Monthly Archives: July 2020

Jul 23 2020

You Simply Cannot Imagine the Amount of Abject Misery in this Place — So Sad!


Posted originally on the Conservative Tree House on July 23, 2020 by 

You cannot explain it.  Pure unadulterated misery in every corner. It’s a million times worse than you could fathom.  The most singularly depressing town in the entire universe. And if you know anyone who enjoys it here, that tells you just how far disconnected they are from the rest of our nation.   There is nothing here except misery and functionaries, human robots, carrying through with their duties without any idea why.

When I say this is a lifeless soulless place.  You must imagine my new context to really understand it.   Staying in a hotel with only one, perhaps a handful, of other guest(s) is a rather remarkable sense of living amid misery in real life.

Yes, it’s like a living example of The Shining, sans the death-knock of the twins in the middle of the night.   That is correct.  Trump International DC – and NO GUESTS.  It’s a desolate, depressing, empty dystopian hotel nightmare hidden from all normal people in America including me.  I had no idea the metastasized rot had already spread to the central nervous system.   Eric needs to sell this place, and fast – it’s over.

Restaurants closed.  Everything closed.  Lights out.  DARK. Want to eat, go to the grocery store and hope for bologna and some bread.  Everything on television/internet is a lie.  I know, I’m here.  They must import stand-in’s for POTUS visits to this place.

From what I can tell the DC mayor has targeted her closures in a manner as to inflict the maximum damage on Trump properties and holdings.  I would estimate Trump International DC is bleeding around $100k per day currently/ perhaps more… depending on how much air conditioning they shut down.

DC as a whole is the same.  An 8:00pm walk and you see nothing… a city completely devoid of life…. no cars… no people…  nothing.   A few rats scurrying from sidewalk to planter shelf, and a few scooters laying sideways in the middle of the sidewalk with ever dimming green circles as the batteries pulsate and run out.

I mean this town is dead.

The word misery is so far removed from the depressed stares amid the soulless eyes, that it would take a thousand years of bliss for a glimmer of hope to reappear.   This place is an abhorrent Potemkin village of what appears on the nightly news about it.

This is my first visit as a non-tourist.   So I am able to see the people who are attempting to manage their way through this nightmare.  It is far, far worse than anything you can imagine.

Be thankful for your local debate about schools opening, wearing masks and assorted nuance.  This is not that.

This town is the hollowed carcass of a cockroach still moving from the maggots that have taken the remaining source of nutrition.   Every eye behind the mask shows misery, fear, and disconnection from the world we know… you know.

It’s bizarre and even though I have been here many times before, this time I simply cannot describe it adequately.  DC is lost.  Lost not because it has fallen ill to some COVID-19 infection, but literally lost to the premise of our nation’s capital.

There are no people here.  There are robots trying to reach the charging stations.

For the first time in my life I’m not sure I want President Trump to win another term.   Who in their right mind would wish this on anyone.

More later….

Maybe

 

Jul 23 2020

Can Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum Ever Be Trusted?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate

Re-Posted Jul 23, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty,

The Eugenicists/bioethicists/climate change/population reduction activists just won’t quit. The Actors of today are continuing the great work started long ago by their predecessors. They are allowed to practice their religion, while any religion that directly challenges and undermines their authority is now being shutdown along with any business that can compete with theirs. After all, John D Rockefeller has been credited with saying, “Competition is a sin”.

They believe in the survival of the fittest, but they know they’re not the fittest if push comes to shove. So they have to create the illusion they’re the fittest to maintain control, while trying to eliminate those that would beat them in order to survive. They got a jump start, but can they last?

Best,

E

REPLY: Klaus Schwab is a very dangerous man, and a typical academic who thinks talking to the average person on the street is pointless since we are all stupid. Schwab, who is the founder of the Davos World Economic Forum, now has the audacity to warn that a failure to tackle the deep-rooted ills of our society in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic could exacerbate the risk of “violent shocks,” such as conflicts and revolutions. In other words, we MUST accept his Great Reset. He is in league with Bill Gates and others and sees no problem with destroying jobs and sharply reducing the food supply all to further his nonsense to stop global warming when CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere.

There is no way to avoid civil unrest, global economic disputes, and the risk of international war all because Schwab and his friends are so arrogant that they think their delusions can redesign the world economy.

Jul 22 2020

Fake Noose Media and The Left Triggered by Cartoon


Daniel Scavino Jr. is one of Trump’s top people at the White House and recently he posted one of my cartoons on Facebook.

Bedlam from the left soon ensued. It was a cartoon I penned back in May and I depicted Dr. Fauci as a spigot spewing cold water on the country and washing the economy down the drain. I titled it “Dr. Faucet.” I made him look extra leaky, and he may be leaking everything to his boss, Bill Gates…but I can’t say for sure.

My cartoon made the news. I saw it flashed on CNN, MSNBC, and later on FOX, a network that for some reason has Chris Wallace as one of their personalities. The lying mass media, always looking for opportunities to attack President Trump, began spouting nonsense about Trump being ‘anti-science’ and discrediting the wisdom of the good doctor. Wallace was no different and flashed my cartoon at the president and asked for an explanation. Trump handled it (and the entire interview) very well and said he likes Fauci, but disagreed with him at times and he also pointed out a few of Fauci’s many errors. Trump said Scavino’s free speech is his own opinion.

I’ve been told (by some of the White House staff) that President Trump has seen my cartoons and it’s one of the reasons I was invited to the Social Media Summit last year. I won’t go into what caused me to be uninvited, but last weekend I at least got to know for sure that Trump has seen my work because I saw him looking at it. I chuckled when I saw it. I almost hoped he would say something positive about it such as “Way to go, Ben!” or some such. Of course, that didn’t happen but I decided to indulge myself and draw a cartoon about it. It’s rare that cartoonists do this, and I may be out of line, but I beg your indulgence because starting tomorrow I’m taking some time off.

I’ll be gone for about a week. I have not taken more than a couple days off in a long time and the wilderness is calling me. I’m going to go do some gold panning and I’ll enjoy getting away from the drawing table and the computer for a while. Too much bad news has taken its toll and I’ve found myself getting too angry. That’s not good for one’s health. I’m off to do some recovery.

Before I go I want to extend a very hearty “THANK YOU!” to all of you who have donated to our cause. We simply could not draw the cartoons without your help and when you look at our work on our site you’ll know you’re definitely a part of it. You make it happen.

The sun is going down in the west as I type this and soon I will be watching it go down while on the road. See you soon!

—Ben Garrison

Jul 22 2020

The Case Against Revolution With Ayaan Hirsi Ali


interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Posted from Uncommon Reason originally posted Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Recorded on June 25, 2020

As the United States and the world embark on fraught conversations about race, history, law enforcement, and the underpinnings of our very civilization, Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins Peter Robinson for an enlightening conversation.  A refugee from Africa, Hirsi Ali fled to Europe to escape an arranged marriage, becoming an activist, (now former) member of the Dutch Parliament, and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.  With a different set of life experiences and perspectives from American-born Blacks, Hirsi Ali discusses how, as a Somalian, she views America as the best place on earth for minorities to grow up and achieve their potential.  While acknowledging the hardships and miseries that American Blacks have endured and that racism still exists in many quarters of American society, Hirsi Ali emphatically believes that America is more than capable of solving racial inequalities, provided it preserves the institutions that ultimately ended slavery and empowered the protest movements of the 1960s that birthed the Civil Rights Movement. As she wrote in a recent column for the Wall Street Journal, an opinion she reiterates on this show, “There will be no resolution of America’s . . . problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld as sacrosanct. . . . Without them, honest deliberation, mutual learning, and the American ethic of problem-solving are dead.”

To view the transcript of this conversation, click here

Jul 22 2020

Dem Pols welcome Red Guards to occupy their cities


Granted, the foundation of America’s Red Guards and the Cancel Culture Movement is not as easily traced as is the CCP’s sponsorship of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Dem Pols welcome Red Guards to occupy their cities

America’s Cancel Culture Revolution has flourished in Big Blue Cities –—most notably Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington —where local and state politicians show their support of America’s Red Guards by dismissing the seriousness of their criminal activities, and ordering their police forces to stand-down.

Previously on this site, the behavioral characteristics of America’s Red Guards were compared to Mao’s Red Guards. The parallels are too obvious to ignore.

China’s Cultural Revolution was not a bottom-up spontaneous movement. It was initiated by the Chinese Community Party (CCP).  Here are six quotes from one of the main documents that chronicles their birth.

Marxism-Leninism

Excerpts are from the “Circular of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,” that was “initiated and led personally by Comrade Mao Zedong,” dated May 16, 1966, [present compared to past]:

  1. “Our country is now in an upsurge of the great proletarian Cultural [Cancel Culture] Revolution which is pounding at all the decadent ideological and cultural positions still held by the bourgeoisie [white supremacists, Occupy Wall Street 1%ers] and the remnants of feudalism [capitalist slavery].”
  2. “Comrade Mao Zedong has often told us that the ideological struggle against the bourgeoisie is a protracted [8/2014, Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO riots; 4/2015, Freddie Gray, Baltimore riots] class struggle which cannot be resolved by drawing hasty political conclusions.”
  3. “Just when we began the counter-offensive against the wild attacks of the bourgeoisie, the authors raised the slogan: ‘everyone is equal before the truth’[All Lives Matter]. This is a bourgeois slogan. Completely negating the class nature of truth, they use this slogan to protect the bourgeoisie and oppose the proletariat, oppose Marxism-Leninism, and oppose Mao Zedong’s thought.”
  4. “Chairman Mao often says that there is no construction without destruction. Destruction means criticism and repudiation; it means revolution [’fundamentally transform America,’ ‘Don’t let a crisis go to waste’].  It involves reasoning things out, which is construction. Put destruction first [Defund the Police], and in the process you have construction. Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong’s thought, was founded and has constantly developed in the course of the struggle to destroy bourgeois ideology.”
  5. “Our country is now in an upsurge of the great proletarian Cultural[Cancel Culture] Revolution which is pounding at all the decadent ideological and cultural positions still held by the bourgeoisie, and the remnants of feudalism[slavery, inequitable wealth distribution].
  6. “The basic Marxist thesis is that all class struggles are political struggles.” 

America’s Cancel Culture Movement

Which links into this document:

In May, 2007, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a 92pp. report, dated 6 October 1967, entitled “Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Origin and Development,” that chronicles the early years (65-67) of China’s Cultural Revolution.

Its thesis was this:

“This working paper of the DD/I Special Research Staff is an attempt to reconstruct the history of China’s ‘great proletarian Cultural revolution.  It presents the thesis that China’s ‘cultural revolution’ is in reality a political revolution designed by Mao Zedong to test the entire apparatus of power (party, government and army) in Communist China and to purge it of all found guilty of opposing his leadership and his programs”

A similar effort to reconstruct the history of American is driving the current political revolution that is America’s Cancel Culture Movement, street-led by America’s Red Guards, who self-admittedly present a combined effort of two groups driven by Communist ideology. That make no effort to hide that bias.

Cancel Culture is no more about the death of George Floyd than Ferguson was about Michael Brown’s death, nor the riots in Baltimore were about the death of Freddie Gray—riots to which then Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s response meant she “Gave Those Who Wished to Destroy Space to Do That.”  She had the Baltimore PD stand-down. Likewise, Mao retrained his police.

The parallels between Mao’s Cultural Revolution and America’s Cancel Culture movement are not all hard-wired, but they do exist.

Mao used his Red Guards the same way the American Progressive Left is using today’s BLM/Antifa rioters

The 1967 CIA study concluded that the Cultural Revolution was the “final test of the loyalty and trustworthiness of his old ‘comrades-in-arms’…Mao apparently decided at this time to initiate a rectification-purge campaign of a new type—directed at ‘old comrades’ and ‘high-ranking cadres’ holding positions of authority, designed to make the Chinese party, the government apparatus, the military and ultimately the Chinese people once more responsive to his will…The time had come to initiate a massive rectification-purge of the Chinese Communist party as a whole, a purge more extensive and violent than any since the founding of the Chinese People’s Republic in 1949.”

