality rate of the flu which is 0.1% (about one third that of your stat) also suffers from underreporting of total flu cases and is generally felt to be about one quarter of that, or about 0.025, which is about one tenth of your stat of 0.26%
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LuckyR wrote: May 31st, 2020, 2:17 am
Newme wrote: May 26th, 2020, 7:54 pm
“The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.”

Here is a look at what the “news” is really doing to people... (& we wonder why we have smart phones and stupid people now)
https://youtu.be/rUDP6e5N9gw


As far as obvious financial gain - as if the stimulus package wasn’t enough...

The following is a patent for coronavirus originally applied for in 2014 by PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE.

Abstract

The present invention provides a live, attenuated coronavirus comprising a variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation in one or more of non-structural protein(s) (nsp)-10, nsp-14, nsp-15 or nsp-16. The coronavirus may be used as a vaccine for treating and/or preventing a disease, such as infectious bronchitis, in a subject.”

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10130701B2/en

Shows connection between the institute & Bill Gates...
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We- ... OPP1201470

In a 2015 Ted Talk, Bill Gates said we need to have a “practice pandemic” like a war games pandemic - and to pair up military with healthcare to deliver (hi$ ;) ) vaccine$ (Trump recently said he would deploy military to give people shots, and some congress members suggested mandated vaccines for this coronoviru$.
https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

If that’s not enough to at least get you wondering, I don’t know what would be.
OK I'll play your game. If you want to compare apples to apples, the Case Fatality rate of COVID is about 6%, but as you note that is a falsely high number. The Infection Fatality rate of COVID was estimated to be 0.6% by the Columbia study, but just as it may be 0.26% due to undercounting total cases, the typically reported Infection Fatality rate of the flu which is 0.1% (about one third that of your stat) also suffers from underreporting of total flu cases and is generally felt to be about one quarter of that, or about 0.025, which is about one tenth of your stat of 0.26%
Yeah, it’s quite comparable to the seasonal flu... and YET, how many people have lost jobs/livelihoods, will get sick because of the stress and poverty, increases in suicides, domestic abuse and violence - all FOR WHAT? To be safe from something that may or may not be slightly worse than the flu??

Do you know what the single biggest threat is? Not this “military games” practice covid where drs and nurses have been “ordered” to use ventilators that have “legally” killed patients. The greatest threat is insane herd mentality that like a stampede, stomps out rights for pretty-packaged lies. It’s neighbors telling on each other - like Nazis.


Father arrested for playing catch with his child in a park
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-office ... d=70032966

New Coronavirus Hotline Helps People Snitch On Their Neighbors
Californians began calling the police to report neighbors who were coughing.
https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/03/27/807453/

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Newme wrote: June 26th, 2020, 5:14 pm
LuckyR wrote: May 31st, 2020, 2:17 am

OK I'll play your game. If you want to compare apples to apples, the Case Fatality rate of COVID is about 6%, but as you note that is a falsely high number. The Infection Fatality rate of COVID was estimated to be 0.6% by the Columbia study, but just as it may be 0.26% due to undercounting total cases, the typically reported Infection Fatality rate of the flu which is 0.1% (about one third that of your stat) also suffers from underreporting of total flu cases and is generally felt to be about one quarter of that, or about 0.025, which is about one tenth of your stat of 0.26%
Yeah, it’s quite comparable to the seasonal flu... and YET, how many people have lost jobs/livelihoods, will get sick because of the stress and poverty, increases in suicides, domestic abuse and violence - all FOR WHAT? To be safe from something that may or may not be slightly worse than the flu??

Do you know what the single biggest threat is? Not this “military games” practice covid where drs and nurses have been “ordered” to use ventilators that have “legally” killed patients. The greatest threat is insane herd mentality that like a stampede, stomps out rights for pretty-packaged lies. It’s neighbors telling on each other - like Nazis.


Father arrested for playing catch with his child in a park
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-office ... d=70032966

New Coronavirus Hotline Helps People Snitch On Their Neighbors
Californians began calling the police to report neighbors who were coughing.
https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/03/27/807453/

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Uummm... no. I guess my post went right over your head. To put it in simpler terms. 62,000 people die of the flu in 12 months and 128,000 people have died with coronavirus in 4 months. Not similar.
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gad-fly wrote: April 30th, 2020, 12:00 pm Should Basic Income be introduced by this pandemic. I think it should, on the argument that first of all: Yes, the timing is right. What better than during a economic crisis, when it is needed most. It is affordable comparatively. Budget of $43 billion is dwarfed by $73 billion wage subsidy in Canada. Reactive measures such as Wage Subsidy are piecemeal, uneven, and unfair. How about those unemployed? They are urgent too. We know, but they have to wait, because it is one at a time.
Extract from today's Globe and Mail, an influential newspaper in Canada:

"The parliamentary budget office says it could cost more than $98-billion to provide almost all Canadians with a basic income for six months beginning this fall.

The idea of providing a basic income to Canadians has gained steam as millions have watched their jobs or earnings evaporate in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Providing six months of a basic income starting that month could cost between $47.5-billion and $98.1-billion, depending on how much of the benefit is clawed back from people whose other incomes increase.

Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, who asked for the costing, said a basic-income program could fill in the gaps in Canada’s patchwork of social safety nets, which are largely run by provinces, that have been exposed by the pandemic.

A basic income means different things to different people, but it is usually viewed as a no-strings-attached benefit that governments provide to citizens instead of various targeted social benefits.

Also known as a guaranteed minimum income, it can be delivered as a universal payment, or as a means-tested benefit that declines as a recipient’s other income rises."

I hope to revive your interest on what I would call BIG (Basic Income Guarantee), especially if you are Canadian. I would not pretend this thread has any influence on that country's policy decision. Suffice to say that the thread's long-suffering followers may not have wasted their time after all.
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LuckyR wrote: June 28th, 2020, 3:07 am
Newme wrote: June 26th, 2020, 5:14 pm
Yeah, it’s quite comparable to the seasonal flu... and YET, how many people have lost jobs/livelihoods, will get sick because of the stress and poverty, increases in suicides, domestic abuse and violence - all FOR WHAT? To be safe from something that may or may not be slightly worse than the flu??

Do you know what the single biggest threat is? Not this “military games” practice covid where drs and nurses have been “ordered” to use ventilators that have “legally” killed patients. The greatest threat is insane herd mentality that like a stampede, stomps out rights for pretty-packaged lies. It’s neighbors telling on each other - like Nazis.


Father arrested for playing catch with his child in a park
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-office ... d=70032966

New Coronavirus Hotline Helps People Snitch On Their Neighbors
Californians began calling the police to report neighbors who were coughing.
https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/03/27/807453/

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Uummm... no. I guess my post went right over your head. To put it in simpler terms. 62,000 people die of the flu in 12 months and 128,000 people have died with coronavirus in 4 months. Not similar.
The US CDC finally admitted what Italy studies showed 1/2 a year ago: most (94%) of so-called “covid deaths” were actually due to other factors.
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Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope

Fireproof Happiness: Extinguishing Anxiety & Igniting Hope
by Dr. Randy Ross
December 2023

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes
by Ali Master
February 2024

2022 Philosophy Books of the Month

Emotional Intelligence At Work

Emotional Intelligence At Work
by Richard M Contino & Penelope J Holt
January 2022

Free Will, Do You Have It?

Free Will, Do You Have It?
by Albertus Kral
February 2022

My Enemy in Vietnam

My Enemy in Vietnam
by Billy Springer
March 2022

2X2 on the Ark

2X2 on the Ark
by Mary J Giuffra, PhD
April 2022

The Maestro Monologue

The Maestro Monologue
by Rob White
May 2022

What Makes America Great

What Makes America Great
by Bob Dowell
June 2022

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!

The Truth Is Beyond Belief!
by Jerry Durr
July 2022

Living in Color

Living in Color
by Mike Murphy
August 2022 (tentative)

The Not So Great American Novel

The Not So Great American Novel
by James E Doucette
September 2022

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches

Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall, Hicksite Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette And Her Speeches
by John N. (Jake) Ferris
October 2022

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All
by Eckhart Aurelius Hughes
November 2022

The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity

The Smartest Person in the Room
by Christian Espinosa
December 2022

2021 Philosophy Books of the Month

The Biblical Clock: The Untold Secrets Linking the Universe and Humanity with God's Plan

The Biblical Clock
by Daniel Friedmann
March 2021

Wilderness Cry: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach to Understanding God and the Universe

Wilderness Cry
by Dr. Hilary L Hunt M.D.
April 2021

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute: Tools To Spark Your Dream And Ignite Your Follow-Through

Fear Not, Dream Big, & Execute
by Jeff Meyer
May 2021

Surviving the Business of Healthcare: Knowledge is Power

Surviving the Business of Healthcare
by Barbara Galutia Regis M.S. PA-C
June 2021

Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure

Winning the War on Cancer
by Sylvie Beljanski
July 2021

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream
by Dr Frank L Douglas
August 2021

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your Buts
by Mark L. Wdowiak
September 2021

The Preppers Medical Handbook

The Preppers Medical Handbook
by Dr. William W Forgey M.D.
October 2021

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide

Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress
by Dr. Gustavo Kinrys, MD
November 2021

Dream For Peace: An Ambassador Memoir

Dream For Peace
by Dr. Ghoulem Berrah
December 2021