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Feb 1 2021

Systemic Contingencies – The Need For Bill Barr’s Positioning Revealed, 2018


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 31, 2021 by Sundance

Everything was essentially a process of systemic contingencies; ‘if this, then that’. If this happens then we react with that. If this is likely to come out, then we proactively respond with this – that allows control. That is the nature of a cover-up operation….

By mid-2018 there was a concern amid the deepest part of the deep state.  Congress was asking President Trump for declassification of key documents, the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel held control authority over those documents, and -during the prior five months- Weissmann and team had been working through a careful process to diffuse a dangerous sunlight situation…. the communication amid the players was critical.

At the same time President Trump was frustrated. Openly and publicly frustrated. The OIG, Michael Horowitz had released a report saying the FBI did nothing wrong in the Clinton investigation (no bias).  President Trump was railing against the ineffectual AG Jeff Sessions and contrasting ever increasing research by those outsiders starting to put the puzzle together.  On June 5th 2018 President Trump tweeted:

In the background, and unbeknownst to the public, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was working to facilitate the needs of Robert Mueller, quietly expand the scope of authorities to assist Mueller’s attack-dog Andrew Weissmann, and secretly was in direct communication with a man named Bill Barr to work the control angle against the office of the President, Donald J Trump…..

In mid 2018 it was apparent and predictable -as more information surfaced- the president would move to remove his ineffectual Attorney General, Jeff Sessions.  It wasn’t a matter of ‘if’ Sessions would be removed, it was a matter of ‘when’ Trump would pull the trigger.  Sessions recusal was a key element to the activity of the DC operation against Trump; if Sessions was removed, all of those in charge of constructing the cover-up operation would be at risk.  Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and now Bill Barr were developing a plan of action.

To make matters worse, by June 2018 there was an explosive DOJ issue; an issue that would expose part of the plot against President Trump; an issue that needed to be carefully managed; an issue the special counsel had been defusing since February; an issue that couldn’t be controlled any longer, and was just about to reach the surface.  Mueller, Weissmann and Rosenstein needed to prepare the groundwork…. They needed Barr.

On June 7th 2018 the issue was released.  The Security Director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, James Wolfe, was indicted for participating in a series of leaks to the media.

On March 17, 2017, Wolfe had leaked the Carter Page FISA application to his allies in the media to help frame the need for the special counsel.  Wolfe was working at the behest of SSCI Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, but was caught by a sting operation conducted out of the Washington Field Office of the FBI ran by SSA Brian Dugan.

After Agent Dugan busted Wolfe in December 2017 he was required to turn over his full investigative file to the Mueller team because they held investigative authority over all things “Trump/Russia” related.  Agent Dugan turned over his evidence against both Mark Warner and James Wolfe in late January 2018.  Immediately the special counsel went to work diffusing the evidence within the file.

Wolfe’s primary leak source, Ali Watkins, now working at the New York Times, was notified that all of her contact information with Wolfe was captured by Agent Dugan.  This gave her time to assemble a defense and provided all media with a head’s up that someone in the FBI knew about the legislative branch effort to remove President Trump.

Weissmann and Mueller’s second move to diffuse the issue was to inform Senator Mark Warner that his communication with Chris Steele’s lawyer, Adam Waldman, was also captured by FBI Agent Dugan.  This gave Senator Warner time to create a defense and position himself against the investigative discovery.

The SSCI vice-chair previously knew Wolfe was busted for the leak because FBI Director Chris Wray, and FBI legal counsel Dana Boente, demanded Agent Dugan tell Warner and SSCI Chairman Burr about the evidence against Wolfe.  However, Warner did not know Dugan used a back-door search warrant to capture his text messages with Adam Waldman.  Those text messages needed a fast and urgent counter narrative which would justify them.

During the period from February to June 2018 the damaging Wolfe background was being managed.  On June 7th enough action had taken place to eliminate the risks in the Dugan files which would outline the multi-branch plot against President Trump.  The Wolfe indictment was unsealed with the approval of the special counsel.

It was now time to deploy the insurance policy against President Trump’s reaction….

On June 8th Bill Barr executed the delivery of his pre-written letter to Rod Rosenstein, as they had planned.  If Jeff Sessions was fired by Trump, the letter provided a baseline for Bill Barr to be recommended as a replacement Attorney General.  That was the plan… now they waited to see what Trump would do.

