Posted originally on Jun 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, either the world is using Socrates, or this is always one hell of a coincidence, which I do not believe. The defense stocks moved days before the Hamas attack. You projected that the war would start in Ukraine more than a year in advance. When are you going to come clean and explain how you do this? There was a daily panic cycle here, and this was the week with escalating volatility into the end of June, which you also forecast. HOW?
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ANSWER: Look, I have stated many times that when I created this model, it was for trading markets. Never in my wildest imagination did I think it would forecast wars. That cost me years of my life trying to protect the source code. Yes, this appears to be on track to escalate here in June. Our models for Iran show the week of June 30th. Beware of July. I will do a special report on that.
Suffice it to say, I believe that Israel broke with Trump not unlike the EU. I think Israel feared that Trump and Iran appeared to be close to a preliminary agreement that included provisions about uranium enrichment that Israel refused to accept. This is all I know from my sources right now.
Posted originally on Jun 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The consumer price index rose by 0.1% in May, bringing the annual rate of inflation to 2.4%. Excluding food and energy, the core CPI came in respectively at 0.1% and 2.8%.
Energy prices fell 2% last month, with gasoline experiencing a 2.6% decline that marked nearly a 12% year-over-year decrease. Fuel oil is down 9.6% for the year, but rose slightly by 0.9% on the month. Energy services rose 0.7% MoM and 6.2% YoY. Electricity ticked up 0.9% for the month; 3.6% for the year. Utilities have been experiencing a notable downtick after declining 1% in May and 15.7% for the year.
Food prices rose 0.3% on the monthly and 2.8% annually. Eggs, the media’s favorite item to watch, fell 2.7% for the month but still remain elevated by 41.5% compared to May 2024. Meats, poultry, fish, eggs saw a significant annual increase of 7%. Dairy items are up 1.6% in the past 12 months, and nonalcoholic beverages rose 3.2% in the same period. Food away from home rose 3.9% in the past year, with food at home rising 2% in the same time period. Full service meals and snacks are up 4.3% on the annual.
Shelter is the other major pain point for Americans, with costs rising 0.3% for the month and 4% in the past year. Rentals are increasing by 4% annually, with owners’ equivalent rent rising by 4.3%.
Inflation is still above the Fed’s 2% target. The Federal Open Market Committee will meet next week to discuss rates, a hotly debated topic. Vice President JD Vance lashed out at Fed Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering rates. “The president has been saying this for a while, but it’s even more clear: the refusal by the Fed to cut rates is monetary malpractice,” Vance wrote.
Interest rates are not some magic lever to fix job numbers or inflation. Vance, like many in Washington, is using Powell as a scapegoat for economic issues that stem from decades of fiscal mismanagement, overregulation, and government spending. Six months of a new administration cannot undo decades of failed policies. Moody’s downgraded the nation’s credit score for the first time. Powell must signal that US Treasuries remain a safe haven.
Cut prematurely, and we risk capital flight. Jerome Powell is doing his job in the face of real inflation, which isn’t malpractice. It’s what you do when you want the bond market to keep financing US debt.
Posted originally on Jun 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
While domestic small businesses suffered under Biden-Harris, Ukraine saw a boost in their small business thanks to billions in grants that were paid for by the US taxpayer. USAID subsidized Ukrainian businesses through co-investment programs, interest rate compensation on loans, cashback incentives for leading equipment, and direct financial support. All in all, USAID’s “Investment for Business Resilience Activity” provided $100 million in investments.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics was altering data on domestic jobs while other branches of the government were focused on maintaining Ukraine’s workforce. The aforementioned USAID program supported over 1,050 businesses and allegedly saved nearly 18,000 jobs.
USAID was working directly with Ukrainian banks to help lower borrowing costs to small and medium enterprises. Trump immediately halted this program in January 2025. The average person simply does not understand how much money the Biden Administration was sending to Ukraine.
US taxpayers supported the entire Ukrainian government. Over $30 billion was sent to Ukraine in a two-year period to pay for “essential government operations.” Americans were forced to pay for public servants’ salaries, pensions, healthcare, and more. None of this includes the tens of billions spent on military-related items or humanitarian aid.
