Interview: It’s Too Late, We Just Have to Crash and Burn


Posted originally on Feb 2, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

Interview: Shaun Newman Podcast #786


Posted originally on Feb 2, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Jack Posobiec On The FBI Purge: “You Come For The King, You Best Not Miss”


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: Jan 31, 2025, at 6:00 pm EST

KASSAM: FBI’s ‘Made Men’ Are OUT, And This Is Just The Beginning


Was Ron Wyden’s Vote Purchased by Big Pharma to Block RFK, Jr?


Posted originally on Jan 31, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Ronald Lee Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, dares to call RFK a fraud when, in fact, according to Open Secrets, he took $1,207,873 from the Pharmaceutical Industry and will vote against RFK, Jr. because I do not believe that Wyden is representing the people of Oregon, but Big Pharma. There is no question that people have died from the COVID-19 Vaccines—countless stories on the side effects of blood clots. My lawyer suffered from that and can no longer fly. I have one fellow who works for me, and his family cannot get any vaccine. They have a severe reaction to even a flu shot. The simple fact is that we are all NOT the same. Some had no problems, and for others, it was a nightmare. The state should by no means MANDATE any health procedure. They argue that a woman’s body is their own, so abortion is her right, but it ends there. Our bodies are not our own when it comes to vaccines since Big Pharma pays our politicians well to have no liability and mandatory compliance. Wyden changes his position, it seems, based on the money flow.

Watching the actions of Ronald Lee Wyden was revolting. This is a conflict of interest, and he should NOT be on any such committee if not in prison for the appearance of selling his vote to the highest bidder. Like Trump’s family issuing crypto, sorry, it is a conflict of interest as Hunter Biden was banking on his dad’s position. This is just sleazy. Trump should have shut down his family just as the Senate should bar anyone taking money from Big Pharma and voting on anything that impacted the people funding them. Wyden has been in office since he was 31 years old.

MUST WATCH: Gabbard Calls Out Blinken, Clinton, Clapper & More In DNI Confirmation Opening Statement


Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: Jan 30 at 1:00 pm EST

European Outlook & German Elections


Posted originally on Jan 31, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

European Outlook

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, thank you because you are the lone voice calling to us in Europe, where free speech is dying quickly. Others are afraid to say what you point out, even if they see it themselves. Some try to dismiss you but never address what you say, only who you are.

Many of us in Europe greatly respect your courage and independence. You will be remembered by history when this all comes to an end.

RVH

REPLY: Thank you. I learned back in 1985 when I went to lunch with one of the heads of a major bank in Geneva. He explained to me back then why everyone was using my firm. He said you do not care if the dollar goes up or down. He explained there were no European FX analysts because it was a political issue in Europe since politicians used the rise in the currency to validate their performance. Saying the currency would decline became a political statement.

Euro Over the Edge

Today, if an analyst at a major bank said the euro would crash, the ECB would be on the phone instructing that institution to fire them. That was explained to me back in 1985. It has only progressed since then, and now it is becoming criminal to simply oppose the government under the label of far-right or hate speech. An AfD victory will help to push the euro over the edge and threaten the WOKE agenda of the EU leadership.

Estonia’s economy was booming, but after several years of GDP growth at or close to 10%, the expansion rate collapsed and caused a negative contraction. The 2007-2010 economic recession was not such a soft landing. The sharp slowdown in the Estonian economy that began in 2007 is now undeniable. They jailed an economist for saying it would turn down. If I went to London today, Starmer would probably throw me in prison for something I said 10 years ago.

Capital Controls

This is merely a reflection that the economy is turning down, and the Sovereign Debt Crisis is starting to come to a head. Trump at least understands debt. He may be called many names, but the issue will come to light, and he at least comprehends a debt crisis, whereas our politicians assume this is how they run the government, and someone will always buy their debt. When they can’t sell the new debt to pay off the old, everything will come crashing down. This is starting to come to a head this year, going into 2026. They will impose capital controls in Europe. They are trying speech controls first.

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Olaf Scholz assumed office in December 2021. Just look at the German bond market. It went into a panic decline in 2022. Europe is going to have a debt crisis really beginning to surface next year. But more and more people are going to take notice this year.

The polls still show that the Union (CDU/CSU) is leading with an average of 30%, while the second strongest is the AfD, running about 21%. The next election will be on February 23rd, 2025.

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We can see that we do have a Panic Cycle the week leading into the election that weekend. Then, there is choppiness for the following 3 weeks with a string of Directional Changes.

Alice Weidel of the AFD delivered a speech that hit home in Germany, exposing Scholz and his left-green authoritarian seizure of Germany. She explained that while migrants were attacking our people, Scholz had tried to silence the opposition and had even attempted to ban the AfD. She said: “Someone who thinks so authoritarian should not be the Chancellor of Germany.”

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We show a Directional Change and a Panic Cycle due in February that lines up with the German election. An AfD victory can send the dollar higher and start to unwind the Euro. It is now 26 years since the birth of the euro. Cyclically, this is just time for the stress to emerge since it is unlikely that the euro will still exist by 2030 – 31 years from its creation.

Free Speech in Germany Only if You Agree With Government


Posted originally on Jan 30, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. made it clear what Free Speech was in Schenk v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47 (1919) (1919), ruling that a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a “clear and present danger”—i.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent. Yelling fire in a crowded movie theatre is not free speech. There have been many cases involving freedom of speech and of the press over the years, and what is taking place in Europe is a rejection of free speech. In Britain, they sentenced a man to 20 months in prison for saying he was tired of paying taxes to support migrants who then raped their children. They are defining much that simply disagrees with government policy as “hate speech,” which is expressing a political opinion.

Hugo Black Supreme Court Justice 1937–1971

In Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), Justice Hugo L. Black on the Supreme Court traced the origins of the First Amendment to a bill establishing religious freedom that Jefferson drafted and introduced in the Virginia General Assembly in 1779, but was finally passed only in 1786 demanded by James Madison. This had three main sections prohibiting compulsory religion requirements of any kind, maintaining that men were free to express their opinions on religion and choose how or if to worship. That was a fundamental right as citizens and it was the foundation as a natural right of mankind. Justice Black wrote:

“Yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that, if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.”

John Marshall Harlan II 1955 1971 Supreme Court

Justice John Marshall Harlan, whose grandfather had been on the Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911, delivered the decision in Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971) where the state criminalized the word “f–k” being used in political protests against the government. He made it clear that the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense. Starmer in Britain imprisoning people for merely saying migrants raped their children was a criminal offense and sentenced a man to 20 months in prison.

Freedom of speech includes the rights to:

  • Not to speak (specifically, the right not to salute the flag).
    West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
  • Of students to wear black armbands to school to protest a war (“Students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.”).
    Tinker v. Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 (1969).
  • To contribute money (under certain circumstances) to political campaigns.
    Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976).
  • To engage in symbolic speech (e.g., burning the flag in protest).
    Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989); United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990).
EU OMG

What you MUST understand is that the EU is collapsing. The failure to ever consolidate the debts has led to (1) disparity among members, and (2) the Euro has never been able to replace the dollar, lacking a unified debt market to attract capital. The more desperate the financial crisis unfolds in Europe between war and debt, the more authoritarian the government will become. This is why Scholtz has the audacity to claim Germany has free speech as long as you are not their opposition. You cannot have free speech and ban the political speech of your opposition.

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With all the talk of war in Europe, we are starting to see a massive exodus of European investment by foreigners. The Japanese dumped a record $53 billion worth of Euro investments, and we see the same from European investors trying to get out before capital controls coincide with the first bullet fired. The European leaders are braindead. They cannot grasp that the harder they beat their war drums, the more smart money will get out of the EU before it is too late. The Euro has been in an overall bear market decline since 2008.

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Senator Whitehouse Demands RFK Jr Support: “Forced Mandatory Vaccinations” or No Confirmation Support


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance

If this is indeed representative of half the country, then we are dealing with half the country having a severe mental illness.

Sheldon Whitehouse tells RFK Jr during his confirmation hearing today that support for forced, mandatory vaccinations is required as the baseline for supporting his nomination to HHS Secretary.   The moment comes at 00:50 of Whitehouse reading his script.  The intensity and vitriol behind the statement is a testimony to the scale of money from Big Pharma to these senators.  WATCH:

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Salty response below…

Former Senator Bob Menendez Sentenced to 11-Years in Prison


Posted originally on the CTH on January 29, 2025 | Sundance

There’s no sympathy for Bob Menendez at all; however, all things considered, he was convicted of doing the same thing that every Senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee does, and the same thing that Joe Biden did for decades… Sell the influence of their office to foreign countries. They all do it.

The difference with Senator Bob Menendez was only that he was so open about doing it, and he dropped all the pretenses that usually provide the plausible deniability factor. Today the judge sentenced him to 11-years in federal prison.

WASHINGTON – […] A jury in July found Menendez, along with Edgewater developer Fred Daibes and Egyptian American businessman Wael Hana, guilty on all charges related to the bribery scheme. Daibes was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $1.75 million. Hana was sentenced to a little more than eight years in prison and fined $1.3 million. Menendez was not fined for his part in the corruption.

The trial hinged on accusations that Menendez used his political might to influence criminal investigations involving the two businessmen and helped direct billions in U.S. aid to Egypt to bolster their business dealings. In exchange, Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, received gifts including gold bars, cash and luxury cars.

Menendez, 71, represented New Jersey for more than 18 years in the U.S. Senate. He resigned in August after the convictions. (read more)