Sep 15 2025

Former President Jair Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years

Posted originally on Sep 15, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for allegedly plotting a coup to overturn the presidential election. Politicians who defy the new world order are silenced through assassination or imprisonment. This has become a worldwide phenomenon, from Germany to Brazil, as politicians who rebuke the globalist agenda are receiving massive support from the people, and eliminating opposition is the only way for current regimes to remain in power.

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The Brazilian people independently denied the results of the 2022 election and stormed government buildings on January 8, 2022, a week after Lula was inaugurated. The Federal Police uncovered a draft of a coup announcement at the home of former Justice Minister Anderson Torres. After months of detainment, Torres maintained that the document, which he received from a private citizen, was taken out of context and held no legal validity. The plans outlined in the document never occurred, but the establishment maintains that Bolsonaro is a threat to Brazilian democracy.

As our computer warned, there would be intense, politically motivated civil unrest worldwide in November 2022. Ahead of the election, Brazil’s leftist opposition Workers’ Party (PT) Marcelo Arruda was enjoying his birthday celebration in the city of Foz de Iguacu, Parana, when he was shot dead. The vote of 49.1%-50.9% was the closest Brazilian presidential election in history since 1985 and marked Bolsonaro’s first political defeat. Bolsonaro supporters held mass protests across the nation to protest Lula’s victory and blocked hundreds of major roadways. Bolsonaro first sided with the protestors, saying they felt “indignation and a sense of injustice.”

The intense backlash from across the globe caused Bolsonaro to change course. “I know you are upset… Me too. But we have to keep our heads straight,” Bolsonaro said in a video posted online. “I will make an appeal to you: clear the highways.” Bolsonaro confirmed with Brazil’s Supreme Court that he would willingly hand over power to Lula. “I have always played within the four lines of the constitution,” he said, without declaring defeat. Bolsonaro is already barred from running for office until 2030. The establishment wants to ensure that he is never up for reelection.

The Brazilian Supreme Court rules in a 4-5 vote to convict Bolsonaro on all five charges, carrying a sentence of 27 years and 3 months in prison. There is no concrete evidence against Bolsonaro. There was no coup. No election was overturned and Bolsonaro did not attempt to take power after his defeat. Bolsonaro has evaded assassination in the past. Lula was desperate to find a reason to prevent Bolsonaro from running for office before the probationary period ended, and the Brazilian courts acted as weapons of the state.

The Brazilian government did not deter unrest; rather, they ensured it.

Sep 11 2025

“Art Must Always Tell The Truth”

Posted originally on CTH on September 10, 2025 | Sundance

Popular artist Banksy created a graffiti mural in London depicting the current state of the UK censorship system using the courts to trample the rights of British citizens:

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It did not take long for the authorities to cover the mural and eventually attempt to remove it.

A good illustration of modern Britain. Masked man removes artistic dissent against a Tyrannical State, under the guard of Foreign State Security.pic.twitter.com/Ley9jAIYUW
— Paul Weston (@PWestoff) September 10, 2025

However, what remained of the artwork was the essential core of the truth.

I particularly like the fact the govt turned the CCTV camera, so they can monitor who might visit the scene of the criminal dissent.

Apparently, the British government doesn’t quite see the irony.

Sep 9 2025

Hollywood & Gold

Posted originally on Sep 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I just had to write to say thank you. Gold is going up with stocks, despite everyone else being indoctrinated with ineffective theories. They keep saying the same stupid shit and pay no attention to the fact that they have continually been wrong. These people are psychopaths and have cost people a fortune and ruined marriages, as I saw with a friend. The stock market and gold have risen with the highest interest rates, the dollar, and it all depends on what you call the outside wildcard. Anyone who doesn’t invite you to these interviews isn’t worth my time. They cannot be trusted in my book.

This is why they make movies about you and no other analyst. Can people invest in the Hollywood movie being made about you? I know people invest in film. If this is about your career and promoting cycles, I think everyone should be chipping in. The world needs to be exposed to your work. You are the only one who makes common sense economically, and you know geopolitics like the back of your hand. They are running out of ideas for films. Their endless Superman movies clearly evidence that. Will there be such an offering to invest in your film?

ANSWER: I am not sure if there will be any offerings to invest in the Hollywood version. I do not get involved in fundraising. I am supposed to have the script in a couple of weeks. The head of the studio is coming to visit in a few weeks. I know they are very serious about this, and they see it as an opportunity to showcase cyclical analysis to the world, which is why I agreed to participate. A top writer is now doing the final polish, from what I have been told.

They wanted something like The Big Short. I was told that the film brought in approximately $133.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $28 million. Obviously, this is why people invest in producing films.

I am not sure who will be playing me in the movie. I believe they then pitch it to A-class actors, so the whole cost thing, I am sure, depends on who they get. I do believe they have most of the funding in place. These people are big producers, not first-timers. When I learn more, I will let everyone know. I am uncertain whether there will be any opportunities for investors. I am not familiar with that market.

I will do an update on the markets on the Private Blog this week.

Sep 7 2025

Daily Telegraph says of Keir Starmer’s shock reshuffle: “he wakes up to the threat posed by Reform”

Posted originally on Rumble on By Bannon’s War Room on: September, 6, 2025

Aug 26 2025

German Chancellor Merz Says Entitlement Programs No Longer Sustainable

Posted originally on CTH on August 25, 2025 | Sundance

CTH noted several months ago, end the Marshall Plan for Europe and things will change quickly.

Germany is in a tight economic place as a result of: (1) former leftist Chancellor Olaf Scholz alignment with climate change policy, radically changing the German energy base and driving up costs; (2) the financial support for Ukraine; (3) the financial burden of mass African/ME migration, and (4) the new Trump-era EU tariffs that effectively end the Marshall Plan.

Put all four elements together and the German economic contraction is only forecast to worsen. This is the reality that current German Chanceller Fredrich Merz is facing. Thus, as a non-pretending former businessman, Merz recently told his party and the German electorate that current financial conditions no longer support the expansive entitlement state.

Pensions, benefits and even healthcare are potentially going to be impacted. Germans are not happy.

GERMANY – The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn).

In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”

Once the export champion of Europe, Germany’s economy has slowed dramatically since 2017, with GDP growing by only 1.6 per cent since then versus 9.5 per cent for the rest of the eurozone.

Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2 per cent last year following a 0.3 per cent dip in 2023 – the first time since the early 2000s the economy has retreated two years in a row.

Industrial production fell under the Left-leaning “traffic light” coalition of Olaf Scholz and continues to slide under the new government, with GDP declining by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2025.

Meanwhile, spending on social welfare has exploded, and is set to increase further this year as Germany’s population ages and unemployment rises. Although the majority of benefit recipients are German, large numbers are non-German citizens.

[…] Germany has in place a so-called “debt brake”, which limits how much the government can borrow to fund its spending plans.

Mr Merz’s views on the welfare state are likely to provoke discontent among his Social Democratic Party (SDP) coalition partners, whom he relies on for a thin majority in the Bundestag.

[…] Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader and vice-chancellor, hit back at Mr Merz’s announcement with calls for increased taxation on top earners. He called for a summit focused on helping industry leaders respond or adapt to US tariffs and said “no option is off the table” when it comes to plugging the 30-billion-euro gap in Germany’s budget. (more)

A note of caution. Historically speaking, when the German economy gets bad enough, Europe ends up in a war.