What The Heck – Joe Biden Shouts at The Audience, He Wants Americans To Pay Even More For Gasoline


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 307 Comments

This is nuts.  The White House occupant doesn’t have any idea what they are loading into his teleprompter at this point, he just shouts it at the audience as if it’s supposed to make some kind of bizarre sense.   This doofus is totally off his rocker.  What does this even mean?  WATCH (20 seconds):

I’ll look for a more expanded explanation as to what this idiot is supposedly saying.  Good grief, what a knucklehead.

This stuff is just nuts.  This guy is truly a meme of himself….

Court Filing, FDA Wants to Wait Until Current Generation Dies Before Releasing Documents Detailing Vaccine Approval


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 319 Comments

A simple question should be posed to the FDA about their vaccine authorization position:

How does a person give ‘informed consent‘ when the information is withheld?

Perhaps the judge in the case against the FDA will ask the question, perhaps not, but the question remains.

The FDA took a grand total of 108 days to decide the Pfizer vaccine was safe, given the data shared with them by the pharmaceutical company.  The same FDA is now saying they need 75 years to provide the public with the same data.  This is not a confidence building position by a federal regulatory agency attempting to instill public confidence.

Aaron Siri, the lawyer suing the FDA to get custody of the documents used by the FDA in approving the vaccine, is providing an update today [SEE HERE].  Mr Siri notes the FDA is now saying they will not be able to complete fulfillment of the public records release until the year 2096.

Aaron Siri – […] “My firm, on behalf of PHMPT, asked that this information be disclosed in 108 days – the same amount of time it took for the FDA to review and license Pfizer’s vaccine.

The Court ordered the parties to submit briefs in support of their respective positions by December 6, 2021.  The FDA’s brief, incredibly, doubles down.  It now effectively asks to have until at least 2096 to produce the Pfizer documents.  Not a typo.  A total of at least 75 years.

Other than producing an initial ~12,000 pages in around two months, the FDA thereafter only wants to commit to producing 500 pages per month.  The FDA also disclosed that it actually has approximately at least 451,000 pages to produce.” (Read More)

Sketchy… All of it !

Big Tech Filtering Information from Ghislaine Maxwell Trial, Now Removes Twitter Account for Trial Tracker


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 123 Comments

I’ve never put too much thought toward imagining what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all of the blackmail he was assembling within his sick, perverted, creepy and evil sexploitation network.  For the same reason, I do not watch gore or horror.  There’s just some stuff I choose to be careful about putting in my brain.  At the same time, I hope for justice for those victimized -in whatever form that may manifest- and I pray for God’s comfort upon them as they try to cope with a life damaged by such an evil enterprise.

That said, at a high level review of what Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were doing, there’s no doubt some of the most high-powered and influential people in their social circle are at risk of exposure for their participation in the depraved and vulgar activities.

It seems that many people in high places were a part of that evil debauchery, and as a consequence, there’s a strong motive to control any sunlight upon it.

A simple Twitter account, that was providing some of the top-level details from within the ongoing trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, has been removed without prior notice to the account holder.

The account was doing nothing more than pointing out the bullet points of what was happening inside the locked courtroom each day.  Yet, for some reason the people who need darkness didn’t like it.

There’s a lot of sunlight avoidance happening these days… and you know what that means…..

…More SUNLIGHT is Needed.

♦ You can check out the written details of what is happening inside the courtroom on their Substack channel HERE.

♦ There’s also a YouTube Account, from a person sitting through each day in the courtroom and giving nightly updates on what is taking place – SEE HERE.

Biden Team Hold Backroom Talks With National Media, Instructions to Put Positive Spin on Economic Reports


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 213 Comments

According to media reports of the meetings, the people responsible for the Biden administration are instructing U.S. media outlets to report on the economy as if things are going well.

Unfortunately, massive Biden spending programs, in combination with fiscal policy, monetary policy, energy policy and mandatory vaccination policy, have created a perfect storm of inflation. That storm is growing in scale and scope and is likely to get much worse before it stalls.

