Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 15, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Our computer forecast that this would be a sharp rise in voter turnout. The turnout for this 2020 election shattered previous highs, including 2008 when Barack Obama defeated John McCain, 1960 when John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon, and 1908 when William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan reaching 66.2%. That came out to just over 155 million votes which was about 15 million more than what had been expected. We warned that you can clearly see that there is a Directional Change due in 2021 and that we should expect now a rising trend in political turnout into 2022 which will go with civil unrest. Some were projecting a turnout of 140 million with 80 million votings by mail.

With a Panic Cycle in voter turnout  in 2023 and 2027, this is highly unusual. This is also an indication that there is NO WAY this election will just pass and its back to normal. The lockdowns have destroyed permanently so many jobs that hatred and resentment will emerge.

The very strange issue with this election which gives the appearance that it was rigged, besides Biden winning more votes than Obama or Hillary only in the contested swing states, is the fact that he then pretended to be the president-elect simply because the media declared him to be so, which was a usurpation of power in and of itself. There was no “office of the president elect” and that was entirely propaganda to sell to the world that he won the election. There is no need to do that and nobody in history has EVER done such a thing. This is highly irregular and makes it appear to indeed be a cover-up.

The Electoral College has voted and Biden is now the President-Elect for real. Unless Trump invokes the Executive Order declaring that the election was interfered with and all voting machines should be seized, Biden will be president. It is most likely that Attorney General Bar5r has resigned because he is part of the Deep State and will not support Trump in any such claim.;

Had the Supreme Court ruled against Trump, then that would have settled the dispute and there would have been no need to even question invoking the Executive Order. But the Justices hid under the covers when the case presented was clearly between two states which the plain language of the Constitution mandated they hear the case.

The very purpose of the rule of law is to make a society “civilized,” whereby we settle disputes in a rational fashion. The duty of the king in ancient times was to preside over disputes like King Solomon presiding over which woman was the legal mother. The Supreme Court has a duty, but it avoided it. Historically, that leaves only violence be it a civil war or revolution. The court created the Civil War with its decision of Dread Scott. There was no other alternative but war.

On December 2nd, Trump laid the groundwork for invoking the Executive Order.

As President I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.

Millions of votes were cast illegally in the swing states alone, and if that’s the case, the results of the individual swing states must be overturned and overturned immediately.

We will know by next week if this is over or are we headed into more chaos.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 15, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Now that the Electoral College has voted for Biden, this is what makes him “president elect” not CNN. Unless Trump acts on the Executive Order where the agencies must submit a report stating that the election has been compromised. That would then allow Trump to freeze everything. But I see this as a long-shot. It would be historical. Attorney General Barr has resigned I believe because he was unwilling to provide such a recommendation. I have stated all along that I doubted that Barr was really on Trump’s side for he was protecting the Deep State. So he will leave this week raising more concerns about what has really been taking place.

The computer has been warning that we are headed into an economic recession into 2022 and it will strangely be the mid-term elections that will bring a lot to a climax. Biden has done the typical politician routine and promised the moon to the AOC left wing and to the right-wing in the Democrats they understand the game. Biden will turn more to his conservative wing and I doubt you will see him doing much for AOC and the squad. This may leave the BLM movement turning now against Biden when they see that what you hear is not what you get.

Nevertheless, we must be prepared for some real chaos into 2022. The secret deals cut with the Democrat governors from Pelosi has been that is they crush their economies to overthrow Trump, they will bail them out. Indeed, she tried to slip in a bailout package that would have covered all the state pension funds. Trump had that removed. She also pushed for digital currency, and Trump blocked that as well. With Trump gone, Biden would have no problem with those proposals so we may see the end of physical paper money on the table. However, digitizing the dollar will be a real serious issue because 70% of paper dollars circulate outside the country and have been used as hedges against their own governments.

So get your trading gloves on. We have interesting trends for the next two years that will require skills.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 15, 2020 by sundance

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Lt. General Michael Flynn sits down for an extensive interview with Jan Jekielek for American Thought Leaders. In this exclusive interview, the first of two parts, we hear from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn about his experience these last four years. Mr. Flynn discusses what attracted him to then-candidate Donald Trump, why he believes he was targeted, and his thoughts on America’s current political moment.  Great Interview:

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 14, 2020 by sundance

It started with the Treasury Department notification of “a sophisticated hacking group backed by a foreign government stole information from the U.S. Treasury Department and a U.S. agency responsible for deciding policy around the internet & telecommunications.”

Within hours the origin of that massive data breach was identified by the federal Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) as a significant risk to government databases and private sector businesses.  The breach was attributed to computer intrusion through SolarWinds Orion:

WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) tonight issued Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by malicious actors. This Emergency Directive calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.

“The compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. “Tonight’s directive is intended to mitigate potential compromises within federal civilian networks, and we urge all our partners—in the public and private sectors—to assess their exposure to this compromise and to secure their networks against any exploitation.”  (read more)

The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) also dispatched a warning, and further reporting on the issue pointed out the intrusion itself took place in May of 2020 and the malware was constructed to disguise itself within the SolarWinds’ system.

A cyber security firm, FireEye, found the intrusion door, identified the source code and tracked it to SolarWinds.  FireEye then notified law enforcement and federal agencies who then began reviewing the breach:

(Bloomberg) […] While the hack on FireEye was embarrassing for a cybersecurity firm, Carmakal argued that it may prove to be a crucial mistake for the hackers. “If this actor didn’t hit FireEye, there is a chance that this campaign could have gone on for much, much longer,” Carmakal said.

“One silver lining is that we learned so much about how this threat actor works and shared it with our law enforcement, intelligence community and security partners.” Carmakal said there is no evidence FireEye’s stolen hacking tools were used against U.S. government agencies.

“There will unfortunately be more victims that have to come forward in the coming weeks and months,” he said. While some have attributed the attack to a state-sponsored Russian group known as APT 29, or Cozy Bear, FireEye had not yet seen sufficient evidence to name the actor, he said. A Kremlin official denied that Russia had any involvement.

FireEye’s investigation revealed that the hack on itself was part of a global campaign by a highly sophisticated hacker that also targeted “government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East,” the company said in a blog post Sunday night. “We anticipate there are additional victims in other countries and verticals.” (more)

SolarWinds’ has a massive client list including all the sensitive government agencies and most of the top Fortune 500 companies.  There have been reports that executives at SolarWinds are being reviewed for making stock transactions prior to public notification of the cyber hack.

All of that said, let’s stand back and take a look at the relationship between the Dominion vote counting issues, and the cyber intrusion into SolarWinds’ Orion.

A backdoor into SolarWinds’ is essentially a backdoor breach into the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  That same agency is in charge of operating all security networks connected to U.S. voting and election security systems, including the Dept. of Homeland Security.  In essence, and as a matter of emphatic emphasis, the breach into SolarWinds’ is a breach into the U.S. election security network.

Considering the hack itself, meaning the implant of the malware itself, has identified no actual extraction, or quantification of extracted, data… Then why else would the malware be implanted – except to coordinate some other activity connected to the doorway?

Perhaps this is the apt metaphor….

If you were going to rob a bank (currency = votes), and the robbery was going to include the deployment of electronic lockpicking (Dominion tabulation machines), you would want to see what countermeasures the alarm company (CISA) would/could deploy to identify your effort and/or stop your success.

In that metaphor the hack of SolarWinds is the way into the alarm company.

Is that what this cyber-intrusion was all about?

The Department of Commerce confirmed a breach in one of its bureaus, and Reuters reported that the Department of Homeland Security and the Treasury Department were also attacked. […] the hackers took advanced steps to conceal their actions.

“Their level of operational security is truly exceptional,” he said, adding that the hackers would operate from servers based in the same city as an employee they were pretending to be in order to evade detection.

The hackers were able to breach U.S. government entites by first attacking the SolarWinds IT provider. By compromising the software used by government entities and corporations to monitor their network, hackers were able to gain a foothold into their network and dig deeper all while appearing as legitimate traffic. (link)

Again, notice how no “harm” has been identified.  No exfiltration of data has been noted in any report…. ergo it was the bad actors inside the system that has been identified as the compromise and not necessarily any adverse outcome that has been quantified.

In essence, the bank (election) was presumably robbed and now the authorities have identified the open backdoor to the bank but nothing seemingly removed.

Was the hack itself simply a version of controlling the alarm company to conceal the operation within the Dominion network election activity?

There are trillions at stake.

Just a thought….

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 14, 2020 by sundance

President Trump announced via Twitter that following a meeting to discuss the current state of 2020 election fraud with Attorney General Bill Barr, the U.S. AG will be departing his position before Christmas:

“Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family…”

Attorney General Bill Barr provided the following resignation letter:

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While the topic of the meeting today is briefly mentioned within the resignation letter, that subject matter is conspicuously absent from the body of content.  As with the entire career of Bill Barr, this could be interpreted two ways.

♦ Either Bill Barr is unwilling to steer the DOJ during a time of election challenge and turmoil…

Or….

♦ By resigning Bill Barr just inoculated himself from criticism if he was to support the DOJ findings of election investigations from outside offices.

Given Bill Barr’s history of conduct in the DOJ approach to the Flynn case (cowardice), the former seems most likely.

It also does not seem coincidental this resignation decision was reached on the same day the Daily Mail published a highly critical article about Bill Barr’s decision-making during the 2020 election cycle.

DAILY MAIL – Attorney General Bill Barr used the force of his office to instruct prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden not to take any steps that might cause the probe to be publicly revealed in the run-up to the election.

The directive, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was in keeping with existing Justice Department policy against taking investigatory steps close to an election  that might interfere with it.

Barr and his team took steps to ‘insulate’ the investigations, according to the report, even as President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded a probe of his political rival’s son.

Those instructions were given orally in ‘conversations with prosecutors,’ according to the Journal, which would appear to suggest there is no paper trail for it. They included asking if staff members involved in the situation could be trusted.  (read more)

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Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 14, 2020 by sundance

State legislatures in Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania have selected republican electors to preserve cases and lawsuits of election fraud in each state.  If the outstanding court cases are successfully argued the republican electors would be able to cast votes for President Donald Trump.

Trump Campaign Senior Advisor Stephen Miller explains what is happening today as each state presents and casts their votes for state electors.  The only date outlined in the constitution is January 20th.  As Miller outlines: “We have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result.”

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on December 14, 2020 by sundance

After considerable legal filings intended to block the release of a forensic report of Antrim County Dominion vote tabulation systems, a Michigan judge has lifted a gag order allowing the plaintiff, Allied Security Operations Group, to publicly release the findings.

The results of the forensic audit [full pdf here], while limited only to the vote tabulations in Antrim county, are damning for the Michigan system of elections.

According to the audit:

“We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.

The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud.

Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified.

[…] The allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008%). We observed an error rate of 68.05%. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.

[…] It is critical to understand that the Dominion system classifies ballots into two categories, 1) normal ballots and 2) adjudicated ballots. Ballots sent to adjudication can be altered by administrators, and adjudication files can be moved between different Results Tally and Reporting (RTR) terminals with no audit trail of which administrator actually adjudicates (i.e. votes) the ballot batch.

[…] A staggering number of votes required adjudication. This was a 2020 issue not seen in previous election cycles still stored on the server. This is caused by intentional errors in the system. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency or audit trail. Our examination of the server logs indicates that this high error rate was incongruent with patterns from previous years.

The statement attributing these issues to human error is not
consistent with the forensic evaluation, which points more correctly to systemic machine and/or software errors. The systemic errors are intentionally designed to create errors in order to push a high volume of ballots to bulk adjudication.

[…] Research is ongoing. However, based on the preliminary results, we conclude that the errors are so significant that they call into question the integrity and legitimacy of the results in the Antrim County 2020 election to the point that the results are not certifiable.

Because the same machines and software are used in 48 other counties in Michigan, this casts doubt on the integrity of the entire election in the state of Michigan.” (source)

HERE is the FULL Forensic Audit:

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MICHIGAN – […] Judge Kevin Elsenheimer of the 13th Circuit Court had ordered “forensic imaging” of the Dominion Voting Systems voting tabulators and related software after Antrim County resident William Bailey filed a lawsuit that challenged the integrity of the election equipment, citing errors in how the county initially reported its unofficial results.

[…] On Dec. 6, a team from Allied Security Operations Group, a Dallas-area firm that has worked with lawyers for Trump and his allies on cases challenging election results in battleground states, inspected the voting equipment at county offices.

Based on concerns related to election security and proprietary information, Elsenheimer had placed a protective order over the findings, “restricting use, distribution or manipulation of the forensic images and/or other information gleaned ” without first getting his approval.

Elsenheimer said that report, signed by Russell Ramsland of ASOG, can now be released, once some references to software coding are redacted. (more)

This video below displays how easily ballots can be manipulated during the adjudication process on Dominion voting machines. These machines were used in all key US swing states and all of the counties that reported unusual ballot counting results.

Coffee County, Georgia, refused to certify their election results based on these inherent ballot counting flaws:

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Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on December 14, 2020 by sundance

Michael Flynn’s defense counsel, Sidney Powell, sits down for an extensive interview with Jan Jekielek to discuss the presidential pardon of her client and so much more.

Ms. Powell has been leading election lawsuits in multiple states. On Friday, she filed emergency requests to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to order officials in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona to de-certify their 2020 election results. In this interview Powell discusses the current status of the legal challenges and her thoughts on the Supreme Court’s recent rejection of the Texas lawsuit.

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A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

~ Sam Adams

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Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 13, 2020 by sundance

Appearing with Maria Bartiromo, former national security advisor, Lt General Michael Flynn, states: “we have conclusive evidence of foreign interference in our election.”  Mr. Flynn goes on to say his attorney, Sidney Powell, has four cases en route to the United States Supreme Court to highlight the “overwhelming evidence” of election fraud.

Additionally, General Flynn states it would serve the best interests of the United States if President Trump would trigger his 2018 executive order on foreign election interference to appoint a federal special counsel – to look into all of the background claims of fraud on behalf of the executive branch of government.  A very interesting interview.  WATCH:

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