President Trump kept up his public confrontation against AG Jeff Sessions, begging him to do something, anything, to stop the attacks from the DOJ against his office.  However, Trump never pulled the trigger to remove Sessions…. instead he took sketchy advice from others in/around the office and did not trust his instincts.  In hindsight this was a big mistake.

By September 2018 the pressure from legislative supporters for Trump to declassify documents controlled by the special counsel (they held authority over all documents) was at a fever pitch.  Congress was begging Trump to declassify.

When it looked like President Trump was going to take unilateral action, DAG Rod Rosenstein stepped in and told President Trump if he declassified any documents the special counsel would look upon that action as direct evidence of his interfering with their investigation.  Declassification would be weaponized against him.

Rosenstein’s threat worked…. Trump backed down (September 21st):

Rosenstein had bought time for the Mueller team to continue their operations against the Trump administration…

The day after the November mid-term election Trump finally fired AG Jeff Sessions.  Losing the House to democrats was an outcome of waiting for justice amid a system that was filled with corrupt and deceitful actors working against the executive office.

♦On November 30th former President George H.W. Bush died.  In response to the loss of the former President, First Lady Melania Trump and President Trump extended the offer to the Bush family to stay at the Blair House during commemorations.

An extension of grace was seen by the deep state as an opportune moment…

During the early December remembrances and private meetings, former President George “Dubya” Bush put the finishing touches on the plan.  President Bush recommended his friend Bill Barr to be the permanent replacement for Jeff Sessions.  The June 8th letter to Rod Rosenstein was referenced as a baseline to solidify the recommendation.

Once again, President Trump trusted…. The bad actors had now successfully executed the Bill Barr (insurance policy) part of the strategy against the office of the president.   Barr knew if he spoke a good game he would keep President Trump satiated… so he did.

Almost everyone fell for it and the media played their part in railing against Barr.

In addition to the hindsight timeline, one of the “tells” inside the scheme was how Bill Barr talked about the honor and integrity of Robert Mueller and DAG Rod Rosenstein.   By heaping praise upon them he was affirming their status as not being questioned.  The actions, actual behaviors by Mueller and Rosenstein, were being overlooked.

The rest, as they say, is history…

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ps. Bill Barr quietly appointed John Durham on October 19th 2020, just outside the 90 day window of reversal, for the exact same reason as the appointment of Robert Mueller. A special counsel insurance policy to protect the deep state.

Feb 1 2021

Q&A


Armstrong Economics Blog/Q&A Re-Posted Feb 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Nobody is suggesting that we should “destroy all capital”. Right wing nonsense. We all know that communism is unsustainable due to its inherent lack of economic motivation for anyone to be productive or creative. Similarly, pure capitalism ultimately self destructs without the balance of some collective investment in society (i.e. socialism), as all of the wealth eventually ends up in the hands of a selective few and the rest of the population sinks into poverty fighting over scraps. Your right wing dog-eat-dog, winner-takes-all economic philosophy is hurting the poor en masse, regardless of what you may have done for a handful of poor people in your lifetime.

JB

REPLY: Republics die because of corruption. It is easy to point the finger at the rich which is standard, and my definition of the rich is really the upper-middle-class. The super-rich like the Gates, Soros, etc, I believe are very dangerous because in a republic they get to buy the government. This is what we are seeing with Biden. He is doing everything by executive order denying even a representative form of government that at least pretends those in Congress vote on our behalf.

The wealth ends up in the 1% as they say simply because that is measured by assets rather than wages. I worked on Capitol Hill trying to transform Social Security into a wealth fund. The Democrats would not support the idea of claiming stocks are “risky” and then claiming that when they took the majority they wanted to allocate to fund managers they picked. Just look at Calpers in California. The politicians directed them to invest in “green” projects for political purposes and they lost money.

I am against income taxes or property taxes and taxes are only necessary at the state and local level and they should be INDIRECT like a sales tax as the Framers laid out until the Marxists amended the Constitution in 1913. So now what began as a tax they swore was only for the rich, suddenly transformed into the payroll tax and today most people pay more in social security taxes than income taxes and they wait for their refund checks so as a nation, we are borrowing from the poor and never pay them interest, and then we force them to buy only government bonds denying them the very same right to become rich from investment which is the only way possible. And now the Democrats who profess such hatred for the rich want to eliminate capital gains so when the poor finally make money on selling their home, they want to make that normal income.