The White House demands that media must ignore stunning price increases at the supermarket, jaw dropping home heating costs this winter, prices at the gas pumps that are 50 percent higher than last year, backlogs in the supply chain due to environmental regulation at West Coast ports, and a shortage of critical blue collar workers inside the U.S. Main Street economy due to the vaccine mandate. “Other than that, how did you like the play Mrs. Lincoln?”

In short, the White House wants the U.S. media to apply more cowbell to their propaganda.

Even CNN is having a tough time accepting the instructions:

The White House, not happy with the news media’s coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials — including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari — have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.

The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country’s economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials… (read more)

The Story of Ivermectin


Published originally on Rumble by TemporarilyGrounded on August 26, 2021

Italy’s Super Green Pass


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Italy is now among the growing list of countries that refuses to allow unvaccinated individuals to participate in society. Italians must provide a Super Green Pass that shows proof of vaccination or recovery from COVID within the past six months. Those without the Super Green Pass will be banned from entering restaurants, gyms, bars, hotels, movie theaters, music venues, sporting events, and more. Although the restrictions are supposed to end in mid-January, there is a good chance the “precautions” will be extended.

Italy initially introduced the Green Pass in August that placed certain limitations on the unvaccinated, and those restrictions were later extended. The Super Green Pass is only valid for nine months, upon which adults and children must be subjected to the vaccine again. Prime Minister Mario Draghi hails these measures as the method to saving Christmas. “Our thoughts are of the dead, the fall in economic activity by 109 percent, the closed businesses, the children out of school,” Draghi stated. Economic activity is down 109% due to the laws that are continually imposed on society to prevent a mostly non-life-threatening virus.

Businesses Relocating to Texas Every Five Days


Armstrong Economics Blog/North America Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Companies are rapidly fleeing to Texas. Governor Greg Abbott has stated that Texas will soon become “the home of semiconductor manufacturing.” He would like to discontinue outsourcing the manufacturing of essential supplies and incentivize businesses to relocate. “The country made a mistake over the past one or two decades to farm out manufacturing of all these essential supplies, whether it be now semiconductors or could be health care supplies that we needed during the time of COVID, whatever the case may be, we need to not depend upon China or other countries for our essential needs, for things like semiconductors,” Abbott told reporters at Fox News.

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor facility in Taylor, Texas, which makes it the largest foreign direct investment in the state’s history. The plant will create 2,000 jobs alone. Increasing semiconductor production is crucial to combat the worldwide shortage and will help to smooth the overall supply crisis. Texas Instruments is also seeking to invest $30 million into semiconductor production.

Elon Musk reported that he plans to relocate Tesla’s headquarters to Texas as well after receiving a less than warm welcome in California. In the first eleven months of the year, over 70 businesses have relocated their headquarters to the southern state, meaning a new company relocates to Texas around every five days. Businesses are keen on more than just the tax breaks. Abbott boasted that Texas has “no mandates infringing upon individual liberty,” and has actively fought against any mandates. “The only mandate that applies is my executive order saying that nobody in the state of Texas can be mandated to take a vaccine shot,” Abbott said, noting that a COVID vaccine is “available for anybody who wants it, but there can be no mandates infringing upon individual liberty.”

Vaccine mandates are bad for business. The states imposing harsh restrictions do not understand the economic impact, while other states will see a lucrative benefit to fighting for human liberties.

Is COVID Following the Economics of the Black Plague?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While just about every historical piece on the Black Plague you will read tells the story from the plague perspective. However, I look at history differently. I always correlate everything from all sides and what all the reports on the Black Plague overlook are the economics of the crisis. While there are no GDP records, which is why they ignore the economics, there is a coin record that also provides an eye into the very existence of the crisis at the time. What is also omitted is that Mount Tambora erupted in 1815 which set in motion a volcanic winter. The worse instances of disease follow periods of a severe winter where food production collapses creating malnutrition leaving people more susceptible to disease.

