Australia Protest Message, “Courage is Not The Absence of Fear”


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 25, 2021 | Sundance | 188 Comments

Courage is not the absence of fear.  Courage is being fearful and yet taking action despite that fear.  One Australian patriot, a former soldier, shares his message of courage while protesting to support the freedom of all Australians. {Direct Rumble Link}

Joshua 1-9:  “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

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When this madness is over, there will be a reckoning.  History serves as a guide for what can be expected.  The officials within government who are pushing their totalitarian dictates under the guise of COVID fear will not succeed.   There will be a reckoning; of that, I am certain.

The Gross Misunderstanding of Central Banks


Armstrong Economics Blog/Central Banks Re-Posted Nov 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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Ever since 1927, when the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates in a failed attempt to help Europe, which still ended up defaulting in 1931, Keynesian economics succeeded in brainwashing the analysis of how people look at the central banks. Where the 1927 G4 attempt to lower rates in the US was intended to deflect capital back to Europe, smart capital began to smell a rat, and they were correct. The capital inflows to the United States intensified and aided in creating the 1929 bubble high just as the 1989 Japanese bubble aided by capital inflows.

Then there was the G5 in 1985 that stupidly tried to lower the value of the dollar to reduce the trade deficit. They were clueless that at the same time, that would devalue US assets by 40%, which resulted in the 1987 Crash. You cannot lower the value of the dollar to sell more goods without also lowering the value of everything in your country. They don’t teach that in economics class because the government is supposed to be all-powerful.

Now people claim the entire rally is because the Fed has been engaging in QE since 2008. They claim the Fed has inflated the assets and the entire movement they attribute to the Fed’s actions. This is no different than the commands from Fauci to wear masks when at the beginning he stated that masks do nothing. There are people who wear a mask when driving alone in a car because they are incapable of independent thought. This is the same problem – as Stanley Milgrim called it, blind Obedience to Authority.

Post-Great Depression, the analysis became MARXIST. Oh, the Fed will raise rates because they do not want us to buy assets so the stock market should drop. But the Fed raised rates all the way into the rally until COVID. That did not prevent the rally. Yet analysts continue this brainwashed analysis that raising rates is bearish for the market.

Now they claim that, oh, it’s QE. They never look at the system as a whole, which includes international capital flows. The Fed failed to produce inflation while engaging in QE between 2008 into 2019. They ignore that, just as the global warming crowd ignores everything before 1850. If the Fed issued $1 trillion and buys in US Treasuries, I hate to tell you, but it has ZERO impact. Why? Because debt today is simply cash that pays interest.

Once upon a time, you could not borrow against government debt. Thus, it was deemed non-inflationary as long as it could not be used as money. Today, you post bills as collateral to trade futures. The old theories no longer exist in this new strange world we live in. Hence, all the QE was merely swapping the debt for cash.

Then it all depends on who is actually the seller of the debt to the Fed. If China sold its debt for cash, then the dollar went offshore and the domestic money supply never increased. There is a lot more to this game than the simplistic analysis that leads to brainwashing the financial community and investors. I know. I have been one of the few international advisers dealing with people on all continents.

They Said Vaccines Were Safe For Pregnant Women, Now This Happens


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 23, 2021 | Sundance | 277 Comments

Something troubling is happening in Scotland.  At least 21 babies under four weeks old died in September, a rate of 4.9 per 1,000 births.  The former average was 2.1 deaths per 1,000 births.  The nationalized health service tracks records, because everyone is on the same system; that’s why when an internal alarm is triggered by the data as it rolls in, they stop and look immediately.  Public Health Scotland says:

“Exceeding the upper control limit indicates there is a higher likelihood that there are factors beyond random variation that may have contributed to the number of deaths.”

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Nigel Farage on Austria


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Nov 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Salesforce – A Dangerous Company?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy Re-Posted Nov 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Marc Benioff took Salesforce following the full mandate to be vaccinated based on the federal contractor rule for all employees, despite the fact that not everyone in the company deals with the government. This is even contrary to the court ruling and OSHA rescinding that decree. It appears that Benioff is following Schwab and his partnership with the World Economic Forum rather than the US Constitution. If he does not reverse that position, it appears that Salesforce will be the target of a massive class-action lawsuit.

