Study: Lobbyists into Government 


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted May 11, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Lobbyists are trained to influence and persuade government officials to act on behalf of their corporation. Lobbying firms often hire men and women with prior government experience to gain access to their connections. A new study entitled “Lobbyists into Government” (Benjamin C. K. Egerod and Joshua McCrain (2023)) examines what occurs when a lobbyist transitions into a role in government.

There are no laws preventing these individuals from entering the government, as both sides of the aisle are drenched in corruption. The study examined US federal bureaucrats and congressional staff records from 2001 to 2020. “We find lobbying firms that gain government connections through the departure of one of their lobbyists experience a 36% revenue increase, or roughly $320,000 per year.” That is a substantial increase and no coincidence.

These individuals, once embedded in government roles, offer their firms premium services and benefit personally. [C]onnections to congressional offices are more valuable than those gained to executive branch agencies,” the study noted.

Open Secrets lists many of these individuals and discusses the “revolving door” of moving back and forth between positions as lobbyists and positions within government. For example, Sen Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) replaced Sen John McCain after his death. Time Magazine named Kyl one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Sen Mitch McConnel (R-Ky.) said he was “a great persuader.” He even helped Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh join the highest court. Kyl went through the revolving door numerous times and held positions in government followed by positions as a “Senior or Counsel Government Affairs” at corporations that spend millions lobbying their respective causes.

As Open Secrets reports:

“When American voters discard elected officials—and their staffs—lobbying firms and interest groups are quick to snap up the unemployed. Lobbying firms—which often charge steep fees from their deep-pocketed clients—can offer former government employees salaries far greater than those proffered by Uncle Sam, as well as continued influence on Capitol Hill. In return, firms get lobbyists who already have established connections in the federal government and whose résumés can act as a powerful draw for potential clients. The lobbying firms shown here have the greatest track record of hiring former government employees.”

This is clear corruption but it is permitted to take place. The revolving door allows individuals to go back and forth from corporations, sometimes directly working as lobbyists or “senior advisors,” to positions in government. “Dozens of former members of Congress now receive handsome compensation from corporations and special interests as they attempt to influence the very federal government in which they used to serve,” Open Secrets stated. So yes, government is bought and paid for and there are few people left who are actually representing the best interests of We the People.

Epic – Congressman Byron Donalds Drops the Atomic Sledgehammer of Truth on CNN Panel


May 11, 2023 | Sundance 

Congressman Byron Donalds represents Southwest Florida CD-19; he comes from good stock.   After the CNN attack townhall in New Hampshire last night, Donalds appeared on a CNN panel to discuss.

Prior to Donalds joining the panel, the six other panelists were echo-chambering their narrative talking points without rebuttal. Donalds put that nonsense to rest. However, beyond the epic pushback, notice how the panel reacts to having their narrative challenged; this should be very familiar to people.

Notice how when confronted by an opposing viewpoint the panel uses a familiar tactic. Instead of discussing the policy points, the issues at the heart of the policy positions, the panel instead begins to question the person confronting them.  “Do you want Ukraine to win,” is one question. “Do you accept the results of the 2020 election” is another.

The CNN panel approach is to make the person pushing back become the issue, because the points raised are antithetical to their belief system.  This method of distraction is straight from the Alinsky rulebook about debating opposition.  Byron Donalds succeeds because he doesn’t engage the nonsense. WATCH:

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Ron DeSantis Spent $500,000,000.00 For This


Posted originally on the CTH on May 11, 2023 | Sundance 

The SuperPac supporting Ron DeSantis, called Never Back Down, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the Wall Street, billionaire, Sea Island, multinational corporation and hedge fund donors.  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is injecting another $85 million from his leadership pac in Florida.  All told, it is the largest single assembly of political cash in the history of presidential campaigning – estimated value well north of $500 million.

With all of that in mind, this is the best the communications team can come up with:

Now, please do not misconstrue what I am saying. I am not saying these people are just bad at their jobs. I am saying these are fundamentally stupid people.

