Monthly Archives: May 2021

May 28 2021

Why BigTech are State Actors & Violate our Civil Rights


Armstrong Economics Blog/BigTech Re-Posted May 27, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

As many know, I lived in London years ago. At the upper end of Hyde Park by Marble Arch, there is Speakers’ Corner. That is where anyone could stand up and talk about anything that they wanted. You were free to listen or just walk away. There would often be a crowd, and that was not an indication that they agreed. It simply meant that the topic was curious, worth listening to or just entertaining crazy talk.

Speakers’ Corner even shows up on Google Maps, showing that this is indeed a landmark. What is important about this is that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, especially those who claim to be public forums, also claim they have the right to censor what you say or even think. Section 230 only gave them immunity from suit because someone posted something another did not like. In that context, it was a reasonable grant of immunity. It would be like suing the city of London because someone at Speakers’ Corner said something that offended you.

You cannot be a public forum by deleting people and canceling anyone you do not like. Speakers’ Corner in London is what these forums were supposed to be. If someone is a Nazi and hates Jews, so be it. They have a right to say that just as the rest of us have the right to shake our heads and walk away as in Hyde Park. It used to be an easy world. If someone was talking to themselves walking down the street, we just looked at them as being strange. We didn’t run to the police screaming we were offended by what the crazy person said. Today, people are walking down the street and talking perhaps to themselves, but then again, maybe they have an earpiece for a phone. Life has become much more complicated. Now it seems the crazy people are in charge of the forums in BigTech and they are saying we no longer have the right to free speech.

Facebook whistleblowers have leaked documents detailing the effort to censor vax concerns on a global scale secretly. None of this is legal for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all have connections to the left side of government and that means that they are acting in violation of the Constitution under the pretense of being private when in fact they are acting as agents of the state. This needs to go to trial and the jury will decide if these people are state actors. If so, then they are violating every principle of the Constitution.

The removal of Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier from the U.S. Space Force this month after he publicly stated his opposition to Marxism and Critical Race Theory is part of a very dangerous new wave of censorship that is transforming the United States into East Germany under the Communists. Speakers’ Corner was the very core of a free society which once stood in contrast to Communism and authoritarian forms of government. This is precisely what these people are resurrecting — the worst of human history.

May 28 2021

Vaccines Are for Sheep?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted May 27, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Hello Marty,

I hope you are well.

We are living in a “crazy” world. Some states are desperately trying to bribe people to get their poisonous shots. Here in Ohio, there is a program called, Ohio vax a million, where Ohio residents can have a “chance” to win a million dollars or full ride scholarship to the OSU once you get the vaccination! This program is led by the Ohio Department of Health!

Stay healthy.

KH

COMMENT #2: While NYC is bribing people with a 5 Million dollar lottery in Toronto, Ontario they are bribing children with free ice cream. At 3:00 minutes an emotional standoff between mothers and the police at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.

A

COMMENT #3: Marty, It’s amazing how the capitalist system has become so distorted, used by business and government alike, to manipulate people like lab rats. The failure of the vaccine campaign now is evident for all to see. The “carrot or the stick” approach.

States are rolling out lotteries to get people to get the jab, to boost vaccines, supposedly allowing the government to relax restrictions on business and schools, to get back to normal. In businesses, some are threatening loss of jobs; others are providing time off, other incentives, to encourage their workforce to get vaccinated. The threat of job loss is illegal, but it doesn’t prevent them from using this to induce action.

Airlines like United are offering free flights to those vaccinated. Now city governments like that in Chicago are segregating those going to restaurants, those who can dine who are vaxxed, free to dine and move around, and those unvaxxed, segregated.

You can’t make this stuff up! At some point, all those who wanted to get the jab, and those motivated by financial incentives, will have gotten it. Leaving more than half the population unvaccinated. Then what? Any bet Biden and state governments mandate more policy actions aimed at intimidating non vaxxers, using those already vaxxed as their hammer? Yes, “you didn’t do what we told you, now you all will have to pay the price…” Doesn’t this open the door for one segment of society to attack the other, with the government acting as agent encouraging them to do so?

I’m beginning to think the loss of confidence you describe will come when government actions, like promoting violence, and threatening later to force people to get vaccinated, will be the last straw. They used the capitalist system to induce action; now, they will use their raw power and weapons produced by the same system to destroy it.

MS

REPLY: It seems that all the Northern Democratic states are adopting the same attitude. New York has also created a lottery for $5 million, but that has not been successful. You really have to wonder what is so important about this vaccine for a virus with a 99% survival rate? Are they simply using the vaccine to launch this Great Rest, and it failed, so they now must get authoritarian and erase all our rights? Something just does not add up.

