COMMENT: Hi Martin, I’m in Canada and we just got back from a trip to the USA. I just read your post “New Bill Gives Immunity to Military Over Australians During Emergencies & Canada Internment Camps”. They do indeed have camps for us! But they aren’t JUST for international travelers who don’t have a place to quarantine. I received a form from customs officers that say if we violate any part of the quarantine measures we will be transferred “to a quarantine facility”. I took screenshots of the form if you would like to share with others, I just don’t know how to send you the photos. Thanks!
REPLY: Thank you. We have a lot of Canadians who need to know.
In New Zealand, you can see this press interview is extremely hostile and she shuts down any mention that the death rate of COVID-19 is not greater than other viruses which she will not allow him to say and calls it “rubbish” proving she is by no means a real journalist. Once upon a time, the press was our defenders. Now, they are a wholesale part of the effort to deny our freedoms.Categories:Press
I was preparing to add a chapter on what is becoming the Greatest Political Manipulation in world history to the Manipulating the World Economy, which would be about the US 2020 election and the COVID-19 world lockdown to further the Great Reset. Now even Amazon is reserving its right to ban any book that is critical of coronavirus lockdown. We have entered the era where history repeats like the Nazi book burning. Even Elon Musk has come out against Amazon.
I warned that the computer projected this would be the MOST politically corrupt election in American history. NEVER in my personal imagination would I have EVER assumed that the high-tech companies would be conspiring against our freedom. They are simply greedy. They are following this Marxist Utopia and think that they will be exempt and get a piece of every transaction in the entire world by supporting this move to digital currencies.
I am thoroughly disgusted. The election in the Roman Republic of 53BC was always on my top 10 list of corrupt elections in history. The elections of 53BC effectively degenerated into a bidding war between the various factions. Under the pretense of helping candidates with their expenses, the bottom line was simple bribery. We know from various contemporary authors of the time that the intense bribery caused interest rates to jump from 4% to 8% during those elections. This bidding war was so serious that the Senate of Rome was forced to act because it became so public.
Another in the top ten list of corrupt elections was that of 192AD when the Praetorian Guard murdered Emperor Pertinax and paraded his head on a pole around the city. Following the murder of Pertinax by the Praetorian Guards, the full corruption of Rome burst forth. The Guards withdrew to the safety of their camp. No clear heir was available so the Guards stationed heralds on the wall to announce openly that the office of Emperor was up for sale to the highest bidder.
Thus began perhaps the most scandalous affair in Roman history. The corruption had reached such levels that it was clear that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire began at this junction in time. There were two rival bidders who presented themselves – Titus Flavius Sulpicianus (father-in-law of Pertinax) and Marcus Didius Julianus. It was Didius’ bid of 25,000 sestertii per man, which was the high bid and he was duly declared Emperor. However, Didius Julianus quickly found himself in serious trouble. The treasury had been depleted much more so than he had expected under Commodus. Didius began to reduce the weight of the coinage trying to stretch the reserves as far as possible. The outrage led to a civil war.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that such a coordinated political coup to remove Trump in order to force this global Great Reset upon the world with this new age of “equality” which is Marxism with the same claims as they have always been – inclusion and equality. Even Lenin called them “empty phrase-mongering” and he argued that the Socialists were really gathering power for the elite. In that respect, he was correct.
I was preparing to add a chapter on what is becoming the Greatest Political Manipulation in world history to the Manipulating the World Economy, which would be about the US 2020 election and the COVID-19 world lockdown to further the Great Reset. Now even Amazon is reserving its right to ban any book that is critical of coronavirus lockdown. We have entered the era where history repeats like the Nazi book burning. Even Elon Musk has come out against Amazon.
I warned that the computer projected this would be the MOST politically corrupt election in American history. NEVER in my personal imagination would I have EVER assumed that the high-tech companies would be conspiring against our freedom. They are simply greedy. They are following this Marxist Utopia and think that they will be exempt and get a piece of every transaction in the entire world by supporting this move to digital currencies.
I am thoroughly disgusted. The election in the Roman Republic of 53BC was always on my top 10 list of corrupt elections in history. The elections of 53BC effectively degenerated into a bidding war between the various factions. Under the pretense of helping candidates with their expenses, the bottom line was simple bribery. We know from various contemporary authors of the time that the intense bribery caused interest rates to jump from 4% to 8% during those elections. This bidding war was so serious that the Senate of Rome was forced to act because it became so public.
Another in the top ten list of corrupt elections was that of 192AD when the Praetorian Guard murdered Emperor Pertinax and paraded his head on a pole around the city. Following the murder of Pertinax by the Praetorian Guards, the full corruption of Rome burst forth. The Guards withdrew to the safety of their camp. No clear heir was available so the Guards stationed heralds on the wall to announce openly that the office of Emperor was up for sale to the highest bidder.
Thus began perhaps the most scandalous affair in Roman history. The corruption had reached such levels that it was clear that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire began at this junction in time. There were two rival bidders who presented themselves – Titus Flavius Sulpicianus (father-in-law of Pertinax) and Marcus Didius Julianus. It was Didius’ bid of 25,000 sestertii per man, which was the high bid and he was duly declared Emperor. However, Didius Julianus quickly found himself in serious trouble. The treasury had been depleted much more so than he had expected under Commodus. Didius began to reduce the weight of the coinage trying to stretch the reserves as far as possible. The outrage led to a civil war.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that such a coordinated political coup to remove Trump in order to force this global Great Reset upon the world with this new age of “equality” which is Marxism with the same claims as they have always been – inclusion and equality. Even Lenin called them “empty phrase-mongering” and he argued that the Socialists were really gathering power for the elite. In that respect, he was correct.Video Player00:0000:52
If you listen to the words of Klaus Schwab, you will hear those same empty promises of equality. He will not surrender all his wealth. Nor will Bill Gates, George Soros, or the high tech social media moguls. Somehow the people are supposed to rise up and overthrow Trump to achieve equality by surrendering all our rights, accept perpetual lockdowns, live on Guaranteed Basic Income, and sit at home to watch TV, News, and read books that are all going to be sanitized to protect us – the same as the Nazi book burning to protect us from evil thoughts. If you listen to the same speech just delivered also ahead of the US election by the IMF which seeks to control the one-world digital currency, you hear the very same agenda of inclusion and equality. Somehow, that never eliminates the rich and powerful oligarchs who then see themselves as necessary to ensure quality for those of us beneath them – the great unwashed.
The problem with the left is always the same. They are NOT satisfied in life unless they force everyone else to live as they command. Yet they still want to have the power to enforce their commands.
I have never met Elon Musk. He has called for the breakup of Amazon. I would love to meet him. He seems to be one person defending also our freedom. At this stage in the game, I do not know if enough people will see the truth and vote for Trump to stop this agenda. A Trump victory would place Social Media as the target for criminal prosecution for doing what they all accused Russia of doing but in spades! It is becoming very clear that these organizations have become a threat to our very freedom.
I was preparing to add a chapter on what is becoming the Greatest Political Manipulation in world history to the Manipulating the World Economy, which would be about the US 2020 election and the COVID-19 world lockdown to further the Great Reset. Now even Amazon is reserving its right to ban any book that is critical of coronavirus lockdown. We have entered the era where history repeats like the Nazi book burning. Even Elon Musk has come out against Amazon.
I warned that the computer projected this would be the MOST politically corrupt election in American history. NEVER in my personal imagination would I have EVER assumed that the high-tech companies would be conspiring against our freedom. They are simply greedy. They are following this Marxist Utopia and think that they will be exempt and get a piece of every transaction in the entire world by supporting this move to digital currencies.
