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Jan 5 2022

Hong Kong Banishes All Independent News Outlets


Armstrong economics Blog/Hong Kong Re-Posted Jan 5, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has completely surrendered to Beijing after condoning the shutdown of Hong Kong’s last independent news outlet. Hong Kong police raided the Citizen News building on Sunday, seized all records, and arrested several board members and editors for conspiracy and sedition. Stand News and Apple Daily suffered the same fate for allegedly inciting hate and promoting fake news.

“Seditious acts and activities and inciting other people through public acts and activities could not be condoned under the guise of news reporting,” Carrie Lam said. “These actions are law enforcement actions. These actions have nothing to do with ‘suppression of press freedom’ or ‘suppression of democracy,’ as some will put it.” Lam went on to use the age-old excuse of “national security” being at risk as the truth would lead to civil unrest.

The people of Hong Kong no longer have access to independent news sources. The government has made it clear that anyone attempting to report the honest news will become an enemy of the state who is too dangerous to exist among society. The people of Hong Kong warned us in 2019 that if this tyranny happened there, it could happen anywhere.

Jan 5 2022

Biden Administration Claims About California Port Productivity Improvements are False


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 4, 2022 | Sundance | 75 Comments

[REPOST by request with note: We will get the December data in about a week from now]

You might remember: October 13, 2021, Joe Biden delivered widely carried remarks about specific actions his administration was taking to increase operations at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB).

Here we take a closer look at the claims since the original announcement, and then highlight the actual results from the ports.  The port operations are actually doing worse today than they were in October. They are less efficient, less productive and have handled less freight in November than they did in October.  The factual results are exactly the opposite of the administration claims.

The October 13, 2021, White House fact sheet is HERE, “announcing a series of public and private commitments to move more goods faster, and strengthen the resiliency of our supply chains, by moving towards 24/7 operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.”  On November 17, 2021, the White House gave an update, “Recent Progress at Our Ports: Moving Cargo and Filling Shelves” and claiming the increased hours of operations were delivering on the White House expectations of increased productivity and offloading capacity.

Throughout these past 11 weeks, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg have been claiming their supply chain task force has been successful in generating exceptional results. They claimed changing the hours of operations increased the port capacity, specifically targeting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  However, if we look at the actual records from both ports, we find exactly the opposite:

Ports record their data in 20-foot equivalent units, or TEU’s.  The Port of Los Angeles data shows they handled 468,713 import containers in October, and 405,309 in November.  That’s a decrease of 63,404 import containers from the prior month. [DATA LINK]

The Port of Los Angeles is the largest port of the two.  The POLA also showed a decrease in Total TEU’s handled (import and export).  As you can see above, the total TEU’s handled in October was 902,643.  The total TEU’s handled in November was 811,459.

That’s a decrease of 91,184 total containers handled.  This is the exact opposite of what Biden, Harris and Buttigieg are claiming.

♦ Next, we look at the Port of Long Beach (POLB).  [DATA HERE]

Again, we note the Total Loaded containers (carrying cargo) in October 2021, the month of the White House announcement, was 507, 214.   In the full month of November 2021, the total of loaded containers handled was 472,215.   That’s a decrease of 34,999 containers.

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There is a disconnect between what the White House, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are saying, and the actual results of what is taking place at the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.  They claim hours of operation have expanded to increase capacity, yet fewer containers are being handled?

Perhaps the administration did not expect anyone to check when they claimed on November 29th:

“The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which handle 40 percent of the country’s containerized imports—continue to show improvement in moving containers out of the docks and into warehouses.”  [White House link]

Despite what the White House Supply Chain Disruption Taskforce is claiming, the actual records from the ports do not concur.  Someone is clearly lying, and/or not expecting anyone to check.

There’s a strong possibility they did not expect anyone to notice, because part of their logistical scheme involved telling the ship operators to wait further offshore so that it would give the illusion of less congestion near port:

CALIFORNIA – […] “Starting Nov. 16, ships waiting to anchor at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will have to wait for a green light about 150 miles from the coast, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Assn., the Pacific Maritime Assn. and the Marine Exchange of Southern California said in a statement Thursday. That compares with 20 nautical miles (23 miles) now. North- and southbound vessels must remain more than 50 miles from the state’s coastline.” (read more)

Apparently, what the White House taskforce did was to move the line of awaiting cargo ships further offshore to make them less visible.  Then, it appears, the White House just started making up talking points about productivity at the ports increasing and capacities expanding; neither claim is based on facts that surface in the actual operations of the ports.

The outcomes speak for themselves.  Both the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach handled less cargo and fewer containers in the first full month of the “new expanded operations” than they did in the previous month when the expanded operations were announced.

In order to remind ourselves how big an issue this was for the White House, watch the Biden announcement from October 13, 2021, again.

It looks like the media need to start asking questions….

Oh wait, never mind.

Jan 5 2022

Another 370,000 Workers Quit in November, Total Quits Rate Now 4.5 Million


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 4, 2022 | Sundance | 378 Comments

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the November job openings and turnover data today [DATA HERE] showing 370,000 workers quit their jobs in November bringing the quits rate now to 4.5 million people.

From the report, “Quits increased in several industries with the largest increases in accommodation and food services (+159,000); health care and social assistance (+52,000); and transportation, warehousing, and utilities (+33,000).”

Over the 12 months ending in November 2021, hires totaled 74.5 million and separations totaled 68.7 million, yielding a net employment gain of 5.9 million for 2021. However, while the unemployment rate drops with fewer people working, the employment picture overall appears to be tenuous.

The FRED personal savings rate for Americans overall [DATA HERE] has been dropping rapidly since March 2021, the last federal COVID employment bailout injection. All of the federal assistance has created massive data skews in the savings rate, as federal subsidies gave an artificial boost to the U.S. savings rate.

It appears that the aggregate American worker is now using their savings, created by COVID bailouts, to offset the massive inflation created by the COVID bailouts.  The net result is a workforce going into negative savings each month as inflation driven expenses (energy, fuel, food) are higher than earnings.  This is an unsustainable situation.

There is obviously a large retirement factor in the quits rate; however, it does appear the vaccination mandate is also a major influence. Additionally, when talking about people living paycheck-to-paycheck, rapid inflation almost always causes job-jumping for workers to get higher wages.

According to the BLS data, in November the job openings rate decreased in small establishments with 10-49 employees. This could be due to employees returning to small business, and/or there are fewer small businesses around to be hiring.

The hires rate rate increased in very large employers with 5,000 or more employees. However, the quits rate increased in both small businesses with 1-9 employees and in medium-sized businesses (1,000 to 4,999 employees). The I9 contracted workers are also leaving small and mid-size employers.

Then comes a significant aspect, “both the layoffs and discharges rate -and the total separations rate- increased in the larger establishments with 1,000 to 4,999 employees.” This could indicate mid-sized businesses are starting to see contractions in sales or demand and lowering their payrolls. This outlook would match the productivity drops we noted last month.

(DECEMBER CTH) – “The value of all products and services generated increased by 1.8 percent.  However, the labor cost of generating that small amount of added value increased by 7.4 percent.  The difference between those two numbers is a drop in productivity of 5.2% over the entire quarter.

This is the largest quarterly drop in productivity since 1960 !

The Biden administration will blame the drop in productivity on a lack of material to produce the end product (ie. the COVID excuse).  Which means employed people were sitting around waiting for goods to arrive and being less productive.   There is a small amount of that which might be true.  However, it is not the biggest factor, at least not on this scale.  Keep in mind we are talking about both goods and services.

The more likely cause of such a massive decline in productivity is a genuine decline in demand.  In the aggregate, consumers needed less goods and services.  This likelihood aligns with the diminished and softened retail sales figures recently noted.   It is a simple cause and effect.  When gasoline, energy, and essential products like food cost more, consumers have less money for other stuff.  Demand for the non-essential products drop.” (more)

When we look at the macro picture, things look a lot clearer than the financial pundits talk about.

After the March 2021 peak of savings rate (massive fed spending bill), sometime around June of 2021, the U.S. economy overall started to jam up.  In May of 2021 the first round of massive inflation started, what the Fed and White House called “transitional”, but we noted it wasn’t.

Then, new home housing starts, and contracts for new homes yet to be built suddenly stopped; while at the same time (June/July 2021) new permits for construction dropped.  From that moment forward prices for food, fuel and energy related products started a massive upward spike.  Despite the Fed and administration “transitional” talking points, the prices continued to climb and inflation was growing month over month.

The middle class and working class started to really feel the inflationary pain in the second half of 2021.  It was not the Delta variant driving this economic pain, it was inflation and the collapse of disposable incomes.  By the time we go to November 2021, suddenly the low employment gains shocked the financial pundits.  A few weeks later, we saw sales data from November go down, and retail hiring for the holiday season was non-existent.

Take a look at the timeline in hindsight. At exactly the wrong time last year, September 2021, Joe Biden mandated vaccination for all U.S. workers.   The economic data was sending signals that things were tenuous, but no one was paying attention.  The already tenuous economy and labor pool (economists ignoring) was hit with an ultimatum of forced vaccination or get fired.

It’s not a single factor leading to this quits rate data.  As you can see, there is a snowball effect inside the data.   Wages earned, including any pay raises, have been chewed up by much higher inflation.   When we look back upon this economy in a year, I am quite certain we will identify the inflection point as June of 2021.  That’s when things peaked and started to go down.

Keep in mind, inflation has a big impact on job turnover.  When people feel inflation, they look for pay raises.  Larger employers are slower to respond to pay raises driven by worker needs, and many have very structured pay raise guidance.

Ex. if a worker needs a raise (immediate inflation driven), and the boss or organization is less responsive (structured pay raise schedule or performance review), the worker can get a faster pay raise by quitting their employer and going to work at a higher entry wage rate with another firm.   If the job market is tight, the worker can make much more doing this.  This is called job-jumping.  In my opinion, this is a big factor right now.

So, what does the labor market look like in your town?  What is going on in/around your community and local economy?   Are you seeing a drop in spending habits overall for the people around you?   The workforce hunkering down, forced to spend savings to survive and dealing with massive rising costs, will ultimately lead to less employment.

What do you see around you?

Jan 4 2022

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS


or… mass hypnosis- the madness of crowds

As many of you know, I have spent time researching and speaking about mass psychosis theory. Most of what I have learned has come from Dr. Mattias Desmet, who realized that this form of mass hypnosis, of the madness of crowds, can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.

What one observes with the mass hypnosis is that a large fraction of the population is completely unable to process new scientific data and facts demonstrating that they have been misled about the effectiveness and adverse impacts of mandatory mask use, lockdowns, and genetic vaccines that cause people’s bodies to make large amounts of biologically active coronavirus Spike protein.

These hypnotized by this process are unable to recognize the lies and misrepresentations they are being bombarded with on a daily basis, and actively attack anyone who has the temerity to share information with them which contradicts the propaganda that they have come to embrace. And for those whose families and social networks have been torn apart by this process, and who find that close relatives and friends have ghosted them because they question the officially endorsed “truth” and are actually following the scientific literature, this can be a source of deep anguish, sorrow and psychological pain.

It is with those souls in mind that I included a discussion of the mass formation theory of Dr. Mattias Desmet during a recent talk I gave in Tampa, Florida to an audience of about 2,000.  As I looked out into the audience and spoke, I could see relief on many faces, and even tears running from the eyes of stoic men.

Unknown to me, someone recorded the speech and appended the vocal track to a series of calming images of natural landscapes, producing a video that has gone viral throughout the world.  A link to the video, as well as some notes to clarify and supplement the talk are appended below. Many have told me that they find it very healing.  I hope it may help you also.

A brief overview of Mass Formation, which was developed by Dr. Mattias Desmet. He is a psychologist and a statistician. He is at the University of Ghent in Belgium.  I think Dr. Mattias is onto something about what is happening and he calls this phenomena:

MASS FORMATION PSYCHOSIS

So, when he says “mass” formation, you can think of this as equivalent to “crowd” formation. One can think of this as:

CROWD PSYCHOSIS

The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object.

As mass formation progresses, the group becomes increasingly bonded and connected. Their field of attention is narrowed and they become unable to consider alternative points of view.  Leaders of the movement are revered, unable to do no wrong. 

Left unabated, a society under the spell of mass formation will support a totalitarian governance structure capable of otherwise unthinkable atrocities in order to maintain compliance. A note: mass formation is different from group think. There are easy ways to fix group think by just bringing in dissenting voices and making sure you give them platforms.  It isn’t so easy with mass formation.  Even when the narrative falls apart, cracks in the strategy clearly aren’t solving the issue, the hypnotized crowd can’t break free of the narrative.  This is what appears to be happening now with COVID-19.  The solution for those in control of the narrative is to produce bigger and bigger lies to prop up the solution.  Those being controlled by mass formation no longer are able to use reason to break free of the group narrative.

Of course, the obvious example of mass formation is Germany in the 1930s and 40s. How could the German people who were highly educated, very liberal in the classic sense; western thinking people… how could they go so crazy and do what they did to the Jews? How could this happen?
To a civilized people?  A leader of a mass formation movement will use the platform to continue to pump the group with new information to focus on.  In the case of COVID-19, I like to use the term “fear porn.”  Leaders, through main stream media and government channels continuously  feed the “beast” with more messaging that focus and further hypnotize their adherents.

Studies suggest that mass formation follows a general distribution:

  • 30% are brainwashed, hypnotized, indoctrinated by the group narrative
  • 40% in the middle are persuadable and may follow if no worthy alternative is perceived
  • 30% fight against the narrative.

Those that rebel and fight against the narrative, become the enemy of the brainwashed and a primary target of aggression.

One of the the best ways to counter mass formation is for those against the narrative to continue to speak out against it, which serves to help break the hypnosis of some in the brainwashed group as well as persuade the persuadable middle to choose reason over mindlessness.

Dr. Desmet suggests that for something as big as COVID-19, the only way to break the mass formation psychosis is to give the crowd something bigger to focus on.  He believes that totalitarianism may be that bigger issue.  Of course, after COVID-19, global totalitarianism may be the biggest issue of our time.  

Copyright © 2021, Robert W. Malone, MD, MS
Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this work in its entirety and with author acknowledgement.

Jan 4 2022

Navy SEALS Win Preliminary Injunction Against Biden Mandated COVID Vaccination


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 113 Comments

Let’s hope this preliminary injunction holds up for the Special Warfare Personnel [Court Ruling HERE]

(Via AP) – The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas today issued a preliminary injunction, stopping the Department of Defense from punishing military service members who have religious objections to the vaccine mandate. First Liberty Institute filed a federal lawsuit and motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of dozens of U.S. Navy SEALs and other Naval Special Warfare personnel against the Biden Administration and the Department of Defense for their refusal to grant religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

“Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America’s values,” said Mike Berry, General Counsel for First Liberty Institute. “Punishing SEALs for simply asking for a religious accommodation is purely vindictive and punitive. We’re pleased that the court has acted to protect our brave warriors before more damage is done to our national security.”

In his order, Judge Reed O’Connor said, “The Navy servicemembers in this case seek to vindicate the very freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. The COVID-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment. There is no military exclusion from our Constitution.”

The SEALs, who presently serve at various classified and confidential locations, collectively have more than 350 years of military service, and more than 100 combat deployments. When they inquired about seeking religious accommodation for the vaccine, the Navy informed many of the plaintiffs that they could face court-martial or involuntary separation if they don’t receive the vaccine.

Each of their religious accommodation denials appear to be identical, suggesting the Navy is not taking their requests seriously. The Navy also warned some of the plaintiffs that if they sought a religious exemption, the Navy would confiscate their Special Warfare devices—such as the famous SEAL “Trident”—that they proudly wear on their uniforms. (link)

Jan 4 2022

Chuck Schumer Threatens Deadline, Without Votes, of January 17 to Change Senate Rules for Legislation


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 190 Comments

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is using the J6 ‘threat to our democracy‘ narrative in an effort to gain support for legislation that will permit the federal takeover of elections.  In a letter today, Schumer sets a deadline date of January 17 for a change in the Senate rules to remove the filibuster.

Schumer writes this letter without actually having the needed number of votes to change the rules, but he’s attempting to create pressure on fellow Democrats.   Full propaganda letter below, but here’s the part that matters:

WASHINGTON DC –  Chuck Schumer is attempting a filibuster Hail Mary as Democrats’ agenda on both elections reform and President Joe Biden’s economic plans remains stalled at the beginning of a critical midterm election year.

The Senate majority leader warned Monday that the Senate will debate and vote on changes to the chamber’s rules by January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, unless Republicans get out of the way on elections reform. His threat seems inevitable, since Republicans are almost certain to block Democrats’ next attempt to bring up their priority legislation. (read more)

As we previously noted, the entire roadmap for Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election is predicated on exploitation of the J6 ‘danger to democracy‘ narrative.  They have multiple approaches, most of which will evidence as efforts in stupidity, toward using the J6 narrative.

With the current landscape of diminished support for Biden and Democrats, and with the Biden administration increasingly looking ridiculous as they try and rebrand their messaging, the political outlook simply does not look *good for their success.  However, it’s likely they will keep trying.

