Tracking Apps – The Total Surveillance is Here!


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jan 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty; like you, I am a programmer. I see the future is very much like the Matrix. I do not understand why people in government feel the need to control everything and everyone. This is not the world I want my daughter to grow up in and she is just three years old.

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ANSWER: These apps that people are so eager to download for a virus that has a 99.5% survivability rate is astonishing. I agree, this is like the Matrix insofar as we seem to be living in a dream that we are somehow free when we are not. Personally, I am so glad my time is nearly up in this nightmare. They know the majority are just subservient fools. Stanley Milgram proved that the average person will even torture another as long as they are told to do so. He called it — “Obedience to Authority.”

Indeed, the New Norm is intended to bring in the Great Reset whereby offices vanish, commuting comes to an end, and travel will be forever restricted. However, vital to pulling this off is continued social distancing and masks. Why? This is being employed to combat civil unrest. It is also intended to separate the mindless sheep who obey whatever the government, says which complies with Stanley Milgram’s studies on “Obedience to Authority”.

The Germans put on trial after World War II said that they were just following orders. This inspired Milgram to investigate because many argued that the Germans were just different and could kill the Jews without remorse. At the Nuremberg Trials, those Germans simply said they were just following orders.

Stanley was perhaps the most important psychologists of all time as far as I am concerned. Instead of coming up with a theory, Stanley actually investigates and arrived at a conclusion nobody suspected was even possible. He hired actors to pretend to be shocked by a person whenever they lied. Stanley took random people off the street in the United States and elsewhere to see if the Germans were really a different species. He discovered that people would shock others in a torture setting as long as they were told that was what they had to do.

Stanley concluded his studies which shocked the world. They were published in his book – “Obedience to Authority.” I bring this up now BECAUSE this is precisely what is being carried out today. We have people wearing masks when there is no serious pandemic and yelling at others who do not. Some are violently attacking people who do not have a mask.

What is being carried out is a well-defined psychological tactic because they instill fear in the mass herd of human sheep and then they count on the obedience of authority to control society. I have stated before, a friend of mine grew up behind the Berlin Wall. When the wall fell, his father went and got his Stasi file. He was shocked to discover everyone he thought was a friend was telling the government everything he had to say against the government. When he came home, my friend thought his father went mad. He began punching holes in the walls and ripping out microphones. Until his death, he refused to ever speak to anyone outside his immediate family.

This is the reasoning being social distancing and wearing masks. This (1) provides justification to arrest people who try to gather together to resist, and (2) as in France, they can put you in prison for 6 months for not wearing a mask, or (3) in Melbourne, Australia there have been incidents of people attacking even women on the street who do not have a mask on. This is raw tyranny and how they are deliberately seeking to breakdown society to make the population controllable as was the case under communism.

Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893–1946)

 “Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

Interrogator: With respect to a Democracy they argued, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States, only Congress can declare wars.

Göring replied: “Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

NY Governor Can Lock You Up & Your Contacts if he Thinks You Might be Infected


Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM Re-Posted Jan 6, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We are losing everything. New York State has proposed Assembly Bill A416, which allows the governor to lock you up. They may also lock-up any person in your family with whom you have had any contact on the mere SUSPICION that you have been infected with any disease the governor, in his sole capacity, determines may pose a threat to society. At this point, if you are a Republican, you are already a threat to the new world order they are planning.

Meanwhile, the IMF has bluntly come out and explained that banks with branches are no longer necessary and this is why BigTech has been blocking Republicans because they have been promised worldwide banking rights. On top of that, your credit standing will no longer be based solely upon your income and how fast you pay your bills. They are now saying that they will also incorporate what type of person you are by looking at whatever you have posted on social media. If you are a subservient sheep, no problem. If you have an independent mind, you are not worthy of credit. The IMF states:

IMF Banking

New types of information

The most transformative information innovation is the increase in use of new types of data coming from the digital footprint of customers’ various online activities—mainly for credit-worthiness analysis.

Credit scoring using so-called hard information (income, employment time, assets and debts) is nothing new. Typically, the more data is available, the more accurate is the assessment. But this method has two problems. First, hard information tends to be “procyclical”: it boosts credit expansion in good times but exacerbates contraction during downturns.