Always pointing the finger at the rich is very clever for it prevent people from looking at the real problem – the government.

QUESTION #2: Hi.
Do you think the bigtech supported Biden today and bought a lot of own equities to make positive indexes?
Best regards
F

REPLY: The BigTech rallied mainly because this has been a global coup and they are very much a part of that. This is Schwab’s idea of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the BigTech have allowed their importance to go to their heads. They have crossed the line and really should be broken up. They have become a danger to civilization and our freedom.

QUESTION #3: The main reason why people buy valuable collections is that they think
that money will lose all its value? Do you think that’s gonna happen?

MG

ANSWER #3: Yes. We are in the final conclusion of this private wave into 2032. Politics is disintegrating. There will be no return to civility. Biden has embarked on absolute tyranny. Even the New York Times has come out criticizing the use of executive orders. It is the staff that writes these decrees and they give Biden an overview. This is your far-left going completely crazy. Besides overruling everything that Trump did just because it was Trump, they are implementing Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset at lightning speed. Tangible assets will be the only means of survival for this is outright political war by a sheer dictatorship. It is wrong! These issues should be presented to Congress and they should be debated on. There are even conservative Democrats who are expressing concern behind the curtain that they too are out of the loop.

COMMENT #4: Slovakia continues to do the de facto forced “testing” every few weeks. As before, those without a negative test certificate (or a vaccine certificate – this has now been added) cannot go to work or engage in any business activity, cannot go to shops or any other public places, cannot go out for a walk (even in the woods with no people), etc. They’ve been doing this since October. Seems obvious this is the model other countries will also use eventually.

PG

REPLY #4: This brings to mind the old saying: The king is dead, long live the king! Because of the communist culture which prevailed behind the Iron Curtain, the leaders of today think that authoritarianism is normal. Hence, they become what they only claimed to despise. We have conquered the enemy. We occupy their hill. We have become the enemy!

QUESTION #5: Dear Martin. Greetings..
Seems like you are the Advisor the Chinese Authorities are talking about “They said that while supporting employment was key in the short run, reforms to help fatten ordinary people’s wallets were needed to boost domestic spending – a priority for President Xi Jinping’s “dual circulation” strategy to cut China’s reliance on overseas markets. The advisers are influential in Beijing, and their recommendations are likely to be considered. Calls for deepening reforms to spur domestic consumption have been rising since Xi unveiled the dual circulation strategy last year.”
Being from India, I hope, our Govt should start listening to you. But our Govt is more than happy to play a Yes Sir to Bill Gates & Co.
Wish you health & happiness.
Regards,

PP

ANSWER #5: I am by no means a fan of Gates. He thinks nothing beyond climate and population. He never understood history that the birthrate declines with economic progress. All agrarian societies need higher birth rates to survive. Then he fails to understand that war comes when people lose their economic means. World War III did not materialize as long as everyone was fat and happy. His lockdowns to reduce CO2 have undermined the world economy which increases the risk of war. He is an insane arrogant despot.

COMMENT #6: Regarding covid in the state of Jalisco Mexico posted in the Guadalajara reporter. Jan 16-22, 2021
FREE BURIALS, CREMATIONS, OXYGEN
In a virtual session held this week, the Jalisco State Congress approved the full reimbursement of burial and cremation costs for families who have lost relatives as a result of Covid-19 infection.
Word has it, families are agreeing to “death due to covid” signed on the death certificate so the funeral is paid for.

F
REPLY #6: Whenever you create a financial incentive, it will work. They will lie to get the free burial just as hospitals call it COVID because the government will then pay 100% of the bill.

COMMENT #7: You have gone toe-to-toe with the bankers. You should be the leader the Reddit generation needs.

