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Dec 30 2019

James Bond’s License to Kill Upheld by British High Court


Armstrong Ecomics Blog/Rule of Law

Re-Posted Dec 30, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

If you loved action movies, depending upon your age, then you may have grown up on James Bond films. The tagline was that James Bond had a license to kill. Interestingly, the British High Court has ruled that indeed British spies and their agents have a license to kill, just as portrayed in the James Bond Movies. They can kill in the line of duty without fear of prosecution provided they persuade police and prosecutors it was in the public interest. So the James Bond series is not altogether just fiction.

Of course, so far the count was 897 people were killed in the United States by police. On that basis, the High Court’s ruling in Britain should not be that unusual.

Dec 30 2019

Parents Beware – California Public Schools Will Implement Already Proven Failed Program to Stop Schools from Suspending Students With Bad Behavior….


Re-Posted from the conservative tree house on December 29, 2019 by 

California public schools are on the cusp of initiating a new state-wide law that will ban schools from suspending students for antisocial, disruptive behavior.

The absolutely worst part of this initiative is that California doesn’t need to wait to find out the results of what will happen.  This exact program was initiated in Miami-Dade and Broward County Florida schools with disastrous and deadly consequences.

SACRAMENTO (KRON) — New laws taking effect in 2020 will impact schools across California.

Starting next school year, it will be illegal for public schools in the state to suspend students in first through fifth grade for willfully defying teachers or administrators.

Then, from 2021 through 2025, it will be temporarily extended to kids in grades six through eight.

Supporters say suspensions for willful defiance are disproportionately used against students of color. (read more)

What is being described here is exactly the same as the “Promise Program” tried out in Broward County and “My Brother’s Keeper” program tried-out in Miami-Dade countysince 2010.  Both counties initiated diversionary programs for anti-social behavior that focused on keeping offending students in the school.

After several years of attempting the alternate disciplinary programs the result was abject chaos in both school systems; systemic educational failure in all affected schools; and eventually the culmination of all that progressive effort resulted in the 2018 deaths of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida.

It might seem like a good idea, most emotional progressive policies always do, but the prior educational results were exceptionally damaging.

Parents in California should strongly look at the results of where these types of programs were attempted before.  There is no need to take a wait-and-see approach for the consequences.  This approach has already been tested over the course of almost ten years.

In an effort to keep badly behaving students attending school the only thing that happens is teachers spend the majority of their time attempting to control those very same students.  The school administrators then have to start initiating internal programs to protect good students from the bad ones while being forced to keep them together in the same classrooms.  The result is an absolute mess.

Good students suffer because the quality of education drops almost immediately.  Bad students don’t improve and there is no actionable consequence for even violent anti-social behavior.

Parents end up stuck in the middle with few options…. until eventually it all boils over and either: (A) a formerly stable student, who has now been initiated to years of bullying, comes to school with a weapon to fend off the emotional or physical violence; or (B) one of the willfully-defiant students, like Nikolas Cruz, comes to school with a weapon to complete their mission.

In the lead-up to this guaranteed outcome, as increasing violence becomes unacceptable to the parents, reactionary school districts will try to find a way to stay compliant with the law while retaining student safety…. Ergo schools will start hiring security officers in an attempt to be proactive; metal detectors will become visible; school lockers will be eliminated as a source of potential contraband… which shifts the concern to backpacks etc. etc…  It’s a never ending cascade of unintended consequences.

Over time, within this state-wide educational jungle, each district will then start debating the acceptable number of violent assaults, rapes, drug offenses and other crimes that will have to be navigated in order to meet all the legal compliance demands.

A multi-tiered process of loosely defined school regulations will result… every individual decision will become opaque based on the situational crisis and the people placed in untenable situations.  The negative impacts will disproportionately be felt in the minority neighborhoods who already have educational challenges.

California school bus drivers, now forced to transport violent offenders, will request protective cages on their buses.  Some districts will reimburse teachers for bullet proof clothing.  School administrative offices will spend millions on security, CCTV, steel reinforced doors and armed security; all of this collective effort is used to manage an increasingly defiant group of students.  However, all of this effort amounts to a focus that is entirely detached from teaching anything.

Schools will turn to law enforcement for help.  Arrests will replace suspensions…. then there will be a backlash to the number of students getting arrested… the same progressive thought leaders who initiated the “non suspension” policy for willful defiance, will now propose juvenile justice reform that will lower “student arrests”…. and so the cycle will go until eventually the entire educational system is based on Safari Rules.

Loosely defined, Safari Rules say: don’t get out of your car or it’s your own fault for being eaten by the animals.  Translated into context: sending your kids to public schools is the same as pushing them out the car door.

