You watching CNN fake news again?

Agreed. There are countless blogs available and suitable for debate on that topic.

Happy Easter!

This weekend a dwindling number of us will celebrate one of the most important events to date in history. Rescue is available to anyone simply by believing in the One – the reason for celebration. This is not off topic because it is the one thing that would make great strides to cure the evil being thrust on the appraisal world and the world in general. I well know and can predict most of the terse responses this post will generate.

Happy Easter

Good work Baggins – just scratchin the surface of the AMC cash grab since HVCC. If anyone in the US is owed reparations in the past 50 years it is the Independent Real Estate Appraiser. We were flipped from Professionals to AMC Chattel thanks to Dudd-Fwank.
Who is REVAA?? Click below
http://revaa.org/membership/#members

That got me thinking Tony. Where are the REVAA earning numbers at lately? Searching REVAA is no simple task.

https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/the-real-estate-valuation-advocacy-association,454238569/
If this is accurate, over 700k a year to burn.
REVAA’s EIN number is found in the above link: 45-4238569 /

Then you go here to the IRS site to research 501C tax exempt organizations for more.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/allSearch

Just pop in the EIN, and there are multiple things to review.

Check this out, I’m reviewing REVAA’s 2018 tax return. See for yourself.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/454238569_201812_990O_2020021817154719.pdf

Anyone good at auditing? Am I reading this correctly? The head dude earns $185,000 a year. That’s a cool payday for screwing appraisers over.

Oh lookie there; / REVAA’s lobbyist firm is named Troutman Sanders Strategies, 434 FAYETTEVILLE ST Suite 1900 RALEIGH NC 27601. Guess how much they were compensated from this ‘non profit’; $312,872. For one year. That’s quite the payday, year over year.

PDF pg 10 is interesting. Quite the expense list. And they seal it up nicely spend nearly every dollar. Oh lookie here a few pages later, he’s even got a retirement fund going. Wish I had one of those but most of the available opportunity along my line of practice went directly to the amc pockets. Hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. Cumulative loss for the licensed appraiser industry is many many billions by now. If anyone successfully challenged the erroneous interpretation of the CFPB safe harbor rule on C&R fee provisions in Dodd Frank Reg Z, that could become the largest class action in history. $10k/$20k daily, the elusive fine which should have been applicable to the nearly every single amc in the amc industry every single day since the implementation of Dodd Frank.

Can anyone hire an auditor for 501C’s? I’m not qualified to interpret any of this, I’m just good at chop internet research. I’d like to find the breakdown of which amc’s gave how much. Is that also publicly available information?

I’m simply out of time for now. What I had really wanted to do was cross reference this lobbyist company with the ANSI group and FNMA, see if there is discoverable information there. That task will be up to someone else. I’ve ran quite behind over the past week here and better get back to it.

Dare to look how much this person gets paid to change our industry forever, driving so many of us out of such substantial opportunity and forcing us to pay into the amc model if we want but a small slice of what should have been our whole pie. Someone should assemble a list of how much all amc’s have given to these trade groups over the years, how much total income all the amc’s have raked, so we could finally have a solid figure on how much money the amc industry has raked from the appraisal industry in cumulative total. Because every last dollar an amc takes in is income lost from many licensed appraisers point of view. Because all this time later, amc’s still have NOT found a way to bill for their services separately from the appraiser, and do not return cost savings to consumers, despite not being licensed to provide appraisal value analysis services. The unlicensed managers pay ratio compared to the appraiser is severely imbalanced. Take a minute to research possible conflict of interest with company entanglement too. Who else do they work for? Who knows what you’ll find.

The life of an appraiser. With helpful trade groups like this, who needs enemies?

Agree!

“The two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shift in policy.” ~ Carroll Quigley

Interesting.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/watch-the-water-remdesivir-snake-venom-theory/
Wished he could have skipped the religious twist but the theory is interesting none the less. I watched the brighteon interview not the peters one.