The second and most complex problem is that certain kinds of people, like new entrepreneurs, innovators and many informal workers might not have enough hard data available. Even a well-paid expatriate moving to the United States can be caught in the conundrum of not getting a credit card for lack of credit record, and not having a credit record for lack of credit cards.

Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.

New communication channels

Communication innovation is driven by the variety of digital platforms in social media, mobile communication, and online shopping that have penetrated much of consumers’ everyday lives, thus increasing their digital footprint and the available data. Platforms like Amazon, Facebook or Alibaba incorporate more and more financial services into their ecosystems, enabling the rise of new specialized providers that compete with banks in payments, asset management, and financial information provision.

Technology again boosts an existing trend. The shift from in-person bank branch visits to remote, online communication generally improves customer convenience and makes financial intermediation more cost-efficient. It also boosts geographic competition among banks, which can now service more distant customers.

The effects of digital transformation are powerful for the financial sector, already the industry most heavily reliant on computers. That is compounded by the doubling in use of online banking having in the past two decades in the European Union’s 15 largest economies. And with usage at 50 percent on average, it still has significant room to grow.”

STRONGLY advise if you can, get the hell out of New York while you can. I have written before I opened an account at Bank of America because it was the closest bank to me. That branch never reopened. The people who voted for Biden have surrendered ALL their rights, privileges, and immunities for themselves, their families, and their posterity. I have been warning that our model did not merely project that Trump would win in 2016 and the 2020 election would be the most corrupt election in history, but we would enter a new period of authoritarianism from 2020 into 2032.

I know a lot of people who voted for Biden read this bog. I have tried to make it clear that this was NEVER a match between Trump and Biden. This has been between Trump and a Global Cabal. I get to check out of this world soon. What I fear is what I leave behind for my family. This election was STOLEN and I do not say that as a Republican. This was a strategic play they needed to pull off because they have already conquered Europe and Canada. They needed the USA for military power.

I have also explained many times that I use to vet people who wanted to run for president up until 1999. I was asked to fly to Texas to meet with George Bush Jr but I was told this was “different” because he was “stupid!” Indeed, you never see him running around giving lectures like Obama. When I asked why they would make someone “stupid” president, I was told he had the name. Biden is the same thing. I seriously doubt he is even aware of their plans and they got the perfect guy for the job.

They are deliberately trying to end small businesses because they are independent thinkers and employ 70% of the civil workforce. They need the people to be on Guarantee Basic Income to control the population because the socialist system is collapsing. They can no long prop-up the system so they need a new one. The new founding father will be Bill Gates funding this new age of authoritarianism. He was the funder of Imperial College which began with the recommendation to lock down the world economy by Neil Ferguson. He has usurped every median organization from the WHO to FDC, CDC, and Fauci. Locking down the world economy was supposed to reduce CO2.

Despite the destruction of the world economy, CO2 did not decline. What is the next solution? Kill our pets, animals, and everyone who does not fit Gate’s eugenic goals?

How much longer will it take for the sheep to wake up? The noose is already around their neck. They seem too stupid to open their eyes.

The Threat of this Triumvirate to Everything that is Freedom


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 5, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Make no mistake about this, we have the merger of three theories as part of this Great Reset which has merged the old ideas of a one-world government with Schwab’s idea of resurrecting Communism for only the lower classes. Gates wants to reduce CO2 and the population, Soros wants a one-world government headed by the United Nations, and Klaus Schwab wants Communism 3.0. Nevertheless, their grand scheme against the people will peak out by 2022.

As I have mentioned, the former president of France stated bluntly that the design of the EU was not really economic, but rather it was this same theory that to eliminate war you have a one-world government, or in this case, one European government. This has been the pitch coming from Soros and why he was funding the anti-BREXIT camp, so he could fold Britain sovereignty into Brussels. Soros has been using his son to fund the Democrats against Trump to further his open society agenda.

On August 11th, 2020. George Soros did an interview in La Republica where he actually said we needed a revolution against Trump.

“I would describe it as a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times.”

Soros has been calling for using the Coronavirus as a revolutionary moment. Soros sees Trump as a populist “transitory phenomenon.

The Polish government wants to stop the distribution of Norwegian money flowing into Poland coming from Soros’ funded Batory Foundation, which manages over 800 million euros with a target of overthrowing the Polish government by 2020. Since 2014, the Batory Foundation has distributed some 130 million zlotys (around 31.7 million euros) to various associations and organizations within Poland to change the government.

