Amsterdam Police Unleash Dogs on Protesters


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The Netherlands moved into a complete lockdown on December 19 destroying the holiday season of both Christmas and New Year festivities. The government ordered the closure of all but essential stores, as well as restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, museums, and other public places including religion until at least January 14, and any public gatherings of more than two people were prohibited. All of this over Omicron which is a variant of the coronavirus that has been proven to be very mild and a typical tyrannical reaction by governments throughout Europe.

People have captured footage posting it online showing how the police attacked protestors beating defenseless people and then released police dogs to terrorize protesters. The Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema issued an emergency ordinance giving the police the power to clear the central Museum Square by any means. The protesters marched playing music and holding yellow umbrellas in a sign of opposition to the government measures.

These are no longer politicians who represent the people for they have crossed over into ruthless tyranny. There is absolutely no justification for lockdowns and destroying jobs over Omicron. Europe has entered complete tyranny and this is not going to end nicely. They have utterly destroyed the very foundation of civilization and historically these are actions that justify revolution. The police in Amsterdam have proven themselves indistinguishable from the Nazis they once hated.

Stanley Milgram’s research of  Obedience to Authority. demonstrates that the Amersterdam police are doing precisely what the Nazis did justifying their actions with the same claim that they too were just following orders. Why? This is being employed to combat civil unrest. It is also intended to separate the mindless sheep who obey whatever the government, says which complies with Stanley Milgram’s studies.

The Germans put on trial after World War II said that they were just following orders. This inspired Milgram to investigate because many argued that the Germans were just different and could kill the Jews without remorse. At the Nuremberg Trials, those Germans simply said they were just following orders.

Stanley was perhaps the most important psychologist of all time as far as I am concerned. Instead of coming up with a theory, Stanley actually investigates and arrived at a conclusion nobody suspected was even possible. He hired actors to pretend to be shocked by a person whenever they lied. Stanley took random people off the street in the United States and elsewhere to see if the Germans were really a different species. He discovered that people would shock others in a torture setting as long as they were told that was what they had to do.

Stanley concluded his studies which stunned the world. Here we are once again with the police acting the very same as the Nazis during World War II void of all morality or conscience. As long as the police defend the ruthless politicians without questioning any morality, then tyranny will prevail. The police are ensuring the decline and fall of Europe. They are not only acting ruthlessly, they have no regard for their own country aside from drawing pleasure from inflicting pain on others.

Italy & Hoarding Dollars


Armstrong Economics Blog/Italy Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT T FROM ITALY: Hi, in the blog “the war on cash and the dollar” you say as you said
other times that salvation is only in the paper dollar. Here in Italy
if I have paper dollars I have the problem that I can NOT spend them,
I can NOT use them. I agree that it pays to accumulate paper dollars
and I would like to, I know you are right. But here how can I use them
for a living?

Thank you!

REPLY: Yes, you are correct. On a day-to-day basis, you have to use a local currency that is moving toward digital. Paper dollars are being hoarded, not spent except in rare transactions. The same is taking place buying collectibles, real estate, and equities.

What has also been taking place behind the curtain from reliable sources is that European governments have been lobbying the Biden Administration to clamp down on Europeans buying US real estate. The Biden Administration is putting in restrictions to track money moving into real estate. That is being justified with money laundering. In Miami, there has been a major influx of foreign capital moving into real estate and this is being characterized as drug money from South America. In truth, much has been coming from Europe.

The War on Cash & the Dollar


Armstrong Economics Blog/Euro € Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

I have warned that Europe is the epic center for the decline and fall of Western Culture and economic strength. While the US has not yet joined Europe, the Democrats are licking their lips and trying desperately to figure out how to kill cash forcing everything to be digital in search of cash. In Europe, 18 EU countries are now restricting the use of cash and they are desperately trying to terminate cash all for control and taxes. Now it is just presumed that paying in cash means you are engaged in money laundering for that definition has been expanded to just tax avoidance.

Once upon a time, Belgium had an upper limit of €15,000 for transactions in cash. In 2012, they lowered that to €5,000, and then in 2014, they brought it down to €3,000. Bulgaria has outlawed cash payments of around €5,100 euros (10,000 Bulgarian levs) since 2016. A proposed law that has been pending since 2017 will lower that to just €500. The central bank informed the politicians it would not comply with such a low limit. The politicians even went as far as the use of the 500 euro note would have been a punishable criminal offense.

Over in Denmark since July 1, 2021, any payment of up to about 2,700 euros (20,000 Danish kroner [DKK]) is allowed whereas the previous limit was DKK 50,000 since 2013. Prior to that, the limit was from 2006 was DKK 100,000 and once more they claim this is all about combatting money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

France, the origin of communist theory, has been trying to outlaw cash for years. Today, a cash payment limitation stands at €1,000 since 2015. That was lowered from a limitation of €3,000 which was implemented in 2010. In Greece, as of the end of 2016, the upper limit on cash was just €500. Here we have a government that was as corrupt as it could be and screwed the nation by entering a conspiracy with Goldman Sachs to manipulate their debt to enter the Eurozone.  Hence, the government wanted to lower the limit to €300 which would have seriously disrupted tourism and even the ECB objected. The government has imposed laws whereby Greek taxpayers must prove that they spend at least 30% of their taxable income in electronic form. If you failed to prove that 30% of your income is spent by debit/credit card, you will have to pay a penalty tax of 22% on the difference.

In Italy, the government imposed a limit on cash transactions of €2000. However, as of January 1, 2022, the government has lowered that to €1,000 proving that money laundering is no longer drugs, but not paying taxes. Throughout Europe, these trends reveal that the pretend politicians who are supposed to “represent” the people, regard the people as criminals. They have used terrorism as the justification to go after every person in the country. This is why governments have been pushing for 5G to ensure the extinction of cash and to make all payment systems instantaneous.

In the Netherlands, the government moved to introduce a cash limit of €3,000 also claiming that this was intended to be “measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing more effectively”. Spain introduced a law in 2012 on the prevention of tax fraud in Article 7 which forbids making cash purchases of €2,500 or more. That was lowered to €1,000 as of November 2021.

In Germany, there is no limit on cash payments for the purchase of goods. However, consumers who want to pay amounts that are greater than 10,000 Euro in cash, have to show their ID card and the merchant/vendor must document their name, place of birth, date of birth, and home address as well as their nationality.

Using terrorism, all European governments are hunting cash and PRESUME people who pay in cash are engaged in money laundering they now define as simply not paying taxes. I have been warning that part of the strength behind the dollar is the fact that (1) it has never been canceled, but (2) it is the cash reserve of the world with 70% of paper dollars circulating outside the United States as the hedge against their own governments.

Media Begins Their Week Long J6 Attack on Democracy Narrative Engineering Effort


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 178 Comments

Despite the predictability and transparency of the propaganda effort, the media and democrats are going all-in.  All the broadcast Sunday Talk shows were filled with the “democracy in danger” talking points using the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests to drive the agenda.

We can likely expect an entire week of building apoplexy culminating in some form of DC release.  The Lawfare crew and the J6 committee members have been producing this pantomime for almost a year, and it kicks off the 2022 Democrat mid-year election effort.

Along with the traditional democrat pearl-clutchers the republican wing of the UniParty is putting forth the insufferables: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Pete Meijer and the one-eyed Cheney, Dan Crenshaw.   Additionally, the collapse of the ‘winter of death’ narrative combined with the inability of a new canine in the White House to rebrand the occupant, means even more emphasis will be placed on the J6 nonsense this week.

You might have heard that congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG) was permanently removed from Twitter today under the auspices of breaking the approved speech rules for the Rona. However, it seems more likely -or at least more convenient- that her voice was removed due to the forward operational needs of the J6 engineering team.

It’s not going out on a limb to say the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico most likely have their J6 supportive articles written and in the queue for sequentially planned distribution all week.  Certainly, they will launch the first round of articles, based on J6 committee leaks, starting tomorrow.

ABC kicked out a J6 poll today pushing the storyline that most republicans agree the events of January 6th were an attack against democracy. {LINK} And of course, President Trump is to blame for everything that took place.  Democrats are using this opportunity to try and get rid of the outsider threat once and for all.

Not to be outdone, the entire editorial board of the New York Times also claimed today, “the survival of the American republic depends on looking backward to that day.” {LINK} A little dramatic flair from the professional couch fainters.

The democrats must distract to something, must point to something, because there’s literally not a single positive accomplishment for them to refer to on anything.   Gas prices have doubled, energy prices have skyrocketed, home heating costs have doubled, inflation at the grocery store is crushing every worker and, if you believe their fearmongering, COVID is worse than ever despite all the triple-vaxxed, boosted, double-maskers running around shouting at everyone to hide in the bunkers.

Think about it.  They really need the J6 narrative, because there’s literally not a good outcome the leftists can talk about.  The day after the J6 anniversary, on Friday January 7th, a new batch of December employment and economic statistics will be released.

Absent the FBI pulling the trigger on a mass casualty event they have in the queue, and absent a domestic terror event the FBI have prepared for political deployment, they really need the J6 narrative to suck up the oxygen and launch them into the 2022 mid-terms.   Watch out for whatever the DOJ/FBI and J6 committee have in mind.

Do not underestimate how the ‘six ways to Sunday‘ Fourth Branch of Government will coordinate inside government, and externally with partners like Lawfare, in an effort to protect itself.   An intercepted kidnapping plot of Nancy Pelosi or Kamala Harris would not surprise me in the least.  Nor would some kind of FBI-created death threat toward a high-profile Democrat government official.

If the J6 momentum stalls, the DOJ/FBI/Fourth Branch will need some big headline grabbing operation for everyone to focus on.  As the New York Times stated, “The survival of the American republic” depends on it.

Look out for something akin to the FBI operation using Cesar Syoc and his October 2018 ACME pipe bombs filled with “energetic material that may become combustible when subjected to heat or friction,” something like that.

Once you see the strings on the marionettes, it’s impossible to return to that moment when you did not see them.

Neil Oliver Highlights the Ruling Class Elitist Disconnect Using Robert Malone and Tony Blair


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 132 Comments

Immediately following the scenes today in Amsterdam, this seems like a very appropriate place to put the latest remarks on the situation by Neil Oliver.

As the financially controlled GBN professional pundits walk the tightrope between their very visible ideological support for the elitist oppression, and yet tender offerings for an audience thirsting for the freedom message, the stenographers across the pond ask Neil Oliver for his perspectives as we head into the New Year.

Neil Oliver, standing firmly upon the position of the righteous, is forced to play pretend with the pundits in order to broadcast his message.  Yes, the independent and overwhelming majority of significant voices in the rebel alliance have to make these decisions.  It is what it is…. but the message is well transmitted regardless.  WATCH: 

Neil Oliver knows the subtle skills it takes to move the Overton window from the perspective of the ‘right side of history.’  His comments about forced and coerced isolation as a criminal act are not only true, but also well received and well-articulated.

The ruling class, fraught with ever growing fear, has crossed into the Rubicon of lawlessness.  I agree with Oliver that overall, this will lead to a good outcome.  The line of acceptance is different for all people.   We need the forces driving that line to move rapidly in order to assemble the largest army possible.

Unfortunately, we are in an era where we see how weak many of our brothers and sisters have become as the era of dependency, example: “We are the world” collectivism, has rotted the spirit of aggressive individualism.

We are simultaneously trying to move the fulcrum bubble for characteristics like laziness, complacency, guilt and shame.  That type of effort can take a generation, because we were lazy about it before.  We rolled our eyes, dispatched the politically correct, and allowed the indoctrination machinery of education, culture and public policy to shape the landscape.  Now, now we see the longer-term consequences.

On the positive side, the rebel alliance is growing daily.  It takes moments of great consequence to overcome generational complacency.  That is the opportunity we are being given with COVID-19 and the government exploitation of it.

The hidden totalitarian nature of government and ruling class is being revealed, this is a good development for those who were trying desperately to get people to see it before.

I too am optimistic, like the moment in the battle when the disproportionate brutality becomes visible, and the tides change in favor of victim.  The cheers around the colosseum do not have to start out supporting the gladiators in order for the gladiator to ultimately become victorious.  Indeed, any gladiator worth his salt knows the primary goal is to change the chant and instill fear in one gilded chair.

The need for control is a reaction to fear.  Extreme measures to retain control are reactions to equally extreme senses of fear.

All around the world, right now, there are mini dictators tenuously clinging to power and trying to control a much larger mob.  They have multitudes of advisors helping them, they have financial resources, and they have enforcers. However, just as Gaius Julius Caesar lost control with the entire Roman army around him, so too are these dictators and totalitarians subjects to a much larger citizenry.

Squeeze harder…. Please, squeeze harder.

As fast as possible, we need to get to the point where we are finally going to deal with them.  Simultaneously, they are trying to avoid being dealt with.  Squeeze harder, says the slave gladiator as others surface to join the fight.  Squeeze harder.

This will not end well for the ruling class.  So, let’s get on with it

Squeeze harder…

Amsterdam COVID Compliance Police Release the Attack Dogs on Protesting Groups, Literally


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 355 Comments

Previously the police in Melbourne, Australia, held the record as being the most violent anti-protesting enforcement mechanism of a totalitarian state, using tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets to wage war against their citizens. However, today the police in Amsterdam said, ‘hold my beer‘ and went one step further.

Massive anti-lockdown demonstrations in Amsterdam turned into real violence with protesters mauled by police dogs and beaten with batons in the streets.  The COVID compliance police went to extraordinary lengths to be physically violent as noted in the videos from the protest. WATCH:

Another video shows just how massive this crowd was; and, at any given moment, if this crowd REALLY wanted to turn the tables on the police and put blood on the streets, it would have been entirely possible.

Sunday Talks, Is It Omicron Creating Societal Disruption via Staffing Shortages, or Are Companies Missing the Unvaccinated?


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 256 Comments

An interesting question surfaces as the vaccine mandate is enforced.  Is it the Omicron variant creating the labor shortages leading to “societal disruption,” or is it the absence of the unvaccinated workers who have been removed from many companies?

In this segment, Dana Bash asks the chief White House political scientist if the nation should prepare for major societal disruption under the guise of Omicron.   As we have previously noted, the absence of a small number of highly efficient and productive employees, the vital few, can have a major impact on business operations (Pareto’s principle).  Is that what we are really seeing, and they don’t want to admit it?

It does not seem coincidental the specific areas cited by Fauci, police, fire and first responders, are the exact jobs where the vaccination mandate was the most controversial.  Additionally, the percentages he cites are very similar to the unvaccinated percentage previously reported in those work groups.

A data driven Suspicious Cat remains, well, increasingly suspicious.

You decide…

Airline cancellations today, again exceeding 4,000 [FlightAware Link]

It may be an uncomfortable or politically incorrect thing to say in modern times; however, twenty percent of the workers in your system of employment deliver eighty percent of the productivity. Yes, 20% of the workforce around you delivers 80% of the result. This natural truth has been consistent for decades, and within that truism is the nature of man – found in the Pareto Law.

What you need to remember is… if you are reading this, YOU are almost certain to be part of that twenty percentile that your employer or system operator depends on. You are a doer.

You are likely one of the top performers at your job.

You are the person they rely upon.

YOU are the most critical worker in a system that is mostly comprised of less productive people – and that fundamental truth is the important part to remember when you consider the impact of noncompliance with the vaccine mandate.

If doers do not perform their function, it is not the same as the generic Sally Smith not showing up to work. The twenty percent of the workforce that are doers produce eighty percent of the result. Ask any leader within any large organization or operation, and they will affirm this basic truth.

Doers are smart, they are beyond average in intelligence, and once they understand the mission objective, they will solve problems independently. Doers are not sheep. They are smart enough to do independent research and become well skilled and knowledgeable on any issue that is elevated in importance.

Doers don’t just dive into a project without thinking. They control their enthusiasm long enough to formulate wise objectives and figure out a production plan in order to succeed in whatever they’re set to do. Doers give themselves enough time to think and plan, but they don’t stand around debating, they SOLVE.

Doers challenge the status quo looking for ways to improve their task efficiency. Doers do not skimp on quality despite their drive to accomplish tasks. Though they thrive on increased productivity, and enjoy seeing improvements quantified, doers make sure to retain and improve standards for quality.

Doers are self-motivated. They look forward to working hard, and they keep an internal score on their own accomplishments. Doers are proficient at their tasks, and they have an exceptional work ethic. They fuel their internal drive by setting more and more challenging goals for themselves and seek continuous improvement.

Doers don’t sit around waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Doers accomplish goals and objectives with a speed and efficiency that is often annoying for those who do need to be told what to do. Doers tend to move on quickly to the next task at hand right after they finish their last one. However, doers also appreciate pausing to review their success, and they enjoy watching reasonable celebration for achievement – but they don’t dwell on it, they self-motivate to the next goal.

These traits likely sound familiar to you because YOU are a doer. YOU are part of the critical 20 percent of the larger group who accomplish 80 percent of the work. So, when you contemplate that only 20% of the workforce may stand resolute in their independent thoughts for not accepting a forced medical intervention as a condition for employment; remember, that twenty percent are the most critical of critical workers.

That 20% of independent, self-motivated, exceptionally productive – perhaps to a fault at times, workforce is the backbone of any operation, institution, system or workplace. Those who own or manage the workplace know exactly who that 20% are, and they will not want to lose the doers.

The employers and managers will not want to lose the doers, because they know the doers are the ones who can keep hundreds of plates spinning on sticks without being told which plate is wobbling, and which plate needs attention. Those who are in charge of keeping the plates spinning know the system will collapse if they are only left with plate spinners who need to be told which stick needs attention. The bosses know they will exhaust themselves having to give constant direction to the non-doers.

You are not crazy.

You are a doer.

YOU are critical.

In my opinion, this explains what the corporate executives knew, those who requested the change from the CDC, and why they made their request(s).  This fundamental point -and outcome- is an admission the political leftists in government, politics and media need to avoid.

This is why the CDC changes seem irreconcilable when contrast against over a year of false “public health” claims.

Sunday Talks, Fauci Says CDC Quarantine Guidance Will Change Tomorrow After Feedback from Media, Not Science


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 232 Comments

Before getting to this soundbite, a note for those who travel the deep weeds.  Notice how whenever Fauci is answering questions on COVID subjects that are positive to his worldview, he uses the phrase “we“, including himself in the conduct of health officials.  However, whenever Fauci is answering questions that are critical of health officials, he uses the phrase “they“, to distance his role in the decision-making.  This is a key ¹*tell* in any conversation with leadership and/or teambuilders.

In this soundbite [full interview here and below], Anthony Fauci notes the CDC guidance on quarantine exit is likely to change, specifically because the feedback from media has been critical.  The media have been struggling to support the fear narrative, and the CDC changes are not helping them.  As a result, Fauci says the CDC quarantine guidance will change.  Not very science-y, huh?  WATCH:

Fauci, along with Stephanopoulos, is a big fraud and a narcissistic con artist.  Notice in the full interview (below) Stephanopoulos asks if the media should stop focusing on infection rates now.  Transparently, the media motive is to stop the criticism of the Biden administration.

Going deeper on the introductory point:  Blame-casting is a profoundly negative leadership trait, with horrific consequences.  Stable executives, those with extraordinary skills at leading massive institutions, always look for this blame-casting trait when listening to peers, lower-level executives and teambuilders within the organization.

¹The most effective leaders, people of the most consequential influence, listen 95% of the time and speak only about 5% of the time. And when they do speak, the overwhelming majority of that time is simply to ask more questions.

If you want to become a leader of enormous consequence, listen more, speak less, even if that means silence.  For those of you who are young in your career, consider this advice for a New Year resolution.   It is not easy to listen 90% and talk only 10%.  Those who can do it have extraordinary confidence in who they are, confidence expressed with a rare currency of leadership humility.

People who speak less are considered more measured, stable-minded, more thoughtful, contemplative, analytical and more strategic.  These are tremendous assets in a large organization.  Again, for most people listening is not an easy skill to develop; it takes time, mentorship, a great deal of practice and intense focus at first.  However, once you learn how to listen effectively your influence will skyrocket.

Listening is also a strong negotiation skill in both life and business.  When you encounter a problem with a product or service, you can watch how powerful it is just by staying silent as soon as both parties understand the problem.

Rather than repeating your argument/position in multiple terms, learn to state your position with clarity and focus, including all the reasons why your position on the issue at hand has merit.  THEN SHUT UP, even if you are tempted to speak, even if the reply is nonsense, stay silent.  The other party will almost always start speaking again.

As long as you are silent, the other participant is carrying the monkey of the next move in the negotiation or arbitration.   If you are forced to break the silence, do so only by asking a question about the position of the other party.  Clarify using your words regarding what you just heard, and ask if that is correct. Then, shut up again.

In both large organizations and small teams, those who have either an inherent or learned skill in the art of listening are always the most influential and the most valuable.

For those of you who are employers or already leaders, whenever you hear a person or team-member use “we” when describing positive outcomes and “they” when describing negative ones, do not EVER -regardless of their other skills- consider elevating their leadership in your operation or organization.  If you do, you are setting your organization on the path to failure in the long term.

This little pro-tip on listening and speech has been consistently true.  However, only a select few people are gifted and/or able to do it.

Here’s the full interview with Fauci:

PROOF “VACCINE INJURY’S ARE RARE AND MILD” SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE SERIOUSLY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH


More bad news for parents and Kids

First published on BITCHUTE at 11:38 UTC on November 18th, 2021.

Dr. Robert Malone mRNA Inventor – Kids Will Die from the Vaccines


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong