Letter to President Trump – Send it Everywhere You Can


DOWNLOAD: President Donald Trump Letter- April 13-RF


Please feel free to send this to other world governments. Previous letters have been sent and discussed even in the British Parliament as well as circulated among the opposition of Canada, and Australia just to mention a few. This is an all out battle. We must not shy away from the fight.

Phase Five Supply Chain – With a Message From A Dairy Farmer….


•Phase One was retail. •Phase two was distribution. •Phase three was the space between processing/manufacturing and distribution. •Phase four was raw material supply to manufacturing. •Phase five is consumer packaging capacity, and bulk storage inventories.

Most Americans were not aware food consumption in the U.S. was a 60/40 proposition. Approximately 60% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 40% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).

Food ‘outside the home’ included: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 60 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.

The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the ‘food away from home’ sector has been reduced by 75% of daily food delivery operations. However, people still need to eat. That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area.

♦ Phase Five – The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently noted “there are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products.”

Here is a snapshot of the food we had in storage at the end of February: over 302 million pounds of frozen butter; 1.36 billion pounds of frozen cheese; 925 million pounds of frozen chicken; over 1 billion pounds of frozen fruit; nearly 2.04 billion pounds of frozen vegetables; 491 million pounds of frozen beef; and nearly 662 million pounds of frozen pork.

This bulk food storage is how the total U.S. consumer food supply ensures consistent availability even with weather impacts.  As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it and smoothing out any peak/valley shortfalls. There are a total of 175,642 commercial facilities involved in this supply-chain across the country

Few Americans are aware of this.  However, that stored food supply is the supply-chain for food manufacturers who process the ingredients into a variety of branded food products and distribute to your local supermarket. That bulk stored food, and the subsequent supply chain, is entirely separate from the fresh food supply chain used by restaurants, hotels, cafeterias etc.  For almost 8 weeks the retail supply chain has been operating beyond capacity and the burn rate of raw food products is up a stunning 40 percent.

Those bulk warehouses, the feeder pools for retail/consumer manufactured food products, are starting to run low. Believe me: (1) we don’t want to find out what happens when those 800 mass storage facilities run out; and (2) the food supply chain will be a big part of President Trump’s decision-making on reopening the economy thereby re-opening restaurants, cafeterias, etc…. and switching consumption back to fresh supply.

This “bigger picture” is not being considered by politically-minded governors, DC politicians, and public health-centric advisors who focus exclusively on the virus.

Additionally, there are very specific issues within each supply chain (commercial and consumer). It is not as easy as people think to move the commercial supply-chain (restaurants etc.) into the consumer supply chain (grocers). First, there are simply packaging capacity issues.  Additionally, there’s an entirely different set of regulations on the processing side for the consumer supply chain.

One dairy farmer helps explain:

Are we dumping milk because of greed or low demand, no. It’s the supply chain, there are only so many jug fillers, all were running 24/7 before this cluster you-know-what.

Now demand for jug milk has almost doubled.  However, restaurant demand is almost gone; NO ONE is eating out. 

Restaurant milk is distributed in 2.5 gal bags or pint chugs; further, almost 75 percent of milk is processed into hard products in this country, cheese and butter. Mozzarella is almost a third of total cheese production; how’s pizza sales going right now??

A bit of history – Years ago (40+) every town had a bottler, they ran one shift a day, could ramp up production easily.  Now with all the corporate takeovers (wall street over main street) we are left with regional “high efficiency” milk plants that ran jug lines 24/7 before this mess, no excess capacity.

Jug machines cost millions and are MADE IN CHINA. Only so many jugs can be blown at a jug plant.  We farmers don’t make the jugs, damn hard to ramp up production.

I’m a dairy farmer, believe me NO dairyman likes dumping milk; and so far there is NO guarantee they will get paid. Milk must be processed within 48 hours of production and 24 hours of receipt in the plant or it goes bad. Same with making it into cheese and butter, and neither stores well for long.

The same supply line problems exists where restaurants are supplied with bulk 1 pound blocks of butter or single serv packs or pats; and cheese is sold in 10 to 20 pound bags (think shredded Mozzarella for pizza).  Furthermore, it is not legal for this end of the supply chain to sell direct to consumers in most states.

