Posted originally on Jan 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
I have never seen or heard of someone leaping over the court bench to attack a judge. Perhaps violence is rising absolutely everywhere. The Judge was OK and was not hospitalized after the attack. The courtroom marshal was injured and was hospitalized for treatment of a bleeding gash on his forehead and a dislocated shoulder. The defendant, Deobra Delone Redden, 30, was wrestled to the floor behind the judge’s bench by several court and jail officers and courtroom staff members — including some who are seen throwing punches. Quite a spectacle. I guess he has an anger problem. If this were in California, the Judge would be charged for handing out a racially induced sentence.
Posted originally on Jan 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Everyone wants to know what the Federal Reserve will do in 2024. Of course, people want to believe that the Fed will slash interest rates in the New Year. The pundits cling to every word except when, at the start of the month of December, Powell boldly criticized the Biden Administration, saying that his outrageous spending is “unsustainable” and central banks do not criticize their governments. They certainly do not criticize each other. I have met with the boards of central banks worldwide because I understand their predicament. Unless you have been behind those closed doors, you will never comprehend the intricacies that are taking place.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held rates at the 5.25% to 5.5% range at their last meeting in December 2023. Additionally, the committee indicated the possibility of at least three rate cuts in 2024, as their favored gauges for inflation appear to be easing. The “dot plot,” which reflects individual members’ expectations, suggests the potential for four rate cuts in 2025 and three more in 2026, bringing the rate down to between 2% and 2.25%. Now, that is simply what the public has been led to believe.
The Fed’s last decision reflects a cautious approach to policy tightening, considering multiple factors unknown to the public before any further adjustments. The committee’s PUBLIC decision and future outlook are based on the evolving economic conditions in relation to inflation and the labor market.
The Federal Open Market Committee will meet in 2024 as follows:
Jan. 30-31
Mar. 19-20
Apr. 30 – May 1
Jun. 11-12
Jul. 30-31
Sept. 17-18
Nov. 6-7
Dec. 17-18
There are simply things I cannot publish on the public blog. I have posted articles on the Socrates private blog that explain the Fed’s direction for 2024 in further detail. Now, consider the dates above and consider what events align with them. Further details will be provided in the Year-End Report, which should be out by the end of this week.
The Federal Reserve cannot criticize the federal government. The most significant issues facing our economy are simply out of the Fed’s hands: war, taxation, and government spending. Chairman Jerome Powell surprised everyone when he called current government spending “unsustainable.” While not a direct criticism, Powell issued a stark warning that aligns with our Revolution Cycle of 72 years. In 1951, the central bank defied the US government by refusing to purchase debt to prevent rate hikes amid the Korean War.
So, there is bad news for the perpetual bulls who insist rates must decline. There is a HUGE divergence unfolding between short and long-term rates. Institutions are buying up government debt without considering the potential that rates may not fall. Absolutely no one is factoring in the largest driver of inflation – WAR – nor are they factoring in the three main pillars of government debauchery (war, taxation, government spending) that the Fed cannot control.
Posted originally on the CTH on January 3, 2024 | Sundance
The gist of the Tucker Carlson outlook is: You thought Democrats were going to dump Biden for Gavin Newsom, but they’re not. They’re backing Nikki Haley instead.
In this discussion segment Tucker Carlson and Vivek Ramaswamy outline how Nikki Haley is the perfect candidate for the administrative state in Washington DC. WATCH:
Posted originally on the CTH on January 3, 2024 | Sundance
District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus was denying probation to a defendant in a battery case, when things in the courtroom became alarmingly violent.
Just as Judge Holthus said she was denying probation and about to impose a sentence, criminal defendant Deobra Redden (30) shouted “f**k that bitch,” leaped over the bench and attacked the judge. WATCH: [LINK HERE]
Due to the race of the defendant, cultural sensitivities, political correctness and the graphic nature of the events, the courtroom video has been restricted by Google in an effort to forestall public awareness. [WATCH HERE]
This is what George Soros prosecutors and misguided judges are turning loose on the streets every day when they do not incarcerate violent offenders. Had this man received yet another probation sentence, the next victim would have been anyone in this defendant’s orbit and not the judge.