RH

REPLY #7: The time is not right. Like communism, the bankers will fall of their own self-interest. Nevertheless, the game is so corrupt you cannot imagine. The SEC and CFTC as well as the courts are all bought and paid for. Even the former SEC chair Mary Jo White who I know personally, did not deny that there is a revolving door at the SEC to the bankers. She claimed it led to better enforcement. Let me put it this way. My case was supposed to be $1 billion. When they realized the notes were in Japanese yen and if redeemed in full, that would have been about $600 million because the dollar rallied against the yen. To hide a $400 million loss, they handed the note to HSBC to redeem rather than force HSBC to return the money they stole. If the receivership worked according to law, the banks should have returned the money but then the receivership would have had a $400 million profit. So handing the notes to the bank transferred the profit to the banker.

You cannot win. The courts are too corrupt to ever actually do what the law says. Reddit crowd have false hopes. Nothing they have recommended was against the trend. This makes people think they have won. When the correct comes and they start to lose from every trade, they will blame the bankers instead of looking at what they are really doing.

Jan 31 2021

Big Foot Hedge Funds Get Caught


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 30, 2021 AT 8:48 AM

The big-footed hedge funds thought it would be easy as usual. They planned to stomp GameStop into the ground. They were so arrogant that they decided to sell short more shares than what existed in the stock’s float. This is known as ‘naked short selling’ and it’s illegal, but the law isn’t enforced. The SEC looks the other way. Wall Street is a big club run by mega-billionaires and they always win.

Not this time. The billionaire shorts stuck their collective foot in a bear trap. It was set for them by an unlikely adversary: The younger generation. It’s a wondrous sight to behold.

The millennials did nothing wrong. They broke no law. They followed the rules. On Reddit they encouraged each other to buy stocks that were getting stepped on by the billionaire hedge funds. They knew if enough people bought a stock such as GameStop, then the hedge funds would get trapped. That’s what has happened and now the billionaires are shrieking in pain. Their media is condemning what they call the ‘unethical’ behavior of the buyers. That’s a howler considering how the billionaire traders routinely conspire to manipulate stocks. Silver was driven down from nearly $50 in 2011 to $13 a couple of years later by JP Morgan traders who colluded and spoofed the futures trading on the COMEX. Silver could have had a run similar to BitCoin but instead the billionaires decided they didn’t want something to compete with their debt dollar. Big banks and hedge funds only suffer a slap on the wrist at best when they break the law. 

Now they’re blatantly breaking the law. Robinhood rewrote rules in midstream and actually halted all buying for GameStop to benefit the trapped hedge funds. Then Robinhood felt generous. The next day they allowed buying, but only 1 share per customer per day. Robinhood’s customers could, of course, sell as many shares as they liked. Some traders complained their long positions were liquidated without their consent. Robinhood was revealed to be in the back pocket of the billionaire hedge funds. Everyone should cancel their accounts with Robinhood. They do not promote a free market. Someone at Robinhood needs to go to prison.

The fireworks should continue next week. I expect the corporate media to get even more shrill if the prices continue to rise on those companies targeted by the hedge funds. They’ll probably say the longs are engaging in destructive behavior, while the exact opposite is true. It’s difficult for CNBC to defend shorting because the purpose of the trade is to hurt companies for private gain. The mega rich get mega richer by shorting, which is not defensible. Naked shorting is criminal. 

Gordon Gekko was once asked, “Why did he need to wreck a company,” and he replied, “Because it’s WRECKABLE, all right?!” 

It’s easier to quickly destroy for profit than build something over time for that same profit. The hedge funds profit from misery. Now it’s their turn to be miserable. If they are forced to pay up, look for the stock market to crash. Wall Street will have to pop the bubble to cover their shorts. This is what should happen in a free market. It’s a lesson that went unlearned in 2008 when the taxpayers bailed out corrupt Wall Street bankers instead of letting them fail.

Let them all fail now. They’ve put their big foot in it and they should get what they deserve.

—Ben Garrison

Jan 31 2021

Speaking Fees to Buy Influence


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Jan 31, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I would like to point out that there is a huge difference between paying speaking fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars which is simply just to buy political influence and genuine speakers. Nigel Farage spoke at our 2019 Rome WEC and we did NOT pay him a fee and he flew in at his own expense because he wanted to attend our WEC. We do not pay hundreds of thousands in speaker fees to buy influence. That is the biggest scam you will ever see and it is political corruption plain and simple.

Jan 31 2021

Hope for the Future


Armstrong Economics Blog/Products and Services Re-Posted Jan 31, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

After serious discussions, there is great concern that those behind Biden and drafting these executive orders having him sign them is off the charts wiping out We The People. Trump’s orders to bring down drug prices for diabetics were just reversed to help big pharma. It appears that the corruption is running very deep, but the job losses and destruction of businesses are going too far. There is blow-back in the Democratic states like New York and California showing stiff resistance toward lockdowns. There are Democrats on the Hill who are getting very upset at all of these dictatorial executive orders which circumvent the very purpose of Congress. Even the New York Times has come out and criticized Biden for this approach.

The word I am hearing is there will be a revolt if Biden tries to impose a lockdown nationally. New York City is an example. There is no way that is coming back. What they have done to the theatre district drove a stake into the heart of the tourist business. As I have said, every time I went to a Broadway play about half the audience were foreign tourists. That is dead and then we have the collapse of landmark restaurants that thrived on the theatre trade.

Then we have Congress putting Trump on trial a second time just to divide the country in hopes that they will slander him and thereby destroy the Republican Party going forward. History will not look kindly on what the Democrats have done for now under this precedent which is not supported by the Constitution since private citizens cannot be put on trial in Congress – that is Judicial – then they can impeach Bill Clinton for his sex scandals and new evidence that surfaced or Hillary for destroying her emails.

Unfortunately, welcome to the conclusion of this Private Wave. What we all need to do is work hard so what comes after 2032 is a new way of doing business altogether. It is time we try Direct Democracy whereby every measure must be submitted to the people to vote on – not only politicians. There must be term limits – one time and gone. There should be a minimum age limit such as 40 to 50. The is the end of the Sixth Wave. This is the time for a complete change.

The Sixth Wave before this marked the peak in the Roman Empire. There too, the wave concluded with the flight from the cities to the suburbs as we are witnessing today. What followed was the fragmentation of society and every split into merely local city-states. It took nearly 600 years thereafter before we begin to see the rise of national states once again.

We can do this. The Tree of Life is being cut down as it always falls from authoritarian corruption. It is up to us now to decide where direction the tree falls. The next two books I will be releasing this year are (1) the Economic Confidence Model and a review of how it has worked and why over the centuries, and (2) a revised and expanded version of the Greatest Bull Market in History renamed:

It is my hope that these books will help to guide us in the future as to a new way of managing society that is in harmony with nature and human kind.

Jan 31 2021

Systemic Contingencies – They All Knew – Lessons From Spygate About Severity of DC Corruption


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 30, 2021 by Sundance

To expand on the awakening…. and based on a recent call for clarity… here is some brutally obvious points about DC that connect through the stop-Trump operation commonly known as “spygate”.

Robert Mueller had two goals as special counsel.  Goal #1 was to continue the fraudulent DOJ/FBI “Stop Trump” operation initiated by James Comey, Andrew McCabe and their crew technically named Crossfire Hurricane.  Goal #2 was to bury the illegal action; to create the cover-up needed for everything that took place in the “Stop Trump” operation.

It is the second goal that most people never reconciled; however, it is also that second goal that’s the most important.  Everyone in DC knew Mueller’s objective.  Every person in every branch of government and every federal agency knew Mueller’s real purpose.

When you accept what Mueller’s objective was, I mean really accept it, then and only then can you move to the second part of that awakening.  Everyone else knew exactly what that purpose was, including AG Bill Barr and OIG Michael Horowitz. They all knew.

Everything was essentially a process of systemic contingencies; ‘if this, then that’.  If this happens then we react with that.  If this is likely to come out, then we proactively respond with this – that allows control. That is the nature of a cover-up operation.

From that baseline it becomes an exercise in intellectual honesty to see the bigger picture.

The entire system was united against the ‘outsider’ that Trump represented.  Every action taken by Rosenstein, Barr, Wray, Bowditch, Boente, Horowitz and the special counsel team itself was done purposefully, because they knew the Mueller/Weissmann objective was to cover-up all of the unlawful schemes previously used against Trump.

Generally people accept that Mueller Inc was in place to target Trump.  However, the lesser admitted reality is that Mueller was in place to cover for the branches, agencies and institutions that were part of the originating targeting.

