Apr 11 2024

Paper Bonds – Another Strike Against Govt Debt

Posted originally on Apr 11, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

The US Treasury stopped issuing paper savings bonds in January 2012, switching to online platforms. There is a slight exception where a paper Series I may be purchased with proceeds from a federal income tax refund, but they are extremely rare. What they failed to explain is that US banks are NOT required to cash in these bonds.

A friend’s daughter recently ran into an issue on her 30^th birthday when she attempted to cash in a number of bonds that had finally matured. Her bank simply told her, “No. We will not cash them.” She called customer service, and the bank explained that they had no legal obligation to cash government bonds.

She was told She was told to mail in the paper bonds to with a completed FS Form 1522 to the Treasury directly along with copies of her personal government-issued identifications. Obviously, this does not seem secure as mail is lost all the time regardless of tracking numbers.

There are currently no options to cash paper savings bonds online. The government has made it deliberately difficult to cash in these bonds. She attempted a loophole where you previously were able to redeem bonds at larger institutions if they were worth under $1,000, but still, she her request was declined.

According to Treasury Direct, “Banks vary in how much they will cash at one time – or if they cash savings bonds at all.” We have seen numerous banks fail and begin to consolidate. Regional banks are struggling with liquidity and larger institutions simply do not want to hand out cash if they’re not required to do so.

Naturally my friend wished those 30-year bonds were invested in equities or anything other than bonds. She would have made far more than the government bonds could ever provide, and now it will be a difficult task to snail mail personal information to the Treasury and await a response. Yet another strike against purchasing government debt.

Apr 10 2024

Violent Crime in Germany Hits 15-Year High

Posted Apr 10, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

Germany was once a safe nation. Violent crime has reached a 15-year high, with homicides, knife assaults, and rapes drastically increasing. Crime rose by 5.5% last year alone, with 6.6 million incidences reported. Other nations like the UK, US, Canada, France, Sweden, Finland, and everywhere else that permitted, if not encouraged, open border policies have also seen an uptick in crime but no one wants to point out the obvious.

Migrants were responsible for around 40% of violent crimes in Germany last year, but the non-German national population only composes 15% of the population. Angela Merkel sold off Germany in 2015 when she urged all refugees to come to Europe to seek a better life. The migrants never stopped showing up. Germany handled over 350,000 asylum applications in 2023, and that only accounts for those who went through the judicial process.

The left refuses to hold migrants responsible for crimes and will not acknowledge that different cultures simply do not integrate well into Western societies. Lamya Kaddor, a Green Party MP, said that migrants are simply over-represented in crime statistics. “The crime rate is higher among socio-economically disadvantaged groups, which very often include foreign nationals,” she stated. Politicians like Kaddor do not care about the safety of their constituents and will never back away from open border policies.

The migrant crisis is deliberate and apparent in all Build Back Better nations. These people are living off of the government, are unvetted, and have no allegiance to their new homebase. Southern European nations are in an even worse state as boatloads of new migrants wash upon their shores daily. Merkel humiliated Greece during the bail-out process, and now the European Union as a whole has its foot on the necks of all nations under its control. No one voted to allow these migrants into their hometowns. It is hard to say that Europeans live in a democracy as they are under the control of the European Union, which is following orders from the World Economic Forum these globalists do not merely want a one-European government but a one-world government where the few rule the masses.

Apr 9 2024

Strong Jobs Report Does Not Mean Strong Economy

Posted originally on Apr 9, 2024 By Martin Armstrong

One thing that analysts fail to explain is that Americans have begun working multiple jobs since the COVID pandemic that wrecked the global economy. Nonfarm payrolls increased 303,000 in March, but there are millions of Americans holding multiple jobs who can still not keep up with the cost of living even with wages up 4.1% in the past year.

Around 5.3% of the US workforce held more than one job, on the books, in 2019 but that slowed during the pandemic when businesses were unable to open. In September 2022, 4.9% of American workers (7.7 million people) held more than one job (on the books) as the economy began to slowly recover but that trend did not stay in motion due to rampant inflation and the cost of living. By October 2023, 5.2% of the US workforce (8.4 million people) held more than one job.

Women are more likely than men to work multiple jobs. And we wonder why there is a birth rate crisis. Around 6% of US women in the workforce had two or more jobs by October 2023 compared to 4.7% of men.

Now these are simply the figures for those working on the books. The Biden Administration killed the gig economy when Americans relied on it the most by imposing numerous regulations that forced companies to classify contractors as employees. Then we have states carelessly raising the minimum wage, eliminating the number of available jobs, and raising costs for businesses overall.

Only 62.7% of abled Americans are participating in the workforce. This does not include the 7.4+ illegal migrants who cannot obtain working permits but rely on government aid. Then they “revise” the jobs report every month, with January’s overwhelming report of 353,000 new jobs now down by 27,000, and February’s posting shedding 5,000. Then if you read between the lines, the number of part-time workers, who do not have benefits, rose by 691,000 while the number of full-time workers decreased by 6,000. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics admitted that the number of Americans holding multiple jobs increased by 217,000 or 5.2%, but this is drastically understated as many people work under the table or in odd jobs.

The jobs report is by no means an indication of a strong economy.

Apr 8 2024

The Deep State Has Run Amok: This CIA Whistleblower’s Career Was Ruined By Government Corruption

Posted originally on Rumble By Kim Iversen on: Apr 5, 2024 at 8:00 pm EST

Apr 8 2024

4.7.24: LT w/ Dr. Elliott: Illegal voting, Bird Flu, SILVER, Central Banks buying Gold, How you can grow. Pray!

Posted originally on Rumble By And We Know on: Apr 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm EST

Apr 8 2024

Department of Justice Still Seeks to Imprison Woman who Discovered Ashley Biden’s Diary

Posted Apr 8, 2024 by Martin Armstrong

Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley, famously had her diary stolen from a sex addict rehabilitation center. Some believe the president’s daughter left the diary behind deliberately so that someone would know her truth. In September 2020, the woman who found the diary sold it to Project Veritas for $20,000. After denying that the diary was real, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is now seeking to imprison the duo who sold the diary.

Ashley Biden’s diary revealed she was “hyper-sexualized at a young age” due to her father, the current President of the United States. She wrote that she recalls being forced to shower with her father, Joe Biden, and that those showers were not appropriate.

Now, can you imagine if one of Trump’s daughters made these claims about him?

Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander, the people who sold the diary, have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges to commit interstate transportation of stolen property from an immediate family member of a government official. They each could face five years behind bars.

FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said, “As they’ve admitted with today’s pleas, the defendants conspired to steal an individual’s personal property, which they subsequently sold to a third party and delivered across state lines. As a consequence of their actions, they now face punishment in the federal criminal justice system for their crimes. I’d like to thank the Public Corruption Units at both the FBI’s New York Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for their dedicated effort in this case.” That was two years ago, and the government is still trying to silence the people who read the full contents of that diary.

Project Veritas was raided before they could publish the full diary. The defendants forfeited their $20,000 profit as well. Intelligence agencies confiscated all evidence, forced Ashley Biden to claim she lied, and then denied the authenticity of the diary. If they cannot verify its authenticity, why are they seeking to imprison those who found it four years later when Joe is up for re-election?

The diary was real. Why does the far-left call Trump a sexist womanizer while ignoring that there is evidence Joe Biden molested his underaged daughter? How disgusting could someone’s character be to do that to their own child? It is unfathomable. Again, that diary was real, and the DOJ’s continued attacks only prove its validity.