Mass Psychosis and Cognitive Dissonance


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Mar 4, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Comment: Hello Mr. Armstrong,

I hope you will have time to read the following about the situation in Québec and hopefully post it on your blog for the benefit of all.

What is going on in the Province of Québec currently is far more serious than the “health tax” brought up this week by Premier Legault.  We are talking about “mass formation” or “mass psychosis.” 

As per Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at Gehnt University in Belgium: The global society is starting to enter a “mass formation” state, a type of “collective hypnosis” required for the rise of totalitarianism.  This formula has been deployed on the global population over the past two years.

Under mass formation, a population willingly sacrifices their freedom.  The following 4 conditions must be present for mass psychosis to happen:

  • A lack of social bonding
  • A majority of people must experience life as meaningless and purposeless
  • A widespread free-floating anxiety and discontent that have no apparent or distinct causes
  • A free-floating frustration and aggression again with no discernable cause

Nonsensical modeling, masking, theatre hygiene, endless numerous lockdowns, school closures & remote learning, a couple curfews (the latest currently in effect), vaccine passport, cancellation of all arts, cultural, professional sport events and religion, etc. have all contributed to set the table for the emergence of mass psychosis as we witness and feel it in Québec today.

As per Desmet, “All that is needed now is a story in which the source of cause of anxiety is identified and spelled out, while simultaneously providing a strategy for addressing and neutralizing that cause.”

The story is about the damage the unvaccinated are doing to the health system!

Most Québécois believed the simi gods running the province were not taking into account the collateral damages of their measures.  In light of the last couple weeks events, with the support of their federal counterparts, it became clear that they were following a well-prepared plan designed to mind control a majority of the population while scapegoating a minority of unvaccinated.

Let me explain:

  • Early last week, C. Dubé, Québec Minister of Health, said the 50% of the ICU beds were occupied by unvaccinated people even if they represent a small fraction of the population.  He also mentioned that in a few months, 3 dozes of the magic elixir will be required to maintain the infamous vaccine passport in good standing.
  • Then Trudeau came up with his disgraceful rant on the unvaccinated saying he, as the country leader, will decide what do something about them.
  • Followed last Friday by J.Y. Duclos, Canadian Health Minister, who said we’ll get to mandatory vaccine at one point…
  • And this week, Québec Premier, F. Legault, came out with “his” health tax for the unvaccinated because “they need to pay for the problems they’re causing to the health system.”

Together, they are trying very hard to silence opposition, period!  This is disgusting in a country like ours.  They know very well what to do to instill “mass formation” and they’ve been at it relentlessly for almost 2 years now.  Undeniably, the end goal is totalitarianism.  We must wake up and quick if we want to avoid the worst for all of us today and for the generations to come.  Nonvaccinated are not criminals.  We must reject any form of induced discrimination based on freedom of choice!

I have this message for my fellow Canadians of the other provinces.  The same “treatment” is waiting for you right at the corner. Recap how things unfolded in your province over the last 24-months and you will see you embarked on a similar journey dictated by emergency orders powers and the accompanying decrees, too many of them very questionable on their impact on the plandemic.

Socrates predictions are unfolding “as planned”!

Reply: I believe more people are finally waking up to the true agenda, but there are many who remain fixated on the initial news. After years of fear-mongering on a 24/7 news cycle, many people are traumatized. All the criteria to put society into a state of mass psychosis have been achieved. However, part of the global population refuses to admit that government and health agencies lied to them for years due to cognitive dissonance, defined as the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. Society has been in a confused panic for so long that many cannot fathom the truth — COVID was a scam. Even the New York Times reported that half of Americans still would like to wear masks, despite the CDC and other health agencies admitting they are ineffective.

The site Very Well Mind notes three common causes of cognitive dissonance: forced compliance, new information, and decisions. Forced compliance to COVID laws has ruined lives, but many were left with no other option than to comply for fear of losing employment or even the ability to participate in the public. The health agencies in charge constantly provided the public with new and conflicting information over the years, aimed to confuse and scare us into compliance. The deciding factor was poised as a moral obligation to protect the public despite the fact that the vaccinated can contract and transmit the virus too. People, including world leaders, openly judged and vilified “the unvaccinated” and deemed that they have no place in society.

After years of blind compliance, people are deeply disturbed once they learn the truth. This is leading people to hide their true feelings, justify their behaviors, and seek out information that aligns with their predetermined conclusion. You stayed in your home for months, maybe years. Your children have fallen behind in school, extracurricular activities, and crucial socialization. You missed weddings, birthdays, holidays, and funerals. You took all the shots and boosters and administered them to your children. Was this all for nothing? It is hard to stomach that the answer to the question is YES.

I have reported that there is hope — we are building a herd immunity to fear. The fast-spreading omicron variant helped many to see the light when a growing number of people directly contracted COVID, survived, and realized, “Hey, that wasn’t so bad!” I also stated, “Perhaps the cognitive dissonance will begin to pass; the masses need to become outraged to resist the authoritarian restrictions that have reshaped the global society.” As we have seen with ongoing protests throughout the world, people are indeed waking up to the larger agenda and are not willing to lose any additional freedoms. The only reason some lawmakers are choosing to repeal some restrictions is because they have been met with strong opposition from the people who put them in power. Resistance is not futile. Hold the line.

Zelenskyy Losing Ground, Embattled Hero Compared to Churchill Now Slams NATO for Refusing No-Fly Zone


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 | Sundance

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly survived three, yes three, assassination attempts in the past 48 hours, per Fox News and Lindsey Graham’s BFF, Sean Hannity.  According to U.S. officials, a shadowy Kremlin-linked squad known as the Wagner Group, were behind the objective.

While details from the U.S. intelligence community are sketchy, two attempts may have involved anvils dropping from cliffs, though one of them could have been a piano.  The third attempt appears loosely connected to the notorious Acme TNT gang who have been directly linked to Wile E Coyote; a dubious conspirator currently being investigated by Interpol.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration, along with the NATO security alliance, has rejected Zelenskyy’s demands to establish a no-fly zone over fears that it could spark a direct military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia.  This has angered the modern Churchill in a T-shirt, who railed against NATO after the last refusal:

WASHINGTON DC – […] “Knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable, NATO deliberately decided not to close the sky over Ukraine,” Zelensky said in an emotional video address. The president urged NATO to think about “all those people who will die because of you.”

“Because of your weakness, because of your disunity, all the alliance has managed to do so far is to carry fifty tons of diesel fuel for Ukraine,” he said. “Is this the alliance you were building?” (read more)

Meanwhile, the 20-mile-long Russian convoy of heavy equipment that was a few miles outside of Kyiv a week ago, is still a 20-mile-long Russian convoy of heavy equipment that is still a few miles outside of Kyiv. The Washington Post is now reporting, tomorrow a 20-mile-long Russian convoy of heavy equipment will be located just a few miles outside of Kyiv.

WASHINGTON POST – The United States drastically enhanced its shipments of lethal military aid and protective equipment to Ukraine as the prospect of a Russian invasion became more apparent and then a reality, according to a declassified accounting of transfers and sales reviewed by The Washington Post.

The list indicates that as early as December, the Pentagon was equipping Ukrainian fighters with arms and equipment useful for fighting in urban areas, including shotguns and specialized suits to safeguard soldiers handling unexploded ordnance. Over the last week, the Biden administration has increased such shipments, sending Stinger antiaircraft missile systems for the first time and further augmenting Kyiv’s supply of antitank Javelin missiles and other ammunition.

Taken together, the variety, volume and potency of firepower being rushed into the war zone illustrate the extent to which the United States sought to prepare the Ukrainian military to wage a hybrid war against Russia, even as President Biden has expressly ruled out inserting American troops into the conflict. (read more)

Dr. Andrew Hill, The Man Who Killed Millions?


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 | Sundance

Within the book of instructions for the ideological Chicago crew (Alinsky peeps), there are chapters on how to create off-ramps to cloud their agenda. If they need a bigger cloud, they create a bigger crisis. The crisis then becomes the cover, the justification to explain the outcomes of their agenda.

In the latest example, the White House is shifting blame for massive gas price increases and overall U.S. inflation.  The crisis in Ukraine then takes on a geopolitical angle and a domestic angle.  Last year’s doubling of gas prices and the current increases are now being blamed on Russia.  WATCH:

Dr. Andrew Hill, MD, is a senior visiting Research Fellow in the Pharmacology Department at Liverpool University.

Dr. Hill graduated from Oxford University, and attained his PhD from Amsterdam University.  Dr. Hill has worked in the scientific and medical fields for more than three decades, with a specific expertise in the field of developing antiretrovirals.

Dr. Hill is considered one of the world’s preeminent experts, and it was because of his specific skillset that in October of 2020, Dr. Andrew Hill was tasked to report to the World Health Organization on the dozens of new studies from around the world suggesting that Ivermectin could be a remarkably safe and effective treatment for COVID-19.

However, as a medical scientist, Dr. Hill also held several financial conflicts within his research.  He received funding for his work from the same industry institutions who would benefit financially from a vaccination protocol.  One organization was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who funded Unitaid, the organization Dr. Hill admits had influence over his final determinations.

