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Dec 18 2021

Super Saturday Shopping


Armstrong Economics Blog/North America Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

A shopper takes part in Black Friday sales at a Target store in Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 27, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Young

Retailers have their eyes set on Super Saturday, the last Saturday of December to shop before Christmas. Yes, consumerism is still strong enough to require a third shopping-related holiday in December after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates 148 million consumers will be purchasing gifts this Saturday, down slightly from last year’s estimate of 150 million.

The NRF anticipates that the average consumer will spend $997.73 on holiday purchases this year. Consumer behavior has shifted this year due to supply chain crisis fears. Around 180 million Americans purchased gifts during the five-day period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Not to be outdone, the NRF believes sales during the week following Christmas will increase between 8.5% and 10.5% to between $843.4 billion and $859 billion. Sales during the overall 2021 holiday season are expected to increase 11.5% from the last holiday season. This is why around two-thirds of America’s GDP is consumer spending.

Dec 18 2021

Pelosi Fleeing to Florida?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Pelosi appears to be preparing to retire. Pelosi said in response to the infrastructure bill, “I just told members of my leadership that the reconciliation bill was a culmination of my service in Congress because it was about the children.” In Washington lingo, they call the “c” word the retirement hint. She has been pushing this Build Back Better bill and there are democrats rejecting this disaster.

Pelosi has been spotted looking at property in Naples Florida. It looks like she is going to retire but she is going to flee California herself for the taxes there are devastating and will only get far worse. The state has been bleeding the high-end taxpayers well beyond Elon Mush. Pelosi’s district, San Francisco, has increasingly devolved into crime, mass homelessness, and open drug use. Some of the city’s historical family residents have been fleeing in search of greener pastures in Texas and Florida. I find it to be the most hypocritical position to have Pelosi retire in Florida, an increasingly Republican state, which amounts to the ultimate example of a limousine/private jet liberals fleeing the consequences of their own policy preferences. She has spent a career bashing the rich but will retire with more than $100 million in assets fleeing to one of the 7 states with no income tax, strongest economy, and stores that are not the targets of wholesale gang shoplifting sanctioned by law.

Dec 18 2021

6th Circuit Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

The White House fearmongering over the Omicron variant appears to have influenced a judicial review of the federal vaccine mandate. Perhaps, this explains part of the fear-porn motive.  [Court Opinion pdf Here]

More than two dozen legal challenges to the federal vaccine mandate for employers over 100 employees were consolidated into the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.  That federal appeals court has reinstated Biden vaccine mandate for U.S. workers.

OHIO – A federal appeals court has reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine and testing requirement for private businesses that covers about 80 million American workers.

The ruling by the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted a November injunction that had blocked the rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which applies to businesses with at least 100 workers.

In the decision Friday, the 6th Circuit noted that OSHA has historical precedent for using wide discretion to ensure worker safety and “demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers—unvaccinated workers in particular—in their workplaces.”

[…] “COVID-19 is spreading in workplaces, and workers are being hospitalized and dying,” the Justice Department argued in a court filing on Friday. “As COVID-19 case numbers continue to rise and a new variant has emerged, the threat to workers is ongoing and overwhelming.”

[…]  OSHA, which polices workplace safety for the Labor department, developed the vaccine and testing requirements under emergency powers that allow the agency to shortcut the normal rulemaking process, which can take years. OSHA can issue an emergency workplace safety standard if the Labor secretary determines a standard is necessary to protect workers from a grave danger.

The White House has repeatedly argued that Covid presents a grave danger to workers, pointing to the staggering death toll from the pandemic and rising Covid infections across the U.S. (read more)

Was the judicial branch influenced by a highly political medical establishment pushing the administration talking points that Omicron will kill people?   It would appear from the appeals court ruling [pdf here]; the answer is yes.

How do we know the U.S. medical establishment is politically motivated on behalf of their allies in Big Pharma?

Consider this recently released email from NIH Director Francis Collins:

A Nobel Prize winner and two renowned epidemiologists from Harvard and Oxford University refute the COVID-19 narrative as pushed by Dr. Anthony Fauci and the NIH.

What is the response from the NIH?  To get someone to quickly to publish something, anything, that will “take down” the premise of their educated argument.

That my friends, is the essence of political motivation in the medical and scientific community.

The courts are staking their conclusions on a flawed predicate belief that national health services are operating in the best interest of the public health.  As a result of that false assumption, they trust the government to be looking out for the people.

“And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them.”…

…As a result, this long national nightmare continues.

Dec 18 2021

Something Shifting? Washington Post Admits Biden Administration Is Not Following the Science or Medical Community Advice Regarding Booster Mandates


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

This is interesting. On December 14, TechnoFog noted the FDA gave approval to vaccine boosters amid 16 and 17-year-olds without consulting the medical advisory panel on safety and efficacy of the policy shift {SEE HERE}.

As correctly noted at the time, “This is the FDA making a cost/benefit calculation without knowing the costs or benefits. It doesn’t know the real risks, because it didn’t study the potential for adverse reactions in kids aged 16 – 17 years,” yet, the FDA did it anyway.

The issue is actually quite alarming considering there are multiple studies showing that specific age group, especially young males, were negatively impacted by vaccine created heart damage.  Then again, adverse vaccine outcomes may have been the reason why the FDA never wanted to convene a medical advisory board before giving the approval for a vaccine booster to the group most at risk for the adverse outcome.

Regardless of FDA motive, the Washington Post is now following-up on the issue pointed out by Techno Fog and calling out the Biden administration for having the FDA ignore medical community advice:

(WaPo) […] Before last month, the standard practice was for the agencies to convene standing outside advisory committees, whose members inspect the relevant data, debate it and vote. That did not happen in these cases, meaning that the costs and benefits of these policy moves, from a medical perspective, were not fully aired publicly and discussed in advance.

One of us is the former deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review; the other is a former acting chief scientist at the FDA. We believe that much is lost when decisions like these are made without consulting outside experts — whatever one believes about the merits of the policies in question.

At this point in the pandemic, the world faces a host of new questions related to vaccines and boosting. The recommendations of experts on the outside advisory committees are needed more than ever — so the scientific community can understand the empirical bases for decisions, and so the public can be assured that science, not politics, is driving vaccine policy.

In each of the recent decisions we’ve mentioned, at least some experts would probably have voiced opposition (based on earlier scientific debates and votes the two committees had taken, which supported different conclusions). That these experts were not given a chance to make their cases could hurt the credibility of these agencies. (read more)

Ultimately, what both Techno Fog and the Washington Post are now noting is a background of politics, not science, driving the medical policy of the Biden administration.

We can only imagine the media and public reaction to a Trump administration if they ever attempted the same type of policy and ignored medical advice.

The issues here compound when you realize the same FDA is going to push a third dose of Pfizer vaccine into children aged 2 to 5-years-old.   The pharmaceutical scientists are now claiming the dosage of the vaccine was not strong enough for the kids, so they need to inject them with even more vaccine to avoid a virus that is non-threatening to them.

New York Times – A low dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine did not produce a potent immune response in children aged 2 to just under 5 years of age, the companies announced on Friday, a discouraging setback that threatens to keep the vaccine from younger children.

[…] In a conference call with investors and analysts on Friday, Kathrin Jansen, Pfizer’s head of vaccine research, said the company planned to seek authorization for a “three-dose series” in children, instead of the originally planned two doses. If the revised strategy works, “we would have a consistent three-dose vaccine approach for all ages,” she said. (read more)

Interesting…. “investors and analysts“.  Go figure.

Dec 18 2021

White House Fearmongering Over Omicron Now Ridiculous and Over the Top


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

The South African government reports today that the Omicron variant is widespread yet not creating any medical issues.  “Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 cases were admitted to hospital in the second week of infections in the fourth wave, compared with 19% in the same week of the third delta-driven wave, South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said at a press conference.”

At the same time, the White House COVID crisis response team is driving the fearmongering around Omicron at staggering levels of propaganda and fear porn.  During a public broadcast of the White House position, COVID response coordinator Jeff Zients is again claiming that Omicron will kill millions of Americans if rapid action is not taken to shut down human activity.

Zients claims today that a “severe winter of illness and death” awaits anyone who does not adhere to the political propaganda they are pushing. WATCH (01:06):

This is the same coordinated fear messaging Joe Biden was pushing yesterday.   Obviously, the White House has made the decision to double down on the fear porn.

It remains most likely the intensity behind the insane push to create panic is likely motivated by a political need to try and influence the demand side of human activity.

One way to look at the motives of Omicron, as a tool to control behavior, is to look at the political effort as a method to stop travel, work, transportation services and other economic activity that involves the use of gasoline.

In essence, Omicron becomes a tool to target the demand side of higher gas prices.  If the proles would just get fearful, stay home and lock down, then demand for energy would slow, and the citizens would not notice the negative effects of energy policy.

Amid the reality of Omicron not being troublesome from a medical perspective; and understanding that every action the White House takes is from a position of extreme politics; this is the only explanation for their fearmongering that makes sense.

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Dec 18 2021

Communist Congresswoman Pressley Says Failing to Cancel College Debt Is Policy Violence


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

Among other things annoying about their collective nonsense, the communist Democrats are linguistic agitators. While known for their insufferable victimhood positions in all of their arguments, this latest example highlights just how insane and ridiculous this AOC tribe has become.

Originally, they moved from “silence is violence“, to speech they didn’t like hearing about being called violence.  Indeed, anything the leftists do not like, they find some way to equate it with violence against them.  At a certain point it all becomes silly, and the frustrated audience tells them to shut up, and stop being stupid.

However, not going to be denied the opportunity to spread the moonbat nonsense, a member of the AOC squad, Ms. Ayanna Pressley, now rises to say that if American taxpayers do not forgive the mountain of student debt (created by attending college to learn how to be a better communist), then taxpayers are being violent against her:

Anger is a very visible response from the leftists whenever their policies are rejected.  The modern political left does not view rejection as a rebuke of their ideology, instead they view rejection as a need to push harder.

From the generation of new communists, insanely narcissistic people created by parents who were jaw-droppingly coddling and overindulgent, they need to reeducate their target.  They need you to change your thinking and perspectives from incorrect thoughts they don’t agree with to correct thoughts that align with their selfish worldview.  To achieve this outcome, the only acceptable path is to push their insanity even harder.

They have learned from their emotional experiences as children that eventually every parent will relent.  There is now an entire generation who apply that experience toward their bosses, their colleagues and every interaction in their life.   Yes, if you put anyone from this generation into a position of power or influence, what you get is exactly what Pressley and the AOC tribe are doing.  Their worldview is based on a cognitive and emotional inability to contemplate their ideology is flawed.

The emotion of their views is the motive for their effort. As a result, they are incapable of changing direction.  From the perspective of the modern political left, if they were to change direction, they would be rejecting the foundation of their own personal value.  They cannot do that.  It’s not them that are wrong -ever- it’s you.

Those who do not adhere to the insane ideological goals of the far left, are viewed as the problem that must be overcome.  Their emotional attachment to ideology is why these avowed and ideological followers cannot be redeemed or coerced into reasonable positions with any logical argument.  Instead, you must be re-educated to see their worth, to value their ideology… you, the person or group who stands in their way, will always be viewed as the problem.

If you are silent to their proclaimed victim status, you are committing violence against them.

If you state a viewpoint they disagree with, you are committing violence against them.

If you do not give them what they want, or feel they need, you are committing violence against them.

They then sit around with each other in large gatherings and echo chambers discussing the validity of their ridiculous grievances.   This is all they do.  This is who they are.  This is all they know how to be.

Failing to accept the fundamental set of core beliefs within the modern political left, is a flaw on the side of those who engage in the battle for ideas.  It doesn’t matter how good your ideas and policies are, even when you deliver results to prove your accuracy, this specific victim-minded opponent will always revert back to attacking the success based on their view of your wrongthink.

Arguing with a political leftist, in the hope they can be convinced to change direction, is futile.  They are disassociated on a mental and emotional level from any semblance of a capacity to consider they may be wrong.

This is why you can never let up in the fight against them.  Even in victory, the blue-collar working class common sense approach must be relentless.  The modern left has to be destroyed on such a scale as their dangerous ideology is reduced to burning embers; however, do not trick yourself into believing it will ever be fully extinguished.

History has taught us that even when the professional political left is seemingly wiped out, enough will remain waiting for another Obama type personality to blow them gently into a state of reignition…. and the cycle will start again.

Democrats, today’s modern communists, believe in what they are doing, and they will never retreat from their doing it.   The modern political left is intent on destroying the foundation of this nation.  That is their mission, and this fight must be viewed through the urgency of a prism where we accept this is a zero-sum game.

If you are considered the enemy of the modern leftist movement, they will seek your destruction.  The only way to fight this adversary is with brutal hand-to-hand combat where you never, ever, concede an inch.

For God’s sake, if you need a reference point, 27% of them are willing to put an untested vaccine into the arms of their children -without hesitation- to protect against an illness that is non-existent.  Do you really think it’s possible to rationally debate them?

Instead, meet Obama’s “Yes we can“, or Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better“, with a much stronger and unapologetic “Fuck You, Joe Biden“….

That’s how we defeat the insane communists!

Dec 18 2021

Curious Timing – Fire Breaks Out at HQ of Italian State Police on Same Day Vaccine Mandate Begins for Italian State Police


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 17, 2021 by Sundance

As Reuters reported last month {LINK}, the Italian government “extended mandatory vaccination, already in force for healthcare workers, to all school staff, police and the military, beginning from Dec. 15.”  The enforcement mechanism comes from the Arma dei Carabinieri, the state police agency that falls under the military and carries out all domestic policing duties.

On the exact same day the Carabinieri vaccine mandate was scheduled to begin, this happens:

(Italy) – Alarm at the Salvo d’Acquisto carabinieri barracks in Tor di Quinto in Rome: at 12.50 a fire broke out in the military citadel.  The very high flames broke out in the building of the Lazio Regiment, started from a room used as a guesthouse but then covered two floors of a single building. (read more)

Italian suspicious cat, remains, well, suspicious…

Dec 17 2021

What is the Motive


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 17, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While everyone argues over vaccines and who created COVID, all of these debates and questions dominate 99% of the online agenda. There is something SERIOUSLY mining and that simply the end goal and what is the motive. Some try to claim that there are dark forces hidden behind the images of Gates and Schwab. Some claim that Schwab is just a marketing man. What they fail to understand is the MOTIVE and why are politicians jumping at the chance to lock people down?

If any fund manager ran his business the way that all governments, they would be thrown in prison for 20 year+. They continually borrow today to pay the last bondholder. There is no intention whatsoever of ever paying off the debts. The end game is that this scheme is coming to an end. The negative interest rates in Europe have wiped out the bondholders, pension funds, and kept governments on life-support since 2014. There is ABSOLUTELY no way out of this mess other than what I submitted in meetings and when I saw they were more inclined to take Schwab’s ideas, I did the Solution Conference in 2015.

The MOTIVE is to default on all government debts and to hide their failure, Schwab is presenting this as you will own nothing and be happy because governments will erase all debt. Pension will be replaced by Guaranteed Basic Income.

So while everyone argues over COVID, vaccines, COVID passports, and lockdowns, the real plot is never discussed. This is what 2032 is all about. It is the end of an era that began with Keynesian Economics and the Great Depression. Part of Schwab’s 2030 agenda is to end democracy they call “populism” for we are too stupid to know what is best for us, when it is all about them retaining power.

The 2022 elections will be rigged around the world. Australia will probably go to the election in March, or between February and May. In France, the first round of the 2022 French presidential election will be held on April 10, 2022. Should no candidate win a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff will be held between the top two candidates on April 24, 2022. The next Hungarian parliamentary elections will be held in April or May 2022 and this will be certainly a vote on COVID. The next Italian general election is due to be held in Italy no later than June 1, 2023. In Britain, the next general election will be held on May 2, 2024, in line with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. These are just some key elections. Of course, the US mid-term election will be in November that is showing to be a Panic Cycle.

With so much on the line for these people pushing their agenda, their greatest risk is in the elections. The need to control that process to achieve their end goal.

Dec 17 2021

Global Health And The Politics Of Catastrophe – Who will save us from the WHO and its new world order?


Posted originally on TrialSite New by DavidBellDecember 14, 20217 Comments

Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite.By David Bell, MD, PHD

Imagine control of all future responses to virus outbreaks – influenza, for instance – being dictated to the entire world by a cadre of unelected health bureaucrats in a distant country or continent? A repeat of the past two years every time there is a bad flu – but without a control group such as Sweden or Tanzania demonstrating a less harmful alternative? Welcome to COVID-19 Version ##, a future the World Health Organization (WHO) is aiming to realize through a process just agreed in Geneva with your governments.

Most Western people had previously considered the WHO to be a benign, do-good group of people in Geneva dealing with the problems of ‘others’, somewhere where they are presumably needed. We had democracies that looked after ‘us’, governments chosen and held accountable by us, and we never needed the WHO. But it was comforting to know the WHO was there, for others.

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Dec 17 2021

Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Should Not be Vaccinated


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Dec 17, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

This is a horrendous story to report but I would like my readers to have a full understanding of the repercussions of mRNA vaccines. I previously reported that the government-sponsored Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) admittedly records fewer than 1% of adverse reactions, and therefore, we do not understand the full scope of side effects. As of the first week of December, VAERS reported 52 infant deaths and 30,550 adverse reactions in children under 17. Even VAERS acknowledges this figure is drastically understated.

Pregnant and breastfeeding women have been losing their babies due to bleeding disorders after being exposed to the vaccine. A mother-to-be received two COVID shots of Moderna’s vaccine during her final trimester. It was supposed to be “safe and effective” for pregnant women — at least, that’s what her government told her. Her baby was born alive but was bleeding profusely from its mouth and nose. “The doctor said that after the patient was born, there was a cry. When the umbilical cord was cut for newborn care, the nursing staff found that the patient had symptoms of oral and nose bleeding, and immediately asked the pediatrician to intubate and give him oxygen, and he was admitted to the NICU,” according to the report received by VAERS. Case No. 1879991 was listed of dying from “transplacental exposure” likely due to the vaccines given to the mother during pregnancy. “In the NICU, his result of examination showed abnormal blood coagulation, pulmonary hemorrhage [acute bleeding from the lungs], and cardiac dysfunction,” the VAERS report claimed.

Another report notes that a five-month-old breastfeeding baby died from Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP), a rare bleeding disorder, a day after his mother received the vaccine. In another case, a two-year-old child from Alaska “began bleeding out the mouth, eyes, nose, and ears within six hours of the shot,” and died that evening. That specific report has been scrubbed from the internet.

Pregnant and breastfeeding women should be exempt if not forbidden from receiving the mRNA vaccine. Please stay informed.