The estimates on world population are unrealistic and only show a 2% decline in population during the 14th century. This does not match either the contemporary accounts of the devastation or even the coinage record of the period. The Black Plague took place during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377), which contemporary accounts place the devastation between 30% and 50% of the population throughout Europe. We should take this as a sample of the rest of the world since this came from Asia and was carried to Europe by fleeing troops from the plague in Crimea with the invading Tartars who began catapulting their dead into the forts of the Europeans.

Today, we see the hatred building as the governments target the “unvaccinated” precisely as they were blaming the Jews during the Black Plague. Indeed, the Jewish population of Europe was turned into the spreader of the plague pandemic of 1347-1350. Although other religious groups were pursued, the Jews were accused of both actually creating and spreading the plague (Cantor 2001; In the Wake of the Plague. Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.)

In Spain, as well as Germany and Italy, Jewish families were marked with distinctive clothing, isolated, and killed. Hitler was not the first to require distinctive clothing to identify the Jews. When the plague hit southern France in 1348, the hatred of the Jewish people was unleashed. Four Jewish citizens were dragged from their houses and burned at the stake on the mere accusation that they had poisoned the town’s water supply with plague. The initial charges of spreading the plague in southern France led to an outbreak of accusations, and an explosion of death where more than 2,000 Jews were burned alive in France and Germany (Tuchman 1978; A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Ballantine Books, New York, NY.)

Once the Jews became the scapegoats during the Black Plague, that distinction remained for centuries. The Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (1474-1504) initially tried to protect the Jewish population from the Inquisition about 100 years later because of their economic importance throughout the country as moneylenders. Nevertheless, once society had been divided during the Black Plague, there was no return to normal even 100 years later. Thus, the practice of blaming the Jews continued and eventually led to The Spanish Inquisition in 1478. This is what we need to fear that the division within society between the vaccinated and non-vaccinated will remain for decades to come. There will be no return to normal.

Clearly, the Black Plague not only divided society as we have today but by the drastic decline in the population of Europe also sparked a labor shortage that re-instituted wages. Once again, there is a massive shortage of people willing to work. Small businesses, even in Florida, are hard-pressed to find employees. In this respect, we have not just the division of society, but we also have similar shortages of labor.

We can see from the price of wheat that the first all-time record high came the year after the eruption of Mount Tambora led to the year without a summer in 1816. This was the only other volcano to alter the climate for 100 years other than Mount Shamora also in Indonesia erupted in 1257 which was also a 7 on the scale of eruptions. Both took place in Indonesia. Clearly, Mount Tambora set in motion the drastic climate change to cooling which undermined agriculture which at that point accounted for even 75% of the civil workforce in the United States.

For a brief shining moment during the Black Plague, real free markets existed. Labor rose in value naturally based upon demand. Serfdom was brought to its knees by the shortage of labor which was only made far worse by making the Jews unemployable. Landlords were forced to begin paying wages and the collapse in economic activity led the European kings to ignore the impact and raise taxes in their own self-interest. This is when we see the introduction of the poll tax, for if the common people would now earn money, then that was a new source for taxation. Can you imagine if retail sales declined, so instead of lowering prices, the store raised them to try to make up its lost profits? This is how governments always respond.

As long as there was serfdom, people never paid taxes, only the “rich” landowners. This economic change of free labor (capitalism) produced the first tax rebellion in France and then England. The shortage in labor sent agricultural prices soaring. The landowners said this wasn’t fair that wages were rising and England passed legislation to reverse the free markets trying to reduce inflation. In 1362, a petition was filed in the English House of Commons blaming inflation on workers “who refuse to bear the burden of poverty patiently” to justify freezing wages.

It was at this time that taxes rose sharply, causing hoarding of capital among labor and landowners, reducing the VELOCITY of money. Ordinances now appeared prohibiting the exportation of precious metals from England as hoarding increased. Edward had introduced what was to be the first regular gold coinage of England in 1344 known as the Gold Leopards based on the Italian Florin standard. Because of the hoarding, the issue was short-lived as these coins are extremely rare.

Edward III issued the Statute of Labourersin 1351 that set a maximum rate of pay at pre-plague levels and required all able-bodied men to work. The Black Death created a very dynamic economic impact by increasing individual wealth, reducing the population creating a shortage of labor, and price inflation. These were the free markets at their best.

Edward replaced the Leopards with a gold series known as the Noble which was havier. This became the first stable gold coinage of England reflecting the inflation that was emerging wheat prices began to rise on the back of labor shortages.

The silver penny was the mainstay of the monetary system following the old Roman denarius. However, inflation soared during the Black Plague creating stagflation. Shortages unfolded thanks to the collapse in the workforce and the coinage reflects this inflation for by 1851, Edward III introduced the Groat (4 pence) which became a standard coinage post-Black Plague reflecting the sharp rise in the cost of everything.

The statement that inflation was “transitory” from both Janet Yellen and Powell at the Federal Reserves was complete nonsense. It has been simply the self-serving political twist that is not based on any analysis whatsoever and has proven to be nothing more than simply an opinion.

Sanctions and Starvation in Afghanistan


Armstrong Economics Blog/Middle East Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

(Afghanistan-related designations are one of the few cases in which President Barack Obama’s administration imposed more economic sanctions (103) than President Donald Trump’s administration (24), which was publicly engaged in peace talks with the Taliban from 2018 to 2020 and issued fewer sanctions. (U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control; Sanctions Explorer))

When the US left Afghanistan at the end of August, they implemented harsher sanctions on the Taliban. Western aid to the nation vanished, and Afghanistan became isolated from the world economy. It was never America’s job to uphold Afghanistan, but the impact of abruptly leaving after two decades of occupation has caused insurmountable trouble to the people our troops fought to protect. Now, over half the country is likely to experience food insecurity and starvation this winter.

Of the 22.8 million Afghans facing food shortages, 8.7 million are expected to face famine. In addition to the Taliban’s utter ignorance on how to run a country, the nation has experienced its worst drought in decades that has killed off livestock and crops. The New York Times reported that Afghanistan’s wheat harvest will be cut by a quarter this year, and many rural farmers have abandoned cultivating their land entirely.

The World Bank recently voted to provide the nation with $280 million in previously frozen donor funds, but this is a small portion of the $1.5 billion in frozen assets. The US entered Afghanistan for 20 years and left without a plan under Biden. Over 7,057 servicemen and women have died in post-9/11 operations, and an additional 30,177 died of suicide. No one wins when it comes to war games

President Biden Pledges to Provide Billions in Economic Benefit to Russia Through the Build Back Better Climate Change Program


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 7, 2021 | Sundance | 87 Comments

Many Americans have no idea that Russia is an OPEC member.  Even fewer recognize that Russia’s primary economic export is energy via oil and gas.  Oil and gas exports drive the Russian economy.  Any U.S. policy that drives up the value of oil and gas directly enhances the economy and influence of Russia.

Thanks to Joe Biden’s specific energy policy shutting down U.S. energy exploration, Russia’s economy is booming and has made billions more in the sales of high priced oil and natural gas into Europe and the global marketplace.  That increased oil and gas revenue is directly responsible for Russia’s ability to expand militarily in the region.

So when it comes to threats, like Russia annexing even more of Ukraine as a strategic objective…. Joe Biden is strengthening Russia on one hand and threatening the strength of Russia with the other.  Russian President Vladimir Putin sees this with clear eyes.

Meanwhile the NATO partners who *claim* to be worried about Russia (they’re really not) are the same nations that are buying the oil and gas from Russia.   This was the ridiculous economic dynamic President Trump confronted when he challenged NATO on their energy and national security policies.   Tucker Carlson discusses this: