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The Political Storm on the Horizon
Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 30, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Could an individual state finish the wall started by the previous administration?
It’s painfully obvious Washington has its own agenda. And at this time, I see no point in even lobbying our federal government to do anything in our border towns/states. Is it legal to have our individual states finish what was started? I know I’m not alone in my concerns and would gladly contribute to a “wall fund”, or something of the sort. Maybe things are so corrupted it would be pointless?
REPLY: Yes, it is the state’s border. Knowing the atmosphere on Capitol Hill, it has simply become war and it has nothing to do with the benefit of the nation. I was impressed by the words of Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema who courageously announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to register as an independent. It was her words that rang true. She stated that she was abandoning the Democratic Party and turning her back on the “broken partisan system in Washington” that prioritizes denying the opposition party a win rather than “delivering for all Americans.”
This is the very reason why the United States will collapse. There is no longer any sense of guiding the nation for the benefit of all the people. This has turned into a hate game. Neither side will dare to agree that ANYTHING the other side did was just, fair, or in the best interest of the whole. It is just partisan war and in the process, they are destroying the core of the United States and our once culture of freedom that was admired and inspired by the world.
I can confirm that when the US invaded Iraq on the nonsense of weapons of mass destruction, the pro-Americans in Russia lost ground. They were indeed pushing to join NATO and enter the world economy for the benefit of all the Russian people. But that invasion armed the Neocons and they pointed to that invasion that America was imperialistic and was seeking to control the entire world. It also lowered the esteem of America in the eyes of many in China. Ukraine has merely reconfirmed that view.
Politics has degenerated into a very dark era. If history repeats itself, there will be no other choice but to move toward separatism. We will no longer be able to live in peace together because that is not acceptable anymore. All this nonsense of what is your pronoun and men can have babies with a sex change is dividing the country into groups. Once you do that, you do not benefit the right of those people, you cast them as the new enemy of the state just as Hitler did with the Jews. The end is near for the United States. A house as divided as we have become CANNOT stand. That was the view of Lincoln to justify the Civil War.
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence | Best Rock Music on the Piano
Gamazda Piano Published originally on Rumble on December 4, 2022
The Sound of Silence is what we will have at the end of World War III as we will all be gone if we can’t find a way to stop the Great Reset and the Build Back Better insanity of Klaus Schwab
Schwab Cancels Twitter Rejects Free Speech
Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Dec 30, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
Klaus Schwab has shown his true colors of authoritarianism. He is against democracy, freedom, and basic God-given human rights. With his Davos group next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF), Schwab who is a control freak by nature, has endorsed the cancel culture banning Twitter, and listing the various Chinese state-controlled social media apps to “follow along” with Davos Man. Schwab follows Marx and believes that he can create the perfect world and that he is far superior to anyone else and this can shape and design how society should function.
That was the very same attitude of Marx and Lenin. Those ideas resulted in over 200 million people dying. That’s OK. We are just collateral damage on his yellow-brick road to perfection. Schwab looks down upon society as the dirt beneath his feat. He fails to understand why communism even failed because it suppressed human nature and in so doing, it eliminated curiosity and imagination. Children under communism could not imagine their future. They were told by the state what they will be according to the needs of the state.
We are far too stupid to know what is best for us. Only the elite understand how to shape the future. We are to surrender all say in our own lives. This is Schwab’s dream to control society 150%. We are to surrender our very beliefs and our aspirations to the state. These ideas have been tried throughout history so many times. They have always ended in stagnation and total collapse.
We Must Stop Funding Ukraine in its Ethnic Cleansing
Armstrong Economics Blog/Ukraine Re-Posted Dec 30, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
Everything he says I have confirmed from other sources. French soldiers who volunteered said the same thing, Ukrainians kill Russian prisoners sometimes ruthlessly. It is a total disgrace that we are supporting these Neonazis – the very people still practicing ethnic cleansing.
Media Rewrites Ukraine’s Dark History, New Twitter Files on Rigged Covid Debate | SYSTEM UPDATE #11
Glenn Greenwald Published originally on Rumble on December 26, 2022
Glenn Greenwald is of of the few reporters left in the United States
The Government Unconstitutional Manipulation of News
Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Dec 27, 2022 by Martin Armstron
Perhaps you will recall when Edward Snowden exposed the truth that the government was spying on American citizens, they called him a traitor and want to imprison him for life or even execute him for revealing that the government no longer complies with the Constitution.
Absolutely NOTHING came out of that and the government claimed it was Snowden who was risking national security. Now with everything coming out from Twitter, the same thing is taking place at YouTube, Google, Microsoft, you name it. That little backdoor that Microsoft uses with these endless updates to see what you are searching supposedly for target advertising, you can bet your life that also includes the very same scheme.
And these are the people pushing us into World War and they are desperate to misrepresent absolutely everything. Zelensky is destroying his own country and he will live comfortably with a golden deal with the USA when the final collapse unfolds in Ukraine. These people have no regard for human rights no less our constitutional rights. They think they will rule the world, but our computer shows they will destroy everything and they will not retain power. But naturally, they do not want to hear that.
FBI Tells Social Media Who to Censor
Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Dec 23, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
Anyone who trusts the government is an absolute fool. I have stated that the First Amendment was intended to protect us from free speech. The interpretation is that as long as the government does not “direct;y” censor the people, whatever social media does is fair game. But they have violated that line and have been acting UNCONSTITUTIONALLY by handing lists to Twitter of people they want to be censored. Since I was also blocked on Twitter, I assumed I too must have been on that list.
Yet Democrats like Adam Schiff, who in my opinion is a traitor to the Constitution, are clamoring to go after Musk and reestablish censorship of people. Back in 2012, President Obama had the Democrats give him the power to actually shut down the entire internet on claims of hacking. That’s right – the ENTIRE Internet! It was the Democrat Diane Feinstein for called Edward Snowden a traitor and would have gone for the death penalty because he exposed the government was illegally conducting surveillance of its citizens, which turned out to even be President Trump.
This is why the United States will collapse. It is simply beyond any control. As long as we have a representative form of government, a Republic, there is no hope for the future. This is why this time it will fall and hopefully we get a shot at creating a real democracy. Last time it was a collapse of Monarchy. The Founding Fathers had great ideas, but without term limits, you end up with a professional political class who sees us as the dirt beneath their feet. So post 2032, it will be interesting to see what will happen. I will have to be looking down from above.
Egg Prices Surge to Record Levels as Christmas Grocery Prices Hit Consumers
Posted originally on the CTH on December 22, 2022 | Sundance
The price for a dozen eggs continues climbing as explanations turn toward blaming bird flu. However, the avian influenza may explain a recent spike, but the longer duration of escalating food price commodities is much deeper than momentary fluctuations. These are energy dependent products.
As CTH noted last year, watch egg prices as a general gauge for overall food inflation (eggs hit almost every process in the supply chain), and watch potato availability to gauge overall row crop stability (staple commodity on every plate, venue).
Additionally, as previously noted, as energy prices continue rising pay attention to the prices on ‘organic’ products. Rising energy prices drive up costs for large commercially processed food supplies at a much higher rate than smaller organic production. People are starting to notice the ‘organic’ option is almost at price parity.
Wall Street Journal – […] Wholesale prices of Midwest large eggs hit a record $5.36 a dozen in December, according to the research firm Urner Barry. Retail egg prices have increased more than any other supermarket item so far this year, climbing more than 30% from January to early December compared with the same period a year earlier, and outpacing overall food and beverage prices, according to the data firm Information Resources Inc.
For supermarkets, eggs are a staple product that most consumers pick up on trips to the grocery store, similar to milk and butter. To maintain store traffic, grocers said they have been sacrificing some profits on eggs to keep prices for consumers competitive. Some suppliers are projecting potential relief in price by February or March, but cold weather could hamper production in the near term, executives said.
[…] Grocery prices have continued to increase this year because of what companies have said are higher costs of labor, ingredients and logistics, helping supermarkets generate higher sales and profits. Those factors have propelled egg prices, too. As eggs get more costly, some supermarkets are selling more organic eggs that are sometimes less expensive than conventional varieties, while suppliers say consumer demand has remained steady despite higher prices. (read more)
Additionally, the overall price for a Christmas meal is much higher than it was in 2021.
(Via Fox) […] The holiday dinner grocery basket is estimated to cost an average of $60.29, according to data from Datasembly. That’s 16.4% higher than last year’s basket when comparing the same exact basket of goods. It’s also double the year-over-year increase reported last year at 8.2%, according to the retail data firm.
[…] The 13 products included stuffing mix, corn, green beans, frozen apple pie, whipped topping, butter, cranberry sauce, bone-in spiral-cut ham, egg nog, homestyle biscuits, russet potatoes, white frozen young turkey and homestyle roasted turkey gravy.
According to the data, biscuits had the highest price increase year-over-year, rising 47.7%. Butter and russet potatoes weren’t far behind with prices rising 38% and 32.6%, respectively, the data showed. (read more)
Keep in mind, this week you should be seeing competitive pricing on beef, specifically standing rib roasts. Retailers will be competing with each other on the staple table items, and this creates an opportunity to buy and freeze beef at a lower price.
2023 will be a year when shopping smart will become increasingly important. Prices are likely to continue rising; one thing is certain, as long as energy costs keep increasing, food prices will not drop. Use the season(s) and holiday sales as opportunities to purchase specific items at lower prices; then store, freeze or can at home for use when the price of those same items is much higher.
Eggs at Christmas 2020 $1.79/doz. -VS- Eggs October 2022 $7.29/doz.
United Nations Preparing for their One World Government
Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 21, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
The resolution “Towards a New International Economic Order,” reaffirmed the United Nation’s need for power to continue working towards a new international economic order based on the principles of equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest, cooperation, and solidarity among all States. It passed from 123 to 50.
Back during the 1970s, in the aftermath of the oil crisis of 1973, developing countries used the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for political purposes. The UNCTAD had been set up in 1964 as a counter to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which in itself was the forerunner of the World Trade Organization, WTO. They were demanding grand changes in the management of the global economic system. Their demands were embodied in the Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), which had been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly back in May of 1974.
It’s stunning today to read the NIEO demands from 1974 since they are almost exactly the same as what the UNCTAD and previous Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), are currently calling for. Today, they are still calling for the suppression of volatile commodity markets as they did back in 1974. They seek preferential trade access to rich country markets, intervention in foreign exchange rates, controlling cross-border capital flows which capital fears a government needs to leave, continue aid to underdeveloped nations, and let us not forget favorable debt rescheduling (defaults). On top of this, they want the United Nation to be in charge of regulating multinational corporations to ensure that they comply with national laws and foster the technology transfers that they want.
All this represents is a drastic turn to a world of authoritarianism as they do what Karl Marx tried and failed – ELIMINATE the Business Cycle. Our ECM Model on the United Nations’ next turning point comes up to March 18/19th, 2023. This is leading into the chaos between January and May of 2023, which is also 31.4 years from the fall of the USSR.
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