Americans did not vote to use their public funds in this manner. The domestic economy was suffering from record inflation post-COVID. Domestic entrepreneurs could not secure business loans. There is a clear pattern of one political party prioritizing foreign entities over its own citizens.
Now, the Trump Administration announced that it needs to make additional cuts to Ukrainian assistance. “This administration takes a very different view of that conflict. We believe that a negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation’s interests, especially with all the competing interests around the globe,” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained. The complete 2026 budget has not yet been released by the Pentagon, but Hegseth said it “provides a historic level of funding for military readiness, putting (U.S.) warfighters and their needs first.”
Using American funds to prioritize America—what a novel concept. This is why Trump and Vance had a shouting match with Zelensky during his failed Oval Office visit. Zelensky feels entitled to US funding after years of using US public funds as his personal ATM under Biden.
The European Union now funds around84% of Ukraine’s operations. It is expected that the bloc will spend around $40 billion on external financing needs in 2025. The Ukraine Facility instrument provides €50 billion in “flexible support” for Ukraine over a three-year period. They’re using frozen Russian assets to fund this account since the EU simply does not have the money to prop up a foreign government.
This has been an extremely expensive war and it is nowhere near over. I should add that US assistance was all provided outside the regular defense budget. This occurred during peacetime in a war that in no way involved the United States. This is what happens when a foreign nation blackmails the president of the world’s leading superpower.
Biden’s crime family received over $20 million from Ukraine in “influence peddling” schemes. Hunter Biden secured $11 million for his personal company through Burisma. FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, said under oath that Burisma selected Hunter to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” The text messages stored on Hunter’s laptop revealed that he openly threatened people using his father’s name while his father was the vice president. Joe Biden accepted bribes and altered US policy to support his son and line his pockets. The CCP also had the Biden family in their pocket.
Decreasing, if not ceasing, funding for Ukraine is long overdue. Imagine if those funds were invested in the domestic economy rather than laundered through under-the-table deals. Americans are not responsible for subsidizing Ukraine.
Posted originally on Jun 12, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Once upon a time, requiring noncitizens to return home was not controversial. The left is not protesting migration; rather, they are protesting Donald Trump. Former President Barack Obama broke records for deportations under his administration and received bipartisan support.
Forcible removals reached 400,000 in 2012 alone, a record-high number for deportations at the time. Obama became the president to oversee the highest number of migrant removals with over 3 million people forcibly or voluntarily leaving the United States between 2009 and 2017. Only far-left extremist groups complained, labeling Obama the “Deporter-in-Chief.”
In comparison, George W. Bush expelled 3 million migrants, with Bill Clinton only removing 900,000. Prior to Trump, immigration rules were common sense. I could not travel to [insert the name of any country here], overstay my visa or illegally enter, and then expect that nation to financially support me and my extended family indefinitely.
“If they committed a crime, DEPORT THEM, no questions asked,–they’re gone!” Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail. She said that migrants who wished to become naturalized citizens should be required to learn English, pay a fine for illegally entering the US, pay back taxes, and wait in line for their turn to legally immigrate. The Democrats cheered her plan. Again, these were common-sense concepts.
The media now remembers Obama for providing an easier path for citizenship and pandering to groups who repeated the “don’t separate families” line. Yet, Obama campaigned on the promise of removing illegal migrants because it was a danger to national security and a burden to taxpayers.
The pandemonium we see today has absolutely nothing to do with migration. Migration is the excuse to attack Donald Trump, the most hated man in politics, to cause and blame him for nationwide chaos. The Democratic Party once had values, but they no longer stand for anything other than violence and opposition without proposed solutions.
Posted originally on Jun 11, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The world’s bread basket is facing significant food inflation. Prices on groceries in Ukraine rose 22.1% in May compared to the same time period last year. Overall, CPI rose 15.9% on an annual basis as well. Fruit prices alone have soared by 17.6%, with authorities claiming it is primarily due to poor weather conditions that reduced harvests.
Ukraine and Russia are both relying on imports to offset the uptick in food prices. Ukraine exported around 10.6% of the nation’s food supply last year. The European aggregate came in at an estimated $5 billion in food exports for the year, with Poland, Germany, and France becoming top suppliers. In fact, 51.3% of all food imported to Ukraine came from the EU.
Food inflation for Russia, as of April, hit 12.66%, with general inflation resting at 10.2%. This does not account for the soaring prices of staple food products like potatoes, which have tripled in price over the past year. “On a daily basis, people are not buying smartphones and television sets,” Central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina said. “They are buying food. If prices there are growing faster, it forms high inflationary expectations.” This is precisely why I note that issues like the Japanese rice crisis are causing overall confidence to erode.
The average Russian household spent around 35% of its income on food this past April, a five-year high, as reported by the Romir think-tank. Russia is seeking exports from its remaining trade partners. Egypt exported 274,000 tonnes of potatoes to Russia this May, a 4.5X increase from the same period one year prior. Egypt also provided Russia with 13,000 tons of onions and has become a major supplier of nuts, fruits, and vegetables. Other meal staples such as carrots, beets, and cabbage have seen a surge in prices.
China has also been working to solve the potato shortage by sending Russia 65,000 tons throughout the first six months of the year. Georgia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Armenia have also begun to ramp up food exports to Russia.
Both China and Egypt have profited heavily from this war from an agricultural standpoint, as each is providing both sides with much-needed food imports.
Russia’s agriculture minister believes prices will begin stabilizing in July. As RCB Governor Elvira Nabiullina explained, the average person will first notice surging prices at the grocery store. It becomes a daily reminder that there are breaks in the system. The Russians and Ukrainians lost confidence long ago, but the situation is not improving for them. We see it everywhere with food prices leading to unrest. The reasons contributing to rising prices do not matter as the people will immediately blame the government. We saw it in the US, for example, with people outraged over the price of eggs. The Japanese are livid that the price of rice has multiplied.
The French Revolution began when bread prices surged beyond what the people could afford. The Arab Spring ignited not because of political ideology, but because food became unaffordable. Socrates picked up a shift in food inflation in 2019 before the COVID lockdowns and I have warned that it would be wise to stockpile food as that inflationary cycle did not end with COVID. While we are not at a point of revolution just yet, food prices have a major impact on overall confidence and high prices correlate with high unrest. The people will not obey when they are hungry.
Posted originally on Jun 11, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The Japanese government announced that it has been forced to release 200,000 metric tons of reserves from its rice stockpile once again, as the nation has been unable to reverse shortages. The government last released over 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency reserves, that was intended to last through July, in addition to the 310,000 tons released since March, but this is not sufficient to meet demand, and consumers are highly dissatisfied with the government’s response.
Retailers and local rice sellers with milling capacity will receive the first 100,000 tons of rice from the 2021 harvest. “We want to continue responding without slowing down so that the stockpiled rice can reach consumers quickly and at a low cost,” Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said during a press conference. “We must never allow the virtuous cycle of prices and wages in the Japanese economy as a whole to break down. If the cause lies with rice, then I believe we must address such issues promptly.”
Poor weather conditions in 2023 led to a significant decline in crop yields. The Japanese government placed high tariffs on imported rice, and Japanese consumers strongly prefer domestic varieties. Japan reluctantly began importing rice to meet demand. In February alone, Japan imported roughly 40% of what it imported in FY2023. Japan was self-sufficient in rice production, but was forced to purchase rice from South Korea for the first time in 25 years. Japan has also turned to the United States to fill the gap. Panic buying remains prevalent despite the high cost of rice, as it is a staple in the Japanese diet. A mass uptick in tourism following the end of COVID has also been blamed for increased demand, with foreigners increasing by a record 342,000 in 2024.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications noted that rice prices rose 92.1% year-on-year in March, and despite releasing reserves, prices continued to rise. In mid-April, a 5kg bag of rice reached ¥4,220 (about $29–$30), over an 80% YoY increase. Rice prices hit a record high of ¥4,285 yen ($29.97) for 5kg of rice during the week ending on May 18, with some premium brands like Koshihikari exceeding ¥5,000 yen ($35). As of June 1, the average 5k bag of rice cost about ¥4,223 yen, a 50% annual increase.
This is an extremely serious issue in Japan. The rice crisis controversy is causing the public to lose confidence in the government at large. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Administration approval rating sunk to an all-time low of 27.4%. Japanese Minister Taku Etō was forced to resign after stating that he personally has no concern for the rising price of rice. The Upper House election takes place in July, which is certainly unfavorable for the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD) who has been in power since 1955.
The next major rice harvest will be in August. The situation is pessimistic as only 1.458 million hectares were harvested, the lowest on record since at least 1900.
Farmers have been protesting against the government’s policy of rationing harvests. The EU and US allow farmers to produce as much as possible, and the government subsidizes any losses, while Japan has taken an opposite approach. The Japanese government believes it would lose $2.65 billion per year if it were to subsidize harvests, but it is already paying farmers $2.32 billion to ration production. Rice paddies are increasingly abandoned as the next generation has no desire to enter a low-paying industry that they believe has been stifled by government regulation. The Mi/OP: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has asked many farmers to focus on rice instead of other crops, but it will take years to replenish the reserves.
Japan has a much more serious issue on its hands as the nation is at risk of an outright default on its outstanding debt. For now, the rice crisis has caused the average person to become disgruntled with the leadership. They say the public is quiet and content when everyone is fat and happy, but now, every meal is a reminder of government mismanagement.
“Every single Democratic governor agrees,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on X along with a letter supporting the rioters. Every single Democrat received the memo that the plan to “fight Trump” entails permitting their minions to burn down another city.
In addition to 4,000 National Guard troops, the White House has deployed a group of 700 Marines to save the city of Los Angeles. Yet, every single Democratic governor does not care about the welfare of our troops or legal citizens. Multiple police officers have sustained injuries after these political activists pelted them with rocks and bricks. Someone even attempted to set a police horse on fire. The scene is completely uncivilized, depraved chaos that not one Democratic governor will condemn.
I reported how this is state-funded chaos with California paying NGOs millions to raise hell with taxpayer funds. We are witnessing the Black Lives Matter chaos repeat with precisely the same actors. We saw similar events at college campuses last year. Professional agitators are leading the riots and ensuring that they continue. A group of masked individualsdistributed riot shields and gas masks to the mostly peaceful protestors. Witnesses say that local law enforcement failed to intervene as the masked individuals distributed tactical gear. A group is arming “civilians” to fight back against the US military. This means that an outside influence, perhaps foreign in the case of Soros, has chosen to attack American forces. This is blatant terrorism at best, and an act of war at worst.
#BREAKING We just saw people arrive in Downtown L.A. with truck loads of Bionic Face Shields that demonstrators quickly grabbed.
It certainly seems like gear you'd wear if you're preparing for conflict with police.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell admitted that professional agitators are fueling the literal fires. “When I look at the people who are out there doing the violence, that’s not the people that we [see] during the day.”
BREAKING: LAPD Chief Admits Professional Left-Wing Anarchists Are Fueling the Violence in Los Angeles Riots
This reeks of a Soros op.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell just exposed what many already suspected—the chaos unfolding in Los Angeles is being escalated by professional leftist… pic.twitter.com/7vx7lnoyfA
He continued to say that the LAPD is not battling the typical civilian. “These are people who are all hooded up. They’ve got a hoodie on. They’ve got face masks on. They’re people who do this all the time. Get away with whatever they can. Go out there from one civil unrest situation to another, using the same or similar tactics frequently. They are connected. Some would call them anarchists. They’re people that we run across routinely, city to city, and this is what they do. Many of the people who are doing this come in from other places just to hurt people and to cause havoc.”
The people are not fighting back against Trump or ICE. Rather, a select group of paid actors has been incentivized and ordered to destroy a city for political purposes. Thousands of people did not simply take to the streets over deportation. This was a carefully planned and well-coordinated political movement. The Democrats are allowing it to happen and speaking favorably of the paid agitators who they want the public to believe are outraged liberal voters.
