California Allows Member of the Communist Party to Run for Government


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Feb 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There are many people writing in about California and how they are looking to get out ASAP. Some are pointing to the fact that the Left has gone totally insane and passed legislation not just that people can steal up to $950 in shoplifting, but that you can now be a member of the Communist Party and run for office in California. I guess this means Pelosi can come out of the closet before she loses office in 2022. This is the problem with the Left. Instead of moving to an appropriate place where communists control, they try to subvert the rest of society to comply with their desires. They are against freedom every step of the way. In California, the US Constitution is just an annoying scarp of paper that should not stand in the way.

Insanity of Liberalism? Abandonment of the Rule of Law?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Feb 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: I work at Walgreens. Thank god, not in California. I can attest that gentleman is correct about the policies. Maybe this is why many pharmacists have not had a raise in 4 years. Glad I still had a job during the lockdown though.

J

REPLY: Thanks for the input. California has gone so far left, they have turned their back on the very people who pay the bills.

Sunday Talks, Stephen Miller Talks About JoeBama Policy and President Trump’s Next Steps


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 21, 2021 by Sundance

Senior Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the dangerous immigration policy of JoeBama and the next steps in President Trump’s future working on the MAGA agenda.  Ms. Bartiromo discusses the 3,500+ border apprehensions daily along the Texas, Arizona and Southern California border area.

Mr. Miller noted he has been in recent conversations with President Trump (likely speech writing instructions), about the outline for the upcoming speech the people’s president will deliver to the CPAC audience next Sunday.

Sunday Talks, Senator Ron Johnson Discusses Capitol Hill Breech Investigation and Next Week Hearings


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 21, 2021 by Sundance

Senator Ron Johnson appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the upcoming senate pantomime under the auspices of a review of the events around the Capitol Hill breech and security threat.  Johnson is useless.

Next week the senate is expected to hold hearings about the January 6th DC protests that ended with a breech of the Capitol Hill building and chambers of congress.  Democrats want to keep using the 1/6/21 protest as an excuse to justify their newly installed fencing, barbed-wire and security perimeter which includes U.S. military troops.

In the bigger picture the hearings serve to deflect attention away from the fraud in mail-in ballots during the 2020 election by focusing attention away from the issue.  The democrats are attempting to label those who would question the election results as “insurrectionists”.

The hearing schedule around the 1/06/21 protests is an orchestrated effort at narrative engineering to keep attention away from the illegitimacy of a Biden administration.  Meanwhile the quisling GOPe politicians cower in their offices, provide no push-back and worry they will be labeled as extremists by the leftist-media and democrat politicians.

Welcome To Joe’s Town


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 19, 2021 AT 7:18

Jonestown had a big sign hanging in their main pavilion. It read, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

We may be repeating the mass suicide that occurred there—only on a much grander scale. Too many people worship Father Government who resides at his statist Temple in Washington D.C. Father Government tells them to worship science—at least, his corporate version of it.

Jim Jones rejected the Bible and told his people that socialism was the only answer.

Similarly, Father Government wants Christians persecuted and socialism embraced. He tells his people how to live their lives down to the smallest detail. In exchange, the people receive safety and security. They are relieved of the burden of thinking for themselves. Father Government and his socialist media loudspeakers tell people what to think. The people no longer have to deal with the stress of freedom.

Non-believers are shunned. Those not embracing Father Government’s preaching are called ‘terrorists.’ They are a threat to the people. They even had the gall to invade the sacred socialist Temple! They are a threat to Father Government! Therefore it’s okay to shoot them. Or, at the very least, censor them.

To be sure, Father Government abuses his people. He makes them do ridiculous things such as wear masks. He forces young people to fight in useless wars where they are maimed and killed. He shuts down their small businesses. He keeps their children out of school. He lies to them. He steals from them by means of taxes. Big tithes must be sent sent to the IRS, which helps grow the statist Temple. Yet despite his abusive nature, Father Government is always forgiven because he cares so deeply for his people.

Until he doesn’t.

Father Government now wants a big reset in order to bring about an Earthly paradise. There are too many people on Earth and they’re mucking up his plans. He now forces his people to pray that science will save them. Father Government has donned a sacred robe and it looks just like a lab coat. He is waving his vaccination needle talisman in a rapturous manner. He has a plan to end fear. All you have to do is obey. Don’t question science. Don’t be a conspiracy theorist! Save the Earth! Get the jab!

Unfortunately, too many haven’t realized that Father Government has gone completely insane. Jim Jones isolated his people in a remote jungle and used fear to get them to obey his nutty pronouncements. Father Government has done the same. At the end, Jim Jones promised to take their fear away by means of ‘revolutionary suicide.’

Father Government is now telling us to do as we’re told and get the shot. It will extinguish our fear. Along with our lives.

Don’t drink the Kool Aid and don’t take the jab.

—Ben Garrison

Q&A


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Feb 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION #1`: Marty,

At the October 2019 WEC you made some eerily prescient statements about two things, first, if the market were to make a low going into the January 2020 period, that might be the bottom; or, if a high were made then(it did), then something profound would appear to happen in the February March time period…with March being the key month…we know how things played out…

Now, for some time, you have stated something is breaking come the May time period…evening stating in the blog to watch out for May 8…not knowing what could happen and impacting so many markets and things like Gold, what is your gut telling you…is this another lockdown, a new war, a failure of the vaccines resulting in more deaths and setbacks for the entire vaccination process….or, is it something political, perhaps having to do with Biden being incapacitated and there being a need for his replacement, at least on a temporary basis, with Harris? Or…is there something happening in Europe with riots or they’re canceling their currency?

MS

ANSWER #1: I will address the May crisis that seems to be shaping up in the update for the WEC 2020 and in an overview in the Private Blog. Because we have been probably the largest institutional adviser internationally, I have always been the one they shoot the arrows at like the Long-Term Capital Management Crisis because the London FT put out our forecast that Russia would collapse. They also blamed me for the takeover boom of the ’80 because I was running around the globe showing these charts and advised many of the takeover players like Alan Bond (1938 – 2015), Lawrence James (Larry) Adler (1931-1988), Michael R. H. Holmes à Court (1937 – 1990), just to mention a few. Essentially, I taught them how to turn debt into a performing asset whereby we would borrow in one currency to buy assets in another.

I am mindful that the way people think is that someone with influence can somehow make a trend. That is just absurd. The best any such influence is with respect to volatility. I have studied markets intensely. NEVER is there any such evidence of reversing a bear or bull market BECAUSE everything is connected. Any attempt to manipulate an individual market against its trend will be met by instant arbitrage. Take the GameStop and silver calls on Reddit. In both cases our Computer was projecting a high was in the formation and silver peaked precisely on our target week for its Benchmark. That demonstrates that influence cannot alter the trend in anything! PERIOD! Nevertheless, people do not care about what is right or wrong. If they lose money, they blame someone else to pretend it was not their mistake.

QUESTION #2: Mr. Armstrong, I am a young widow with my husband having died of Covid only 6 months ago.  I lost a lot of my income when my husband passed with no life insurance because we couldn’t afford it with his health issues.  I do have a mortgage -a house with 16 acres and vehicle loan, my only debts for now, and I am able to pay bills because my younger son still lives with me and has agreed to split the bills with me where I was only charging him rent before.  He is paying a lot more now.  In any case, between the two of us we have less than $50,000 in cash, most of it being his.  We have no other investments, IRA’s, 401K’s, nothing.  That’s partly because my husband was not good with money.  In any case some of our cash is in the bank and some we keep at home.

I am very concerned about the soon collapse of the dollar and don’t want to lose what little we have.  I do receive a small veteran’s surviving spouse pay which is enough for my large house payment.  If you were me, what would you do with your finances?  Are there safer ways to reserve the money and still use it to pay bills?  If you cannot answer this question or don’t have time, will you please direct me somewhere I can get advice.  Can you direct me to a website or person.  Unfortunately, I do not have enough of an income to pay for an advisor so just asking for any advice at this time please?

Thank you,

S

ANSWER #2: I cannot recommend people to manage your money.  Far too many make decisions emotionally and therein present another variable that you can lose everything despite being correct. The dollar is NOT going to collapse. That is just nonsense. It will decline in purchasing value into 2024 and near-term you may want to wait until May/June. Additionally, by law, I am not allowed to provide personal guided advice because the government cannot distinguish between honest advice and a broker trying to sell you something.

That said, we try to keep the Private Blog entry point for the average person at just $15 a month. That way any advice is public and not “personal” so it is OK. In general, we are looking at an inflationary wave built upon shortages. So your cash will buy less into 2024. The complications will come from the Biden Administration in its desperate hunt for cash through taxation and escalating regulation. This may impact markets in the future just as their watchful eye over the gold trade has done more to keep gold in check than any manipulation conspiracy theory.

QUESTION #3: Mr. Armstrong :
I purchased the Canada 2021 report very insightful analysis you wrote it has a bit of everything which makes it didactic to read. Interesting forecast for Canada’s economy it seems a lot of challenges ahead to tell you the truth I did not know Canada is a world leader in debt maybe I am been ignorant in thinking because real state market is doing very well then that equalize into a stable healthy economy I am always confused by that also there are rumours that Trudeau will call for a spring election he seems to be certain that all the money he is been handing out to voters will pay off and he will get a majority this time will see it is true regarding of elections or not the damage to every aspect of society is already done after almost a year in continuous lockdowns.

I like what a reader wrote today (XRP&THE RISE OF BARTER)he said Martin YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE THROUGH THIS MOMENT very profound don’t you agree you are where you are because is destined to be
I can not fail to mention those naughty coins in the same post  I would have never imagined there were Roman prostitute tokens really! those Roman were quite something else
Have a nice Friday evening handsome Armstrong
G

ANSWER #3: I will put out the forecast for the Canadian election on the Private Blog. We have blocked that from being searched by Google and since we are so well read in Canada, I certainly do not want our forecast to be used by Trudeau to make a decision to call an election or not. What is most interesting is that Trudeau lost seats in 2019 as the conservatives won, but not enough to take the majority.

As far as the Roman prostitute tokens go, they are the precise example of how the private sector will move to counter-act government regulation. Put up a traffic light after a sideroad that would allow people to skirt around it, and they will circumvent the traffic light. This is just human nature whereas those in power wrongly think that they can just a law and end some practice or vice. It will never happen and 6,000 years of recorded history stands as a witness that government will fail every time. If that were not true, we would still be reading Sanskrit and speaking Babylonian.

As for being born to live through this, it certainly seems to be the case. I personally would really prefer to leave. They tortured me to try to get me to comply with their demands and I stood my ground. But in the process, I discovered something. Someone can threaten to kill you all the time. Eventually, you pass through the hole in the needle to the other side. Once you do and you surrender any fear of death, you win. You have disarmed them for they can no longer hurt you. It becomes a game.

Me Visiting the Cell where Socrates Died in Athens

There are two instances in my life that make me concede that perhaps I was “BORN TO LIVE THROUGH THIS MOMENT” for I had named my computer Socrates long before my confrontation with the enemy that control New York. I survived even an attempt on my life after being in a coma for about a week or so (I don’t remember how long) to the dismay of my honorable captors. I was always impressed with the story of Socrates and how the Oracle at Delphi had said he was the smartest man in all of Greece. He set out to prove the Oracle wrong, but provide it to be correct. In the process, the elite hated Socrates and put him on trial for offending the gods and corrupting the youth with his ideas. His statement before the court when sentenced to death is what inspired me through my ordeal.

“[T]here is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: – either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, too, shall have a wonderful interest in a place where I can converse with Palamedes, and Ajax the son of Telamon, and other heroes of old, who have suffered death through an unjust judgment; and there will be no small pleasure, as I think, in comparing my own sufferings with theirs. Above all, I shall be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in that; I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not. What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they do not put a man to death for this; certainly not. For besides being happier in that world than in this, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.”

The other strange piece of fate was the fact that I grew up at 314 South Lippincott Ave, Maple Shade, New Jersey. So I was raised in a house with the street address being Pi.

I wrote that I DID NOT want to become a lawyer because of an incident when I was in high school whereby as students we were being harassed by the police on the direction of the mayor. He did not like the kids hanging at a sub shop next to his store so he used the police for personal gain.  He directed the police to hand out parking tickets to drive us away. I went to check the law using my father’s law books on the legality of the signs. Low and behold, it required the town to place parking signs about 20 feet apart and so many feet up from the crown of the road. They did not comply. So I told everyone to sit on the hoods of their cars, we would take the tickets, I had this. When they did the same with stop signs, I rose to the cause and defended everyone in court again. I won both times and the judge admonished me and said he thought I was practicing law without a license. I responded I was not charging anyone. He came back and said he was calling my father. The town of Maple Shade had to completely redo all the signs. When I got home, the judge had indeed called my father. My father said to stop using his law books to defend my friends. From that moment on, my interest in being a lawyer was shattered. So I don’t know, perhaps there was something in the water that just made you want to stand up and fight for civil rights. Because also in another strange twist, there use to be a bar on the edge of town and that was where Martin Luther King was denied service and he said that is when he got the inspiration to lead his march.

So I do not know, but a lot of people have told me this was my destiny. Perhaps. Time will tell.

QUESTION #4: Is CDC admitting masks are ineffective if CDC is now telling us 2 masks are needed? I wish my fellow Americans would see this, if masks worked, then why the need for 2? Connect the dots people, it’s very simple math.
Uranium – global warming driven by nuclear industry, a post of yours a few years ago. Now great reset for climate change. How bullish should I be uranium miners & uranium? Might have already missed lows as there’s a Reddit sub/uraniumsqueeze and cameco 2x since Dec, but still feels like this trade has major upside if this is solution for global warming agenda?

KW

ANSWER #4: Yes, it is well known that studies from the 1918 Spanish flu demonstrated that masks did not work. The Washington Post even said that masks were useless. This is all about scare tactics for political purposes to impose the Great Reset completely altering the economy.

As for Uranium, it peaked with the ECM in 2007 on schedule, and it bottomed 8.6 years later in 2016 also on the cyclical schedule. We are showing that a quarter closing above $35 will reignite the bull market. This is most likely caused by colder weather ahead and the fact the renewable energy such as solar panels and wind turbines do not help in ice and snowstorms. When you need heat the most is when you will freeze the most.

The Collapse of California – 2022?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Gov’t Incompetence Re-Posted Feb 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

See Peter Santenello’s Video on Facebook – Unfortunately

This is the REAL California. They are so far to the left, there is no more rule of law. Why should anyone pay for anything? If everyone went to the store and stole $950, they would bring California’s economy to a dead halt. Perhaps this is what needs to be done. Their vision for the future of America is absolutely insane!

The real insanity is that the two states that are the absolute worst in the country, California and New York where more people are fleeing from than anywhere else, are the very ones imposing their ideas now upon the entire country. California became a state on September 9, 1850. Cyclically, California goes into an absolute economic crisis in 2022! So readers in California, the worst is yet to come! Don’t forget your thank you cards to Newsom and Pelosi.

Entire School Board in Oakley Elementary School District, California, Resigns After Viral Video of them Mocking Parents Who Want In-Classroom Teaching


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 20, 2021 by Sundance

Every negative sentiment about leftist teachers is confirmed in a viral video where Oakley Elementary School District (CA) school board members are caught on video openly mocking parents who want in-classroom teaching to resume.

The school board did not know they were on video-conference that was open to the public.  Their comments and vulgarity were visible for the entire world to see.

First, here is the video.  The last few seconds are revealing as the members realize their broadcast was open to the public: “rut oh, we have the meeting open to the public right now.” WATCH:

CALIFORNIA – The president and three other members of a Northern California school board resigned Friday after reports that they made mocking comments about parents during a public video meeting about reopening schools.

The resignation of President Lisa Brizendine of the Oakley Union Elementary School District was confirmed to Fox News by Schools Superintendent Greg Hetrick.

The other members — Kim Beede, Erica Ippolito and Richie Masadas — who constitute the rest of the board, resigned later Friday, FOX 2 of the Bay Area reported. (read more)

News Report:

Sidney Powell “Never Mistake My Quiet for Inaction”


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 20, 2021 by Sundance

Attorney Sidney Powell has an update on several SCOTUS 2020 election cases.  After the conference on Friday Ms. Powell anticipates SCOTUS orders on Monday and opinions to be shared on Thursday of next week.  [Telegram Source Link Here]

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Cuomo Lied, People Died.


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 17, 2021 AT 10:53 AM

New York’s tyrannical Governor Andrew Cuomo is reaping what he sowed.

Finally politicians from both parties are standing up to condemn Cuomo’s actions during the plannedemic and beyond. Cuomo sentenced nursing home residents to their deaths by sending covid patients into New York’s care centers. Then the spot light loving Governor had the audacity to lie about hiding the true number of nursing home deaths from the Feds.

Cuomo once again held a smug press conference and said the truth was “Political spin” and that his lies were “facts”.  Cuomo was caught red handed and CNN, of course, is ignoring the entire scandal.  His narcissistic brother Chrissy Cuomo, who hosts his own CNN show, has not made once remark about his brother’s scandals, and don’t expect him to report any news that would sully the Cuomo name.

Of course, the black hearted Governor made jaw dropping comments about the deaths of New York nursing home residents;

“Who cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died.”

Like we said before, the Democrats hate you. All they care about is power and money.

Of course Cuomo continues to blame the Trump administration for all his blunders. It’s a bottomless well that he goes to again and again, drawing buckets of excuses for his covid debacles.

Cuomo’s feet should be held to the fire. He needs to be recalled just like his fellow tyrant California Governor Gavin Newsom. On Monday, Cuomo did acknowledge withholding the pandemic New York nursing home death tolls from lawmakers and the public, but fell short of an apology.

Of course Cuomo will not apologize.  So what that people died, who cares?