🚨#BREAKING: A Man attacks Clark County judge inside Nevada court after the judge denied his probation⁰⁰📌#LasVegas | #Nevada⁰⁰Witness the shocking moment when a 30-year-old three-time felon, Deobra Redden, attacked a Las Vegas judge, forcing her to take cover and injuring a… pic.twitter.com/YoNegqvIA4
Posted originally on Jan 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The Neocons are playing with the lives of people desperate to create World War III and to entice Putin to PLEASE attack anyone in NATO. In 1915, Germany took out advertisements in the New York newspapers warning people not to travel on the passenger ship the RMS Lusitania for it was illegally using civilians as cover to provide arms to Britain. Of course, the US denied that they were using civilians just as Hamas in Palestine. The death toll was 1201 civilians died to get the USA to enter World War I.
The Germans took the bait and sank the RMS Lusitania, and the USA used that as the excuse to finally enter World War I, which was their objective all along. Even 20 years later, the US continued to deny there were any arms on the Lusitania. However, with modern technology, divers could finally reach the Lusitania. Only in 1982, 67 years later, were divers warned that there were explosives on the Lusitania.
Finally, Archaeology.org recovered ammunition from the Lusitania, proving once and for all that the Germans were correct. What is incredibly critical to understand here is that the Lusitania was used as bait to get the Germans to sink the ship to justify entering the war.
This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. The West instructed the interim Ukraine government in 2014, which they hand-picked, to start the civil war and attack the Donbas. Merkel negotiated the Minsk Agreement in BAD FAITH only to buy time for Ukraine to build an army. When it comes to war, as I have said many times, the first casualty is always the truth.
British have provided the missiles used by Ukraine to sink the Russian ship; dozens of Russian servicemembers were declared missing or wounded after the 370-foot Ropucha-class Novocherkassk large landing ship was hit on December 26 in Crimea by Ukrainian cruise missiles. Moscow admitted damage to the ship, which carried a crew of up to 87 service members.
However, the missiles used by Ukraine were provided by the U.K. Ministry of Defense, but they also provided Kyiv with satellite surveillance and target guidance. This is becoming common knowledge, and they, too, are praying at the foot of their bed every night that Putin will yield to the demands that he extracts a price from the British for as they are screaming, this is not a war against Ukraine; this is against the USA, Britain, and NATO. Even the Russian political scientist Yuri Baranchik now calls for Putin to attack the British warship HMS Diamond. Barinchik wrote on Telegram:
“This is a blow from Britain/the United States and a desire to interrupt the positive background from the capture of Marinka, as well as the recent successes of the Russian Armed Forces at the front.”
Barinchik has characterized this British attack as a “training exercise” for a potential future strike on Russia’s naval components in the Northern Fleet. Thus, I have been warning that Putin is the MODERATE – not the evil demon that the Western propaganda machine keeps putting out. I have expressed my concern that the West will do whatever it can to overthrow Putin in hopes of replacing him with a hardliner to launch World War III. Beware of January/February 2024.
The desperate need to provoke Putin to attack anyone in NATO to justify World War III.
Posted originally on Jan 3, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that California will be providing healthcare free of charge! The only caveat is that you must be an illegal migrant who does not contribute to the state’s economy. Around 700,000 migrants in California will now receive tax-payer subsidized healthcare.
Newsom’s plan is the largest expansion of insurance coverage since Obamacare. The program will be under the state’s Medi-Cal, and EVERY illegal immigrant who makes it to California will receive this luxury. I say “luxury” as the average American paid $13,493 for healthcare in 2022, according to National Health Expenditure. That is the amount for a healthy American, as one short hospital stay would cost significantly more.
America pays more for healthcare than any other nation. The US surpassed $4.3 trillion in healthcare spending in 2021, as healthcare, like everything else, grew in cost after COVID. Healthcare spending was only 5% of GDP in 1960 but surpassed 18% by 2021. As for Medicare, 65 million people were enrolled in 2022. America’s population is aging and over 20% of the population will qualify for Medicare by, you guessed it, 2030.
The Congressional Budget Office believes Medicare spending will double over the next 30 years into 2053, which is near yet another turning point. US GDP spending on Medicare alone will rise from 3.1% in 2023 to 5.5% in 2053. These figures do not account for the illegal migrants under Medicare through California’s Medi-Cal program. I won’t even begin to discuss how the US is funding foreign nation’s healthcare costs with tax dollars.
“In California, we believe everyone deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare coverage — regardless of income or immigration status. Through this expansion, we’re making sure families and communities across California are healthier, stronger, and able to get the care they need when they need it,” Newsom’s office told reporters.
So, how much will this endeavor cost California? Estimates are always on the low end. Currently, the state plans to spend $1.2 billion in the first six months before increasing its spending to $3.1 billion annually. California does not have the funding for this endeavor. In fact, the state is currently experiencing a $68 billion deficit and boasts the largest homeless population in the country. Newsom is yet another enemy of the American people who uses our money for virtue pandering while completely ignoring the people he vowed to represent.
Posted originally on the CTH on January 3, 2024 | Sundance
This is really odd, if you understand the role Qatar plays for the USA. If you think of Ukraine as a money laundering operation where U.S. Senators, families or business interests, get U.S. government funds washed through Ukraine and back into the USA, then historically Qatar has been our biggest dry cleaner for decades.
It is well known that the U.S govt uses Qatar as the pivot point for the distribution of covert funds to facilitate the Dept of State, CIA and Intelligence Community operations. Example: We give Qatar money to buy U.S. military weapons, the CIA provides the weapons, then we tell Qatar to send the surface-to-air missiles to Libya (this happened). That’s just one example, and there are dozens of documented instances.
Qatar is the home base of the Muslim Brotherhood, the official agency for USA influence with political Islam, the tool/bank of the CIA, and the proxy ambassador for U.S. influence with al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas. We give Qatar money, then tell them what to do with it – like send to Iran (link) or send to Ukraine (link). Qatar is our national “dark money” bank.
Inside this rather weird story, the DOJ is now filing an additional indictment against Senator Bob Menendez for organizing a financing system for a U.S. business using investment funds from Qatar. The business, likely the Edgewater development project (principal investor Fred Daibes), paid Senator Menendez an indulgency fee (bribe) for helping with the Qatari contacts, and then Qatar gave Bob Menendez perks for the end result.
Oh, the irony… Hunter and Joe Biden, not-so-much… I digress.
If you really look at this action by Main Justice, and you understand how all of the key politicians receive some form of compensation from Qatar, then suddenly you have to ask why is the DOJ singling out Menendez for something the entire Senate is doing?
One possible answer is that it’s an election year, and Main Justice (Lisa Monaco), in collaboration with the Intelligence Community (Avril Haines), is sending a shot across the bow to any U.S. Senator that they need to be careful with any position they take, or the “six ways to Sunday” group will be activated against them.
Nothing else really makes any sense.
Additionally, you have to laugh at this little line… “Menendez allegedly messaged Daibes on an encrypted app“… Gee, not so much encryption, eh? I wonder what app that was? PRO TIP: Likely, Signal.
WASHINGTON DC – […] In January 2022, as Daibes was about to meet the Qatari investor in London, Menendez allegedly texted both of them: “Greetings, I understand my friend is going to visit with you on the 15th of the month. I hope that this will result in the favorable and mutually beneficial agreement that you have both engaged in discussing.”
That May, according to the indictment, the Qatari company signed a letter of intent to enter into a joint venture with Daibes and “thereafter, Daibes provide Menendez with at least one gold bar.” Three days later, following a dinner with Daibes, Menendez allegedly Googled “one kilo gold price.” (read more)
I’m sorry, but this is funny… because it’s friggin’ Qatar.
Everyone who walks in the political weeds knows the U.S. government controls all the Qatar stuff.
Remember, when the people behind Biden needed to execute the DoS/CIA World War Reddit? [Check Date]
Or when the people behind Biden needed to give Iran money to fund the Hamas attack?
Posted originally on the CTH on on the January 2, 2024 | Sundance
In order to believe that Republican politicians support border control, you would simultaneously have to believe that Congress couldn’t shut down government until President Biden takes action.
You would have to believe the GOP House has no options, no power, no control, no ability or capacity to use the power of the people’s house to change the dynamic. That’s all nonsense. We do the things that are important to us. We avoid the things we do not want to do.
Republicans can shut down government, shut down agencies, cut off funding, and tell the American people why they are doing it… They can use their power to force Joe Biden to fight them and simultaneously make Biden justify to the American people why he refuses to secure our nation. Republicans could file court cases, force action, hold impeachment hearings, issue subpoenas, force testimony, demand action or face the consequences…. There is much they can do.
Alas, instead of taking severe action in the face of severe peril, they pretend to be powerless and announce they will “advocate” which means in DC, talk about it more.
Posted originally on the CTH on January 1, 2024 | Sundance
In this outline I am going to expand on the details previously discussed {HERE}. You won’t find this in any financial media discussion, and there’s only a handful of people I know in the west who really understand the ramifications. Fortunately, one of them is running for President.
First some non-pretending context. If you are a Friedman-ite, finance major from any traditional academic institute – including Wharton, and/or a person who uses data models to frame analysis about economics and finance, without the capacity to put all of your traditional reference points in the trash heap of irrelevance, then just move along. We ain’t got time for that.
Consider Austan Goolsbee and Bill Ayers having dinner talking about what would happen if they successfully de-dollarized the globe. Austan comes at it from one perspective, Bill from another. Bernardine Dohrn smiles, because neither of the Chicago dinner guests has any idea what would really happen in this ideological landscape; no one really does.
I first sounded the alarm on this on March 2, 2022, almost two years ago {SEE HERE}.
In the ideological DoS/CIA/WEF/Western banking frenzy to punish the horrible Russia, I took a different approach. I overlaid the human factor with the geopolitical reality of financial control mechanisms. I predicted a cleaving outcome, because I carry no assumptions. That’s the context.
Additionally, I’m not coming at this situational analysis having relied on charts, graphs, trade analysis, Western finance systems or actuarial constructs of monetary manipulation by central bankers. Nope. I sat quietly inside small to medium-sized regional banks in Western Europe and listened to the reality of what businesspeople are doing, actually doing, in their operation of their enterprise as it relates to finance and Russia. {Go Deep}
This is where the razor’s edge outcome of the cleaving, the “yellow zone” -vs- “grey zone” construct, meets reality.
What we will witness this year will be one of the biggest stories of 2024 that will impact every American. However, few people will understand the information that will slowly trickle toward us, because too few people analyze information without historic assumptions.
When the “West” (yellow zone) triggered the sanction regime against Russia, almost no one took a big picture overlay and asked, “What about those nations who do not align with the Western intent; what will they do?”
Russia is not an enemy of the world; in fact, they have good relationships with China, Iran, India, multiple Middle East nations including Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and several Eastern European as well as African countries.
When the USA was walking away from the Arab Spring crisis Obama created, it was Russia who stepped in to help stop radicalization; just ask President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Even NATO ally Turkey has an ongoing diplomatic and strategic friendship with Russia; that’s why Turkish Airlines operates as the best transportation company for travel into and out of Russia.
In fact, when the proverbial West triggered the sanctions against Russia, approximately one-third of the global GDP was not in alignment. A trade system that represents roughly 40% of all global production and trade (grey) can sustain a targeted enemy, while the 60% (yellow) allows complacency, hubris and delusions of grandeur to create an echo-chamber.
In essence, the “West” targeted Russia, but Russia had friends.
Those friendships expanded when the international fence-sitters saw how extreme and hateful the USA was going to be. How long before they, country xxxx might upset a USA administration? Who wants to be blackmailed by a similar targeted financial control system that the USA/EU and West triggered.
You might not think this Western sanction ‘shock value’ was a factor of importance, but two years later evidence suggests it was a much bigger deal than anyone was willing to admit.
De-dollarization is underway; failing to admit or accept this reality is akin to retaining a great pretense. The outcomes are only just now beginning to surface, and when we are trapped inside the Western zone, we cannot see, quantify or fully appreciate it.
India is trading with Russia in national currencies, not dollars. Iran and Russia are trading in national currencies, not dollars. China is trading with Russia in national currencies, not dollars. This process is expanding not shrinking, and it has huge outcomes.
If trades between nations are not contingent upon dollars, then less dollars need to be purchased. Less U.S. treasuries are purchased to back up the trade. Less dollar demand means lower dollar value. This process is only just beginning, and we cannot see it. The only way to see it is to step out of the yellow zone and look at the costs of goods and services in the grey zone.
Dollars are still in demand for anyone who wants access to the USA or EU market, so this de-dollarization process is limited in scale right now. But again, it’s expanding – meaning the demand for dollars is less.
Inside the Yellow Zone we cannot see the shift, but we can see the signs of a less demanded dollar in the prices of goods and services in the yellow zone. Inflation runs high in the Western zone as this devalued dollar begins to become more of an issue.
When we talk about “inflation” it is critical to keep in mind we are not ONLY talking about the price of goods. Yes, goods are one component to increased costs of living; however, financial service products like insurance costs (health, life, auto, homeowners etc.) are part of the equation where we see the inflationary impact of de-dollarization running amok. The financial services are closely related to the overall finance sector (think banking), so those skyrocketing costs hit first and become the precursor.
Next in the inflationary scale of impact comes the energy costs, which – as a direct and consequential outcome – transfer into the increased costs of goods, via packaging, processing, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, etc. The overall business costs for insurance and financial services then aggregate with the energy cost impact and amplify the issue.
You can argue whether the current cost drivers or inflationary reality was a feature (intent) or a flaw (short-sighted outcome) of the western sanction regime, in combination with the intentional Build Back Better energy shift.
Austan Goolsbee might say it’s an accidental outcome, while a more radical communist like Bill Ayers says it was intended.
Personally, I think it was absolutely an intended feature, created to pave the way for a digital Western currency; that’s what it looked like in March 2022, and that’s what it still looks like today.
Regardless of intent, the reality is here…. barely visible right now, but here, and the de-dollarization is growing.
That opaque visibility is what I am talking about becoming much clearer in 2024. Eventually, people will start to ask questions about why the cost of products inside the yellow zone is so far out of sync with identical products and services inside the grey zone. {GO DEEP} The only way to see it, is to travel to both.
Now bring back the traditional Goolsbee economist thinking. If domestic prices continue rising (de-dollarization outcome), then domestic wage rates will need to rise in order for people inside the yellow zone to cope. Unfortunately, as Austan would lament, this dynamic becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for even higher prices….
True… But why is Bernardine smiling?
“Maybe,” she says from the kitchen, as Austan squints and tilts his head with curiosity.
Bill smiles and replies, “I think she says ‘maybe’, because the surest way to avoid that dynamic is to import mass volumes of cheap low-skilled migrants as an offset.”
Austan looks even more curious as Bernardine says, “Yup, if ‘Western govt’ wants to align favorably with WEF corporate needs, then let the government give the corporations the means to avoid higher wages by allowing mass migration.”
Austan sits with jaw agape as Bill finishes the discussion and drops the mic. “If, for the sake of argument, that was indeed the plan, then specifically due to the nature of the USA dollar being the most severely impacted, it would be the borders of the USA that would need the highest rise in migrant crossings.”
Huh.
Go figure!
A.R ROBERTS …”I come here to the treehouse to get my morning dose of doom and gloom, lol. Everything I hear from SD and other alt-media people paints a very bleak picture. It’s like watching an 18-wheeler going down a steep grade with no brakes and no way to stop it. What you’re talking about SD is our imminent death at the hands of these insane inbred billionaire genocidal whackos. There seems to be no political solution to our situation. They will either terrorize us if we resist their death by a thousand cuts or drag us off to a Gulag or an extermination camp.
Tell me, please, what options do we have left? They have us boxed in and control an absolute police state. How about giving us some hope, some solutions?
I feel alone. Almost every “conservative” around me has their heads in the sand with bread and circuses. They think the stock market is doing great. They think everything is going back to normal. The libs in my family think anything is better than Trump in office. They are oblivious. They think I’m being a Chicken Little. It’s pretty damn depressing. Why should I stick my neck out to fight for any of these morons? It would almost be satisfying to watch them suffer from their ignorance if it wasn’t so tragic for the rest of us.”…
Instead of writing another article, I will show you the solution. At least what the solution should look like, albeit in a USA version. Let’s call it America First.
Economic nationalism. Make America Great Again, economically.
Stop the de-dollarization by Making Dollars Great Again!
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