FBI Director Kash Patel described the city of LA as “under siege,” and promised to hunt down the mostly peaceful protestors who are physically attacking federal officers and government buildings. Unlike the Black Lives Matter protests, we have some semblance of law and order across the Trump Administration, and those responsible will hopefully see their day in court. More importantly, those responsible for creating the event need to face their day in court. These are often foreign entities that are deliberately meddling in US politics. Imagine if this were the response to any conservative cause? It would never happen. The extremists on the left have been permitted to unleash terror when they feel they are losing power without repercussion. America’s enemies are watching with enthusiasm as they see how broken our system has become. One party in our two-party system is ready to wage war against the other and is counting on the situation to escalate. How far will they go?
COMMENT: The next moron in charge of nato… Rutte… with a psycho propaganda quote: “invest now, or learn Russian later”
Let’s rephrase this with a counter slogan “let’s learn Russian now, let’s listen to Russia and de-escalate, let’s not betray Russia anymore, let’s not waste our money in a bottomless nato money pit based on western lies, and let’s enjoy wealth and freedom later”.
RB
REPLY: While the Democrats embrace alien criminals just because Trump wants to deport them, in Europe, it is NATO and the EU which does everything to undermine Trump and any possible peace in Ukraine. This all brings to mind Smedley D. Butler’s “War Is a Racket” which captures the essence, power, and enduring relevance of war and also civil unrest when it always comes down to money. Butler’s brutally honest book was written in 1935 by one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history. After a 34-year career fighting in nearly every major U.S. conflict from the Spanish-American War through the “Banana Wars,” Butler reached a shocking conclusion.
Butler came to see that war is not primarily fought for democracy, freedom, or national defense. Instead, it is a carefully orchestrated “racket” – a criminal enterprise designed to generate enormous profits for a select few at the expense of the many. Butler’s critique carried immense weight precisely because of who he was. As a Major General, two-time Medal of Honor recipient, and commander of major expeditions, he had seen the inner workings of war from the highest levels. He couldn’t be dismissed as a naive pacifist.
The “Racket” had three phases, which he identified as:
Lobbying for War: Powerful business interests (bankers, arms manufacturers, industrialists, resource extractors) pressure governments into conflicts that will protect or expand their markets and investments overseas.
Profiteering During War: The same interests make obscene profits selling weapons, munitions, ships, loans, and supplies to the government (funded by taxpayer dollars). Soldiers pay with their lives; civilians pay with blood, suffering, and taxes.
Profiteering After War: These interests often control the post-war settlement, securing lucrative concessions, resource rights, and loan arrangements from defeated nations (reparations), further enriching themselves while saddling populations with debt.The Costs are Borne by Others: The young men who fight and die, the families who lose loved ones, the taxpayers who foot the astronomical bill, and the societies left shattered bear all the real costs. The profits are privatized; the losses are socialized.
Butler pulls no punches, as they say. His language is direct, vivid, and often scathing. He uses stark figures to expose the grotesque disparity between war profits and human cost. (“Out of war nations acquire additional territory… the newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the self-same few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war.”)
Butler’s first-hand experience draws powerful examples from his own service in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Central America, and the Caribbean, showing how U.S. interventions directly benefited specific corporations (e.g., United Fruit, sugar interests, banks).
The critique of the Military-Industrial Complex (a term Eisenhower popularized later) is central. The dynamics Butler described – corporate influence on foreign policy, war profiteering, the manipulation of patriotism, the human cost vs. private gain – remain potent issues. They still dominate this proxy war against Russia, as Boris Johnson openly stated that Britain is at war with Russia.
Naturally, anyone who speaks the truth will have critics who argue for the continued carnage and bloodshed. Critics of Butler argue that he reduces complex geopolitical events to solely economic motives. While he powerfully exposes a crucial driver often overlooked, factors such as ideology, nationalism, genuine security threats, and diplomatic failures also play significant roles in wars. There is always an economic element. When everyone is fat and happy, there is no war.
