Armstrong Economics Blog/Humor Re-Posted Dec 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
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Inside the Actors Studio Presents Alec Baldwin’s Theatrical Debut: “I Didn’t Pull The Trigger”
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 172 Comments
The dramatic and cinematic promotional effort is so over the top as George Stephanopoulos plays the role of James Lipton interviewing Alec Baldwin in the grand performance of “I didn’t pull the trigger, no, no, no… never” the revolver just went off all by itself. WATCH:
The cinematic effort by ABC here is, excuse the pun, likely to backfire. It’s just perverse, twisted and creepy, considering that someone died.
Whoever gave Baldwin the advice to do this was just playing to his own vanity. The one thing regular Americans can detect better than all other nations of people is fake efforts at authenticity. That reality has been the Achilles heel of professional con-artists and leftists for decades; and thankfully, most people have retained that instinct.
Nigel Farage Extensive Interview With President Donald Trump
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 93 Comments
GBNews is using the opportunity of an interview with President Donald Trump to market their relatively new media franchise. Perhaps that is to be expected, but the amount of self-promotion from the network around this interview is a little weird. That said, Nigel Farage and GBNews were given an extended interview with President Donald Trump from Mar-a-Lago for broadcast in the U.K. The video from GBN is below.
The video is prompted to 09:00 to eliminate nine minutes of lead-in promotion. Farage begins the GBN narrative by saying President Trump has been invisible to the international audience since he left office.
The interview is broken down into two parts. The first part discusses the 2020 election, the second part covers current events. During each segment GBN injects MAGA and anti-MAGA voices into the discussion, as Farage says “to give balance” to the interview. President Trump notes it is important to look back to the problems of 2020 in order to look forward to what is needed for the MAGA movement in the next election. WATCH:
Joe Biden Compares The Shortage of Pet Food, Chemical and Raw Material Commodities to the Scarcity of Cabbage Patch Dolls
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 198 Comments
At some point you have to wonder if the Obama team behind the scenes is intentionally putting words in Biden’s teleprompter because they want him to be mocked in public.
Earlier today Joe Biden compared the shortage of essential products, pet foods, raw materials, petroleum products and chemicals in the U.S. (due to his self-inflicted energy policy) to the shortage of Cabbage Patch dolls in the 1980’s. Seriously, you really cannot make this stuff up. WATCH:
I would hazard a guess the speechwriters debated using Tickle Me Elmo as an example, and then decided it was a just a smidge too far.
Good grief, this is enough to really make you wonder…. How long?
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MUST WATCH – Dr. Anthony Fauci Busted, Cannot Explain Why The U.S. Banned Travel From African Countries With Zero Cases of Omicron Variant
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 263 Comments
Sometimes the truth is hard to spot. It’s like that little out of place thing peeking out from under the boulder of lies atop it. Everyone focuses on the boulder, because it was purposefully placed there to get attention. However, every once in a while someone -usually a new voice in the crowd- notices that little part they didn’t quite cover up well enough, and that is when you find out the truth.
Anthony Fauci appeared today at the White House briefing room to promote the Omicron fear narrative. When building narratives, the timing of things is important. Fauci was announcing the first case of the Omicron variant in California, that’s the boulder. However, one of the usually silent and compliant journalists from the African news bureau had this pesky question (video at 16:50 prompted):
QUESTION: “Dr. Fauci, with all due respect, there’s zero case of COVID variant, of Omicron case, in Zimbabwe, in Namibia, in Lesotho, in Mozambique, what justifies imposing a travel ban on countries that have zero cases of the Omicron variant?”
FAUCI: “um,… er,… um,… You know, that’s a very good question, an important question, and, and we did struggle with that”….
… AND he never answered the question, because it wasn’t supposed to be asked. No one was supposed to notice that little irreconcilable factoid highlighting how the Omicron fear boulder is a purposeful fraud. They built this fear narrative called “Omicron” out of nothing, for a specific purpose.
The reporter wanted to push the issue, but the White House quickly interceded. Funny that.
Frustrated That Omicron Fear Is Not Permeating American Psyche, White House Planning More COVID Mandates
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 1, 2021 | Sundance | 456 Comments
There has been a lot of chatter behind a Washington Post report about the White House planning to introduce new COVID travel and quarantine restrictions tomorrow (Thursday). However, tuning out the noise – remember which agency of the Fourth Branch uses the Washington Post and things make sense.
The problem for the White House is the public reaction to the new COVID variant Omicron did not meet their expectations.
The White House needs more concern, more fear, more panic to enhance their larger objective {Go Deep}. The Biden team really need Omicron fear to permeate the American psyche, in order to achieve the Build Back Better agenda. They desperately need it.
If people just shake it off and go about living their lives, the White House will be facing an electorate angry about inflation; that’s a problem.
The Washington Post report is framed around new international travel restrictions, increased COVID testing, and quarantine mandates as an outcome of the Omicron variant arrival. However, given the nature of the 48 hour advanced notice provided to The WaPo, it’s likely the announcement tomorrow will contain the change that all vaccine advocates have been demanding, mandatory vaccination prior to any domestic airline travel. Forcing domestic airline travelers to prove their vaccinated status has been a goal of the vaccine media for several months.
The worker vaccine mandate was unconstitutional federal overreach; the Biden administration knew that in advance and did it anyway because the vaccine isn’t really the end goal, it’s just a tool. An airline traveler vaccine mandate would be similar federal overreach, and also likely to lose in court; however, that is not going to stop them from announcing one for the same reason they announced the worker vaccine mandate.
WASHINGTON – […] As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden is expected to announce Thursday, U.S. officials would require everyone entering the country to be tested one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
In addition, they are debating a controversial proposal to require all travelers, including U.S. citizens, to self-quarantine for seven days, even if their test results are negative. Those who flout the requirements might be subject to fines and penalties, the first time such penalties would be linked to testing and quarantine measures for travelers in the United States. (read more)
As long as the White House needs to exploit the politics and control of Omicron; and as long as the American people refuse to be controlled by the exploitation of Omicron, this mandate dynamic will continue. In essence, the Biden government is demanding that we behave more fearfully and pay attention to the distractions they are presenting in front of us.
Our government needs your compliance comrade citizen in order to retain their objective.
All of Biden energy policy, and all of Biden spending around the Build Back Better agenda, is designed to take us from where we are now into some distant place where fossil fuels are not the energy mechanism; that’s the Green New Deal component of this. However, there is no energy policy position for their transition – they stopped all current energy development around oil and coal.
This is not a flaw in their program for fundamental change, it is a feature.
Biden halted pipelines, cancelled oil and gas leases, blocked expanded refinery capacity and regulated the entire U.S. oil industry into a place of diminished capacity. That is why energy prices have, as Obama promised, “necessarily skyrocketed.” Depending on how cold it is this winter, you can expect natural gas and home heating oil to double in the next few months.
The near horizon looks pretty clear. Gasoline will keep rising fast and will cost $6 to $7/gal before next spring. There is no way under current Joe Biden policy to avoid this, unless he was to completely abandon his energy policy; that’s not likely. The climate change ideologues, academics and far-left communists behind the Biden policy are not likely to see the catastrophic economic damage as a bad thing. Instead, they will likely say it’s the new normal.
With that level of supply side economic chaos seemingly unavoidable, the only way for Biden to try and mitigate political damage is an attempt to halt the demand side.
That’s why the administration needs Omicron to change our behavior.
COVID-19 is a sword to destroy & fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy. COVID-19 is also a shield to protect the politicians as they destroy and fundamentally change the U.S. and global economy.
COVID-19 is a tool for Build Back Better.
Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
Is Big Pharma Punishing South Africa?
Armstrong Economics Blog/Africa Re-Posted Dec 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
South Africa denied Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson from delivering additional vaccines. A day later, on November 25, the omicron variant was detected in the country. Before the new variant was detected, South Africa claimed it had vaccinated 35% of the population, but their stockpile was building due to vaccine hesitancy. However, the African Union had planned to buy 220 million doses from Johnson & Johnson through Aspen Pharmacare. South Africa had also promised to purchase large quantities from Pfizer. A representative from Pfizer said, “We remain adaptable to individual country’s vaccine requirements whilst continuing to meet our quarterly commitments as per the South Africa supply agreement.”
Travel bans were immediately placed on South Africa and surrounding countries with lower vaccination rates. The variant has since been detected in Belgium, Israel, Germany, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. However, none of those nations faced a travel ban. The South African government released a statement saying that they are being “punished”:
“This latest round of travel bans is akin to punishing South Africa for its advanced genomic sequencing and the ability to detect new variants quicker. Excellent science should be applauded and not punished. The global community needs collaboration and partnerships in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Even the World Health Organization has warned world leaders not to impose immediate travel restrictions. The South African government is urging nations to reconsider the travel ban, but the number of nations to implement a ban multiplied after omicron was announced. If the ban were solely due to health concerns, countries would also ban travel from other places where the variant is present. South Africa is potentially being punished for disobeying the larger agenda.
The Lack of Independent Thought
Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Dec 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
I find it really disturbing that people you thought were capable of independent thought turn out to be like a drone just maneuvering through life without a clue. Geraldo Rivera actually said: “If I’m in your room with my grandchildren who are not vaccinated because they are too young and you lie about vaccine status, and you sneeze on my grandchildren, that could be a crime. That is absolutely so selfish.”
Perhaps Geraldo has failed to comprehend the news that being vaccinated does not prevent you from getting COVID, nor does it prevent you from spreading COVID. The four people who were diplomats that took Omicron to Hong Kong were vaccinated. Using Geraldo’s logic, if you are vaccinated and give COVID to his grandchildren, that’s OK, but if you are not vaccinated then the same act is criminal? You can see how Hitler was able to get people to hate the Jews.
Let me make this very clear, my family had COVID and the grandchildren, under 10, may have had a runny nose at best when their parents were sick for about 10 days. Then in the other family group, one parent had COVID and was laid up for also about 10 days, while the other didn’t get it in the same house. The same with the children under 10. I too probably had COVID, although I tested negative five times, and two doctors said I mostly had it because the tests are not valid.
I have worked with many governments around the globe for 40 years. Once politics entered COVID, all truth vanished. No government will ever admit this was a mistake. If the vaccines sterilize people or cause heart problems, governments will NEVER admit any side-effect. Even Gates admitted that if they vaccinated the entire world, some 700,000 people would die. That is reality. No matter what the vaccine, there are people whose body rejects it.My neighbors took the vaccine because there was going to be some family party on a cruise ship. He was OK, but his wife, under 30, almost died. She was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. After about a week, she recovered. This is a fact of life. Not everyone is the same, and vaccines should NOT be mandatory as they put some people at risk. It is “selfish” to demand everyone gets vaccinated and put their own lives at risk for you. If you got vaccinated, then claiming the unvaccinated are risking your life means that the vaccines do not work.
So if you think the government really cares, you are a fool. Digital Passports have nothing to do with your health for a disease that has a 99% chance of survival. As has been revealed in Britain, everything about you is on that passport, from education to financial status. The COVID passports are the way to get people 100% on the grid and traceable. Oh, what fools most mortals seem to be. Biden has been forced to postpone the vaccine mandate for federal workers until January 1 because it is immoral to force vaccination for a flu-like disease that has a 99%+ chance of survival.
Moderna Cashes in On Omicron
Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Dec 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong
Moderna, the company that produced its first vaccination under Operation Warp Speed, said it is close to producing a new vaccine for the omicron variant. The news comes just days after the omicron variant was first reported publicly and before the scientific community had a chance to study the variant that has over 32 strains. As a result, Moderna’s stock jumped 14% earlier in the week and has been one of the top performers on the S&P 500 to date.
No one understands the new variant, but there is allegedly a vaccination in production that could be available by early 2022. This should raise many questions. Analysts claim Moderna has the ability to create new mRNA vaccines to combat mutating variants and can begin clinical trials within 60-90 days. Rest assured, all of the vaccine companies are now seeking to cash in on omicron. If these companies do not understand the variant, how can they develop a safe and effective vaccination?
President Biden even said it would take the White House around two weeks to understand omicron. “If people are vaccinated and wear their mask, there’s no need for lockdown,” Biden warned. Biden is lying. There are proven cases of people contracting COVID and various variants despite being fully vaccinated. The US president will deliver a “detailed strategy outlining how we’re going to fight COVID this winter. Not with shutdowns or lockdowns, but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing, and more.” The word “lockdown” puts the markets in a tailspin, and Biden’s handlers have been careful not to mention this keyword in his speeches. Yet, they have made it clear that taking the vaccination could potentially prevent another lockdown. Between the lines is a subtle threat — comply or face the consequences.
Widespread Manhunt Underway For Three Men, Possibly Aborigines, Who Escaped Australian Involuntary Quarantine Camp – Video
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 30, 2021 | Sundance | 201 Comments
The events here are priceless, and weird, and just, well, nuts. Last week people were stunned to discover the Chief Premier of Australia’s Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, had triggered an operation using the military to round up Aboriginal tribes and place them into a COVID quarantine facility called Howard Springs.
Premier Gunner became furious at people who questioned his decision and said the native Australians wanted to be in the camp. {Go Deep} Well, early this morning three men scaled the wall in the Howard Springs quarantine camp and escaped. Police are right now conducting a widespread manhunt for the escapees, all of whom tested negative for the virus.
The Darwin police are using helicopters, roadblocks and are conducting vehicle searches in order to recapture the men who Michael Gunner said “wanted to be in” the detainment and quarantine facility. Something ain’t adding up. WATCH:
With this report in mind, it’s worth re-watching the previous angry outburst from Michael Gunner (below).
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UPDATE: Looks like they caught them
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