Monthly Archives: January 2018

Jan 1 2018

The Coldest New Year – Ever?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate

Posted Jan 1, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

 

NASA’s photo of the Blizzard of 2018 shows just how cold this season is turning into. I have made it clear I moved from New Jersey to Florida trying to get closer to REAL Global Warming. Our computer, which correlates absolutely everything in all fields, forecast that this would be the coldest winter many have felt in their lifetime.As NASA wrote: “While the cold streak has not broken all-time records, it is breaking records for individual days.” It has made all-time records for most people’s lifetimes and that is cold.  Even here in Florida, it is down into the 50s (10-12 c) and that is about 10 degrees below normal.

It certainly gives me no pleasure to make such forecasts. But the sun is turning down in energy output and the Global Warming crowd is committing a heinous offense for their nonsense has distracted society from the real danger – Global Cooling. Correlations between temperature and disease are 100%. Turn down the temperature and you get an increase in pandemics.

What you also get is rising civil unrest that often manifests also into revolution. It was the 1918 pandemic that killed so many people and that same year stood witness to revolutions. It was the revolution in Germany during 1918 which installed the Weimar Republic and as capital fled, the government was left with nothing but paper to print currency to make reparation payments. So 1918 was a major event in politics as well as disease.

I suppose if Dick Cheney were still the real president, he would announce this cold weather is created by Russia and a secret machine to justify invading Canada, nuke the Northern Territories to warm things up a bit, and then hand all the natural resources to Haliburton.

Jan 1 2018

Iranian Protest & Revolutionary Cycle


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest

Re-Posted Jan 1, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Many look to you from Iran. Can you please advise as to your cyclical work of Iranian revolutions is you have calculated that out.

Thank you so much. You are a voice in this world.

الله معك

ANSWER: Thank you. Yes, there is a remarkable 26-year cycle in Iran. During August of 1953, the Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, dismissed the Prime Minister Mohammed Mossaddegh after he adopted a nationalist policy by dissolving the parliament and instituted a dictatorial rule by decree. Mossadegh refused to step down and instead arrested the royal messenger delivering the dismissal order. The Shah fled to Italy and that is when the US CIA and British intelligence initiated and execute “Operation Ajax” with the help of conservative Iranians to overthrow Mossadegh. This succeeded and the Shah returned to Iran.

The Shah then fled 26 years later in 1979 on January 16 to Egypt. Then Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (1902–1989) return to Iran on February 1st, 1979. That began the Islamic State.

The next target was 2005. This was when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the sixth President of Iran from August 3rd, 2005 to August 3rd, 2013. He was also the main political leader of the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, a coalition of conservative political groups in the country. He was controversial both domestically because of his economic policy and internationally moving Iran toward a nuclear armament. He is remembered for publicly stating that Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth.

What is not publicly talked about is the fact that the USA encouraged Iran to adopt nuclear energy beginning in 1957 when they signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement as part of the U.S. Atoms for Peace program. The USA continued to help move Iran toward nuclear energy under the Shah until the 1979 Revolution.

On January 17th, 2005, Iran offered a proposal to the EU. It included an Iranian commitment not to pursue weapons of mass destruction along with cooperation on combating terrorism, and on regional security, including for Iraq and Afghanistan. They sought cooperation on strategic trade controls, but the proposal was rejected. When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power, he took the country into a hostile confrontation once again with Israel and the West. On August 5, 2005, just 2 days after taking office, the pending EU-3 submit a proposal to Iran pursuant to the Paris Agreement which required Iran to permanently cease enrichment was rejected by Ahmadinejad.

 

Now we are at 2018 and this is the half cycle mark – 13 years from 2005. So the rise of protests is right on target. When will the younger generation succeed in overthrowing the old powers that be once and for all? That will be in 2031. For now, the government still has power and it is not afraid to torture its own people. Things are changing as the younger generation demands change. Thus, the protest is currently cyclical right on target for 2018 and they will build.