Political Cartoonist Fired in Australia For Showing Truth


Armstrong Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Oct 27, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Michael Leunig was sacked by the Australian newspaper “The Age.” Vaccines mandated by government have never taken place in history. How dare someone call into question such dictates of governments. Then to have the audacity to equate such tactics to the practices of Communist governments where liberty was never even a privilege, no less a right. In Australia, they are already hinting that you will need continued boosters to retain any rights whatsoever. The press has crossed over to the other side. They now stand against the people and are merely transforming into propaganda organizations as they were under communism.

Here we have Hillary telling BBC that Britain should fire anyone who refuses to take a vaccine, even for religious reasons, now that it has been leaked that these vaccines were made from aborted fetuses. Those in government are out to control people because socialism is collapsing. They are moving to a new authoritarian form of government where they intend to terminate democracy as they have done in Europe. The people never get to vote for the head of Europe nor for the European Commission that makes the laws. Nobody in real power in Europe ever stands for election. They are bringing this system worldwide. The NEW NORM is you have no rights anymore — everything is simply a privilege that they can withdraw as they please.

These same tactics in Russia led to civil war. Will that appear in the West 2022/2023?

Demonizing Your Opponent


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politically Correct Re-Posted Oct 27, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi Mr. Armstrong,
Your ‘great divide’ post just reminded of a story from when Trump was running for office. I work in a hospital. I went to see a patient to give them a medication. I said, ‘I came to see if you wanted XYZ.’ The patient said, ‘Do I have a choice?’. I said, ‘Of course you have a choice, this is America.’ And the patient said, ‘Oh you must be a Trump supporter.’
That is the moment I knew Trump was going to win. I feel like your story has a similar feel to it.

JM

REPLY: Yes it does. Neither politics nor vaccines came into the discussion. It was a bizarre moment setting off alarm bells in my soul that this polarization is very serious. The country has become so split and just resisting tyranny is now somehow you are a problem. During the French Revolution, they confiscated not just the property of the king and the aristocrats, but also the church. Assignats were paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796. They were backed by the value of properties seized from the crown taken over on October 7th, 1789, and those of the Catholic Church, which were also confiscated on November 2nd, 1789.

During the American Revolution, some places confiscated the property of those who opposed the Revolution. Georgia even bragged that their currency was backed by confiscating the assets of those who disagreed with the revolution. They are trying so hard to demonize all resistance and they are using the vaccines to do so while subjecting people to risks. Every vaccine poses risks to some people. It is against human rights to force any medical procedure on people. That was established following the Nazis. This tyranny which pretends to be concerned with people’s lives so it is proper to protect them by stripping them of all rights and independence will blow up in the face by 2026/2027.

The Rising Great Divide


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Oct 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty,
Your last post rings so true. Which why I feel a bit hopeless about CA. Florida, with DeSantis leading is definitely heading in the right direction.

My step, father-in-law is a living example of what you talk about. He is overweight, diabetic, double vaxxed, masked, drives an electric hybrid car, and a staunch Democrat who voted for Biden. I sent him the link to the U.K. daily mail Hunter Biden expose saying that his vote brought that filth into the White House, and he just exploded about how Trump was racist, Trump this, Trump that…. it was never about whether Biden was any good.

He cared not in the least that small businesses, such as mine were shut down last year, or that my kids were kept out of school. He went out of his way to argue that masks prevented infection and the spread of covid. He encouraged people to get tested for covid, and got double vaxxed himself. He uses CNN as a source of “authority”.

And to think that his family fled communist China, and then to see him acting this way is just really mind boggling. You cannot argue with a 60+ year-old man, you just cannot no matter what evidence or counter-arguments you present.

Somehow the double vax did not kill him. I wonder if he will get his booster soon.

Thank you.
SH

REPLY: I had dinner with a friend who brought his son, who was recently married. His wife just completed her degree to be a teacher. All I said was, “Well, stay clear of California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Their pension systems are crumbling.” She responded, “Oh you’re an anti-vaxer.” At no point in the conversation did we talk about politics or vaccines. It seems this vaccine is now defining those who see the loss of liberty compared with those eager to hand over all their rights to get people they disagree with. I think I have a right to live in a free country. They seem to disagree; I should not have any rights if I do not agree with their position. This is the evil of the left who will never live in peace. They have no idea what liberty even means.

Turning Your Hatred of Trump Against Yourself


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Oct 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Do you think Trump was a better president? He was a moron!

