Monthly Archives: February 2021

Feb 6 2021

Fox News Cancels Lou Dobbs – Their Number One FBN Show


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 5, 2021 by Sundance

There is only one-way to look at this announcement…. corporate U.S. media is in the tank for the cancel-culture policy against all things President Trump related.  P.e.r.i.o.d.

Lou Dobbs has retained the #1 show on FBN for years.  He was/is also a staunch advocate fore President Trump and the “America-First” policies against the interests of Wall Street.  Lou Dobbs was, is, and will always be, a friend of the Treehouse. A Great American !

[LA Times] – Fox News has canceled “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” the program hosted by television’s staunchest supporter of Donald Trump and of his assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election, The Times has learned.

Dobbs’ program, which airs twice nightly at 5 and 7 p.m. Eastern on the Fox Business Network, will have its final airing Friday, according to a Fox News representative who confirmed the cancellation. Starting next week, the program will be called “Fox Business Tonight,” with rotating substitute hosts Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman, who filled in for Dobbs on Friday.

Dobbs, 75, remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company’s networks again. In addition to his Fox Business Network program, he occasionally turned up on the Fox News Channel as a commentator.

The cancellation comes a day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News and three of its hosts — Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.  (read more)

Interestingly…. notice who Smartmatic did not sue, Tucker Carlson; providing further evidence of what many -including us- have long suspected… Carlson is controlled opposition.

Also notice that Fox did not give Dobbs an opportunity to say farewell… They are worried about what he would say.   Additionally, they want his voice removed before the ridiculous impeachment next week.  I am furious… A pox on all their networks !

Lou Dobbs was/is a no-BS guy who had a great way of cutting through the nonsense and looking at current events from the common-sense perspective.  That is why he was always successful.  In addition, Dobbs held no fear about confronting Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable and any corporate media who attempted to deflect away from the epicenter of the issues.

Dobbs will be missed, and hopefully his voice will land again in a place where we can go to listen and share his common-sense analysis.  If he broadcasts, they (MAGA) will come.

Feb 6 2021

Now They Move – Leftist Groups Assemble to Re-Target Catherine Englebrecht and True The Vote


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 5, 2021 by Sundance

If there was one piece of advice CTH wishes the Trump campaign had taken seriously it was our advice to enlist Catherine Englebrecht in the spring of 2020 and use the expertise of her group, “True The Vote”, to position defenses for the November election.  Alas…

TTV is a national network of patriots that Ms. Catherine Englebrecht spear-headed; this group is a risk to the leftist election schemes.  TTV knows with specific specialty just how to avoid election manipulation and fraud.  As a direct result, now that the 2020 election is past the leftist groups are targeting True The Vote.

[SUPPORT TRUE THE VOTE HERE]

A complaint has been lodged [pdf here] with the IRS to revoke the non-profit status of True The Vote.  The complaint is written by the consortium of leftists which includes the always visible Lawfare group members.

Weaponizing the IRS is a familiar tactic.  Ironically, it was Ms. Englebrecht’s targeting by the IRS that initially gained her the public spotlight as she fought back on behalf of the American voters. The IRS was forced to settle a class action lawsuit.

Catherine Englebrecht is a national heroine for her efforts despite the incredible attacks by a fully weaponized government against her family and business interests.  Look up strength, perseverance and wolverine-spirit and you should see a picture of Englebrecht under the definition…. Yes, she is that good….. and that is why she is a risk.

Here’s the complaint: [pdf here and embed below]

MAY 2020: CTH WARNING…

Feb 6 2021

Video Documentary – The Pre-Planned Capitol Hill Protest and Riot Narrative Exposed


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 5, 2021 by Sundance

From the producer: “The simulated riots in DC was a powder-keg long in the making. The evidence for pre-planning and setting up a situation for disaster is overwhelming. In this episode, we’re going to show you how a little stage direction and fake blood became an instrumental role in furthering the division of the nation. Strap yourselves in- it’s going to be a bumpy ride… down the Babbitt hole.”