I am thoroughly disgusted. The election in the Roman Republic of 53BC was always on my top 10 list of corrupt elections in history. The elections of 53BC effectively degenerated into a bidding war between the various factions. Under the pretense of helping candidates with their expenses, the bottom line was simple bribery. We know from various contemporary authors of the time that the intense bribery caused interest rates to jump from 4% to 8% during those elections. This bidding war was so serious that the Senate of Rome was forced to act because it became so public.
Another in the top ten list of corrupt elections was that of 192AD when the Praetorian Guard murdered Emperor Pertinax and paraded his head on a pole around the city. Following the murder of Pertinax by the Praetorian Guards, the full corruption of Rome burst forth. The Guards withdrew to the safety of their camp. No clear heir was available so the Guards stationed heralds on the wall to announce openly that the office of Emperor was up for sale to the highest bidder.
Thus began perhaps the most scandalous affair in Roman history. The corruption had reached such levels that it was clear that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire began at this junction in time. There were two rival bidders who presented themselves – Titus Flavius Sulpicianus (father-in-law of Pertinax) and Marcus Didius Julianus. It was Didius’ bid of 25,000 sestertii per man, which was the high bid and he was duly declared Emperor. However, Didius Julianus quickly found himself in serious trouble. The treasury had been depleted much more so than he had expected under Commodus. Didius began to reduce the weight of the coinage trying to stretch the reserves as far as possible. The outrage led to a civil war.
Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined that such a coordinated political coup to remove Trump in order to force this global Great Reset upon the world with this new age of “equality” which is Marxism with the same claims as they have always been – inclusion and equality. Even Lenin called them “empty phrase-mongering” and he argued that the Socialists were really gathering power for the elite. In that respect, he was correct.Video Player*+-9
If you listen to the words of Klaus Schwab, you will hear those same empty promises of equality. He will not surrender all his wealth. Nor will Bill Gates, George Soros, or the high tech social media moguls. Somehow the people are supposed to rise up and overthrow Trump to achieve equality by surrendering all our rights, accept perpetual lockdowns, live on Guaranteed Basic Income, and sit at home to watch TV, News, and read books that are all going to be sanitized to protect us – the same as the Nazi book burning to protect us from evil thoughts. If you listen to the same speech just delivered also ahead of the US election by the IMF which seeks to control the one-world digital currency, you hear the very same agenda of inclusion and equality. Somehow, that never eliminates the rich and powerful oligarchs who then see themselves as necessary to ensure quality for those of us beneath them – the great unwashed.
The problem with the left is always the same. They are NOT satisfied in life unless they force everyone else to live as they command. Yet they still want to have the power to enforce their commands.
I have never met Elon Musk. He has called for the breakup of Amazon. I would love to meet him. He seems to be one person defending also our freedom. At this stage in the game, I do not know if enough people will see the truth and vote for Trump to stop this agenda. A Trump victory would place Social Media as the target for criminal prosecution for doing what they all accused Russia of doing but in spades! It is becoming very clear that these organizations have become a threat to our very freedom.
The entire purpose of lockdowns was supposed to flatten the curve because so many people would get sick and die in the millions, there would not be enough bed space. They keep changing the excuse to keep the power going continually. Welcome to what Authoritarian/Totalitarianism looks like in the 21st century. A new bill has been introduced in the Australian federal parliament that gives civil and criminal immunity to foreign military forces and police operating in Australia during an emergency which is obviously this hyped COVID-19 and could even be bushfires. The Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 amends the Defence Act 1903 and the Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001 (DRSP Act) to allow members of the Australia Defence Force (ADF) Reserves, to be called in and to be given total immunity for performing duties that they may be called upon to do. The bill will also grant immunities to members of the ADF, as well as all other defense personnel, and members of even foreign forces called on during a civil emergency.
Meanwhile, in Canada, they are creating quasi-interment camps. An Ontario politician condemned the Canadian federal government’s Covid-19 quarantine sites as “internment camps” which has led to the presumption that they intend to jail Canadians. I have even heard the rumors that you can call them and say you think someone has COVID-19 and they will be sent off the jail. These statements are generally false at this moment. However, the sites do exist and are facilities rented by the federal government for “travelers” who have NO alternative for mandatory quarantine. The danger with this is very clear, it opens the door to forced quarantines as in New Zealand. In Thailand, you must quarantine for 2 weeks in a hotel designated by the government at your own expense.
The Director of the CDC said: “But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools.” Mr. Redfield continued: “We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from a drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID. So this is why I keep coming back for the overall social being of individuals, is let’s all work together and find out how we can find common ground to get these schools open in a way that people are comfortable and their safe.”
There has been a lot of turmoil about just how many people have died from COVID. The problem stems from the fact that they have other diseases and perhaps COVID has pushed them over the edge. Of those under 55, only 14,047 people have died WITH COVID at the start of September but with other complications according to the CDC Table #3. Twitter and everyone else is removing comments quoting the CDC that only: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.” They are trying to keep the fear factor going.
Protests are continuing in Europe. This was the one in London this weekend. Boris Johnson is adopting the measures of the Madman of Australia. We are looking at a rising spiral of civil unrest especially because they will continue to use this virus to extinguish all human rights.
Our ideal target for the start of this escalating cycle of civil unrest (protests against lockdowns) was 2020.563 which was June 24/25, 2020 and the end of this cycle will be about October 30th, 2026. On June 12, in Lebanon, their currency collapsed because of COVID and many Lebanese citizens took to the streets for anti-government protests. The protesters set up burning barricades and forced road closures. As some protesters threw rocks at police, others tried to climb the security fence surrounding the Prime Minister’s house. On June 30, China officially passed the controversial national security law which affected Hong Kong through a loophole in its constitution. This led to more protests but this was not COVID oriented.
Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on May 26, 2020, protests began the next day. But because of COVID and the loss of jobs, this allowed people to attend all over in far greater numbers than ever before. There were even protests in Amsterdam on June 1, 2020.
This cycle of protests and violence will escalate. As a direct result of COVID and job losses, people are free to protest now in mass.
October 13, 2020 was “a black day for human rights,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights organization. Mr. Neuer was lamenting the fact that the United Nations General Assembly was preparing to vote to elect some of the world’s worst serial human rights abusing regimes to membership on the UN Human Rights Council. The regimes elected included China, Russia and Cuba. A Joint NGO Report issued by UN Watch, Human Rights Foundation and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights on October 5, 2020 branded these regimes “unqualified.” The Joint NGO Report reached its conclusion based on the criteria that the UN General Assembly itself set, which required that “members elected to the Council shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights.”
The Chinese Communist regime is a wellspring of gross human rights abuses
The UN General Assembly’s vote to grant China membership in the Human Rights Council illustrates how the United Nations has made a complete mockery of the human rights protections it professes to uphold. The Chinese Communist regime is a wellspring of gross human rights abuses. The regime routinely crushes dissent, extending its authoritarian methods to Hong Kong. It tortures and arbitrary imprisons its citizens who do not toe the official party line. The regime is a surveillance state that negates any individual privacy rights, and it censors the press and online social media. Journalists who dare to stray into politically sensitive areas that the regime considers forbidden territory are regularly forced out of their jobs or jailed. The regime also engages in persecution of people of faith, including Christians, Buddhists and Muslims.
In these respects, the Chinese regime is in sync with the human rights abuses of other authoritarian regimes. However, what places China in a class by itself today when it comes to human rights abuses are the internment camps the regime has established to arbitrarily detain more than one million Uighurs and other Muslims. The Joint NGO Report referenced the horrific conditions to which these detainees have been subjected, including political indoctrination, systematic torture, and the forced sterilization and abortions of female prisoners. The Uighurs and other Muslims who are not presently detained still live under repressive conditions. They are subjected to constant surveillance, the suppression of the use of their own language, and the banning of their cultural and religious practices.
Here is how the U.S. State Department described this unique example of ethnic cleansing in the 21st century, which the Chinese regime has justified to “contain and eradicate extremism”:
“The broad definition of extremism resulted in the reported detention since 2017 of more than one million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Muslims in ‘transformation through education’ centers, or detention centers, designed to instill patriotism and erase their religious and ethnic identities. This included many of those ordered to return to China from studying or working abroad. International media reported security officials in the centers abused, tortured, and killed some detainees.”
“Outside the internment camps, the government implemented severe restrictions on expressions of minorities’ culture, language, and religious identity, including regulations prohibiting behaviors the government considered signs of ‘extremism’ such as growing ‘abnormal’ beards, wearing of veils in public places, and suddenly stopping smoking and drinking alcohol, among other behaviors. The regulations banned the use of some Islamic names when naming children and set punishments for the teaching of religion to children. Authorities conducted ‘household surveys’ and ‘home stays’ in which officials or volunteers forcibly lived in Uighurs’ homes and monitored families for signs of ‘extremism.’”
“Authorities searched cell phones at checkpoints and during random inspections of Uighur households, and persons in possession of alleged terrorist material, including pictures of general religious or cultural importance, could be arrested and charged with crimes.”
The Chinese regime is also unique in another respect from a human rights perspective, which is particularly relevant during this year of the coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese Communist regime deliberately withheld key information about the coronavirus, which originated in China, when it first became aware that the virus was highly contagious through human-to-human transmission. Chinese authorities cracked down on whistle blowers such as Dr Li Wenliang who wanted to warn the public about the emerging coronavirus threat before it could spread completely out of control. Authorities censored any negative stories in the media or on the Internet about how the Chinese government was handling the coronavirus outbreak. The World Health Organization accepted at face value the inaccurate information it received from China during the early weeks of the outbreak, when the virus’s spread could have been much more easily contained.
The Chinese Communist regime was in a position to come clean about the virulent virus that was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019, before the virus escaped China’s borders and set off a global pandemic. Chinese authorities decided not to do so. Instead, the Chinese regime put its own image first, willing to sacrifice the basic human right to life and well-being of people all over the world. Over a million people have since died from the coronavirus to date. Many of these peoples’ lives might well have been saved if Chinese authorities had been more forthright at the outset. The regime’s abysmal behavior in this regard falls far short of the supposed standard for membership on the UN Human Rights Council – to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights.” Yet China was rewarded with a seat on the Human Rights Council anyway – a perfect example of the hypocrisy rampant at the United Nations
Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Posted Oct 4, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
Historically, this is why the police are the first to be killed in a revolution. They support tyranny and when they do, the choose the side against the people. Here they are arresting people in Piccadilly Circus for protesting the arrest of Assange on behalf of the United States. Freedom of speech has been around since Magna Carta. They should realize that this is against human rights as well as the English Bill of Rights from 1689.
With 30-days left before the election perhaps it’s worthwhile remembering what all of this opposition is about…. Something 99% of American voters do not quite understand.
Congress doesn’t actually write legislation. The last item of legislation written by congress was sometime around the mid 1990’s. Modern legislation is sub-contracted to a segment of DC operations known as K-Street. That’s where the lobbyists reside.
Lobbyists write the laws; congress sells the laws; lobbyists then pay congress lucrative commissions for passing their laws. That’s the modern legislative business in DC.
When we talk about paying-off politicians in third-world countries we call it bribery. However, when we undertake the same process in the U.S. we call it “lobbying”.
CTH often describes the system with the phrase: “There are Trillions at Stake.” The process of creating legislation is behind that phrase. DC politics is not quite based on the ideas that frame most voter’s reference points.
With people taking notice of DC politics for the first time; and with people not as familiar with the purpose of DC politics; perhaps it is valuable to provide clarity.
Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in congress writing legislation or laws.
In modern politics not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.
Over the past several decades a system of constructing legislation has taken over Washington DC that more resembles a business operation than a legislative body. Here’s how it works right now.
Outside groups, often called “special interest groups”, are entities that represent their interests in legislative constructs. These groups are often representing foreign governments, Wall Street multinational corporations, banks, financial groups or businesses; or smaller groups of people with a similar connection who come together and form a larger group under an umbrella of interest specific to their affiliation.
Sometimes the groups are social interest groups; activists, climate groups, environmental interests etc. The social interest groups are usually non-profit constructs who depend on the expenditures of government to sustain their cause or need.
The for-profit groups (mostly business) have a purpose in Washington DC to shape policy, legislation and laws favorable to their interests. They have fully staffed offices just like any business would – only their ‘business‘ is getting legislation for their unique interests.
These groups are filled with highly-paid lawyers who represent the interests of the entity and actually write laws and legislation briefs.
In the modern era this is actually the origination of the laws that we eventually see passed by congress. Within the walls of these buildings within Washington DC is where the ‘sausage’ is actually made.
Again, no elected official is usually part of this law origination process.
Almost all legislation created is not ‘high profile’, they are obscure changes to current laws, regulations or policies that no-one pays attention to. The passage of the general bills within legislation is not covered in media. Ninety-nine percent of legislative activity happens without anyone outside the system even paying any attention to it.
Once the corporation or representative organizational entity has written the law they want to see passed – they hand it off to the lobbyists.
The lobbyists are people who have deep contacts within the political bodies of the legislative branch, usually former House/Senate staff or former House/Senate politicians themselves.
The lobbyist takes the written brief, the legislative construct, and it’s their job to go to congress and sell it.
“Selling it” means finding politicians who will accept the brief, sponsor their bill and eventually get it to a vote and passage. The lobbyist does this by visiting the politician in their office, or, most currently familiar, by inviting the politician to an event they are hosting. The event is called a junket when it involves travel.
Often the lobbying “event” might be a weekend trip to a ski resort, or a “conference” that takes place at a resort. The actual sales pitch for the bill is usually not too long and the majority of the time is just like a mini vacation etc.
The size of the indulgence within the event, the amount of money the lobbyist is spending, is customarily related to the scale of benefit within the bill the sponsoring business entity is pushing. If the sponsoring business or interest group can gain a lot of financial benefit from the legislation they spend a lot on the indulgences.
Recap: Corporations, mostly modern multinationals (special interest group), write the legislation. The corporations then contract the lobbyists. Lobbyists then take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.
Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial way-points to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.
The important part to remember is that the origination of the entire process is EXTERNAL to congress.
Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.
When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.
While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.
This is the way legislation is created.
If your frame of reference is not established in this basic understanding you can often fall into the trap of viewing a politician, or political vote, through a false prism.
The modern origin of all legislative constructs is not within congress.
“We have to pass the bill to, well, find out what is in the bill” etc. ~ Nancy Pelosi 2009
“We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber 2011, 2012.
“If Congress isn’t going to convene until the bill is ready to vote on… who the hell is writing the bill?” ~ Tom Massie, 2020
Once you understand this process you can understand how politicians get rich.
When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.
The legislative construct passes from K-Street into the halls of congress through congressional committees. The law originates from the committee to the full House or Senate. Committee seats which vote on these bills are therefore more valuable to the lobbyists. Chairs of these committees are exponentially more valuable.
Now, think about this reality against the backdrop of the 2016 Presidential Election. Legislation is passed based on ideology. In the aftermath of the 2016 election the system within DC was not structurally set-up to receive a Donald Trump presidency.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, her Oval Office desk would be filled with legislation passed by congress which she would have been signing. Heck, she’d have writer’s cramp from all of the special interest legislation, driven by special interest groups that supported her campaign, that would be flowing to her desk.
Why?
Simply because the authors of the legislation, the originating special interest and lobbying groups, were spending millions to fund her campaign. Hillary Clinton would be signing K-Street constructed special interest legislation to repay all of those donors/investors.
Congress would be fast-tracking the passage because the same interest groups also fund the members of congress.
President Donald Trump winning the election threw a monkey wrench into the entire DC system…. In early 2017 the modern legislative machine was frozen in place.
The “America First” policies represented by candidate Donald Trump were not within the legislative constructs coming from the K-Street authors of the legislation. There were no MAGA lobbyists waiting on Trump ideology to advance legislation based on America First objectives.
As a result of an empty feeder system, in early 2017 congress had no bills to advance because all of the myriad of bills and briefs written were not in line with President Trump policy. There was simply no entity within DC writing legislation that was in-line with President Trump’s America-First’ economic and foreign policy agenda.
Exactly the opposite was true. All of the DC legislative briefs and constructs were/are antithetical to Trump policy. There were hundreds of file boxes filled with thousands of legislative constructs that became worthless when Donald Trump won the election.
Those legislative constructs (briefs) representing tens of millions of dollars worth of time and influence were just sitting there piled up in boxes under desks and in closets amid K-Street and the congressional offices. Legislation needed to be in-line with an entire new political perspective, and there was no-one, no special interest or lobbying group, currently occupying DC office space with any interest in synergy with Trump policy.
Think about the larger ramifications within that truism. That is also why there was/is so much opposition.
No legislation provided by outside interests means no work for lobbyists who sell it. No work means no money. No money means no expense accounts. No expenses means politicians paying for their own indulgences etc.
Politicians were not happy without their indulgences, but the issue was actually bigger. No K-Street expenditures also means no personal benefit; and no opportunity to advance financial benefit from the insider trading system. Republicans and democrats hate the presidency of Donald Trump because it is hurting them financially.
President Trump is not figuratively hurting the financial livelihoods of DC politicians; he’s literally doing it. President Trump is not an esoteric problem for them; his impact is very real, very direct, and hits almost every politician in the most painful place imaginable, the bank account.
In the pre-Trump process there were millions upon millions, even billions that could be made by DC politicians and their families. Thousands of very indulgent and exclusive livelihoods attached to the DC business model. At the center of this operation is the lobbying and legislative purchase network. The Big Club.
Without the ability to position personal wealth and benefit from the system, why would a politician stay in office? It is a fact the income of many long-term politicians on both wings of the uniparty bird were completely disrupted by Trump winning the 2016 election. That is one of the key reasons why so many politicians retired in 2018.
When we understand the business of DC, we understand the difference between legislation with a traditional purpose and modern legislation with a financial and political agenda.
When we understand the business of DC we understand why the entire network hates President Donald Trump.
Lastly, this is why -when signing legislation- President Trump often says “they’ve been trying to get this through for a long time” etc. Most of the legislation that is passed by congress, and signed by President Trump in his first term; is older legislative proposals, with little indulgent value that were shelved in years past.
Example: Criminal justice reform did not carry a financial benefit to the legislative bodies, and there was no financial interest funding the politicians to pass the bill. If you look at most of the bills President Trump has signed, with the exception of a few economic bills, they stem from congressional construction many years, even decades, ago.
Think about it carefully and you’ll see it. The “First step act”, “Right to Try”, etc. were all shelved by Boehner, Pelosi, Ryan, McConnell, Reid and others before them. When the value of legislation is measured by the financial underwriting and payoffs behind it, what type of legislative calendar does that require?….
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October 13, 2020 was “a black day for human rights,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights organization. Mr. Neuer was lamenting the fact that the United Nations General Assembly was preparing to vote to elect some of the world’s worst serial human rights abusing regimes to membership on the UN Human Rights Council. The regimes elected included China, Russia and Cuba. A Joint NGO Report issued by UN Watch, Human Rights Foundation and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights on October 5, 2020 branded these regimes “unqualified.” The Joint NGO Report reached its conclusion based on the criteria that the UN General Assembly itself set, which required that “members elected to the Council shall uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights.”
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