Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Now we have the FBI warning that there may be an armed assault against Biden during the inauguration. This is getting really crazy. I really hope that is NOT the case but I would not put it past someone deliberately doing so to blame Trump supporters to drive 50% of the country underground. On the other hand, there are crazy people who might try something stupid like that which will do nothing for the nation but divide the nation even more.  Any such act will be supporting the Domestic Terrorist Act passage virtually unanimously as was the Patriot Act. My concern is that our computer is projecting rising civil unrest and absolute chaos during the midterm election in 2022.

The Democrats are already looking to impose sanctions on anyone who supported Trump on Capitol Hill. This is in direct conflict with Biden’s theme:

Joe Biden announces ‘America United’ as inauguration theme

The only way to calm the waters is to demonstrate that he will NOT follow the directive of the World Economic Forum and stay middle of the road. Any drastic measures will NOT unite the nation and certainly not mandatory vaccines. Ending capital gains tax and imposing a wealth tax will be burdensome to every one. Even the poor would have to file a wealth tax form to prove they are poor. The further conspiracy theories that Trump has signed the Insurrection Act does not help matters. There is no evidence of such a move and Pelosi has been contacting the military brass to ensure that does not take place. It was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush during the unrest in Los Angeles after the acquittal of police officers who beat Rodney King. Claims he will arrest the VP and the leaders in Congress do not seem to have any validity. It is not likely that the military would follow such an order anyhow.

Meanwhile, there is a wholesale departure from BigTech. Twitter has lost so far 12% of its traffic since banning Trump. Even Angla Merkel, the head of Germany, has called Twitter’s actions “problematic” to put it mildly. Nevertheless, Twitter seems to think even the US Constitution offends their guidelines. Their actions have been far worse than the accusations of Rissian interference in 2016. BigTech could care less since the Democrats have promised them access to banking online (see IMF). The basic tenets of a Free Society is that I must defend your right to say what I may disagree with. That is the freedom of speech which is no longer respected. As one reader commented:

Regarding the BIG-TECH suppression of conservative political speech and its squashing of a rising competitor, Parler, we’ve seen all this before. BIG-TECH is now a Soviet political commissar with the business monopoly power of Standard-Oil.
The suppression of conservative political speech, as practiced by Twitter and Facebook, benefits the progressive views of their leaders to the determent of competing ideologies. Exhibit ‘A’ is the censorship of a legitimate newspaper story by the oldest running American paper in existence founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, The NY Post, prior to a presidential election to mitigate the damage Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal imparted to their preferred candidate, Joe Biden.
Google and Apple, cutting off Parler’s access at the front-end in their app stores, is equivalent to a Standard-Oil type conglomerate denying access to oil well drillers. Amazon, on the back-end, revoked Parler’s access to its servers; this is analogous to Standard-Oil cutting off a growing competitor’s access to refiners.
I am shocked this is happening in the United States of America and am saddened that as is oft the case, history repeats itself. It appears we will have to experience the lessons of tyranny through experience due to a profound failure in the education of history to our youth. Let’s make Orwell fiction again.
RW

Obviously, we will have to look at the computer forecasts for 2021 which will be really interesting in the midst of all this drama. I do not look forward to them using this virus and a claimed new strain to lockdown the country nationally to defeat a virus that is really intended to reduce CO2. This is right out of the psychological warfare manual. As I have reported before, there was more 4x the number of people who died during the 1969 Hong Kong Flu and they did not act like this locking down the world. They even had Woodstock in the middle of that pandemic.

The economic damage is off the charts with corporate chains saying they are leaving NYC or closing operations. We still see the economy declining into 2022. Another round of lockdowns will ensure there is nothing “normal” to return to just a John Kerry who will be in charge of the climate said.

Here is the COVID Restriction Map. Select your country.

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on January 11, 2021 by Sundance

It is not just Donald Trump and his 100+ million supporters of freedom and liberty being targeted, Big Tech is now moving against any voice that would be problematic for the goals and objectives of JoeBama.  Today Facebook targets Ron Paul.

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The totalitarian enterprises are global in scale.  As many have noted, this will not stop with just targeting President Trump and his supporters.  Big Tech is now advancing against all voices they deem adverse to their ideological agenda.   This is only the beginning.

We can well expect to see this approach metastasize quickly and spread to other nations (Brazil, Poland, Hungary) where nationalist and populist movements are visible.

Extreme control is a reaction to fear.  The globalists, writ large, are fearful of the population.  We are at the inflection point.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Socrates Re-Posted Jan 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: OK. I have followed you and Socrates for a long time now. How could it see that the 8th was going to be more important than the 6th and that the vote was going to be postponed?

I am blown away.

SH

ANSWER: I am here only to try to interpret its output without my personal opinion. I have stated many times, I am the one who is wrong not the computer. I really do not know. It is monitoring everything on a global basis. The most subtle moves are recorded and input into its final conclusion.

I use to race cars. When you are driving around the track, you have to watch every car around you. The subtle move indicates what they are thinking. If you have not been in such an atmosphere, it is hard to see. Even when I drive today I still observe every car around me and the slightest move is still an indication of what they are thinking.

June 27, 1998

All I can say is this is what Socrates has developed. By monitoring everything, it is picking up the most subtle moves. It had picked up $100 billion going into Russia in the summer of 1998 and $150 billion fleeing. We put out a warning that Russia would collapse and that began in September 1998. It had also lined up with the Economic Confidence Model.

Socrates was picking it up in global markets. They ended up calling me Mr. Yen because I sold $1 billion at 147 which was the Yearly Bullish Reversal which the market ran up, tested, and then collapsed to 103.

I was named Fund Manager of the year in 1998 because of that trade. We made 60% in a single month. I was named Economist of the Decade for the 1980s because of the ECM and Socrates, and most recently FX Analyst of the year over the collapse of the Swiss/Euro Peg.

These things are NOT because I am smarter than everyone else. It is because Socrates is monitoring the entire world. So when it was showing that the 8th would be more important than the 6th, I personally thought it would be over the objections. I did not expect the siege of the Capitol Building, but with hindsight, it appears that was in the works and it was the final nail in the coffin to end Democracy as we have known it. Any election from here on out will simply be rigged. Biden will last perhaps into 2022, and Harris will then take over and she will still be able to run twice into 2032.

The Model still shows World War is coming 2025-2027 time period. All this chaos and demand to force China and Russia to comply with this Green Agenda is only pushing both of them together against the West.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

BigTech has shown its true colors. They have been censoring conservatives to push the left-wing revolution because they have been promises, as the “SUPER RICH FRIENDS” that they will inherit the banking systems. They will no longer bail out the banks. Last March, the Fed began to lend on commercial paper for the first time since its origin in 1913. and the Federal Reserve is moving rapidly to accept direct deposits from institutions thereby circumventing the banks altogether (see IMF).

There is now a mass exodus from Twitter and other social media. Google and Apple have been banning alternative apps trying to prevent people from having an alternative to their BigTek regime. What they fail to understand is they are now confirming the conspiracy theories about them and this is just not good for the country. Perhaps 50% of America will be eventually moving away from them all.

Who knows? Our computer has forecast that the mid-elections are going to be CHAOTIC and that is just not normal to have Panic Cycles in our political model for 2022. Here we have Panic Cycles both in 2022 and 2024. It does not matter who you voted for. Politicians never do what they promise. If you think everything will just return to normal, I suppose that is what you call the triumph of hope over experience.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Pelosi is in a state of Panic trying to Impeach Trump and demanding Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. The Senate does not return until the 19th so there is no time for a trial but her charge is absolutely absurd, to begin with. What seems to be the talk running around is that there is a lot of incriminating evidence on her laptop that was taken. She seems to be grandstanding to try to position herself that any allegations that might surface are really retaliation for her impeachment.

What at least seems very clear is that Trump supporters were NOT the only people in the building. They seem to have been the cover for other operations. In fact, there was a deliberate free reign to allow these ops to get about 15 laptops using the Trump supporters to hide their actions. Lawmakers were calling the police and they simply waited before responding.

Pelosi’s frantic rush to impeach a president who has 10 days left is absurd. When people were pleading for help and the Black Lives Matter/Antifa groups were burning down buildings and looting, Pelosi had no problem allowing that to happen. This frantic rush is to be able to claim that any evidence that comes out is fake and in retaliation for her impeachment. Perhaps she should look at her polls. The trust in Congress has crashed since she took the speaker’s post. Even a used car salesman is trusted more than her.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jan 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

In Scotland, police apparently were called by neighbors saying there were too many people in a house. The police entered the family’s home of “suspicion” of too many people when their seriously ill daughter had just been released from the hospital. The police beat the homeowners are showed just what is taking place worldwide using COVID as the excuse to wipe out all our civil rights. I seriously doubt that we will ever be able to vote these people out of office. They now know to rig the game to retain tyrannical power.

The Quebec government sent out a message warning people that have police surveillance monitoring everyone. Is this really reflecting a free society? Is this what people voted for?

Meanwhile, in Brisbane, with just one case of COVID reported, Annastacia Palaszczuk an Australian left-wing politician who has been the Premier of Queensland since 2015 and the Leader of the Labor Party in Queensland since 2012, has locked down the entire city – the third largest in Australia.