Turn off the TV


Armstrong Economics Blog/Media Re-Posted Nov 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

An image is circulating online that shows how the mainstream media has garnered viewers over the past 20 years. The three pillars of rhetoric are logos (logic), pathos (trust), and ethos (emotions). The media has been using all three of these persuasion tactics so that people are too afraid to look away from the TV as they may miss “breaking news” on the next disaster.

They prey upon our emotions (ethos) with fabricated narratives and stories. They prey upon our trust (pathos) with fake experts chiming in on every crisis and journalists pretending they still stand as unbiased, ethical providers of information. Logic (logos) has been completely undermined as independent thinking or questioning the mainstream narrative is now a criminal offense. The media wants you to be afraid to control your thoughts. Remember who controls the media.

Turn off the TV. Seek out the truth independently.

COVID Swab Test DNA Samples for Sale


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Nov 25, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Cignpost Diagnostics, a UK-based COVID testing company, has likely sold swab samples containing customers’ DNA. The company claimed it had the right to sell data to third parties in an effort to “learn more about human health.” However, the consent form is buried among the lengthy testing information sheet, and the company primarily sells tests on the go to travelers looking for rapid results. Cignpost Diagnostics admitted in the fine print that they “may receive compensation” for selling customers’ DNA to “collaborators.”

UK law explicitly demands the protection of private data, and angry customers are claiming the company did not clearly notify users that their sensitive DNA would be sold for a profit to conduct unknown research. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Human Tissue Authority are now investigating. “There is no personal data more sensitive than our DNA. People should be told about what’s happening to it in a clear, open, and honest way so they can make informed decisions about whether they want to give it up,” ICO deputy commissioner Steve Wood said.

Cignpost Diagnostics knows they are in the wrong and has begun to backtrack on their policy. A spokesperson for the company recently claimed all swab samples are destroyed after the client has been notified of their results. Why would the company then claim to have “collaborators” and a plan to profit off of the DNA they have compiled? Three million tests have already been distributed. It is unclear if the company actually destroyed the swab samples, as they only claimed to have done so after coming under fire.

Fox News Legal Pundit Johnathan Turley Makes False Comparison Between Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 24, 2021 | Sundance | 70 Comments

CTH doesn’t do direct refutation unless the issues are very important.    Earlier today, immediately following the jury conviction of three men in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a longtime Fox News legal analyst named Johnathan Turley made a claim of fact that must be refuted.  My apologies for the delay here.

I do not have video citation, but watched in real time as it happened.  Attorney and Law School Professor Johnathan Turley appeared on Fox News to discuss the jury verdict in the Arbery case.

During his appearance, Professor Turley stated the difference between Ahmaud Arbery’s death and the death of Trayvon Martin was video evidence.

Turley compared the Arbery case to the Trayvon case by saying there were no eyewitnesses for either events, but the difference in the Arbery case there was video.

The explicit and intended implication was that if video evidence existed in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, there’s a possibility George Zimmerman would have been convicted, or in the words of Turley, “there would have been a different outcome in that case.”   Everything about this claim by Turley is FALSE.

Turley’s viewpoint for the Arbery case discussion is not only wrong, it dangerously presents a possibility that is entirely fictitious.

THERE WAS a direct eye witness in the fight between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.  Direct eye witness Jonathan Good testified during the Zimmerman trial to witnessing the fight from his window in the condo unit next to the confrontation [LINK].  John Good testified in court to seeing Trayvon on top of Zimmerman and raining down blows MMA style, “ground and pound“, while Zimmerman was “shouting for help“, just before the fatal shot was fired.

John Good (pictured below right) originally gave the same statement to the police on the night of the incident, and all of the forensic evidence supported the description of the events as told during Good’s statement and court appearance.  Mr. Good’s first hand eyewitness account, and all of the subsequent physical evidence in the case – which included recordings of 911 phone calls which documented the sound of the fight, was the primary reason why detectives in the case and the local district attorney in Orlando did not file charges against George Zimmerman after the shooting.

All of the evidence in the case supported traditional self defense.  Ignored by most, and falsely reported by national media, George Zimmerman did not use a “stand your ground” defense, because traditional self-defense was evident in the facts of the case.  The “duty to retreat” was never debated in court or even by prosecutors, because Zimmerman had no opportunity to retreat from a physical confrontation he did not initiate.

The media’s false reporting in the Zimmerman case was jaw-dropping, and all these years later – thanks to the fabrications by people like Johnathan Turley – most of the public still have no idea what factually took place in the encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.

Perhaps Turley does not know about the police statements and direct courtroom testimony by eyewitness John Good, because what he said did not match the false media narrative that was built in the aftermath.   The media ignored the evidence, and their complicit alignment with a prosecution narrative actually provided room for state special prosecutors Angela Corey and Bernie De La Rionda to carry out another egregious miscarriage of justice.  They completely fabricated a pro-prosecution witness named Rachel Jeantel {Go Deep}.

John Good was an inconvenient witness that destroyed the media narrative about the confrontation between Trayvon and Zimmerman; so the media ignored it.  Additionally, the officials in/around Sanford and Orlando Florida kept the spotlight away from John Good because there was a genuine worry that he would be targeted by the mob that was stirred up by the false racist narrative.

Essentially John Good was in hiding until he could give his first-hand eyewitness account in court.  Those facts are likely why Professor Johnathan Turley doesn’t know about the eyewitness; however, in the larger picture, what does that reality say about the media?

CTH came to the defense of George Zimmerman, because we were defending the truth.  Not the manipulated truth, and not any version of any individual truth; but the literal and empirical truth that undermined the myriad of lies around the Zimmerman case.   The lies were so thick in the case against Zimmerman, the state prosecution even believed it would be possible to successfully create witness #8 out of nothing and get away with it.

Witness #8, Rachel Jeantel, appeared at the trial and gave testimony; unfortunately for the prosecution, she could not answer most questions because she never saw, heard, or had anything to do with the events.   Jeantel was handed to the prosecution by the lawyers and family of Trayvon Martin.  Jeantel signed a statement for the prosecution that she did not write and couldn’t even read.

Jeantel was needed because lawyers for Trayvon Martin’s family claimed publicly a girl was on the phone with Trayvon when the encounter with Zimmerman took place.  Everything about that claim was a lie.  However, worse still, the state prosecution was willing to go along with the lie because the falsehood became the central point of their case.

As a consequence, Rachel Jeantel was a completely made up witness by the Florida state prosecution in the highest profile legal case in the past decade…. and no one was ever held accountable for that.

Let that TRUTH sink in a while…

I hope everyone can see how dangerous this stuff is…

Cultural Marxism Running Amok – San Francisco Media Say Term “Looters” is Off Limits


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 23, 2021 | Sundance | 207 Comments

At first I thought this was a parody of news media outlooks.  However, once I saw the article [ABC News] I realized it was not a spoof; it’s very real.

The San Francisco news desk of ABC7 actually has a position called “race and social justice reporter” who claims the term “looting” is a politically and culturally incorrect way to describe the looting that has been taking place over the past several days.  However, I’m not exactly sure of the journalist’s qualifications for reporting, because he also claims not to be able to see the race of the people doing the actual looting.  WATCH:

… In order for the ideological leftists to continue advancing their insane ideology, they have to pretend not to know things. Race and social justice reporter Julian Glover is certainly proving that point by pretending not to see who is doing the robberies.

Nigel Farage on Austria


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Nov 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Grasping the Future Unfolding Before Our Eyes


Armstrong Eonomics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Nov 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Hi Marty,
I write to you somewhat often. Never get a response on the blog. I was hoping you could respond to this one question to put my mind and the mind of other Americans at peace.
It is clear that Europe is falling to the Covid tyranny. You say that “they” will not win in the end in the U.S. So my question is, what is the fate of the U.S. Should I be leaving my career, selling my house, and moving to a self-sufficient farm? Will the vaccine become compulsory for everyone in the U.S. or are they starting to lose? In short, can you give an overview of Socrates’ predictions and the timeline for the U.S.? Will it devolve into WWIII or a civil war, and when is that predicted? Will they put the unvaccinated in concentration camps at some point? Will there be shortages in the U.S. that result in famine?

What do you think? You would be helping an untold number of people by responding to this in the blog. Thank you so much for your time!

Don

ANSWER: I will try to put together a report for this overview. Europe is hopeless. Because they moved to negative interest rates in 2014, I warned them this would destroy their bond markets and undermine Europe completely. They refused to listen. Now we are seeing the consequence of those actions. This video is from an interview when I was in Europe back in 2018.

