Munich Protest & Others being Ignored by Governments


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

There was a massive protest in Munich on the 8th against this COVID Tyranny. Of course, governments do not care for the real agenda is to completely wipe out democracy and usher in Schwab’s Great Reset. They have been using this virus as merely a tool to achieve their political restructuring. While people argue over the PCR test, whether this is a virus, and what are the side-effects of the vaccines, all of that is a distraction and they could care less how many people die from COVID or the vaccines. This is solely about their political power for governments can no longer borrow endlessly. Their negative interest rates have destroyed the European bond market and the pension funds. There is no turning back. The only ultimate recourse will be violence which will rise in 2022.

Recent Leftist Panic Takes Context – Democrat Pollster Finds Inflation and Checkbook Worries Twice as Concerning for Voters Than COVID


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 229 Comments

Considering the recent Democrat freakout over the ‘economic narrative‘, which included a request for corporate media to circle the wagons, their desperation is starting to make sense.

Patrick Murray is a notoriously partisan pollster from Monmouth University {use searchbar}.  Leftist favorite Murray puts the spin in spin-master when it comes to media polling and narrative engineering.

The Monmouth engineer recently released a heavily spun poll warning the communists and leftist Democrats, showing checkbook issues are the top concern priority for Americans – far beyond any concern about the COVID madness.

Keep in mind, Murray skews polls in extraordinary ways; however, yet even Monmouth cannot avoid seeing that 29% of leftist Americans are very concerned with inflation, while only 18% are concerned with COVID [pdf here].  Monmouth’s polls are always skewed with responses from the DNC base, so consider that result amid their own tribe.  Democrats are twice as worried about their household bills and inflation as they are worried about Omicron or any variant therein.

This explains the massive freakout in the backrooms of the White House and DNC at the moment.  Their economic policy chickens are coming home to roost.

“Concerns about inflation have taken center stage in discussions around America’s kitchen tables. And, as one would expect, many are placing the blame squarely on Washington,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. (link)

When you ignore the public spin Murray puts on the polling (Republicans horrible etc), the bottom line is devastating for Democrats.  This aligns with a recent Wall Street Journal survey showing that Latinos are flocking to the Republican Party, and there is now an even 50/50 split amid Hispanic voters.

“One year after giving Democratic House candidates more than 60% of their vote, according to polls at the time, the Journal survey found that Hispanic voters are evenly split in their choice for Congress. Asked which party they would back if the election were today, 37% of Hispanic voters said they would support the Republican congressional candidate and 37% said they would favor the Democrat, with 22% undecided.” (link)

Keep in mind the MAGA movement, which has overtaken the traditional GOP, is an assembly of the blue-collar working class.  The MAGA coalition is not about race, creed, national origin, special interest grouping, or what you do in your bedroom.  The MAGA assembly are aligned in common purpose on commonsense Main Street economic issues.

America First is Main Street first, while AOC sheeple and their champagne socialist base promote economic outcomes favorable to Wall Street and corporate multinationals.  It doesn’t matter how much they use cognitive dissonance to deny that, the economic outcomes are in your face every day.

When it comes to inflation, the AOC ‘Build Back Better‘ program has the direct consequence of making things worse.  They cannot reverse the impacts of leftist policy on energy pricing without changing their structural energy policy – and that ain’t gonna happen.

There’s only about 45 days left (+/-) before the next round of massive inflation hits the country at a retail level.  As the raw material and wholesale price increases hit the retail level, the next wave of compounded increased prices will hit harder -and be more steep- than all preceding increments.

Contract terms for payments inside the supply chain are net 30, net 60 or net 90 days, depending on the industry and sector.   As those prior contracts were delivered, a massive number of new purchase order fulfillment agreements were written without defined prices, because the raw material and processing costs were changing too fast to be quantified.

Those ‘undefined pricing’ contracts and agreements are going to carry the full weight of increased raw material, energy and transportation costs, and those prices are going to stun many of the recipients.

If the leftists in the political establishment are worried about checkbook economics and grocery store conversations today, you can well imagine that worry turning to fear as soon as the next wave of reality hits the kitchen table.

What The Heck – Joe Biden Shouts at The Audience, He Wants Americans To Pay Even More For Gasoline


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 307 Comments

This is nuts.  The White House occupant doesn’t have any idea what they are loading into his teleprompter at this point, he just shouts it at the audience as if it’s supposed to make some kind of bizarre sense.   This doofus is totally off his rocker.  What does this even mean?  WATCH (20 seconds):

I’ll look for a more expanded explanation as to what this idiot is supposedly saying.  Good grief, what a knucklehead.

This stuff is just nuts.  This guy is truly a meme of himself….

Big Tech Filtering Information from Ghislaine Maxwell Trial, Now Removes Twitter Account for Trial Tracker


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 123 Comments

I’ve never put too much thought toward imagining what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all of the blackmail he was assembling within his sick, perverted, creepy and evil sexploitation network.  For the same reason, I do not watch gore or horror.  There’s just some stuff I choose to be careful about putting in my brain.  At the same time, I hope for justice for those victimized -in whatever form that may manifest- and I pray for God’s comfort upon them as they try to cope with a life damaged by such an evil enterprise.

That said, at a high level review of what Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were doing, there’s no doubt some of the most high-powered and influential people in their social circle are at risk of exposure for their participation in the depraved and vulgar activities.

It seems that many people in high places were a part of that evil debauchery, and as a consequence, there’s a strong motive to control any sunlight upon it.

A simple Twitter account, that was providing some of the top-level details from within the ongoing trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, has been removed without prior notice to the account holder.

The account was doing nothing more than pointing out the bullet points of what was happening inside the locked courtroom each day.  Yet, for some reason the people who need darkness didn’t like it.

There’s a lot of sunlight avoidance happening these days… and you know what that means…..

…More SUNLIGHT is Needed.

♦ You can check out the written details of what is happening inside the courtroom on their Substack channel HERE.

♦ There’s also a YouTube Account, from a person sitting through each day in the courtroom and giving nightly updates on what is taking place – SEE HERE.

Biden Team Hold Backroom Talks With National Media, Instructions to Put Positive Spin on Economic Reports


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 8, 2021 | Sundance | 213 Comments

According to media reports of the meetings, the people responsible for the Biden administration are instructing U.S. media outlets to report on the economy as if things are going well.

Unfortunately, massive Biden spending programs, in combination with fiscal policy, monetary policy, energy policy and mandatory vaccination policy, have created a perfect storm of inflation. That storm is growing in scale and scope and is likely to get much worse before it stalls.

The White House demands that media must ignore stunning price increases at the supermarket, jaw dropping home heating costs this winter, prices at the gas pumps that are 50 percent higher than last year, backlogs in the supply chain due to environmental regulation at West Coast ports, and a shortage of critical blue collar workers inside the U.S. Main Street economy due to the vaccine mandate. “Other than that, how did you like the play Mrs. Lincoln?”

In short, the White House wants the U.S. media to apply more cowbell to their propaganda.

Even CNN is having a tough time accepting the instructions:

The White House, not happy with the news media’s coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in its favor. Senior White House and admin officials — including NEC Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari — have been briefing major newsrooms over the past week, a source tells me.

The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more. The basic argument that has been made: That the country’s economy is in much better shape than it was last year. I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials… (read more)

Italy’s Super Green Pass


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Italy is now among the growing list of countries that refuses to allow unvaccinated individuals to participate in society. Italians must provide a Super Green Pass that shows proof of vaccination or recovery from COVID within the past six months. Those without the Super Green Pass will be banned from entering restaurants, gyms, bars, hotels, movie theaters, music venues, sporting events, and more. Although the restrictions are supposed to end in mid-January, there is a good chance the “precautions” will be extended.

Italy initially introduced the Green Pass in August that placed certain limitations on the unvaccinated, and those restrictions were later extended. The Super Green Pass is only valid for nine months, upon which adults and children must be subjected to the vaccine again. Prime Minister Mario Draghi hails these measures as the method to saving Christmas. “Our thoughts are of the dead, the fall in economic activity by 109 percent, the closed businesses, the children out of school,” Draghi stated. Economic activity is down 109% due to the laws that are continually imposed on society to prevent a mostly non-life-threatening virus.

Businesses Relocating to Texas Every Five Days


Armstrong Economics Blog/North America Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Companies are rapidly fleeing to Texas. Governor Greg Abbott has stated that Texas will soon become “the home of semiconductor manufacturing.” He would like to discontinue outsourcing the manufacturing of essential supplies and incentivize businesses to relocate. “The country made a mistake over the past one or two decades to farm out manufacturing of all these essential supplies, whether it be now semiconductors or could be health care supplies that we needed during the time of COVID, whatever the case may be, we need to not depend upon China or other countries for our essential needs, for things like semiconductors,” Abbott told reporters at Fox News.

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor facility in Taylor, Texas, which makes it the largest foreign direct investment in the state’s history. The plant will create 2,000 jobs alone. Increasing semiconductor production is crucial to combat the worldwide shortage and will help to smooth the overall supply crisis. Texas Instruments is also seeking to invest $30 million into semiconductor production.

Elon Musk reported that he plans to relocate Tesla’s headquarters to Texas as well after receiving a less than warm welcome in California. In the first eleven months of the year, over 70 businesses have relocated their headquarters to the southern state, meaning a new company relocates to Texas around every five days. Businesses are keen on more than just the tax breaks. Abbott boasted that Texas has “no mandates infringing upon individual liberty,” and has actively fought against any mandates. “The only mandate that applies is my executive order saying that nobody in the state of Texas can be mandated to take a vaccine shot,” Abbott said, noting that a COVID vaccine is “available for anybody who wants it, but there can be no mandates infringing upon individual liberty.”

Vaccine mandates are bad for business. The states imposing harsh restrictions do not understand the economic impact, while other states will see a lucrative benefit to fighting for human liberties.

Sanctions and Starvation in Afghanistan


Armstrong Economics Blog/Middle East Re-Posted Dec 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

(Afghanistan-related designations are one of the few cases in which President Barack Obama’s administration imposed more economic sanctions (103) than President Donald Trump’s administration (24), which was publicly engaged in peace talks with the Taliban from 2018 to 2020 and issued fewer sanctions. (U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control; Sanctions Explorer))

When the US left Afghanistan at the end of August, they implemented harsher sanctions on the Taliban. Western aid to the nation vanished, and Afghanistan became isolated from the world economy. It was never America’s job to uphold Afghanistan, but the impact of abruptly leaving after two decades of occupation has caused insurmountable trouble to the people our troops fought to protect. Now, over half the country is likely to experience food insecurity and starvation this winter.

Of the 22.8 million Afghans facing food shortages, 8.7 million are expected to face famine. In addition to the Taliban’s utter ignorance on how to run a country, the nation has experienced its worst drought in decades that has killed off livestock and crops. The New York Times reported that Afghanistan’s wheat harvest will be cut by a quarter this year, and many rural farmers have abandoned cultivating their land entirely.

The World Bank recently voted to provide the nation with $280 million in previously frozen donor funds, but this is a small portion of the $1.5 billion in frozen assets. The US entered Afghanistan for 20 years and left without a plan under Biden. Over 7,057 servicemen and women have died in post-9/11 operations, and an additional 30,177 died of suicide. No one wins when it comes to war games

President Biden Pledges to Provide Billions in Economic Benefit to Russia Through the Build Back Better Climate Change Program


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 7, 2021 | Sundance | 87 Comments

Many Americans have no idea that Russia is an OPEC member.  Even fewer recognize that Russia’s primary economic export is energy via oil and gas.  Oil and gas exports drive the Russian economy.  Any U.S. policy that drives up the value of oil and gas directly enhances the economy and influence of Russia.

Thanks to Joe Biden’s specific energy policy shutting down U.S. energy exploration, Russia’s economy is booming and has made billions more in the sales of high priced oil and natural gas into Europe and the global marketplace.  That increased oil and gas revenue is directly responsible for Russia’s ability to expand militarily in the region.

So when it comes to threats, like Russia annexing even more of Ukraine as a strategic objective…. Joe Biden is strengthening Russia on one hand and threatening the strength of Russia with the other.  Russian President Vladimir Putin sees this with clear eyes.

Meanwhile the NATO partners who *claim* to be worried about Russia (they’re really not) are the same nations that are buying the oil and gas from Russia.   This was the ridiculous economic dynamic President Trump confronted when he challenged NATO on their energy and national security policies.   Tucker Carlson discusses this:

Governor Ron DeSantis Discusses the Free State of Florida


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on December 7, 2021 | Sundance | 61 Comments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke on the inland side of Tampa Bay today as he announced a $276 million state program to support flood and sea level rise mitigation.  The funds are one part of a comprehensive state level infrastructure program to support the incredible growth within Florida.

Even without a state income tax Florida is taking in historic revenue from growth.  That revenue is being used to build up emergency reserve funds in the event of storms or severe tropical weather impacts, at the same time funds are being used to proactively develop systems to mitigate flooding events at the coastal and inland regions.

During the second half of his remarks today, Governor DeSantis also contrast and reaffirmed his position on the principles of respect for individual rights of all Florida citizens and pushed-back against the need for government intervention or mandates around COVID.  Essentially DeSantis recommended that other state governors stop doing stupid stuff.  WATCH: