Monthly Archives: April 2020

Apr 14 2020

Democrats are once again blaming the President for circumstances and conditions that they helped create


Democrats, like some of their Republican counterparts, are globalists. They are the ones who should be blamed–not the President

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—April 13, 2020

Democrats are once again blaming the President for circumstances and conditions that they helped createBack in January, criminally insane Democrats called President Trump xenophobic for restricting travel between the U.S. and China, in the midst of a potential viral pandemic. After calling the President a racist and accusing him of overreacting to the spread of Covid-19, Democrats turned around and accused the President of not doing enough to stop the spread of the virus. Folks, Democrats and their media mouthpieces are not only sociopaths, they are total imbeciles as well.

President Trump wisely closed our borders to China and quickly added additional restrictions on travel to places like Iran and Italy

After their phony accusations of racism failed to catch on with the public, Democrats, who all have bats in the belfry, blamed the President for not allocating enough money to combat the spread of the virus. I would like to say, to all batty Democrats and their unscrupulous comrades in the media and Hollywood, that only Congress has the power to allocate money, you imbeciles.

Regardless of the accusations leveled against him, President Trump wisely closed our borders to China and quickly added additional restrictions on travel to places like Iran and Italy, where the virus was rapidly spreading. What were the Democrats doing while the President was taking action to protect the American people? They were busy running the phony impeachment scam and blaming the President for things they helped create.

According to Democrats and their media mouthpieces, it’s the President’s fault that there’s a shortage of surgical masks, gloves and respirators. According to them, the President should have stockpiled these things in advance. However, the previous administration didn’t stockpile medical provisions or make any preparations for a viral pandemic at all. If the previous administration had made preparations for a pandemic, we would have had warehouses full of surgical masks, gloves and respirators. They didn’t and we didn’t!

Besides that, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) failed to take the Wuhan virus seriously, and the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized the President for implementing travel restrictions in the wake of a growing pandemic. On top of that, both organizations have been assuring the world for years that a global pandemic, like the 1918 pandemic, was not likely because of vaccines and the mere presence of the CDC and the WHO.

If you believed the CDC and the WHO, the joke is on you!

If you believed the CDC and the WHO, the joke is on you! That’s why Dr. Seuss is quite appropriate for the two; the CDC and the WHO. They are both a joke! If the Coronavirus pandemic proves anything, it proves that both organizations, the CDC and the WHO, have serious problems. They both failed to recognize the threat of Covid-19 until it had spread throughout the world, and neither one had a stockpile of emergency medical provisions, although they both rake in millions of dollars each year from U.S taxpayers.

Furthermore, the panic buying, caused by the pandemic, quickly emptied store shelves by early March and has yet to be replenished, that’s proof enough that manufacturers do not have enough excess manufacturing capacity to respond to an emergency. However, instead of recognizing and addressing the problem, Democrats blamed the President for our crippled American industry.

Moreover, Democrats blamed the President because U.S. manufacturers are unable to produce and distribute products fast enough to fill demand, and restock empty shelves. The truth is that U.S. manufacturers adopted lean or “Just In Time” (JIT) manufacturing practices back in the 1970s. Under the lean model, manufacturers do not warehouse raw materials necessary to sustain or increase production. A specific amount of raw materials are delivered at specified times, through a supply line, “Just In Time” to keep production running at a constant level.

Just In Time (JIT) manufacturing does not respond well to a sudden increase in product demand

As a result, JIT manufacturing does not respond well to a sudden increase in product demand because it’s designed to eliminate warehouse and inventory expenses. Instead of warehousing raw materials needed for production, lean manufacturers rely on a supply line that globalization has stretched to the point that it’s extremely vulnerable to natural disasters and political turmoil. Simply put, when the supply line to China is disrupted, production in America comes to a halt.

In addition, the distribution system operates in much the same manner. Distributors only order enough products to fill open orders, and manufacturers only produce the exact amount of product ordered by distributors. Under normal conditions, if there’s a slight increase in product demand, the distributor simply back orders the product, and the manufacturer orders enough extra materials to fill that back order. That keeps the size of the distribution warehouse small and expenses at a minimum for the manufacturer.

However, when product demand vastly exceeds normal production, it takes time for manufacturers to acquire the additional raw materials necessary to increase production. To complicate matters, if there’s a disruption in the global supply line, then lean manufacturers can’t keep up with demand, let alone increase production, and stores quickly run out of paper products, surgical masks and other items. Proof of this can be found by looking at all the empty shelves in stores all across America.

There is no excess manufacturing capacity in America anymore

There is no excess manufacturing capacity in America anymore. The bad news is that stores will remain out of products until manufacturers can acquire the raw materials necessary to ramp up production, and that may take weeks or even months, depending on the number of manufacturers, length and capacity of the supply line, and the availability of raw materials.

Even worse news is that some products are no longer made in the U.S. because U.S. manufacturers moved to foreign shores in the wake of free trade globalism. Products made outside of America will take even longer to restock because the supply line has been taxed beyond capacity, and as long as demand outstrips production and distribution capabilities, we will have shortages of various things.

Finally, it’s not the President’s fault that American manufacturers expanded globally, adopted Just In Time manufacturing, and created global supply lines that are easily disrupted by natural disasters and political turmoil. Democrats are trying to blame the President for things that came about because of globalism. In short, Democrats are once again blaming the President for circumstances and conditions that they helped create. Democrats, like some of their Republican counterparts, are globalists. They are the ones who should be blamed—not the President.

Apr 14 2020

AG Barr’s Astonishing Statements Hint At Treason


“A pattern of events to … sabotage the presidency”

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re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—April 13, 2020

 “I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history. Without any basis uh, they, uh, they started this investigation of his campaign; and even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign; a whole pattern of events while he was President. uh, So I, to sabotage the presidency; and I think that, uh, or at least had the effect of sabotaging the presidency.”

“If people broke the law, and we can establish that, they will be prosecuted”

“The people who abused FISA have a lot to answer for.”

“If people broke the law, and we can establish that, they will be prosecuted”

Those astonishing, and ominous, quotes are from a recent interview US Attorney General William Barr gave to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, and one can imagine those involved in the FISA abuses are rapidly lawyering up.

Treason is defined in Title 18, section 2381 of the U.S. Code, which states “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000, and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”—(Cornell)

Who, and what penalty?

People in the FBI and CIA swear allegiance to the United States. Engaging in a pattern of events to sabotage the presidency is adhering to their enemies. It can’t be much clearer, if it can be established that people within the most powerful intelligence agencies broke the law, by definition, they are guilty of treason.

When you strike at the King and fail, the King is obligated to strike back because declining to do so invites further treachery. AG Barr, the King’s spokesperson has laid it bare, those who broke the law will be prosecuted.

It’s beyond ludicrous to suggest that low or mid-level bureaucrats and agents have the power and authority to launch an investigation against the president. Obviously, the investigation was designed and executed from the top down. This means the actions of people like John Brennan, former director of the CIA, James Comey, former Director of the FBI, and Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI will be thoroughly scrutinized.

That the FISA process was abused is no longer in question. According to the Department of Justice’s inspector general, 29 FISA applications from eight different FBI field offices over the past five years were reviewed for accuracy. All of them had issues. [https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/fbis-failure-be-scrupulously-accurate-fisa-information-undermines] Two of the FISA’s against Trump’s former foreign-policy advisor, Carter Page, were found to be invalid.

FISA related indictments are coming but are unlikely to start with those at the top

FISA related indictments are coming but are unlikely to start with those at the top. A solid prosecutorial foundation would be necessary to go after the big names, and that means beginning at the bottom of the pyramid, such as with the FBI lawyer under criminal investigation for altering a document which was used to obtain a FISA against Carter Page.

It will take some time to inform the public about the scope and scale of the attempt against the president. As that knowledge grows, so will the pressure on the leadership involved. If someone like Brennan or Comey is found guilty of treason, how could the penalty possibly be as minor as a fine? The sure to follow multi million-dollar book deals would make a mockery of the process, the president, and the people.

Fact is, the Department of Justice is set to resume Capital Punishment after a nearly two-decade lapse. [https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-government-resume-capital-punishment-after-nearly-two-decade-lapse] Right now, in the middle of criminal investigations of possible treason. Even if it is coincidence, which is doubtful, it must be weighing on the minds of those who face prosecution and makes it likely that they would be more willing to turn against those they once worked under.

Speaking of penalties, because two of the Carter Page FISAs were deemed invalid, it seems that the cases against General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Michael Cohen, all require a second look. Maybe the president expects their sentences to be overturned, which would explain why he hasn’t pardoned any of them.

The Media Will Pay A Price

The mainstream media has ruthlessly and relentlessly attacked Trump from the moment he announced his candidacy. They’ve mocked him, his wife Melania, and his children, including young Barron. For two years they hyped the failed Mueller “Russia collusion” investigation, essentially accusing him of treason. They alleged criminal misconduct to aid the Democrat’s impeachment trial, a fiasco doomed to fail in the Senate right from the beginning. Now, the COVID-19 crisis is being used not only to paint him as incompetent but to accuse him of willfully wanting Americans to die. They have been complicit in the failed coup attempt.

The attempt to take out President Trump is not only a travesty, as Barr stated, it’s one of the greatest scandals in the country’s history. It will become the next, big story. However, If the media remain true to form once the first FISA indictments drop, they can be counted on to trash the process as the personal, political vendetta of a tyrant, discredit AG Barr and the investigators, bury relevant information, and protect the coup plotters, plus themselves, by pinning any wrongdoing on the rank and file.

The level of screeching hatred will be directly proportional to the state of their existential panic. Their credibility will fall as their decibel levels rise, placing it where it truly belongs, below ground.

The mainstream media are dead institutions talking.

Finally, something to celebrate.

Apr 14 2020

Limitation of the President & Have the States Violated the Constitution Imposing a Lockdown?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law

Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

(DOWNLOAD this Article: Commerce Clause.docx

QUESTION: Can Trump reopen the economy at will?

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ANSWER: There is no doubt that Americans have been getting a civics lesson as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis, but discover that their state governors have assumed far more control over what goes on in their daily lives than the constitution allows. It has been State and local authorities making decisions about shutting down businesses and allocating medical equipment to hospitals – not the President. They have merely listened to Bill Gates and the compromised Anthony Fauci whose recommendations are illegal.

This is what the “United States” meant that there was a separation of powers between federal and state. This is the system the founding fathers designed, though it seems anachronistic to many while people like Fauci have been the stooge for Bill Gates claiming this is a deadly disease that warrants we be locked-down as prisoners in our own homes without any legal authority under the Constitution.

It is the Commerce Clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) that governs this question. The Commerce Clause states that the United States Congress shall have power:

“[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

The Supreme Court ruled in Swift and Company v. United States, 196 U.S. 375 (1905), that Congress had the authority to regulate local commerce, as long as that activity could become part of a continuous “current” of commerce that involved the interstate movement of goods and services.

My interpretation of this is simple. It is unconstitutional for any state to block interstate commerce. Consequently, the President has the executive power to issue a binding order to open up commerce and the states cannot legally resist that order for keeping the economy locked-down violates the Commerce Clause. Over the years, the meaning of the word “commerce” has been a source of controversy. The Constitution did not explicitly define the word. That has led to legal arguments back and forth.

Some argue that the word “Commerce” refers only to trade or exchange. Others counter that claim arguing that the Framers intended to describe more broadly commercial and social connections between citizens of different states. Hence, the interpretation of “Commerce” has been the dividing line between federal and state power. My reading is that they intended to prevent states from discriminating against each other and to ensure the free-flow of both the people with the freedom to travel and commerce in an economic sense.

In Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), the Supreme Court held back then that intrastate activity could be regulated under the Commerce Clause, provided that the activity is part of a larger interstate commercial scheme. In Swift, as I said, the Supreme Court held that Congress had the authority to regulate local commerce provided it was part of a continuous “current” of commerce that involved the interstate movement of goods and services. Therefore, from 1905 until about 1937, the Supreme Court used this narrow version of the Commerce Clause. However, that changed with Franklin D. Roosevelt who stacked the court to justify his socialism and the New Deal. Beginning with NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, 301 U.S. 1 (1937), the Supreme Court recognized broader grounds upon which the Commerce Clause could be used to regulate state activity since FDR was seeking more power to dominate the states.

The Supreme Court held in NLRB that activity was commerce if it had a “substantial economic effect” on interstate commerce or if the “cumulative effect” of a single act could have an effect on such commerce. Then in NLRB v. Jones, United States v. Darby, 312 U.S. 100 (1941) and Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), the Supreme Court revealed its socialist interpretation which broadened the scope of the Commerce Clause. Suddenly, what emerged was a highly dynamic and integrated national economy, whereby the Court applied its broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause, reasoning the even local activity will likely affect the larger interstate commercial economic scheme. The limitations between state and federal were no longer so clear.

After 1937 until 1995, the Supreme Court never invalidated a single law on the basis of the Commerce Clause. State’s rights seem to fade into the distant horizon. Then in 1995, the Supreme Court attempted to curtail this expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause and was returning to a more conservative interpretation. This decision came down in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995). In Lopez, the defendant was charged with carrying a handgun to school in violation of the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. The defendant argued that the federal government had no authority to regulate firearms in local schools, while the government claimed that this fell under the Commerce Clause, arguing that possession of a firearm in a school zone would lead to violent crime, thereby affecting the general economic conditions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and held that Congress only has the power to regulate the channels of commerce, the instrumentalities of commerce, and action that substantially affects interstate commerce. The Court declined to further expand the Commerce Clause holding:

“To do so would require us to conclude that the Constitution’s enumeration of powers does not presuppose something not enumerated, and that there never will be a distinction between what is truly national and what is truly local. This we are unwilling to do.”

In Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), the Supreme Court returned to its more liberal construction of the Commerce Clause in relation to intrastate production. In Gonzales, the Court upheld federal regulation of intrastate marijuana production.

Then in 2012, the Supreme Court again dealt with the Commerce Clause in NFIB v. Sebelius, 567 US. 519 (2012) concerning the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (AFA), which sought to require uninsured individuals to secure health insurance (Obamacare) in an attempt to stabilize the health insurance market. Focusing on Lopez’s requirement that Congress could regulate only commercial activity, the Court held that the individual mandate could not be enacted under the Commerce Clause. The Court stated that requiring the purchase of health insurance under the AFA was not the regulation of commercial activity so much as inactivity and was, accordingly, impermissible under the Commerce Clause.

CONCLUSION

Therefore, relying on these decisions, the attempt by the states to lock-down the economy is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and the President has the power even under National Security to reopen the economy since it has been illegally shut down at the request of Bill Gates and his surrogate Anthony Fauci. This is dealing DIRECTLY with interstate commerce which is no different than protectionism that each state could then impose tariffs on imports from another state, which was the clear intention of the Founding Fathers to prohibit.

Apr 14 2020

A Post From Germany


Armstrong Economics Blog/Germany

Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

From Anonymous in Germany:

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In Germany advocate, Ms. Beate Bahner went to the Supreme Court to question the denial of fundamental ground rights in the course of the coronavirus scam. Under the chair of judge  Stephan Harbarth the lawsuit was refused to be disputed. Judge Stephan Harbarth is a member of CDU of chancellor Merkel, was until 2018 a member of the Bundestag, and is known to be well linked to various industries in his home region of Baden-Württemberg. He wants to become President of the supreme court.

The story continued. Ms. Bahner gave her license as a lawyer back and declared that the constitutional state is dead, so there is no need for lawyers anymore. She asked people to stand up to make a stand, participate in demonstrations and civil disobedience.

Then her homepage was shut down by her provider. The following day Ms. Bahner registered a dark car entering her garage with two men sitting inside looking for her. She went for the street. There she asked people to help her, but nobody did drive her away or anything. Meanwhile, the police arrived. Ms. Bahner, a thin lady, was thrown to the ground and arrested with the hands behind her back, a treatment in Germany reserved for dangerous people. Then police did not mention the reason for this.

She was then transferred to the psychiatry of her hometown of Heidelberg and isolated in pitiful conditions like no toilet etc. The caretakers used force against her when she asked for basic care. Then she was informed, that she must stay there for at least 6 weeks because she is a danger not wearing a face mask. She was asked if she wants to stay there by free will. She denied this and asked for a hospitalization decision by an appointed judge. This decision was denied. But she got better treatment in a station with many real depressive patients etc., got a cellphone and could inform her sister who loaded this up to the internet.

In the press, many journalists are cheering this treatment (outstanding idiots, really), also many commentators are laughing about the “crazy lawyer”. Only a few have realized, what this could mean to themselves in the future.

Ms.Bahner said in the phone call, at least she feels safe in psychiatry, which I as an experienced MD can deny for sure. It is not sure to stay in the middle of the really crazy and dangerous people. So anything can happen anytime, as experienced Martin as well.

It makes me cry, if I think of my children. What world will this be? Can we hope that the politicians and Gates overstretch this and it collapses under the siege of civil unrest, war, and the end of civilization 2032?

I would prefer dying in the war than living in a society like this forever.

Please stay alive Martin

you give us some hope in the darkness

with all best wishes

GR

Apr 14 2020

The Fate of All Nations


Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM

Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong



The economy like a man seated on a rock among fallen trees in a forest with his chin propped up by his arm resting on his thigh, while high overhead the wind of change blew breaking the tops of the trees as they fell to the ground. He sat on the top of a hill, once the citadel of the modern world, where so many foreign dignitaries once came to pay their homage. The Congressional Hall, once bustling with lobbyists all vying for favors in return for bribes, remained empty, a mere shadow of its former glory.




This citadel of the modern world had descended into chaos instigated for political change. A political virus separated the people turning man against his brother each suspecting the other of a claimed disease. Each in their own way weakening the state unleashing an unintended decline and fall of the whole as each sought only their own individual political gain. The unity of a nation was no more.


This once-mighty establishment, the envy of the world and the defender of freedom, begs the question; how has it fallen? Its principles lay broken scattered on the ground to be swept away by the winds of time and chance. The wheel of fortune, like the eternal sea, is always moving. This time the bell has indeed tolled. The darkness shall not pass for the white of the sunlight can no longer penetrate the corruption protected by thorns and brambles. As with all political states, they fall first from within. In their hour of weakness, we can barely hear any lament for what was once a civilization of cooperation, became divided and crumbled to dust to be buried in a common grave by the hand of history.









			

	
	



				
					


	

		
		

					
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									Unemployment Has Elected 4 Quarterly Bullish Reversals at the End of March
							

			


		

		









Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics


Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong








The U.S. labor force reached a high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Since this shut down over the virus, almost 17 million people have applied for unemployment. More than 10% of the entire workforce has been disrupted. People are losing their jobs, falling behind on mortgages and loans, and the economic devastation is far worse than this virus which has a mortality rate of at best 10% of the annual flu.


As I have made clear, my job has been to simply inform people what Socrates forecasts. I personally could not fathom how the unemployment rate would soar so fast. There is just no such precedent in history to have made that forecast. No human being could have made that prediction. Socrates looks at patterns and the common thread behind all markets and economies is how people react. This forecast was derived from pattern recognition, not fundamental analysis which was useless.


In March, the unemployment rate increased by 0.9 percentage point to 4.4 percent. This is the largest over-the-month increase in the rate since January 1975, when the increase was also 0.9 percentage point. The number of unemployed persons rose by 1.4 million to 7.1 million in March. The sharp increases in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus and efforts to contain it. This has continued and has now reached nearly 17 million. Based on our model, the 1st quarter elected ALL FOUR Quarterly Bullish Reversals in one shot. That has NEVER taken place on our unemployment mode even during the Great Depression. This implies we will see this trend unfold going into May. The worst is yet to come.









