Support and derision greet Texas motion to Supreme Court


19 State Attorneys General or five legal experts will end up with egg on their faces when the Supreme Court rules on Texas’s motion

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By David Singer —— Bio and ArchivesDecember 10, 2020

he Supreme Court has now ordered Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin to respond to Texas’s motion to file a complaint against them regarding their States’ conduct of the 2020 elections by 3 p.m. Thursday, December 10.

President Trump has indicated he will seek leave to intervene in the case whilst Attorneys General for Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, and Louisiana have issued statements in support of Texas’s action.

Related: 18 States Join Texas In General Election Supreme Court Lawsuit Against 4 Swing States

The Texas filing was initially met with scorn and derision by: 

Rick Hasen – an election law expert and professor at the University of California:

 “the dumbest case I’ve ever seen filed on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court. This is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit,”

CBS News’ election law expert – David Becker:

“Calling this garbage might be generous.”

Steve Vladeck – a professor at the University of Texas’s School of Law:

“dangerous, offensive and wasteful. It looks like we have a new leader in the ‘craziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election’ category,”

 Texas appellate lawyer Raffi Melkonian:  

“it doesn’t make any sense and is bad and has no chance of success at all. Just want to be clear on that”

Eugene Mazo from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law: 

“This is the dumbest case any lawyer has ever seen, and the Supreme Court won’t touch it. Really, this is the craziest case of them all. Unbelievable

Texas claims that:

  • Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated several Pennsylvania statutes requiring signature verification for absentee or mail-in ballots. Pennsylvania’s legislature has not ratified these changes, and the legislation did not include a severability clause.
  • Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated Georgia’s statute governing the signature verification process for absentee ballots.
  • Michigan’s Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated Michigan election statutes related to absentee ballot applications and signature verification. Michigan’s legislature has not ratified these changes, and its election laws do not include a severability clause.
  • Wisconsin Elections Commission and other local officials unconstitutionally modified Wisconsin election laws—each time taking steps that weakened, or did away with, established security procedures put in place by the Wisconsin legislature to ensure absentee ballot integrity.

Texas has argued:

  • The Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, of the Constitution makes clear that only the legislatures of the States are permitted to determine the rules for appointing presidential electors. 
  • Non-legislative actors lack authority to amend or nullify election statutes. Bush II, 531 U.S. at 104. 
  • The actions taken by the above officials constitute non-legislative changes to State election law by executive-branch State election officials, or by judicial officials in violation of the Electors Clause. 
  • Electors appointed to Electoral College in violation of the Electors Clause cannot cast constitutionally valid votes for the office of President.

Texas has further argued:

  • The Equal Protection Clause prohibits the use of differential standards in the treatment and tabulation of ballots within a State. Bush II, 531 U.S. at 107. 136. The one-person, one-vote principle requires counting valid votes and not counting invalid votes. Reynolds, 377 U.S. at 554-55; Bush II, 531 U.S. at 103 (“the votes eligible for inclusion in the certification are the votes meeting the properly established legal requirements”).
  • The actions taken by the above officials created differential voting standards in violation of the Equal Protection Clause and violated the one-person, one-vote principle. 

The constitutional issues raised directly affect the 2020 election results.  

19 State Attorneys General or five legal experts will end up with egg on their faces when the Supreme Court rules on Texas’s motion. 

250 Million Protestors in India – Almost the Population of the United States


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Dec 10, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

For centuries, India was the source of the spice trade. Christopher Columbus thought he discovered a shortcut to India but bumped into America. The various spices in India have been used also for practices such as yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. They are deeply rooted in Indian and South Asian culture. Today, as it has been for thousands of years, these herbs commonly used for these practices, such as turmeric, ginger, and ashwagandha, are exported from India and Modi has pulled another fast one on the people.

Indian farmers are currently protesting against unfair new agriculture laws and this has seen 250 million people joining the protest against the tyranny of the Modi government which has set controversial new agricultural laws. The Indian government set three new agricultural laws in September 2020. Previously, the government fixed prices for a variety of crops, meaning the farmers were guaranteed minimum profits for their work. However, under these new laws. Modi has directed farmers to sell directly to companies and sellers, meaning the farmers are no longer guaranteed the same minimum profits. Now they must negotiate for themselves when it comes to finding buyers.

For the past two weeks, Indian crop farmers have led more than 250 million protestors against these new agricultural laws in the Indian capital city New Delhi, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Many protesters have also ignored the coronavirus pandemic restrictions. The protests have shut down major highways, shops, markets, and more (see The Guardian). The participants say they will not cease their protests until the government listens, (see India Times).

Extending Lockdowns into March 2021


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 10, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I warned the objective with these lockdowns is to crush the economy so they can “build [it] back better,” which means they must destroy the economy as we know it. They will continue to extend these lockdowns throughout 2021 and use them as the excuse to end democracy and elections 2021-2022. The lockdown which was just for a few weeks was extended to include Christmas and New Years’ and it will constantly be extended to achieve their political goals. They are already hinting at extending them into March in Europe.

Blog/Disease

Posted Dec 10, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I warned the objective with these lockdowns is to crush the economy so they can “build [it] back better,” which means they must destroy the economy as we know it. They will continue to extend these lockdowns throughout 2021 and use them as the excuse to end democracy and elections 2021-2022. The lockdown which was just for a few weeks was extended to include Christmas and New Years’ and it will constantly be extended to achieve their political goals. They are already hinting at extending them into March in Europe.Video Player00:1500:55

To “build back better” by bringing CO2 to zero, they will continue the lockdowns despite the fact that after one year, CO2 has not declined. Gates has used his money to back this agenda to drive CO2 to zero and reduce the population. They are targeting cows and want to end meat production. Bill Gates, with Leonardo DiCaprio, has already has been building that industry in anticipation of claiming animals can get COVID and must be exterminated — i.e. 17 million Minks. They are claiming your pets can now get COVID and the CDC says they must be confined to the house. What’s next? We must kill all our dogs and cats? Make no mistake about it, they would do the same with people if they could get away with it.

This is no different from Karl Marx and his entire idea of redesigning the world economy by confiscating all wealth and making all decisions from the central political authority. Marx was also all about shutting down religion — the opium of the masses.

A World in a State of Total Confusion


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 10, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

While 17 states have joined Texas in their lawsuit against Pennsylvania for a fraudulent election, YouTube/Google and the new BigTech conspiracy against the people vow to delete any content claiming the election was tarnished in any way pronouncing Bide is the president-elect which is totally illegal for only the Electoral College can make that determination. The Georgia Governor refuses to investigate anything including dead voters which is a common fraud in every election. The Republican Party file a suit against the governor to mandate he follow the law. Then in Delaware, the US Attorney is investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes which can lead to Biden himself. Is there any wonder why our computer has been highlighting the week of December 21 following the Electoral College vote and then the week of January 4th which is the Georga runoff for the Senate rather than inauguration day? The target week of the 4th is the biggest target and it is that election that will determine who controls the Senate.

VACCINE:

We are getting in reports from around the world that people are getting sick from the vaccine. Pfizer has issued a warning now itself. I have heard from health workers who had to quit or take the vaccine. Both Pfizer and Moderna are producing separate vaccines that use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to trigger the immune system to produce protective antibodies without using actual bits of the virus. This experimental coronavirus vaccine is the first-ever authorized vaccines that use mRNA. In reality, there are no long-term studies and this whole thing has been pushed for political purposes – not health. Nobody in government cares about us – EVER! We are the great unwashed who are tolerated – but perhaps not for long.

COMMENT FROM SLOVAKIA:

Slovakia heading into its 3rd total lockdown. Everything will be closed, Christmas is canceled, and people are to stay at home at least until mid-January. The (insane & criminal) PM said the end of lockdown will depend on the “situation”, and lockdown is to only end once it’s “safe” for kids to go to school. (So, I guess by the summer…LOL.)

Note that Slovaks have been forced to get tested several times since October, in three rounds of nationwide testing. The testing was basically mandatory because those without a negative test certificate were not allowed to leave home, go into shops, work, or even go for a walk. The “excuse” for the periodic testing was… to avoid a new lockdown.

Also, from January all medium and large firms must periodically test every employee for “covid”!

Those who lived under Mao or Stalin were better off… I knew this was coming – that we’d soon come to envy them – but didn’t know it would come this fast.

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CONCLUSION:

Is it any wonder why everything is just going so nuts? We have even the Dow making a while outside reversal on a yearly basis. That is rare in the very least.

Why We No Long Have Free Press


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Dec 9, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Here we have the people at the London FT and they are coming out in favor of Schwab’s World Economic Forum and “Stakeholder” Economics. They will NEVER publish anything to the contrary so there is no more reporting of news, it is all being orchestrated to support the Great Reset and the end of democracy. Note that they are very much against Trump and as such they will never allow anything to appear in their paper anymore which is pro-Trump or anti-Schwab. They have surrendered their journalism and become propaganda marketers.

All the British Press which was also anti-BREXIT, have surrendered journalism which is reporting the facts for the pushing of this agenda.

In advocating Stakeholder Economics they have clearly FAILED to do their research and they are advocating the abandonment of shareholder rights which defeats the very reason to buy stocks. Stakeholder Economics made its debut in 1932 BEFORE social programs existed. It proved to be a disaster and led to the worst-performing stock market in history.

Not until corporations began to abandon Stakeholder Economics after Milton Friedman’s publication criticizing it in 1970, did the market behind to perform. The low in share values relative to book value took place in 1977. This was the takeover boom of the post-1985 era. You could buy a company, sell its assets, and double or triple your money.

This was the end of Stakeholder Economics.

The Common Words of Politicians & Great Reset


Armstrong Economics Blog/France Re-Posted Dec 9, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT from FRANCE: Hello and thank you for your fantastic insights. I live in France and I just thought you may be interested in what the French President recently said in an interview he gave to a media called Brut. He was asked whether he would be a candidate for the next presidential elections in May 2022, He replied that he may have to take very harsh decisions in the last few months before the election and therefore may “not be able” to be a candidate. This made me think of articles on your blog where you suggest that elections may be canceled in 2022 and we will be in a full-blown dictatorship. The French President also said in an interview end of October “we had got used to living as individuals in a free society, but we are citizens living in solidarity”. All very worrying. Happy to share links to the interviews if needed.

Currently, we are in a semi lockdown, basically, all hospitality is closed, but we can work and shop and go to school as long as we wear masks and have a certificate (that we sign for ourselves) authorizing ourselves to leave the house for a permitted purpose”. It is downright tyrannical.
best,
NL

REPLY: President Macron said:  “Maybe I will not be able to be a candidate, maybe I will have to do things in the last year, the last months, which will be hard because the circumstances will require it and which will make it impossible for me to be a candidate, I do not exclude anything.“

This piece from the FT at the Davos 2016 is the key. The political establishment of the world sees the election of Donald Trump as very dangerous.  They call this “populism” and to them, it is NOT acceptable that the people would be allowed to vote them out of office.

Now, the words that really bothered me were: “We had got used to living as individuals in a free society, but we are citizens living in solidarity.” These are the first words of UNESCO’s founding director – Julian Huxley who was a racist and a supporter of not just a one-world government, but of eugenics whereby population should be controlled and undesirable races should be reduced.

Huxley saw the idea of the United States with individual rights as far-left as the far-right and was thus unacceptable. These people see us as the great unwashed, too stupid to understand what is best for us or society. Therefore, he was against “unrestricted individualism” and hence we should not be allowed to vote for the controlling political establishment.

This is the position of the World Economic Forum and what this “Great Reset” is all about. Democracy is to come to an end. Yet they claim they will keep some checks and balances. This is what Macron is saying. He cannot run for office and make the hard decisions because people vote. By 2022, they intend to remove all rights in our democracies and will deny us the right to vote in what they call “populism.”


This is what they are really saying by “inclusion and equality” which is their redesigning the world economy and it will be for you so you surrender your rights and they will take care of you. Note what Kerry says – there is no going back to normal. At Davos, Kerry stated that a Great Reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism – (i.e. Trump supporters). They regard Trump was elected by “populism” so what he was saying was to suppress Democracy itself. He is clearly stating that career politicians fear losing power. Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement to push the Great Reset but added, that this was “not enough.”

“Pay No Attention to the man behind the curtain, There’s No evidence of election fraud”


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphs.com DEC 7, 2020 AT 9:41 AM The Wizard of Fraud

We all know the Deep State Democrat Socialist Party took over many voting booths in key states to add fraudulent votes in favor of their demented candidate, Joe Biden. The Deep State corporate legacy media instantly pronounced Creepy Joe the victor and locked down a narrative that the overall election procedure was clean as a whistle while Trump and his supporters were simply poor sports.

The gaslighting and smoke blowing by the Deep State and its propaganda monkeys the mass media, have not lessened. They hope we all breathe in their flowery opium of lies and go to sleep.

Biden is portrayed as holding the ‘Office of the President Elect.” There is no such office. He’s not the president elect.His so-called victory was obtained by fraudulent means.

President Trump and his team have effectively pulled back the curtain on the massive and coordinated fraud that occurred. The Deep State threw a great many levers of power to make it happen.

We need to have the brains, heart, and courage to expose the fraud and send the traitors to prison.

You’ve always had the power..my dear”

Glinda the good witch

Now is the time we use it!