Take cheddar cheese for instance; it goes from mild to sharp to crap in storage. Butter, frozen, only stores for so long and then must be slowly thawed and processed into other uses as it gets “strong”.  At Organic Valley we cook it down into butter oil or ghee for cooking.

We are headed for the same problem with canned veggies.  The vast majority of produce comes off and is processed in season; canned or frozen.  The supply is already in cans for the season; restaurants use gallon cans or bulk bags of frozen produce.

At some point we will run out of consumer sized cans in stock because home size sales are up (40%+) and restaurant sales are almost nonexistent.  Fresh produce out of U.S. season comes from Mexico (different climate).  I’m talking sweet corn, green beans, peas, tomatoes, all veggies are seasonal in the USA.  Fresh, out-of-season, row crops are  imported.  (There are exceptions, like hydroponic grown, but small amount of total).

Someone mentioned “time to raid all those bins of corn”.  Those bins on the farm contain yellow corn, cattle feed and totally unfit for human consumption, now or at harvest.

Eggs? Same problem.  Bakeries and restaurants of any size use Pullman egg cases, 30 dozen at a pop, 30 eggs to a flat, 12 flats to a case.  There are only so many 1 dozen egg cartons available and only so many packing machines.

Industrial bakeries and processors of packaged food buy bulk liquid eggs, no carton at all.  Also in many states it is illegal to sell this supply-chain directly to consumers. 

On your standard buffet of any size, do you really think they boil eggs and peel them? They come in a bag, boiled and diced; those nice uniform slices of boiled egg you see on your salad, a lot of them come in tubes boiled and extruded at the same time, just unwrap and slice. Your scrambled eggs come in a homogenized bag on most buffets.

Another example of Main Street being gutted and “improved by wall street” NO local egg processors available or many small egg producers either, all corporate and huge, contracted to sell to the corporate masters.

This is a warning the same problems exist in all supply chains.

The supply chain is farked.

David Osterloh,
61-year-old dairy farmer

The LA Sheriff Who Released 4,276 Inmates Now Fears a Crime Wave…


This story is so far beyond predictable that the light from where predictable exists wouldn’t catch up for a year….  The LA Sheriff released the inmates fearing the Wuhan virus, now he worries he may have put the public at risk….. you just can’t make this up.  Save the criminals, destroy the community.

“We were faced with a choice, if we left the jail system overpopulated, the pandemic would have swept through easily.”

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Dr. Fauci: President Trump Followed Health Recommendations Every Time They Were Made…


This guy is sketchy.  Sometimes within a 24 hour period Fauci will make a statement, then contradict the initial assertion, then attempt to cloud his own conflict with obtuse and wordy explanations.  After watching for several weeks, we first called it out HERE.

Yesterday Fauci told CNN if the country had been shut down in February lives could have been saved.  Today Fauci is in the contradiction and wordy explanation phase.  Obviously, reversing course on any issue while the media is in a frenzied attack against the president is like removing a bloody carcass from the piranha pool before the frenzy is over.

To wit Fauci saddens the media and makes himself a target; the media immediately focus their anger toward him. Fauci was good, now bad. Spontaneous anger leads the media to question Fauci if he was being forced to reverse himself.  Quite remarkable. WATCH:

Paula Reid (CBS) …”Are you doing this voluntarily, or is the President making you do this?”…

It Begins – East and West Coast Blue States Team Up To Begin Economic Civil War…


It seemed clear several weeks ago this was going to happen.  East coast blue state governors and West coast blue state governors are uniting to begin the economic civil war planning to block any White House effort to re-open the U.S. economy.  The founders planned for this in Article I, Sec 10 (paragraph 3):

“No state shall, without the consent of Congress, … enter into any agreement or compact with another state”..

The three step plan seems predictable: (1) Get out ahead of President Trump. (2) Defy the ‘all clear’ and shape economic benefit to their political allies. (3) Then use Fauci’s upcoming dossier to hit the administration for heartlessly opening the economy too early.

♦ On the East Coast the governors of New York (Cuomo), New Jersey (Murphy), Connecticut (Lamont), Pennsylvania (Wolfe), Delaware (Carney) and Rhode Island (Raimondo) have started assembling their economic war council with the intent to keep the northeast region shut down.  Controlling critical ports and infrastructure is a key part of their strategy.