Butler’s proposed solution was that the only way to stop the racket was to make war unprofitable. When young men are conscripted to die, wealth should be conscripted to pay for the war. Limit wartime profits to a small, fixed percentage. He also argued for restricting military deployment. Only allow the military to defend U.S. soil. No more expeditions to protect corporate investments abroad. “Take the profit out of war.”
Only those registered for frontline service should be allowed to vote on whether to go to war. Not those who profit from war.
It remains a foundational text for understanding the critique of the Military-Industrial Complex, corporate influence on foreign policy, and the inherent injustice of war profiteering. It forces readers to question the official narratives of war and consider the powerful economic interests that often lurk beneath the surface. While perhaps not the only factor in wars, Butler highlights a factor that is frequently overlooked or downplayed. Mainstream media beats the war drums, and they too profit from sensationalizing war to get readership. The Spanish-American War was created by Pulitzer and Hearst competing for readership, creating biased yellow journalism.
In short, “War Is a Racket” is a short, essential, and provocative read. It’s a powerful dose of uncomfortable truth from a man who knew war intimately. Its message is as relevant and disturbing today as it was in 1935. It’s less a book to agree with on every point, and more one to grapple with and be challenged by.
I, for one, will strongly object to ANY federal funds going to California to rebuild LA. Let Newsom raise taxes in California even more to pay for his protection of non-Americans. He forgot that he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. He has rejected that and all responsibility to enforce the law simply because he disagrees with whatever any Republican says – he just has to take the opposite, regardless of whether it is right or wrong. It would be nice to expel California from the United States and let it take in all illegal immigrants who cannot possibly have a legitimate job without citizenship or a Greencard. He supports illegal aliens against Americans – plain and simple. He is violating the civil rights of Americans and for that he could even be criminally charged.
The segregation of the South refused to honor the Constitution. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the Department of Justice (DOJ) powerful tools: filing lawsuits against states, cities, businesses, and school districts; withholding federal funds; and sending federal marshals to protect activists and enforce court orders. The Supreme Court consistently upheld the constitutionality of these laws, especially their use of the Commerce Clause (e.g., Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S., Katzenbach v. McClung for the CRA ’64) and the enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (e.g., South Carolina v. Katzenbach). This judicial backing was essential.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 demolished the legal framework of segregation in public spaces, schools, and employment. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 smashed the political system built on Black disenfranchisement. Together, backed by federal enforcement, court rulings, and sustained activism, these laws broke the legal backbone of Jim Crow segregation in the American South, transforming the region and the nation. However, the fight for true racial equality continues.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a significant U.S. law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting, aiming to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965, and has been amended several times to strengthen its protections against discriminatory practices. The Supreme Court just ruled for straight woman who claims she was subjected to reverse discrimination.
What Newsom is doing in California could land him in prison for a very long time. He is engaging in REVERSE DISCRIMINATION against American citizens when illegal aliens are NOT entitled to voting rights any more than I can vote in London just because I got in and refused to leave. Newsom has violated his oath of office, and this is what Democrats do just to win at all costs anymore, for they feel they MUST oppose whatever Trump does, no matter what..
Posted originally on Jun 10, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The President of the United States has the sole discretion to launch nuclear missiles. A military aide is always within reach of the POTUS, holding the “Presidential Emergency Satchel” or “nuclear football” containing the codes and communications to decimate nations with a moment’s notice. The only key required to open the box of death is a laminated card called the “biscuit” that authenticates the president’s identity using special codes. What would it take for someone to press the button?
President Harry S. Truman was the first and only president to attack a foreign enemy with nuclear weapons. In August 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first cities in the history of civilization to experience a nuclear attack. At the time, no one knew the sheer power that these weapons contained.
Albert Einstein described his role in developing the atomic bomb as “the one great mistake in my life.” In his well-known 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he admitted that he helped develop the bomb out of fear that the enemy had a superior weapon. “Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing.” Over 130,000 people had a hand in the Manhattan Project, with most expressing deep regret for their role in altering warfare.
Robert Oppenheimer, who many call the Father of the Atomic Bomb, famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita after seeing the destruction: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” As with Einstein, Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life advocating for nuclear regulation. “If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite, or they will perish.”
