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May 16 2021

Chancellor Merkel Rejects Cabinet Climate Change Effort to Stop Coal Energy Use


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on May 15, 2021 | Sundance | 135 Comments

Angela Merkel is essentially the de-facto global head of modern political liberalism. The central tenet, almost religious-based in its importance, is the lunacy within “climate change”. However, as most reasonable people have concluded, the ‘climate discussions’ are more about controlled global economics than any actual concerns about planetary climatology. Bottom line, it’s the economics that really matter beyond all else.

CTH has pointed out for several years that Germany’s Angela Merkel, a beloved leader amid the political left, was never going to put her economy in a position of weakness just to appease the environmental lobby.   Chancellor Merkel is a nationalist at heart and within that outlook progressive causes can be advocated but only to the extent that Germany can retain a superior economic condition.

Despite her being heralded by the progressive movement in the U.S, it is all a farce.  Angela Merkel is a political case study in what leftists refuse to admit and even more leftists deny; that is the reality behind the hypocrisy.  The narrative fraud was evident when President Trump pulled out of the Paris climate treaty and immediately Merkel said Germany would also not comply with the treaty demands. From Merkel’s position Germany must always retain a superior position within the EU, no matter what.

The most recent example of this comes from Merkel rejecting carbon emission reduction requirements from her own government.  Merkel knows the environmental wing is full of moonbat policy that runs counter to the economic need of her nation.  Despite the ‘greens’ gaining legislative seats, she will not support carbon dictates that are against the interests of manufacturing and multinational corporations in Germany:

(Via Reuters) German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday rejected demands to bring forward an exit date for ending coal generation in Germany, currently set at 2038. {SEE HERE}

“Those affected need some reliability on the path to climate neutrality,” Merkel said. “I don’t want to unravel this again after one year.”

Climate activists say that without an earlier coal phase-out, the more ambitious climate protection targets which Merkel’s government just agreed on cannot be achieved. (LINK)

The policy and advocacy behind the climate change narrative is a globalist control effort, nothing more.  Carbon exchanges and carbon taxes are the holy grail objectives for globalists and elite institutions of power and finance.  It is all a control effort.

The day after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, the German auto-sector immediately responded with a statement.  We see the immediate admission that ‘climate’ is simply a tool to shape global economics within that reactionary auto industry statement (emphasis mine):

(Via Reuters) […] “The regrettable announcement by the USA makes it inevitable that Europe must facilitate a cost efficient and economically feasible climate policy to remain internationally competitive,” Matthias Wissmann, president of the German auto industry lobby group VDA, said in a statement on Friday.

“The preservation of our competitive position is the precondition for successful climate protection. This correlation is often underestimated,” Wissmann said, adding that the decision by the Unites States was disappointing. (link)

As clearly stated, when push comes to shove German sensibilities are connected more to their economics than to any do-gooder need to save the planet.

Climate change is a globalist tool.  Angela Merkel knows this.  President Trump also knew that Merkel knows this.  That is the essence behind why President Trump consistently said he and Angela Merkel get along great, and the leftists (who could not reconcile Trump’s statements against their own false belief) always had that snarky weird look on their face.

May 15 2021

The Trudeau & Castro Conspiracy


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted May 15, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

May 15 2021

Swiss Diabolical Cancelation of their Currency


Armstrong Economics Blog/Great Reset Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The cancelation of the Swiss currency is a serious issue for they are no longer legal tender already. Much of the 1,000 franc notes reside outside of Switzerland. They are replacing the notes with new ones which is in line with the problem with currency in Europe, to begin with. They are NOT eliminating all paper money as of yet. This practice in Europe prevents hoard of cash and compels people to come forward and explain where they got the money. The Swiss have been under pressure from the EU to cancel the 1,000 SF notes since 2013. The rumor is that this was prompted by Swiss’s largest insurance company, Swiss Life Holding AG and three of its subsidiaries just admitted to conspiring with US taxpayers to hide assets and income offshore. I do not think there is any real connection.

Previously, in 1952, the national bank ceased issuing 5-franc notes but introduced 10-franc notes in 1955. In 1996, 200-franc notes were introduced whilst the 500-franc note was discontinued. The likelihood of redemption is nill if you are in the United States. I personally use to keep a few hundred dollars worth of most currencies for traveling purposes. What I had from India is worthless and now the Swiss. I suspect the Euro will be next and they will probably cancel at a minimum the 500€ notes since they stopped printing them since 2016 claiming they serviced financial crime.

This is simply the agenda. I have explained the Russian cancelation of 1991. There they accomplished two things. First, they restricted the amount of old notes you could even redeem to 1,000 rubles. Second, the Russian currencies were throughout Eastern Europe and those states broke away. Hence, it was outright canceling the currency outside of Russia.

After they are finished with canceling all the currency, next will be to eliminate all cryptocurrencies. Then the Democrats are planning the same. They are intending to do this in 2022 marketing it as the filth rich are hoard cash. About US $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs around 22.046 pounds (10 kilograms). So $10 million is over 220 pounds. It is easier to buy art, rare coins, stamps, cars, and real estate.

Emily Ratajkowski’s digital photo sold at Christie’s for $140,000. I really do not know what you do with that one.

May 15 2021

Spain Bans Combustion Engines by 2040 & All Old Cars by 2050


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Spanish parliament has passed an energy transition law to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. “As of today, Spain has a climate law on the basis of which it can resolutely build a green, sustainable, just future with prosperity for all,” said Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday’s parliamentary vote on Twitter. A central point of the law is a ban on the sale of vehicles with climate-damaging internal combustion engines from 2040.

Worse still, all combustion engine cars will be banned from even driving after2050. By 2023 at the latest, all Spanish cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants must set up zones in which the traffic of particularly climate-damaging vehicles are restricted.

Spain’s greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by at least 23% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. To this end, the share of renewable energies in the country’s total energy supply is to increase to 42% by 2030 and to at least 74% in electricity production. The climate law that has now been passed is intended to ensure that Spain does its part to make the European Union CO2-neutral by 2050. Madrid had already committed itself to the EU in January 2020 with the aim of a 23% greenhouse gas reduction by 2030.

Meanwhile, the entire EU has raised the requirement from a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 40% by 2030, to 55%. However, the agreement has yet to be put into effect. For environmentalists, Spain’s new climate law doesn’t go far enough as they are demanding. Greenpeace has criticized this new law as “insufficient” for the fulfillment of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement. The Spanish Environment Minister Teresa Ribera spoke on Twitter of an “indispensable law to build on”. At the same time, she admitted that Spain should have passed such a law “ten years ago”.

May 15 2021

Switzerland Cancels it Currency


Armstrong Economics Blog/Great Reset Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I previously warned that Trudeau had a law passed as of January 1st, 2021 he can cancel the currency of Canada. Little by little, those countries who have joined Schwab’s World Economic Forum’s view that paper money must be eliminated and we must have only digital currency so everything is taxed. Now Switzerland, which has been the hedge in Europe against the euro, has without notice canceled its entire run of currency they call the 8th series which includes the 1,00SF note which has been perhaps the #1 large note used in hoarding.

The notes are NO LONGER legal tender and they are giving everyone until October 30th, to deposit them or lose 100%. Of course, moving for a one-world government headed by the UN, canceling all currency, and COVID lockdowns for a virus that may have been manmade, and a death ratio of just 0.028%, all of this is just a conspiracy theory if you try to connect any dots whatsoever. Our role in society is to play the fool. Just shut up, social distance for everyone is a threat with some disease, and stay in your home and just be ruled. Read the fake news and watch fake TV programs that are the new cancel culture. And, btw, have no children. Drink and get drunk is preferable. Responsibility may soon become a crime.

May 14 2021

Canada is being Controlled by the World Economic Forum


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

It is common knowledge that Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum have been pushing this Great Reset, which includes implanting chips into everyone. I have said plenty of times that he is a really sick individual. Canada is fully on board with Schwab on the climate issue to end fossil fuels. I would not put it past Schwab and Gates to bribe Alberta’s political leaders to impose draconian COVID regulations that make no sense. I have been in meetings where there has been outright discussion about the world population being fewer than 500 million. Why anyone trusts people that bring up these subjects is beyond me. Instead of Hitler trying to eliminating all Jews, these people want to just reduce the population as a whole.

If anyone thinks for one second that this agenda is to help us to live longer and prosper, you should get copies of the outlawed “Grinch” and study it clearly. Perhaps it was banned because they are out to rob us of, not just Christmas, but our future. Despite the claims chips will not allow the government to track you, that is just a lie. They NEVER do anything for our benefit.

What astonishes me is the global reach of the bribery of political leaders. They have no idea of what they have signed up for, where like Judas, they are only counting how much money they are being handed to betray humanity.

May 14 2021

Biden & the COVID Fraud


Armstrong Economics Blog/Great Reset Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Marty,

To show how absurd the vaccine policy of the US really has become, we are now told vaccinated travelers can go to certain European countries soon reopening provided they have received both vaccines. Yet, on return to the US, they are still required by US government policy to get PCR tested and show negative as a condition to reentry.

So, what is the point of getting the vaccine if your own government doesn’t recognize its effectiveness as a remedy against catching or passing the virus to others?

Travel companies that require the vaccine to travel can’t explain the inconsistency, but simply repeat the policy as though it can be reconciled. This shows US policy is more about optics, more about following CDC and WHO, more about lining the pocket of big pharma. If the US govt doesn’t trust its citizens who already got the vaccine, then what is the point of the campaign?

This is about dividing the population into MOST FAVORED and Least favored, the US version of apartheid.

MS

COMMENT #2: Good evening to you Mr. Armstrong
You have been posting a lot every day this week and I thank you for that. You are fabulous! You have more to say than any news outlet here in Toronto, and you always deliver intelligent well-researched articles 👏👏👏. Today’s articles on the Middle East were very, very in line with how I personally feel about the situation in that part of the world. This is why I decided to write to you as I always find that your opinions are very much like mine. It is an agreeable affinity that I find I have with you.

Lastly, I want to share with you that here in Ontario they have extended the lockdown until June 2nd.  Some people are saying that we have had the longest lockdowns in North America. I can not confirm that, but one thing I can definitely confirm is that this situation here is very demoralizing for people here. Summer is around the corner and people want to enjoy it and not be under house arrest. What this country has become is disgraceful. The only ones not complaining are the civil servants with their endless paid vacation. Schools are not opened and there is not even a timeline for when they will reopen. Well, enough said, I do not want to bother you with all this. You are busy enough with the wonderful and priceless service you do for humanity.

Take care, my dear Armstrong!

COMMENT #3: This is getting scary with vaccinating children because they may be able to spread it but they also say getting vaccinated just means you won’t get seriously sick but you can still get it. There is no truth at all in any of this.

REPLY: I have a friend whose grandparents have been locked down and they have deteriorated and are on their deathbed because they have been locked down. I saw it with my mother. The hospital would not release her and kept wanting to test more and more keeping her in bed which weakened her. The hospital killed my mother all for money. You cannot allow the elderly to be locked down. Once they stop moving and walking, they lose all strength. What is going on is sheer criminal. Now Fauci says that finally vaccinated Americans don’t need masks outside. Yet Fauci from the outset said masks did not work because all the studies have shown that they were “useless” as the Washington Post, America’s #1 Communist Newspaper these days, reported.

Fauci changed his entire agenda when he was let behind the curtain and has not only been bought & paid for by Bill Gates, but he has appeared in videos for Klaus Schwab claiming equality is the #1 problem and we need the Great Reset to strip the wealth from the Irish and hand it to who? Just the selected few?

John Hopkins, supported by Bloomberg and Gates, which lacks any independence whatsoever, admits that getting vaccinates does not prevent you from getting COVID. So, Biden is just showing he knows absolutely nothing. He is claiming that vaccinating teenagers will prevent them from getting it a spreading COVID. This conflicts with the very qualification they put on these vaccines. Hopkins writes:

“An effective vaccine will protect someone who receives it by lowering the chance of getting COVID-19 if the person encounters the coronavirus. More important is whether the vaccine prevents serious illness, hospitalization and death.  At this time, all three vaccines are highly efficacious at preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19.  Widespread vaccination means the coronavirus will not infect as many people. This will limit spread through communities and will restrict the virus’s opportunity to continue to mutate into new variants.”

Even the #1 Communist TV Station admits that fully vaccinated people are still getting COVID and several hundred have still died.

We already know that Fauci has no respect for human rights or our Constitutional rights. What these people are doing is outrageous. There is one thing about the masses being sheep. Those in power know all too well that there are two ways to fool the people. One is to make them believe what isn’t true, but then the other is to ensure they refuse to believe what is true by calling all opposition just a conspiracy theory.

I am so happy I am not 18. I do not want to live in the world these people are trying to create. They are deliberately leading society toward war to reduce the population and now they realize that to accomplish their Great Reset, they must turn society to ash. That is how they succeeded in installing Marxist post-World War II.

May 14 2021

Netanyahu


Armstrong Economics Blog/Israel Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Do you know Benjamin Netanyahu? What do you think of him?

EJ

ANSWER: I did meet him once in Washington a long-term ago. Probably more than 20 years ago. I do not recall other than simply a cordial greeting at some political affair. So yes I have met him, but I do not know him. Therefore, I am not qualified to offer a personal opinion. Perhaps we are all creatures of our own destiny. The first president I ever met and shook hands with was John F, Kennedy when he visited Willingboro, New Jersey when I was just a boy. But unlike Bill Clinton, who also shook his hand as a boy, I was not inspired to become president of the United States. Good thing. I do not have the patience for fools. That would not make a good politician.

One of my favorite quotes is that of Lord Byron:

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”

May 14 2021

Gates – Buying the Press to Hide his True Nature


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted May 14, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

It has long been known behind the facade of the upstanding media that Bill Gates was not exactly the quiet nerd. The information surrounding his arrest has been scrubbed, so all that remains is the fact that he was arrested for a traffic violation with no other details. It is not likely he was arrested for just speeding. Gates has been hiding out in California for perhaps the last three months. That makes him a resident, and he should be hit with California state income taxes since they need so much money these days.

Gates’ dream of extending his monopoly from the private sector (i.e., Microsoft) and transforming into dictator or puppet master of the world is starting to surface. He wishes to carry out his father’s dream of reducing the population of the unworthy to save the planet from his imaginary climate crisis. Our model still warns that his and Klaus Schwab’s dream of reducing the population will come because of their stupidity trying to force China and Russia to submit to their grand plan of the Great Reset. Their time remaining in this facade of control is short. It does not appear to last beyond 2022, but they have bribed politicians who will wrongly think that green is the way, and this will only lead to World War III post-2024.

Gates’ womanizing is starting to surface, as is the Nazi background of Schwab. Honestly, if this is what leads humanity, we can certainly see why it is doomed to be a new world that is anything but GREEN. It is one thing to be a womanizer like Bill Clinton, who is not trying to be the next Adolf opposed to Gates, who thinks he is so smart only his vision of how the world should work is valid — very Marxist. I was invited in 1996 to the White House Dinner. I sat with all the conservative journalists, including George Will. Clinton delivered a fantastic speech. They were growling and said, come on, you have to give it to him; he knows how to deliver a speech. So did FDR as well as Adolf Hitler. It takes charisma to deliver a great speech, and that has also been a talent among womanizers.

Puck-Evil-Press-1988-Nove-21

The press has been protecting Gates for a very long time. They have been taking grants from his foundation, including the British BBC. I have always offered advice to governments FREE because once you accept a dime, they will own you. Ironically, I have been called because they also know what advice I will deliver is untainted. Gates has bought the press just as he owns the WHO and is pulling the strings inside the United Nations along with Klaus Schwab.

Here is an illustration from Puck Weekly Magazine, “The Evil Spirits of the Modern Day Press,” published Nov. 21, 1888. See, history repeats because the passions of man never change. You guessed it – that was the US presidential election held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. It saw the incumbent Grover Cleveland (Democrat), challenged by the Republican Benjamin Harrison who won. Then too, the general election was pretty close with Cleveland winning the popular vote just like Hillary, but by almost 1%, while Harrison managed to win the electoral vote 233 to 168.

Here you have Harper’s Weekly making fun of the fake news back then calling those in mainstream media in 1888 “evil.” There are also no mirrors in the Washington Press Core. The press assumes they are important and are also above the common people they try to manipulate with their stories. It has always been about manipulating the public. Ryan Holiday wrote for Forbes, taking on the role of a whistle-blower from the media. He wrote:

“I know this because I am a media manipulator. My job was to use the media to make people do or think things they otherwise would not. People like me are there, behind the curtain, pulling the puppet strings. But that is about to get harder: I’m spilling my secrets to you and turned my talents from exploiting media vulnerabilities to exposing them—for your benefit.”

May 14 2021

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.