Questions: Ides of June 2021


Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re- Posted Jun 18, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Hello,
re: Fauci Under Global Attack
I have to disagree with your comment that China did not benefit. I think they had to have been somewhat aware of what was going on, or at least caught on early and let it happen. This was a big benefit to them, specifically with respect to Hong Kong and the protests that had been going on there for a long time. I think anytime China has an opportunity to grab more control over its citizens, they will take it.

But I do agree with your belief of how it went down. I reviewed the publically available evidence such as patents, etc. a year ago and thought it was highly probable that this was man-made and intentionally released. That being said, it really doesn’t matter. Governments will use any excuse, with help from the media (pravda) to grab more power….in the name of protecting our freedoms, how ironic. I continue to be amazed at how dumb people are.
On another note, and I am a very anti-violent, anti-war person, but…why doesn’t someone just assassinate Gates, Schwab and Soros? Cut the snake off at the head, so to speak.
What are your thoughts on Mauritius? I am looking to get away from this crazy world.

MR

ANSWER: All the information I have, which is EXTREMELY reliable and firsthand, not hearsay, points to this being created to further the Great Reset. China benefits from the deliberate response of the West, which is organized as part of this Build Back Better arrangement. I can confirm the Great Reset was talked about at Davos 1 year before COVID. They selected China in an effort to force them to join this Great Reset. China was on track to exceed the US as the largest economy before COVID. Their economy grew BECAUSE they did not deliberately try to crush it for the Great Reset. This is like a wife whose husband was killed in 9/11 saying she benefited because he had a large life insurance policy. China will become the Financial Capital of the World and they need not do anything but sit on the side, reject the Great Reset, and watch the West self-destruct.

Now as far as someone assassinating Gates, Soros, and Schwab, I think history proves that at the very least there will be attempts on their lives. After all, on July 20, 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg (1907 – July 21st, 1944) and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his Wolf’s Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie—originally referring to part of the conspiracy—has become associated with the entire event. There will be someone else who emerges to save humanity just as Claus von Stauffenberg tried to save Germany.

QUESTION: Dear Martin Armstrong
What happened to the various sectors of the oil industry? Why are they not talking back? No, CO2 is not destroying the climate! No, we are not the cause of global warming. There is no global warming! We are not destroying the seas with oil and plastic garbage, lack of utilities for sensible waste handling is. Why don’t we hear objections from the big companies? Why are they so compliant with all these faulty narratives? I fail to see what NWO, WEF, Great Reset and more rubbish of the sort have to offer them. Their power base is more potent than this lofty rhetoric from experts and fake scientists. It’s their products that makes the world economy spin around. Why don’t they say something?
Top high regards and mountains of best greetings
/Uni

Unknown

ANSWER: I believe that there have been major bribes paid to some politicians. I also believe that Bill Gates was involved with Epstein, not for young girls, which would have been legal in Europe if they are over 14, but for the purpose of getting powerful people in a compromising position to blackmail them. I suppose the test of my theory will be if Ghislaine Maxwell is actually allowed to go to trial. She has refused to plead guilty and they seem to be trying to get her sick or to pull off another suicide. Her conditions in solitary confinement are deplorable as they flood her cell with raw sewage. But according to Biden, Americans never torture anyone. RIGHT!  Even when I petitioned the court to be taken to a real doctor the judge denied medical treatment. You have no idea how ruthless these people really are. They will stop at nothing to win.

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong,

I hope this email finds you.

Admittedly, I was first drawn to your blog years ago due to an interest in economics. After seeing various academic theories proved false by the market, I was searching online for someone out there with experience who could shed some light. Personally, I’ve become more and more curious about subjects beyond economics/politics. I want to learn more about how things are connected, something you’ve highlighted many times.

Do you have any recommended reading into physics? Something to help me orient myself. I would love to understand more how physics links into economics. Not just at a high level.

Kind regards,
SJ

ANSWER: I wish I could refer you to a book on the blending of these subjects, but unfortunately I cannot. I am trying to write a book on this to bring together the works of various people I have studied over the years. The greatest problem has been that they are specialists in their field but do not step outside of that.

One of our major Australian corporate clients ordered their CFO to meet with me after he lost $50 million in foreign exchange. He was against cycles and had his back up, which was understandable. No matter what I said, he would dismiss our track record as luck. I finally asked him his background. He said he had a degree as a nuclear physicist. I said, “Great! Let’s look at the markets from the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” His mount dropped and said, “Oh my God, there has to be a cycle!” I responded, “You got it!”

They just do not bring the various fields together. That is what I am hoping to do with the fourth book in this series I have been writing, “The Geometry of Time.”  I hope to have the “Discovery of the Business Cycle” ready by the end of the year. After these five books, I will be ready for Scotty to Beam Me Up. I did what I was supposed to do.

QUESTION: You have mentioned more often ancient coins rather than US coins as an investment. Is there any particular reason other than your personal interest in history?

WG

ANSWER: The Chinese are big buyers now of ancient coins in addition to their own. But the difference with ancient coins is that there are collectors worldwide so they tend to be much more of an international market. The coins of a particular country still are valuable but tend to be local — not international. The 1933 $20 gold coin just sold at Sotheby’s for $18,872,250 on an estimate of $10-$15 million would not bring that kind of money in Beijing.

Republicans and Conservative Pundits Walking into a Trap Demanding Congressional Investigation of FBI Involvement on Jan 6th DC Event


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 17, 2021 | Sundance | 178 Comments

Last night CTH highlighted the flaw in the Tucker Carlson (Fox News) and Darren Beattie (Revolver News) advocacy for a Senate investigation into the FBI involvement with the January 6th DC protest/insurrection {Go Deep}.  Bottom Line: legislative oversight has consistently been participating in the corruption carried out by intelligence agencies and FBI.

Tonight I want to warn everyone of the trap that exists if this advocacy for a legislative approach continues.  Republicans are right now walking into a trap.  Read this next line carefully:  The January 6th Commission is to MAGA voters what the Mueller investigation was to President Trump.

The Senate vote to support Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Commission only failed by five votes. The final cloture vote was 54-35.  Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Mitt Romney of Utah and Rob Portman of Ohio all supported the commission. Pat Toomey (PA) would have supported, but he was absent for the vote.  Senators Blackburn (R-TN), Blunt (R-MO), Braun (R-IN), Burr (R-NC), Inhofe (R-OK), Murray (D-WA), Risch (R-ID), Rounds (R-SD), Shelby (R-AL), Sinema (D-AZ) and Toomey (R-PA) did not vote.

If republicans keep demanding a senate investigation into the FBI involvement on January 6th events, it will only take a few moves before Schumer and Pelosi twist that demand to say “then why didn’t you support the January 6th commission?”… and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would love nothing more than to bring that vote to approve the commission back to the floor.  I would even suggest that due to new demands by republicans in media, Mitch McConnell would support it.

Let me be clear, that January 6th Commission will be entirely run by democrats and their Lawfare operatives within staff.  The purpose of that commission would carry the same intents as the Mueller investigation in 2017 through 2019: to frame a narrative against their political opposition.    The difference this time would be that President Trump would not be the intended sole target; the Pelosi January 6th commission would be targeting Trump voters.

Investigations are only done by DC to serve their own interests.  Sometimes those interests are in throwing a bag over DC corruption: Fast n Furious, Benghazi Committee, IRS scandal and the VA scandal for recent reference points.  However, sometimes those DC interests are best protected by targeting opposition to DC itself, just like the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel.

Again, the legislative branch was/is working with the executive branch on the common objectives of a corrupt intelligence apparatus, that includes the FBI {examples here}. So the legislative branch is not going to investigate intelligence community or FBI corruption.  The HPSCI and SSCI are participants in the corruption, they will not investigate themselves regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans control the chambers.  This is not a partisan issue.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) was not only involved in the intelligence targeting of President Trump through surveillance and counterintelligence operations; the SSCI was actively participating in that targeting and doing everything they could to assist the FBI, DOJ and Intelligence community (IC) on that goal.