“We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world. We have made a thing that, by all standards of the world we grew up in, is an evil thing. And by doing so, by our participation in making it possible to make these things, we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man, of whether it is good to learn about the world, to try to understand it, to try to control it, to help give to the world of men increased insight, increased power. Because we are scientists, we must say an unalterable yes to these questions; it is our faith and our commitment, seldom made explicit, even more seldom challenged, that knowledge is a good in itself, knowledge and such power as must come with it.” – K. Robert Oppenheimer
Truman acknowledged his “awful responsibility” of deciding to drop not one but two bombs on Japan. “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. … If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth,” the president warned after unleashing the first bomb. Yet, Truman believed that the Japanese would not have surrendered without the use of nuclear warfare. “For myself, I certainly regret the necessity of wiping out whole populations because of the ‘pigheadedness’ of the leaders of a nation, and, for your information, I am not going to do it unless absolutely necessary.”
“And he alone, in all the world, must say Yes or No to that awesome, ultimate question, ‘Shall we drop the bomb on a living target?’” Truman questioned. No world leader has since been faced with such a question.
A Harvard law professor by the name of Roger Fisher believed that the president should feel the weight of choosing to end a life first-hand before deciding to open the nuclear case. Rather than a nuclear football, Fisher believed that the codes should be placed in a capsule implanted near the heart of a volunteer who would always accompany the president. The volunteer would also always be in the possession of a butcher knife, and if the president wanted the code to launch a nuclear weapon, he would be required to personally retrieve the code by murdering the volunteer.
The idea may sound far-fetched, but Fischer presented it to the Pentagon back in the 1980s. “If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, ‘George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.’ He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home,” he explained.
The Pentagon naturally refused the concept, acknowledging that the president would be unlikely to ever push the nuclear button if he were required to take an innocent life. And yet, presidents are required to greenlight military attacks that do claim innocent lives.
The neocons continually push this idea of using tactical nukes as if it’s a video game. That’s the real danger—people in power have no sense of consequence.
Posted originally on Jun 10, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Traditional Catholics were deemed domestic terrorists under the Biden Administration. Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records reveal the true extent of the surveillance measures.
In 2023, a whistleblower notified the public that the government was spying on Catholic Churches and patrons who held pro-life views. The whistleblower provided an internal document now known as the Richmond memo, officially titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” The internal memo that was distributed to 1,000 FBI agents across the nation deemed “radical-traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) racially or ethnically motivated extremists.
Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray attempted to retract the memo. Wray claimed that the slander was limited to one memo. As Wray said under oath: The only involvement of the two other field offices was the Richmond authors of the product included two sentences or something thereabouts referencing each of these other offices’ cases, and they sent those sentences about the other offices’ cases to them, not the whole product, and asked them, ‘hey, did we describe your case right?’ That’s all the other offices had. So it was a single field office’s product, and I stand by that. The Department of Justice’s Inspector General reviewed the letter when it was first leaked and determined that there was no religious bias or malicious intent.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, continued to look into the matter. On June 2, 2025, he sent a seven-page letter to FBI Director Kash Patel to say that his letters to former FBI Director Wray went unanswered and new findings warranted reopening the investigation. Furthermore, Grassley found that intelligence agencies “produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center.” The extent of spying and internal dialogue regarding Catholics as extremists was far deeper than “two sentences” in one memo. The second of 13 memos was released to the entire FBI department, urging them to continue monitoring Catholics.
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The FBI tracked increases and decreases in mass attendance at traditionalist Catholic churches. They were instructed to monitor the social media accounts of Catholics as a form of “threat mitigation.” The parishioner sitting beside you in the pew could have been a Biden FBI agent in disguise. This was an agency-wide effort that the past administration attempted to hide. The FBI interviewed parishioners and clergy members to instill suspicion and fear in the community.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution grants Americans the right to exercise their religious beliefs. It is hard to believe that the Department of Justice’s Inspector General failed to find evidence of malicious intent when a specific religious group was clearly discriminated against and targeted for their faith. Wray lied under oath and Biden turned on his own faux faith to target anyone who could potentially stand in the way of his pro-abortion stance.
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