They are using COVID lockdowns, not for heath, but to crush the people into submission. They are following Schwab’s agenda — you will own nothing and be happy — pretending they are doing this for you when in fact it is the government defaulting on their debt. Europeans should put their money outside of the euro exactly as the Germans were using everyone else’s currency but their own during the hyperinflation.

Europe has no choice. The EU agenda has completely failed. This is why they have embraced Schwab’s agenda. To retain power and prevent the people from storming the palaces of the elite and parading their heads on spikes through the streets, they needed the lockdowns, destroy people’s ability to pay their debts, then sweep in with absolving everyone of debts as they default.

Schwab believes his Fourth Industrial Revolution will eliminate jobs through technology with robots and the creation of body parts. I believe he is trying to accelerate this so he does not die. But just like global warming, they are terminating fossil fuels now decades before there will be any sufficient replacement. They are destroying jobs on a grand scale in Europe also long before robots could replace a sufficient amount of the workforce. They are changing the world economy now while reading comic books of Flash Gordan and assuming that will be tomorrow.

The United States is a different power structure and Biden cannot do what European leaders are doing. This is why Soros is funding groups to try to destabilize the United States and this is most likely going to lead to civil war for he has been funding the polarization of America with the aid of the Democrats.

This idea of recreating the world economy when they do not even understand that it is the people who created the economy, not the elite.  Schwab clearly does not believe in God, like Karl Marx, or in nature. He thinks that the elite can direct how the future should be just like the Communists. People think that communism failed ONLY because they did not have the USA and Europe in the fold.

Such people reject the foundation of Adam Smith’s invisible hand and think they can decide, as the Communists did, what direction the economy should take from a bureaucratic central overview. That has been proven to be wrong so many times, but they refuse to give up because it is their power they cherish — not the people.

There is a revolution brewing in the country. They are deliberately undermining society in hopes of taking over the United States. I will provide a detailed report on all of this and why Socrates has forecast that they will FAIL. Let it be said, I have tried very hard myself to defeat Socrates. But I have failed every time. I did a Solution Conference in 2015 when I realized it was Schwab I was fighting against.

Journalists Refuse to Report on Worldwide Protests or They May Come After your Pets Next


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Nov 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Journalists who are spouting out the propaganda and support Gates & Schwab, have corrupted our society. Here are worldwide protests that they pretend do not take place. Once upon a time, Fauci said we would reach herd immunity when 70% of the population were vaccinated. Now the vaccinated are the people being rushed to hospitals as the immunity declines to other diseases as well. Now the miracle vaccines do not work and so boosters are rolled out every 6 months indefinitely for a disease that is not worse than the flu with lethal results. Now 5 million out of 7.8 billion is minimal. 1% of the population would be 78 million. Car crashes take about 1.35 million people who die in road accidents worldwide every year — 3,700 deaths a day. These journalists are aiding and abetting the destruction of Western society and they seem to know it.

The latest being talked about behind the curtain, we have too many pets that also put out CO2. They can get COVID and also should be vaccinated following the death of the snow leopards.

Journalists Fleeing Mainstream Media


Armstrong Economics Blog/Press Re-Posted Nov 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While more than 50% of the police in New York City wish they never became cops because of the manipulation of society, and there has been the beginning of a migration of police from New York to Florida, there is another trend emerging concerning mainstream media both in the United States as well as in Europe. I have known some of these high-level people in the mainstream media who wanted to report on the forecast of Socrates but have been blocked. There is a great sucking sound with journalists resigning. The interesting aspect is to what who is resigning from what newspapers.

Nellie Bowles of the New York Times quit and she explained how the news is being manipulated. She said she was sent to report on the “mainstream liberal argument” that vandalizing buildings for racial justice was not detrimental because businesses had insurance. “It turned out to be not true,” Bowles wrote. “The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered.”

The entire Rittenhouse divide with people calling this a racist court is ignorant. It seems many in the mainstream media reported it was a Black Lives Matter riot, but the people he killed were white – not black. Has mainstream media deliberately tried to create civil unrest?

One of the editors of the FT just quick because of the same reasons. There has been a mass exodus of journalists from the BBC and the London Financial Times. Mainstream media is denying the truth on every level and we are witnessing the collapse of not just government, but mainstream media. They are pushing ONLY a left-wing agenda and if the news is to the contrary, they refuse to print it.

The FT has been pushing the end of Capitalism when its entire livelihood was supposed to be business. You can’t make up this hypocrisy. There are more people in line to leave the FT. Why work for a newspaper that was founded on capitalism that now supports Schwab and terminating capitalism?

Eventually, in 1945, there was a  merger that created the London Financial Times as one of the largest business newspapers in the world. The FT will fold by 2031 on that 86 year cycle as it is committing suicide. It will fall with this failed effort to end capitalism.

The FT was a newspaper that I once respected, but today, it has become a propaganda rag for Schwab that refused to even allow reporters to investigate the origin of COVID. Was that directive straight out of instructions from Geneva? Why were such investigations not appropriate? Why do they now support Marxism?

The FT also takes money from Bill Gates surrendering its independence and integrity as has been the case at the BBC. The biggest names in mainstream media have simply been sold to the highest bidder.

I have had contact with mainstream media but they are NOT allowed to utter a single word that there is this computer that dares to forecast the decline and fall of this World Economic Forum. The very fact that Schwab is preaching his 4th Industrial Revolution and AI that will change the future would be on point when it forecasts he will fail. The entire Guaranteed Basic Income is the assumption that robots will replace people who will then be unemployable and to save the planet, they need to get rid of the excess humans. That is the unspoken agenda behind these words.

Because mainstream media will not investigate, they would be shocked to find out that these people think we need another 50% reduction in population like the Justinian Plague of 541AD and the Black Plague of the 14th century. The media will never bother to even investigate. Indeed,  the Washington Post’s logo, Democracy Dies in Darkness, is exactly correct. They are the one’s creating the darkness to kill Democracy and usher in Schwab’s new Marxist Wonderland.


Just some journalists who have quit

Widely Reported Thanksgiving Dinner Inflation Survey Claims You Can Feed Ten People For $53.31


Posted originally on the conservative tree house onNovember 18, 2021 | Sundance | 201 Comments

You might have heard media talking about the cost of the “average family Thanksgiving dinner” being 14% more this year than last year [Video Example].  The media is quoting a survey conducted by the Farm Bureau [DATA LINK].  The survey is an exercise in abject nonsense.  Before getting into the details, let’s give an example of how the media is reporting about it [20 seconds] WATCH:

According to the Farm Bureau data being promoted by the media in 2021, a full Thanksgiving dinner for ten people costs  $53.31  – which is 14 percent higher than last year.

FEED TEN PEOPLE for $53.31 ?

I had to look and see what fairy dust these people were smoking to come up with that number.

I found the Farm Bureau website, found the internal data and checked the shopping list pdf.  Here’s what they claim:

Keep in mind, this is presumably for TEN PEOPLE:

Anyone else see a whole lot of silly in this list?

(pdf link)

Good luck making that veggie tray with $0.89 cents worth of carrots and celery.  LOL

Anyone want to try going to the grocery store with $55 for Thanksgiving dinner for ten people?

Silly.

All of it.

MSNBC Producer Detained While Stalking Jury in Rittenhouse Trial – Judge Bruce Schroeder Bans MSNBC From Courthouse


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 18, 2021 | Sundance | 341 Comments

According to police reports last night, an NBC producer named James G. Morrison was stopped while following the bus carrying jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. As explained by Judge Bruce Shroeder earlier today, Mr. Morrison told the police he was under instructions from his New York office to follow the jurors and take pictures.

The NBC producer was following the bus when he ran a red light and was stopped by police. Judge Shroeder stated during court an investigation is underway, and the ramifications are quite serious. In the interim, the judge has banned MSNBC from the courthouse building. WATCH:

[…] “The jury in this case is being transported from a different location in a bus with windows covered so they don’t have to look at — aren’t exposed to — any signs by one side or the other, or interest in the case. So I’m going to call it a sealed bus. And that’s been done every day, and then they are brought here to this building,” Schroeder explained. “Last evening, a person who identified himself as James G. Morrison, and who claimed that he was a producer with NBC News, employed by MSNBC … the police when they stopped him because he was following at a distance of about a block … and went through a red light, they pulled him over and inquired what was going on and he gave that information.”