Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 6, 2022 | Sundance | 295 Comments
Today is one of those days where you just want to tune out the insufferable nonsense because, well, good grief, this DC effort is at such a stratospheric level of ridiculousness, that most sane and stable-minded people choose to part company with the political insanity.
However, to put the scale of these ridiculous narrative engineering efforts into their appropriate context, you might find this article worth reviewing – SEE HERE
“The truth is that above all, January 6 is a political myth, transformed from a historical event into an ideology designed to protect and stabilize a regime whose supporting institutions are deteriorating.” (read more)
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 6, 2022 | Sundance | 256 Comments
Comrades, not to be outdone by her sycophants in media, the most unlikeable woman in American politics compared the January 6th DC protest to the December 7th, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2001, al-qaeda terrorist attack on the World Trade Center & Pentagon.
They are really trying, but the horse is still dead.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 6, 2022 | Sundance | 158 Comments
Comrades, we all knew the pearl-clutching would reach stratospheric proportions today as the leftists, democrats, communists, media and DC system, writ large, were intent on pushing the most over-the-top “threat to our democracy” claims around the January 6, 2021, protest anniversary.
In typical leftist form, the J6 events are now being compared to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11, 2021 terrorist attacks by the Biden administration. However, before the day’s insufferable events began, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked his opinion of what would take place. DeSantis rightly noted this is Christmas Day for the DC system. They have been preparing for this day for almost a year. WATCH:
In military terms, a “Charlie Foxtrot” is a cluster f**k. One level below a FUBAR and one nudge higher than a SNAFU.
Comment: This is a Whole Foods in a high to middle income suburb in the northeast on January 4, 2022. I live near numerous ports from NJ, PA, to NY. I have lived here my whole life and have never seen the aisles this bare. When corona began the essentials were missing from shelves but now they are completely bare. Did JB completely ruin America?
Reply: The snowfall in the north has only exacerbated the supply chain and food crisis. The ports up north are not what they once were, and perhaps I will elaborate on that in a separate post. Regardless, the shelves should never appear that empty. I too lived in the north for many years, and even amid snowstorms, there was more food available than what I am seeing in your pictures.
After a year and hundreds of arrests, we still do not know what happened on January 6, 2021. Over 16 news agencies are urging the US government to release footage from that day to no avail. Were the protestors allowed into the building? The government keeps secrets when it has something to hide. I reported last year that the events that unfolded that day were a false flag.
The event was clearly orchestrated in advance to achieve three objectives:
To stop any demand to investigate the election
To further the Domestic Terrorist Act
To justify creating a wall around the Capitol to protect them while imposing the Great Reset
The Democrats used the event to deflect from the investigation into election fraud, labeling anyone who participated in the protest as a domestic terrorist. Pelosi and Schumer lied to the public by claiming it was an “armed insurrection,” despite the FBI failing to recover any guns. The only people who were undoubtedly armed that day were the cops who murdered unarmed citizens such as Ashli Babbitt. January 6 also allowed the left to spin propaganda for the media to divide the country further. “There are legitimate white supremacist sympathizers that sit at the heart and at the core of the Republican Caucus,” AOC cried, claiming that she had a close call with death that day. In truth, AOC’s office was not in the same building where the protest took place — she lied.
In the same breath, those same lawmakers were mute when left-supporting groups such as BLM burned downed cities and municipal buildings. No one was charged as a domestic terrorist for those crimes. Instead, Pelosi constructed a since removed barrier around the Capitol as she knew that civil unrest was growing. In truth, the unrest was the people v. politicians, but the political rhetoric made neighbors turn on one another.
Were the people exercising their right to protest, or were they guilty of domestic terrorism? This does not seem as organized as an event such as Mussolini’s “March on Rome,” where an actual insurrection occurred. Did the protestors have clearance from someone within to enter the building? The Department of Justice unwillingly gave misdemeanors to those who did not incite violence while handing out felonies to those who allegedly clashed with police or destroyed government property. Everyone involved now has a record that will follow them permanently. Yet, only the government truly knows what unfolded on January 6, 2021.
Disturbingly, a number of fraudulent COVID-19 testing pop-up centers are appearing in major cities throughout the US. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health issued a warning: “Last week, the Health Department was notified of small pop-up tents that were offering free COVID-19 testing operating in Center City. The staff who worked at these sites claimed they were funded by FEMA.”
The department went on to say that these pop-up sites were in no way affiliated with FEMA. As a matter of fact, the city seems puzzled as to how these centers even came into existence. These tents were placed in popular areas of the city that were completely on display, but it took many complaints before city officials shut down the operation.
What was the motive? The centers offered free testing at no direct cost and paid for the testing kits. I believe that the motive was identity and insurance theft. Those who visited the sites were asked to present identification, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses. They also have a slew of personal DNA at their disposal now. Some have reported that the sites attempted to collect their insurance information, but that is likely where they will get nabbed as insurance companies are notoriously ruthless.
The city of Philadelphia is now telling everyone with symptoms who visited one of these testing centers to assume that they are positive for COVID. Yet another method to inflate numbers. Anyone who has visited Philadelphia in recent years has seen the city’s rapid decline as both poverty and crime are on the rise. The city should require bulletproof vests instead of masks. As of January 3, the city prohibited unvaccinated patrons from entering public spaces. Mayor Jim Kenney is clueless, and someone should be held responsible for allowing these sites to exist in plain view without proper examination. If you visited one of these testing locations, review your personal information to ensure that your identity and personal information are secure.
Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 6, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Your target for this week concerning Russia might be hitting Kazakhstan. The protesters began shooting the military and they set the President’s home on fire. Could this be the January 6th target?
EH
ANSWER: The protests there are over inflation with the drastic price rise in fuel. I fund it interesting that Russia is claiming the US is behind that uprising. That may be providing justification for confrontation in Ukraine. We clearly have two primary incentives for civil unrest in Kazakhstan (1) mandatory vaccines, and (2) escalating fuel costs that even deprive people of heat in winter. There have been explosions at the public buildings surrounded by protesters.
Meanwhile, on the border with Ukraine, there are at least 175,000 troops on the border and Putin has moved in the heavy equipment that would otherwise take time to move in. Eastern Ukraine is ethnically Russian, not Ukrainian. For Putin to invade the East, he would have much more support than what the media would report. Meanwhile, Ukraine is following the West Covide restrictions which are not popular. An official document confirming that they have been vaccinated with a WHO-approved vaccine is required to travel.
With respect to Ukraine, on March 1st, 2014 (2014.164), the Russian government approved the invasion of Ukraine. That came on the Cycle of War Model which has been rather consistent. However, Russia then came to the aid of Syria precisely on the date of the Economic Confidence Model – 2015.75.
In addition, the ECM plotted from the Cuban Missile Crisis also targeted 2014.39 as the beginning of a new period of direct confrontation. That too pointed to 2014 and the period for the shift in geopolitical trend.
That was met with Obama imposing sanctions on Russia which was absurd. The idea that putting on sanctions will force the people to overthrow their government has never worked because the people know the enemy is not their own government but external. That boosted Putin’s polls.
There are two dates in 2022 where a military confrontation is likely, from January 6, 2022, which is the Ukrainian ECM, and then there is October 5/6, 2022 which is 8.6 years from the 2014 turning point on the War Cycle and the Cuban Missile Model. In addition, there is the ECM turning point of March 14th, 2022. Of course, the peak of the previous wave was 2015.75 and that did mark the day Russia came into Syria.
When we look back at the first wave out of the start of this current 51.6-year cycle 1985.65, the first turning point was 1987.8 which produced the price low in the 1987 Crash to the day. But the peak of that wave was 1989.95 which marked the fall of Communism. This was the equivalent of the 2024 turning point. That was followed by the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union.
From a strategy perspective, if I were Putin I would like up with China to do a coordinated attack. If China moves against Taiwan and Russia moved against Ukraine, there is no way the West could mount any credible defense on two fronts. China has shut down all independent press now in Hong Kong. However, unreported is the capital controls. I have reports from Hong Kong that overnight, capital controls were implemented. Hong Kong residents can not send more than $50,000 annually out of the country. Clearly, our computer is looking very concerned with respect to even Japan and South Korea as there appears to be a mad rush to Singapore. There is even a separatist movement in Thailand over religion where the Muslims want to join Malyasia.
Something is in the wind. Perhaps January 6th may be just the point of a decision for the world markets do not seem to like what is offered after the 1st quarter here in 2022.
There are numerous Democrats who have imposed un-American restrictions over COVID upon the people they represent but then fly to Florida to party and spend the holidays. Some have even been looking at property to buy. Then, they bash DeSantis every chance they get because they fear he could beat all of them in an election. The hypocrisy just never ends.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 299 Comments
The U.S. government does not operate in a vacuum without knowledge of what is happening and a solid perspective on what is likely to happen. Whether they listen to the commonsense advisors, or whether the control officers intentionally keep counter positions away from the principle, is another matter; however, the officials generally know what is most likely to happen.
The White House put Port Envoy John D. Porcari, who is also intricately involved in the supply chain taskforce, on the podium today to discuss supply chain issues. The full video of his remarks is posted below, but my spidey sense is telling me they know what we know, and they are starting to prepare for what will ultimately become impossible to ignore. WATCH:
It’s not just a port issue, as we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality sector (2020 lockdowns), the advisors and bureaucrats triggered a cascading series of events inside the food supply chain.
I know it sounds weird to try and wrap your arms around, but those early decisions in 2020 created a problem that only a very few people could see and follow to its natural conclusion.
The 60/40 supply chain for food away from home (restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, cafeterias etc.), and food at home (supermarkets and grocery stores etc.), is not something you can just fiddle around with. {Go Deep}
Supply chains are challenging on their own. However, within the various supply chains, the supply chain for U.S. food distribution is the most complex supply chain in the world. There’s nothing even close. It was created by decades of free market operators following efficiencies of scale to produce the best, most wholesome and reliable food supply chain ever created. In many ways it is our best national security advantage.
The free-market distribution system would eventually overcome the problem and reestablish its efficiencies. However, given the scale of disruption -and the fact that catch up harvests are seasonal- it was obviously taking several years.
Most Americans were not aware going into the COVID mitigation effort that food consumption in the U.S. was a 60/40 proposition. Approximately 60% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 40% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).
Food ‘outside the home’ includes restaurants, fast food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 60 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort, the ‘food away from home’ sector was reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still needed to eat. That meant retail food outlets, grocers, would see sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.
The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue noted in 2020, “There are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”
Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February 2020: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.
This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts. As a nation, we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply chain across the country
The stored food supply is the originating resource for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc.
For almost four months in 2020, the retail supply chain was operating way beyond capacity, as most “food away from home” was turned off or severely limited. The burn rate of raw food products in storage jumped a stunning 40 percent. Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, started to run low as the various states kept making rules about restaurant capacity and venue availability due to COVID.
Believe me, we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out. This “bigger picture” was not being considered by politically minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focused exclusively on using the politics of the virus for control.
Here we are, two years later, and the currently empty shelves, in combination with layers of new short-sighted policy, are a downstream consequence of that originating disruption.
The best thing government could do to avoid a crisis would have been to do nothing. Just let people go back to normal, and that would have allowed the market process to eventually correct itself. However, they didn’t stop -and worse- the Biden administration started implementing massive policy changes (energy policy, regulatory policy, legislative policy, monetary policy) while simultaneously pumping COVID bailout money into the economy.
As the food sector tried to gain its footing, the wave of price increases driven by energy policy only made things worse. We have been seeing these staggering price increases at the grocery store. Then, at the worst possible time, the new Omicron narrative “a winter of death awaits” was pushed. Now, the labor side of the supply chain equation is hit even harder stressing out every facet of the food distribution system.
Instead of just preparing for massive price increases, we are now preparing for massive shortages in this most important sector.
People are starting to see completely blown-out empty shelves and slow replenishment. Soon, as a result of this situation worsening, there is very likely to be public pressure on government to solve the problem which, ironically and insufferably, the government intervention created.
How will the White House respond to demands that someone fix the problem of empty shelves?
You already know the answer to that question, and it isn’t good.
Here’s the full presser with John D. Porcari (prompted):
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 5, 2022 | sundance | 663 Comments
Oh dear, this statement by Senator Ted Cruz is going to put Ms. Julie Kelly in quite a pickle. Earlier today, Senator Cruz called the J6 protesting groups a bunch of “violent terrorists … who should go to jail for a long, long time.”
Readers of these pages will not find this mask slip by Cruz to be a big surprise; however, for the legions of Cruz-bots, who have avoided watching him turn into a wolfman type hybrid, literally, this could be problematic. You only need to watch the first few seconds of this one minute video to see where Senator Cruz stands. WATCH:
If the 2016 RNC convention speech didn’t shake off his supporters, perhaps this latest revelation will. Wolfman Cruz is one small nudge to the right of the one-eyed Cheney from Texas.
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