In 1968, politicians were bribed back then as well to force everyone to get vaccinated. Poland refused to join, and the press said they would die by the tens of thousands. In the end, Poland’s death toll was 145.

Are the vaccines just to make money for the drug companies that pour unlimited amounts of bribes into Washington?

It is time to end lobbying. All elections should be paid for by the taxpayer. A candidate must raise enough signature support to qualify, and then they all get the same amount for a campaign. Then and only then will we end lobbying. ANY politician that takes ANY gift for them or their family belongs in prison. There should also be term limits, whereby one time you are in and then out. Max should be 2 years for a term in the House or Senate. End career politicians. This entire vaccination nonsense is untrustworthy because we have no idea what the drug companies are handing anyone on the side, and our lives depend on it. All the claimed fact-checkers are biased and just push more propaganda.

May 28 2021

Georgia Judge Postpones Fulton County Ballot Examination After Last Minute Court Filings by County Officials


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 27, 2021 | Sundance | 90 Comments

This is a hot mess.  Fulton County election officials were freaked out after a judge granted the plaintiffs access to review 145,000 absentee ballots.  The concern is fraudulent and duplicated or double-counted ballots.  The final hearing to work out the details of the inspection was to take place tomorrow.  However in a last minute flurry of legal filings the county filed motions to dismiss the underlying lawsuit that initiated the ballot audit and review.

The judge has postponed the ballot examination hearing until after the county dismissal motion is considered.

EPOCH TIMES – A judge in Georgia told parties in an election integrity case on May 27 that a previously scheduled meeting at a ballot storage warehouse was canceled after officials filed a flurry of motions in the case.

Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said a May 28 meeting was no longer taking place because of motions filed by Fulton County, the county’s Board of Registration and Elections, and the county’s clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts, a spokesperson for the court confirmed to The Epoch Times.

Amero said the motions must be heard before the plaintiffs can gain access to the absentee ballots. He proposed a June 21 hearing, but the order scheduling the hearing hasn’t yet been filed.

“It seems like a desperation move. The silver lining is that we now have more time to perfect the changes we had to make in our inspection plan,” Garland Favorito, the lead petitioner, told The Epoch Times via email. (read more)

May 28 2021

President Trump Notes JoeBama Gas Prices are Memorable for Memorial Day


Posted Originally on the conservative tree house on May 27, 2021 | Sundance | 138 Comments

PRESIDENT TRUMP – “With Memorial Day Weekend coming up, tomorrow people start driving in the biggest automobile days of the year. I’m sorry to say the gasoline prices that you will be confronted with are far higher than they were just a short number of months ago where we had gasoline under $2 a gallon. Remember as you’re watching the meter tick, and your dollars pile up, how great of a job Donald Trump did as President.

Soon Russia and the Middle East will be making a fortune on oil, and you will be saying how good it was to have me as your President. Wasn’t it great to be energy independent, but we are energy independent no more. Shame, shame, shame. Other than that, have a great Memorial Day Weekend!”  (LINK)

Ah, the good ol’ days.  2020, my how time flies. ….

May 28 2021

Democrat Officials in Fulton County Georgia Ask Court to Dismiss Ruling Granting Audit of 150,000 Absentee Ballots


Posted originally in the conservative tree house on May 27, 2021 | Sundance | 112 Comments

Last week a Georgia judge agreed to allow plaintiffs to review Fulton County absentee ballots, the physical ballots, in a process yet determined (future order forthcoming). The custody of the ballots would  remain under the control of the Fulton County election officials, but the auditors will be permitted access to them. This could be significant as there are 145,000 specific Fulton County absentee ballots at issue.  [Background Here]

Previously an expert testified a difference of approximately 21% (of  “low resolution” absentee ballot batches) from what the state reported to what the auditors were able to see. A large number of the scanned ballots appear to have been counted twice.  The only way to really tell if any of the batches contained duplicated or photocopied ballots would be to look at the physical ballots (preferred) or to look at high-resolution images of the physical ballots.  Last week a judge agreed.

However, yesterday Fulton County officials asked a court to dismiss the underlying lawsuit because they do not want those absentee ballots to be inspected. [pdf filing HERE]

GEORGIA – […] The motion to dismiss, which was filed on Wednesday, argued Garland Favorito and the other plaintiffs never served the county and that the Superior Court of Fulton County lacks jurisdiction in the case. Attorneys also argued that Fulton County is not a proper party to the case.

“It is an improper party because it is not the final policymaker with control over elections,” the motion said. “The Elections Code states that where there is a board of elections, that entity acts as a superintendent and conducts elections and primaries.” (read more)

May 28 2021

Twitter Warns Indian Government to “Respect Freedom of Expression” – Beyond The Hypocrisy, Big Tech is Now Telling Global Government What is Permitted Propaganda


Posted originally on the conservative tree house May 27, 2021 | Sundance | 129 Comments

Comrade citizens, pay no attention to the blatant propaganda inherent in this latest expression from the almighty Big Tech globalist alliance unit at Twitter.

Ignore the stunning hypocrisy of telling a foreign government to respect the “freedom of expression” from a platform that arbitrarily censors and deletes the “expressions” that do not align with their politics.

Be a good comrade and do not pay attention to the scale of hubris for a company to threaten a foreign government and publicly take the position that Big Tech Twitter is more important and powerful than the billion plus citizens and elected government of a sovereign state.

All your governments are belong to us.  Yes, quite remarkable but completely in-line with their outlook of self-importance.

(New York Post) – Twitter on Thursday said it is worried about the safety of its staff in India and called for the government to respect freedom of expression, days after Indian police visited its office in New Delhi over its labeling of a tweet by a governing party spokesman as “manipulated media.”

Twitter has been involved in a tense battle with the Indian government, which has often asked it to restrict content alleging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is trying to silence criticism, including of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Twitter said it has “concerns with regards to the use of intimidation tactics by the police” and “the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve.”

India’s IT ministry called Twitter’s statement “totally baseless, false and an attempt to defame India.” It said Twitter should “comply with the laws of the land” instead of “dictating what India’s legal policy framework should be.” (read more)

May 28 2021

Michigan Secretary of State and Dominion Corp Warn Local Officials Not to Audit any Election Results


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 27, 2021 | Sundance | 235 Comments

Providing further suspicion that something is afoot in the world of fraudulent election systems, the Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (Democrat) and the Dominion Company (who control the ballot counting systems) are warning state officials not to conduct audits of their local results.

(Via WaPo) […] – In letters sent to the Cheboygan and Antrim county clerks last week, the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said the county boards have “no authority” to order audits — and instructed election clerks not to provide access to unaccredited outside parties to conduct them.

“Interest in granting access to unqualified third parties to conduct a ‘forensic audit’ may stem from misplaced reliance on ongoing misinformation, which has been repeatedly, comprehensively, and definitively debunked,” wrote Jonathan Brater, director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections, in a letter to Cheboygan County Clerk Karen Brewster.

In a separate letter to all Michigan counties that use its equipment, Dominion warned that transferring machines to unaccredited auditors could void licensing agreements and render the equipment “unqualified for official use.” (read more)

What kind of voting machine company has a warranty policy where the warranty is voided when an audit is performed on them? Yes, one that has a lot to hide.

This comes on the heels of forensic auditors finding serious issues and discrepancies with the election ballots and Dominion tabulation machines in Antrim County.   What the evidence showed was an intentional manipulation of the ballot counting system that shifted votes from Trump to Biden, then the system was scrubbed of log-in details so the people who did the shifts would not be identified. {Go Deep}

Recap Video of the issues at stake [LINK HERE]:

May 27 2021

Vacci-Nation


Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com MAY 25, 2021 AT 10:33 AM

in my la test b ook, “Make America Well Again,” I ma ke a reference to Milton Friedman who said, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” In the case of COVID-19, it began to look as if slave mask wearing would become permanent. Then mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports would also become permanent. Surely, that’s what the cabal running things behind the scenes wanted.

Fortunately more and more people are waking up to their Scamdemic. With a survivability rate well over 99 percent, it wasn’t really a pandemic at all. The mortality data were skewed to drive up the number of deaths. The PCR testing for the virus was serious flawed and inaccurate. People who died of flu and other ailments were declared dead of COVID-19 if they also harbored the virus.

Many states have dropped their mask mandates and less and less people are wearing them as summer approaches. Sunlight makes it nearly impossible to catch the virus outside. Fewer people are wearing the masks and that’s a good sign. Of course, businesses and restaurants are now saying masks for vaccinated people aren’t necessary but the unvaccinated still need to social distance and wear masks, but how can they enforce such a farce? Without the ‘your papers please’ intrusion there is no way to know. Besides, many states are passing laws prohibiting vaccine passports. Another good sign.

Many Americans remain ‘hesitant’ about getting COVID-19 vaccines, which are really jabs containing experimental gene therapy. The hesitant ones are the smart ones. States are tempting people to get the shots by means of bribery. Some are easily swayed to get inoculated by means of a glazed donut or free hamburger. In Ohio, they set up a lottery. The jabbed get a chance at winning one million dollars. Why the big press to get noxious substances injected into citizens that have proven severe side effects and even death?

Coronavirus weariness has set in. Americans have had it with the lies and power grabbing by hypocritical politicians who have been caught many times violating their own mask and social distancing mandates (Governors Whitmer and Newsom, for examples). Don’t take the dangerous inoculations. You are not a lab rat. Don’t wear the masks. Resistance the globalist control freaks. What will they do then? Gates will probably see to it that a more dangerous version of the virus gets trotted out. He’s already predicated it. Then they will cry for more lockdowns, mask wearing, and even more vaccines will be rolled out over and over again. Say no to Gates and Fauci. Instead of following their mandates, lock them up.

Resist medical tyranny!

—Ben Garrison

May 27 2021

Rule of Law – Florida v New York


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted May 27, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: With Wall Street banks migrating to Florida, will the courts there protect them as they do in New York. Will legal action in Florida be forced back to New York? Will you be able to track how those banks will influence the Florida courts to give an advantage to the Wall Street banks that set up there?
KC

ANSWER: We will have to see. But I would say that their lawyers will argue to have any case moved to New York on the claim that remains the headquarters. You will stand a far better chance of keeping the case in Florida if you can show that the venue is here because of some specific actions that can be attributed to Florida. In my own case, NOTHING took place in New York. The bank’s futures division was in Philadelphia. They argued that there was an exchange in New York (COMEX), so that was good enough.

New York violated not just US law, but international. They appointed a receiver to run a foreign corporation from the USA. The precedent would be akin to claiming General Motors violated some law in Germany, so they appoint a receiver to run General Motors from Stuttgart. That is the most absurd violation of international law, but New York judges do not care about the law. All they are there for is to protect the bankers. NEVER has any New York banker gone to prison. The banks pay a fine, which lines the courts’ pockets just like a bribe, and everyone is happy. They had to redefine the bar of being a bank with a criminal conviction; otherwise, they would all lose their licenses in New York City — the most corrupt armpit of the world.

May 27 2021

FREXIT is Rising


Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union Re-Posted May 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There is a rising minority that is starting to blame France’s prolonged economic decline on joining the euro. They are demanding that Macron take back control of their country. Creating the euro never produced the single interest rate as promised, nor did it transform Europe into the image of the United States. Their misunderstanding of the dollar and why it became the reserve currency right down to interest rates has plagued the euro and the entire European project since the Treaty of Rome.

They never told the people that the true idea behind the EU was that a one-European government would end all future wars. As I have said, the European Commission charged with setting up the euro attended the World Economic Conference in London. I explained that their sales pitch of a single currency resulting in a single interest rate, pointing to the dollar, was simply wrong.

To convince the people to join the euro, they were pointing to US federal bonds when each state paid a separate interest rate depending upon their own credit rating. Indeed, the volatility they pointed to in the currencies simply move to the bond markets. The false idea of a single interest rate led to southern states issuing more debt, thinking they were not on par with Germany.

All of the dreams of a single currency solving all the problems were just absurd. In my discussion back then, I warned that the only way to create a single interest rate was to consolidate the debts of all member states, and thereafter, each state would be on its own as in the United States. Germany insisted that to join, there would be no consolidation of debts. Kohl knew that the German people would never vote for joining the euro. Therefore, Kohl never allowed the people to vote on changing their entire country. He admitted that he would lose. Therefore, he insisted on no debt consolidation, fearing there would be a German uprising against such a measure.

This is why Merkel played hardball with Greece by refusing any debt forgiveness. When her image was tarnished globally, Merkel then opened the borders to let in Syrian refugees, some of who were not even from Syria, to save her image.

Then the excuse behind an open door policy to justify all the refugees pouring into Europe was that socialism was collapsing. The birthrate was declining and they realized that the entire economic system was constructed upon a Ponzi scheme. They came to the stark reality that if there was not a new crop of younger taxpayers, then the benefits would dry up, and there would be a revolution.

This has allowed Klaus Schwab to enter with fresh promises of taking socialism to a new level by destroying capitalism and taking control. He theorized seizing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, justified imposing digital passports, ending democracy, and creating a new welfare state to pay people to just stay home.

These policies are now boiling in France. They fear the influx of Muslims is changing France forever and will lead to civil war.