Losing smell for a month with a flue that would not break, and other symptoms which shall not be mentioned. It was something else. I brought home gift flowers and nobody in the house could smell them. That’s when we knew, we had been bit. Beat it with elderberry, D, zinc, multi vitamins, colloidal silver, a weak steroid in nasal spray, spirulina, mega dosing high quality C, lung tonic, coq10 specialized mix, and many others. We had already been consuming a highly elevated supplement volume to be ready and then it happened. The nicotine receptor thing did not seem to matter, as I’m a smoker and mine lasted a few weeks longer than others. I may want to look at kidney health more with this new information. This is why we subscribe to food is medicine. Skipped the mask and vaccines entirely so we actually picked up one of the earlier more dangerous strains. Natural immunity achieved. No vaccine necessary. We think we had it again with a new strain but it came and went so fast, not a big deal. We did not normalize for months and months, it was indeed something else. ‘Covid’ is over for us. Sadly, our relatives and friends whom took this concoction, they are dying left and right or having major catastrophic health outcomes. We tried to warn them this was a possibility but they had been long since conditioned to dismiss any preference to distrust for profit systems of this magnitude rather than be skeptical of them. If in doubt; opt out.

It was sort of a great time though. We had roads and stores to ourselves. Instead of bothering us the workers ran away and left us alone. It was peaceful and nice. But it was disconcerting and it still is, to watch fearful people with no understanding of natural immunity desperately seek a pharmaceutical solution and believe whatever ‘experts’ tell them. All those people could have kept their businesses and jobs, subsidy relief did not need to be issued, massive fraud need not occurred, government force need not have been used, markets need not have been disrupted, social distancing and school changes which harmed children need not have happened. This is what happens when people blindly ‘trust experts’. And when ‘the experts’ use different standards and methods people are not well versed on, they are even more susceptible.

This plays back to the ANSI argument, no one person or group should ever be considered the absolute expert. We can achieve better outcomes when people work together and are on the same page more often than not. The longer a sensible guideline or rule can hold up without alteration, the better. Science is never settled and round table consensus without force is rare. Even if there is consensus, someone should always be tasked with the role of the antagonist to explore what ifs and discover unknown variables.

The light at the end of the mRNA vaccine tunnel looks more like a train every day – by Alex Berenson

Through 2020 and 2021, South Korea chased zero Covid with strict border controls, aggressive testing and tracing, and a vaccination campaign that reached nearly its entire adult population with mRNA (and some DNA) shots.

The country didn’t quite get to zero. Infections and deaths rose slowly last year. But it came close enough that the usual highly credentialed public health experts held it up as a light among the nations.

On Thursday, South Korea reported 600,000 new Covid infections – the equivalent of more than 4 million in the United States. In a single day.

Covid deaths are skyrocketing too. South Korea reported 429 deaths Thursday, the equivalent of about 3,000 in the United States. That number is all but certain to skyrocket – cases have risen so fast that deaths have not had time to catch up yet. No one should be surprised if South Korea reports more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths in the next month.

South Korea, even more than Hong Kong, shows the world what happens when Omicron hits a densely populated region that has no prior Covid immunity at the wrong time, as the mRNA shots fail in unison.

The mRNA shots have negative efficacy against Omicron infection within months – meaning that vaccinated people are more likely to become infected. Data from Canada, Britain, Scotland, the United States, and other countries all agree on this point. I’m not sure anyone serious even argues it anymore.

In New Zealand, for example, unvaccinated people now have even lower infection rates than those who have received boosters: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7871379/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/7871379

So South Korea finds itself exactly the wrong place in the Covid cycle.

It vaccinated its citizens mostly from June through October 2021. It started boosters in November, and the people who who received the third jabs first were the elderly and frail. The reason South Korea has the highest rate of new Covid cases any country has ever seen is not despite but because it is so highly vaccinated. The failure of the shots is accelerating the rate of infection and transmission.

Hospitalizations and deaths are rising too, though they have not reached the overwhelming levels that the case figures would suggest. The vaccine advocates – clinging to the last plank of the rapidly sinking SS MRNA – insist this is proof the vaccines are working. Or at least not failing catastrophically.

Maybe. Maybe not. Several factors complicate the picture around hospitalizations and deaths. Omicron is more contagious but milder. Treatments have improved in the last two years, and doctors now do everything possible to keep people off ventilators (in Britain, for example, the number of ventilated patients in Britain has almost completely decoupled from hospitalizations).

Also, South Korea has some of the thinnest people in the world (it is so focused on keeping its citizens thin that it uses a BMI standard of 25 for obesity, rather than the international standard of 30, to make its numbers look worse and encourage citizens to view obesity as a crisis). Obesity is a critical risk factor for Covid, so South Korea’s relative thinness makes cross-national comparisons even more difficult to make.

Finally, at this point no one can know how many hospitalizations and deaths South Korea will have in the next couple of months. By the time the counting is done, though, the world’s attention will elsewhere and the advocates will be onto Shot Five (this time it’ll work, really!).
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Meantime, as cases and hospitalizations and deaths take off, South Korea is doing –
Well, pretty much nothing. The country has been loosening restrictions for months and says it will continue to do so.

As the Times wrote Thursday:

With the vast majority of its adult population vaccinated and about nine out of 10 of those 60 and older with a booster, South Korea is pushing ahead with plans to ease social distancing measures, relax border restrictions and learn to live with the virus’s risk, even as it is experiencing some of the highest per-person infection rates anywhere in the world.

The reality is that the South Koreans can’t do anything else. They’re not going back into lockdown, and they’ve already given boosters to basically everyone who might get any short-term benefit from them.

Devi Sridhar laid out what was supposed to happen (and what she thought had happened): lockdowns would be the bridge to vaccines which would be the tunnel to freedom! Good countries like South Korea would win and mean nasty selfish countries like the United States would lose.

Mistakes have clearly been made in both the UK and US – in particular, a cynical fatalism that no scientific solution would emerge, that mass infection was inevitable…

But biology is not a morality play. Science doesn’t always win, even if Pfizer pinky swore that it would:

We’re all Team Reality now, folks, even if some of the bluechecks still haven’t caught up. The only question left is not how much good but how much damage those miracle shots have done.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-mrna/

The British are now officially hiding Covid vaccine data – As of today, they have stopped releasing it, and they are lying about the reason why. by Alex Berenson

Until last week, the British government offered the best source of raw data on the efficacy of the Covid vaccines. Each Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency reported the number of new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths by vaccine status.

Since last fall, and especially since the Omicron variant hit, the reports have presented an increasingly dismal picture of vaccine efficacy. Last week’s report showed that in March, nearly 90 percent of adults hospitalized for Covid were vaccinated. And OVER 90 percent of deaths were in the vaccinated:

The importance of these reports is hard to overstate.

They were the single best source of raw data about how well the Covid vaccines were or were not working anywhere in the world. It was a long-running sequential series with clearly defined rules from a large country with high vaccine coverage.

Plus, because the British have national health insurance, the government could determine with near-certainty who had been vaccinated. As you can see, fewer than 1 percent of the people in the reports are called “unlinked” – meaning their vaccine status was undetermined.

AS OF THIS WEEK’S REPORT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS NO LONGER PROVIDING THESE CHARTS.

The British government is offering the nonsensical excuse that it can no longer provide the figures because it has ended free universal testing for Covid: Such changes in testing policies affect the ability to robustly monitor COVID-19 cases by vaccination status, therefore, from the week 14 report onwards this section of the report will no longer be published.

The British government is lying.

Even if the end of free testing somehow affected its ability to provide “robust” data about infections, it would make no difference to the hospitalization or death figures, which are far more important. Unless Covid patients are going to be hospitalized anonymously, the Health Security Agency will still be able to match their names (and the names on death certificates) against vaccination records.

In fact the British government would be derelict not to continue to collect the data, and it surely will. But the public will no longer see it.

Why?

One reason and one reason only. Ever since I mentioned the existence of these reports to Joe Rogan in October, they have become an embarrassment. They are impossible to spin, and the clearest possible signal of vaccine failure.

But hiding the numbers won’t make the vaccines work better. It will just make people less likely to believe anything else public health authorities tell them about Covid and the vaccines – if that’s even possible at this point.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-british-are-now-officially-hiding

“It is easy to see, when asked if they watch democratic and liberal news media they all say no…They are convinced they are being lied too by the left.” For good reasons. Left or right, MSM is biased and if you believe otherwise, then the propaganda has done a number on you.

The executives, the editors in print media, the senior producers, executive producers in the visual media – these are the people who have the ideological bias and what’s probably almost as important – their personal friendships. They go to the same country clubs, they go to the same dinners, they socialize with a lot of the people that they cover. The mainstream news media, while Americans rely on it daily for the latest reports on world and domestic events, a recent study conducted by the Cronkite School of Journalism indicates that nearly 67% of Americans don’t trust major media for accurate reporting.

Ask Americans specifically why they distrust the media and the answers are generally vague. After all, reports of news media abuses aren’t normally found on the front page or the nightly news. Nonetheless, they do exist. Today, standards in mainstream news reporting had more to do with career enhancement than reporting the truth.

Today the CFR maintains its’ goal is to “increase America’s understanding of the world.” However, the actual objective of this highly exclusive club is revealed by the rare admonitions of the insiders themselves. In the early 60’s, a Georgetown University Professor collects information for a book favorable to the network of powerful men who founded the CFR. For two years, Professor Carroll Quigley is allowed to examine the confidential papers and secret records of this network.

Quigley reveals that these men aim “to create a world system of financial control, in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country, and the economy of the world as a whole.” In short, they seek total and quiet control of the entire world and the CFR is the most visible conduit for carrying out that agenda. (Excerpt from the film)

Now go do it in the inner city for 5 years. May not last 5 years.

Now go do it in the inner city for 5 years. May not last 5 years.

Wow

Thanks. When I pick these links, it’s often just chop research, because I’ve read that or some version of it many times before. That’s news for you these days, one big echo chamber.

Baggins…I like talking to you…I don’t use twitter. I hate to break this to you, but the projections in that article you posted used 2020 census data.

That was before Covid wiped out 986,000 Americans (as of today), currently $1,000/day…can you believe we are losing that many when we have a vaccine??? The numbers are coming down, thank the universe, but try to think, who is still dieing…its not us liberals, independents and democrats….

See…We were watching the news back in March and April of 2020 and remember the deaths in New York….. they were dropping like flies.

its almost like some people weren’t watching the news….but they were….guess what news they were watching….first it was a democratic hoax, then there were only a few, then it will go away when the weather warms up…

Then it was about wearing masks…for months later in the year, anti maskers were saying that Fauci said you didn’t have to wear a mask, I saw it over and over again on right wing media and heard it in my travels by repubs… right wing media played it over and over again…..turns out Fauci said that to a nurse in early February when she asked him if she should wear one on a domestic flight….. I will say that again ….Early February !!!!

Then we get the vaccine…..about 500,000 dead by then…..when i thought all will be well again…no…now we got the anti-vaccine propaganda, have to own the libs B.S….

so a year later, today..we have almost another 500,000 dead Americans…..

Its almost like they weren’t watching the news in March, April and May of 2020…..or were they???

They thought they were….just not the news…more of a glorified Nation Enquirer.

They were watching Fox, a company designated as an entertainment company who doesn’t have to redaction, under the l;aw, like the real news media has too.

I would love to give you my phone number, dont know how…

These threads are not for this type of discussion, and frankly I hate typing anymore.

I will re read the article you posed about Canada’s research..I read if quickly but had appointments this afternoon..

Oh…so you know, I was a bio/chemistry major in college…and have studied all the science since I was very young…I was born with insatiable curiosity…its a curse frankly…So I am not easily brainwashed and keep up to date….Scientific American magazine is amazing…When I was young I only understood 10% of the articles….today is a different story, now I understand 70-85% and 3 years later they get produced on T.V. which then fills in the blanks so to speak.

In a few months I will retire at the age of 56 and I have a need to finally understand Einsteins equations…..but I will have to start physics 101 again and go through all the classes, its like trying to learn a new language without knowing the alphabet…so to speak….

Anyway…se if there is a way for us to talk or get off this tread….I do like that I can get the word out…put this is not the forum and I will probably be told to shut up sooner or later….

See…I care..I care about others, I care about this country, I care about all of our futures…..I don’t care if you are believe in a higher power, what ever gets a person through their day…..I don’t care you sexual orientation, trans, gay, straight, all the above, color of your skin or party affiliation…we are all int his big shot hole together and need to learn to keep out of others peoples business…basically the back bone of the founding of our country…\

But now today….its my way or the highway for the right these days….and that is what has me so pissed, believe what ever you want, but don’t dare try to put your beliefs on me…..(abortion) religion, politics yada yada yada. That is NOT directed to you in any way…

I will say it again to you, I hold you in high esteem regarding your knowledge of appraisal and the stuff we normal appraisers don’t have time to learn…that’s why I say we are all in this together, that is what makes America the greatest country in the world…

Our diversity !!! Debate !!! But acceptance of others has gone out the window and that is the real problem I have these days with the right.

P.S….I consider appraisal fun for the mentally challenged…I just make a lot of money and be able to be self employed at the same time…

Peace brother, have a good night !!!