California doesn’t need to wait to see the outcome, it has already been tried.

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Dec 30 2019

Another Horrific Anti-Semitic Attack in New York – Five Jews Critically Wounded During Machete Attack…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 29, 2019 by 

New York has a serious anti-semitic problem with escalating violence against Jewish people of faith.  Last night a 37-year-old attacker, Grafton E. Thomas (pictured below), targeted a home and synagogue in Rockland County, severely injuring five people before fleeing the scene.   Grafton Thomas was arrested in Harlem shortly after the attack.

MONSEY, New York (WABC) — A man attacked a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Rockland County late Saturday, stabbing and wounding five people before fleeing in a vehicle.

The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) says the victims were stabbed shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday at the home on 47 Forshay Road in Monsey.

Fifty to 60 people were inside the synagogue, which is connected to the home, at the time. Saturday was the seventh night of Hanukkah.

Witness Aron Kohn described the moment the suspect walked into the Rabbi’s residence and began attacking with a knife he described as almost as big as “a broomstick.”

“I saw him walking in by the door. I asked who was coming in in the middle of the night with an umbrella. While I was saying that, he pulled it out from the thing and he started to run into the big room, which was on the left side. And I had thrown tables and chairs, that he should get out of here. And the injured guy, he was bleeding here, bleeding in his hand, all over,” Kohn said. “I ran into the other room to save my life. I saw him running this way, so I ran the other way to save my life. He said something but I could not understand what he said. I saw him pull out the knife from the holder, the case.”

All of the victims were taken to the hospital in critical condition, officials said.

Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel identified the suspect as Grafton E. Thomas, 37, of Greenwood Lake, New York. He was apprehended in a grey Nissan Sentra at 144th street and Adam C Powell Boulevard in Harlem shortly after the attack.

At a news conference on Sunday morning, authorities said he will be arraigned on 5 counts of attempted murder and burglary charges. (read more)

Dec 27 2019

Rules for Radicals: What Constitutional Conservatives Should Know About Saul Alinsky


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Dec 26 2019

Passion for Politics Meets the Story of Christmas


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Dec 26 2019

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe


A groundbreaking study by Just Facts has discovered that after accounting for all income, charity, and non-cash welfare benefits like subsidized housing and Food Stamps—the poorest 20% of Americans consume more goods and services than the national averages for all people in most affluent countries. This includes the majority of countries in the prestigious Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), including its European members. In other words, if the U.S. “poor” were a nation, it would be one of the world’s richest.

Notably, this study was reviewed by Dr. Henrique Schneider, professor of economics at Nordakademie University in Germany and the chief economist of the Swiss Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. After examining the source data and Just Facts’ methodology, he concluded: “This study is sound and conforms with academic standards. I personally think it provides valuable insight into poverty measures and adds considerably to this field of research.”

The “Poorest” Rich Nation?

In a July 1st New York Times video op-ed that decries “fake news” and calls for “a more truthful approach” to “the myth of America as the greatest nation on earth,” Times producers Taige Jensen and Nayeema Raza claim that the U.S. has “fallen well behind Europe” in many respects and has “more in common with ‘developing countries’ than we’d like to admit.”

“One good test” of this, they say, is how the U.S. ranks in the OECD, a group of “36 countries, predominantly wealthy, Western, and Democratic.” While examining these rankings, they corrupt the truth in ways that violate the Times’ op-ed standards, which declare that “you can have any opinion you would like,” but “the facts in a piece must be supported and validated,” and “you can’t say that a certain battle began on a certain day if it did not.”

A prime example is their claim that “America is the richest country” in the OECD, “but we’re also the poorest, with a whopping 18% poverty rate—closer to Mexico than Western Europe.” That assertion prompted Just Facts to conduct a rigorous, original study of this issue with data from the OECD, the World Bank, and the U.S. government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. It found that the Times is not merely wrong about this issue but is reporting the polar opposite of reality.

Poor Compared to Who?

The most glaring evidence against the Times’ rhetoric is a note located just above the OECD’s data for poverty rates. It explains that these rates measure relative poverty within nations, not between nations. As the note states, the figures represent portions of people with less than “half the median household income” in their own nations—and thus—”two countries with the same poverty rates may differ in terms of the relative income-level of the poor.”

The upshot is laid bare by the fact that this OECD measure assigns a higher poverty rate to the U.S. (17.8%) than to Mexico (16.6%). Yet, World Bank data shows that 35% of Mexico’s population lives on less than $5.50 per day, as compared to only 2% of people in the United States.

Hence, the OECD’s poverty rates say nothing about which nation is “the poorest.” Nonetheless, this is exactly how the Times misrepresented them.

The same point applies to broader discussions about poverty, which can be measured in two very different ways: (1) relative poverty or (2) absolute poverty. Relative measures of poverty, like the one cited by the Times, can be misleading if the presenter does not answer the question: “Poor compared to who?” Absolute measures, like the number of people with income below a certain level, are more straightforward and enlightening.

Unmeasured Income and Benefits

To accurately compare living standards across or within nations, it is necessary to account for all major aspects of material welfare. None of the data above does this.

The OECD data is particularly flawed because it is based on “income,” which excludes a host of non-cash government benefits and private charity that are abundant in the United States. Examples include but are not limited to:

  • healthcare provided by Medicaid, free clinics, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
  • nourishment provided by Food Stamps, school lunches, school breakfasts, soup kitchens, food pantries, and the Women’s, Infants’ & Children’s program.
  • housing and amenities provided through rent subsidies, utility assistance, and homeless shelters.

The World Bank data includes those items but is still incomplete because it is based on government “household surveys,” and U.S. low-income households greatly underreport both their income and non-cash benefits in such surveys. As documented in a 2015 paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives entitled “Household Surveys in Crisis”:

  • “In recent years, more than half of welfare dollars and nearly half of food stamp dollars have been missed in several major” government surveys.
  • There has been “a sharp rise” in underreporting of government benefits received by low-income households in the United States.
  • This “understatement of incomes” masks “the poverty-reducing effects of government programs” and leads to “an overstatement of poverty and inequality.”

Likewise, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis explains that such surveys “have issues with recalling income and expenditures and are subject to deliberate underreporting of certain items.” The U.S. Census Bureau says much the same, writing that “for many different reasons there is a tendency in household surveys for respondents to underreport their income.”

There is also a wider lesson here. When politicians and the media talk about income inequality, they often use statistics that fail to account for large amounts of income and benefits received by low- and middle-income households. This greatly overstates inequality and feeds deceptive narratives.

Relevant, Reliable Data

The World Bank’s “preferred” indicator of material well-being is “consumption“ of goods and services. This is due to “practical reasons of reliability and because consumption is thought to better capture long-run welfare levels than current income.” Likewise, a 2003 paper in the Journal of Human Resources explains that:

  • “research on poor households in the U.S. suggests that consumption is better reported than income” and is “a more direct measure of material well-being.”
  • “consumption standards were behind the original setting of the poverty line,” but governments now use income because of its “ease of reporting.”

The World Bank publishes a comprehensive dataset on consumption that isn’t dependent on the accuracy of household surveys and includes all goods and services, but it only provides the average consumption per person in each nation—not the poorest people in each nation.

However, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis published a study that provides exactly that for 2010. Combined with World Bank data for the same year, these datasets show that the poorest 20% of U.S. households have higher average consumption per person than the averages for all people in most nations of the OECD and Europe:

Average Consumption Per Person in OECD Nations, 2010

The high consumption of America’s “poor” doesn’t mean they live better than average people in the nations they outpace, like Spain, Denmark, Japan, Greece, and New Zealand. This is because people’s quality of life also depends on their communities and personal choices, like the local politicians they elect, the violent crimes they commit, and the spending decisions they make.

For instance, a Department of Agriculture study found that U.S. households receiving Food Stamps spend about 50% more on sweetened drinks, desserts and candy than on fruits & vegetables. In comparison, households not receiving Food Stamps spend slightly more on fruits & vegetables than on sweets.

Nonetheless, the fact remains that the privilege of living in the U.S. affords poor people with more material resources than the averages for most of the world’s richest nations.

Another important strength of this data is that it is adjusted for purchasing power to measure tangible realities like square feet of living area, foods, smartphones, etc. This removes the confounding effects of factors like inflation and exchange rates. Thus, an apple in one nation is counted the same as an apple in another.

To spot check the results for accuracy, Just Facts compared the World Bank consumption figure for the entire U.S. with the one from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. They were within 2% of each other. All of the data, documentation, and calculations are available in this spreadsheet.

In light of these facts, the Times’ claim that the U.S. has “more in common with ‘developing countries’ than we’d like to admit” is especially far-fetched. In 2010, even the poorest 20% of Americans consumed 3 to 30 times more goods and services than the averages for all people in a wide array of developing nations around the world:

Average Consumption Per Person in Developing Nations, 2010

These immense gaps in standards of living are a major reason why people from developing nations immigrate to the U.S. instead of vice versa.

Why Is the U.S. So Much Richer?