On January 18, 2021, Dr. Hill completed his contracted review and published his findings. Dr. Hill advised that “Ivermectin should be validated in larger appropriately controlled randomized trials before the results are sufficient for review by regulatory authorities.”  His decision gave the medical research community the space to claim Ivermectin was ineffective, and thus the Big Rx vaccination protocol was affirmed.

In this video, the single most influential person in the anti-Ivermectin narrative, Dr. Andrew Hill, admits to knowingly shaping his findings based on institutional influence and withholding information about the efficacy of Ivermectin while millions of people were dying.  This video is absolutely stunning.  WATCH:

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Oil Prices Pass $115 Barrel, White House Jen Psaki Says Russia To Blame for Joe Biden Gas Prices


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 

Within the book of instructions for the ideological Chicago crew (Alinsky peeps), there are chapters on how to create off-ramps to cloud their agenda. If they need a bigger cloud, they create a bigger crisis. The crisis then becomes the cover, the justification to explain the outcomes of their agenda.

In the latest example, the White House is shifting blame for massive gas price increases and overall U.S. inflation.  The crisis in Ukraine then takes on a geopolitical angle and a domestic angle.  Last year’s doubling of gas prices and the current increases are now being blamed on Russia.  WATCH:

If they keep doing this, and the Ukraine conflict continues, you’ll be amazed at how many Americans will forget everything before (Biden policy) and believe all things bad in the economy are Russia’s fault.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, World War Reddit, now becomes the cover story for why the U.S. economy is collapsing.  The pain being felt by middle class, blue-collar workers is now shifted to be an outcome of geopolitical events that are Vladimir Putin’s fault. It’s always someone else’s fault.

Do not underestimate how many people in the U.S. will buy into this nonsense, and keep in mind the Republican wing of the UniParty has a vested interest in allowing the narrative to embed in the psyche of voters.  Both wings of the DC vulture will help promote this fraud, just as both wings of the DC UniParty sold out our Main Street economy on behalf of their multinational benefactors.

The European crisis around Russia-Ukraine also helps the manipulative ideologues in the World Economic Forum (WEF), World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and central banking system create a deflection of the bigger economic crisis created by their COVID agenda and the Great Reset.

The influence agents and multinationals, those who direct the politicians on what policies to execute on a domestic and geopolitical scale, benefit from these obfuscations and false narratives.

The amount of money the multinationals have taken from the economy into their centralized (and sometimes personal) control is obscured by the deployment of these distractions.

Q    What should Americans be braced for?  What could they possibly be facing?  The President has already said Americans will be facing some economic fallout or some hardships.  Can you explain to Americans what exactly will they face if this happened?

KAMALA HARRIS: Sure.  As the President talked about in his speech, we are aware that, again, when America stands for her principles and all of the things that we hold dear, it requires sometimes for us to put ourselves out there in a way that maybe we will incur some cost.  And in this situation, that may relate to energy costs, for example.  But we are taking very specific and appropriate, I believe, steps to mitigate what that cost might be if it happens. (LINK)

The economic consequences from climate change policy were always considered the biggest hurdle.  The pain that would be felt by the working class folks, would need to be managed.  This is the reason why false justifications for economic pain are collectively pushed by media.  The media do not need to be told what to do, they already know the larger goal is pretending not to know things.

As a result, the domestic political elites are managing the pitchforks by distracting voters about the cause.  If you do not buy into their obtuse justifications, well, you then become a target – ergo, a conspiracy theorist.

Climate change policy is a tool, a means to an end.

COVID-19 policy is a tool, a means to an end.

Russia-Ukraine policy becomes a tool, a means to an end.

Behind all the layers of obfuscation, you find all the individual roadmaps converge onto a single path that leads to centralized control.

MSM Catching On, Now They Call It Food Protectionism as Hungary, Argentina, Moldova and Turkey Ban Grain Exports


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 | Sundance 

Again, they are blaming this on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but the origin of the issue goes back much further.

Last year, CTH was one of a small number of people talking about the very real possibility of food shortages due to the cumulative effects from regulatory COVID mitigation and the fracturing of the food supply chain that government intervention created. {Go Deep}

What we are witnessing now is not as much attached to the Ukraine crisis, as it is the continued ripple effects in that same supply chain.

The current grain issues are an outcome of a major supply chain disruption on the manufactured and processed food side, which is now exacerbated by higher replenishment costs and lower yields. Fertilizer costs have skyrocketed due to energy cost increases.

It is a perfect storm.

Without the Ukraine crisis surfacing, the grain (wheat, corn, soybean) and supply chain issues were already going to be a problem, and many of these current mitigation efforts -wrongly being attributed to Ukraine- would have taken placed without any regional conflict.  That’s why we predicted these issues last year, long before Ukraine-Russia was in the headlines.

The thing to keep in mind is that some smart governments, especially those nations where the government controls and monitors the food industry, can see these issues long before they surface.  If CTH could see these multinational food issues last year, you know the governments of China and Russia could also see them coming.  Some might even argue they gamed out the problem and are taking advantage of it right now. {Go Deep}

It’s interesting to see the media use the term “food protectionism” instead of a ‘food war‘, but really what we are now seeing in Europe is positioning amid territorial regions to keep food available.   In North America (Canada, U.S. and Mexico), we are blessed with several crop cycles each year.  Some nations only get one or two, we have at least three, but we still need the fertilizer.

(Bloomberg) — Governments around the world are taking steps to safeguard domestic food supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine roiled trade and sent prices of key staples soaring.

Hungary is banning grain exports, its agriculture minister told television channel RTL on Friday. Argentina and Turkey also made moves this week to increase their control over local products. And Moldova, albeit a small shipper, temporarily halted exports of wheat, corn and sugar from this month.

Protectionist measures — which already picked up in recent years as the Covid-19 pandemic sparked worries about local supplies and high prices — could spell more bad news for global food trade. The war in Ukraine has brought crop shipments from much of the crucial Black Sea region to a halt, heightening fears of shortages of grain and sunflower oil.

[…]  Argentina, a major grain shipper, is creating a mechanism to guarantee wheat supplies for local millers and tame pasta prices. Top flour exporter Turkey boosted the agriculture ministry’s authority over exports of an array of goods, allowing it to make “periodical arrangements” if needed.

Hungary’s ban takes effect immediately, and a government decree will soon be published, its agriculture minister said. The country had sold about 127,000 tons of soft-wheat abroad so far this season.

Elsewhere in Europe, Bulgaria — a much larger exporter — is working on a system to buy grain that can be used to meet its population’s needs, the government said after a meeting with producer lobby groups on Friday. (read more)

Y’all know my lengthy position on this. I have long said that farmland, food, source material, manufacturing and processing, should be considered a national security issue.  I do not think the federal government needs to get involved too much, but I do think states should be permitted to control or limit foreign ownership, investment and Big Ag corporate monopoly controls.

It amazes me to see the so-called “experts” that we rely upon, completely incapable of understanding the laws of unintended consequence.

Each seemingly small issue creates another small issue, which creates another small issue, which ultimately pokes holes in the supply.  Poke enough holes in enough small categories from manufactured condiments to manufactured drinks, to manufactured cereals, pasta, grains, soups, pet foods, and the complex food processing system overall begins to show the larger problem.

It’s a system collapse by a thousand paper cuts – from the fork all the way back to the field.

Finland President Drops Truth Bomb on Biden, White House Immediately Ends Presser


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022

The installed occupant of the White House held a bilateral meeting today with Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland.

However, given the nature of the current Ukraine conflict, toward the end of their oval office remarks President Niinistro dropped a massive truth bomb which stunned Joe Biden.  Niinesto said, “Wellwe usually don’t start wars“, promptly leading to the end of the media availability. WATCH (prompted 2:26):

Ukraine and U.S. Embassy Kyiv Try to Bait NATO Into Conflict Using Coordinated Fear Campaign Over Nuclear Power Plant


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 | Sundance

The coordinated propaganda campaign designed to sway western opinion over Ukraine has reached dangerous proportions.

Last night the Ukrainian government, in close coordination with the U.S. State Department, tried to establish a position for NATO intervention based on false stories of a nuclear power plant meltdown (Zaporizhzhia) in the southeastern Ukraine city of Enerhodar.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared on television overnight claiming NATO needed to get involved or a catastrophe far greater than the Chernobyl accident was imminent. “You know the word Chernobyl,” Zelenskyy said with maximum drama for impact.

Almost immediately, the U.S. State Dept then began promoting the crisis, “It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,” the message from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv claimed, and the war machine published a phone call between Joe Biden and Zelenskyy over the issue.

However, in a clear exhibition of how Ukraine propaganda is now extreme and desperate, everything about the claim was false. This morning, in an effort to save face and hide the intent of their propaganda, the U.S. State Department began trying to cover themselves, as evidenced by CNN narrative engineer Natasha Bertrand.

Setting aside for a moment the latest example of CNN/CNNi being the official state media for the U.S. State Dept, propaganda can backfire when the claims are too outrageous. The State Dept is now doing damage control using their CNN public relations unit.

The reality of the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was far less alarming than all of the spin from the Ukraine government and the U.S. State Department.

Reports indicated Ukraine defense forces fired RPG’s from the administrative building of the plant toward Russian soldiers. The Russians returned fire toward the building, eliminated the Ukraine provocateurs, and took control over the plant. There was only one reactor working at the time, and no threat of radiation was ever present during the incident.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine yet.

Firefighters put out the blaze, and no radiation was released, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said, as Russian forces pressed on with their week-old offensive on multiple fronts and the number of refugees fleeing the country topped 1.2 million.

[…] In the atttack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, the chief of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said a Russian “projectile” hit a training center, not any of its six reactors.

[…] Authorities said that Russian troops had taken control of the overall site but that the plant staff continued to run it. Only one reactor was operating, Grossi said in the aftermath of the attack.

Two people were injured in the fire, Grossi said. Ukraine’s state nuclear plant operator Enerhoatom said three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two wounded.

In the wake of the attack, Zelenskyy appealed again to the West to enforce a no-fly zone over his country. But NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg ruled out that possibility, citing the risk of a much wider war in Europe. He said that to enforce a no-fly zone, NATO planes would have to shoot down Russian aircraft.

“We understand the desperation, but we also believe that if we did that, we would end up with something that could end in a full-fledged war in Europe,” Stoltenberg said.

The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting Friday on the plant attack.

Russian forces, meanwhile, pressed their offensive in the southern part of the country. Severing Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov would deal a severe blow to its economy and could worsen an already dire humanitarian situation.

A round of talks between Russia and Ukraine yielded a tentative agreement Thursday to set up safe corridors to evacuate citizens and deliver food and medicine. But the necessary details still had to be worked out. (read more)

Mark Steyn Discusses the Ukraine Conflict and Bigger Stuff, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on March 4, 2022 | Sundance | 283 Comments

The first white horse, pestilence (virus); the second red horse, war (Ukraine); the third black horse, famine (fertilizer shortage); and the final horse, death.

Stunningly, in this monologue Mark Steyn takes a tour reminding viewers of the past two years of western government action, while connecting the corporate mandates from the World Economic Forum.  That outline is brave considering the mention of the totalitarian shift amid New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States when attached to the WEF is normally a third rail of discussion.

However, Steyn doesn’t stop at pointing out the hypocrisy of the collective west in their current drumbeat against Vladimir Putin; instead, he takes the last few years, puts in a deep breath, and then connects it… to the world’s most popular history book.  WATCH:

What I will say about this, I said last night… and I repeat it here for emphasis:

“If Joe Biden, NATO, the EU, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Word Economic Forum and the multinational corporations in this alliance of Public/Private geopolitical partnerships, succeed in the fight against Vladimir Putin – I promise you, we are not going to like the world on the other side of their victory.”

With every fiber of my being, I mean that sincerely.

The global elite, the people and systems previously called the ‘New World Order‘, have taken a zero-sum position in this situation with Russia and Ukraine.  The construct of their approach is purposeful, intentional and provides no alternate options.  One side will win everything, the other side will be left with NOTHING.

On the globalist side, there is no one asking the question: at what cost, do we want to win?

What we are seeing is a full-blown alignment of interests between globalist government and their partnered multinational corporations and financial institutions.

This is not a good thing to witness regardless of the outcome in Ukraine.

Think about the direct message and the implications here. Think about the world of multinational corporate compliance and how they will kneel to the dictates of political power in the aftermath of this current enterprise.

If this collective group of multinationals and government interests succeed in this approach, everything will change.

If you think corporations, Big Tech and Big Banks, et al, are controlling and politically motivated now?  Good grief, just wait.

The global future being outlined in this NATO/EU/WEF strategy to use private industry as a weapon, is like the government attack on Canadian truckers/supporters taken to an exponential scale.

Now, overlay your pending requirement to walk around with a digital identity, and you can see exactly how easy it will be to de-person, which is one layer higher than de-bank.

I mean seriously, think about this approach toward Vladimir Putin.  What I just described above is our future if the globalists defeat Putin.  Another question to ask yourself is – what happens if Putin wins?

How does the international assembly of government approach Russia in the aftermath?  A G20 summit?  Ha!

What do you think Putin and his allies like China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and possibly India, South Africa, Brazil will do now?

What globalist Rubicons are being crossed right now that can never be reversed?

The dollar lost as a global trade currency.  The end of the petro-dollar?

These are very real possibilities, perhaps even probabilities now.