This is the skillset of the professional Republican Party. This is what they are taught to do, study to do, sit around and spend millions in consultancy fees to come up with.

These are professional Republican operations…. They are also just idiots!  This is why some of the billionaire funders have also paused, reevaluated and stepped back from the DeSantis nonsense.  The DeSantis crew are sending out Instagram selfie-pics of their lunches while cheering for their team.

This is like the General Cornwallis version of political warfare.  They sit around in their echo-chambered rooms and might as well put a powdered wig on their candidate.  Everything is fake, pretense, manufactured and sold by the brightest consultants in the world as the stuff that “should work.”   It’s genuinely hilarious!

Meanwhile, MAGA is an insurgency running circles around them, ducking and weaving through their ranks, and they are totally oblivious to it.

This image right here is almost literally who the people behind Ron DeSantis are.  Not all of them, but overwhelmingly the majority of them are just like this disconnected insufferable bunch pictured above.

If that’s who they are, then WHO ARE WE?

We are scruffy, working class patriots engaged in the battle against them!

We are the workforce.

We are digital warriors, meme creators, artists, researchers, autists and ordinarily invisible people now considered dissidents in our own country.

We are the backbone of industry, the people who keep it all working, the builders, diggers and blue-collar workforce that keeps everything functioning. We are the people they will never fully control.  We speak in languages they do not understand, and we absorb targeted ridicule as fuel.

We are the movers of goods, the truckers, the farmers, the nameless people behind the skilled trades that keep what they call American society moving.

We are the people who grow the food, pick the food, transport the food, stock the food, cook the food and facilitate the life they live.  We are a visible, yet disregarded, insurgent force within their sphere of life that is never considered, yet we control the outcomes of every moment they value.

We pick up the trash, answer the phones, run cables to their devices, mow their lawns, solve their problems, control the flow of essential services and keep our heads below the radar.

We are the majority.

We are a self-reliant, freedom loving, normally peaceful and God-fearing assembly.

We drive them to their destination; we are comfortably out of mind until needed, and yet we are irreplaceable for the things they require.

We are armed with hammers, pens, rulers, mice, pickup trucks, laptops, post-it notes, stickers and alternate forms of messaging that circumvent the control mechanisms deployed to create our silence.

We are inside every facility, every institution, every meeting, every moment of their existence – and we notice everything.

We have eyes of eagles and ears of elephants.  We are there when they do not expect, and we melt away before they notice our appearance.

We are smart, strategic, highly intelligent and carry a brutally obvious and pragmatic common sense that finds optimal solutions to everything.

We identify our tribe immediately and without conversation.

We see what they hide, we hear what they whisper, we decipher their codes, and we understand the complexity they create in their effort to conceal.

We control the physical world that operates around every element of society, and we value real and tangible assets.

We do not sit around pontificating eloquently about philosophic nuances; we get shit done.

We are the people who facilitate their ability to take us for granted, and we do so without issue, resentment or desire for recognition.

We are optimistic, affable, kind, generous, friendly, loyal, warm and quietly spiritual in purpose.

We are polite, considerate and slow to anger.

We prefer to be left alone.  However, pushed entirely far enough, decisions are reached.  Right now, we are tenuously staring with deepened gaze.

We are increasingly pissed off…. Big Time!

In every town, village and hamlet we are encountering the same conversation.  On every porch, in every shop, at every event, the topic is the same.

Right now, we are taking this fury to the platforms of visibility where we hope to influence outcomes.  But if that effort fails, and/or if the command-and-control authorities make the mistake of thinking they can shut down our visibility and therefore control the dissent, there will be no quarter provided in the aftermath.

The two biggest mistakes they can make right now is not understanding why we have begun to bow our heads.

First, our heads are not bowed because we are subservient, cowering or accepting the current effort to control us….

….We are praying!

Their second mistake would be to ignore that we are not praying for us

….We are praying for those who trespass against us!

They may not like what follows, “Amen!

We are resolute and of common purpose.