Instead of maligning the United States, the Times could have covered this issue in a way that would help people around the world improve their material well-being by replicating what makes the U.S. so successful. However, that would require conveying the following facts, many of which the Times has previously misreported:

  • High energy prices, like those caused by ambitious “green energy” programs in Europe, depress living standards, especially for the poor.
  • High tax rates reduce incentives to work, save, and invest, and these can have widespread harmful effects.
  • Abundant social programs can reduce market income through multiple mechanisms—and as explained by President Obama’s former chief economist Lawrence Summers, “government assistance programs” provide people with “an incentive, and the means, not to work.”
  • The overall productivity of each nation trickles down to the poor, and this is partly why McDonald’s workers in the U.S. have more real purchasing power than in Europe and six times more than in Latin America, even though these workers perform the same jobs with the same technology.
  • Family disintegration driven by changing attitudes toward sex, marital fidelity, and familial responsibility has strong, negative impacts on household income.
  • In direct contradiction to the Times, a wealth of data suggests that aggressive government regulations harm economies.

Many other factors correlate with the economic conditions of nations and individuals, but the above are some key ones that give the U.S. an advantage over many European and other OECD countries.

Summary

The Times closes its video by claiming that “America may once have been the greatest, but today America, we’re just okay.” In reality, the U.S. is so economically exceptional that the poorest 20% of Americans are richer than many of the world’s most affluent nations.

Last year, the Times adopted a new slogan, “The truth is worth it.” Yet, in this case and others, it has twisted the truth in ways that can genuinely hurt people. The Times makes other spurious claims about the U.S. in this same video, which will be deflated in future articles.

Dec 19 2019

COMEY & the Unconstitutional Antics of the NY Courts


Armstrong Economics Blog/Armstrong Trial

Re-Posted Dec 19, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: I remember watching a documentary about you where none other than James Comey put you in jail illegally and forced you to admit guilt to some nonsense. Similar to what happened to General Flynn in recent years. Now that the deep state is being dismantled, do you plan on filing a lawsuit against the government? Any comments at all one way or the other?

J

ANSWER: Actually, to my complete shock, the company was officially closed in 2009 yet they have kept the receivership going for 20 years. Republic National Bank and HSBC plead CRIMINALLY guilty and had to pay back all my clients because they were illegally trading in our accounts. The bankers were simply taking money illegally from our accounts using it as their capital and then put it back in the wrong account which how I caught them. They were using our funds as their own capitalization and were parking their trades in our accounts besides using our money like MF Global. Of course, like MF Global, New York always protects that bankers and nothing is ever done which has disgraced the United States in the eyes of the entire world.

Despite internal audits that showed we were indeed conservative using only 4% of cash for margin and were profitable into 1998. Nothing Republic alleged could be supported. They simply tried to cover-up their own illegal trading in our accounts. We dealt with Deutsche Bank and even had my own brokerage house. The only problem was at Republic New York Securities – no other institution.

 

 

(Go to Armstrong’s blog to hear audio)

Audio tapes which revealed the bank’s illegal actions were either deliberately withheld from the government by the receiver to keep his fees going for 20 years, or they claimed they were destroyed in 9/11 World Trade Center event. This is one copy I found in my mother’s basement when I got out. Did the government ever listen to the tapes? Or were the tapes withheld to protect the bankers and then the Receiver was made a board member of Goldman Sachs?

If the government never reviewed these tapes, then will they suddenly prosecute the receiver and his counsel? Or will the government concede they had them all along and still engaged in a fraudulent prosecution for political reasons to protect the bankers? Was Comey aware of this? Did he sanction it to protect the bankers as he protected Hillary? After all, it was the Clintons who gave a wink and a nod to the bankers trying to take over Russia by blackmailing Yeltsin after arranging a $7 billion theft of money from the IMF loans. (CNN Theft of IMF Money – Sep. 1, 1999)(CNN Russian money laundering probe widens – Aug. 26, 1999).

All phone lines are recorded in financial situations. The receiver threatened all my lawyers to throw them in contempt unless they handed over all the tapes. There were tapes where openly the bankers were asking me to joun them on a platinum manipulation. They paid bribes to Russian ministers to recall the platinum to take an inventory.  I stood up and stated that these tapes would reveal criminal activity on the part of the bankers. They somehow were conveniently destroyed in 9/11 to protect the bankers?

These are questions I would certainly love to have answered. But it is also why they used civil contempt to keep me in prison because you are NOT entitled to a public trial where I could have called the bankers to the stand. The prosecutors protected the bankers at every step of the way.

After the bank plead guilty and had to pay everyone back to escape even a fine, the receiver stood before the court and alleged there was another fraud to which I was never charged. No complaint was ever filed and they admitted in open court there was no criminal description of the allegation. Nevertheless, they just arbitrarily kept me in prison for 5 years without any justification whatsoever in complete denial of Due Process of Law like some corrupt third world country. That is supposed to be a violation of human right the USA accuses China of doing, yet New York does this routinely and the American press also protects the prosecutors.

The judge was even changing the transcripts, which is a criminal act by itself. The court reporter is supposed to swear under oath that the transcript is true and correct recording of the event. None of my transcripts were ever certified because the judge kept changing them. (Rule 5007(a) “The person preparing any transcript shall promptly file a certified copy.”). Even the court reporters conspire against you to deny you Due Process of Law in New York. Believe it or not, this was even address in the court of appeals in another case and the court said the judges should stop it, but they lacked the power to order them to obey the law.

“The Southern District of New York follows a practice that is unusual and perhaps unique. …  Because the parties receive only a printed transcript that incorporates the judge’s revisions, the parties are not informed of such revisions. … Courts do not have power to alter transcripts in camera and to conceal the alterations from the parties. Given the issues that arose in this case as a direct result of this practice, there appears to be little justification for continuing the practice in its present form. Nevertheless, whether we have the power to order a change in such a practice is unclear.  We review judgments, and our review of the convictions and sentences here may not be an appropriate vehicle for the fine tuning of this practice. However, we invite the judges of the Southern District to consider revision.”

see: US v Ziccetello

I wrote to the government and said what is the point of a trial when you people can simply alter a transcript and claim I confessed to even killing JFK and the press will NEVER question anything. I had even wrote to the ACLU, and they did not wish to take on the system in New York. They were just scared I supposed. Forget the press ever defending the people. They have joined the conspiracy against the people that allows government to act in this manner knowing they will never be questioned.

I did an interview with the Japanese press and told them to tell my clients to come sue the bank or they would NEVER see a dime. The bank was trying to claim their staff conspired with me which made no sense and they had to plead guilty. My clients did as I directed and filed suit against the bankers and I met with the lead attorney who said “you are collateral damage” and I said yes, I know. We agreed to cooperate and help each other. The government ushered in HSBC and then put a permanent gag order on me to prevent me from helping my clients. That was just unbelievable how far they will go to protect bankers.

Judge Lawrence McKenna was trying to protect me. The government removed him from my case behind the curtain without any hearing or allowing me to object or be advised what they were doing. That is completely illegal but they do whatever they want in New York City. They sealed all of those entries in the docket which were all ex parte so nobody can see the truth of how they were manipulating even the judges to get the result they wanted.

I refused to plead ever saying I took money or even tried to take money from my clients. They finally wrote a plea where all I had to say was I failed to tell my client over a weekend that the bank took money for its own benefit – not me.

Legally, if you enter a plea, the judge is supposed to make sure it is true and not coerced. Here I was not allowed to speak in my own words but had to read a script (allocution) written by the government and the judge even said you are to read a script no different than a hostage held by terrorists. It was after that when I believe they orchestrated to have me killed. I was in a coma for three days but survived to their dismay. I knew they would kill Jeffrey Epstein for that is what they do when they can’t take you to trial.

I had no restitution because the bank had to plead guilty and repay my clients – not me!

What people do not realize is that the ONLY reason they released me was because I got into the Supreme Court back in 2007. They released me and told the Supreme Court the case was moot because I was no longer in contempt.

After finding out that 20 years later and 10 years after the company was shut down, the Receiver still had millions of dollars he was siphoning off fees year after year to make sure he grabbed every penny. Everything he had been ordered to return he simply refused and was paying $5,000 in storage fees per month for 20 years. I filed an appeal trying to get my stuff back and of course the New York court always rules in favor of just the government as the Washington Post and CNN always write against Trump. What they count on is that it costs more than a quarter million just to appeal to the supreme court and out of thousands of petitions, they take about 100 a year. Since I got in the first time, they viewed the odds of the same case getting into the Supreme Court again was maybe one in billion.

Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that the government had to respond by December 2nd. They asked for an extension, and were granted until January 2nd. In my case, there are three main lines of cases the Supreme Court has already ruled are unconstitutional yet the New York courts just ignored the Supreme Court. The New York Court has simply refused to follow the Supreme Court despite the fact one came out even 6 months before my case. On top of that, there was never any statutory authority for a receiver. The SEC asked for that authority and was granted it only in 2010. The obvious question becomes, just how far will the Supreme Court go. There was NEVER any authority to have acted as they did.

