The Fake Pandemic Resistance


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Feb 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

House Congressional Committee Organizes ‘Ministry of Truth’, Asks Cable Media to Begin Censoring Unapproved Speech


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 22, 2021 by Sundance

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that would inhibit free speech and the freedom of the press.  However, in the era of advanced Marxism and Democrat fascism their inability to use laws to block speech is seen as a problem.

To solve the problem the U.S. congress is now asking cable news providers: Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, Dish, Verizon, Cox and Altice to initiate a new system to block speech the DEMOCRAT FASCISTS do not agree with.

The same congressional committee members also sent the letter to Roku, Amazon, Apple, Google and Hulu, digital companies that distribute cable programming and raising the stakes if they do not comply.  Thereby once again proving the case that Democrats are party of state controlled censorship.

(New York Times) […] In advance of the Wednesday hearing, called “Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media,” members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter…

[…] “To our knowledge, the cable, satellite and over-the-top companies that disseminate these media outlets to American viewers have done nothing in response to the misinformation aired by these outlets,” two Democratic representatives from California, Anna G. Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by The New York Times.

[…] The lawmakers’ letter asks the companies, “What steps did you take prior to, on, and following the November 3, 2020 elections and the January 6, 2021 attacks to monitor, respond to, and reduce the spread of disinformation, including encouragement or incitement of violence by channels your company disseminates to millions of Americans?”

“Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax on your platform both now and beyond the renewal date?” the letter continues. “If so, why?”  (read more)

Perhaps as things worsen people will begin to realize why CTH has been spending so much time and effort building-out an anti-fragile website where we can continue to present the unfiltered truth of events happening around our nation.  It is an exhaustive effort to build an infrastructure that can continue to provide a place where honest discussion can take place and facts can be provided without fear of removal.

The Truth Has No Agenda…. Those who wish to control public speech carry an independent agenda.  To justify their ideological desires to retain power, and, by extension ultimately control over the lives of others, these radical leftists need a justification.  They are putting a massive amount of exhaustive energy into trying to remove speech that would stand against their totalitarian agenda.

We have watched it unfold for years; however the pace of their onslaught is seemingly exponential now.

Conduct yourselves accordingly…. and know that CTH will continue this fight even if we are reduced down to writing post-it notes on gas pumps.  The Rebel Alliance will never concede liberty to the totalitarian state.

Live your best life, and pour sand into their machinery whenever possible.

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Supreme Court Clears Path for New York Grand Jury to Receive President Trump Tax Returns


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 22, 2021 by Sundance

The background of all these institutional moves is obvious if we stand back far enough to see the bigger picture.  Ultimately, Donald Trump represented an existential threat to the corrupt systems of U.S. government established over the past several decades.

As an outsider Donald J Trump had never participated in government beyond cursory attachment to some political figures.

However, Trump held the greatest priority over protecting the U.S. economy, worker and way of life for the middle-class.

President Trump’s motives in office were all about rebuilding the systems that provided Americans with a better way of life and advocated for a true nationalistic perspective.

In the era of advancing leftist-globalism; and considering the trillions previously spent to protect multinational corporations at the expense of the U.S. working-class; anything President Trump did to reverse this erosion was viewed as detrimental to the elitist worldview.  As a true populist and nationalist minded politician President Trump represented the ‘people’, the best interests of ‘We The Peoople’, that made him a threat.

Trillions potentially lost, billions of scheme and personal wealth assembled by the professional political class, and untold amounts of money invested overseas were all at risk from the policies of President Trump.  The money was the foundation for the motives of attack against him personally and against his policies.

It does not come as a surprise to see the institutions of government weaponize their investigative authority; their ability to attack the financial wealth of their adversaries; as the tool to crush and eliminate their opposition.  The DOJ followed this same playbook when they weaponized the IRS against the Tea Party uprising in 2010 and beyond.

Most people have forgotten it was the Eric Holder DOJ who initiated the original IRS targeting of Tea Party groups; it was not the IRS working independently on its own.  The IRS is viewed by radical leftists amid the Lawfare crew as an institutional weapon in their arsenal to deploy against their adversaries.

This decision today should not be a surprise:

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a New York grand jury to obtain former President Donald Trump’s financial records. Over four months after Trump asked them to intervene, the justices turned down a request by the former president to stay a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that permits Cyrus Vance, the district attorney for Manhattan, to enforce a subpoena to Mazars USA, the president’s longtime accountant. Monday’s order means that Vance and the grand jury likely will finally acquire eight years of Trump’s tax returns and other related records, although grand jury secrecy laws may preclude them from becoming public.  (read more)

In October 2015 the DOJ announced it was dropping the investigation into the IRS, Lois Lerner, and the unlawful sharing of taxpayer data in the IRS targeting investigation surrounding True The Vote et al.

As a direct consequence of the DOJ decision, congressional inquiry into the IRS targeting matter seemingly dropped from the radar. However, if you draw a line from the original intent of the entire enterprise, the post-2010 mid-term “shellacking”/”secret research project“, forward to the 2016 election cycle an interested observer might still be left asking:

“why did the IRS, through Lois Lerner, deliver the 1+ million pages of tax filings, to include the entire donor list of Tea Party and patriot groups, through 21 CD-ROMs and not by electronic data transfer. Information that was specifically sent to Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice”?

This is an obvious question which, despite the numerous congressional hearings on the matter, was never asked – nor answered.

The entire scheme is riddled with complexity; almost too complex for the average person to understand, and seriously difficult to summarize. However, when you boil it down here’s the essential components that are no longer suspicion or supposition, but factually provable:

As a result of a trillion dollar stimulus filled with scheme and graft; and as a result of Obamacare being similarly schemed in backroom deals and late night votes; President Obama was “shellacked” in the November 2010 election.

The White House didn’t see the defeat a flawed policy issue; rather as the entrenched ideologues they are, they saw the SCOTUS case “citizens united” as the principle tool used by the White House opponents to organize and fund political movements, ie. the tea party.

The Obama Team response to the 2010 Shellacking was to use the Dept. of Justice (AG Eric Holder) to weaponize the IRS and go after groups -like Tea Party Groups- organized under the financial umbrella of 501(c)(4) donation structuring.

Years later, when the scheme was discovered – the White House denied knowledge (“not even a smidgen of corruption”), the DOJ feigned ignorance, and the IRS began working overtime trying to hide the construct of the prior communication, planning and strategy.

  • The head of IRS tax exempt division, Louis Lerner, pled the Fifth.
  • Obama’s Chief of Staff Jack Lew was made Treasury Secretary (IRS is sub division of Treasury Dept.) where he was/is able to continue hiding information.
  • And Eric Holder constructed a team of DOJ lawyers to isolate, hide and manipulate the trail of evidence within the DOJ.

Just before the IRS targeting scheme was fully discovered/comprehended, and seemingly overlooked by any curious media enterprise, in February 2013 representative Maxine Waters said:https://www.youtube.com/embed/1vbTugrr2Ag

“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.” (link)

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Loose Lips Sink UniParty Scheme Ships

Against, the backdrop of new information which proves the UniParty, both dems and republicans, benefitted from the targeting of the Tea Party and oppositional forces; and with the full comprehension that Mitch McConnell and the republican leadership organized a post Citizens United strategy to work around their financial dependency on the electorate via Super-PACs; aren’t you just a little bit curious what the purpose was to assemble a data-base or “Secret Research Project“?

Lois Lerner’s and other IRS officials’ concerns about how to handle these donor lists came on the heels of an advisory from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) to her and other IRS officials in late March 2012 of “an audit we plan to conduct of the IRS’s process for reviewing applications for tax exemption by potential section 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), and 501(c)(6) organizations.”

March 2012 “audit we plan to conduct” was the IG notification for a pending investigation of IRS. Specifically of their handling of Conservative Groups filing applications and status.

We all know the result of that investigation was a finding the IRS was indeed targeting conservative groups – hence the IRS scandal erupted in the headlines.

However, far more troubling were later discoveries into the internal communications which suggested much more nefarious activity regarding the assembly of secret lists, the “Secret Research Project”.

An undertaking by both the Obama Administration and the DOJ together with the IRS began to surface.

The American Center for Law and Justice put it thuslyWe know the IRS unconstitutionally targeted conservative groups. We know they illegally demanded, obtained, and held the donor lists of these conservative organizations. Now we learn that in 2012, the height of the targeting, the IRS was involved in a “secret research project” with this confidential, illegally obtained donor information.

That’s more than a big deal. It’s potentially criminal.

The very fact that the IRS was using the phrase “secret research project” should give every American pause. But the fact that this project was conducted as part of a well-orchestrated effort to target and silence conservative Americans is utterly disturbing.

Now, again, ask yourself: Why would Lois Lerner be delivering 21 CD-ROMs of data, lists of every American who joined arms with the Tea Party, to Eric Holder in the DOJ instead of just transferring that data over their internal computer systems?

WASHINGTON […] “After the Justice Department turned over the database to the Oversight Committee this month in response to a subpoena, the Justice Department says it was informed by IRS officials that it contains legally protected taxpayer information that should not have ever been sent to the FBI and it now plans to return the full database to the IRS,” a statement from the oversight committee said.

According to material obtained by the committee, the IRS sent the FBI “21 disks constituting a 1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

The transaction occurred in October 2010. (link)

If you wonder why the entire corrupt DC political class is openly in opposition to candidate Donald J Trump…. well,…

Unbelievable, SCOTUS Refuses to Hear PA Election Challenge AFTER Previously Granting Injunction


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 22, 2021 by Sundance

The supreme court has taken a knee… let me explain why it is so evident:

In a 6-3 ruling today the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to grant writ to hear the Pennsylvania election challenge cases [pdf here – begin page 25].  While the majority of media will likely celebrate this decision; and while the court has refused to hear the case(s) based on their position the issues are “moot”; there appears to be an underlying motive  not being discussed.

It only takes four justices to agree to hear a case and grant a writ of certiorari.  In October 2020 the issues with the Pennsylvania court overruling the Pennsylvania legislature was of such importance four justices agreed to block the lower court order. However, four months later the majority claim the arguments within the case are “moot”;  & the election is over.

In essence the Roberts Court is saying they will allow any/all methods and manipulations of election law within states, and only look to the state outcome.  This is very troublesome.

[direct pdf here]

Why would Justice Kavanaugh reverse his position?  In October the state action to supersede the Pennsylvania legislature was a hazard.  In February it is moot.

While it is never a good idea to look into the background of the court for motives, one cannot easily dismiss that Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett may have voted against the writ because they were concerned such a decision would cause the senate to start a process of “packing the court.”   Retaining the current number of justices within the court is more likely if the justices avoid triggering the consequences from the previous threat.

Justices’ Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch remained consistent with their earlier decisions to hear the cases and settle the disputes.  Barrett never weighed in on the October injunction, but Kavanaugh has completely reversed his position with his denial of the writ.

Succinct encapsulation from Justice Thomas:

Afternoon Session, Senate Confirmation Hearing for AG Nominee Merrick Garland


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 22, 2021 by Sundance

The confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, a far-left advocate for intrusive weaponization of government against political adversaries, is underway today. The afternoon session should resume around 1:30pm

If Garland is confirmed there will be multiple people and groups who supported President Trump targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice.  The extremist Lawfare group is openly advocating for more political targeting; to wit Garland has openly stated his intent to continue weaponizing the DOJ where former AG Eric Holder left-off.

PBS Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream – Alternate Livestream

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Vaccine Concerns that They Call Conspiracy Theory & Getting Back to Normal


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Feb 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The entire problem with these COVID Vaccines has been that politics usurped COVID-19 to not merely beat Trump in the United States who in John Kerry’s own words rejected the United Nations and this American was “absent” from the UN climate change agenda. However, in Europe COVID has been deliberately used to crush the economy and to launch this “BUILD BACK BETTER” agenda to bring the Great Reset into fruition. Therein lies the problem. There is no EXIT strategy because politics has corrupted medicine.

The Biden Administration made it very clear that even if you take these questionable vaccines, you will forever have to wear a mask and continue to social-distance. Getting vaccinated will NOT restore your freedom.There is no clear exit strategy because this virus has been usurped by politics and is being used to separate the sheep from the independent thinkers – God forbid!

There are doctors asserting that this virus has never been isolated nor purified. Indeed, even when I went to a pulmonary specialist and said I did not have COVID since I was tested 5 times and it was always NEGATIVE, he immediately responded that did not mean anything since the tests are not valid. There are lawsuits over the test and that it does not truly identify COVID. But on top of all of this, they skipped animal trials because it was politically so urgent. Although there were a total of 43,548 trial participants in Pfizer’s phase 3 trial, their calculation of effectiveness was based on a total of 170 participants only to claim 95% effectiveness. Anyone calling into question these vaccines is simply canceled like Robert F. Kenney Jr.

The initial round of lockdowns was NOT about suppressing the virus itself. Instead, politics claims millions would die because of the lack of hospital capacity. Hospitals were never maxed out nationally even on average. Whether and to what extent the “curve” was actually flattened will probably be debated for years but back then there was NO question of extinguishing the virus. The volume of the curves, tall and quick or short and long, was the same either way. People were going to get the bug until the bug burns out (herd immunity). So politics then used COVID for other political means which has been about destroying non-green businesses and jobs. We no longer hear about “flattening the curve” is the object of lockdowns. This has been a very clever political bait-and-switch to which the majority of sheep never looked at and the mainstream press will never raise.

Virtually imperceptibly, the rationale used for the lockdowns changed right in front of our eyes and not a single Investigative Journalist would dare even ask the question which they would have instantly 30 years ago. The mainstream press has simply joined the political conspiracy against the people and then even the New York Times has called on Biden to impose a “Reality Czar” to suppress anyone who dares to question this narrative. So much for free speech or caring about their fiduciary responsibility under the Constitution to protect the people from governmental tyranny. They should be stripped of all businesses licensed and shut down.