Mao used his Red Guards the same way the American Progressive Left is using today’s BLM/Antifa rioters: To create chaos, disorder and destruction.

Quoting from the CIA 1967 study:

“The Red Guards were in certain respects well suited to discharge the most important task assigned them, that of serving as a combat force, as the army of Mao’s cultural revolution…The very same qualities—of pugnacity, naivete and fanaticism—of its youthful members, however, would soon split the Red Guard organization, gravely impairing its effectiveness as an instrument for purging the party.”

Today’s Democrats are using rioters more disciplined and manageable than were Mao’s. But they can go too far.

For example, the long ordeal in Seattle subsided, not because the Seattle Police Department was released to enforce the law. Not because of pressure from the Seattle citizenry to bring order. It subside only after protestors marched to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house.  That made Jenny mad. And Chad/Chop/Chaz was closed down.

Granted, the foundation of America’s Red Guards and the Cancel Culture Movement is not as easily traced as is the CCP’s sponsorship of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

But, given the vitriol against the current American President. Given the animosity toward anyone who supports him. Given the Cancel Culture support from Blue State governors, attorney generals, and mayors. All, coincidentally, happening in the midst of a pandemic, on the cusp of a November General Election. When taken together, it suggests that this episode in American history was not planned, funded, and directed by the Knights of Columbus.

Jul 22 2020

Prayerful Pelosi Wants To Fumigate Trump Out Of White House


In her delusions of grandeur of “being second in line” for the presidency, she’s a walking television caricature for Johnson & Johnson bug spray Raid that “kills all the bugs that bug you”

Judi McLeod imageRe-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Prayerful Pelosi Wants To Fumigate Trump Out Of White House

Desperado Democrats—who still defiantly want to believe that the 2016 election of Hillary Clinton was inevitable—are showing signs that they do not really believe election polls indicating that the election of Joe Biden as president is inevitable.

They’re falling apart at the seams the closer they get to Election 2020.

Instead of pushing the narrative that Joe Biden WILL win, they’re fretting about ‘What IF President Donald Trump won’t leave the White House after Biden’s elected—AND HAS TO BE FUMIGATED OUT?!’

Pelosi:  Trump is leaving the White House, “whether he knows it yet or not,” even if he “has to be fumigated.”

You can’t make this stuff up—only House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can when she’s being interviewed by Mika Brzezinski.

“In a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) weighed in on the possibility of President Donald Trump refusing to leave the White House if he loses to presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden. (Breitbart, July 20, 2020)

The thought of Donald Trump winning again in 2020 is driving the Dems even more deranged than they were after Hillary’s humiliating loss in 2016.

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski asked Pelosi about Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and said the president did not say one way or the other if he would leave. (Breitbart)

Never mind that he hasn’t even been defeated yet!

“According to Pelosi, Trump is leaving the White House, “whether he knows it yet or not,” even if he “has to be fumigated.”

“The fact is whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving,” Pelosi told Brzezinski. “Just because he might not want to move out of the White House doesn’t mean we won’t have an inauguration ceremony to inauguration a duly elected President of the United States. And you know, I’m second in line to the presidency just last week I had my regular continuation of government briefing. This might interest you because I say to them, this is never going to happen, God willing it never will, but there is a process. It has nothing to do with the certain occupant of the White House doesn’t feel like moving and has to be fumigated out of there because the presidency is the presidency. (Breitbart)

“It’s not geography or location so, so much for him. I wouldn’t spend so much time on it that’s a victory for him because then we’re not talking about your first, more important subject, which is, what are we going to do to stop this vicious virus that is making an assault on our health, again, our lives, our livelihood and life of our democracy.”

Pelosi can’t count.  The presidency lineup is as follows:  president, vice president and speaker of the house—which would make her third, not second in line.

“Just because he might not want to move out of the White House doesn’t mean we won’t have an inauguration ceremony to inauguration a duly elected President of the United States.”