—Ben Garrison

The Energy Crisis During the Panic of 1873


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 8, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Humans are not the only species to get viruses. A real energy crisis hit the United States that began in 1872 and expanded into 1873, which contributed to the Panic of 1873.  This was a flu virus they called distemper that shut down the US economy by infecting horses. It was in 1872 that the US economy was hit by influenza during the autumn which paralyzed the economy and social life. It was the 19th-century version of an energy crisis even before fossil fuels which these global warming fanatics want to return to. Instead of this influenza infecting people, it was a virus that spread among horses and mules. It began in Canada, and with free trade, it spread into the United States and then down into Central America.

Before fossil fuels, horses provided essential energy to build and operate cities. The steam engine led to the development of trains, but they were limited to long distances. Horses were the backbone of how cities operated just as cars today once filled the streets of major cities. But the equine flu made exposes just how important horses were to modern civilization. When horses became infected, they stopped working and it revealed just how dependent the entire economy was upon horsepower. The distemper, as they called it, spread infecting virtually every horse, and owners did not understand diseases back then and forced their horses to still work and they were dropping dead in the streets.

The influenza first appeared in Canada during late September in horses pastured outside of Toronto. The flu’s symptoms were cough and fever; ears drooping, they staggered and often dropped in the streets from exhaustion. Within a matter of just days, this virus spread rapidly and most horses in the city caught the virus in stables. By the time the US government became aware and attempted to prohibit Canadian horses from crossing the border, it was too late.

The virus spread very rapidly within a month crossing into the United States. By November, horses were dropping dead in New York City and hurting even those that did not seem to have had their immune systems compromised for this even hoof & mouth disease was impacting the survivors. Even the mail delivery was disrupted without horses.  It became known as the “wheelbarrow express” to carry the mail. They had to transport mail in wheelbarrows lacking horses.

The lack of horses also impacted the ability to fight fires. The pump wagons carrying water were drawn by horses. On November 9th, 1872, there was a major catastrophic fire that gutted much of downtown Boston. They reported: “The efforts of the splendid fire department appeared to be useless…” The firefighters could not even reach the scene of the fire on foot. Without horses, the city burned. The same would happen if the fire trucks operated on charged batteries. They would never be able to handle a major blaze.

Horses were the very backbone of the economy. They brought coal out of mines, drag crops to market, and carried raw materials to industrial centers. The horse flu resulted in food shortages in the cities as we have witnessed because of these lockdowns today, but they also led to what people were calling the “coal famine,” which sent prices soaring due to shortages. In England, there were coal miner strikes which resulted in driving up prices in the United States as well. Then this horse influenza in North America reduced both coal and iron production. On top of that, produce and crops simply rotted at the docks due to the lack of horses for transportation. Producers could not pay the railroads so they, in turn, refused to stop at some cities where depots overflowed with undelivered goods. The combination of these events created the perfect storm compelling the economy to plunge. Then the introduction of only the gold standard as Germany abandoned silver, the Panic of 1873 took shape.

By December 1872, the “Canadian Virus” as it was becoming know,  reached the Gulf Coast, and in early 1873 it was hitting the West Coast. It is believed that perhaps 200,000 horses died and most were sick. The economy simply came to a significant decline. The doomsday fear was this horse flu would jump to humans. Thank God Anthony Fauci was not around back then working for Bill Gates on the side. He probably would have ensured that it made the jump. Lacking people like Fauci, it never impacted humans.

In the midst of all of this, Henry Bergh (1813-1888) had been making this argument since 1866, when he founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Bergh was supported by a large inheritance. He thus had the time to devote to what he saw was cruelty to animals which at the time was largely focused on horses.

Here is a photo from 1909 showing the horse-drawn carriage taking the president-elect Taft to the inauguration with President Roosevelt both in the same carriage. That sort of civility no longer exists. Nevertheless, this influenza that infected the horses created a massive “energy crisis” which we would call it today. It certainly undermined the economy which contributed to the Panic of 1873 which became the Long Depression which lasted for 26 years.

The horse influenza became a  pandemic spreading across the country triggering a social upheaval and an economic paralysis just as if the power grid was shut off and would be comparable to what would happen today if these people were successful in ending fossil fuels. It was this problem which even led to the idea of creating the “horseless carriage” based upon economics. Horses enabled the very development of our civilization for transportation which enabled the economy to even develop as well as advancing the food production which allowed the human race to expand.

It was this influenza that provided support for Bergh’s ASPCA movement drawing the attention of Americans to the reality that horses were important but also were subject to nature. They could not be forced to work when sick. They too would simply die.

In today’s atmosphere, we should remember that ending fossil fuels will have a very profound impact just as the great horse influenza of 1872/1873.

The South Resisting the Tyranny from the North


Armstrong Economics Blog/Religion Re-Posted Dec 8, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Martin,

Last Saturday, our church manned 2 floats in the annual Rockwall, TX Christmas parade.  There was no mask mandate for participants or crowds.  Attendance was down from last year, but then again it was 34 degrees (but thankfully sunny and no wind).  It was wonderful being able to smile, make eye contact, and wish a “Merry Christmas” to people who are strangers, but fellow Americans, and see them smile and wave back.  Even the local nursing home wheeled people out on the ramp overlooking the parade route.  I have sorely missed being able to take my family in to sing to the residents there.

I have also noticed that a few are just refusing to wear masks in stores again, and the employees in outlying areas are refusing to enforce store mask rules, and even a few employees are not wearing masks until they have to be close to a customer.

One family in our church wears masks because the mom has had cancer in the past, and several (but not all) elderly sometimes wear masks.  We don’t get “in your face” if someone wears a mask, but still smile and talk to them, encourage and share fellowship, and give them an elbow bump instead of a handshake (we still mostly shake hands).

My family will host our church’s annual “Christmas in the Country” in two weeks, with games for the children, fun activities, a hayride, caroling, food, and fellowship.  We expect probably 150 people in the course of the afternoon and evening.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that at least in Rockwall, TX, you could probably still hold a conference, and could probably even pull “masks optional”  here.

Merry Christmas!
D

REPLY: It’s nice to see the South stand up against the North. These people are deliberately trying to separate families and undermine religion, precisely as Marx did, in their quest to dominate the world. They are trying to crush the economy to “BUILD IT BACK BETTER,” which means these lockdowns are purposefully intended to wipe out the economy, end commuting, and wipe out brick & mortar stores, which is why Big Tech is censoring everything against that agenda.

The biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, after Thanksgiving was a bust. Small retail businesses make up to 40% of their revenue during Christmas. This is intentional to wipe out as many as possible. They are deliberately trying to make sure when this scam is over, there will be nothing to return to and they get to then BUILD BACK BETTER by trying to direct how the economy should function PRECISELY as did the communists when they took over Russia. Centralized planning ALWAYS fails.

I highly recommend watching this film. When the Communists confiscated all the wealth, that included the farmers. The decision of what to plant, when, and where was suddenly done by some bureaucrat who never understood anything about farming. The Russian crops failed and people starved. Stalin stole all the food from Ukraine, killing 7 million, and took it to Russia to pretend communism was working. This is what happens when the economic decisions are centralized and run by bureaucrats.

We are showing the same outcome. Food shortages and a reduction in world population.

Do the COVID Restrictions Show How Stupid Politicians Really Are?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 8, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

We have to wonder just how intelligent so many politicians really are. The number of COVID-19 cases is rising because they are now testing everyone. Pennsylvania requires a test if you return from out of state. The same is taking place in so many places. My neighbors got it because someone visited them from up north. She was even pregnant. They had it for 2 weeks and then it passed. Yes, there are some people who it seems to affect seriously. But these are minor and even Bill Gates admitted that there are some people who even die from vaccines. He also admitted that it would be minor and only about 700,000 deaths by vaccinating the entire world.

Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder in Germany has called his cabinet together for a special meeting. Because of the persistently high number of corona infections, Bavaria is overturning the easing planned for New Year’s Eve. We will find out what will soon apply to Bavaria. Of course, the number of infections will rise when you compel people to be tested. The number of deaths has declined to demonstrate that this is not such a plague.

A lot of politicians have just jumped on the bandwagon without understanding what is really going on. This is a political “ME TOO” movement and those behind this scam know that if they bribe the major leaders, all the others will follow. It’s called peer-pressure and then they have the media to do it for them.

There are serious questions about vaccines that are deliberately being created to prevent women from having children. He has even funded chips to be implanted into women to prevent pregnancies. Gates has long been using the Indian population as his personal guinea pigs. Even when Modi canceled the currency, it was Gates behind that and in fact, Modi just did it and NEVER bothered to tell the central bank in advance. In all honesty, I fail to understand how he has allowed Bill Gates free reign. He is using in his language something similar to Build Back Better. “We are a forward-looking civilization and a vibrant democracy that looks to interact with other countries to build a better world.” (see Economic Times).

The lack of real clinical trials and investigation of what these vaccines will do long-term and even if they are going to be required 4 times a YEAR just to work or travel, creates a real nightmare and a true host of ethical questions they will not answer. Meanwhile, they are hounding celebrities to publicly take the vaccine. But we have no idea if they would really receive the vaccine of just water. They certainly can not afford any side effects. I would personally not trust anything since this is not such a serious disease.