The mainstream press never discusses this “curve flattening” justification used to destroy the economy when NO OTHER historical record exists in 6,000 years of history of ANY government taking such an action nationwide.  Lockdown became an end in itself which had nothing to do with hospital capacity. The Madman of Australia, Daniel Andrews, imposed such harsh actions against the people it became more like he simply was some reincarnated former executioner who enjoyed torturing people. Very few hospitals suffered a crowding issue confined to places localized in two New York boroughs while hospitals around the country emptied out for patients who didn’t show up. There were even at least 350 hospitals that furloughed workers because everyone was locked down and people were dying for lack of medical care outside of COVID.

To keep up the newfound powers of tyranny, politicians and their corrupt medical advisers like Dr. Antony Fauci floated the idea like Typhoid Mary who was asymptomatic but spread the disease. Mary Mallon eventually died at the age of 70 by had never shown any symptoms of typhoid. Nevertheless, she spread the disease while working as a cook in the New York City area. They resurrected this possibility to then justify the lockdowns since the whole hospital nonsense began to quickly vanish. There were locking up people taking photos showing that the hospitals were empty.

In Britain, GDP dropped nearly 10% for 2020, the worst decline in 300 years! That failure should be embarrassing enough to any politician that would have them booted out of office after being hauled up on a no-confidence vote. The economic loss to Britain even shifted the status in the stock market from London as the financial center back to Amsterdam, where it all began. Schools closed, commercial rights were vanquished, shelter-in-place orders from wartime were imposed, travel virtually stopped internationally and even domestically. Conferences and theatre events were canceled whipping out hospitality and theme parks. Surely, what politician in their right mind would have destroyed their own nation without good, solid, science-based reasoning? Human rights were ignored.

This has been a nightmare because it is political. The only way to get back to normal is to throw all politicians out of office who supported this fraud. They have so terrorized people, simply going out to dinner in New York City now has people threatening to kill you for putting everyone at risk. This is totally insane.

California Allows Member of the Communist Party to Run for Government


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Feb 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There are many people writing in about California and how they are looking to get out ASAP. Some are pointing to the fact that the Left has gone totally insane and passed legislation not just that people can steal up to $950 in shoplifting, but that you can now be a member of the Communist Party and run for office in California. I guess this means Pelosi can come out of the closet before she loses office in 2022. This is the problem with the Left. Instead of moving to an appropriate place where communists control, they try to subvert the rest of society to comply with their desires. They are against freedom every step of the way. In California, the US Constitution is just an annoying scarp of paper that should not stand in the way.

People Being Fired by Democrats for Refusing to Get Vaccine


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Feb 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The New York Post reported that Bonnie Jacobson, 34, told them that the management at Red Hook Tavern canned her on Monday because she balked at getting the vaccine immediately. We are getting emails with similar stories which seem to be only highlighting the great divide between the Democrats and Republicans. Some are starting to even ask about vaccines in job interviews and it is going in both directions.

If they require a vaccine they are turning down job offers and others are firing people for refusing to get it. One reader said his daughter told the interviewer she will come back in a year and if you are OK, then I’ll take the job. Even the White House has confirmed that when vaccinated, you still need a mask, can still get it, and you still have to social distance. There seems to be no concrete answer and the fact that the vaccine producers have been given complete immunity does not invoke confidence. Just look at the immunity for BigTech – they have devastated society and destroyed any chance for democracy which relies upon the cornerstone of debate.

The fact that they skipped the animal trials does not embrace confidence when they are exempt from all immunity. And BTW, they petition the EU has also struck deals for the immunity or they would not distribute the vaccine in Europe.

(In case they Remove it: Public should be told that vaccines may have long term adverse effects)

Well, the left better pray that these vaccines do not have long-term side-effects as some are warning because they will be wiping out all Marxist-leaning supporters which could dramatically change politics forever.

Insanity of Liberalism? Abandonment of the Rule of Law?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Feb 21, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: I work at Walgreens. Thank god, not in California. I can attest that gentleman is correct about the policies. Maybe this is why many pharmacists have not had a raise in 4 years. Glad I still had a job during the lockdown though.

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REPLY: Thanks for the input. California has gone so far left, they have turned their back on the very people who pay the bills.

Sunday Talks, Stephen Miller Talks About JoeBama Policy and President Trump’s Next Steps


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 21, 2021 by Sundance

Senior Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the dangerous immigration policy of JoeBama and the next steps in President Trump’s future working on the MAGA agenda.  Ms. Bartiromo discusses the 3,500+ border apprehensions daily along the Texas, Arizona and Southern California border area.

Mr. Miller noted he has been in recent conversations with President Trump (likely speech writing instructions), about the outline for the upcoming speech the people’s president will deliver to the CPAC audience next Sunday.