Anyone who is advocating for the legislative branch to be the solution to intense internal corruption within the DOJ, FBI or Intelligence Community is only setting themselves up for a total failure.  However, beyond failure it will backfire.

The MAGA voters (the republican base) will be targeted, ridiculed and marginalized in the run up to the 2022 election.  They will be made to look like domestic terrorists, “Domestic Violent Extremists”, and much worse as defined by collusion between a corrupt FBI and a corrupt U.S. corporate media.  That is the entire purpose of the commission that passed the House and was narrowly defeated in the Senate.

Do not be naive to think the GOP want the FBI involvement in the January 6 events to be exposed any more than the Republican wing of the UniParty wanted to see the IRS targeting of conservative groups exposed.  The vast majority of DC republicans want to see the MAGA base destroyed just like they wanted to see the Tea Party base destroyed so they could get back to the business of self-indulgence in 2012.

Remember the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel was created while Republicans held control over the House and Senate in 2017.  It was republicans as well as democrats who wanted to see President Trump removed.  Republicans held both chambers of congress in 2017, and supported the special counsel appointment then demanded it be protected.   The January 6th commission would be organized with the same motives and intents.  Only they wouldn’t be erasing Trump, they will be erasing YOU.

The activity by the FBI in the January 6th events should be researched and investigated, but don’t fall into the trap of demanding congress to do the investigation.  They will weaponize that request against our interests.

Instead of giving our enemy ammunition, keep supporting independent research, demanding documents and identifying evidence of the FBI involvement by any means legally possible.  Then help the legal defense teams of those who are being charged in the cases to use their position as defendants to demand evidence in the cases against their clients.

All of the lawyers with clients under federal charges should use the full weight of the legal system to demand “Brady Evidence” that supports the innocence of their clients against the ridiculous accusations by the DOJ.  The defense teams should be allowed access to CCTV footage and any evidence of FBI informants who had contact with the accused.

In essence use the legal system to discover the evidence of FBI corruption while simultaneously defending their clients.  A recent example for this approach might be how Sidney Powell defended Michael Flynn and used discovery demands to highlight gross government abuses by the DOJ/FBI against her transparently innocent client.

The defense lawyers could organize a group defense fund for just this purpose and then ask the public for money.  Every client would benefit from the findings.

It is beyond absolute that anyone who advocates for the legislative branch to investigate the FBI involvement in January 6th, is only supporting the interests of the DC system and UniParty who would love nothing more than to have public pressure on them to investigate their own role.

Alas, I fear we are only a few days away from this exact scenario happening, unless people wake up soon.

Arizona Chairwoman Kelli Ward Updates on The Maricopa County Audit and The SCOTUS Issue of Ballot Harvesting


Posted originally on the conservative house on June 17, 2021 | Sundance | 122 Comments

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides an update today on the Maricopa County ballot audit and other election integrity issues.

As Mrs. Ward notes the hand count portion of the audit is complete with only the braille ballots left to be reviewed.  However, one of the larger issues of election integrity needs to continue being highlighted, ballot harvesting.  The issue of ballot harvesting is rife with the potential for fraud.  Mrs Ward notes the process of ballot harvesting does not align with chain-of-custody requirements and the people, groups and organizations who conduct ballot harvesting have a sketchy history.

What the chairwoman calls “ballot harvesters”, should also be identified as “voting mules”.  The term mule will surface more frequently as it differentiates between taking custody of a legitimate ballot on behalf of a voter, versus a process of creating votes through manipulation of ballots and voter files.

mule will collect or retrieve blank ballots, take them to a centralized processing facility where they are filled out, and then drop them off at ballot collection sites.  While both processes are fraught with election manipulation, there is a significant difference in what a harvester does -vs- what a mule does.

Ballot Problems Persist in Atlanta, Georgia – Missing Ballots, Missing Logs, Duplicated Ballot Scans and Worse


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on June 17, 2021 | Sundance | 280 Comments

To say there are sketchy issues in Fulton County, Georgia, elections would be the understatement of the year.  So many issues have been raised with the Atlanta area 2020 election processes it would be impossible to encapsulate them in one article.  However, one consistent pattern continues…. It appears specific lots of ballots -all favoring Joe Biden- were counted multiple times.

The multiple counting issue is just one aspect, one point of data, that current lawsuits within the region are attempting to resolve.  The scanning of the same batches of ballots multiple times would explain the “missing batches” issue.  The batches are “missing” because they were simply not batches at all, they were duplicate scans of ballots that had already been counted.

Additionally, fraudulent ballots created on non secure paper, which appear to have been made on copy machines, is another issue (some of that touched here).   That issue has been directly confirmed to CTH by an election worker who was part of the original count and who noted there were ballots on paper that was not authorized as print stock for the original ballots.

The audit of 147,000 sketchy absentee ballots might start to unravel these and may other issues that have become problematic for the Atlanta area election officials to hide.  Fulton County officials have already admitted to violations in state election law surrounding chain-of-custody documents; and into this mix of information comes a report from John Solomon and Daniel Payne about internal election communication and notes that seem to confirm the Fulton County officials were attempting to deal with election manipulation. {SEE HERE}

(Just the News) – […] scores of batches of absentee ballots that appeared missing from the documents and more than two dozen batches of absentee ballots that appear to have been double or triple-counted in Fulton County. (read more)

There are seven targeted voter regions where similar ballot issues and statistical impossibilities have been identified nationwide: Fulton County, Georgia; Wayne County, Michigan; Maricopa County, Arizona; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Clark County, Nevada; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Madison, Wisconsin.

In these key areas, and a few others, massive data has been purchased by election integrity groups {Go Deep} and the results of their projects to assemble that data is soon to be made public.

CTH anticipates a massive amount of push-back from the U.S. Department of Justice based solely on the findings of cell phone data that has tracked “vote mules” via geolocation and mapping.  These are ground-level activists that appear to have been part of a coordinated effort to collect ballots, walk them through a process where they were filled out in a single location, and then drop them off at collection and tabulation sites.

Keep in mind many of ballot collection sites have CCTV systems; some CCTV operations were actually mandated by legislation that authorized the collection drop-off locations. It is not coincidental that public records requests for those CCTV recordings are being met with hostile denials and efforts to stall production.

The bottom line is this…. AG Merrick Garland knows a powder keg is very likely to explode as soon as the majority of American people discover just how manipulated the election of 2020 was. His announcement to double the staff of the DOJ Civil Rights Division voter unit is not to protect election integrity, but rather to position his resources for a war against a looming storm of election review outcomes…. (more)

Bursting Biden’s Ballot Bubble


Posted originally on the GrrrGraphics.com JUN 17, 2021 AT 9:47 AM

Pop! Goes the Cheater

Joe Biden is not my president. He may be the Resident in Chief at the White House, but he doesn’t deserve to be there. The election was stolen for him by the Socialist Democrats. Socialists always think in terms of ends justifying the means. They have no regard for the law and too many courts are populated by Obama sycophants.

Biden was despised and ridiculed, but the powers that be chose him to be the nominee because he’s utterly corrupt and will do as he’s told. We saw little of him on the campaign trail. His masters knew he was a gaffe machine. When he did hold a ‘rally’ a few dozen people showed up. President Trump drew tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters. Kamala was and is despised even more than Biden and she’s just as corrupt. Perhaps that’s why Biden was told to choose her as his running mate.

Biden lost the election. The Democrats knew he was going to lose. Biden is a doddering, demented fool. They knew cheating was necessary to remove President Trump from office. Mail in ballots were stuffed. Dead people voted. Biden ballots on palettes were delivered in the dead of night. Election machines were hacked. Biden received more votes than Obama did.

Yeah. Sure.

Arizona can start the dominoes falling. Once fraud is proven, other key states may follow suit and Biden will be seen as a criminal, not a president. Joe belongs behind bars, not behind a desk at the White House.

—Ben Garrison

Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis


Posted originally on BITCHUTE on June 16, 2021

DarkHorse Podcast Clips173K subscribersSUBSCRIBEWhy we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis. Is the lab origin a good thing? Clip with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.

An Interview With Putin


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

Despite all the accusations thrown at Putin, my assessment of world leaders is clear that he is the most intelligent of the entire lot. In this piece, he brings up the ruthless arrest of 450 people who “stormed the capitol” on January 6th and how the Democrats are imprisoning them for 15 to 20 years for simply walking into the building. This has been nothing but theatre because they wanted to paint Trump as evil and they will do anything to further that political agenda despite these people did not do anything. What Putin points out is the hypocrisy of the United States. On that score, he has a point. These people do not deserve imprisonment.

The journalist asking such a direct question of Putin would NEVER happen in the United States with the end of our true Freedom of the Press. Every person I know who has come to the West from Russia and Eastern Europe, all say the very same thing. What they fled is now here.

Agree to Disagree


Armstrong Economics Blog/Humor Re-Posted Jun 17, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Politicians never agree to disagree. In America, politicians can only see things in black and white (i.e., red or blue). The two sides act like magnets attracting. Bipartisanship is a show for the masses. Reverse psychology is defined as “the principle or practice of subtly encouraging a behavior or belief by advocating its opposite.” Perhaps the right should advocate to shut down the economy and herd in the masses so that the left opposes.

In rhetoric there is logos (logic), ethos (credibility/trust), and pathos (emotions/values). Obama and Trump appealed to the masses by seeming like “one of us” (ethos), driving points home (logos), and of course, pandering to their audience (pathos). Even with George W. Bush, people saw the candidate as relatable (ethos) and felt he had the same Texas-born values (pathos). With Biden, people simply voted for him because they hated Trump. Biden’s strength as a leader is questionable, even to those who voted for him. Yet, since people oppose Trump, they voted for the other candidate without checking his credentials.

Biden & the Corruption of Just Klaus Schwab?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Jun 17, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Biden overruled his staff to lift sanctions on the Nordstream 2 pipeline against all the Build Back Better agenda of Klaus Schwab. Some people are wondering if the Russians have something on Joe? They cannot imagine the guy who ran of the environment would flip and go against his own staff. The word behind the curtain is that they are beginning to see that they cannot cut off fossil fuels and to shut that down, more than 10% of the German people could die from the lack of heat. You have to dig deeper.

In its latest Monthly Oil Report, the IEA called on OPEC+ to increase production in order to counter higher demand in 2022. Some politicians are getting cold feet and realize that Klaus Schwab has gone way too far. This is the feedback we are getting. Schwab seems to be relying on our models and is now warning about rising civil unrest and he has been proposing crackdowns upon the people and lockdowns to force his agenda through.

As I have said before, this Great Reset will fail. You cannot change the economy like this in two years or less. They are running out of time. It would not surprise me if we start seeing the WEF itself under siege. It will not take long for the people to figure he is the source of this crisis.

Biden Press Conference


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

The interview of Biden was very interesting besides him losing his temper. Biden seriously mischaracterized the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick portraying that all the rioters were criminals and they killed a police officer when they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a bid to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s win. He did exactly as he always accuses Putin of misrepresenting the facts. In this case, Putin likening the federal prosecution of hundreds of rioters to his own crackdown on anti-government protests. Biden called it “a ridiculous comparison” butr it is no different. The FBI confirmed that not one weapon was found among the rioters so the constant characterization that this was an “armed insurrection” has been simply propaganda. Biden said:

“It’s one thing for literally criminals to break through a cordon and go into the Capitol, kill a police officer and be held accountable than it is for people objecting and marching on the Capitol saying ‘You are not allowing me to speak freely. You are not allowing me to do A, B, C, or D’” 

Initial reports of Sicknick’s death falsely claimed it was the result of him being bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. The official autopsy later found the 43-year-old died after suffering a pair of strokes unrelated to the riot. For Biden to pretend the rioters killed him is playing the same political game they accuse Putin of.

As for Ashli Babbitt, 36, who was a rioter the police shot point-blank and killed her on the spot by a police officer was acceptable even though she was unarmed. Had she been black it would have been called racist.

In the aftermath, at least two police officers and one alleged rioter also committed suicide because of the political drama that the Democrats raised this level to for political points like AOC claiming she feared for her life when she was not even in the building.