			

	
	



				
					


	

		
		

					
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									New Zealand Police Can Bust Into Your House & Do Anything They Think is Reasonably Necessary To Enforce Lockdown
							

			


		

		









Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease


Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong








In New Zealand, civil liberties have been suspended and may not return. The new police powers during the Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown reveals authorities have the power to set up roadblocks and random checkpoints. However, they also have the power to bust into your house “enter, remain and inspect” any household or office that is suspected of housing an unsanctioned gathering. The new guidance, recently released by the police, revealed that under alert level 4 police may do “anything reasonably necessary, including the use of force, to compel, enforce, or ensure compliance” of the lockdown measures.




People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to comprehend and the desire to imagine, but history bears witness, they must also have the courage to demand and take it when it is denied. Liberty is attainable when the military and police who enforce the orders from their tyrants, open their eyes and comprehend that their liberty is also forlorn.









			

	
	



				
					


	

		
		

					
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									A Post from Spain
							

			


		

		









Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease


Re-Posted Apr 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong














From Anonymous in Spain:


After more than a month of the strictest possible lockdown, it just keeps being extended… they are conditioning the masses to accept that no return to normal life will be possible until everyone is vaccinated (and, thankfully, the mankind loving Bill Gates is fast developing a vaccine – yay!). Now, while many countries in Europe have lockdowns and closed shops & schools, in Spain it’s completely prohibited for people to even leave home except to go to the nearest supermarket or pharmacy (or to work for those in the few sectors that are allowed to operate).


In some towns, you’re only allowed to go to the supermarket once a week and/or your minimum purchase must be 30 euros. Oh, and supermarkets have drastically cut their opening hours while also canceling home deliveries during the lockdown. As a result, and given that only one person is allowed to enter at a time, there are typically long lines of people (often covering a couple of blocks) waiting to be able to enter the store. How does any of this make any sense? It’s just another insane and counterproductive measure that only serves to condition people and get them used to obey the regime without questioning anything.


Police (and in many areas also the military) patrol the virtually deserted streets and harass anyone who can’t produce proof of why they’re out. The fines are absolutely insane, and when someone is caught out for the second time they can face jail (there have already been people jailed for this in the last week or two). The police are now also using drones to catch people who might venture out to stretch their legs and breathe some fresh air.


It’s not only illegal, under this tyrannical government decree, to go out for a short walk, but it’s also not even permitted for children to go out at all. I have no idea how there haven’t yet been many more tragedies and crimes within families who are locked in in their homes (often very small apartments) 24/7, for months on end, with children of all ages. It’s mental torture for everyone, but I can’t even begin to imagine the long term damage this will do to the kids who need to be able to go out and run around for at least a short period of time each day. Italy, the only other country with as tyrannical a lockdown as Spain, at least permits a parent to take their young kid(s) outside once a day.


The economy has of course been completely destroyed, and most of the small businesses (which is the vast majority of businesses in southern Europe) will never reopen. The tourism and hospitality sector, which is a huge part of their economy, has no hope in hell of recovering. Strangely enough, nobody here seems to be thinking about this… they’re still fully immersed in the panic about the fake “pandemic”.


Yeah, I know, there are the 24/7 MSM headlines counting the alleged corona deaths and infections, and telling people how millions will die if anything gets reopened and people are allowed to leave home. Nevertheless, there’s a lot more skepticism about all this in other countries (US, UK, Germany, etc), so it’s amazing to see just how completely brainwashed the Spanish are, and how they totally trust the media and their Marxist government. When there is any criticism of the government, it’s because – according to the people – the government is still not doing enough to prevent people from dying from the “pandemic.” I suppose they should also make it illegal to go grocery shopping; then everyone will just starve to death and the virus will be defeated.


The government is talking about introducing a Universal Basic Income (UBI), which makes sense from their point of view, because with never seen unemployment rates (and a large share of the population not having any prospect of finding a job), people could perhaps eventually revolt once they’re starving. (I say could because I’m not so sure they would revolt even then… most Europeans seem to be plagued by a suicidal death-wish, and not just since 2020.)


In any case, UBI would prevent that, and the masses would not dare to say (much less do) anything against a government that is providing their daily bread. Actually, their idea is that Germany should be paying for it all. Every day the Spanish government and the press are demanding that the EU cough up more money for Spain and Italy, and they always blame evil Germany (and the Netherlands) for denying them what they see as their right. So, Spain and Italy have deliberately destroyed their entire economies, and now Germany etc have an obligation and duty to pay for it all. You couldn’t make this shit up!


It’s a known fact that Italy and Spain are counting all the dead who happened to also have a coronavirus (or pretty much any flu-like symptoms) as having died from this virus. Which is a total fraud, of course. Other countries are doing it to some extent too, but at least there have been many doctors in places like the US, Germany, and others coming out and denouncing this. Meanwhile, I have not seen or heard a single voice here telling the truth about any of this.


Doctors, nurses, health “experts” etc are out there lying unashamedly, and nobody in this country seems to have the least integrity to call them out. I know a person who went to one of the hospitals that was supposedly overflowing, and there was nobody there, no chaos, barely any people, staff calm and not busy at all, etc. ie., the same fraud as with the hospitals in the US and elsewhere. Hey, perhaps they’re all determined to continue with this charade until Germany gives in on coronabonds!


As far as the masses here… what more can I say? They are calling the cops and military (i.e. the regime goons out to punish anyone who wants to breathe fresh air for a few minutes) “heroes” and the approval rates of what these thugs are doing are something like 95%. And they’re even more enamored with their medical “heroes”, clapping and cheering from their windows every evening at 8pm to show their support – yeah, the same “heroes” manufacturing fraudulent death numbers, lying about death rates and overflowing hospitals, making this unexceptional flu to be the new Black Death, and demanding that strict lockdown be kept pretty much indefinitely (or until everyone is vaccinated).


It is telling that when so many doctors and epidemiologists in other countries have been coming out to denounce these lies, no such thing has happened here. In fact, none of the actual data and foreign doctors’ statements have even been published here, much like the fact that countries that did not impose any lockdowns whatsoever (i.e. Sweden, Belarus, etc) have actually fared much better or no worse than those with strict lockdowns. Nobody here seems to know about these things, and when you send them the information, they dismiss it or get upset and accuse you of wanting to kill their elderly.


It’s scary to see how an entire country has fallen for the (by now totally disproved) lies and propaganda. They are not only willfully supporting the worst kind of tyranny but are actively calling for more of it. Back in communism in Eastern Europe people did what they had to do to survive but they didn’t actually believe the regime propaganda. So, for instance, people participated in the parades in support of communism once or twice a year, but only because it was mandatory. Well, here they’re doing it voluntarily and from their own initiative – clapping and cheering in support of their jailers every day (and calling the cops on people they see out on the street, or denouncing a neighbor who dared to go to the supermarket twice in a day, etc).


I don’t know whether this totalitarian police state tyranny we’re now seeing in a large part of the world is just a test run or the real thing. I suppose if they complete the few steps still missing (such as abolition of cash, forced vaccination/chipping, etc) within the next 6-12 months, the global NWO tyranny and mass enslavement will be a done deal. Even if it’s a test run, I doubt we’ll get any of our basic freedoms back. Those “temporary” measures are never scaled back once a manufactured crisis is over.













			

	
	



				
					


	

		
		

					
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									Letter to President Trump – Send it Everywhere You Can
							

			


		

		









Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion


Re-Posted Apr 13, 2020 by Martin Armstrong






DOWNLOAD: President Donald Trump Letter- April 13-RF







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									Phase Five Supply Chain – With a Message From A Dairy Farmer….
							

			


		

		

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on April 14, 2020 by 




•Phase One was retail. •Phase two was distribution. •Phase three was the space between processing/manufacturing and distribution. •Phase four was raw material supply to manufacturing. •Phase five is consumer packaging capacity, and bulk storage inventories.




Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 60/40 proposition. Approximately 60% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 40% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).


Food ‘outside the home’ included: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 60 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.


The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the ‘food away from home’ sector has been reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still need to eat. That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.


♦ Phase Five – The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently noted “there are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”


Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.


This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts.  As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply-chain across the country


Few Americans are aware of this.  However, that stored food supply is the supply-chain for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc.  For almost 8 weeks the retail supply chain has been operating beyond capacity and the burn rate of raw food products is up a stunning 40 percent.


Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, are starting to run low. Believe me: (1) we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out; and (2) the food supply chain will be a big part of President Trump’s decision-making on reopening the economy thereby re-opening restaurants, cafeterias, etc…. and switching consumption back to fresh supply.


This “bigger picture” is not being considered by politically-minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focus exclusively on the virus.


Additionally, there are very specific issues within each supply chain (commercial and consumer). It is not as easy as people think to move the commercial supply-chain (restaurants etc.) into the consumer supply chain (grocers). First, there are simply packaging capacity issues.  Additionally, there’s an entirely different set of regulations on the processing side for the consumer supply chain.


One dairy farmer helps explain:


Are we dumping milk because of greed or low demand, no. It’s the supply chain, there are only so many jug fillers, all were running 24/7 before this cluster you-know-what.


Now demand for jug milk has almost doubled.  However, restaurant demand is almost gone; NO ONE is eating out. 


Restaurant milk is distributed in 2.5 gal bags or pint chugs; further, almost 75 percent of milk is processed into hard products in this country, cheese and butter. Mozzarella is almost a third of total cheese production; how’s pizza sales going right now??


A bit of history – Years ago (40+) every town had a bottler, they ran one shift a day, could ramp up production easily.  Now with all the corporate takeovers (wall street over main street) we are left with regional “high efficiency” milk plants that ran jug lines 24/7 before this mess, no excess capacity.


Jug machines cost millions and are MADE IN CHINA. Only so many jugs can be blown at a jug plant.  We farmers don’t make the jugs, damn hard to ramp up production.


I’m a dairy farmer, believe me NO dairyman likes dumping milk; and so far there is NO guarantee they will get paid. Milk must be processed within 48 hours of production and 24 hours of receipt in the plant or it goes bad. Same with making it into cheese and butter, and neither stores well for long.


The same supply line problems exists where restaurants are supplied with bulk 1 pound blocks of butter or single serv packs or pats; and cheese is sold in 10 to 20 pound bags (think shredded Mozzarella for pizza).  Furthermore, it is not legal for this end of the supply chain to sell direct to consumers in most states.


Take cheddar cheese for instance; it goes from mild to sharp to crap in storage. Butter, frozen, only stores for so long and then must be slowly thawed and processed into other uses as it gets “strong”.  At Organic Valley we cook it down into butter oil or ghee for cooking.


We are headed for the same problem with canned veggies.  The vast majority of produce comes off and is processed in season; canned or frozen.  The supply is already in cans for the season; restaurants use gallon cans or bulk bags of frozen produce.


At some point we will run out of consumer sized cans in stock because home size sales are up (40%+) and restaurant sales are almost nonexistent.  Fresh produce out of U.S. season comes from Mexico (different climate).  I’m talking sweet corn, green beans, peas, tomatoes, all veggies are seasonal in the USA.  Fresh, out-of-season, row crops are  imported.  (There are exceptions, like hydroponic grown, but small amount of total).


Someone mentioned “time to raid all those bins of corn”.  Those bins on the farm contain yellow corn, cattle feed and totally unfit for human consumption, now or at harvest.


Eggs? Same problem.  Bakeries and restaurants of any size use Pullman egg cases, 30 dozen at a pop, 30 eggs to a flat, 12 flats to a case.  There are only so many 1 dozen egg cartons available and only so many packing machines.


Industrial bakeries and processors of packaged food buy bulk liquid eggs, no carton at all.  Also in many states it is illegal to sell this supply-chain directly to consumers. 


On your standard buffet of any size, do you really think they boil eggs and peel them? They come in a bag, boiled and diced; those nice uniform slices of boiled egg you see on your salad, a lot of them come in tubes boiled and extruded at the same time, just unwrap and slice. Your scrambled eggs come in a homogenized bag on most buffets.


Another example of Main Street being gutted and “improved by wall street” NO local egg processors available or many small egg producers either, all corporate and huge, contracted to sell to the corporate masters.


This is a warning the same problems exist in all supply chains.


The supply chain is farked.


David Osterloh,

61-year-old dairy farmer