President Trump was duly elected by 63 million voters, and a one million strong Washington Women’ March followed one day after his inauguration.

Why would Joe Biden be hypothetically more “duly elected” than was Donald Trump?

Pelosi wants everyone other than herself to quit speculating about the realities of the 2020 election outcome— but wants all hands on deck “to stop this vicious virus that is making an assault on our health, again, our lives, our livelihood and life of our democracy.”

In her delusions of grandeur of “being second in line” for the presidency, she’s a walking television caricature for Johnson & Johnson bug spray Raid that “kills all the bugs that bug you”. In her case, President Donald Trump.

Meantime, Pelosi should calm down and wait for Election Day, just like the rest of us are doing .

Jul 22 2020

Revealing the Moral Bankruptcy of BLM


Where’s the moral outrage over this senseless murder? Yet, defunding the police is the answer from the BLM terrorist gangs

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Re-posted from The Conservative Tree House By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Revealing the Moral Bankruptcy of BLM

The blatant violence in a majority of cities in the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd was supposed to be the moral foundation for protesting the wrongful murder of George Floyd. But, this is an illusion. A horrible illusion. If all Black Lives Matter, where are the serious nationwide protests over the 20 million+ black babies that have been killed since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision? There is no one in the Black Lives Matter terrorist organization that has even uttered any credible concern over the genocide of aborting black babies. Likely, they would not because both Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood are funded heavily by George Soros, and even an evil house divided cannot stand. But, this is an absolutely blatant hypocrisy and it demonstrates zero moral integrity.

If all black lives do not matter to Black Lives Matter members and supporters (yes supporters, as in those corporations that donate to BLM) then the name is as fake as the cause. It is quite possible to justify a lie by stating that the opposition to your cause is “conservative,” or “white hate speech,” or “corrupt white privilege advocates,” or “Nazis,” or whatever the buzz words may be that are designed to initiate an emotional distrust, or outright hatred of the “opposition.” It is not actually a justification of the lie, but rather a justification for lying by marginalizing one’s opponents—clever communist tactic. If all black lives, or all lives do truly matter, why leave anyone out? If all black lives do not matter to Black Lives Matter members, the name is as   fake as the “cause.”

Additionally, at the beginning of this month, the nation celebrated the Independence Day holiday, but there was a killing spree of young people, black and white, over that weekend because in many cities across the nation, the police had their hands tied by their autocratic Democrat Overlords. Where were the serious widespread protests over the 10 innocents who lost their lives then? Will four year old Carson Walker be remembered? He was four years old! The suspect in the shooting on July 4th is a young black man. Because a black baby lost his life, it does not matter. Because the alleged shooter was black? The silence from BLM is overwhelming!

Who went to the BLM protest over the killing of six-year-old Jace Young of San Francisco, California? No one went to such a protest because there was none. That did not fit into the narrative that Black Lives Matter when a black man happens to be killed by a white police officer. There is no moral consistency here. Jace Young was six! He was shot in an act of senseless violence while watching a fireworks display in a Bayview neighborhood. Local   media carried the story and quoted his dad, Jason Young, in an interview after the killing: “Y’all don’t understand how hard it is in this city, how hard it is in these Black communities to have to get up and have to pick one of your loved ones up and pick your families up after this stuff happens to your family…

“This ain’t right,” he said. “My son was different. My son was different. He was going to be somebody.”

According to his aunt Ayofemi Bryant, “He was the most perfect child. He was so sweet. He loved to read. He loved computers. He just loved learning.”

Of course, the lame mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, took the opportunity to speak of the incident and had the audacity to mention BLM during the efforts the family made to seek justice over the death of their innocent little boy. Breed questioned: “Where is the outrage? If this boy was not Black, it would’ve been a whole other story. Let’s remember that when we talk about Black Lives Matter, this boy’s life mattered,”  .

Indeed, where was the outrage expressed from representatives of BLM at this public forum? There was no representative, no chants, no marches, no violence on Jace Young’s behalf.

Yet, Mayor Breed became dramatic at the event: “No more funerals, no more death, no more destruction in the Black community. We have a chance to do something different.”

Yet, the “doing something different” is the BLM answer: defund the police. And, recently in mid-July, Mayor London Breed has called for partially defunding the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and reinvesting the money back into San Francisco’s Black community. She intends to replace SFPD officers with unarmed trained “professionals.” Insanity runs like a virus through the Democrat Party. It is unlikely masks will help. This is another demonstration of a genuine absence of morality when politics devolves into a blind mantra devoid of good common sense.

How many thousands attended the BLM protests for seven-year—old Natalie Wallace, who was fatally shot in the head on July 4th? The answer is that BLM members have probably no idea   of who this little girl was—nor does it matter to them. She was not killed by a white policeman. She was another innocent victim of a senseless shooting in Chicago over the July 4th weekend. The reports were that Natalie was simply standing on the sidewalk outside her grandmother’s home when the murder suspects got out of a car and just started shooting.

Where’s the moral outrage over this senseless murder? Yet, defunding the police is the answer from the BLM terrorist gangs.

Another damning horror story involving BLM and their intolerance of those who question their mantra or their morality is the incident in which a 24-year-old mother of a young child was shot in the head on July 5th in Indiana. Jessica Doty Whitaker was shot dead in Indianapolis simply because she had the audacity to stand up to BLM supporters and claim that “all lives matter.” So, where was the outrage from the white community? Where were the marches? Where were the protestors in Indianapolis, or in any cities across America because of such a senseless murder? No White Lives Matter movement? No. Conservatives and Christians don’t rampage through city streets, destroying other people’s property, or tearing down statues of Malcom X,  or killing people senselessly.

Americans are being bullied – Americans of all skin colors are being intimidated by BLM bullies. They will get in your face, they will get nasty and insult you, they will harass you, they will march and protest, but not peacefully, they will permit the anarchists and the looters to run wild through the city streets. They will allow, will inspire, or will perpetrate indiscriminate violence, no matter who gets in their way. This is immoral, no matter what lame excuse or defense can be offered to protect them. BLM is simply a name. BLM portrays itself as one thing, but they are entirely not what they portray themselves to be – even defenders of Black lives would be worth it. But, their leaders do not demonstrate that all Black lives matter. It is a fake name and a fake cause.

The real radical was Jessica Doty Whitaker. Whitaker had the audacity to exercise her God- given freedom of speech. In a highly symbolic act, she gave her life to reveal the rest of us the genuine moral bankruptcy of BLM. She is a true martyr in the fight to hold onto our God-given freedoms.  Jessica Whitaker was absolutely right. All lives matter – always!

Jul 22 2020

Another Crushing Blow to the Climate Fearmongers


Internationally-known climate alarmist defects

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—July 21, 2020

Michael Schellenberger

On his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative commentator Dennis Prager recently interviewed someone most people have never heard of: Michael Schellenberger. A passionate defender of the planet, the 49-year-old environmentalist is shown below in a picture taken in 1995 in Maranhão, Brazil.

A TIME magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award recipient, Schellenberger is a lifelong Democrat and environmental activist. An internationally respected energy expert, he has been asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and was invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as an Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Scientific American, Schellenberger has been one of the world’s most vocal environmental alarmists for the last 30 years.

On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare

That was then.

In a 180-degree turn after realizing he’d participated in the two greatest scientific scandals in history — man-made global warming theory and renewable energy — Schellenberger is now offering a full-throated apology for assisting the climate fear industry in its relentless campaign to win support for draconian cutbacks in fossil fuel energy by terrorizing people of the world with hysterical claims of imminent climate collapse. 

The most high profile victim of that terror campaign was brainwashed with horrifying climate propaganda when she was eight.  Nine years later and now a true believer, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has become a deeply traumatized young woman, as shown in this 48-sec. clip.  Shellenberger’s website reports a survey showing that one in five children in the UK are suffering nightmares about Earth’s ever-changing climate.

Schellenberger, who believes nuclear energy is the only feasible way to reduce reliance on fossil fuels without crashing western economies, formally announced his mea culpa in an article titled, “On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare.” The article was published by Forbes, only to be taken down three days later without explanation, which shows that the dying climate fear industry still has enough clout to silence dissenting views. Schellenberger’s article, which I highly recommend, can be seen on his website.

Here are a few of his observations, each of which undercuts climate propaganda used to terrorize children (future voters) and other easily indoctrinated people:

  • Climate change is happening, but it’s not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
  • Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction.” Habitat loss and the killing of wild animals for food and body parts are greater threats to endangered species than climate change.
  • The Amazon is not the “lungs of the Earth.”
  • Fires around the world have declined 25% since 2003. The combination of a build-up of natural fuel (dead trees, underbrush) plus more houses near forests, not climate change, is why California and Australia recently experienced catastrophic fires.

Bottom Line: We’ve Been Fed a Pack of Lies

Bottom Line: We’ve Been Fed a Pack of Lies

Their apocalyptic predictions having failed to materialize for decades on end, the climate fear lobby defaulted to one of the Third Reich’s most effective propaganda techniques. Known as the “Big Lie,” it goes like this: If you’re going to lie, make it a Big Lie, keep repeating it and people will believe it. One of their biggest Big Lies is the terrifying claim that coastal cities face imminent demise due to global warming.

At the 2014 New York Times’ DealBook conference, Al Gore said, “I was in Miami a few weeks ago, and on a sunny day, fish from the ocean were swimming in some of the streets.”  In attempting to frighten voters to think the entire city would soon be submerged, Gore blamed the incident on melting ice caused by global warning.

No so.

According to Miami’s TV7 News, the National Weather Service attributed the flooding to a combination of causes, primarily “high astronomical tides due to the lunar cycle.” In other words, melting ice from global warming didn’t cause the flooding.  The moon did.

Like other coastal cities, Miami does have issues with flooding.  But despite Gore’s doomsday preachings, the city’s contemporary coastline appears the same as it did nearly a hundred years ago.  The side by side comparison below is from Schellenberger’s website, and is used here with his permission.

Miami Beach: Then and Now

Miami Beach: Then and Now

 

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Al Gore: Elmer Gantry of “saving the planet”

Shellenberger’s must-read new book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All,” comes on the heels of another crushing blow to the climate fearmongers. Earlier this year, Michael Moore’s jaw-dropping “Planet of the Humans” was released. The feature length documentary, which can be seen for free on YouTube, exposes “renewable energy” for what it is: a brazen environmental hoax that’s done little more than pour billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Al Gore and other climate snake oil salesmen.

The increasingly discredited theory that human use of fossil fuels is rapidly destroying the planet is also a hoax, which I wrote about in “The Cynical Plot behind Global Warming Hysteria.” Despite what’s reported by the corrupt western media establishment, renewable energy and AGW theory are not about saving the planet. They’re about amassing wealth and authoritarian political power in the hands of a few.

Some additional words about the Elmer Gantry of “saving the planet”

Global movements that demand trillions of dollars in new taxes should be judged by the credibility of their most outspoken advocates. In the environmental arena, no one is more outspoken than Al Gore. Few insiders have personally profited from the renewable energy scam more than the former vice president.

When he left office in 2001, his net worth was estimated at $1 million to $2 million. Since then, his wealth has skyrocketed to $300 million, and if the climate change legislation he advocates is enacted, he stands to become a billionaire. Much of his enviable fortune has come as an inside investor in government-backed renewable energy projects, many of which went belly-up, but not before politically connected insiders made off with millions, leaving hardworking U.S. taxpayers stuck with the bill.

Like all wealthy eco-preachers, the Elmer Gantry of renewable energy uses his immense wealth to indulge in lavish living. When asked by Rep. Marsha Blackburn during his 2009 testimony before Congress whether he personally profits from his advocacy of global warming, Pastor Al professed a vow of poverty: “Every penny I have made I have put into a non-profit deal, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge. And Congresswoman, if you believe the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is out of greed, you do not know me.” If you’ve never seen the tense encounter, you do not want to miss it:

Turned out Rep. Blackburn knows him quite well. As the proud owner of a gargantuan green energy fortune, Pastor Al looked her squarely in the eye and denied making even a penny of profit. If every penny he makes goes into a non-profit deal, how did he end up with $300 million? The same way his alter ego pilfered money from the Lord: by concealing his true stripes.

Please consider buying a copy of Michael Schellenberger’s important new book and sharing his pro-nuclear energy message with your friends.

Jul 22 2020

COVID Tests are Deliberately Being Used for Political Purposes


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Re-Posted Jul 22, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

There is MASSIVE fraud taking place in COVID-19 reporting, which is clearly occurring for political purposes and should be declared a criminal act. I know people who signed up to be tested but never received a test because the line was too long. They subsequently were told they tested POSITIVE when they never were tested. Then people were recorded as POSITIVE when they only tested to see if they had antibodies.

During the Panic of 1869, the government managed to crash gold from the $162 level (reached during the Jim Fisk era), and the US Treasury deliberately used the same tactic to force gold lower. The US Secretary of the Treasury George Sewall Boutwell announced that the federal government had made $4 million of its gold reserves available for trading. This was an excessive amount, which they did not actually have at the time. Nevertheless, the announcement broke the back of the gold ring and prices collapsed. Only later did the Treasury admit that they had made a “mistake” in the amount of gold that would be released in their press statement. Instead of $4 million, the amount was actually only $400,000. Real or not, the statement by the US Treasury caused gold to collapse abruptly, bringing the price from $162 to $133 within 15 minutes. This is the very same tactic being used with COVID. The fake numbers get the headlines, and then the revision is never noticed. They accomplish the intended political impact, and nobody is ever held accountable.

Jul 22 2020

Was Genoa the Best form of Government?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics

Re-Posted Jul 22, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Genoa 1481

COMMENT: Dear Martin,

Thank you for your work.
It is not anymore about the economy but about surviving through the mayhem that is on the horizon.
Thank you for doing your part in sharing what you know, for being bold and for
not bending.
I was taught to go after ” independent thinking” and I have followed you for years because of that even though we have different political views.
I appreciate and listen to you because you are an independent thinker.

Send you a hug
Dr. FB from, Spain.

REPLY: Thank you. I believe you must question what is happening and you should NEVER presume the direction or outcome. Some people do not understand my position politically. I am neither Democrat nor Republican. There are aspects I agree and disagree with both. I understand the thinking of what went into the construction of the U.S. Constitution and the mistake the Founding Fathers made — they failed to consider human nature.

Much of the structure was based upon their misunderstanding of the Roman Republican era v Roman Imperial era. They presumed that monarchy was bad and ASSUMED that a Republic was better. They wrongly took the fake news of the day put out by Cicero, painting Julius Caesar as evil, when it was the Optimates led by Cato who were corrupt. Their misunderstanding of history and the true events of the time led even to the naming of the Cato Institute as if he really stood for the people.

The best form of government I have ever encountered was that of the Italian city of Genoa from which Christopher Columbus came. The city was ruled by a Doge (president), who was a member of one of the richest families. This position rotated among the families, but its duration was that of the old Roman Dictator who would be appointed for one year. BECAUSE the position rotated, no Doge would ever impose a draconian law since he and his family would be subjected to it the next year. There was no class warfare because they ran Genoa like a corporation, competing against Florence and Venice, and thus EVERYONE benefited.

This is also why I tend to trust Trump more than any other career politician of either party because he will return to the private sector. A career politician is simply taken care of for life and has nothing to return to. We are the lower class scum to be exploited and disrespected.

 

My bottom-line political philosophy is that the “We the People” should be in charge directly — not career politicians, EVER!. You have your bureaucrats who run the government who are accountable to the people directly. I do not support people like Soros or Bill Gates using their money to take over huge swaths of government. The office of Inspector General is only a symbolic gesture to the old Roman Tribunus plebis, tribune of the people, who could bring charges against any government official. That power should be restored. I do not support “Republics” nor career politicians that can be bought and paid for.