Marc Benioff is up to his neck if not over his head in league with Klaus Schwab. Personally, I will neither do business with nor advise Salesforce in any capacity. Benioff, I believe,  takes his marching orders from Schwab and has committed a public company to his personal friendship with Schwab. But Benioff does not believe he owes anything to his shareholders, but society comes first with stakeholder economics that failed once the government provided socialist benefits.

Benioff’s duty is to his shareholders. If I raised money to go public and then said, oh, by the way, I think I will donate what you just gave me to my personal charity, I think that would be called fraud.

Journalists Refuse to Report on Worldwide Protests or They May Come After your Pets Next


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Nov 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Journalists who are spouting out the propaganda and support Gates & Schwab, have corrupted our society. Here are worldwide protests that they pretend do not take place. Once upon a time, Fauci said we would reach herd immunity when 70% of the population were vaccinated. Now the vaccinated are the people being rushed to hospitals as the immunity declines to other diseases as well. Now the miracle vaccines do not work and so boosters are rolled out every 6 months indefinitely for a disease that is not worse than the flu with lethal results. Now 5 million out of 7.8 billion is minimal. 1% of the population would be 78 million. Car crashes take about 1.35 million people who die in road accidents worldwide every year — 3,700 deaths a day. These journalists are aiding and abetting the destruction of Western society and they seem to know it.

The latest being talked about behind the curtain, we have too many pets that also put out CO2. They can get COVID and also should be vaccinated following the death of the snow leopards.

COVID Madness Continues Down Under – Australia Northern Territory Use Army to Force People Into Quarantine


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 22, 2021 | Sundance | 387 Comments

In Australia’s Northern Territory, Chief Minister Michael Gunner has announced the Australian Defense Force (ADF) has been enlisted to start moving COVID positive cases into quarantine camps in Howard Springs.

The communities of Binjari and Rockhole were immediately placed into hard lockdown after nine cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in the region.  The Chief Minister is claiming the vulnerability of the aborigine community make drastic action necessary. “We’re conscious of the fact that this can have some impacts on people’s mental health as well as their general well being,” Police Commissioner Jamie Chalkner told NT News.

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner is a fast talking man of notoriously intemperate disposition who will not allow any criticism of his totalitarian tendencies.  Gunner has promised to be as brutal as needed to stop COVID spread in the region. He will accept no vocal dissension to his mandates from citizens in the state.  All vaccine hesitant citizens are considered enemies of the state and now subject to arrest if they voice any objection.

The full press conference from Chief Minister Michael Gunner is below.   His views on mandatory vaccination should be watched to be believed.  If permitted, Gunner will use the military to enforce every aspect to his territorial mandate policy.

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Brussels Erupting with 50,000 Protestors


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Nov 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi Marty,
Thanks for all you do, I came to the Euro crisis seminar in Frankfurt. I Will never forget that you warned back then that in Q1 2020 everything would go crazy.
Here we are in 2021 and finally, Belgium is waking up, 35000 protested in Brussels today. reported to the news. Easily 50000 I believe…
The government seems to get afraid and wanted it to end asap as they blocked the protesters from following the agreed route. Immediately water canon and teargas were used although nothing serious happened. Even those far from the action were gassed intensely. 23 January 500+ European groups Will try to get 1 million People in Brussels.
We can end this if so many people are waking up, 1 month ago we were 5000people, 3 months ago 500.
Thx
CR
Antwerp Belgium

REPLY: This is all about debt.  Socrates gave us the timing. It was spot on. The economic pressure was building and the failure of creating the Euro was self-evident. The government always turns to the path that ensures their survival – not that of the people. I wish these forecasts were wrong. But just maybe, when this crash and burn concludes, people will look at this model and how it correctly foresaw the events unfolding which had nothing to do with my personal opinion. This is why the government tried to force me to turn over the code. It was more important for the future than the threats they could hurl at me.

Germany looking for Full Lockdown


Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union Re-Posted Nov 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Sources in Germany are all warning that the government intends to impose mandatory vaccines following the ruthless actions of  Austra. The Governor of Bavaria, Germany, Markus Soeder, is also for mandatory vaccinations. I have been warning that Schwab is in control of Europe. The central bank is trapped and cannot escape its negative interest rates and the government really can no longer function because its borrowing capacity has been destroyed. They are using this COVID to prevent a civil uprising for they will move to a digital currency ASAP, cancel paper currency, and in 2022 they are looking to default on all debt. The EU is up against the wall and that is why they have even listened to Schwab and his Marxist Wonderland.

Pending Black Swan?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Behavioral Economics Re-Posted Nov 19, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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The traditional analysis keeps calling for the next Black Swan event asserting that massive leveraging of US nonfinancial businesses since 1972 is incompatible with the stock market levels rising from 62% to 204% of GDP. Of course, this analysis is ALWAYS the typical economist view which is the entire problem. The traditional analysis is why we are in this crisis, to begin with. The entire proposition is that under Keynesian Economics, raising and lowering interest rates will control demand and thus defeat the business cycle. This has not only utterly failed, but they are typically left-wing analysts so they ONLY look at the private sector.

Those theories may have worked when the government was the minority player in the debt markets. Even former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker in his Rediscovery of the Business Cycle admitted that the Keynesian economic model failed.

Raising and lowering interest rates no longer controls the economy. The ECB lowered rates to negative in 2014, bought all the government debt, and no inflation took place. That was against every economic theory they still teach in school.

The problem is that raising interest rates to reduce demand no longer works because governments are the #1 issuer of debt and credit agencies pretend governments are AAA when governments historically always DEFAULT. Raising rates to stop inflation will fail for it only increases the interest expenditures of the government who will never reduce their spending just because the central bank raised its rates.

This Build Back Better Act passed by the Democrats in the House today running it through our model to see the true cost look to be a lowering of GDP by up to 5% over the course of the next 10 years. The Democrats are pushing this progressive agenda which is undermining the economy and weakening the power of our nation which raises the threat of war. Europe is doing the same thing and this is really braindead for now is the time for both China and Russia to join forces and the West will lose. This agenda makes no sense other than to a progressive and the fact that 70% of Americans think they are headed in the wrong direction, they do not care and are only seeking to force their agenda upon the world.

We can see that the Fed raised rates through most of Trump’s presidency and it DID NOT cause the market to decline. Yet every TV show says a rise in rates and the stock market will decline. This is just one example of this distorted and antiquated analysis.

The Democrats are attacking wealth and investment. They are looking to create a 1 percent excise tax on the value of stock repurchases during the taxable year, net of new issuances of stock, effective for repurchases after December 31, 2021. They will exclude from this tax stocks contributed to retirement accounts, pensions, and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Communism collapsed because they did not allow private ownership so there was NO private innovation that ever came out of Communism. All innovation was for the government to expand nuclear arms. By attacking the very essence of innovation, the progressives ONLY look at wealth and not human nature.

Consequently, all we hear is there will be a Black Swan and the stock market will collapse to zero without any understanding of capital flows. When the stock market has dropped, there is the standard flight to quality. But ask yourself this. Do you really think that “quality” is now government debt? We have been looking at an explosion in collectibles and real estate. A realtor friend of mine here in Florida said that these houses selling for $2.5 million in a matter of days are usually for CASH. This is people fleeing from the grid. The Black Swan is in government. Yes, we will reach a pause in the stock market to flush out people and many will be told to run to Treasury paper. Will that be the real setup?

This is the systematic decline and fall of Western Civilization and we will not be able to reverse this trend. We will simply have to crash and burn and the fight will be what kind of government we end up with post-2032. I will try to provide a review of the pros and cons of the various forms of government throughout history in early 2022.