Diagnosis: Climate Change


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Nov 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

For the first time in history, a doctor has diagnosed a patient with the ailment of “climate change.” A Canadian doctor from British Columbia treated a patient with asthma, diabetes, and heart failure who was struggling to breathe after wildfires in the Kootenays region. Dr. Kyle Merritt officially diagnosed the patient as suffering from “climate change.”

“If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna [sic] keep falling further and further behind,” Merritt boldly claimed. This is outright medical negligence and fraud. How exactly is someone supposed to be treated for climate change? How is it even legal for a doctor to claim such an ailment?

“She has diabetes. She has some heart failure…She lives in a trailer, no air conditioning,” Merritt said of his patient, who is in her 70s. “All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she’s really struggling to stay hydrated.” Diabetes, asthma, heart failure – these are all treatable and real conditions. Obviously, the way this patient is living is contributing to her deteriorating health. No one needs medical training to see the clear changes this patient could make to better her condition. Instead, the doctor gave her what seems to be a potentially terminal diagnosis as there is and never will be a solution to change the cyclical patterns of climate.

This doctor is yet another sheep following the herd to push forward an agenda that is anti-human rights. I expect other patients with treatable illnesses to receive this terminal diagnosis, and the climate change crowd will cheer as people die as martyrs for their cause. Revoke this quack’s medical license immediately!

Charity Begins at Home – Kamala Harris Demands Global Leaders Feed the World While Biden Drives Inflation Causing Massive Food Poverty in U.S.


Posted originally on the conservative tree house November 11, 2021 | Sundance | 220 Comments

This article is written as both a representative disconnect of the current administration, and also as a direct warning to readers of a never before seen increase in U.S. food prices.  As grandma always said: “charity begins at home.”

Earlier today in Paris, France, Kamala Harris waxed as philosophically as she could about the inequities around the globe.  Specifically, she proclaimed that world leaders have no excuse for some unknown “we” creating enough food to “feed the entire world” while children are hungry.

The words written for Harris to recite may sound good to an audience who values their own virtue through hollow soundbites and empty phrases; however, there is a very stark and concerning disconnect specifically when it comes to U.S. leadership making these proclamations.  Watch first 30 seconds (prompted):

Why have we allowed so many of the world’s children to go hungry when we know that we produce enough food to feed the entire world. […] We must instead agree that these growing gaps are unacceptable,” Harris proclaims with maximum virtue-signaling emphasis in the effort to raise her approval rating.

Meanwhile, the Biden-Inflation cost of food in the United States is increasingly becoming a problem for working class Americans.  Forget feeding children around the world, we are weeks away from people not being able to feed their own kids, and massive shortages in the stop-gap systems like food banks.

I’m not sure people understand yet exactly how desperate things are going to become, so let me be very specific for an audience of long-term readers who have my track record of accuracy to measure my predictions.   Within the next 120 to 180 days, you are about to see butter cost $8 to 10.00/lb at your local supermarket.  Bread will cost $6.00 a loaf, minimum, and other key staple item food prices, in the first two quarters of 2022, will increase 20 to 30% from where they are right now.

Maybe you don’t have kids at home, maybe you don’t pack lunches or care what the cost of a pound of bologna will be, maybe you are retired and the stove hasn’t been operated all year as you prefer to dine out….  but I can assure you, to a demonstrable certainty, that almost all middle class working Americans will be making decisions on what food products they can afford.   Head lettuce at $4 to $5 each, eggs at $3/doz, milk around $6/gal, butter around $8/lb, and citrus so expensive getting an orange in your Christmas stocking will be a trend again in 2022.

The background conversations in the raw material, processing, manufacturing, wholesaling and food contract networks are enough to make you lose sleep.

[…] Tyson sent a letter to at least two regional distributors last month in which it said that prices on Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, State Fair and all deli meats will increase by a range of 5% to 10.2% beginning Jan. 2 for “all retail customers.” … “We continue to face accelerating levels of extraordinary inflation,” Tyson said in the letter. “The sustained duration and significant impact of the inflation necessitates additional pricing action.” (link)

The traditional net terms at 30, 60 or 90 days are right now a hot topic, as producers and suppliers in the food supply chain can no longer commit to contractual prices for future goods delivered.   The upstream price increases are so large the downstream suppliers will not contract on fixed prices, EVEN for the big box retailers.

Only those who know the scale of Walmart buying office pressure and dominance can appropriately contextualize a current WM supplier telling the behemoth to “go spit” if they don’t like the fact that price guarantees are no longer part of the equation.  Yeah, it is THAT bad.

We are only a few months away from seeing massive inflation that will fundamentally change the way everyone looks at food shopping, or highly consumable purchases, and what the middle class formerly considered to be “luxury” purchases.   Inflation, in the background, is going to come through the supply chain like a thundershock…. and it’s not just food.

This recent insider comment caused me to do some digging, and this is 100% accurate:

“I am an executive in the detergent chemical industry that supplies all of the major pharmaceutical companies, and am in charge of pricing and purchasing of large quantities of raw materials – both commodities, and surfactants, which are the main ingredients in detergents. Here is a brief overview of the situation.

Commodities, such as sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), sodium carbonate (soda ash), and other basic additives that adjust pH, thickness, anti-redeposition, rinseability, and other properties are up around 10-15% on a raw material cost basis from February. Not a single material is unaffected.

Citric acid is up nearly 40-50% when it can be found, at minimum. There is a nationwide allocation, which means that they give material to whom they feel like. One of the major domestic manufacturers of these materials shut down production of citric acids and other acidulants due to maintenance. Many companies in my industry are paying nearly 300% (not a typo – three hundred percent) increases on citric acid.

Domestic primary surfactants, which are made by a handful of companies such as Stepan Company, Solvay, Huntsman, and many more, are up 15-20%, due mainly to oil cost, transportation, etc.

Domestic specialty surfactants, specifically of a class called ethoxylated surfactants, are nearly gone. Not hard to get, not difficult to find – gone. In February, the ice storm took out piping and power lines along the entire gulf coast. The two towns that got hit hardest were Houston, TX, and a little town called St. Charles, LA. St. Charles is where all ethoxylation takes place in the USA for everyone from Dow to Sasol to BASF, and is the key process to make these specialty ethoxylated surfactants. Then, after 4 months of shutdowns, just when everything was getting back into swing, Hurricane Ida wrecked everything all over again.

Dow, one of the largest companies in the world, only restarted production at their facility there in early October.

The crisis of transportation and at the ports is only adding to this crisis of manufacturing in the chemical industry. News to everyone? It was never covered, not even once, on the news.

If truckers are going to be forced to be vaccinated come January, there will be even less trucks than there are now.

The wheels of the world are being purposefully and deliberately ground to a halt. We’d be better off with the mafia back in control of the ports worldwide.

This is going to get so much worse before it gets any better, and the administration in office is doing everything in their power to make sure it is as bad as possible.” (link)

And this on “Industrial Price Increases“:

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is worried about feeding children of the world, while millions of working class Americans are worried about feeding their own kids?

Infuriating is an understatement.

Please prepare yourselves and your families accordingly.

The proactive window to prepare for what’s coming is approximately 60 days from today; and then options begin to diminish quickly.

This is all being done by design.

Biden’s Build Back Better – Selling Out America


Armstrong Economics Blog/The Hunt for Taxes Re-Posted Nov 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Congress passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, and then the new American Communist press shifted their focus immediately to the Democratic legislation known as the Build Back Better Act. That bill includes a host of progressive priorities such as paid family and sick leave, public housing, child care, and universal preschool. Add to that $550 billion aimed at fighting climate change. To get this through, they need absolutely every Democratic vote. Once again, they are trying to bribe people for votes. It would be far better to eliminate taxation and stop borrowing from people interest-free and pretending to be Santa Claus by giving back their own money as a refund.

Half that money is for the Gates’ climate change agenda. He has his money safely tucked away in a fake foundation he uses for power-monopoly play. Everyone else will be devastated by the tax increases, but he will be untouched. They will lower the standard of living with all the new regulations and criminal prosecutions on environmental theories.

Google Found Guilty of Violating EU Anti-Trust Laws


Armstrong Economics Blog/BigTech Re-Posted Nov 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Google has been found guilty of violating anti-trust laws by the European Union’s General Court, the second-highest court in the EU. In 2017, Google was accused of violating anti-trust laws by altering its algorithm to favor its shopping services over competitors. Despite maintaining innocence, the EU General Court ruled against the company and implemented a fine of 2.42 billion euros ($2.8 billion).

“The General Court finds that, by favoring its own comparison shopping service on its general results pages through more favorable display and positioning, while relegating the results from competing comparison services in those pages by means of ranking algorithms, Google departed from competition on the merits,” the court stated on Wednesday.

Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition chief, and other members are indicating that the crackdown on Big Tech will not end with Google. Google may still appeal to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), but said they are currently reviewing the details of the case and had made the necessary changes to comply with the EU’s laws in 2017. Google has already paid 8.25 billion euros in the last decade for violating EU competition laws. Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are undergoing similar battles in the EU courts. Big Tech is not above the law, at least not in the EU.

The Health Monopoly


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy Re-Posted Nov 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Bill Gates will emerge as the richest man in human history, for he has succeeded in creating a health monopoly. The royalties from the never-ending vaccines will propel him to more wealth than Bezos, Musk, Buffett, and the top 10 COMBINED. He then puts his wealth in a foundation that will be exempt from the Billionaire Tax he has supported, which will undermine everyone else in the Billionaire Club.

It looks like the greatest plans of those who dream of controlling the world will not work out as they envision. Gates’ surrogates are putting out reports happily projecting their endless power over the world using this fake crisis. They will destroy the world economy indefinitely. Such medical promoters on the take from Gates’ Foundation may be putting their lives and those of their family at risk. They always project the future in a linear manner for they neither believe in God nor in the cyclical nature of the universe.

Richard E. Nesbett wrote an interesting book entitled “The Geography of ThoughtHow Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and why.” He attributed his work to a Chinese student who said, “You know, the difference between you and me is that I think the world is a circle, and you think it’s a line.” He goes on to quote him:

“The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can’t understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.”

This is why in Asia, I never had to explain that there were cycles. They looked at the West as primitive locked into this linear view of the world and we can see it in this global warming nonsense. They presume that because the planet warms in 20 years that the trend will last forever. Girls mature and eventually grow too old to produce children and then die for there is a cycle to everything. We all are born, we live, and we die. There is night and day and even the influenza virus mutates cyclically each year, so the vaccine changes. Nothing functions in a straight line yet in the West every form of analysis are linear. There are stock market crashes and they will launch an investigation to try to determine who caused it. Never do they ever consider themselves as any possible cause.

So those who think they are God and can manipulate society because the system is linear void of any nature cyclical nature will discover in 2022 that all things do not always just go up.

Gates is following the script left behind by Rockefeller. Their definition of being a philanthropist is akin to getting some girl pregnant to pay for the abortion, and that makes them a philanthropist. Gates’ monopoly over health is far more dangerous to society than Microsoft or Standard Oil in Rockefeller’s day. Perhaps the 2022 election will cause an upset, and an investigation into Gates and his surrogates will, at last, unfold — including Fauci, who is 80-years-old. Why is he still in government? It is not for a pension. He even had to start withdrawing from a 401K. He is clearly there only for power.

Brothel Offers Free Sex for Getting Vaccinated


Armstrong Economics Blog/Vaccine Re-Posted Nov 10, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Because there are so many illegal aliens in Europe, they are now offering free sex in return for getting vaccinated. Clearly, our political leaders have been bought and paid for to do this for Big Pharma when there is absolutely no benefit to the vaccine; it neither prevents you from getting it nor spreading it. Israel has already confirmed that the majority of people who have died were vaccinated. It really makes no sense as to why the drastic push.

I learned in high school health class that we cannot cure the flu nor the common cold because these exist in animals as well. This is what Fauci has been creating like Dr. Frankenstein — “gain of function” — meaning taking viruses from animals and manipulating them to infect humans. This is very straightforward. We cannot cure anything that co-exists in animals – PERIOD! Gates has created this worldwide panic to sell his vaccines to make him so rich that he will rule the world. He will end up with more wealth because he will not donate vaccines to the poor. He wants the industrialized countries to pay him and donate them — so much for being a philanthropist.

Massive Protest Today in Melbourne Australia Against Proposed COVID Laws and Opposition to Mandates


Posted originally on the conservative Tree house on November 5, 2021 | Sundance | 95 Comments

A massive protest is currently underway in the streets of Melbourne Australia (State of Victoria), where it is currently Saturday morning.  Thousands of people are protesting the efforts of the Victoria government to codify COVID regulations into permanent law making the outrageous lockdown rules a permanent part of the toolbox for oppressive government control.

[WATCH Facebook Livestream HERE]

Sky News has more details HERE.

The State of Victoria, Melbourne area, led by Premier Daniel Andrews has been the epicenter of some of the most brutal police action against protestors.  However, due to the scale of the crowds, it appears the police are no longer going to attempt to beat them into submission again or use rubber bullets.

It appears the international spotlight, provided by alternative media breaking through the control of the government media, has led to shame upon the political establishment.  The police no longer seem willing to participate in the government efforts to stop voices of opposition.

Something Very Weird Happening in Western Australia – Hospitals Overwhelmed, Vaccinations Continue But They Have No COVID


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 4, 2021 | Sundance | 533 Comments

Noted by Alex Berenson, something very weird is happening in the state of Western Australia (WA) home to a population of almost 3 million people.  The WA state has been locked down and isolated from the COVID-19 impacts in the eastern states.

There are very few COVID cases in locked down Western Australia, which has allowed them time to prepare for the potential arrival of the virus which includes a massive vaccination effort.  The state has modeled an anticipated arrival of the COVID virus in early 2022, early next year.  However, as the vaccination rates increase, the hospitals are being overwhelmed with new patients and the Premier cannot explain why.

Alex Berernson notes comments made by WA Premier Mark McGowan on October 31st about hospitals being currently overwhelmed. “Our hospitals are under enormous pressure. This is the same in [the rest of Australia]. This has been something no one has ever seen before, the growth in demand in our hospitals, why it is is hard, hard to know… There is huge numbers of people coming through the door, so we’re doing everything we can to try to manage it,” says Premier McGowan.

The issue is apparently worsening.  In an interview yesterday (Wed, Nov 3rd), Premier McGowan announced a massive expansion of hospital capacity due to an existing and undefined current influx in patients that is overwhelming hospital capacity.

COVID-19 was anticipated to arrive next year.  Proactively, mass vaccinations are ongoing.  It is during this period of mass vaccinations when the hospitals are being overwhelmed by new patients.  These hospitalizations have nothing to do with COVID infections.   WATCH (video at 29:15 prompted):

Obviously something is very wrong:

COVID-19, or any variant therein, is non-existent in the Western Australia population.

The Western Australia population is being vaccinated.

The hospitals in Western Australia are now overwhelmed, and not by COVID-19.

What else could the problem be other than the vaccinations causing hospitalizations?

Premier McGowan looks like a politician in a very difficult position…..

North Korea On the Brink of Famine


Armstrong Economics Blog/North Korea Re-Posted Nov 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We recently reported that there is a cycle to famine. Sadly, the hermit kingdom of North Korea is no stranger to starvation due to the mass human rights abuses carried out by their government in addition to unfavorable weather. Business Insider recently reported that the country has resorted to breeding black swans to provide a new protein food source for citizens.

Ri Jong Nam, the chief party secretary for South Hamgyong province, claims, “Black swan meat is delicious and has medical value.” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un noted that his country was amid a “tense” food crisis in September and asked citizens to contemplate their own solutions. Due to intense sanctions and most nations simply refusing to trade with the country, the cost of imports has become astronomical. North Korean News claims a kilo of bananas now costs around $45 USD or around $6.40 per banana. To put that into perspective, the average North Korean earns $5.5 to $11.1 per day, but there are no official records. Experts believe the country will be 1.35 million tons short of food this year, and by contrast, the nation needs 5.75 million tons of food to feed the population. I suppose it is not profitable for the pretend “philanthropists” to help a starving nation.

Musk Offers to End World Hunger Under One Stipulation


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Nov 3, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

If billionaires paid their fair share, we could allegedly solve world hunger. How?

David Beasley, director of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), called out billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for not donating funds to solve world hunger. “Just $6 billion could keep 42 million people from dying,” Beasley claimed. Musk took to Twitter with a bold offer — he would personally donate $6 billion if the WFP could explain precisely how they would spend the funds. Furthermore, the richest man in the world is asking the WFP to provide a public record of exactly how the money will be spent.

David Beasley replied to Musk, “Headline not accurate. $6B will not solve world hunger, but it WILL prevent geopolitical instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation. An unprecedented crisis and a perfect storm due to Covid/conflict/climate crises.” In other words, $6 billion will not solve world hunger as the people managing that sum of money could never keep it out of their pockets. Musk replied to Beasley with a link to an ongoing, unpunished, child sex abuse scandal where UN “peacekeepers” abused hungry children. The details are too grotesque to publish here, but make no mistake about it — the UN is not an entity intent on saving the world. They had to turn down a generous donation of $6 billion because they knew that they could never report the paper trail, and the results would likely be a request for more money.