EAST COAST — Six Northeast governors will form a working group to come up with a plan to restart [control] the regional economy, they announced on Monday. (link)

♦ On the West Coast the governors of California (Newsom), Oregon (Brown) and Washington State (Inslee) are also assembling their economic war council for similar intents and purposes.  Combined with their political northeastern allies, controlling two-thirds of U.S. ports will give them a strategic advantage to keep choking the economy until after they can install their commanding general in the White House.

WEST COAST – The governors of Washington, California and Oregon on Monday announced they were working on a joint plan for reopening[controlling] their states’ respective economies once it is safe to lift coronavirus-related restrictions.

 

It appears the Governors did not want to assemble their plans openly; however, they rushed to publicity to avoid their enemy, U.S. President Donald Trump, striking strategically against their schemes.   During this economic war residents within the Blue occupied territories will be held captive to the political whims of their regional generals.

The economic freedom and liberty zone will encompass the Red region.  The center of the country, mid west, southern region (surrounding the Gulf of Mexico) and south eastern Atlantic region.   These areas will be open to commerce and economic freedom.

However, the urban dense populations (Blue pockets within Red zones) will push-back against the efforts of the Red generals in an attempt to retain alignment with their Blue team generals.  Depending on the strength of the urban forces there may be roadblocks, sabotage, skirmishes and political violence against the freedom & liberty Red team.

Red captives within the Blue zones will have to be smart and strategic.  Big Blue tech will be assisting the totalitarian Blue generals. Direct confrontation against the Blue forces should be avoided, and it will likely be a better strategy to fight stealthily as insurgents.

Any Red team member of the economic freedom alliance, trapped within a Blue region, is warned to evaluate their connection to their electronic devices.  Your cell phones could be used as portable transponders expose your movement and your political views.

This is going to be one hell of a battle.  A Spring and Summer conflict like we’ve never seen in the history of U.S. politics outside of actual, physical, civil war.  Fortunately for team freedom and liberty, this time the Red zones control most of the citizen armory.

White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing – 5:00pm ET Livestream…


Unfortunately, with President Trump effectively communicating the latest information on the federal efforts to mitigate COVID-19, more corporate U.S. resistance media have decided not to carry the live broadcasts from the White House task force briefings.

Today at 5:00pm ET the White House will hold a briefing for the public and media on the latest mitigation efforts against the coronavirus. [Livestream Links Below]

White House Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream Link – CSPAN Livestream

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Senator Rand Paul Discusses His Experience With the Wuhan Virus…


Senator Rand Paul appears on Fox News to discuss what it was like for him to contract the Wuhan Virus.  Interestingly, as a doctor himself, Senator Paul shares that he had no symptoms for the virus despite testing positive.  Additionally, Senator Paul shares that his local healthcare providers are prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and there appears to be anecdotal evidence the medication has positive effects.

My conversation with State Senator and doctor who exposes Medicare payouts for COVID-19 patients


As you’ll see by end of this article, the specific decisions about money mentioned here affect life and death outcomes for patients

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  — NoMoreFakeNews—— Bio and ArchivesApril 13, 2020

State Senator and doctor who exposes Medicare payouts for COVID-19 patientsA state senator has suddenly come out of nowhere and made big news.

My conversation with Minnesota State Senator, Dr. Scott Jensen, took place after I read the explosive statement he made to FOX News, on April 9th.  So let’s start with his earlier FOX statement:

Some hospitals have a pay-share plan with their staff doctors

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealedclick here.)

“Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [don’t] [have] impact on what we do…”

I reached out to Senator Jensen, and obtained clarification.  Jensen told me his remark pertained to patients with Medicare coverage.  And the 2 payouts he mentioned are standard insurance payments from Medicare which would go to the hospital.

Of course, he explained, some hospitals have a pay-share plan with their staff doctors.  Therefore, a windfall for the hospital is passed along to those doctors.

Jensen told me: Take a Medicare patient who is diagnosed with simple non-COVID pneumonia.  The hospital would receive a one-time Medicare lump-sum payout of $4600.

However, if that Medicare patient is diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia, the Medicare coverage is a one-time $13,000 payment.  And if the hospital puts that COVID-19 pneumonia patient on a ventilator, the one-time payment is $39,000.  NOTE: It doesn’t matter how long these patients stay in hospital—-there is only going to be one lump-sum insurance payment.

Financial incentives for hospitals

So, I infer, there are several types of financial incentives for hospitals—-

ONE: Diagnose as many people as possible with COVID-19.

TWO: Diagnose as many people as possible with COVID-19 who have light symptoms—-making it easy to move them out of the hospital quickly.

THREE: Put as many COVID patients as possible on ventilators for as short a time as possible.

Under the heading of “diagnose as many patients as possible with COVID-19,” there is also the key question of what constitutes “a COVID-19 patient”—-and how the use of that label can be multiplied and manipulated.  Senator Jensen made a few choice comments to FOX on this subject as well.

From FOX News: “Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician who is also a Republican state senator, told ‘The Ingraham Angle’ Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines for doctors to certify whether a patient has died of coronavirus are ‘ridiculous’ and could be misleading the public.”

This Post was taken down by Fox

“Host Laura Ingraham read Jensen the [CDC] guidelines, which say: ‘In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”

“In response, Jensen told Ingraham the CDC’s death certificate manual tells physicians to focus on ‘precision and specificity,’ but the coronavirus death certification guidance runs completely counter to that axiom.”

“‘The idea that we are going to allow people to massage and sort of game the numbers is a real issue because we are going to undermine the [public] trust,’ he said. ‘And right now as we see politicians doing things that aren’t necessarily motivated on fact and science, their trust in politicians is already wearing thin’.”

“…Jensen then told Ingraham that under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.”

“…Jensen also reacted to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s response to a question about the potential for the number of coronavirus deaths being ‘padded,’ in which the NIAID director described the prevalence of ‘conspiracy theories’ during ‘challenging’ times in public health.”

“‘I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward,’ Jensen said.”

The hospitals wouldn’t get their huge $39,000 payout for each Medicare patient put on a ventilator

Here is where everything Scott Jensen is saying can turn very grim—-

As I’ve reported, New York ER doctor, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, has made public statements about the misuse of ventilators with supposed COVID-19 patients.  He’s stated that some of these patients actually have functioning lungs.  Their immediate and dire life-threatening situation is straight oxygen deficit, as if they have high-altitude sickness.  But pressure on the lungs, applied by the use of ventilators via standard rigid protocols, he says, can cause damage, and even death.

Imagine what would happen if another way—-NOT ventilators—-was found to usefully and safely deliver oxygen to these patients.

The hospitals wouldn’t get their huge $39,000 payout for each Medicare patient put on a ventilator.

What do you think a hospital would say…what decision would the hospital make…would the hospital allow a better and safer and necessary delivery system for oxygen?  For every labeled “COVID-19 patient” whose desperate emergency is a straight deficit of oxygen?

Would the hospital forego all those huge Medicare coverage payouts?

For links to references, see this article on Jon’s blog: click here.

As Predicted, Dr. Tony Fauci Turned on President Trump, Making His Move on Easter Sunday


Climb out of this latest impeachment effort, Mr. President.

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesApril 13, 2020

As Predicted, Dr. Tony Fauci Turned on President Trump, Making His Move on Easter Sunday White House so-called “coronavirus expert” D. Tony Fauci laid an Easter Egg on President Donald Trump, and from its spikes, it looks an awful lot like an artist’s rendition of the deadly coronavirus.

Only the most gullible would be surprised that the good doctor laid his Easter egg on CNN when Christians the world over were commemorating the Resurrection of their Savior.

Sounding like a modern-day Pontius Pilate

“WHITE House coronavirus expert Dr Tony Fauci said Sunday lives could have been saved if US had been shut down earlier. (SUN, April 12, 2020)

“Speaking on CNN, the immunologist said the US could start to reopen next month, but warned a second wave of the virus could still hit the country.

“During the interview, Fauci revealed that the government had been advised to begin social distancing measures in February.

“President Trump announced plans to roll out “self-isolating” in mid March.”

Sounding like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, Fauci said ,“We look at it from a pure health standpoint.”

“We make a recommendation, often the recommendation is taken, sometimes it’s not.

“But it is what it is.”

Mitigation and Computer Models

The recommendations of Dr. Fauci and his protégé Dr. Deborah Birx on HIV/Aids were taken at face value.  Millions died in spite of those recommendations and in spite of the billions of dollars spent on the dreaded disease.  A search for its cure is still going some 30 years later.

“Fauci was then asked if lives could have been saved if stay at home measures had started in February, rather than almost a month later. (Sun)

“Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could’ve saved lives, obviously,” he replied.

“No-one is going to deny that.

“But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.”

The “mitigation” from computer models pushed by both Doctors Fauci and Birx didn’t save the tragic deaths of some 21,000 Americans.

“There are now at least 530,830 confirmed cases in the country, and 20,614 deaths. (Sun)

Media reports claim that deaths from the virus in the U.S. surpass Italy, making America the leading country for death by the coronavirus.

Comparing Similar populations in Europe and United States

Below is a table comparing populations, number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and per capita deaths, proving that compared to the five largest European Union countries, the U.S. is doing phenomenally well.

Country Population (Millions) COVID -19 Cases Total Deaths Cases/Million Deaths/Million
Germany 83.02 126,656 2,908 1,512 35
France 66.99 132,591 14,393 2,031 221
United Kingdom 66.65 84,279 10,612 1,249 156
Italy 60.36 156,363 19899 2,856 329
Spain 46.94 166,019 16,972 3,551 363
Sub Total 323.36 665,908 64,784 2,062 201
United States 328.20 550,145 21,649 1,662 65

(Figures from World Meters Info—Sunday 2 pm)

“Fauci was pressed multiple times by anchor Jake Tapper on when the US might start to lift isolation restrictions. (Sun)

“He eventually said the country might be able to begin to open up next month, but said a “rolling re-entry” would have to happen and it was not a one-size-fits-all approach.

“It’s not going to be a light switch,” he said. “It will depend on where you are in the country.”

“Fauci expressed a “cautious optimism”, pointing out that the admissions into ICU units in New York, the worst hit state, had started to flatten.

Trump slammed The New York Times

“It’s started to turn a corner…it’s cautious optimism that we are seeing that decrease.

“Once you turn that corner, hopefully we will see a very sharp decline.

“Then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way and prevent it from re-surging.”

“On Saturday, Trump declared the US economy would see a “tremendous surge – like a rocket ship” once coronavirus lockdowns are lifted and people return to work.

“He made the prediction after hitting back at claims he saw a memo from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro back in January warning that two million Americans could die from coronavirus.

“Earlier, Trump slammed The New York Times over a report which cited unnamed sources who claimed the president did not listen to early warnings about an impending pandemic.

Don’t Believe Unnamed Sources

“When the Failing @nytimes or Amazon @washingtonpost writes a story saying “unnamed sources said”, or any such phrase where a person’s name is not used, don’t believe them,” he tweeted.

“Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame & disparage. They have no ‘source’…” he added.

About Dr. Fauci’s often repeated “re-surging” warnings, COVID-19 will keep rolling on until the Barack Obama-led Democrats get their way for a mail-in vote by November 3.

(Obama Exploits Pandemic to Push for Mail-in Voting, April 11, 2020)

“Speaking to Fox’s Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, Trump said the decision over when to start re-opening the country will be the “toughest that I will ever have to make”. (Sun)

“He added: “I’ll be basing it on a lot of very smart people, a lot of professionals – doctors and business leaders.

“There are a lot of things that go into a decision like that.

“And it’s going to be based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct also. Whether we like it or not – there is a certain instinct to it.

“We have to get our country back – people want to get back – they want to get back to work.”

“Trump said he will be making a decision “reasonably soon” and he is currently setting up a team of leaders from a range of fields.”

Make it faster than “reasonably soon”, Mr. President or there will be nothing left of the country to get back.

Just from watching the televised Coronavirus Task Force, anyone could have predicted that its top two television stars would soon be doing what all other Obama appointees do—turning around and blaming President Trump.

Climb out of this latest impeachment effort, Mr. President.

Go back to your April 5,  2015 Easter message and put it into action tomorrow:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Have a fantastic, beautiful and happy Easter everyone and then, when Easter is over, have great wins and triumphs in life. Never give up!

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Reports from Around the World


COMMENT #1:
Here in Finland the biggest bank Osuuspankki has begun to deny access to deposit boxes. — The customer must have a “valid reason” to visit the box.