HJ

ANSWER: I really think you are too caught up in this idea that the president is actually in charge of the country. I have said from the outset, the 2020 election was NEVER about Trump v Biden. If you really think that Biden is in charge, I don’t know what to say. No matter what party you ever voted for, it is an agenda that rules, not the president. That was Trump’s problem. He thought being president meant you actually ran the country. The Deep State is in charge, and, make no mistake about it, they set the dark agenda.Video Player00:0001:12

Even Schumer admitted that no politicians will EVER criticize the intelligence community, for they have “six ways from Sunday” to get you. The country is NOT a corporation. The president is not in charge of it, and that is a known fact in Washington. They are allowed to play with social benefits. Beyond that, the Deep State will not tolerate interference. It would take the military to take down the Deep State. We have no right to vote them in or out, and no politician will ever do anything against them. It is in so many ways a dictatorship behind closed doors.

The Deep State was supposed to release all the papers on the JFK assassination during Trump’s term. They convinced him to grant them a delay until after the election because they KNEW he would lose. Now under Biden, they are using COVID as an excuse not to release them, and the talk is there will NEVER be a release because the real source was the Deep State — not Russia.

I have been against Biden not because of him personally nor because I thought Trump was a better man. My position has been BECAUSE Biden is only a puppet, and the BUILD BACK BETTER agenda is a global agenda headed by Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum. This is NOT a Republican v Democrat war. Biden has just implemented mandatory vaccines even for Americans who want to travel internationally. In Australia, Victoria is already telling people they will need regular booster shots to retain whatever limited privileges he is granting while converting emergency power to permanent legislation. That is coming everywhere worldwide.

This is We the People v a Foreign Enemy of State — The World Economic Forum. I am sure you will not believe me because you just hate Trump so much. Based upon your emails, you are just a fool who has been manipulated by this agenda. Trump stood in the way. He had to be removed. They had Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. To pull this off, Trump had to be removed.

In his Scranton speech, Biden said, “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road. Off the road.” Gasoline is approaching $9 per gallon in California. Biden tried to track every transaction down to $600. Did you look at his bill trying to take 10% of everybody’s salary and force it as a loan to the government paying an annuity? That is what collapsed the city of Mainz during the 14th century and started the German hyperinflation following the December 1922 forced loan. Were any of these measures even raised during the election? Did you vote to surrender 10% of your salary and surrender your car?

It is sad. But this is only going to end in civil unrest. They have no right to take the Constitution, tear up our rights, and transform them only into privileges that can then be taken away or eliminated at their discretion. Our liberty is something people fought for over centuries. You are willing to relinquish the blood of all those who died fighting for this cause of freedom. Rest assured, your hatred of Trump has been used against you, and you are so blind to your own rights that you are destroying the future of your own posterity.

Another Let’s Go Brandon


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Oct 26, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Senator Josh Hawley Releases Email Showing Sketchy Biden Administration Guidelines for Afghan Refugee Evacuation


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 26, 2021 | Sundance | 95 Comments

This evening Senator Josh Hawley released an email (via Twitter) showing the evacuation guidelines given by the administration to the U.S. officials on the ground in Kabul Afghanistan.  The email details quoted instructions to Gregory A Floyd from someone in the administration speaking on behalf of Joe Biden.

As noted by Hawley: “This email was shared w/ me by an American official present in Afghanistan during the evacuation who was shocked by Administration’s failure to vet Afghans before they were evacuated. Email details orders from Joe Biden to fill up the planes – even without vetting:”

Team,

President Biden phoned Ambassador Wilson with the following directive about who to clear to board evacuation flights.

 “1. Anyone with a valid form of ID should be given permission to go on a plane if that person plausibly falls into the categories we will evacuate: U.S. citizens and LPRs plus their immediate families, LES plus their immediate families, those entitled to an SIV, and Afghans at risk.

2.  Families including women and children should be allowed through and held to fill out planes.

3.  Total inflow to the U.S. must exceed the number of seats available.  Err on the side of excess.”

This guidance provides clear discretion and direction to fill seats and to provide special consideration for women and children when we have seats. I expect that C17 flight volume will increase.

Thank you.

Greg

Virginia Politics Is a Very Narrow Ideological Segment Where Inside Clubs Play


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 26, 2021 | Sundance | 277 Comments

There is a great deal of political media time devoted to the Virginia gubernatorial election that takes place next week.  There is also a major disconnect in the analysis of Virginia politics and what takes place there, so it’s worth pausing and reminding everyone about its unique status.

When an event happens in New York City, the scale of media coverage is so disproportionate to the issue it has historically been laughable.  The media are centered in NYC, so the media focus on events in NYC as if the rest of the country cares.  We don’t.  A waterline break in a NYC subway station gets the scale of national media coverage as if Hoover dam collapsed; most Americans just roll their eyes.

However, because of the proximity to Washington DC, and because of where almost all the federal workers inside the DC system live, that same scale of skewed emphasis is also evident in Virginia when it comes to anything political.

Virginia politics is where the UniParty swamp creatures argue among themselves.  In Virginia the elites in the DNC club debate their high-brow outlooks with the elites in the RNC club.  Virginia is where the traditional DC political establishment of both clubs gather socially to pontificate about their importance in the world of everything political.

Is the whole state like this?  No.  However, the DC beltway is so influential and so populous the other parts of the state are essentially irrelevant to election outcomes.

As the U.S. federal government grew, so too did the swamp physically expand to make room for all the high-minded bureaucrats who run the machine.  Northern and Eastern Virginia were taken over and absorbed into the swamp, the rest of Virginia was cast into the role of Oliver asking for a bit more soup.

When Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were talking about smelly WalMart people, they were really just encapsulating the reality that exists in Virginia, elites -vs- proles, they were not lying; they just said the accepted quiet part out loud and a lot more people saw it, that’s all.

What passes for an acceptable Republican in Virginia is the Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and John McCain brands.  There is almost no difference between an establishment Republican and an establishment Democrat in this region. They eat together, hang out together, party together and generally live their best swamp life together.   As a result, their election debates are usually on nuanced cultural issues.

In the widely covered current governors race, the difference between former governor Terry McAuliffe (Democrat) and first-time Republican candidate Glen Youngkin, is very small.   The clubs keep it that way; and no, they do not care about your opinion.  Anyone who challenges the internecine club system in Virginia will quickly see themselves removed, and the club(s) will modify the party rules to avoid any further encroachment.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe messed things up for his club when he said parents should not be able to influence what happens in their children’s schools.  Republican Glen Youngkin seized on that opportunity to enhance his club….. and as usual, that’s now the central focal point of the Virginia race.

Notice, neither candidate talks much about forced vaccines, workers losing their jobs over vaccines, vaccine passports, tax punishments, job losses or inflation, because the club leaders have instructed the club candidates to chew the fat on an educational and cultural issue they deem to carry national importance.  Additionally, notice how Youngkin will not talk positively about Donald Trump and has not wanted any support whatsoever from Trump because his consultants believe the MAGA mindset is too controversial for the electorate.

You may remember a similar scenario in 2014 when Tom Cotton was running for the Senate in Arkansas and the GOeP club (writ large) told Cotton to tone himself down to a light pastel in order to appeal to “moderate” and “women” voters.  Unlike Youngkin, Tom Cotton refused the consultant advice and went full wolverine against the democrat incumbent Mark Pryor.  Throughout the race club pollsters and DNC media said the Arkansas race was tight and Cotton would likely lose if he kept being aggressive and pro-constitution (a Tea Party theme) in his campaign.  On election night, Cotton won by 17 points.

This milquetoast approach to elections is where the terms “suburban women’s vote” or “suburban soccer moms” comes back into play, as both clubs debate which club has better parenting skills.  Meanwhile, the political consultants are paid to figure out which catch-phrase has the best cultural acceptance rate. Watching this level of political theater is almost as painful as being forced to watch CNN cover a blown water main in New York City, because inevitably we are going to hear the same tired narrative from the Republican pundit class…. “This has national implications.”  No, no it doesn’t.

Vote for Youngkin because at least you’ll have a fighting chance and he’s not a communist.  But don’t consider a state-wide race in Virginia, fraught with nuanced shades of purple, to be a referendum on how the nation feels as a whole.  In Virginia the grassroots divisions are bold, but the party club divisions are almost invisible.

The Virginia Governor’s race is akin to two lovers debating whether Mercedes or BMW will be their next SUV….

…..And that is exactly why RNC President Ronna McDaniel is willing leave the spa a little early, put down her white wine spritzer, walk away from the crustless triangle sandwich buffet and give everyone her opinion on what really matters to American voters.

Manipulating VAERS Data through Underreporting


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Oct 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) was designed for medical providers to report any complications with the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, which would seem to be a valuable tool considering the effects are widely unknown. However, there is no mandate for medical care providers to report side effects to the system.

