Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 8, 2021 by Sundance

First things first…. It is important to identify protection and favor when it surfaces.  CTH is not only thankful for our ability to be faithful stewards to our community, but at this specific inflection point we are thankful to God for his providence.  CTH stands steadfast!

Was it not for the notification and deplatforming in November, and the inspired members of the Rebel Alliance that came to our aid, we may not have survived the past 24 hours.

Thank you.  We are humble and steadfast to our mission.  Ever faithful.

To the larger CTH community, we are fortunate to have an anti-fragile system in place to withstand the deplatforming currently underway by Big Tech.  So-far, so-good, fingers crossed.

Two recent features are interconnected.  (1) There is now an internal flagging system in the comment section to draw attention to content that is outside guidelines.  (2) Admins now have enhanced moderation tools to intercept that content.

With the enhanced focus of Big Tech to find justification, including in the comment sections of websites, to take down voices of the Rebel Alliance – it is unfortunately critical that we hold strong filters in place for tone and comment content at the moment.

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Humor is good way to avoid fear. Be kind and please be respectful… Manners really do matter… after all, this is a fellowship.  We are stewards.  The Rebel Alliance is strong.

Throughout history large armies have been defeated through the process of division.

It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies, on-line communities, and even religious congregations.

The bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.

Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, the distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.

The control mechanisms of social media was already troublesome; physically distancing from human engagement only worsens the impact. There is no digital or virtual replacement for the true fellowship of humanity on a personal level.

Ultimately it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.

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Remind yourself of the kind of purposeful HOPE that would leave a throne to be born into a manger as a baby only to grow into a Man willing to lay down His everything for the wretchedness of humanity.

No politics or false sense of security can overwhelm the message of HOPE that a loving God has provided. No effort of man or human disposition can surmount the greatest love of all.  “No power of hell, nor scheme of man” can come close to the purpose of God’s intent and love for you as a unique person qualified to receive that love.

Stand steadfast in faith and the Rebel Alliance will thrive.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 8, 2021 by Sundance

Labeling his content as subversive to the interests of the new totalitarian state, Twitter has announced their permanent deletion of Donald Trump’s Twitter account because of how his tweets can be “perceived and interpreted”.

“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” (link)

Consider their statement carefully because, in essence, Big Tech is banning the voice of President Donald Trump because they claim it may generate wrong think amid others. The Twitter statement continues using these two Tweets as justification for the ban:

[Via Twitter] “We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy, which aims to prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

“This determination is based on a number of factors, including”:

• President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the Inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two Tweets (1, 2) by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20th.
• The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending.
• The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.
• The mention of his supporters having a “GIANT VOICE long into the future” and that “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an “orderly transition” and instead that he plans to continue to support, empower, and shield those who believe he won the election.
• Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.

“As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.” (link to statement)

The justification itself is so bizarre it is Orwellian in nature.  Interpreting the thoughts of a person to determine their violation….  Good grief, you cannot get much more twisted and subjective than that.   This is an alarming statement and directly indicates the Big Tech systems will now define subversive activity.

President Trump sent the following response from his POTUS account, which Twitter quickly took down – (but not until we captured it).

This effort will backfire, bigly.  The rebel alliance will only gain in strength as the technocrats attempt to create these control mechanisms.

Consider this move an inflection point in history.

JoeBama is even more weak now than before.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 8, 2021 by Sundance

Extreme control efforts are a reaction to extreme fear.  If the left-wing political elements who control most social media platforms were not fearful they would not be taking such aggressive action.  Today Brandon Straka announces his #WalkAway group has been removed from Facebook and deplatformed.

(link)

The “Walk Away” movement was an organization of voices of former Democrats who turned away from the extreme leftist moves by the democrat party.  The group was supportive of President Trump and the populist ‘America First’ message.

This move comes after Joe Biden called President Trump supporters “domestic terrorists” and announced his administration’s intent to target those voices as members of an insurrection against his administration.  An alarming move to a totalitarian state where dissenting voices must be silenced and removed.

[Wall Street Journal] “Don’t dare call them protesters,” Mr. Biden said in remarks from Wilmington, Del. “They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple.”

Mr. Biden blamed President Trump for inciting the violence, saying he had “unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of democracy.” The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

[…] Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them. (read more)

Additionally, there is currently a massive “pro-Trump” purge happening on Twitter.  They even banned Tech Fog, a CTH friend who was never controversial, always careful, and only posted court documents highlighting legal cases involving corruption.

Axios– Reddit has banned the subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump,” a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: While not an official group or page hosted by the president, it’s one of the company’s largest political communities dedicated to support for President Trump.

What they’re saying: “Reddit’s site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals. In accordance with this, we have been proactively reaching out to moderators to remind them of our policies and to offer support or resources as needed,” a spokesperson tells Axios.

• “We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.”

The big picture: It’s the latest in a string of platforms to take action against Trump’s accounts following the historic pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.  (LINK)

The massive deplatforming and removal is unprecedented in scale.  The movement by WordPress/Automattic to deplatform CTH shocked many in the media when it happened to us the week after the election.

In the aftermath of CTH being deplatformed we received many notifications of support and shocked messages from inside the tech industry.  In recent days those same voices have signaled that CTH was likely a coordinated first-strike that previewed this post election wave to shut down voices of dissent.

These are remarkable times.  Stand strong in fellowship… now people are starting to realize why CTH strongly advocated for unity of assembly in the last six months.

There are more of us than them.  The Big Tech oligarchs who control the system are trying to shut down communication amid the dissenting voices that demand liberty and freedom.  This is a strategic effort in the battle for our nation.

Stand strong!

More to come….

They are not trying to silence Donald Trump, they are attempting to silence all American voices of dissent.

That's the scale of the 2020 election controversy. https://t.co/Ra57bn5Fmy

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 7, 2021

Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Posted Jan 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

It is beyond description that we face such crazy times politically around the world. The people are distracted between the left and the right but what is being ignored has been just what is the incentive for governments to join this cabal? What is really going on is simply that we have reached the end of perpetual borrowing by governments. Both Europe and Japan have destroyed their bond markets and Denmark, which moved to negative interest rates in 2012, has simply offered mortgages now at zero rates unable to stimulate their economy after 8 years of this failed policy.  The downside of all of this is that the old idea of saving and living off the interest for retirement is gone. They have wiped out the very foundation of credit. There is no longer profit in lending money which means the only other option will be to invest. Debt is dead!

Governments have pushed themselves into a corner. This is what we get from voting for people because they smile nice and have no qualifications whatsoever to run a nation-state. Unable to keep this debt bubble from busting, they have turned to the consortium of emerging Soros’s one-world government, Gates’ zero CO2/Population Control, and Klaus Schwab’s Stakeholder economics blended with Thomas Piketty’s communism of equality. This has resulted in an interwoven time bomb of interest rates/Banking, Government Debt, and Foreign Exchange.

When they created the Euro, the promise was that everyone would pay the same interest rates pointing to the dollar and one federal interest rate. They ignored the fact that among the 50 states, they may have had one currency, but the credit risks materialized in the interest rates for each state. The FAILURE of Europe quickly became self-evident. The promise that a single currency would eliminate volatility and bring “equality” to all proved yet another false dream. The volatility which existed in the currency markets in Europe was merely transferred to the bond market.

There is no question that unemployment will continue to rise into 2022 initially but the high will not be reached until 2025. The decline from there may be the result of a draft for war. Meanwhile, it appears that the low velocity was reached in 2020. This suggests that indeed the change in politics marks the shift in the confidence we have been stating MUST begin to take shape BEFORE there would be a shift in inflation and markets. Our resistance for the Dow in 2021 stood at 31200 and 35300.

It has been the politics that is critical to the markets since the interest rates have lost the focus. This is reflecting now who has the confidence of capital as we journey between here and 2024 – the next high on the Economic Confidence Model. Regardless if you voted for Trump or Biden – it no longer matters. We will all endure the same fate and the one thing that never changes, whatever the politicians promise – never comes true! It is always about them and holding their power. It is never about us – We the People.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Jan 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: I think everyone is doomed. There is nothing to stop them. They have the media, they have courts, they have the academic institutions, they have the public brainwashed, they have the big corporations, they eliminated small business, they eliminated the first amendment, they have people believing all conservatives are evil. They have everything. There is nothing left. There is nothing to stop them, ever. They can and do what they want.

Bv

REPLY: I fully understand that the fiscal conservatives who have been behind Trump and see this New Green Socialist World Order as a danger that will eliminate even Democracy is overwhelming. I have been warning that we MUST Crash & Burn. I appreciate how disheartening it may be to see the rise of this Agenda 2030. But this is, unfortunately, the way it must unfold in order to shift the financial capital of the world to Asia.

In order to have inflation, I have also warned that it has NOTHING to do with the money supply. If people hoard their cash and do not invest or spend, then you get DEFLATION even when the money supply increases. It is spending that creates inflation – not the quality of money. Just look at what this election has done and the COVID crisis. The economy is in a downward spiral into 2022 and the antics that the Democrats have pulled in 2020 to win the White House have seriously damaged the economy to the point there is no BUILD BACK BETTER scenario that

We have been projecting that the 2020 election would be the most corrupt. Then we also have warned that from 2020 into 2032 we are looking at the rise of authoritarianism. On top of that, there are so many groups that were against Trump from the military which did not like Trump pulling back. The interference in the US election was well organized and very professional. Of the 6 states in dispute, ONLY in those states did Biden get more votes than Obama. This is a coup not unlike that against JFK, insofar as the intelligence community and military community were out against Trump. Then take the UN and the World Economic Forum’s intent of removing Trump and overthrowing Trump for a host of reasons from climate to Communism 3.0.

Any way we look at this objectively, Biden will be sworn in and there will be no stopping that. Once that takes place, there will be no reversing it regardless of how much evidence turns up. The Courts are in league with the system and they do not defend the Constitution claiming discretion to defend it when they feel moved. There can be no restraint upon the government when courts have discretion. Those who have pulled this off have orchestrated the greatest act of treason in human history. This is the end of all Democratic processes for they cannot exist with discretion.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There may have been plants who deliberately instigated storming the Capitol Building just as others placed skids of bricks and broke windows to encourage the Black Live protests into looting. The object here is far deeper than the people the press is reporting. The Democrats are now calling this an “insurrection” and demanding that Pence invoke the 25th Amendment or they will impeach Trump by January 20th? An insurrection is defined as a violent uprising against an authority or government. Yet many are saying that the Capitol Police opened the barricades to let the Trump protesters in.

I have been saying all along, even when Ronald Reagan was elected, in Washington the republican establishment said they would have to train him. For nearly 40 years of working with people in Washington, it was always evident – they do not like an outsider. Trump was not a politician and the press was trying to manipulate the 2016 election for Hillary. They focused on Trump 90% of the time and gave little air time coverage to other candidates. The decision was to push Trump because they assumed he could never win. When Trump won, they were blaming themselves and set out on their mission to hate everything Trump had to say. Even the Republicans were against Trump – i.e. John McCain and Lindsey Grahm smashed his phone in protest of Trump.

The chief of police of Capitol Hill has resigned. Look at this photo, It appears staged with these crazily dressed people. But more importantly, it is being used to demean every conservative who supported Trump against the socialist New Green Deal coming. The purpose of allowing the people into the Capitol was to create this image of the people who support Trump are crazy radicals because they know 80 million people voted for Trump. They now need to demoralize them and suppress them and their ideas to further the take over of the United States with this new Agenda.

Already, the alternative energy groups are rallying and telling everyone fossil fuels are history. Others keep spinning wild conspiracy theory claiming it is not over and somehow Trump will prevail. Is this to keep the violence coming? Trump, on the other hand, has come out and said that this was a “heinous” attack on Capitol. He also called for “healing and reconciliation” and an “orderly transition of power.” This is over – there is no path to victory for Trump! When the Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas case, they showed their cards – it was a royal flush and they won – no intervention regardless of the allegations. There was no Trump card.

The protests surrounding the 2020 US election reached a climax on Wednesday afternoon. Nevertheless,  it had been steadily brewing for weeks, and its implications will last for years way beyond Trump. Trump played into this because he made a fatal mistake. He had no idea that his attempt to train the swamp would backfire in the form of a covert coup. Every person Trump took on in his administration was a seasoned politician. Their loyalties would NEVER lie with him – Washington will be there long after he is gone. They would NEVER bite the system that feeds them.

The goal from the outset was to control Trump. The more he tried to buck the trend, the more they conspired against him. What he did not realize is that there is no Constitution. That is something people invoke to make a point but they never abide by its fundamental intent – to restrict the power of government. All the Bill of Rights has been flipped by the courts to make people think they have rights, when in fact they are NEGATIVE restrains upon government. Look at any of the Amendments. Take the first!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The very words “Congress shall make no laws” is a restraint upon government, it is not your right to free speech, it is a prohibition against Congress from infringing upon free speech. They have inverted the Constitution to where you must prove you have a right. Those in government IGNORE the Constitution and do as they like and it always our burden to say they did something wrong.

Trump thought that he had won more votes than any incumbent and that the election was stolen. Our model projected it would be a razor thing election, but Trump should have won. Nevertheless, I have warned that the computer was right and wrong in the 2000 election. It projected Gore should have won. It was handed to Bush. Later it was shown that Gore should have won. So the computer was correct, yet wrong.

I warned that there was a global coup against Trump and this was not merely Trump v Biden. After everything is said and done, the evidence will show the election was stolen, but there will be nothing anyone can do. Trump’s mistake was thinking there is some ethical morality in Washington. There is none! “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” he tweeted of the protest to mark the day Biden’s win would be certified. That was classic Trump thinking he could fight when the system that was determined to purge him from office.

After pro-Trump protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the president has suffered several high-profile resignations from his administration and growing calls from Democrats for him to be removed from office. Meanwhile, the DC federal prosecutor claims he may indict Trump for the riot. All the resignations are the people showing that they all along were loyal to the system – never Trump.

The entire object of this has been to discredit all conservative resistance and to render that futile. The Republicans will not be there to defend the people. They are there to defend the system. The future going into 2022 will see a third party rise. Who will be at the head is anyone’s guess.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 7, 2021 by Sundance

The question around a third party has been debated on the pages of CTH for over a decade.  After CTH researched each of the last four UniParty U.S. presidential elections we came to the conclusion in 2015 it was necessary to break the two-club system.

It was the need for a third party; and CTH recognizing Donald Trump as the outside pragmatic independent voice who personified a third option; that initiated our 2015 support for what everyone was calling the “long-shot” outsider candidate at the time.

With the American electorate now awake to political issues around the UniParty; and with evidence of 74 million+ Trump voters, and entrenched republican party unwillingness to be an independent second party option; the question about a third party is far more prevalent.  In this video Dr Steve Turley uses the example of Brexit in 2019 to highlight how a third party in the U.S. could actually succeed.  WATCH:

We need to deal with the voting integrity issues on a state level, that is where we must engage and fight to fix issues with ballot fraud.   That fix requires state legislation to address and control mail-in ballot use. They cannot use the COVID excuse forever.

Then, and only then, I would take the third party discussion one step further….

… Given what we have witnessed in the past four years, how can we fathom NOT creating a third party?   The two current parties, democrat and republican, are wings of the exact same big government bird.  There is no viable option except to form another party.

The “reform from within” proposal is a good idea; meaning to take over the apparatus of the GOP and force change from within the party.  However, unlike the EU models cited there are structural protective systems within the DNC and RNC that protect them from being taken over.  We are seeing that structural issue with RNC support for newly elected terrible candidates like Mitt Romney in 2018.

The RNC doesn’t even attempt to field or enlist candidates against weak or ineffective republican incumbents.  Exactly the opposite is true.  The RNC will not support, with logistics or data sharing as examples, any primary challenges against incumbent Republican politicians.

This is how the club retains control and protection over the members; so it is somewhat of a futile effort to attempt to takeover a party that has built in self-defense mechanisms.  Just look at how the RNC structurally failed to legally (or proactively) support President Trump, because from the outset never passed the club’s entry and purity test.

As a consequence a third party is needed even if you want to take over the republican party as the long-term goal.  There needs to be an architecture, a framework, for a challenger to mount a primary effort against an incumbent RINO or uniparty republican.

The primary challenge framework needs to include independent fundraising systems outside the RNC control.  That independent financial mechanism is how Donald Trump was eventually able to mount a successful insurgency against the RNC candidates in 2016.

Without a third party influence; and considering the rule-books used by the RNC; the predictable 2024 republican presidential election will field these final four candidates.

DeSantis is closest to MAGA.  Noem is MAGA-lite with Koch Brothers edge.  Haley will be the supported RNC candidate. Cruz (term expires in 2024) will play the role of controlled opposition, conservative-base splitter, all while gaining material wealth.

CTH can clearly see this traditional RNC approach with Nikki Haley in 2024 as the establishment front-runner like Jeb Bush in 2016.

If we do not initiate an outsider option using the MAGA community as the base, these four will be used by the RNC to install Nikki Haley.

The final RNC club argument will come down to club elites who demand that a woman be the next Republican front-runner.  Those same elites will have “Palinized” Kristi Noem by implanting club operatives inside the Noem camp intended to undermine her campaign.

Any candidate working inside the RNC club structure will be vulnerable to the RNC club leveraging against them at a specific moment.  The club pick is already well known to those who have: (a) followed the club ¹events; (b) followed the years of club rule-books; and (c) who know the exact road-map the club deploys for every election.

[¹Use CTH site search tool.  Type in “Nikki Haley – then spend a few hours catching up]

If there is no outside candidate with independent resources the club will pick Nikki Haley just like the club was trying to pick Jeb Bush (’16)…. just like the club picked Mitt Romney (’12),.. just like the club picked John McCain (’08)…  Wash-Rinse-Repeat.

The outsider (3rd party candidate) needs to be the MAGA candidate, and that structural support needs to exist early on, just like outsider Trump was able to create in 2015.

We need to work on this soon and create the third-party endorsement system quickly to start preparing with valid candidates for the 2022 mid-term primary races.