What Can We Do?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Jan 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Our brilliant politicians have destroyed so many jobs I am sure Bill Gates, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab will send them a thank you for the new year in helping to further their agenda. The manipulation of the COVID-19 pandemic to scare people is beyond comprehension. Even the 2009 Flu Pandemic the CDC reported that “[f]rom April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.”

To date, under COVID, they estimate that 20 million people have caught this new version. Even the 2009 flu the CDC estimated 3 times that were infected. We did not close down the economy nor did we force vaccines and create lists of those who resisted. I know at least 5 people who have had COVID and all said it was like the flu for 1 to 2 weeks.

I have gotten a number of emails asking what can we do? It looks like there will be a 3rd Party forming. We need to nurture that because both the Democrats and the Republicans are all about maintaining political control over the people. We can see what they have already done and we have reached the point where we must cross the Rubicon and our view is not tomorrow, but to start building a society that will never be a republic ever again for the post-2032 era. We have tried authoritarian, monarchy, dictatorships, and republics. Perhaps now it is time to try a real Democracy. The people must vote on every major change and the voting must be done by computer online cross-reference to the IRS tax records. You must be filing taxes to vote and only once eliminating dead people. There can never again be career politicians. The people will have to be qualified and sit for one year term to oversee the bureaucrats.

The office of the inspector general must be free to charge anyone with corruption and there can no longer be “discretion” so the courts must be established as they once were – chancery v law. However, the computer using AI decides cases, and to appeal there must be a 9 panel of judges who are there also for one year and are nominated only by the legal profession – no party politics. Even this will not create a permanent free government. No government ever survives because people will always find a way to corrupt the system. There should be NO direct taxes, and at best, a retail sales tax that is to be fixed and would require a 2/3rds vote from only the people to ever change. NEVER can there EVER be allowed any private “donations” to any government agency and any bureaucrat taking any privilege from any private citizen should be subject to life imprisonment and the private citizen as well with no parole.

Form a 3rd Party, and I will be glad to donate my time and resources to leave behind a better world for my posterity by cutting off every loophole possible.

Senate Overrides President Trump Veto of Defense Bill


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

President Trump vetoed [H.R. 6395 (116)] the National Defense and Authorization Act spending bill last month, because the bill did not include a demand to repeal legal protections for social media companies known as Section 230. Additionally President Trump opposed forcing military bases to be renamed; and more importantly Trump objected to congressional limits on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan & Europe.

Congress used the NDAA to demand U.S. troops remain present around the world to expand our military influence. Various foreign governments pay congressional representatives -via the leadership PAC and monetary laundry service- to retain the blood of U.S. service-members on their soil.

DC politicians accept foreign money and trade in the currency of dead U.S. military members to enlarge their own stock portfolios. President Trump was viewed as against the interests of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees for his ongoing attempts to stop this payment scheme.

Today the senate voted 81-13 to override President Trump’s veto of the bill. Thirteen democrat and republican senators voted to support the veto, however, some of the GOP were hiding their alignment behind an opportunity to give the illusion of MAGA support.

The republicans supporting the veto were: Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and John Kennedy (R-La.). The democrats supporting the veto included: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

(Via Politico) […] “For 60 years in a row, the NDAA has provided necessary support for our troops and national security,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), said in a statement after the vote. “Today’s vote sent a clear message that Congress will not allow President Trump to stand in the way of that support, and I’m relieved the critical bipartisan priorities we fought for will become law.”

[…] “A lot of people contend, as I do, that every year the NDAA’s the most significant vote that we have,” Senate Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. “This year especially so in light of all of the disruptions and problems that we’ve had.”

“This legislation is essential to the national security of the United States and to the welfare of the troops and families who defense us every day,” added Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Armed Services Democrat.  (read more)

Hey, if it takes a few arms and legs to keep our portfolios fat and happy… and simultaneously we can protect our donor friends at Google and get rid of this annoying Trump…. well,…

COVID-19 Usefulness to Execute Great Reset, The Great Wealth Transfer of 2020 From Main Street to Wall Street


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

In this outline we will explain the usefulness of COVID-19 as a weaponized tool to transfer wealth and achieve a global economic reset.  If you have followed the economics of Main Street -vs- Wall Street (Multinationals), you have a baseline to understand these steps.

