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Apr 25·edited Apr 26Author

Carrie, my beautiful bride, just emailed me that she appreciated the plug I added at the end of this story soliciting possible PayPal donations, which go directly to her. (I've never used PayPal and don't know how it works).

I replied that, "Who knows? It's not impossible that one day some billionaire would hit you/us up with a $500,000 "excellence in journalism" grant.

My last bullet point notes that 573 new billionaires have been minted in the last couple of years. However, the world actually has 2,668 billionaires.

My article also notes that Bill Gates has given $21 million just to NPR. He's probably given (has given) billions of dollars to all the other captured or "trusted" news organizations.

I mean, a contribution of half a million bucks for one Substack author would be like nickels found in the couch seat cushions for some of these people.

For me, it's quite the tell that 100 percent of the journalism grants bestowed by our billionaire class go to journalism organizations that censor the truth.

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Apr 24Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I love this format. You should consider a weekly by the numbers. I miss seeing those in the paper too!!! Thanks Bill!

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Keep running that one picture that all the 'elites' (I really dislike that label) really dislike. I'm still catching up, but just saw the short docu by filmmaker Justin Smith about excess deaths in the UK - https://sovrintv.substack.com/p/deadly-quiet

Slowly, the populace at large will see these. Hopefully, not too late.

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Bill - I'm sad to report but I think Substack is compromised. As evidence of that I've tried to "unsubscribe" to several places - not yours - but my efforts are amounting to naught. Just like so many abnormal numbers being disregarded that are off the charts statistically speaking - more than 3 orders of anomaly. So I apologize in advance, but maybe I can support your good journalistic efforts in other ways - cause sadly seems to me Substack is compromised - just like so much else is these days - as you say - they all are subsumed.

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Apr 25Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

A tour de force of devastating data Bill! All of it very easily understood.

Well done.

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Apr 24Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

All of it is sad and stupid. Just a comment on print newspapers that is very sad too.

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Apr 24Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I appreciate that where you can you cite your sources! The most difficult problem we all have and will continue to have is remembering all of the stupid, unnecessary stuff that we were put through. Never forget!! So make sure you have all these interesting and condemning facts in a nice, easily accessible database to update stats and add more stupid stuff to it!

Also the “Portal” and NIL will destroy Division 1 sports. But as long as Universities make money I guess I shouldn’t care.

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This is very interesting and well-executed.

Thanks, Bill.

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Apr 25Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Dick Morris reported the annual salary, the net worth before entering Congress and the current or exiting net worth of many in Congress at the end of one of his books. Those numbers tell a good story. The millions and millions of dollars did not come from thin air.

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Apr 25Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

+++ Keep this up! Many of the magazines I loved did this. The numbers often tell the stories quicker and better than words.

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Bravo!! What a treasure trove of data!!! I have one question… how and why was this ever allowed?? It makes no sense… who issues the money ? And Hospitals went along with this? Yikes!

“$39,000 - Reported government compensation given to hospitals when a Covid patient was placed on a ventilator.”

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I love to paint by the numbers Bill, and the picture is becoming clearer and clearer my friend.

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UPDATE: For those who recall my last story ... Steve Kirsch is hosting a podcast tonight on "Saving our Pets."

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/vsrf-live-tonight-save-our-pets

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When I click the button to "unsubscribe" and get a message back that I am "unsubscribed" then is it not fair to assume that my intent has been realized?

When that is not the case after many times trying - and yes I admit I never loaded the "app" cause I don't care for apps - that suggest to me the entity is compromised - either that or it hired a bunch of programmers confused in flux - and that leads to big time troubles - Bill I'll support your efforts but I suspect it may be elsewhere - cause SubStack is losing its shine in my mind - I'll find somewhere else - we all will cause there won't be a choice if one wants to participate in a place of uncensored sharing and proper programming that knows the truism - "too much flux spells death of an idea".

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Big Macs have never looked like that photo at any time since April 22, 1967.

Except in a food photographer's studio, that is.

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