It is now up to the Supreme Court to decide. I suspect the bare minimum is they will finally have to return everything they were supposed to do 20 years ago. If the Supreme Court goes fully ahead and orders oral argument, we may see a decision by March or June 30th, 202

Dec 18 2019

Vaccines & Illegal Aliens Causing a Health Crisis?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Re-Posted Dec 18, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: I am about your age. 35 years ago my niece died 10 days after receiving the MMR vaccine at 18 months old. 2 years prior her sister nearly died 10 days after receiving the MMR vaccine, still with a disability. I asked many Doctors was it the vaccine they all said no. I found a Doctor in New Jersey and paid for a consultation and he said, of course, it was the vaccine, but he would not put in writing. My children never received the MMR vaccine and they both had measles. The Documentary Vaxxed documented the CDC Scientist, Williams Thompson covered up the risk to the MMR vaccine. Keep talking about this important subject.

Thank you.

GW

COMMENT #2: Hi Marty
The vaccine issue is complex and multi-faceted. As an RN I concur that the pharmaceutical lobby has a powerful grip on most medical providers in terms of incentives and kickbacks which in itself is corrupt. Big Pharma spends a lot of money to sway Congress to adopt laws that benefit their industry. It always comes down to money.

The other aspect which plays into the mix is illegal immigration. These children are entering the US with NO VACCINE/HEALTH RECORDS…so we do not know their history or what diseases they have had or are immune to. They may be harboring previously eradicated illnesses that have not been seen in first world countries for decades and/or illnesses that are not native to the US.

The government is well aware of that risk, and their answer is to vaccinate ALL CHILDREN. The vaccine issue and the illegal immigration issue go hand in hand. Until one issue is solved the other issue will persist. Corruption is rampant and nobody wants to deal with it honestly.

Btw, I signed up for Socrates and may be moving to your neck of the woods in 2020. Trying to escape NYC which is another can of worms!

KO

COMMENT #3 (From Australia): Martin,

Years ago, when our older children were toddlers, my wife did a ton of vaccine research, and we discussed her findings. We decided that we would opt out of Pertussis or Send hooping Cough (since the risk of severe side effects was sufficient for the government to have set up a relief fund for children adversely affected by the vaccine) and opt for the dead Polio vaccine since the live Polio vaccine runs a “slight” risk of Polio infection.

We changed pediatricians when we broached the subject with her because she was so adamant against it. We have heard horror stories about doctors bringing Child Protective Services in against parents on medical matters where doctors’ “livelihoods” are at stake, so we decided to part ways before things got nasty.

Even at other pediatricians, we had to special order the dead Polio vaccine because all that was typically carried was the live vaccine. Nurses looked at us like we were from another planet (we were–the non-socialist one). Anyway, we stuck to our guns.

In 1994, there was an outbreak of Pertussis in our church. Many children (including our only two children at the time) and several adults got it. Pertussis is a nuisance, but not very dangerous except for infants and the elderly. The strange thing is that the outbreak began with a girl right after she was immunized, and the pastor’s daughter, who was “immunized”, also came down with it.

Later, we discovered that the live Polio vaccine had been discontinued in favor of the dead vaccine. Apparently enough other parents saw the “slight” risk of infection as unacceptable.

Our next two children had very mild cases of Pertussis at 4 and 2. When one of our other children turned four, we decided that we would rather not risk another case with her. When we asked our pediatrician (yet another one, for we had moved) about the vaccine, she got up, closed the door, turned, and asked us, “Why are you vaccinating this child against Pertussis?” She proceeded to tell us what we already knew from my wife’s research years before. We smiled and knew we had found the right pediatrician.

She became a missionary to Australians in the bush.

Keep up the good work, and if I don’t say so before then, Merry Christmas to you, your family, and your staff!

DB

P.S., when the Chicken Pox vaccine came out, a friend of mine had their daughter immunized. This child was developmentally normal in every way. That night she became largely unresponsive. She did eventually get some interaction back but is largely Autistic to this day. She lives in her own little world, although is occasionally extremely affectionate even toward strangers. She had to be watched constantly because she doesn’t understand the dangers of life. It is very sad.

COMMENT #4: I have a small business near DC and one of my repeat clients came in to buy something for the holidays. He is a no-nonsense guy from Montana. As we were talking, I asked him what he did for a living. He said he was a lawyer and when I asked which area he specialized in, he said “vaccine cases.” I was surprised having only heard in the press about the rebellious backward-thinking folks that are stupid enough to refuse vaccines.

His whole career, it turns out, is representing the terribly sad stories of children adversely affected by reactions to vaccines. We talked a while and he explained the immunity granted to the vaccine companies. He said “Congress is well aware there are serious problems with vaccines. That is why they set up a fund in the 1980s specifically to pay off vaccine lawsuits.” Yikes! Really?!

Seeing my interest, he added that his second-largest client base in recent years is representing those who have reactions to flu shots and the various levels of paralysis and persistent pain that folks experience from improperly administered flu shots. Many poorly trained folks at the neighborhood drugstore, supermarket, or wherever, give improperly administered flu shots that end up penetrating the bursa layer of the shoulder and the resulting pain, in the form of chronic bursitis, often lasts without relief for years. Some folks have nerve issues, some can’t raise or use their arm. The pain is often intense and never-ending.

I had no idea! He said a flue shot properly administered by a professional would not likely have issues, but after all the things he’s seen, he wasn’t a big believer that the strain of flu the flu shot protected you from was likely to be the one you’d come in contact with and catch anyway. As it is now, without them knowing a year ahead which strain to make the vaccine for, it is not worth the risk he said. They had so many flu shot cases in his office they referred to a new one as “another Walgreen’s case.” Just thought you might want to mention to your loyal readers- if they are getting a flu shot, to get it from an actual doctor or nurse.

Thank you for all of your amazing work, insights, and the knowledge you share.

CE

COMMENT #5: Martin, you are on the right track on vaccines. Perhaps one of your researchers could look into this. I think you will find it interesting. One thing about people is their different genetics and due to genetic differences, some are not able to detox as well as others. A doctor in Virginia found this applied to molds. Some people have a really hard time and are sick in moldy houses while others are not. He found the sick ones had differences in genes from those that were okay with mold. He concluded the sick ones were prevented by their genetic structure from detoxing the mold toxins.

How does this relate to vaccines? The ones affected may not be able to detox well due to genetics. While genetics can be tested for, nobody is doing it in relation to detoxing and vaccines (I am not in the field so maybe they are, I wouldn’t really know for sure.) In the 1990s, at least in Canada, the government and vaccine companies took the mercury out of children’s vaccines. It was done quietly with no announcements.

My belief on this is that they found out the mercury in the vaccines was actually responsible for the increased autism in children and maybe other illnesses as well. The reason? Some children can detox the mercury and others can’t, and when they can’t it builds up and causes all kinds of problems including autism symptoms or maybe even autism itself.

Again, I am just a layperson and can’t prove any of this. But why did they take the mercury out for children’s vaccines? They were giving so many vaccinations to children in the 1990s compared to before which is caused by a flurry of health problems in children. Why did they allow mercury in the vaccines in the first place? It is called thimerosal. Well, it is because they then can have multiple doses in one vial and it costs less to have multiple doses in one vial instead of one vial per dose.

Governments are approving all this. In Canada, thimerosal is still in the flu vaccine and governments are okay because it costs less and flu vaccines are paid for by the government. But one can still get the non-mercury flu vaccine through some doctors but it costs extra for the patient.

I personally have no problem with vaccines including those with mercury. I detox well. But some people including in my family don’t detox well. For the parents of children now, how can they find out if their children detox well before giving them the vaccines?

Is anyone really talking about this? I appreciate your blog and hope you can find some help in exploring this subject and blowing it wide open. You have the resources to do this, which I don’t have. I’d do it if I could. Children are being sacrificed unnecessarily. We have the medical technology to do the testing but it is not being done.

Will genetic testing and screening help? I can’t prove it but there is enough information and work done to suggest it should be investigated.

WC

REPLY: This vaccine crisis is worldwide. Most vaccines carry a risk where you can contract the very disease that the vaccine seeks to prevent, albeit this happens in a small percentage of cases. But there are numerous cases on a worldwide basis. There should be more studies, for even in economics and physics there is the superposition principle where two cyclical waves exactly opposite of each other can cancel each other out. However, when two waves in the same direction join, that is when you get the rogue wave. These are basic principles in physics that apply to disease as well.

Any medicine often has instructions not to mix with other medicines. That seems to be missing from vaccines. Their 100% immunity from legal action is WRONG for it prevents them from finding out the solution.

Those who try to paint parents who do not trust vaccines as crazy people will usually point to the medical, pharmaceutical establishments, and mainstream media, are all in unison in their message that there are no real dangers with vaccines. We all know that the press can be bought and the pharmaceutical industry would not need absolute immunity if there was nothing to worry about. As for the medical industry, there are doctors who speak out behind the curtain and will warn you that the pharmaceutical industry is so powerful they can shut you down and even remove licenses. We all know how honest the bankers are and how banks that blew up the entire world economy 2007-2010 are also exempt from any prosecution.

I am well aware of the problem of allowing illegal aliens. Prosecutors are only interested in their careers. To prosecute someone, all other safeguards are eliminated. While in contempt of court, I contracted a parasite that went into my left eye. When I explained it to the doctor, she said I was wrong and didn’t know what I was talking about. Such things, she said, only existed in South America. Well, the vision in my left eye to this day is damaged. I was denied all medical attention by the government. When I got out, I saw a specialist in imported diseases. He just looked at my blood work and said you have a parasite. It took maybe three minutes. Allowing people from South America to come in has been importing diseases that were eradicated here decades ago.

There has to be some middle ground. The number of people writing in with horror stories is really mind-blowing. The doctors do not want to put it in writing because they are afraid of getting sued. This vaccine conspiracy is the same as global warming. They try to demonize anyone who opposes them.

The Democrats have demonized Trump as a racist over these illegal aliens. To cover up the crises of importing diseases, they then mandated vaccines. Once again, this comes back to politicians opposing Trump, and hiding the risk of importing diseases as a result.

I strongly suggest that everyone write to Trump. The reason the establishment hates Trump is that he cannot be bought. That is where to begin. It could become a campaign issue in 2020 if enough people write to the White House.

Categories: Disease
Dec 17 2019

Resist Gun Confiscation!


MOLON LABE

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has a plan to confiscate guns in his state. He uses the usual friendly catchwords such as “common sense” gun control and “gun safety” and the “enough is enough” argument.

In order to ‘help’ people, the authoritarians insist on trampling on our Constitution, which they consider an antique standing in the way of their power. They bypass our Bill of Rights by enacting their own laws. Laws limiting free speech. Laws that steal your hard-earned money. Laws that take away your ability to defend yourself and your family. Laws that prevent you from resisting government tyranny.

In order to take away freedom, the Virginia governor and his Democrat-controlled legislature plan on banning on ‘assault’ weapons as well as limiting handgun purchases.

This should come as no surprise—especially considering that Northam is aligned with the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

For decade the left have conducted gun control in seemingly small and ‘reasonable’ steps. This kind of incrementalism will lead to a total gun ban and an end to our Second Amendment. This is what the globalists, the UN, and Democrats want. Once we’re disarmed, it will be over and our slavery will become complete.

It is the duty of all citizens to defend our rights. When tyrants want to trample on our rights with their ‘laws’ (that cannot usurp our Constitution) then it’s our duty to speak out loudly against such laws and actively disobey them. I commend the patriots in Virginia who are declaring their counties to be ‘sanctuaries’ for the Second Amendment.

Our Fourth Amendment is already gone. They want to limit our free speech with their damnable ‘hate speech’ laws. They want control over our health with their damnable mandatory vaccination laws. They want our guns. Our weapons are our last defense against a capriciously insane government that tramples on our freedom.

The gun grab in Virginia is a trial balloon, a test of America’s resolve to protect our second amendment.

It’s time to rebel against the tyrants.

—Ben Garrison

Dec 13 2019

The British Elections & US 2020 Election


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Dec 13, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

There has always been a very interesting correlation between British politics and American. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister on the 4th of May 1979. Ronald Reagan was elected on November 4, 1980. The BREXIT referendum took place on the 23rd of June 2016. Donald Trump was elected on November 8, 2016. The political trends have begun in Britain and then spread to the United States like a financial contagion. That makes perfect sense because the political trends are indeed set in motion by economics.

Now we have the December 12th British election with the end result was a crushing defeat of socialism in British history. Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party would have a majority of nearly 80 seats, which is the largest Tory margin since the days of Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile, what took place on the opposite side was the worst result since the 1930s for Labour. We may indeed see the same outcome with the Democrats who can’t seem to come up with a middle of the road candidate.

Despite the fake news promoting socialism and climate change, the Labour Party could not deter the true sentiment underlying the trend these days – the people are fed up with the same promises from politicians that never seem to materialize. Promising to tax the rich never seems to lower the taxes for anyone else. All it ever does is line the pockets of politicians and in the process still leads to highs costs and a lower standard of living for the average person. Nobody ever proposes lowering the cost of government. It just borrows more and more and never pay anything off.

While in Britain the immediate consequence is that, for the first time since the referendum of 2016, there can no longer be any question that the British people want to leave the European Union. The politicians have been lying to the people all along. The truth is that the people would be subjected to absolute tyranny from Brussels for they would have no right to vote where they would ever be able to change the policies impacting their lives. The European Commission never stands for election and the European Parliament has no power to draft laws.

The impact for the British election is a warning sign that the Democrats have lost their way just as Jeremy Corbyn of Labour who was forced to step down as the leader of the Labour Party. The promises of Corbyn similar to that of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. If the Democrats continue down this path of socialism, our computer is warning that they too will suffer the same fate and as I have made clear, there remains a serious risk that the Democratic Party will self-destruct, split between moderate Democrats and the extreme left who seem to be drunk their own fake news and like Labour, assume the people are too stupid to figure out the truth.