Feb 6 2021

Interesting Admissions – Lawfare Outlined as Part of ‘Secret Campaign Group’ Coordinating to Influence 2020 Election


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 5, 2021 by Sundance

“CABAL“: the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also: a group engaged in such schemes…

In a rather remarkable article today [Time Article Here] there is an interesting outline of several leftist groups who aligned to influence the 2020 election.  One of the interesting aspects is their admission to secret and close coordination with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; a notorious Wall Street-focused multinational lobbying outfit.

According to the article the U.S. CoC (Tom Donohue Inc.) had an agreement with big labor (AFL-CIO Richard Trumpka etc.) to coordinate their efforts to remove the “America-First” agenda represented by President Trump.  Their alignment was essentially a predictable outcome as both groups rely on Big Government and multinational corporate favoritism.

TIME – […] “the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.”

Joining with the Corporate effort were left-wing activist groups, and specifically mentioned is Norm Eisen, ie. “Team Lawfare”.  Eisen was the lead democrat surrogate amid the original impeachment effort.

[…] Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.

[…] “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats… (read more)

The article solidifies our previous CTH research on the influence of the Lawfare group amid the cabal effort. After the 2018 mid-terms, and in preparation for the “impeachment” strategy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler hired Lawfare group members to become House committee staff.

In 2018 Chairman Adam Schiff hired former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman (link).  You probably saw Goldman doing the questioning for Schiff during the first public impeachment hearing (above).  Meanwhile Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler hired Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen and criminal defense attorney Barry Berke (link).

After Goldman, Eisen and Berke were brought on board Speaker Nancy Pelosi then hired Douglas Letter as House General Counsel – all are within the Lawfare network.
This move -to allow House Counsel to bring on additional legal assistance for the impeachment effort- means Doug Letter will be able to hire more lawyers.

Many people surmised that Pelosi and Schiff moved to utilize the Ukraine/NSC impeachment angle *after* the Mueller angle for impeachment ran into trouble. However, CTH research never reflected the Whistle-blower impeachment plan as an ‘add-on’.

Instead, what we saw was the use of the HPSCI; and the use of embeds within National Security Council staff; by design.  The Schiff events were always part of a prior planned design.

Only two committees hired Lawfare staff in 2018: Judiciary (Eisen & Berke) and HPSCI (Goldman).  This evidences a 2018 plan to use the Judiciary and HPSCI for the impeachment process as designed by the Lawfare contractors.  This design is also outlined in the year of public advice from the mother-ship, Lawfare.

The impeachment crew always planned to use the House Intelligence Committee; and they always planned to use activated sleeper cells within the National Security Staff.  None of this was organic; none of the action was contingent upon a Trump phone call.  The whistle-blower approach was always going to be used; the only issue was: ‘how’?

What Pelosi/Schiff et al assembled was a format for a highly controlled public spectacle prior to a predetermined transfer of evidence to Jerry Nadler (Judicary); with the intent to construct a pantomime for public absorption in mind, the impeachment rules were written for maximum narrative construction. [ex. Lawfare lawyers questioning witnesses]

[Barry Berke, left and Norm Eisen, right – pictured exiting the HSCI scif with Jerry Nadler on the same day Pelosi’s “Impeachment Inquiry” Resolution was released, 10/29/19]
Feb 5 2021

Conspiracy Theory & Great Reset


Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Feb 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Do you say that the COVID pandemic is a hoax?

FR

ANSWER: Look, there are people who are deliberately calling anyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorist so they never have to answer anything. There are people who have had COVID. I have had a cousin who got it and my neighbors got it. It exists. The problem is that we have a situation where it has been so blown out of proportion when the death rate is just 0.02% compared to nearly 3% for the Spanish Flu, and then you have all of a sudden world leaders using the COVID lockdowns to Build Back Better which was a marketing slogan that was used at Davos. This is like I rob you on the street at gunpoint, take everything you have, and then say here is $5 for a bus ride home because I care! It has been the politicians who imposed lockdowns that NEVER in 6,000 years of human history has ANY government locked down its entire population. The destruction has been political and Build Back Better is the $5 for the bus ride home. You have people in government actually talking about imposing lockdowns for Climate Change.

If you want to believe that COVID, Climate Change, and Lockdowns are all entirely separate from BUILD BACK BETTER, then that is your problem. A conspiracy theory is MAKING UP things from questionable data. Here we have outright hard data and statements made but world leaders all mouthing the same agenda. We have instantly Biden shutting down pipelines and John Kerry telling miners to learn how to make solar panels. The lockdowns and militarization of Washington are not worried Trump supporters will storm the capital to take selfies again. They are worried about a revolution when the people see how many jobs are being lost PERMANENTLY and how these people are conspiring against the people to create a different world that was NEVER explained to the people or allowed them to vote on something that would change their entire future. And you call this democracy?

Media shutting down free speech is to also to prevent any organization that would rise up into a revolution. They have been promised international backing and they will put traditional banks out of business. BigTech sees the power to overthrow the banks. They have promised worldwide that they want everyone in the banking system to end paper money, which is over 1 billion people (just read the IMF).  So their shutting down of all opponents is not part of a conspiracy either? It’s just some random act they came up with for no reason when section 230 says they have no responsibility? And Zuckerberg spent $419 million to defeat Trump but that too had nothing to do with anything else whatsoever?

They know that the majority of people are sheep. They also know that the most powerful tool is the fear of death – no matter how remote. The media like CNN broadcasted every day how many people died of COVID never mentioning that more people were dying in car crashed and other diseases because they were denied health care because COVID took priority. The average person will wake up and smell the coffee only after they have lost their jobs, the price of fuel goes so high they cannot afford to commute to a job if they could find one, and others will become what they already talked about at Davos – the coming “Useless Class” and that is a direct quote!

Feb 5 2021

Is Benioff Cheering the Demise of his Client Base?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Stock Indicies Re-Posted Feb 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

It is unfortunate that Salesforce is a Dow stock. Its head, Marc Benioff, is a board member of the World Economic Forum. They have interestingly introduced vaccine monitoring. We have to start scrutinizing every company that has struck any partnership with the World Economic Forum.

Our timing models called for the Directional Change during the last quarter of 2020. That indeed signaled a near-term correction. The critical technical support has held so far during the 1st quarter, which was 211.39, and the stock fell to the 212 level. But looking ahead, we still see July/August this year as critical periods in time but long-term, turning points both in 2022 and 2024 in line with the Economic Confidence Model.

What Benioff has failed to realize is that the entire agenda of the World Economic Forum is to alter capitalism and in the process, he is cheering the demise of his own customers. As unemployment rise, we will see the earning of Salesforce decline. This is where the personal beliefs of the CEO should never be intermixed with the performance of the company. His support for STAKEHOLDER economics of Schwab means he cares more about the Schwab agenda than shareholders. This is not a company you may want to have in your portfolio as political risks will attach to those companies in league with Schwab into 2024.

Feb 5 2021

Direct Democracy


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Feb 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong,

You wrote a few times in both blogs about “trying Direct Democracy” lately.

I can see how powerful technology capacity currently available can support such change.

What I have problems to envision is how the mechanic would work integrating local, city, regional, county, provincial, state, and country various levels of concerns.

What most jurisdiction have today is some form of top-down approach which leaves the people out of any decision.

Direct Democracy would be a revolution by itself turning around the whole thing 180 degree!!!

Could it possibly work for the entire planet to address issues such as climate change, poverty, rogue regime, migration, etc. ?

Time permitted, I would like to read your thoughts about the concept in the 21st century.

Thanks for your enlightening work,

LT

Toronto, Canada

REPLY: If we can buy online with no problem, we should be able to vote the same way. You then cross-reference each vote to the tax database. If they never filed a tax form, then they cannot vote. Locally, it can be linked to your local tax records since we have direct taxation. Those who do not have a computer can do so from their phone or go to the public town hall. Without direct democracy, there will be no trust in government ever again. That is a death blow to the system we now have.

Switzerland has the closest thing to a direct democracy so far.

There are three instruments of direct democracy; all types of referendums: mandatory, popular initiative, and optional. A vote must be held on any amendment to the constitution resulting in a mandatory referendum. A double majority, meaning the consent of a majority of the people and of the cantons, is required to amend the country’s constitution.

Citizens can launch a popular initiative to demand a change to the constitution. Any Swiss citizen who is eligible to vote can sign a popular initiative and a group of at least seven citizens (the initiative committee) can launch their own popular initiative. Before a vote is held on a popular initiative, the initiative committee must collect 100,000 valid signatures in favor of the proposal within a period of 18 months.

The Federal Council and Parliament will recommend whether the proposal should be accepted or rejected. For the proposal to be accepted, a double majority is needed. If it is accepted, new legislation or an amendment to the existing legislation is normally required to implement the new constitutional provision.

Other nations can change their constitutions on a vote of the representative and the people never are even asked. That to me is a very dangerous distinction. For example, in Canada, they passed an act whereby the representatives can cancel all currency at their pleasure and force the people into digital currency. The people are NEVER consulted. That is not democracy. It is tyranny.

Feb 5 2021

Jason Kennedy is Defending Career Politicians v His Own People


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted Feb 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Jason Kenney takes on COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in Facebook ‘rant’

Jason Kennedy, the Premier of Alberta, Canada, has just totally reversed himself in what is being called a “rant” and has aligned himself with career politicians who do not represent the people or the future of Alberta. Previously, he admitted that the Great Reset was real. Now suddenly, it’s all a conspiracy theory. Someone really needs to ask him if Klaus Schwab sent him his book? I know that he sent his book to every world leader, governor/premier of every state or province, in every country around the world.

Kennedy himself is most likely not one of the elites who has conspired with Schwab nor was he probably bribed. He has adopted the draconian lockdowns simply under peer-pressure. Previously, the CDC said that vaccinating only 25% of the population is sufficient to reduce the flu. Now all of a sudden, Fauci claims 85% of the population must be vaccinated but never offers any science just opinion. Now we have people even talking about denying you employment or travel if you refuse to be vaccinated. Why is COVID so different when the death toll is no worse than any other flu except that of 1918?

The world population in 1968 was about 3.5 billion and 1 million people died from the flu. That was about a 0.028% death rate and they did not lock down the world economy and in fact, Woodstock took place that year. Today, they claim the 2.2 million have died worldwide, yet the population of the world is now 7.8 billion. That is still just 0.028%. The 1918 flu they claim up to 50 million dies worldwide with a population of only 1.8 billion. That meant that the death toll was 2.7% and they did not close the economy and destroyed small businesses and jobs.

Jason Kennedy has imposed drac0nian measures not because of any science, but because of peer pressure. That is not a leader. As we head into 2022, what these politicians have done is created their own version of #MeToo and have been against Donald Trump because he was a “populist” who threatened career politicians. There will most likely be a target of the heads of every career politician come 2022 to be voted out of office if they allow real fair elections. Kennedy is a disgrace to the people of Alberta. He forgot who elected him – not his peers unless they control the voting machines.

Feb 5 2021

New York Times Called for “Reality Czar” to Imprison Anyone they Claim is Stating Fake News?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Press Re-Posted Feb 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The New York Times has called on President Biden to create a “Reality Czar” to shut down all dissent, which they immediately label conspiracy theories without any real investigation. In 1924, the New York Times was pushing that we were heading into a new Ice Age. Was that disinformation? CNN has called on cable companies to drop Fox News.

The New York Times cheered Stalin and constantly reported that this was the way to the future. They are supporting once again this move to a Marxist Utopia. The New York Times hid the truth about Stalin. His great economic miracle was achieved by taking all the food from Ukraine to pretend Communism was working in Russia causing over 7 million to starve to death.

I strongly recommend you watch the movie Mr. Jones. This exposes the TRUE STORY of how the New York Times tried to support Communism in the United States back then, with their top journalist, Walter Duranty (1884-1957), who was their main man in Moscow. The New York Times promoted him to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on how Communism was Utopia and our future. When Gareth Jones (1905-1935) in March 1933 reported this was all a lie, the truth finally began to appear.

It took the New York Times until 1990 to admit that their reporting covered up the truth about Stalin and the massive starvation in an effort, like Schwab, once again, to sell “equality” as our salvation. The New York Times covered up the more than 7 million people who died of starvation in the Ukraine famine. The New York Times wrote that their reporting on the Russian Revolution constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.” They never revoked his Pultizer Prize for writing fake news about Stalin.

The Homeland Security and the FBI both said that Russia’s hack of the DNC did not involve altering the vote. In fact, it was his own paper that reported on November 25, 2016: “The Obama administration said on Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election, it has concluded that the results “accurately reflect the will of the American people.” So was four years of stating the Russians put Trump in the White House not misinformation?

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The constant lies the press has spun about Russia invading the US elections in 2016 and manipulations seem intent upon creating war, exactly as took place with the Spanish American War. We have returned to yellow journalism, which is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Pulitzer and Hearst went head to head. I remember grade school history class blaming the Spanish American War on fake news. There is one such story that male Spanish officials were strip-searching American woman tourists in Cuba looking for claimed messages from rebels. This was the front page of Hearst’s newspaper showing what has become known as “yellow journalism” whereby the illustration was by Frederic Remington published in the New York Journal, February 12th, 1897.

Hearst’s New York Journal was called out for this fake news by its rival Joseph Pulitzer’s, New York World,  reporting that this story was erroneous and its graphically illustrated strip-search of a woman aboard U.S. passenger steamer was fake. The Journal article was written by Richard Harding Davis, who reported that Spanish authorities boarded the U.S. steamer, the Olivette, as it prepared to leave Havana and searched several passengers for contraband. Among the passengers was a young Cuban woman named Clemencia Arango, whose brother was a leader in the insurgency against Spanish rule. The Journal’s article was ambiguous, implying the woman was strip-searched by men, which was created by the accompanying illustration of Frederic Remington.

The New York World attacked the Journal’s fake news, quoting Arango as denying that men had strip-searched her. That task, she said, had fallen to a matron, or “inspectress.” The Journalist Davis, in a letter to the World, then blamed Frederic Remington for having drawn “an imaginary picture” and insisted his dispatch had not reported that men had conducted the search.

Nevertheless, this story of the strip-search discredited the Journal as being unreliable and prone to publishing “fakes” and other thinly documented reports. Welcome to the present where the New York Times and Washington Post seem to be carrying on in the same unreliable manner as well as ABC, CBS, NBC, and of course – CNN.

Fake news is not limited to the United States. The press has joined the governments 100% around the world.  Journalism is dead. It is now all about just indoctrination. The very foundation of democracy is to encourage a debate. But now, they just label the opposition as a conspiracy and condemn them. Since the New York Times supported Stalin and that whatever he did was for the greater good (see: film “Mr. Jones”), we should expect mainstream media to advocate terms of imprisonment for anyone who disagrees with their political views or objectives. This is shredding the Constitution and eliminating everything America once stood for. The press is finished.

Feb 5 2021

Did Retail Really Make GME Rally? Or where there others behind the trade?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re-Posted Feb 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: You seem to think that the Reddit people were just lucky. Is this the dawn of the little guy beating Wall Street?

GU

ANSWER: Look, this is our Global Market Watch for GME on a Quarterly Basis. The major low took place during the 2nd quarter of 2020. This is a pattern recognition model and while it picked the decline and the rally, most professionals trade technically. I cannot imagine any program that would have been calling for a short position even if you used a simple stochastic. Any technical trader would have been long. I highly doubt that this was simply novice retail people who crated this push. It has all the hallmarks of a professional manipulation and if the SEC does not investigate, you know that means the real hands in the cookie jar are behind the curtain.