KV

COMMENT #2: There is panic buying of food in China. This is after the virus. (see: Panic-Buying Erupts Across China, Prompting Food Shortage Concerns)

HA

QUESTION #3: Are the Democrats deliberately trying to destroy jobs just to win the election? Blocking small business loans seems to be all about just trying to hurt Trump.

CA

COMMENT #4: The relief offered by the Democrats will not pay people’s expenses for even one month. Trump wants to reduce the payroll tax and the democrats object. It is looking more to be a political crisis than a medical one.

COMMENT #5: The world economy is collapsing at breathtaking speed. I do not know how Socrates does it, but a decline of 20% of world GDP will lead to war. The Germans turned to Hitler. Your warning of a pending authoritarian era is in your face correct but the vast majority never see it.

COMMENT #6: When does Socrates foresee the final collapse of the Left? I hope that it will be soon, because our society and economy can’t handle much more of this Socialist nonsense and foolishness. Their lunatic policies in regards to Covid-19, the environment, taxation, the economy, gender issues etc. etc. have destroyed our society, our economy, our social structure, our morality, our creative spirits, and our entrepreneurial flair.
So, after all of this destruction at their hands, when should we expect to see the much-awaited demise of the Left (i.e. Socialism)?
MG

COMMENT #7: I just went to a Walgreens pharmacy and they will not let you in without a mask–no mask no entry. Society just broke down and like you said there is no going back

Everyone is brainwashed!

COMMENT #8: Marty,
I’ve been following you and your blog since late 90’s. It’s your fault that they have used the Coronavirus to advance their agenda instead of Climate change. They realized that you were correct about your writings on the relationship of the solar minimums, volcanic activity and climate change. Knowing that cooling was going to happen (not warming) they had to switch gears and use some other BS to advance their leftist totalitarian agenda. So it’s your fault. LOL.
Keep up the great work and thank you for helping us all understand how the world really works, seeing all the connections and helping to see the big picture.
You will someday (I already do) be regarded as our era’s “Adam Smith”.
I know you may not like that recognition, but your insatiable curiosity of what makes things tick has made you become not only a great economist but also a great scientist, philosopher, psychologist and historian; a true Renaissance person.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You saved me from the Goldbugs.

HF

QUESTION #9:  Marty, you mentioned a couple of times in the past that you could see yourself moving to Australia if things turn sour in the U.S. Living in Europe, that was always my medium-term plan, too. It’s a beautiful country with great people. However, in recent years, politics in the country has taken a turn for the worse. Are you still hoping for Australia as an escape route? If not, what are the countries to keep in mind? Beyond China, I mean.

FW

ANSWER: Australia and New Zealand have turned so far to the left, they no longer offer an alternative.

COMMENT #10: Well, they have transformed drive-by shootings into drive-by waves. They have separated families and the best you can do is drive-by to wish them a happy Easter from inside your car.

CD

COMMENT #11: They have used this to wipe out religion. You can’t even go to mass when gatherings are prohibited by a democratic governor.

FP

COMMENT #12: Marty,

Ok so we are at a funeral here in Pennsylvania for my wife’s aunt. What would “normally” be a traditional Christian viewing and burial, has been turned into a fearful, keep your distance event. There was no traditional Mass at the church or viewing at a funeral home. We had to pull up next to the burial site and remain in our vehicles. Only 3 at a time were allowed to go to see the dearly departed in the open casket for a brief moment before being rushed back to their vehicles. The priest then arrived and is giving the ceremony with only the children and grandchildren allowed out of their vehicles around the casket but at a distance, the rest have to remain in their vehicles and listen with windows open. Many that did have the guts to show up came wearing masks and gloves. Just unreal to see with my own eyes.

Now I know this isn’t the only part of civilization being attacked but it is fundamental to humanity. When people can’t pay their respects to their dearly departed and give their relatives condolences with hugs and kisses, cry and laugh together in a group for fear of being accused by others, there is a serious shift underway. The attack on the foundation of what was, is astounding. The traditions that made this civilization and nation great are under assault.

It doesn’t surprise me this is happening. It doesn’t surprise me the attacks that are going on and the power play that is underway. I knew this was coming and more. I have actually been awaiting it. What does disappoint me though, is the complete lack of common sense by all the people all over the world. The lack of a fight, no struggle. Obedience. Consent by ACQUIESCENCE. Thought maybe there were more alpha males with some balls left to fight. I guess we’ll see.

Best,
EM