We are MAGA!

South Shore Chicago Residents Blast City Council During Public Hearing Over Housing Illegal Alien Migrants


Posted Originally on the CTH on May 11, 2023 | Sundance 

The national media hide these types of local stories because they destroy the preferred narrative.  However, the open border leftist policies are opposed by every cross-cultural faction of ordinary Americans, including the predominantly black community of South Shore Chicago.  Keep in mind the DNC convention for 2024 will be held in Chicago.

Watch the response from local residents as the City Council attempts to hold a meeting to inform the public of their decision to place 250 to 500 illegal aliens in housing at South Shore High School.  There are hundreds of illegal aliens currently camped out in police stations around the community and the residents of the area are sick of it.

This video shows the issue of illegal immigration cuts across all political boundaries.  The officials in charge are disconnected from the will of the people.  This conflict is going to escalate across the country as millions of illegal aliens are now pouring through the southern border soon to occupy the land space in all major metropolitan areas.  WATCH:

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Fauci Claims He Never Mandated Lockdowns or School Closures


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted May 8, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency. The globalists have climate change and a coming world war – COVID is no longer needed as a tool for control. They achieved the goal of destabilizing the economy for years to come and determined what portion of the population would blindly obey their ever-changing rules. The people responsible for the COVID mandates that destroyed the global economy are now coming under fire.

The most vocal proponents of COVID began backtracking their stance a few weeks before the WHO’s announcement. I reported how Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau insisted he never mandated vaccinations. Anthony Fauci, the face of the pandemic, denies shutting down schools and businesses. “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did,” he lied. “I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that,” he said, noting that he “happened to be perceived as the personification of the recommendations.”

Does he really think he can gaslight the world into believing he didn’t force vaccination, mask, and lockdown mandates? He went on a world tour, appearing at all hours on our TVs and radios for three years to tell us that we’d all die if we didn’t obey his commands.

Fauci also said he never demonized the fringe minority who refused to take the vaccine. “I never criticized the people who had to make the decisions one way or the other,” Fauci said. Thousands did not have a decision. COVID has become one of the most dividing tools in modern times. “Anti-vaxxers” were considered domestic terrorists who were killing their neighbors by failing to comply.

Fauci lied and people died. He is being exposed as a fraud but the current administration would never allow their COVID mascot to face charges.

FDA Study Finds COVID Vaccine Causes “Spontaneous Abortions”


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted May 1, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

An 8-page study entitled, “PREGNANCY AND LACTATION CUMULATIVE REVIEW” reveals that the FDA and Pfizer knew that the mRNA COVID vaccines were dangerous for pregnant and breastfeeding women. The study was conducted at the request of the FDA, but the agency is still encouraging this demographic to take the vaccines. They tracked 673 women, 458 of whom had exposure to the vaccine, and 215 who were breastfeeding. The majority (54%) of pregnant women had at least one adverse reaction to the vaccine.

Worse, 11.6% of the women experienced miscarriages or “spontaneous abortions.” That means over 50 babies died just in this small sample. Any vaccination or drug that produced such a high rate of miscarriages would have been immediately pulled from the market and class-action lawsuits would appear on every other TV commercial. But the pharmaceutical companies have full immunity and the FDA is hiding these findings. “A live infant was delivered by passed away a day later. Cause of death was cited as extreme prematurity with severe respiratory distress and pneumothorax,” multiple cases stated. Other cases note “spontaneous rupture of membranes,” resulting in miscarriage.

Six babies were born prematurely and experienced serious “adverse effects” such as rapid heart rate, respiratory illness linked to spike protein, rashes, and other infections. “Patient’s 33-year old mother had preterm delivery at 24 weeks and 2 days via emergency cesarean section. The fetus experienced maternal exposure during pregnancy via transplacental route on an unspecified date,” another case states. Four women actually had COVID while pregnant, as we know with certainty that the vaccine does not prevent infection.

The study admits that the vaccination was passed on to the baby in-utero. “Exposure via breast milk/maternal exposure during breastfeeding” is also a known problem as 20% of the 215 lactating mothers reported adverse reactions. It is unknown what will happen to the surviving children as they grow, raised on tainted breast milk.

This study was conducted on February 28, 2021. There have been no calls from any health agency to dissuade expecting mothers from taking the vaccine. This would typically be an extremely unethical review that no board would approve of funding, but the entire global population has been the test subjects and we still do not know the long-term consequences. There have been no official tests on pregnant women or breastfeeding mothers, in fact, they were deliberately excluded from trials.

Trudeau Claims He Never Forced COVID Vaccinations


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Apr 28, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Schwab’s favorite Young Leader is rewriting recent history by claiming he never forced the COVID vaccinations on the public. WHAT?! This man prevented people from exiting or entering the country without their shots. He shut down Canada’s economy, stifled all media outlets from questioning the COVID narrative, froze bank accounts of vaccine protestors, and made countless people choose between their job or schooling and getting the experimental vaccine.

Trudeau now admits “there are potential side effects in vaccinations. And there are people who’ve probably gotten very sick from vaccinations,” but he claims that Canadians were actually provided an option to choose.

“Individuals are allowed to make their own choices. There may be all sorts of reasons why someone is hesitant to get vaccinated. But I make a distinction, and I always have, between someone choosing for personal reasons to choose not to get vaccinated and someone deliberately using misinformation to mislead and scare other people with so-called facts that aren’t facts at all that lead them to make a choice that endangers their lives and the lives of other citizens.”

Unbelievable! His Ministry of Truth is working hard to gaslight the people. He once claimed only a “fringe minority” believed misinformation, but he still forced them to choose between life as they knew it or the jab. Let us recall his true words before they are scrubbed from the internet (begins in French before transitioning to English):

NIH and CDC Directors TestiLie to Congress


Posted originally on the CTH on April 19, 2023 | Sundance 

♦ National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Lawrence A. Tabak officially took office on December 20, 2021. Previously Tabak served as the Principal Deputy Director and the Deputy Ethics Counselor of NIH since August 2010. Today he was asked about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as Covid-19. Mr. Tabak claims he has no idea where the virus came from.

– Non pretending version: Tabak knows exactly where it came from and is protecting Anthony Fauci.

♦ Rochelle P. Walensky, is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Today Ms. Walensky was asked if her prior claims of vaccinated people not being able to spread or transmit the COVID-19 virus were accurate. Walensky clams the statements were accurate at the time they were made (March ’21).

– Non pretending version: the entire predicate of the govt vaccination mandate rests on the vaccine stopping the spread of COVID-19.  The vaccine stopping transmission was a lie when Walensky said it in March ’21, and it is a lie she must maintain in 2023 because the OSHA mandate could not have existed without it. WATCH:

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Masks Made in Sweatshops


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Apr 16, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

To virtue signaling with masks, know there is a chance it was created in a sweatshop. Half of the items you own likely were created in these conditions.

Dr Peter McCullough Discusses Potential Risks of mRNA Technology Being Use in Animal Vaccine Programs


Posted originally on the CTH on April 11, 2023 | Sundance 

Messenger RNA or mRNA technology in vaccines is increasingly a cause for concern in the aftermath of the COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) vaccination protocol.  Recently the concern has escalated as Big Rx and Big Ag have begun lobbying against any labeling requirement for animal products which contain mRNA as part of the vaccine protocol.

Recent studies have shown in mice that mRNA can transfer to the bloodstream from food ingestion (milk).  The potential to use the food supply as a vaccine pathway into humans is raising alarm bells as the long-term consequences are unknown.  Against this backdrop Dr Peter McCullough appears with Emerald Robinson to share his concern and strong support that mRNA vaccines should not be used in any animal within the food supply. {Direct Rumble Link}.

There are many concerns about mRNA technology in the food supply that extend well beyond just the animal vaccine protocol.  The part of the interview concerning the food supply begins at 07:00 of the video.  WATCH: