The Fight of the Suburbs v the Cities


Armstrong Economics Blog/Uncategorized Re-Posted Jan 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We can see from the map of the elections in Georgia, we are still facing this flight from the cities to the point it is becoming blatant suburbs against the urban cities. This is a picture of what the vote seems to be on a much grander national level. We have a serious economic shift taking place and there are fools in Washington who think they can just plow through the rights of the people just to retain power.

The Future From Here


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Jan 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The word from DC is that they will do their best now to prevent Trump from ever running again and they will look to try to bring some criminal charge against him to disqualify him. Twitter has blocked his account and he has acknowledged he will leave the office. Pence, as expected, defended the swamp as did the courts by refusing to ever allow any evidence of fraud to be reviewed. That was in itself a confirmation that there was significant fraud or they would have heard the case and then declare it was frivolous. (see the latest evidence)

The sad part about this is the lack of mirrors in Washington.  I have warned that the Republicans may split because they failed to understand this what they see as “Trumpism” existed long before Trump. He was just at the right place at the right time. Pence was a former member of Congress and there was no way anyone on the Hill would stab the Congress in the back. The Republicans think this will now be back to normal and they will also surrender the rights of the people as long as their personal pockets are filled. What we have watched was not the end of Trump, but the end of the Republic and this anti-swamp will now only grow as people begin to see the agenda that they had no idea was being decided in this election.

In a very strange way, these events have shown that Socrates was right. This week was the major event not the inauguration on the 20th. The politicians see this as the defeat of Trump and have ignored the fact that 80 million people voted for Trump and they can claim the fraud claims are baseless while refusing to answer anything. They have displayed to the entire world that there is no Due Process of Law – they pronounced Trump guilty and refused to allow a trial. This was a serious mistake for the question should have been decided and then the civil unrest would have been settled. Refusing to allow any court to review the claims and dismissing everything on procedure has doomed the country to the festering image of corruption which will inevitably lead to revolution. In that respect, they have just confirmed the forecast of Socrates and the West will yield to Asia post 2032.

Now we get back to markets at least until the rest of this political chaos unfolds from Europe. We must review all the markets to see how and where capital will move given these dramatic events in the US election. We will be moving toward digital currency and the rest of the West will now expect that Biden show cancels the currency to prevent people from hoarding dollars which is how they have been circumventing the European regulations. We will have to review the markets for they alone will map out the future for us. Will the capital flows flee to Asia? With the Dow still rise as a place capital will park for safety? Will banks be abandoned by the repudiation of debt which is why the politicians have been in league with Twitter, Google, and Facebook – the new digital banks going forward? (See IMF Blog).

There were people cheering the removal of Trump for they now expect that Biden will kill fossil fuels and renewable will be a new bull market. Of course, they are speaking out of their own positions and are clueless as to how you really end fossil fuels which are so integrated into everything. The taxes they will impose on the use of fossil fuels will help to ensure the further contraction of the economy into 2022. There is even talk that The Democrats will impose a $1,000 tax on every home and apartment for using heat and air condition.

What we are to expect will be revealed by the computer. There is a move to tax worldwide income forming in Europe and in the United States, we will see the drive to add a wealth tax which will be a property tax on everything you own on a global basis. If the politicians really represented the people, even Keynes had said to lower taxes to stimulate the economy and Trump’s cut in taxes produced the lowest unemployment ever post-Great Depression. But the political powers that be are really only interested in control and punishment.

So now it is time for Socrates to laid out the future. This is not a time for personal opinion and “I think” analysis. Einstein said he did not believe that God played dice with the Universe – i.e. nothing is random. It was interesting that Socrates picked this week rather than the inauguration. All we can do is try to apply the fundamentals to its forecast. The only way to approach the future from here is dispassionately and follow the capital flows.

Tracking Apps – The Total Surveillance is Here!


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jan 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty; like you, I am a programmer. I see the future is very much like the Matrix. I do not understand why people in government feel the need to control everything and everyone. This is not the world I want my daughter to grow up in and she is just three years old.

PO

ANSWER: These apps that people are so eager to download for a virus that has a 99.5% survivability rate is astonishing. I agree, this is like the Matrix insofar as we seem to be living in a dream that we are somehow free when we are not. Personally, I am so glad my time is nearly up in this nightmare. They know the majority are just subservient fools. Stanley Milgram proved that the average person will even torture another as long as they are told to do so. He called it — “Obedience to Authority.”

Indeed, the New Norm is intended to bring in the Great Reset whereby offices vanish, commuting comes to an end, and travel will be forever restricted. However, vital to pulling this off is continued social distancing and masks. Why? This is being employed to combat civil unrest. It is also intended to separate the mindless sheep who obey whatever the government, says which complies with Stanley Milgram’s studies on “Obedience to Authority”.

The Germans put on trial after World War II said that they were just following orders. This inspired Milgram to investigate because many argued that the Germans were just different and could kill the Jews without remorse. At the Nuremberg Trials, those Germans simply said they were just following orders.

Stanley was perhaps the most important psychologists of all time as far as I am concerned. Instead of coming up with a theory, Stanley actually investigates and arrived at a conclusion nobody suspected was even possible. He hired actors to pretend to be shocked by a person whenever they lied. Stanley took random people off the street in the United States and elsewhere to see if the Germans were really a different species. He discovered that people would shock others in a torture setting as long as they were told that was what they had to do.

Stanley concluded his studies which shocked the world. They were published in his book – “Obedience to Authority.” I bring this up now BECAUSE this is precisely what is being carried out today. We have people wearing masks when there is no serious pandemic and yelling at others who do not. Some are violently attacking people who do not have a mask.

What is being carried out is a well-defined psychological tactic because they instill fear in the mass herd of human sheep and then they count on the obedience of authority to control society. I have stated before, a friend of mine grew up behind the Berlin Wall. When the wall fell, his father went and got his Stasi file. He was shocked to discover everyone he thought was a friend was telling the government everything he had to say against the government. When he came home, my friend thought his father went mad. He began punching holes in the walls and ripping out microphones. Until his death, he refused to ever speak to anyone outside his immediate family.

This is the reasoning being social distancing and wearing masks. This (1) provides justification to arrest people who try to gather together to resist, and (2) as in France, they can put you in prison for 6 months for not wearing a mask, or (3) in Melbourne, Australia there have been incidents of people attacking even women on the street who do not have a mask on. This is raw tyranny and how they are deliberately seeking to breakdown society to make the population controllable as was the case under communism.

Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893–1946)

 “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Interrogator: With respect to a Democracy they argued, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States, only Congress can declare wars.

Göring replied: “Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

NY Governor Can Lock You Up & Your Contacts if he Thinks You Might be Infected


Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM Re-Posted Jan 6, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We are losing everything. New York State has proposed Assembly Bill A416, which allows the governor to lock you up. They may also lock-up any person in your family with whom you have had any contact on the mere SUSPICION that you have been infected with any disease the governor, in his sole capacity, determines may pose a threat to society. At this point, if you are a Republican, you are already a threat to the new world order they are planning.

Meanwhile, the IMF has bluntly come out and explained that banks with branches are no longer necessary and this is why BigTech has been blocking Republicans because they have been promised worldwide banking rights. On top of that, your credit standing will no longer be based solely upon your income and how fast you pay your bills. They are now saying that they will also incorporate what type of person you are by looking at whatever you have posted on social media. If you are a subservient sheep, no problem. If you have an independent mind, you are not worthy of credit. The IMF states:

IMF Banking

New types of information

The most transformative information innovation is the increase in use of new types of data coming from the digital footprint of customers’ various online activities—mainly for credit-worthiness analysis.

Credit scoring using so-called hard information (income, employment time, assets and debts) is nothing new. Typically, the more data is available, the more accurate is the assessment. But this method has two problems. First, hard information tends to be “procyclical”: it boosts credit expansion in good times but exacerbates contraction during downturns.

The second and most complex problem is that certain kinds of people, like new entrepreneurs, innovators and many informal workers might not have enough hard data available. Even a well-paid expatriate moving to the United States can be caught in the conundrum of not getting a credit card for lack of credit record, and not having a credit record for lack of credit cards.

Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.

New communication channels

Communication innovation is driven by the variety of digital platforms in social media, mobile communication, and online shopping that have penetrated much of consumers’ everyday lives, thus increasing their digital footprint and the available data. Platforms like Amazon, Facebook or Alibaba incorporate more and more financial services into their ecosystems, enabling the rise of new specialized providers that compete with banks in payments, asset management, and financial information provision.

Technology again boosts an existing trend. The shift from in-person bank branch visits to remote, online communication generally improves customer convenience and makes financial intermediation more cost-efficient. It also boosts geographic competition among banks, which can now service more distant customers.

The effects of digital transformation are powerful for the financial sector, already the industry most heavily reliant on computers. That is compounded by the doubling in use of online banking having in the past two decades in the European Union’s 15 largest economies. And with usage at 50 percent on average, it still has significant room to grow.”

STRONGLY advise if you can, get the hell out of New York while you can. I have written before I opened an account at Bank of America because it was the closest bank to me. That branch never reopened. The people who voted for Biden have surrendered ALL their rights, privileges, and immunities for themselves, their families, and their posterity. I have been warning that our model did not merely project that Trump would win in 2016 and the 2020 election would be the most corrupt election in history, but we would enter a new period of authoritarianism from 2020 into 2032.

I know a lot of people who voted for Biden read this bog. I have tried to make it clear that this was NEVER a match between Trump and Biden. This has been between Trump and a Global Cabal. I get to check out of this world soon. What I fear is what I leave behind for my family. This election was STOLEN and I do not say that as a Republican. This was a strategic play they needed to pull off because they have already conquered Europe and Canada. They needed the USA for military power.

I have also explained many times that I use to vet people who wanted to run for president up until 1999. I was asked to fly to Texas to meet with George Bush Jr but I was told this was “different” because he was “stupid!” Indeed, you never see him running around giving lectures like Obama. When I asked why they would make someone “stupid” president, I was told he had the name. Biden is the same thing. I seriously doubt he is even aware of their plans and they got the perfect guy for the job.

They are deliberately trying to end small businesses because they are independent thinkers and employ 70% of the civil workforce. They need the people to be on Guarantee Basic Income to control the population because the socialist system is collapsing. They can no long prop-up the system so they need a new one. The new founding father will be Bill Gates funding this new age of authoritarianism. He was the funder of Imperial College which began with the recommendation to lock down the world economy by Neil Ferguson. He has usurped every median organization from the WHO to FDC, CDC, and Fauci. Locking down the world economy was supposed to reduce CO2.

Despite the destruction of the world economy, CO2 did not decline. What is the next solution? Kill our pets, animals, and everyone who does not fit Gate’s eugenic goals?

How much longer will it take for the sheep to wake up? The noose is already around their neck. They seem too stupid to open their eyes.

The Threat of this Triumvirate to Everything that is Freedom


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Make no mistake about this, we have the merger of three theories as part of this Great Reset which has merged the old ideas of a one-world government with Schwab’s idea of resurrecting Communism for only the lower classes. Gates wants to reduce CO2 and the population, Soros wants a one-world government headed by the United Nations, and Klaus Schwab wants Communism 3.0. Nevertheless, their grand scheme against the people will peak out by 2022.

As I have mentioned, the former president of France stated bluntly that the design of the EU was not really economic, but rather it was this same theory that to eliminate war you have a one-world government, or in this case, one European government. This has been the pitch coming from Soros and why he was funding the anti-BREXIT camp, so he could fold Britain sovereignty into Brussels. Soros has been using his son to fund the Democrats against Trump to further his open society agenda.

On August 11th, 2020. George Soros did an interview in La Republica where he actually said we needed a revolution against Trump.

“I would describe it as a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times.”

Soros has been calling for using the Coronavirus as a revolutionary moment. Soros sees Trump as a populist “transitory phenomenon.

The Polish government wants to stop the distribution of Norwegian money flowing into Poland coming from Soros’ funded Batory Foundation, which manages over 800 million euros with a target of overthrowing the Polish government by 2020. Since 2014, the Batory Foundation has distributed some 130 million zlotys (around 31.7 million euros) to various associations and organizations within Poland to change the government.

Soros has been intent upon overthrowing Trump in order to further his agenda of an open-society to have the United Nations take control of the United States covertly when it would be unconstitutional for such a transfer of power.

Nevertheless, this is part of their Agenda 2030 and to end “populism” which is the foundation of democracy. Like both China and the EU, the people have no right to vote for the head of the government.

Human Experiments Continue


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Jan 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There is a very serious problem going on, and there are lawyers filing suits in Europe against the development of the PCR test, which is seriously flawed and was never created with even a sample of COVID. The conflicts of interest in the creation of this test are well known, but of course, mainstream media will never publish a word about this issue.

The inventor of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, dates back to 1985 for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993. In 1996, John Lauritsen wrote about HIV and AIDS. Lauritsen at that time said that the PCR test identifies substances qualitatively not quantitatively, detecting the genetic sequences of viruses rather than the viruses themselves:

“PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.”

The PCR test has been used for COVID-19 but it detects the presence of the virus by amplifying the virus’s genetic material to a point where it can be detected by scientists. Even the NHS in Britain states that this test is a “fairly accurate indication of whether or not you are infected with coronavirus currently.” I myself was tested five times, and when I told that to the pulmonary expert I was told that didn’t mean anything because the test was not valid. There has been a case of one death following vaccination. There are people who will have serious reactions to vaccines and there should be more research to identify who is susceptible to such reactions. Instead, we have politicians trying to remove even religious objections. That is tyranny.

Aigner-Austritt-Letter

Here is a letter from Professor Dr. Thomas Aigner about the crisis in medicine surrounding this virus which has become so political. He is referring to a report that is being ignored which points out the conflicts of interest and politicians have destroyed the world economy for something which is clearly not well-founded. (see the report if link vanishes: Review report Corman-Drosten et al. Eurosurveillance 2020 – CORMAN-DROSTEN REVIEW REPORT)

The Malthusian End – 2022


Blog/Economics

Posted Jan 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

This is a presentation in German which is about one hour. Its proposition is that the leaders of the G20, the Rockefeller and Gates foundations have been conspiring to take over the political system for about 30 years or more. It states that the Government conspiracy went into high gear in 2017. This was sent in by a reader EAB. While my German is not so great, what I do agree with is that the idea of eliminating Democracy has been around for a long time. This is all coming to a head.

This idea of this one-world government will eliminate war has been outright even mentioned in the EU Parliament as the real goal. My view is that preexisting belief was simply exploited by Gates and Soros who used their money to buy friends and influence.  Thomas Malthus’ book which started the entire overpopulation panic and inspired eventually eugenics was published in 1798. Based on our 224-year Cycle of Political Change, this idea should reach its height in 2022.

I see Gates and Soros as newcomers who have the money to buy into the club and will make the peak in 2022.

Reducing our Food Supply – Is it Intentional?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Agriculture Re-Posted Jan 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While this is 7 months old, the trend is set in motion. The agenda is to reduce our consumption of meat because they believe that cows are the #2 cause of CO2. The EU regulations have led to the wholesale slaughter of even sheep. The EU was moving to reduce cattle because they are creating global warming by passing gas. These people are truly authoritarian.

To this day, many things are not available because of the response to COVID. These people are either the dumbest in history for they cannot see what they are doing, or they are diabolical and know exactly what they are doing – reducing the world population of humans and animals.

Canadian COVID Compliance Police Raid Home For Unauthorized Six Person Gathering, Non-Compliant Citizens Arrested


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 2, 2021 by Sundance

Comrade rebels, a disturbing report from our northern neighbors shows the scale of descent into an authoritarian state.  The Canadian Police raided a home with an unauthorized gathering of six, yes SIX, rebellious citizens who dared to peacefully assemble without permission from the state. A good citizen snitched on the group.

Video shows the police dragging the non-compliant proles from their private dwelling after repeated warnings to disperse the unlawful gathering containing wrong-think expressed against the interests of the state COVID compliance authority.  WATCH:

(Media Report) […] Called to explain, the Gatineau Police Service (SPVG) admitted to intervening Thursday evening, around 11:10 p.m., in a residence on rue Le Baron, after a citizen’s complaint.

“The recommended approach was preventive. The agents asked for their collaboration to put an end to the gathering, but they were rejected, ”commented Lieutenant Éric Simard.

According to him, the Gatineau police officers initially intended to give a simple notice, but, in the end, they had no choice but to distribute statements of offense, which, let us remember, are amount to $ 1,546 per person.

A man was also taken to the police station.

“He was released, but the file was submitted to the DPCP [director of criminal and penal prosecutions], which could lay charges,” said Eric Simard.

The lieutenant of the SPVG specified that this event required the intervention of six police officers, that is to say as much as the number of people who were gathered. (read more)

Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Jan 2, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

In London, we had the Extinction Rebellion becoming very violent. Now we have people blowing up gas lines on a coordinated basis and deliberately trying to create havoc leaving people without heat. This will indeed be part of the rise in Civil Unrest and we should expect this to become much more common. Bill Gates is fully behind the lockdowns and wants society to be locked down for years. This has been to reduce people-driven and that he thought would reduce CO2. He clearly has more money than brains and is obviously not very smart. He is funding putting particles in the air to reduce sunlight to stop global warming. His entire beliefs are linear and void of any historical analysis. This guy can really hurt the planet and end up killing far more people than all the madmen of the past – COMBINED!