Whistleblower and Physician Assistant Deborah Conrad, who has practiced medicine for 17 years, came out and said that medical workers are being dissuaded from reporting vaccination side effects. While working at United Medical Center in New York, Conrad reported 50 adverse events, including four deaths, within a four-week period. Her hospital’s chief quality officer reprimanded her for reporting to VAERS as “this level of reporting [has not been found] anywhere else and [they] didn’t hear of similar reports.” Conrad questioned the system. She questioned why an emergency use vaccination was launched to the public without safety gauges and without any notice to medical providers on what side effects they may see or need to treat.

Less than 50% of the community that United Medical Center services have the vaccine, but around 90% of sick patients were vaccinated, according to Conrad. Worse, their ailments went beyond a new strain or reinfection of COVID-19. The PA saw patients experience:

  • A new stroke
  • Bleed
  • Autoimmune Hepatitis
  • Sudden Bilateral Pneumonia or “COVID19 infection”,
  • Syncope with head injury
  • STEMI,
  • New arrhythmias
  • New seizure disorders,
  • New chorea movement disorder, and more.

At least five of her patients developed unprovoked deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolisms within six weeks of receiving the job. She treated four patients who experienced sudden bilateral pneumonia within just one week of receiving the vaccine. The system would not permit her to report patients who developed COVID despite the vaccine.

The VAERS website states:

Healthcare providers are required to report to VAERS the following adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination [under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)], and other adverse events if later revised by CDC:
  • Vaccine administration errors, whether or not associated with an adverse event (AE)
  • Serious AEs regardless of causality. Serious AEs per FDA are defined as:
  • Death;
  • A life-threatening AE;
  • Inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization;
  • A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions;
  • A congenital anomaly/birth defect;
  • An important medical event that based on appropriate medical judgement may jeopardize the individual and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes listed above.
  • Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
  • Cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization or death
Healthcare providers are encouraged to report to VAERS any additional clinically significant AEs following vaccination, even if they are not sure if vaccination caused the event.

There is certainly a grey area between “required” and “encouraged” reporting, as medical providers can use their discretion to claim what caused the patient to experience an illness. For example, if someone is born with a birth defect, it would be difficult for providers to trace that back to the vaccination. The website “encourages” medical providers to report any adverse event, even if they are not sure if it is tied to the vaccine, but some hospitals are actively encouraging their workers not to do so. VAERS should track any ailments within the vaccinated population to see what illnesses they’re more susceptible to contracting. The only reason not to collect such data would be to downplay the dangers of the vaccine. How can individuals and health care providers make an informed decision when the risk is unknown? This raises questions on Fauci’s “safe and effective” vaccine claims.

Trump Launching Social Media Platform


Armstrong Economics Blog/BigTech Re-Posted Oct 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Former President Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform in Q1 of 2022. According to his son Donald Jr., the Trump Media and Technology Group and Truth Social will aim to “counter censorship” and “give a voice to all.” This should be interesting.

Even liberals can see that conservative voices have been muted by Big Tech. Twitter even had the power to completely ban a then sitting US president from its platform. Twitter and other social media sites continually remove all content that does not follow the larger agenda. The internet has become our largest source for obtaining information, but the public at large is only informed on the popular view. Our knowledge and voices should not be suppressed.

The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Geert Vanden Bossche and Robert Malone MD Discuss COVID-19, Scientific Investigation, the Viral Revolution and Political Media


Posted originally on the conservative tree house September 25, 2021 | Sundance | 224 Comments

An interesting discussion between two of the world’s prominent voices Geert Vanden Bossche, expert vaccine developer (Belgium); and Robert Malone MD, the inventor of mRNA vaccines (USA).

The meeting is hosted by Dr. Phillip McMillan (UK), who previously interviewed Vanden Bossche and Malone on separate occasions.  This video interview is an update on the prior conversations and predictions, along with a discussion by the two leading voices in the scientific community who urge caution.

Vanden Bossche takes the current Israeli data and shows how the widespread vaccination rate is creating pressure on the virus to mutate into variants with higher levels of contagion.  The unvaccinated group has been keeping the pressure down by defeating the virus and carrying natural immunity.  However, as the unvaccinated population is increasingly made smaller, the pressure on the virus to mutate increases.  Subsequently, these mutations stay at higher or more effective levels of infection. WATCH: