Rebel Alliance Post-It Notes…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on November 7, 2020 by sundance

Remember the Rebel Alliance “Post-it Note Campaign“?

Morale is key to defeating a shift toward their “New America”. It is with this in mind a simple strategy can be effective at pushing back against an oppressive regime.  Keep it simple – it works.

Now is a great time to start again (simple post-its left in common places):

You can also consider changing the message on your Trump/Pence 2020 yard signs.

Our Nation Stands on The Brink…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on November 7, 2020 by sundance

I’m not sure where this is all going to end… and I don’t quite have the words.. however, there are parts of this current election scenario that do not portend well.

Specifically because it is demonstrably evident the election results were manipulated; and specifically because the denial of that evidence requires convincing our nation to ignore their common sense; this is not going to end well… Our nation stands on the brink…

One of the biggest attributes to the American population writ large is our inherent common sense.  The election outcome does not make sense from any position of logic or analysis.  The media is participating in a full-on psychological operation that -in part- is a demand for American voters to reject their common sense. I do not see this working.

The democrats are losing congressional seats, state office seats, a governor and yet those same states voted for Biden?  It defies common sense.  Millions of election day voter ballots could be counted in hours within Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Nevada…. but they needed to stop, pause, and take days to count thousands?  Again, none of this makes sense; unless this was manipulated by design.

President Trump can hold rallies with tens-of-thousands, while Joe Biden can only draw a few dozen.  Surrogates for Trump draw more supporters to their events than former President Barack Obama.  Again, nonsensical under any scenario.

Miami-Dade votes for Donald Trump and kicks out democrat incumbent congressional representation.  Then we consider the biggest GOP vote share among married families, a cross-section of all religious affiliations and all races for President Trump… and yet somehow the invisible campaign of Joe Biden had the largest impact?

President Trump has a social-media following six to ten times larger than Joe Biden; and in the lead-up to the election the supporters for Trump outnumbered the Biden campaign by magnitudes almost too high to count.  Yet this little supported candidacy of Biden was able to attract more ’20 votes than ‘The Lightbringer“, ’08 candidate Obama?  Unlikely.

Prior to the election most Americans knew the ‘mail-in’ ballot demand from Democrats was ripe for fraud and manipulation.  With hundreds-of-thousands of ‘mail-in’ ballots at the heart of the current election controversy; and specifically with regional political operatives doing everything they can to block any review of that process; and those regional entities are known to be at the epicenter of previously documented fraud; that prior conception is stark.

The media can dismiss voter fraud as a ‘conspiracy theory‘, but they cannot overlook structural coincidence on this scale.  Clark County, NV; Atlanta GA; Philadelphia, PA; Madison, WI; Detroit, MI; the list is long.  All of these areas are known to have well documented voter-fraud in the past.  These, and more, are currently blocking review.

At the 30,000 ft level – Biden voters, actual people voting, did not exceed Trump voters. Which means the current dynamic consists of a minority number of Biden supporters taking possession of an election where the majority are dismissed.  There is no reasonable way to reconcile this ever leading to a positive outcome; even with an overwhelming effort by mainstream media to push a narrative, and an effort by big tech to suppress any dissension.  There is just a point where reality is so stark no amount of manipulative spin can compensate for it.

The resulting election dynamic is a powder-keg of danger to our constitutional republic; and it will not be resolved simply by the Biden supporter side demanding acceptance.

I’m not sure how this is going to end but we have crossed a horizon here and there is no way for the American people to ever go back to that time when they did not see the strings on the political marionettes.

Well over seventy million people are on the precipice of having their votes disenfranchised.  These same people are being summarily dismissed, told to shut-up, and are now carrying a much more angry fuel within them.  This non-democratic reality is not within the recipe for a recoverable position. EVER.

If, BIG “if”, Joe Biden, is appointed as president, that powder-keg is going to want to ignite with a ferocity the leftists in this nation genuinely do not understand or appreciate.  An actually illegitimate group of far-left ideologues is going to attempt to restructure the nature of our country.   Do not underestimate what individual citizens within individual states could, would, or will do, amid this dynamic.

Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention in 1787 Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was:

A republic, if you can keep it.”

The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.

Again, I don’t know how or where this ends, but what I do know is that now is the time to expose whatever took place…. by any means necessary.

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Rudy Giuliani Holds a Press Conference in Philadelphia…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House November 7, 2020 by sundance

Earlier this afternoon Rudy Giuliani lead a press conference about claims of ‘voter fraud’ immediately after major news networks called the presidential race in favor of Democrat nominee and potemkin candidate Joe Biden.

Simultaneous to the media declaration, a coordinated astroturf effort is underway to push a reconciliation narrative. Meanwhile, the COVID concerns have mysteriously disappeared and those challenging the framed media narrative are purposefully attacked.

Specifically because it is demonstrably evident the election results were manipulated; and specifically because the denial of that evidence requires convincing our nation to ignore their common sense; this is not going to end well… Our nation stands on the brink...

Media Declares Joe Biden Winner of 2020 Election – President Trump: “Media Allies Trying So Hard to Support Him”…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on November 7, 2020 by sundance

The strategy of using of mail-in ballots to structurally steal the 2020 election predictably contained an inevitable series of events to support it. The media’s preemptive declaration of a Biden victory is one cascading domino in that very predictable sequence.

The media effort is to build a wave narrative strong and heavy enough to block any sunlight upon the fraud perpetrated by regional election officials. The statistical improbability of the U.S. election outcome are glaring; there are hundreds of examples that just don’t make sense. Thus the need for the media narrative becomes more important.

Perhaps the most unnerving aspect to this election fraud is knowing that Joe Biden is merely a puppet for a group of political and deep state interests; the Milli Vanilli candidate with a giggling high-school-minded VP.

However, as the media rushes to proclaim Joe Biden as the victor, President Trump has released the following statement:

“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over.

Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor.

In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.

“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access.

“So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”

– President Donald J. Trump

Despite the effort of the media to create a self-fulfilling prophecy; and as a direct result of technological manipulation within our voting system that is now fully exposed as corrupt; the United States electorate will never go back to a time when they did not see the strings on the political marionettes.

I don’t know where any of this ends… but I do know that now is the time to expose it.

We have supported Donald J Trump since day #1 and we will continue to do so.

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What does a Biden World Look Like?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 7, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Our model has not changed – 2022 is going to be the year from political hell. There is no question this election has been stolen. Despite all the money these people have pouring to defeat Trump, they did not get the Blue Sweep that their press was predicting because all the polls were also bought and paid for or their methods of polling are simply incompetent. The way all the mainstream press, even in London, are so anti-Trump, this is not because they do not like his tweets. This is all about implementing the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset as world leaders flock to Davos to kiss the ring of Klaus Schwab.

This is by NO MEANS a democratic election. This is a bait-and-switch. Never in the litany of promises was there ever a clear message that they were going to completely alter the United States and end the tripartite form of government. A vote for Biden was not like a vote for Obama. There was not an agenda being imported from overseas under Obama. So he won, big deal, you went on about your life. That will not be the case this time. Biden admitted he was against fossil fuels and he will rejoin the United Nations.

This raises serious questions. They dumped $104 million to defeat Lyndsey Grachm because he is on the Judiciary Committee and they want to pack the court so they really need to defeat Grahm and take the Senate. They want to remove the Supreme Court so that it will always uphold whatever they impose because the #1 agenda will be Communism 3.0.

List of Dead Voters in Detroit Alone: Detroit Dead Voters for Biden

If the Supreme Court does not intervene and prevent this fraud, then Biden will most likely last until 2022. If he serves 2 years, then he can be eliminated intentionally or by natural causes. I don’t think the computer forecasts people’s death by natural causes. Harris would then take over and that is important. For if a president serves 2 years of his term, then she can run twice for president given her a term of 10 years. That will take her into 2032 to complete the decline and fall of the United States.

Listen very carefully to Schwab’s wish list that the United States will no longer be a super-power. It will be shared by several countries via the United Nations completing George Soros’ overthrow of the United States and create his one-world government ending all borders.

Those Republican senators in states with Democratic Governors better hire bodyguards. If they suddenly die, then the governor gets to appoint the senator without any election. That would be the means to take over the Senate. This is a real live coup, but it goes far beyond merely domestic forces. This time the USA is indeed being invaded by foreign powers who are seeking to take control of the US nuclear power to then threaten China and Russia into complying with their agenda.

Those who have voted for Biden never did their homework. They have destroyed the future of their own families.

The Conspiracy Runs Deep


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy Re-Posted Nov 7, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

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While these people did not pull off what they claimed, nonetheless, it shows the extreme hostility that lies behind the left. We show in 2021 even with a Biden victory by sheer force, the left will be protesting extensively to push for more and more demands, not just the whole defunding the police movement. What that seems to really be about is the fear that the police will rise up against the left and engage in a revolution. Ultimately, the power of the state depends on its police and military. Defunding the police is really an effort to prevent a revolution against their Marxist agenda.

This is Really the Most Corrupt Election in American History – Democracy Ends Where it Began


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 6, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Here is a video that was taken in Delaware county PENNSYLVANIA at camera number 7. This woman is filling out ballots for Biden. It is one thing when Obama won and you went about your life because not even he sought to change the structure of the United States. Here we have clear intentions to destroy the fossil fuel industry, end cars, and push this New Green Agenda. To make up for all the jobs destroyed by a lockdown which will be the same as Boris Johnson has imposed.

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Here is a video that was taken in Delaware county PENNSYLVANIA at camera number 7. This woman is filling out ballots for Biden. It is one thing when Obama won and you went about your life because not even he sought to change the structure of the United States. Here we have clear intentions to destroy the fossil fuel industry, end cars, and push this New Green Agenda. To make up for all the jobs destroyed by a lockdown which will be the same as Boris Johnson has imposed.

The object is to “crush” the virus which will be a national lockdown following the same tactics in London. She also says she will put money in the pockets of those who lost their jobs, which is also what Boris Johnson has implemented – 80% of your wages by Guaranteed Basic Income. The lockdown will destroy the jobs to end commuting to help reduce fossil fuel consumption and they claim they will create millions of jobs, but their vision of rebuilding the economy is according to Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset. They do not mention how many jobs they will destroy in the process. They deliberately did not lay out any specific plan because the people would never have voted for that. But we will see what the real agenda is all about.

This was the courtyard where the Declaration of Independence was read to the people. It promised we all had the same rights to pursue happiness. Communism never caught on in the USA and those who voted for Biden had no idea of the real agenda behind the words. In America, people came here for many saw that the streets were paved with gold. It was the land of opportunity where you could own your own home where in London you leased your home for 100 years and you were never allowed to own it. In that respect, Marx was correct. It was the oppression of the landed-class against the poor who were never allowed to own property. They set sail for America because it was the land of opportunity. Every person had the equal opportunity to become rich which is why CFommunism never took hold. Obama proved that even an African American could become president. Yet this is what they want to change.

As one reader just commented: Hi Mr Armstrong,
You are correct…cycles end where they began. Philadelphia was the birthplace of freedom and will be the death of freedom.

BV

Q&A from Martin Armstrong


Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re-Posted Oct 22, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Marty,

One gets the sense we are closer to a dictatorship than most think.

Twitter, Google, Facebook, and others now appear to be working in overdrive to block content, prevent free speech, report only what suits them, in an effort to sway voters and build momentum for a Biden win.

Surely, anyone with a brain today can see governors and others at the municipal level are part of the effort to restrict movement, impose ridiculous rules that suffocate business, and instill fear. One imagines these people will be handsomely rewarded with bailouts at the state level. At the Federal level, one can project many of these governors will end up in Biden’s cabinet, rewarded for their loyalty.

There is nothing worse than using public office to commit crimes, outright fraud against the public, using taxpayer money to prevent people from living their lives, taking their property, allowing rioting and the destruction of property…all in the name of “public safety”.

I don’t know how we ever recover from this. One thing is clear…you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube after what they have done this year.

MS

REPLY #1: Socrates warned that the 2020 election would be the most corrupt in history. I really do not think even I could have forecast to what extent these people have gone. We are definitely in a battle for our freedom. You have people who just hate Trump and will vote for Biden only for that reason. They have been manipulated by all the fakes news from RussiaGate to Impeachment and everything in between. Honestly, Trump has been amazing insofar as to have been attacked so intensely from every side and he is still standing. Bannon said if Trump loses, he will run against in 2024. I think they would kill him openly and fear nothing about prosecution anymore.

COMMENT #2: Dear Martin,
Bill Gates’ CO2 and population obsession is bizarre. The first person link CO2 with population and claim that they were bad was Günther Schwab-the Nazi environmentalist. Bill wants people to stop eating meat and eat plant substitutes. Wasn’t Hitler a vegetarian ? Klaus Schwab’s insistence on “stakeholder capitalism” sounds similar to Hitler’s pronouncements on how “industry, the nation, and community[ should work in harmony “in a spirit of sacrifice” (Mein Kampf). You add in the fetishes for medical experimentation, totalitarian surveillance, ‘hygiene’, ‘living space’/social distancing, and a desire for “papers please !” social control, one is left to ask: are these people actual NAZIS in sheep’s clothing?

Klaus’ haughty demeanor and sardonic sneer does make him look like one out of central casting.
I guess their refrain is “This time we are going to get it right”. General Patton and your father may have defeated them militarily, but apparently, the ideology lives on repacked with a PR update. What irony. Boris Johnson is allowing them to do to Britain what his idol Churchill never would have: Nazis take over without even firing a shot.
K

REPLY #2: Schwab is an academic and therein lies the problem. He is buddy-buddy with Thomas Picketty and the two envision Marxist Utopia. They think with them in charge, they will make it work at last. Schwab is also buddy-buddy with Christine Legard and they talk regularly. She was the first floating Green bond! Boris Johnson is an absolute disgrace. He is already saying he will retire next year because he cannot live on his meager salary. He has been bought and paid for. His goal is to not just crush Britain to join Schwab’s Great Reset but to terminate BREXIT.

COMMENT #3 Martin,

The Google whistleblower, Zach Vorhies, posted this video of what looks like someone recording themselves invalidating the vote of random people.

We have trillions of dollars to waste on useless crap, yet can’t utilize the latest blockchain technology to create a cheat-proof election and voter ID system. I think George Carlin would have some words to say about that if he were still alive.

REPLY #3:  I am not confident that Trump will win despite the fact that the computer shows he SHOULD! I am very concerned the election will he stolen and mainstream media will declare Biden the winner and everything breaks down from here on out.

COMMENT #4: Sir,

It’s interesting how history rhymes. In Rome, Cicero and the fake news. I can’t recall if there was rioting or censorship but probably. Caesar was the “savior” of the people. It ended in an Empire. In Germany in the 30s there was propaganda, crystal night ( looting etc) and book burning ( censorship). Hitler was the ‘savior ‘ of the German people. It morphed into a dictatorship. Today we have fake news, rioting via BLM and censorship. YouTube only lets WHO/Gates related material be shown and censors others viewpoints. The media to include Facebook also censors it as well. Now Amazon.com also performs censorship by not publishing/removing non party (Gates/WHO) materials. So, what type of government are you seeing we will finally have?

Keep up the good work

DK

PS Hope to finally shake your hand at WEC 2020

REPLY #4: We are headed in the same direction. I put all the arrays on politics in that report out for 12 years. You will see why I have been saying that I was afraid of what comes AFTER Trump. I also am deeply concerned that there will no longer be elections post-2024. Biden is a place-holder. He has always been for sale to the highest bidder. The most corrupt always rise to the top – not the cream. They are amending the Constitution because just in case Biden is a problem, they can remove him as mentally incompetent. They have been attacking Trump even before he was elected. This is a serious plot to take over the world and redesign it their way. They will fail and the financial capital of the world will move to China. They are destroying Western culture and they have brainwashed people to vote for Biden only because they hate Trump. They have no idea that they are joining this conspiracy against their own freedom. This is not Democrat v Republican. This is a full-0blown Marxist takeover of the entire world – not just the USA. Anyone who says that they call a “conspiracy theorist” which is a label they are now using so they do not have to answer the substance.

COMMENT #5: Hi Marty Thank you for answering my last question about daily closing. Really appreciated.

I see a lot of messaging about the big bang reset of libor to this other system which could cause a crash. At least there is a lot of speculation around this event. How would that work? Thank you for your answer kind regards Xander

VVM

REPLY #5: I think that is overstated and will end up like all other things that were supposed to blow up the system like the Y2K Scare which was a phenomenon at the turn of the 21st century where computer users and programmers feared that computers would stop working on December 31, 1999. The phenomenon was also referred to as the “Millennium Bug” or  Year 2000 problem” by technology experts. This one will have minor problems as well.

COMMENT #6: “Land of the Free….some restrictions may apply…void where prohibited.”

REPLY #6: Very true!

COMMENT #7:  Hi Mr. Armstrong,
I read recently that the US markets will look forward to a Biden victory because it will mean the distribution of socialist largesse which could raise the markets, if only in the short term. I would welcome your thoughts on this. Thanks for all you do

ST

REPLY #7: Biden is going to raise taxes on everyone earning $400,000 or more PER HOUSEHOLD! Even liberal Stanford University’s Hoover Institution latest report projects that Mr. Biden’s taxation, insurance, regulatory, and energy proposals would combine to reduce full-time equivalent employment by about 3%, or 4.9 million jobs. The Biden program also would shrink real gross domestic product per capita by 8% and the capital stock per person by 15%, resulting in a $6,500 hit by 2030 in median income per household. Biden will push the New Green Deal. Our models show we are moving economically into a decline as we head into 2022. There is no way Biden will be good for the economy. That is propaganda. A vote for Biden in 2020, shows that will become the biggest regret by 2022.

It’s Always a Conspiracy


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy Re-Posted Oct 22, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: So, behind the curtain I was told you’re actually in league with Klaus, Mr. Armstrong 😀
I know, how I dare to even ask but Marty, what’s going on? You and Schwab try knocking out old friends from NYC with their own green weapons right along their favorite one world government daydream or what?

Thank you for everything you do, guys like you give me hope, I loved finance all my life but was not fortunate to have happy parents nor childhood whatsoever. you’re writings changed so much for me, I was stranded on the streets as I began reading your writings. “As they say, a girl becomes a woman at 23 but a boy does not become a man until 40. Women married boys but expected them to be men. I probably survived my first marriage just because of this thank you so very much. I would love to know all that little stories from those years you experienced in finance, you have to write a book about your life or have someone that will do it for you, its so important, it can’t be hard to find such a guy, even I would do it right along for free

REPLY: Well, I have heard just about everything. The night of “The Forecaster” debut in London, the London Evening Standard put out in their print edition that read Martin Armstrong said bankers were worth every penny. But the online edition had a different Martin Armstrong’s picture. They pretended that was somehow just an error? It is amazing to what extent people will make up conspiracy theories about me to desperately try to ensure people will not read this site.

Yes, it is no secret I know so many of the players. I have been invited to the highest level dinners, and have been at the White House Correspondent Dinner. Yes, they know me and yes I know them. I have had people desperately trying to get me on their side. I have had people try to hypnotize me in conversations where they gradually lower their voice to put you under.

I have been held in contempt in a failed attempt to force me to turn over my source code. They have tried to kill me, threaten me — you name it. But this one is interesting. If anything, people know I am by no means a Socialist. I would never in a million years team up with Schwab. Nor is he against his green buddies in New York. They have been exploiting him and his academic friends with no intention of surrendering their power. They are playing a high stakes game for control. They have been using Schwab and his World Economic Forum to further their own power.

It Begins – DOJ Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Inc…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on October 20, 2020 by sundance

Of all the seismic events surrounding the architecture of the deep state, the mechanisms within the swamp and the universe that surrounds all of the ancillary aspects we have come to categorize under names such as “Obamagate”, “Spygate”, “FISAgate” and the surveillance state writ large, none are as universally important as this one.

In the most significant measure this foundation is the “there” in the phrase: “there are trillions at stake.”  This is the substrate that holds the swamp in place.  It was not coincidental the Big Tech conglomeration was the first and primary focus of Obama’s Chicago network.  The downstream consequences cannot be overstated.

The DOJ has filed the class action lawsuit against Google Inc [pdf here], and while Google, and their subsidiaries (YouTube etc) are the secondary targets don’t think for a second that this does not touch on every single aspect of the ancillary technology monopoly; that includes social media platforms.

In short, this is a big effen deal.

FROM THE DOJ – Today, the Department of Justice — along with eleven state Attorneys General — filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms. The participating state Attorneys General offices represent Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas.

“Today, millions of Americans rely on the Internet and online platforms for their daily lives.  Competition in this industry is vitally important, which is why today’s challenge against Google — the gatekeeper of the Internet — for violating antitrust laws is a monumental case both for the Department of Justice and for the American people,” said Attorney General William Barr.

“Since my confirmation, I have prioritized the Department’s review of online market-leading platforms to ensure that our technology industries remain competitive.  This lawsuit strikes at the heart of Google’s grip over the internet for millions of American consumers, advertisers, small businesses and entrepreneurs beholden to an unlawful monopolist.”

 “As with its historic antitrust actions against AT&T in 1974 and Microsoft in 1998, the Department is again enforcing the Sherman Act to restore the role of competition and open the door to the next wave of innovation—this time in vital digital markets,” said Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen.

As one of the wealthiest companies on the planet with a market value of $1 trillion, Google is the monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and countless advertisers worldwide. For years, Google has accounted for almost 90 percent of all search queries in the United States and has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in search and search advertising.

As alleged in the Complaint, Google has entered into a series of exclusionary agreements that collectively lock up the primary avenues through which users access search engines, and thus the internet, by requiring that Google be set as the preset default general search engine on billions of mobile devices and computers worldwide and, in many cases, prohibiting preinstallation of a competitor. In particular, the Complaint alleges that Google has unlawfully maintained monopolies in search and search advertising by:

  • Entering into exclusivity agreements that forbid preinstallation of any competing search service.
  • Entering into tying and other arrangements that force preinstallation of its search applications in prime locations on mobile devices and make them undeletable, regardless of consumer preference.
  • Entering into long-term agreements with Apple that require Google to be the default – and de facto exclusive – general search engine on Apple’s popular Safari browser and other Apple search tools.
  • Generally using monopoly profits to buy preferential treatment for its search engine on devices, web browsers, and other search access points, creating a continuous and self-reinforcing cycle of monopolization.

These and other anticompetitive practices harm competition and consumers, reducing the ability of innovative new companies to develop, compete, and discipline Google’s behavior.  (read more)

The Statement from AG Bill Barr is HERE

…”The complaint filed today against Google is based on violations of the U.S. antitrust laws and is separate and distinct from concerns raised about content moderation and political censorship by online platforms. As part of the Department’s broader review of market-leading online platforms, we listened to myriad public concerns about how online platforms fail their users. While many of the concerns we heard were competition-related, others were not – like online child exploitation, public safety, and censorship. Outside the Antitrust Division, the Department has considered these issues separately, including by advocating for Section 230 legislative reforms. Our antitrust investigation of Google, by contrast, is based solely on traditional antitrust principles and is aimed at promoting consumer welfare through robust competition.” (more)

On May 28th, after President Trump signed an executive order targeting on-line censorship, CTH wrote a twitter thread about it.  There had to be a breaking point where the FCC or DOJ stepped-in to address the issues if our constitutional republic is to survive.

[Read Executive Order Here] – In the periphery of this executive action there was a widespread expectation of this antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc and their affiliated companies. The controlling ideology of ‘big tech’ merges with legal action by the DOJ.

There have been visible signals, subtle but visible, the DOJ was about to move on a massive (the biggest in history) antitrust lawsuit against Google and all affiliates.

The issue did not necessarily surface as most would think; via a bias based on conservative -vs- leftist ideology in content manipulation; though those underlying aspects are a part of the larger underpinning we will soon see surface.

Antitrust lawsuits, writ large, are based on “prices”, “costs”, and net “financial” distortions caused by corporations not competing based on open commerce. “Antitrust” in it’s structural form is based on costs and the manipulation of prices.  Essentially, controlled commerce.

In the digital sphere the targeted firms have not opened themselves to liability based on ideology; but rather Google, all subsidiaries and alliances, have opened themselves to antitrust violations through the manipulation and control of financial benefit.

Demonitization of digital platform content providers, in combination with Google’s control of almost all ad revenue in the digital space, is what has opened the door for DOJ intervention based on antitrust laws.

Antitrust intervention is warranted because the content being generated on these on-line, digital platforms, is being arbitrarily valued by the media company GoogleAds and not the free market. Directing pathways and content promotion is another former of devaluation. Devaluing certain content they are ideologically opposed to creates consumer distortions.

Underpinning that revenue control is the ideological nature of the control enforcer, in this example Google. However, for the purpose of antitrust lawsuits, that motive is irrelevant.

The methods, practices and purposeful control of value; through collusion of corporate interest specific to a planned and organized effort to control monetary benefit; is the part of their activity that is quantifiable, discoverable, easily provable, and ultimately unlawful.

The financial distortion of internet commerce is the crack in the Big Tech stranglehold that should afford the DOJ the opportunity to step in.  Google (and all subsidiaries) will lose on the substance of their defense because ultimately their business practice has resulted in, and arguably they have engaged in, price fixing.

It will take time, but from an optimistic position the DOJ take action will eventually force Google into a settlement.  There could be a massive financial settlement in addition to a negotiated Consent Decree. Within the decree terms, we could/should see a break-up.

Any antitrust action is only tangentially related to President Trump’s previous confrontation with Twitter and big tech social media based on ideological lines. However, it is easy to see how the two issues will merge.  The monetary distortions are based on ideology.

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