All leaks to the media, by any entity – including the special counsel, were purposeful with this goal in mind.  All information released was done purposefully with this goal in mind.  All action taken by those in support of the Mueller unit were taken with full knowledge of what that second goal and intent was.

No-one was ever unaware of the purpose of Robert Mueller.

Everyone knew.

That list of everyone includes: Bill Barr, Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch, Mitch McConnell, every member of the Senate intel committee; every member of the House intel committee… and yes, including John Durham and every member of every DOJ office everywhere.

The legislative branch knew. The judicial branch knew.  The executive branch knew. The FISA court knew… All of the insiders knew the Mueller probe was one big vacuum to suck up all of the evidence that would have exposed a corrupt system to We The People.

They did all of this because the scale of the originating scandal was so severe it would be almost impossible for our nation to cope with the consequences.  That fearful knowledge is also what’s behind the reality we are currently seeing with thousands of National Guard troops guarding Washington DC…. just in case.  Another systemic contingency.

On TV some voices railed against goal #1, the investigation itself; however, no-one every publicly talked about goal #2, the cover-up.  Yet they all knew it.

Bill Barr knew the cover-up operation when he repeatedly praised Robert Mueller.  So too did Lindsey Graham and all of the other voices in/around the DC system.

This is why all of those characters acted with disregard for any information that surfaced. They were all participants; and they knew the system would protect itself from sunlight.

Once you begin to accept this uncomfortable truth, then you start to realize just how far some voices went to keep the pantomime going.  Everything was orchestrated to keep everyone focused on the “injustice” within the details.

Think about the last four years, systemic contingencies everywhere. No-one ever publicly talked about what Mueller was really in charge of doing in the goal of protecting the institutions and systems within them.  The people inside that system all knew that Mueller was their protector.  Mueller was protecting very corrupt people.

Everything now visible, the blatant disregard and the ‘in-your-face’ approach with the JoeBama administration, is downstream from that origination point.  That’s why they all walk around as if they do not care…. because they have nothing to worry about.

Start from the position that everyone knew the purpose and intents of Robert Mueller, including people very close to President Trump, and then you start to realize just how brutally corrupt this DC system is.   President Trump was satiated by people who knew Robert Mueller was protecting all of those who tried, and failed, to keep him out of office and then hamstring him once he entered the system.

Everyone knew.

No-one did not know.

The only difference is… some were active participants, and some -out of fear- just sat silent to the cover-up operation.  That reality is why the FISA court did not react to Kevin Clinesmith aggressively.   Everyone knew…

Jan 31 2021

Justice Department Charges Proud Boys With Conspiracy To Obstruct Law Enforcement


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 30, 2021 by Sundance

The U.S. Attorney in Washington DC has filed conspiracy charges against two members of the Proud Boys for conspiring to obstruct law enforcement related to the January 6th events on Capitol Hill.  [DOJ Press Release Here]

WASHINGTON— Two members of the Proud Boys, a nationalist organization, were indicted today in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct law enforcement, among other charges.

Dominic Pezzola, 43, of Rochester, New York, and William Pepe, 31, of Beacon, New York, were indicted today in federal court in the District of Columbia on charges of conspiracy; civil disorder; unlawfully entering restricted buildings or grounds; and disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted buildings or grounds. Pezzola was also charged with obstruction of an official proceeding; additional counts of civil disorder and aiding and abetting civil disorder; robbery of personal property of the United States; assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; destruction of government property; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted buildings or grounds.

Pepe and Pezzola were originally charged by criminal complaint and arrested on Jan. 12 and 15, respectively.

According to the charging documents, Pezzola and Pepe are members of the Proud Boys, a group self-described as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists.” Proud Boys members often wear the colors yellow and black, as well as other apparel adorned with Proud Boys-related logos and emblems. It is alleged that both Pepe and Pezzola possess tactical vests branded with the Proud Boys logo, and have attended various Proud Boys gatherings and protests.

According to the indictment, Pezzola and Pepe engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct, influence, impede, and interfere with law enforcement officers engaged in their official duties in protecting the U.S. Capitol and its grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. It is alleged that Pezzola and Pepe took actions to evade and render ineffective the protective equipment deployed by Capitol Police in active riot control measures, including actions to remove temporary metal barricades erected by the Capitol Police for the purpose of controlling access to the Capitol Grounds, and the stealing and purloining of property belonging to Capitol Police.

[…] The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Western and Southern Districts of New York. The case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office, with assistance by the FBI’s Buffalo Field Office and the FBI’s New York Field Office.  (read more)

When the DOJ and FBI want to find a conspiracy they can.  When they do not want to find a conspiracy, they don’t…  That reality is just part of accepting the two-tiered system of justice that is now in place all across America.

Jan 31 2021

Norwegian Lawmaker Nominates Black Lives Matter for Nobel Peace Prize


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 30, 2021 by Sundance

War is peace, love is violence and water is dry… thus the upside down world of 2021 continues.  A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated the ultra-extremist group Black Lives Matter (BLM) for the Nobel peace prize.  Apparently we are expected to ignore the calls for dead cops, riots, extremism, division, hatred and racially inspired violence.

FOX5 DC – A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated the Black Lives Matter movement for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for bringing attention to racial inequities around the world, while dismissing the riots and violence done in the name of the movement.

In his nomination papers, Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement forced nations to reckon with racism and other injustices, The Guardian reported. (read more)

Jan 30 2021

When, “Robinhood” turns out to be the “Sheriff of Nottingham”


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 29, 2021 AT 10:02 AM

New Tina Toon

Robinhood was designed to appeal to the millennial generation of stock traders. With its slick design, commission free trades, and trendy catchphrases, (Let the people trade), Robinhood claimed it was all about ‘democratizing finance’ by making it simple.

Unfortunately, when it came to their own customers buying the heavily-shorted company GameStop, Robinhood decided to start stealing from the poor and giving it to the rich.’ The rich hedge funds, that is.

Citadel has a close financial relationship with Robinhood as well as a large stake in Melvin Capital, a hedge fund that massively shorted GameStop, with disastrous results. The millennials didn’t like the thought of their game store being driven out of business by ruthless hedge funds and they fought back by buying GameStop stock. So much so, that the hedge funds began to lose billions of dollars. This could not be tolerated by those who think they control the market and they were backed up by an angry and shrill CNBC, who railed against the young Reddit whippersnappers who upset their money-making applecart.

On Thursday, Robinhood and other brokerages began blocking buys of GameStop, and it plummeted from nearly $500 to nearly $100 in a matter of minutes. This what happens when one can only sell a stock—not buy it.

Citadel denied leaning on Robinhood to skew the playing field in favor of their hurting hedge funds, but it looked mighty suspicious. Many traders on Robinhood were outraged by the blatant market manipulation of the company and many are leaving the platform in droves. Robinhood once bragged about democratizing finance, but when push came to shove, Robinhood chose the hedge funds over its own customers.

Robinhood claims to give a voice to the voiceless, except when they disagree with what those voices say. Then they silence those voices. Robinhood stated they will allow normal trading on Gamestop today, but the damage has been done. Robinhood has been exposed. They serve the interests of the mega-rich, who are not allowed to lose. Hedge funds got to trade GameStop but not Robinhood’s own customers. When that happened we knew there were no free markets. Rules are for the little people, who usually lose. The mega-billionaires get to change the rules as they go along to benefit themselves. They are not afraid of the regulators since they are already interwoven with the corruption at the top.

If they can rig the markets, they can rig the elections, the courts, the state legislatures, the media, the science, and so on.

Every lie is being revealed.

We should all condemn the actions of Robinhood, but more importantly….some of these big shots need to go to prison for the stunt they pulled on Thursday.

—The GrrrTeam

Jan 30 2021

Congress is Deeply Divided & it’s Not Repairable


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 30, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is refusing to work with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas after he tweeted a signal that the two of them could work together on a congressional probe into GameStop’s recent stock trading. She responded: “I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.”

All my sources say the divide is so great that it is not likely to be mended at least into 2024.

Forget unity. Forget bipartisanship. Biden is signing executive order after order, denying Congress the right to vote on any issue. I believe NO PRESIDENT should have the power to simply write an executive order. We are supposed to be represented by these people. Right now, Biden is taking the same approach as Boris Johnson in the UK, who does not allow voting on his decrees and refuses to even listen to anyone else.