*Note of caution – it must always be remembered, no political group has more experience than Republicans at turning an easy win into a convoluted hot mess of failure, simply because almost half the GOP idiots are closet Democrats.  There are approximately 16 to 18 Republican senators less conservative than Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.

Jan 4 2022

Good News, Joe Biden Announced He Just Discovered Grocery Inflation Might Be a Problem


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 303 Comments

Comrades, the White House occupant announced today that someone told his wife’s sister about grocery store inflation.  The surprising incident happened when a guest made the comment while visiting over the holidays.

Apparently, there are these places, ‘grocery stores’ he thinks they might be called, where people go to get ingredients for cooking food and stuff.  Mr. Biden shared his surprise upon hearing about the issue.  In a rather remarkable result, Joe Biden now states his administration will begin to focus on what policies might help the types of people who have to go to these food store places.  WATCH: 

Imagine what might happen if Biden finds out the temperature inside is made different from the temperature outside by something called electricity, oil or gas.

Wait…. nah, never mind…

Jan 4 2022

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Responds to Democrat Criticism of Him Caring for Wife During Cancer Treatments


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 144 Comments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been criticized over the Christmas/New Year holiday for attending the chemotherapy treatments of his wife Casey, and not triggering a higher level of panic in his state as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads.

Yes, as ridiculous as it sounds, pathetic democrats, media and other ideological gnats have been critical of the Florida governor, and today he responded to their nonsense.  During a press conference on the latest actions of his administration to enhance COVID therapeutic options, DeSantis responded to the criticism of his time management. WATCH:

Full remarks and presser below:

Jan 4 2022

Transcript of Joe Rogan Interviewing Dr. Robert Malone


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 292 Comments

The consequences of a viral interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone continue to reverberate.   Google, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook have all removed the interview from their platforms and banned the content sharing. Obviously, the content of the interview has been deemed subversive to the interests of U.S. government officials and Big Tech.

However, that said, Texas republican congressman Troy Nehls (TX-CD22) has placed the transcript of the interview into the public record.

The transcript is available on Nehls’ website HERE, also available in pdf download/upload format HERE, and we have copied it to a sharable pdf format HERE and embed below.

The entire transcript of the 3-hour interview is 43 pages.

Hope you find this useful as a resource.  The rebellion continues….

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Jan 3 2022

From Amsterdam Protester


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: dear Marty

your reflection on Amsterdam protests is interesting

true, the lockdowns are absolute tyranny
true, this government is nothing different than an extension of the WEF illuminati
true, this demonstration was forbidden just days before by (WEF) Major F(H)alsema because she insisted a maximum of 2,500 people to join, while 25,000 were expected to show up

what strikes me is the media attention :
* media reported the organisation did not want to cooperate to organise a safe demo (which is a blatant lie)
* afterwards they made sure the whole world knows about the violence that took place

BUT we were there in Amsterdam yesterday
and it was an amazing experience : good weather, good vibe, great musicians, great talks and yes a very very positive vibe of people who do not want to do anything with this government any longer

so why does government media focus on this negativity ?
1. because it is the ultimate argument to release the army on the people
2. to scare people away from the demo’s
3. to ignore & repress the strong positive vibe of those who are standing up

actually, this country (Netherlands) has way too many people who just blindly follow orders, just like the nazi’s
but the gathering of the few who do not, is starting to gain traction

what needs to be reported in the media is this positive vibe !
because yesterday we made a very very important progression :
*** we performed the forbidden demonstration ***
that is a major major major step forward

this is what needs to enter the news
and all this focus on (government organised) negativity of a few is not worth mentioning
and if we mention, we need to make sure people understand these are government organised incidents

we were there with family
and of course we did not go to the forbidden square
why should we ?
if i want to fight, i’ll go without family, and bring a leopard tank, not bare hands against armed police
if i want to fight, i’ll make sure I’ll win

but we came there to demonstrate peacefully
and if this square is forbidden and loaded with military police,
you simply go to the next square

we need to raise this positive vibe until all dutch people gain the courage to just go from one city to the next, day by day and lockdown everything by doing it, so we purge this WEF shit into the toilet

we need that positive vibe

it was not about some (government organised) incidents,
which are just to enable the future application of the army and further destruction of our country

REPLY: I have receiver numerous reports from people who attended the Amsterdam protest. It certainly appears that the government INTENDED to be a cruel as possible indeed to show people they should stay home and never protest to further this conspiracy about ending freedom and any right to vote for politicians which is on the agenda.