If you get too granular, missing the larger picture, it is difficult to understand. However, if you stay at the elevated perspective, understanding leads to awakening.  We begin…

In generally approximated terms 2020 has delivered a serious financial blow to Main Street businesses.

The COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have led to business in your local community suffering massive losses of income while simultaneously taking on debt directly from lenders or indirectly from government relief efforts.  Main Street has been hit hard, some analysts estimate 40 to 50 percent of those businesses may not recover.

Conversely, the COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have created a massive income benefit for multinationals, Wall Street corporations and big tech.  Amazon, Walmart and massive tech companies had their highest earnings ever recorded in 2020.

According to most maco-analysis somewhere around forty percent of Main Street economic wealth was lost or suspended in 2020 due to COVID-19.  Simultaneously the multinational firms have seen increases in stock evaluations of forty percent.  These two almost identical numbers are not coincidental.  The billionaire class (multinationals) have gained wealth in an almost identical amount the middle-class (Main Street) lost.

These empirical results are accepted.  No-one is challenging the shift of financial resources was/is directly related to regional COVID policy.  The math is the math.

Where things change from simple economic math to downstream consequences is where the story is really told.

This is where we are going…

This is where we have been going ever for decades, COVID-19 has  (not coincidentally) just sped up the process.

If you take out a national map and: (1) put a green pin in the areas where the lock-downs are most severe (draw a 100 mile circle); then (2) put a red pin in the areas where the riots and local anxiety was highest in summer 2020; then (3) put a white pin in the seven counties where election fraud was prevalent; then (4) put a blue pin in the areas known as “Opportunity Zones“, what you will see is a direct correlation.  This is not accidental.

There are more than 8,760 designated Qualified Opportunity Zones (PDF) located in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five United States territories. Investors can defer tax on any prior gains invested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) until the earlier of the date on which the investment in a QOF is sold or exchanged or until December 31, 2026. (link)

If you are a member of ‘THE BIG CLUB’ with a massive influx in capital due to the benefits of the COVID-19 lockdowns, limits and regulations, the Opportunity Zones are now the perfect place to expand ownership and wealth.   Take advantage of the Main Street weakness, make moves with government authorization, and do so without capital gains.

The regions where real property will be purchased at a low cost will, not coincidentally, be the “opportunity zones” where investment transactions without capital gains can be made. The areas where riots took/take place will sell cheap. “Opportunity zones” allow for mass investment moves from billionaire class without paying capital gains taxes.

The mass accumulation of wealth (multinationals) at the upper tier of Big Tech and the multinational billionaire class (technocrats) during COVID is approximately +40% since it began.  40% of Main Street businesses wiped out. Not coincidentally almost 40% of wealth has been transferred from Main Street to the Wall Street mega-corps and multinationals.

“Never let a crisis go to waste”…

Only in 2020 the “crisis” was (yet again) by design. The highest level of COVID mitigation control in the Blue states is not coincidentally in the same states with the largest number of Opportunity Zone regions. As a direct result of this mass transfer of wealth to the upper tier the “opportunity” is an unprecedented level of Main Street ownership by elite interests and foreign nationals.

It gets worse… Just like the banking and real-estate crisis of ’07/’08 the government steps in to back-fill the Main Street losses to the mass U.S. population.  However, the problem is the relief funds cannot be spent in Main Street because it remains locked-down.

When an individual or family receives the relief money, they still cannot support Main Street because it remains forcibly closed. Paying down debt and making purchases in the same lock-down strata only ends up putting those relief funds into the hands of the multinationals who are allowed to operate.

Continued consumer spending only feeds the beast that is -by policy via purchased politicians- designed to destroy us.

In essence, we are paying the Technocrats/bankers to foreclose on our home/business.

This is by design…. This has always been the design… CTH has been warning about this for well over a decade and we exhibited the (un)natural conclusion with this graphic:

[EXPLORE GRAPHIC]

There is a way out of this cycle and we will expand on those ideas in future posts.  However, it takes everyone fully understanding the dynamic to realize exactly how urgent this time is for our nation.  The global interests within the BIG CLUB have a plan; and they are executing that plan…  If you do not accept the battle, you cannot win the war.

Do not feed the system that is designed to destroy you.  Move your money away from big massive banking institutions and put it into local banks and credit unions.  Spend your income in smaller businesses on Main Street.  Do not shop at multinational corporations.

We are going to have to get out of convenience mode, or we will ultimately destroy ourselves. Do not use Amazon or related convenience systems for purchases.  Do as much local purchasing as possible.  Buy made in America products; it is an investment in our own economy.   Economic patriotism is how we defeat globalist economic expansion.

Example: The second highest expense to housing for the average American is food purchasing.  Do not shop at multinationals for food and beverages.  Shop at privately owned or independent grocery stores that are not part of the multinational system.  Publix (southeast), HEB (southwest) and IGA (national) are examples of privately owned grocers. Try to avoid Ahold, Aldi, Walmart, Whole Foods and other similar multinationals.

Defeating the “Great Reset” is a choice each individual has to make.

The weaponization of COVID is the ongoing crisis that will facilitate government solutions.  As the American people resist the COVID crisis, those who need to weaponize it will keep turning up the pressure.  They must control the economic activity.

That pressure will continue until the American people can no longer take it and will accept the solution.  We are watching deployment of an identical playbook used previously using taxpayer funds to finance Wall Street, Multinationals, Big Banks and political allies in 2008/2009.

  • COVID crisis 2020 replaces the housing/banking crisis 2008.
  • Pelosi repackages the TARP strategy as a COVID response.
  • Blue states are bailed out in 2020 like the Too Big to Fail banks in 2008.
  • Wall Street & multinationals benefit as they did in the 2008 operation.

…And the great reset begins.

Selective Enforcement – Who Gets Crushed by Joe Biden’s Pending COVID-19 Regulations


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate.  [Usefulness As A Narrative]

Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?… That is the key question.

The answer is economic wealth transfer, and societal shifts under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon and we are about to discover exactly what the purpose of the hype is all about.

What follows will help understand; and when you encounter the fear it will help to reconcile what people cannot figure out.

Joe Biden is an avatar; a political pawn; a cognitively declining guy who has no idea what is happening around him. The people behind the Biden campaign, those in real control of what this is about, have not hidden their goals and aspirations. These are not stupid people. They are scheming, conniving, ever-planning, ever-manipulating & Machiavellian types within the political system; lusting for power, influence and affluence.

What they are planning to do is weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within it for almost a year. Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.

Think about the Dept of Agriculture (SNAP/food stamps), the Dept. of Labor, the Dept of Education, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Dept of Labor, Dept of Energy and how they would join with the DoT to create the aggregate raging river of regulation.

Think about the federal government using mandates for enforced national COVID-19 compliance rules. Think about USDA (Dept of Agriculture) and OSHA federal inspections for social distancing (etc) in all businesses, not just restaurants.

Think about the COVID-19 regulatory and compliance system and what political beneficiaries stand to gain.

Think about the Dept of Education using COVID to restructure the way education is taught and the downstream regulations on charter schools and non-compliant educational systems that do not meet the ideological objectives of the master control plan.

Think about how the Dept. of Labor (complaint division) can be weaponized against political opposition based on arbitrary inspections under the guise of employee health and safety…. using federal COVID compliance rules.

Think about required days off for the entire employee base if a single infection is identified in the workplace. Paid days off…. funded by Federal Government. Think about how that changes the income dependency dynamic.

Think about the larger Green New Deal (goals and objectives), and then contrast those objectives while aligning an overlay map of how federal COVID mitigation rules can be applied as a back door to the EXACT SAME objective.

Far beyond masks…. Workspaces being forced to be redesigned. New rules on labor density. New rules on labor/manufacturing and office proximity. New rules on uniforms. New rules on hand-washing stations. New rules on sick pay, shift hours, time-off when a COVID infection is detected in the workplace.

Think about everything from rules on surfaces, to rules on packaging, to rules on ALL business operations as an outcome of federal regulatory policy under the guise of CVOID-19 mitigation. OSHA, Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Education, Housing, Health and Human Services, and even federal building permits… the entire regulatory system and compliance network.

Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants. Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to “ensure the common safety” of the citizens.

If you think this is fear-mongering, I want to to evaluate that cynicism while contemplating this recent example from California:

ENFORCEMENT – Think about those types of business regulations applied on a National level…. and then, as seen in prior Democrat administrations with IRS etc, think about them also being enforced through the prism of political affiliation.

Think about how states that refuse to participate will be cut off from federal grants and funding for college tuition, Medicare and/or medicaid reimbursement, etc. etc.

Think about what happens to Main Street USA?

Think about companies on the NASDAQ or national companies on the stock-market?

Think about how those USA-specific federal COVID compliance regulations apply when considering U.S. business operations -vs- just taking operations overseas without those worries.

Think about who in Washington DC then takes control of what types of business interests are allowed to operation…. who determines the winning and losing.

Think about how Federal COVID-19 regulations can be used to put the multinational corporate world back (the globalists) on their former financial pathways, even without TPP and TTIP trade deals.

[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]

Think about how much China and Europe would love to see our economy knee-capped in a Biden regulatory stranglehold; essentially achieving the same objectives as the Paris Climate Treaty.

Think long and hard about how far the tentacles of achieving the Green New Deal can extend under the auspices of federal COVID-19 mitigation.

Remember, those who are working on this don’t care about the middle-class and they have not for decades. The visibility of the ‘rust belt’ is the reference. This is about government bureaucrats using their DC power-base to control trillions in economic value and sell their ability to influence the winners and losers to the highest foreign bidder.

Look at what blue states have already done to seize power and control. Now think about that same manipulative intent spread throughout the entire country by weaponizing federal agencies with advanced regulation.

That should start to frame the reference point going forward. Remember, within totalitarian states religion is a risk… the assembly for religious worship is always considered a risk to by those who demand control over free-thought and lives.

The national legislative priority will be entirely focused on retention of that power system by generating an entirely new form of congressional representation. New states, new senators, new election systems, and funding for the needs of the executive…. that will be the focus of the facilitating legislative branch.

Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; will harness and weaponize the power. The legislative leftists will attempt to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn.

Why? – Why all of this effort?… why such extremes?… why would blue state governors willingly destroy their economy?….  Follow the money, it’s always about the money.

The global ideology is worthless without money.   Wall Street’s Rick Santelli knows, he’s watching the second deployment of an identical playbook.

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The 3 Players Beside the Central Bankers


Armstrong Economics Blog/Banking Crisis Re-Posted Dec 31, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi AE….of all the 100’s of your posts that I’ve read, over the past, this is the most confusing. You seem to be absolving the international banksters of wrongdoing, when clearly they have been a huge part of the problem, trying to manipulate everything from the economy to wars. The financial sector, rather than facilitating trade & commerce, has become little more than a huge criminal organization, that drains equity from honest Americans. Hope you will elaborate. Still, hugely appreciate what you do.

HS

REPLY: The central banks are not the INSTIGATOR of the digital currency. The benefactor is the government through taxation. The central bankers do not gain from that. Then you have the investment bankers who have been wildly trading and when they blow up they run to the government for bailouts. There are three groups here. Do not mix them up.

By moving to a digital currency it is the politicians who benefit for they see this as eliminating the underground economy. They are also in bed with BigTech which they are allowing to compete with the main banks. Part of Agenda 2030 is “You will Own nothing, and You’ll Be Happy!” is not for your benefit. They want to eliminate all your debts, mortgages student loans etc., which then wipes out the bankers. But it also allows them to default on government debt. Once that takes place, they no longer need the investment bankers to sell their debt. Hence, they are throwing the investment bankers to the wolves.

It is vital to step back and look at all three players in the game for all their interests are not the same.

Although Trump failed to completely drain the Deep State Swamp, at least he removed all doubt that it exists.


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com DEC 29, 2020 AT 9:24 AM Communists Turn Up the Heat

It’s real and no longer a ‘conspiracy theory.’ The Swamp is composed of both elected and unelected decision makers, military men, bureaucrats, and mega billionaires who make decisions that directly impact our lives.

Also in existence are The Rockefeller, Clinton, Obama, and Gates foundations, which provide money, resources, and influence to sway citizens in favor of globalist goals. Then there are outfits such as the Tavistock and Pirbright institutes that push goals of control. Davos, the UN, the Bilderberg Group, and the CFR meet regularly and set goals that are unencumbered by something as quaint as voting. Yes, the Deep State Swamp exists. It is deep, vast, powerful, and very wealthy.

We know The Swamp and their operatives consider themselves above the law. They got away with an attempted coup against our president. They are shielded by over-paid, propaganda-spewing media giants who masquerade as leading journalists.

Silicon Valley can also be considered part of the Deep State. We did not elect Zuckerburg or Dorsey, but they think they can control our free speech. In 2020 they shamelessly censored Trump supporters, while supporting Biden by suppressing Hunter’s laptop scandal. Google makes sure controversial queries are directed toward information that they want you to believe. If you are searching for something that counters Google’s ‘official’ narrative, you probably won’t find it. You might find links that state what you’re looking for has been ‘debunked’ when it hasn’t been.

The Deep State Swamp overflows with corruption. They control much of our legal system, thanks to George Soros spending a fortune to buy out prosecutors and judges at all levels. The Swamp feels free to commit crimes at will and without fear of prosecution because our legal system is also corrupt. Sidney Powell exposed this very clearly in her book, “Licensed to Lie.” Only those who oppose the Deep State get prosecuted.

They Swamp dwellers are contemptuous of us Constitution-believing patriots. They see us as ignorant peasants—their tax slaves who must obey their laws and mandates. If we don’t obey we face fees, fines, and fire from their police forces. The Swamp’s politicians steal money from us and waste it on pork in order to get kickbacks. We pay for their crimes while they continuously strip us of our liberties. They want to control what we can say. They say our family gatherings are illegal. They want our guns. They want us to take dangerous vaccinations—by force if necessary. They think they are our royalty. We’re supposed to shut up and do as we’re told. “Wear that mask!” “Don’t go to church!” “Unlawful assembly!” “Keep your small business shut down—you aren’t necessary!”

They only care about themselves and protecting their own power. Many Americans already knew this—that’s why we elected Trump in the first place. In 2020, Trump won again—this time by a landslide. The Swamp didn’t care. They flipped the votes over to their ‘big man,’ Joe Biden, and brazenly stole the election.

The evidence for their crime is massive, but The Swamp doesn’t care. Their gaslighting media whores repeatedly say there is no evidence.

For years the Deep State has been slowly turning up the temperature on us citizen frogs. In 2020 the dials were suddenly all thrown on high. They pushed socialism. They supported and funded riots in the streets. They wanted our American history erased. Statues were pulled down. They rolled out a pandemic to separate us, mask us, silence, and impoverish us ahead of their outrageous theft of a presidential election.

2021 is nearly upon us. Time is running out. The criminal Deep State Swamp, aided by China, won’t allow Trump to get justice. Will their election coup stand? Will patriots in the military come to the president’s aid if he declares martial law? That remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, we Trump supporters burn with anger.

—Ben Garrison

Will the ‘Crats succeed in stealing our country? Only if we let them


The elites think they can rule us in luxury from their walled estates while eating gourmet ice cream. The only way they can succeed is if we let them

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Don Rosenberg —— Bio and ArchivesDecember 29, 2020

The “‘Crats” are leading a coup against our government—Democrats, bureaucrats, Techno-crats, and billionaire-aristocrats. They think they can censor, bully, and steal their way into power, and run the United States just like the oligarchs in Russia and China’s CCP. What they fail to realize is that the people of the United States have freedom baked into our DNA which can’t be bullied by riots, a pandemic panic or political correctness intimidation, even after 30 years of “education reform” and a media that doesn’t report news, but instead manufactures propaganda.

What happens if we lose our democratic freedoms to the new oligarchs? One of the great things about our Republic is that if you don’t like the living conditions in one state, you can move to another. Where can you move to and still be an American if there are no free states left?

We’ve all seen the damage done in the formerly great state of California by one-party domination. It has led to massive increases in poverty, unemployment, crime, homelessness and disease. Those who can afford it are moving out of the state faster than U-Haul can keep up with. In fact, the price to rent a truck from L.A. to Phoenix is over ten times higher than the same truck going from Phoenix, to L.A.



Most Americans have figured out that our most cherished right—the power of the vote—is being stolen from us by the ‘Crats with the help of the ten corrupt inner cities and their Democrat bosses. Do Americans really support one-party rule?

Looking at the supposed November 3rd election “results,” the media claim that 74 million Americans voted for President Trump. Of the 81 million “votes” allocated to Biden, 44% of voters (or 36 million) say they were voting against Trump, but not the real man, just his media portrayal. Anyone can be made into a villain with four years of constant lies and baseless accusations.

Exit polls estimated that as many as 17% of these “voters” (or 14 million) say they would have supported Trump if they had known more about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the “Biden Crime Family” corruption it revealed. If you do the math, that would mean that only 31 million people actually voted for Biden, while 88 million supported Trump, and without the media lies, 36 million more would have stayed home instead of voting.

The ‘Crats are trying to hijack the richest prize of all—the United States. They include the 134 billionaires who donated to the Biden campaign.  Sixty-seven of them donated more than $100,000, while 98% of tech company donations went to Biden. They are supported by the Russian oligarchs, who have just pulled off the biggest computer hack in history, and China’s CCP, who poured $400 million into Dominion Voting Systems just a few weeks before the election. China has been waging a “quiet war” on the United States for the last ten years and seeks nothing short of world domination.

But, if the greatest crime in world history is finalized on January 20th, the ‘Crats will learn they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. They can’t dominate a country with 31 million supporters over the opposition of 88 million patriots and conservatives, including a record number of blue-collar workers, Hispanics, and African-Americans.

They don’t understand that this is the one country in the world that cannot be ruled by force or intimidation. The only way they can win is if we, the American people, cooperate in our own demise, and our DNA doesn’t allow us to give in to tyrants.

Just look at what’s already happening—online Americans, who have turned a few socially inept geeks into the richest people on the planet, are scrambling to find uncensored alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and Google. Bye geeks. Being able to code doesn’t make you God.

In California, the most popular political movement is the one to recall Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Which governors are next?

Throughout the rest of the country, restaurants and small business owners are banding together to resist lockdowns, while parents are fighting back against teachers’ unions and their refusal to hold classes in person. Others are organizing to resist any attempt to make unproven Covid vaccines mandatory.

Police officers, who have been so unfairly demonized by the media, are retiring early in massive numbers. There is a nation-wide nurse shortage, and fewer doctors are willing to treat COVID patients under guidelines that restrict their treatment choices.

The poorest Americans who have been forced to remain in cities where crime is rampant and the police can’t protect them are starting to protest as well. The city of Detroit has just filed suit against Black Lives Matter.

Saturday Jericho protests in state capitals and in Washington, D.C. have steadily gained in numbers despite a complete media blackout, and another massive rally is scheduled for D.C. starting on January 6th. Their goal is to pile political pressure on state governors and legislators to decertify the obviously fraudulent elections and “stop the steal.”

To the ‘Crats who think they can bully us into submission, we ask “What will happen when the farmers who grow America’s food decide not to sell it to the ten inner cities who stole their votes? Will teamsters continue to work or decide to park their trucks? Will red states stop selling their oil and natural gas to blue states? Will the police continue to risk their lives to protect Democrat-controlled cities whose leaders call them racists?”

The elites think they can rule us in luxury from their walled estates while eating gourmet ice cream. The only way they can succeed is if we let them.

Germany’s soft lockdown turns into hard lockdown in December  


Armstrong Economics Blog/Germany Re-Posted Dec 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

In November, all restaurants and cultural institutions such as museums, opera houses, cinemas, and events had to close. Every day demonstrations take place against these restrictions. Just 10 days before Christmas, on December 16th, Germany added more restrictions with a second strong lockdown where all schools and the retail industry had to shut down again. Food deliveries and take away are permitted. Each of Germany’s 16 provinces manages further restrictions individually. In Berlin you are allowed to only meet with people of one further household, not exceeding a total number of 5 people. Children below 12 years are excluded. You are not allowed to leave your home without necessity.

Even though these restrictions apply until January 10th, German media already states that they will be extended until February. Many Germans are put again on short-work arrangements with an estimated cost of 20 billion euros for 2020 which is covered by the federal ministry of labor and social affairs.

Deutsche Bahn records a 9-billion-euro sales loss due to Covid-19 in 2020 

Germany’s 100% state-owned train company Deutsche Bahn AG is having its worst year since its foundation in 1994. DB AG owns about 600 subsidiary transportation companies. Due to travel restrictions, Deutsche Bahn AG recorded a 9-billion-euro loss this year. Starting in March, train bookings decreased to only 20%. Even during the winter holiday season, where normally all trains are packed, bookings only rose to 35%. Germany plans a financial aid of 5 billion euros, however, private competitors of DB AG feel a disadvantage as DB AG supplies its services to nearly 75 % of the market.

(reporting from Germany; Nadjeschda who took the photo on Christmas Day on the train)

Is there Hope?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re-Posted Dec 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Hey Martin – I love the insights you have and Socrates seems to be spot on about most things. It’s just hard to read your blog posts. It seems like we all will have no choice but to submit to Communism 3.0. How do we fight this? You say they will lose in the end. How can we help bring that about? We all need a little hope out here. Is there anything we can do to hasten Gates/Schwab/Soros’ demise?

HC

ANSWER: The future certainly looks very dark. Let us hope it is darkest before the storm. We in the United States perhaps have the best resources to resist. Yes, crime is soaring because they have destroyed the economy. Gun permits are the #1 commodity right now. They have been using the universities to sell their agenda for the last decade. I would seriously refuse to pay for any education that is on the list of the World Economic Forum.

What we can do is look at the American Revolution as a guide. Thomas Paine’s most famous pamphlet, “Common Sense,” was first published on January 10th, 1776, selling out its thousand printed copies immediately. By the end of that year, 150,000 copies were distributed which was an enormous amount for that time. It is believed that about 33% of the population were in favor of the revolution. It was Paine’s Common Sense which is credited as playing a crucial role in convincing colonists to take up arms against England. While Paine argued that representational government was superior to a monarchy or various forms of oligarchies run by people like Bil Gates, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab – aristocracy.

Paine’s Common Sense proved to be so influential that John Adams (1735-1826) reportedly declared, “Without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.”

It is very hard to get the word out when the press is no longer free and conspiring with these modern oligarchs to impose Communism 3.0. Here we have what used to be one of the most prestigious newspapers, the London Financial Times, advocating the overthrow of Capitalism. They are joined by CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook just to mention a few.

We may see the first ray of hope emerging in France. They already had the Yellow Vest Movement organized so they are well ahead of the game at this point in time. In America, we at least have guns to defend ourselves against the tyranny which many other countries do not. We are probably at that same moment in time before the publication of Common Sense that grabbed the attention of the people. What we must be careful to distinguish was that in 1776, most Americans were free thinkers which we lack today. They had the courage to leave for the New World and there were no welfare handouts. These were independent people, unlike we have today. So we are probably at about 33% today in people who voted for Trump who will not stand for this corruption. Once that crosses 40%, the revolution becomes possible.

COMMENT: Well, unfortunately from my perspective I don’t see any way out of this mess. People are willingly surrendering their rights. Nobody is standing up. I see 99% compliance with everything. It’s the boiling frog analogy. Turn the heat up slowly one degree at a time and the frog doesn’t realize they are boiling. Will there be a spark that awakens everyone? Or will it be too late and we will already be in the abyss? People just don’t seem to care.

BV

REPLY: Most people who voted for Biden were clueless about the agenda. They bought into the whole hate Trump narrative. Talk to one and ask why Biden is better. There is nothing about qualifications, just that they do not like Trump. That leaves a huge door open and we are starting to see that in the Democratic Party as the majority want Pelosi out as Speaker of the House. There are a number of conservative Democrats who felt Pelosi disgraced the nation by tearing up Trump’s State of the Union address which is required by the Constitution when they already get a rebuttal on TV. Our greatest hope is that we will cross that 40% threshold with even Democrats who wake up and see that this is a foreign agenda – not domestic.

COMMENT: They are going to make life impossible if you don’t take the vaccine, aren’t they?

Spain will set up a “registry” of people who refuse to take the vaccine against Covid 19 and share it with other European union member states
PA

REPLY: I have been warning that this vaccine for a non-deadly virus is being used to separate those who are the sheep from the independent thinkers just as Stalin did. They may not create work camps as did Stalin, but we have witnessed the use of camps to confine people requiring them to prove they do not have COVID to leave. Not every place is the same. Where Victoria is a lockdown like a prison, others have escaped fleeing to quarantine camps up north in Darwin. Schwab has used his contacts from Davos to move politicians to adopt his Communism 3.0 because they can no longer service or sell debt and will never again have to stand for elections. The entire system is collapsing and the Central Banks are screaming – they cannot continue to buy the debt forever! Creating these registries of resisters is intended to be able to arrest them at any point to prevent an uprising. This is why they will impose a health passport to deny travel without a vaccine.

COMMENT: Unfortunately, due to this bullshit, our gardener, a very strong 40-year-old thought he had covid when he had a blinding headache and sickness for 2 days so he stayed in bed.

It was a serious stroke

So he wasn’t treated early for it and now he’s touch and goes after brain surgery

Another victim of the bullshit

AB

REPLY: There are more people dying from the lack of healthcare. Immediately, no matter what, they start with the assumption it is COVID. People no longer die of things other than COVID, which is seriously being overstated.

Is a 3rd Party Inevitable?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Dec 29, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Not one major news outlet carried Trump’s address on the fraud in the election. Every outlet swears there is no evidence of fraud as if they are even believable anymore. Trump expanded the base for the Republicans which included African Americans who saw through the propaganda as did Hispanics. Trump proved that lowering taxes created an economic boom which resulted in a shortage of labor that produced the lowest unemployment in history for African Americans. Even Keynes said to lower taxes to stimulate the economy but socialists reject that option. Yet others bought into the manipulation calling Trump a racist yet still the Democrats losing seats in the House. Never has one party gained in the House yet the incumbent president lost

There is a major conspiracy theory emerging that the RV was not the source of the bomb but instead there was a drone attack to take out the facility which had connections with the Dominion Voting machine audit. This video suggests that the source of the explosion was not the RV and this is another move on the part of the Deep State to cover-up the manipulation of the election. I have no idea if this is true or not, but mainstream media is not showing this video as well and they are all putting out the same narrative that this man was a loner like Lee Harvey Oswald and Kennedy who was probably protesting against the 5G network. So he sacrificed his life for taking down 5G in a local area for 3 days? Unfortunately, when they lie about so many other things, then it results in people not believing anything they say – i.e. the boy who cried wolf.

What I do know is that this virus has been greatly exaggerated for political purposes. Minnesota politicians are saying COVID deaths have been exaggerated by 40%.  I have warned that they have been aware of our model and its accuracy over the past 40 years. The fact that we were warning about the rise in civil unrest with the War Cycle, the Monetary Crisis Cycle, the collapse in Central Banks, how they have Manipulated the World Economy, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis all converging at the same time, that this is simply unprecedented and that the West would decline with the financial capital of the world moving to China post-2032. None of these forecasts have been my preferred vision for the future. Here we have IBM rolling out an APP whereby you will NOT be allowed to ever travel again without a vaccine.

I have warned that we have a major crisis in politics that goes far beyond the 2020 election. I have warned that it looks like the Democrats will split in 2022, but looking at our models on the Combined Congress (Senate & House), it appears that there is a revolution coming. The peak in 3rd Party activity took place in 1854 which was the precursor to the American Civil War. On January 4th, 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that sparked major debates related to slavery issues which became the Kansas–Nebraska Act. It was on July 4th, 1854, when Henry David Thoreau delivered his famous speech against slavery calling for action against the injustice of slavery within the Union. Two days later, in Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the Republican Party was held after the split. About 2 Pi cycles later, at 4:30 a.m. on April 12th, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter and less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered.

When we look at all our arrays on politics, it does not look good for 2022-2024. It appears that not merely will the Democrats Split, but it looks like the Republicans think they can get back to business as usual after ostracizing Trump and they are looking forward to getting rid of someone they never respected. We will see a small group of Republicans object to the Electoral College vote on January 6th. But it looks like the 3rd Party rising will be the disenchanted supporters of Trump who will even abandon the Republican Party for their treason.

It appears that the failure of Republicans to support Trump will also be their undoing. It is looking more and more like a 3rd party will emerge which is against the establishment and this new Triumvirate trying to overthrow the United States and impose their agenda of a New Green World Order will indeed inspire a revolution.

This Triumvirate and their coconspirators including BigTech, think that they can crush the economy, end commuting to reduce CO2, and rebuild the economy green after destroying small businesses and move shopping online while digital currencies eliminate traditional banking. They have failed to grasp even how the economy functions, but like Lenin & Stalin, they believe they can recreate the world economy to conform to their dreams. They will do the very same and restrict travel and reintroduce “papers please” to prevent people from gathering to rise up against their regime.

The longer it takes society to rise up against this tyranny, the less there will be left to return to. There is no way their New Green World Order will survive. They have failed to understand that what has created world peace is not a show of arms, but our consumer market. By destroying jobs, they have removed the one thing that created world peace – trade. As long as everyone benefited by selling to Americans, they would never bite the hand that feeds them. Destroy that consumer base and they destroy world peace