The Birth of a Middle East War?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Middle East Re-Posted May 13, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

With the battle raging in Israel/Palestine, there is always going to be propaganda that points the finger at the other side. Over the past 15 years, Israel has fought wars multiple times, but as always, Israel is in danger of fighting a war where it “wins” tactically, but achieves nothing strategically.

Meanwhile, generations come and go and each remembers the loss to their family from the last war. There have been wars with Hezbollah and Hamas – in 2006, 2008-09, 2012, and 2014, and now again in 2021. Why is this one different? This is 72 years from the rebirth of Israel. However, this local cycle also aligned with 2020 on the major 172-year Revolutionary Cycle which has inspired the rise of the LEFT.

Why is this war different? The 2006 war was viewed as a victory by Israel. They believed that Hezbollah had been sufficiently deterred from another round of war. Then there was the Syrian Civil War which kept Hezbollah very busy. By Syria is no longer in play.  What gains Israel viewed in 2006 as imposing a real deterrence has faded into the night.

However, Hamas has been a different story. The last major war was in 2014, and while there have been many flare-ups, we are now 7 years from that major conflict, and the idea that Israel has imposed some sort of deterrence, the record of four wars in 12 years cannot be seen objectively as a successful deterrence.

Is Israel’s goal once more just a “deterrence”? In 2014, Israel appeared to try to get Hamas to stop shooting rockets so it bombed all the best targets. Then too, they bombed “command centers” and “intelligence centers.” However, the rockets kept firing. The danger here is that Israel will realize that their strategy of deterrence is not working and that means a real war with the ground troops and bombing where civilian casualties rise.

With Hamas firing rockets into Jerusalem, it is not the same as the Israelis firing into Gaza. This is not choosing sides. Jerusalem is the mother city to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. This risk here is that destroying a holy site will only expand the war and put others on the side of the Jews.

Only a fool points fingers at the atrocities of the other side to justify the war and commit their own atrocities. We are all just the puppets of the elites. Even the Nazis at Nuremberg said they were only following orders. It was the experiments of Stanley Milgram who showed that people around the world would even torture others if told to (see Obedience to Authority). I have a staff of every race and religion. We all get along with no problems.

It is those in power that create wars. The Prince of Savoy who inspired the 2nd Amendment in the United States was a general for many kings. He came to the conclusion that kings were paying for standing armies and wanted to get their money worth. In part, this led to the theory that if there was only one government war would be abolished is in itself an acknowledgment that war is created by leaders – not the people.  However, centuries of war leave behind scars that will never heal like the feud between the French and the English, Catholics v Protestants in Ireland/England, and the hatred that remains festering in the Middle East over religion that dates back to the Crusades.

There are no peace talks that will ever remove the hatred for the people on both sides who have suffered at their hands of their elites. While the warmongers wage their hatred that prevents peace for the people who just want to live unmolested, the reality of this war is the accumulation of 72 years. The Biden Administration is far too preoccupied with climate change to grasp the real risks in this world and we are witnessing the consequences. We are plagued by hateful warmongers on all sides, and the delusion of world leaders that even know how to lead.

The concern that has been whispers over the last year is to install a military government and end democracy there as well. The only people who think they will benefit from war is always the elites. They are talking about imposing a military regime in Israel and imposing lockdowns and curfews.

CDC Responding to Increased Sunlight and Questioning About Their Guidance Now Says Vaccinated Persons “can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic”


Posted originally on the Conservative tree house on May 13, 2021 | Sundance | 471 Comments

Over the past two weeks the questioning of the CDC has become intense.  A larger portion of the American electorate are awakening to the overall fraud perpetrated by the political operatives in control of the institution.  The most recent inflection point was a New York Times article that cited studies showing no evidence, not a single case, of COVID infection came from casual outdoor contact(s).

The leftist audience that reads the NYT responded like a cow had just randomly licked them on the forehead.  It is true that fish do not know they are in water…

“There’s a glaring omission from this discussion about why people “can’t quit” pandemic behaviors: the mental and emotional toll of the last year. After what many have been through—death, grief, isolation, stress, anxiety, unemployment, trauma—people are going to have some feelings around transitioning back to a less cautious way of life.” (link)

However, the reality of the evidence was always there in the results from states like Florida who quickly re-opened their businesses, allowed congregation, and never saw any issue with increased infection rates.  What the NYT published was basically just an affirmation  of what several states had been saying all along.  There was no scientific evidence to support the previous rules and restrictions from the CDC.

Additionally, in the face of growing questioning it was obvious the level of double-speak from the mouths of CDC officials and Anthony Fauci could no longer be reconciled; and is, in fact, running up against the reality of recent scientific evidence reflecting that most -if not all- of the prior CDC guidance was not based on science.

As customary when any general awakening starts to shift the narrative away from the control authority, the manipulators need to get out in front of the groundswell lest they look like the manipulative fools they are.  As a direct consequence the CDC comes out today with new guidance, while still clinging to their vaccine narrative.  CDC:

“If you’ve been fully vaccinated:

  • You can resume activities that you did prior to the pandemic.
  • You can resume activities without wearing a mask or staying 6 feet apart, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.” (link)

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The CDC is clinging to the vaccination narrative because if they don’t then people will be even more likely to realize the overall COVID-19 narrative has been one massive fraud perpetrated upon people.

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

The answer is… social, societal and governmental changes, 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 finding out now exactly what the purpose of the hype was all about.

What the political operatives inside the systems of government did was weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within COVID for over a year. Nothing within their plan required the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC.  The bureaucratic system was functioning as a totalitarian body controlling the behavior of people.

COVID-19 was always the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.  Sometimes a CONSPIRACY THEORY is not a ‘theory’.

Anthony Fauci, a political ideologue and leftist advocate, was the primary government influence agent that led to trillions in economic damage and impacted the lives of all Americans with false assertions and brutally political virus mitigation efforts.

Inflation Nation


Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com MAY 12, 2021 AT 10:08 AM

A trillion dollars here and a trillion dollars there and pretty soon such spending adds up to serious money.

In America we have a national debt well over $20 trillion. By 2030 it will be nearly $90 trillion. Our current unfunded liabilities tops $149 trillion. Biden has distributed trillions of dollars to compensate for lost jobs when small businesses were destroyed during the lockdowns. Congress routinely spends trillions of dollars on pork and they won’t tighten belts any time soon.

The Fed’s solution is always the same. Print more dollars. A problem occurs with that. It’s not like printing Weimar or Zimbabwe money backed by nothing. We have not a fiat dollar, but a debt-based dollar. That means it must be paid back with interest. That’s impossible because the public is not allowed to have a printing press. Counterfeiting is against the law. Only the private central bankers can print and the more they print the more debt is owed to them and those who buy government bonds. Workers pay taxes on their labor to pay interest on the debt, but the principle can never be paid back. We’ve long passed the point of no return on that possibility.

Essentially we have become tax slaves to the entities who have indebted us. People slave away for a rotten, immoral system of money for nearly a third of the year while the ultra rich have tax shelters. Global corporations pay little or no taxes. It’s always the little guy who gets punished. It’s a rich man’s game and they’ve shackled our country with debt money.

Inflation is getting worse. Food prices are skyrocketing along with home and rent prices. Gas prices are rising. Big government won’t halt their profligate spending, but the little guy will be forced cut back. No wonder many aren’t returning to low-paying jobs. Wages are not keeping up with inflation and if one has a choice between making money from a government dole or working for the same amount, they will choose idleness every time. Biden doesn’t seem to understand this.

We won’t see people pushing wheelbarrows full of money about any time soon. Weimar Germany had a law that stated wages needed to remain commensurate with the inflation rate, which soon rose exponentially. In America the debt dollar will prevent wheelbarrow cash, but people will get poorer regardless. It’s a good idea to have some precious metal as well as long-term storable food at this time.

Frederick Bastiat once said, “Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” People need to give up the notion of government redistribution of wealth. That socialist road leads to a dead end. Human beings are not equal and can’t be made equal without absolute totalitarianism. Forced equality by means of socialism always leads to ghastly suffering. It’s time to end our dependency on government. It’s time to end the Federal Reserve and return to sound money based on precious metal.

—Ben Garrison

Biden Keeps Border Closed with Canada but not Mexico?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted May 13, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While there are many who fear Biden’s mental capacity, my greatest concern is who is really running the nation? Under Bush, Jr., the president was Dick Cheney, and thank God the Republicans ousted  Liz Cheney. The way politics has evolved, those in charge are never seen. It’s like the European Commission hiding in the shadows but pulling the strings.

Biden is keeping the Canadian border closed while keeping the Mexican border open. The scuttlebutt I get from Washington is to allow the Mexicans to flood the Southern Republican states to further their Socialist takeover of the country and plan to allow illegal aliens to vote, which they assume will be for Democrats.

Additionally, Trudeau is the puppet of the World Economic Forum, and he endorses everything Schwab says. Canada, they hope, will become the poster-child for the Great Reset that the Democrats will point to in 2022. So crushing the Canadian economy may have greater importance than what Trudeau is doing to his own people.

US on the Brink of Civil War?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Revolution Re-Posted May 13, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

2021 US Open Letter from Retired Generals and Adm

Indeed, I have been warning that our models have been pointing to tremendous civil unrest which will eventually lead to the break-up of the United States post-2024 and the war this Great Reset unleashes upon the world. People like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab are as dangerous to humanity as Adolf Hitler, Stalin, or Lenin. They only see their dream and fail to understand that the world is split 50/50 on this idea of Marxism and we are not their toy things to play with.

More than 120 retired U.S. generals and admirals have now signed an open letter warning that the United States is embroiled in a major confrontation between freedom and Marxism. They wrote:

“We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty.”

Back in the 1980s, I was requested permission back then to teach the Economic Confidence Model (ECM) at the Citadel military school. It was then was I first realized that people were listening to the cyclical nature of war and how it was linked to the economy. The ECM was being taught in philosophy class. That is when I was compared to Hegel. I had seen myself as a simple trader. I was being summoned by politicians, military theorists, and even Milton Friedman who came to listen to me deliver a speech in Chicago. I supposed that is how most of the greatest discoveries in society take place – by accident. I certainly never aspired to be a military strategist nor an economist. What I ended up being confronted by was how the ECM was being seen by many in different fields.

Indeed, I was listening to a lecture by Sallie Baliunas and what she discovered from the ice core samples obtained from the North Pole. She revealed that there was a 300-year cycle to the energy output of the sun which appeared in the ice core data. When I look at the cycle she revealed, I was stunned. It matched the 309.6-year cycle of the ECM. What I had discovered from the historical record of the rise and fall of nations that followed the ECM, suddenly I was confronted with at least part of the explanation – climate change.

Interestingly it was  October 7th, 1763 when George III issued a British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. This was the start of the confrontation that would eventually lead to the Revolution 13 years later. This also marked the Financial Panic of 1763 which was the collapse in commodity prices. George III had succeeded his grandfather, George II, to the throne of Great Britain on October 25, 1760. The king’s new advisors re-evaluated Britain’s trade policies with the colonies. For over one hundred years, Great Britain had regulated colonial trade with a number
of navigation and trade laws, but they were not really enforced. The substantial increase in the size of the British Navy during the war with France gave the British government the strength to now combat colonial
smuggling and enforce trade laws more effectively after 1760.

To crackdown on smuggling in the American colonies, the British government also increasingly began to use Writs of Assistance. A type of search warrant that inspired the 4th Amendment because these writs authorized government officials to look for contraband, such as smuggled goods, in private homes and businesses at random. The writs also placed no limits on the time, place, or manner of a search. In 1761, sixty-three Boston merchants challenged the legality of the process. James Otis, Jr., an attorney who had formerly represented the royal government, argued the case for the merchants. Though they lost their case, the surrounding publicity fueled anger within the merchant classes of Boston against the British government. John Adams was there listening to the argument of James Otis. He remarked that there and then the revolution was born.

Ironically, our model on the prospects for the rise in a civil war in the United States turned upward in December 2019 when COVID was released. This should erupt within three years of that turning point which will be 2022. That is not to say there will be a civil war at that time, but the confrontation will rise up and start to take shape in 2022. Traditionally, the revolution will erupt 13 years after that turning point which ironically brings us precisely to 2032.

Magnets Cling to Where People are Vaccinated


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted May 13, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The latest thing going viral is that people who accepted the vaccination are finding that for some weird reason, magnets stick to their arm where they got the shot. This is leading many people to believe that Gates’ microchips are being implanted. This is going viral in and of itself. Others keep swearing there are no chips. If they are changing your DNA, does that mean your DNA is now patented to the Gates’ pharmaceutical monopoly? They can already find you with your phone. I suppose if you use a burner phone, then the chip would be the answer. Now, the CDC, without long-term studies, has authorized vaccinating teenagers.

Clearly, politicians NEVER tell the truth. Government is in bed with the vaccine companies, and the media has abandoned independence. If there are chips being implanted and any doctor provides such evidence, he will be taken off of YouTube and canceled by BigTech.

The problem that emerges is simply we have no idea what the truth is in the matter. They will not address this matter, but they will call it a conspiracy theory.

Jerusalem Under Attack


Armstrong Economics Blog/Israel Re-Posted May 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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The greatest risk here besides the report I am getting from readers in Jerusalem in bunkers right now is that these rockets destroy a holy site be it the Temple Mount or the Church of Bethlehem inside is Calvary and the tomb of Jesus.

There are religious sites in this city which is claimed by all faiths and in that sense, it makes Jerusalem one of the most critical locations on the planet.

Jerusalem – It’s Biden’s Fault!


Armstrong Economics Blog/Middle East Re-Posted May 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Why all of a sudden with your date May 8, rockets are landing in Jerusalem?

DK

ANSWER: This was caused by the Biden Administration for they assumed that whatever Trump did must be reversed. They believed in their own propaganda. Before the first rocket was fired, if you go back to February, the Biden Administration lifted the designation of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen as a global terrorist organization. Why? Probably just to reverse whatever Trump did. Instead of reducing violence in Yemen and against Saudi Arabia, but it has produced the exact opposite result.

You have to look at this in basic human interpretation. I have stated many times that once the Persians captured Valerian I in 260AD, that inspired the Germanic barbarian tribes in the north to invade. The Goths made it all the way to Milan in northern Italy. The subsequent emperor Aurelian (270-275AD) built for the first time massive defensive walls around the city of Rome.

Now, Biden lifting the designation of a “terrorist organization” meant all sanctions were lifted. This meant they could do whatever they wanted. Exactly the same response that Rome faced, other terrorist organizations in the Middle East, such as Hamas, took Biden’s actions as a new policy and they simply did precisely the same as the Gothic tribes did against Rome. Biden has sent exactly the wrong signal to all the terrorists that they can act with the blessing of Biden. Regardless of whether or not this was the intention, all that matters is how those actions are interpreted beyond that one group.This in April, Biden announced that America would restore some $235 million in aid to the Palestinians that had been withdrawn by former President Donald Trump. About two-thirds of the money is being given to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which Trump cut off in 2018 because of its ties to terrorism. Now if you are Hamas and Islamic Jihad looking at this, you can see that the US restored this aid unconditionally, which means they can do whatever they like. It did not materialize in free soup for children.The actions of the Biden Administration have been more concerned with simply reversing whatever Trump did. We can see the total disaster in Israel as well as along the border of the United States. The Democrats have escalated the rhetoric to symbolize Trump was evil for the country, but reversing whatever he did just for politics has a very dire consequence.What many are deeply afraid of is what happens if the Temple Mount ends up being blown up? Will the Jews rebuild the Temple? On May 14th, 1948 (1948.3671), the Jews in Palestine managed to establish their own state, Israel. June appears to be a critical target in the Israeli markets.

Matt Gaetz Discusses What Happened in The Room When the GOP Conference Voted to Remove Liz Cheney


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This is actually an interesting interview segment for more reasons than just the headline of what happened in the room.  As Gaetz notes there were more issues with Liz Cheney than just her antagonism toward President Trump and the MAGA movement.  Cheney was ideologically trying to bring back the Bush era policies as the party platform.

The party platform was determined by the base vote priority. The base of the party chose the MAGA “America First” set of priorities for domestic economic issues, trade and foreign relations through economic security.  Cheney actively worked against that platform… which begs the question: why was she ever in leadership in the first place?

President Trump Says it is Unfair to Compare Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter, Biden is Much Worse


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 12, 2021 | Sundance | 148 Comments

Considering: gas lines, massive increases in gas prices, rapidly rising U.S inflation, rising unemployment and generally worsening economic conditions (ie. “Malaise”); in combination with a new Israeli war in the middle-east; many people are now comparing Joe Biden to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter.

From the desk of President Donald J Trump:

“I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis. First there was the Biden Border Crisis (that he refuses to call a Crisis), then the Biden Economic Crisis, then the Biden Israel Crisis, and now the Biden Gas Crisis. Joe Biden has had the worst start of any president in United States history, and someday, they will compare future disasters to the Biden Administration—but no, Jimmy was better!”