Soros has been intent upon overthrowing Trump in order to further his agenda of an open-society to have the United Nations take control of the United States covertly when it would be unconstitutional for such a transfer of power.

Nevertheless, this is part of their Agenda 2030 and to end “populism” which is the foundation of democracy. Like both China and the EU, the people have no right to vote for the head of the government.

The Malthusian End – 2022


Blog/Economics

Posted Jan 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

This is a presentation in German which is about one hour. Its proposition is that the leaders of the G20, the Rockefeller and Gates foundations have been conspiring to take over the political system for about 30 years or more. It states that the Government conspiracy went into high gear in 2017. This was sent in by a reader EAB. While my German is not so great, what I do agree with is that the idea of eliminating Democracy has been around for a long time. This is all coming to a head.

This idea of this one-world government will eliminate war has been outright even mentioned in the EU Parliament as the real goal. My view is that preexisting belief was simply exploited by Gates and Soros who used their money to buy friends and influence.  Thomas Malthus’ book which started the entire overpopulation panic and inspired eventually eugenics was published in 1798. Based on our 224-year Cycle of Political Change, this idea should reach its height in 2022.

I see Gates and Soros as newcomers who have the money to buy into the club and will make the peak in 2022.

Reducing our Food Supply – Is it Intentional?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Agriculture Re-Posted Jan 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

While this is 7 months old, the trend is set in motion. The agenda is to reduce our consumption of meat because they believe that cows are the #2 cause of CO2. The EU regulations have led to the wholesale slaughter of even sheep. The EU was moving to reduce cattle because they are creating global warming by passing gas. These people are truly authoritarian.

To this day, many things are not available because of the response to COVID. These people are either the dumbest in history for they cannot see what they are doing, or they are diabolical and know exactly what they are doing – reducing the world population of humans and animals.

Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists


Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Jan 2, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

In London, we had the Extinction Rebellion becoming very violent. Now we have people blowing up gas lines on a coordinated basis and deliberately trying to create havoc leaving people without heat. This will indeed be part of the rise in Civil Unrest and we should expect this to become much more common. Bill Gates is fully behind the lockdowns and wants society to be locked down for years. This has been to reduce people-driven and that he thought would reduce CO2. He clearly has more money than brains and is obviously not very smart. He is funding putting particles in the air to reduce sunlight to stop global warming. His entire beliefs are linear and void of any historical analysis. This guy can really hurt the planet and end up killing far more people than all the madmen of the past – COMBINED!

Trying to Ban Oil Investments in Canada Pensions


Armstrong Economics blog/Canada Re-Posted Jan 2, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

What Can We Do?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Jan 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Our brilliant politicians have destroyed so many jobs I am sure Bill Gates, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab will send them a thank you for the new year in helping to further their agenda. The manipulation of the COVID-19 pandemic to scare people is beyond comprehension. Even the 2009 Flu Pandemic the CDC reported that “[f]rom April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.”

To date, under COVID, they estimate that 20 million people have caught this new version. Even the 2009 flu the CDC estimated 3 times that were infected. We did not close down the economy nor did we force vaccines and create lists of those who resisted. I know at least 5 people who have had COVID and all said it was like the flu for 1 to 2 weeks.

I have gotten a number of emails asking what can we do? It looks like there will be a 3rd Party forming. We need to nurture that because both the Democrats and the Republicans are all about maintaining political control over the people. We can see what they have already done and we have reached the point where we must cross the Rubicon and our view is not tomorrow, but to start building a society that will never be a republic ever again for the post-2032 era. We have tried authoritarian, monarchy, dictatorships, and republics. Perhaps now it is time to try a real Democracy. The people must vote on every major change and the voting must be done by computer online cross-reference to the IRS tax records. You must be filing taxes to vote and only once eliminating dead people. There can never again be career politicians. The people will have to be qualified and sit for one year term to oversee the bureaucrats.

The office of the inspector general must be free to charge anyone with corruption and there can no longer be “discretion” so the courts must be established as they once were – chancery v law. However, the computer using AI decides cases, and to appeal there must be a 9 panel of judges who are there also for one year and are nominated only by the legal profession – no party politics. Even this will not create a permanent free government. No government ever survives because people will always find a way to corrupt the system. There should be NO direct taxes, and at best, a retail sales tax that is to be fixed and would require a 2/3rds vote from only the people to ever change. NEVER can there EVER be allowed any private “donations” to any government agency and any bureaucrat taking any privilege from any private citizen should be subject to life imprisonment and the private citizen as well with no parole.

Form a 3rd Party, and I will be glad to donate my time and resources to leave behind a better world for my posterity by cutting off every loophole possible.

Senate Overrides President Trump Veto of Defense Bill


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

President Trump vetoed [H.R. 6395 (116)] the National Defense and Authorization Act spending bill last month, because the bill did not include a demand to repeal legal protections for social media companies known as Section 230. Additionally President Trump opposed forcing military bases to be renamed; and more importantly Trump objected to congressional limits on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan & Europe.

Congress used the NDAA to demand U.S. troops remain present around the world to expand our military influence. Various foreign governments pay congressional representatives -via the leadership PAC and monetary laundry service- to retain the blood of U.S. service-members on their soil.

DC politicians accept foreign money and trade in the currency of dead U.S. military members to enlarge their own stock portfolios. President Trump was viewed as against the interests of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees for his ongoing attempts to stop this payment scheme.

Today the senate voted 81-13 to override President Trump’s veto of the bill. Thirteen democrat and republican senators voted to support the veto, however, some of the GOP were hiding their alignment behind an opportunity to give the illusion of MAGA support.

The republicans supporting the veto were: Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and John Kennedy (R-La.). The democrats supporting the veto included: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

(Via Politico) […] “For 60 years in a row, the NDAA has provided necessary support for our troops and national security,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), said in a statement after the vote. “Today’s vote sent a clear message that Congress will not allow President Trump to stand in the way of that support, and I’m relieved the critical bipartisan priorities we fought for will become law.”

[…] “A lot of people contend, as I do, that every year the NDAA’s the most significant vote that we have,” Senate Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. “This year especially so in light of all of the disruptions and problems that we’ve had.”

“This legislation is essential to the national security of the United States and to the welfare of the troops and families who defense us every day,” added Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Armed Services Democrat.  (read more)

Hey, if it takes a few arms and legs to keep our portfolios fat and happy… and simultaneously we can protect our donor friends at Google and get rid of this annoying Trump…. well,…

COVID-19 Usefulness to Execute Great Reset, The Great Wealth Transfer of 2020 From Main Street to Wall Street


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

In this outline we will explain the usefulness of COVID-19 as a weaponized tool to transfer wealth and achieve a global economic reset.  If you have followed the economics of Main Street -vs- Wall Street (Multinationals), you have a baseline to understand these steps.

If you get too granular, missing the larger picture, it is difficult to understand. However, if you stay at the elevated perspective, understanding leads to awakening.  We begin…

In generally approximated terms 2020 has delivered a serious financial blow to Main Street businesses.

The COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have led to business in your local community suffering massive losses of income while simultaneously taking on debt directly from lenders or indirectly from government relief efforts.  Main Street has been hit hard, some analysts estimate 40 to 50 percent of those businesses may not recover.

Conversely, the COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have created a massive income benefit for multinationals, Wall Street corporations and big tech.  Amazon, Walmart and massive tech companies had their highest earnings ever recorded in 2020.

According to most maco-analysis somewhere around forty percent of Main Street economic wealth was lost or suspended in 2020 due to COVID-19.  Simultaneously the multinational firms have seen increases in stock evaluations of forty percent.  These two almost identical numbers are not coincidental.  The billionaire class (multinationals) have gained wealth in an almost identical amount the middle-class (Main Street) lost.

These empirical results are accepted.  No-one is challenging the shift of financial resources was/is directly related to regional COVID policy.  The math is the math.

Where things change from simple economic math to downstream consequences is where the story is really told.

This is where we are going…

This is where we have been going ever for decades, COVID-19 has  (not coincidentally) just sped up the process.

If you take out a national map and: (1) put a green pin in the areas where the lock-downs are most severe (draw a 100 mile circle); then (2) put a red pin in the areas where the riots and local anxiety was highest in summer 2020; then (3) put a white pin in the seven counties where election fraud was prevalent; then (4) put a blue pin in the areas known as “Opportunity Zones“, what you will see is a direct correlation.  This is not accidental.

There are more than 8,760 designated Qualified Opportunity Zones (PDF) located in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five United States territories. Investors can defer tax on any prior gains invested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) until the earlier of the date on which the investment in a QOF is sold or exchanged or until December 31, 2026. (link)

If you are a member of ‘THE BIG CLUB’ with a massive influx in capital due to the benefits of the COVID-19 lockdowns, limits and regulations, the Opportunity Zones are now the perfect place to expand ownership and wealth.   Take advantage of the Main Street weakness, make moves with government authorization, and do so without capital gains.

The regions where real property will be purchased at a low cost will, not coincidentally, be the “opportunity zones” where investment transactions without capital gains can be made. The areas where riots took/take place will sell cheap. “Opportunity zones” allow for mass investment moves from billionaire class without paying capital gains taxes.

The mass accumulation of wealth (multinationals) at the upper tier of Big Tech and the multinational billionaire class (technocrats) during COVID is approximately +40% since it began.  40% of Main Street businesses wiped out. Not coincidentally almost 40% of wealth has been transferred from Main Street to the Wall Street mega-corps and multinationals.

“Never let a crisis go to waste”…

Only in 2020 the “crisis” was (yet again) by design. The highest level of COVID mitigation control in the Blue states is not coincidentally in the same states with the largest number of Opportunity Zone regions. As a direct result of this mass transfer of wealth to the upper tier the “opportunity” is an unprecedented level of Main Street ownership by elite interests and foreign nationals.

It gets worse… Just like the banking and real-estate crisis of ’07/’08 the government steps in to back-fill the Main Street losses to the mass U.S. population.  However, the problem is the relief funds cannot be spent in Main Street because it remains locked-down.

When an individual or family receives the relief money, they still cannot support Main Street because it remains forcibly closed. Paying down debt and making purchases in the same lock-down strata only ends up putting those relief funds into the hands of the multinationals who are allowed to operate.

Continued consumer spending only feeds the beast that is -by policy via purchased politicians- designed to destroy us.

In essence, we are paying the Technocrats/bankers to foreclose on our home/business.

This is by design…. This has always been the design… CTH has been warning about this for well over a decade and we exhibited the (un)natural conclusion with this graphic:

[EXPLORE GRAPHIC]

There is a way out of this cycle and we will expand on those ideas in future posts.  However, it takes everyone fully understanding the dynamic to realize exactly how urgent this time is for our nation.  The global interests within the BIG CLUB have a plan; and they are executing that plan…  If you do not accept the battle, you cannot win the war.

Do not feed the system that is designed to destroy you.  Move your money away from big massive banking institutions and put it into local banks and credit unions.  Spend your income in smaller businesses on Main Street.  Do not shop at multinational corporations.

We are going to have to get out of convenience mode, or we will ultimately destroy ourselves. Do not use Amazon or related convenience systems for purchases.  Do as much local purchasing as possible.  Buy made in America products; it is an investment in our own economy.   Economic patriotism is how we defeat globalist economic expansion.

Example: The second highest expense to housing for the average American is food purchasing.  Do not shop at multinationals for food and beverages.  Shop at privately owned or independent grocery stores that are not part of the multinational system.  Publix (southeast), HEB (southwest) and IGA (national) are examples of privately owned grocers. Try to avoid Ahold, Aldi, Walmart, Whole Foods and other similar multinationals.

Defeating the “Great Reset” is a choice each individual has to make.

The weaponization of COVID is the ongoing crisis that will facilitate government solutions.  As the American people resist the COVID crisis, those who need to weaponize it will keep turning up the pressure.  They must control the economic activity.

That pressure will continue until the American people can no longer take it and will accept the solution.  We are watching deployment of an identical playbook used previously using taxpayer funds to finance Wall Street, Multinationals, Big Banks and political allies in 2008/2009.

  • COVID crisis 2020 replaces the housing/banking crisis 2008.
  • Pelosi repackages the TARP strategy as a COVID response.
  • Blue states are bailed out in 2020 like the Too Big to Fail banks in 2008.
  • Wall Street & multinationals benefit as they did in the 2008 operation.

…And the great reset begins.