Is Australia Preparing Concentration Camps for the Unvaccinated?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Nov 24, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

(Picture: AAP Glen Campbell)

Rumors are swirling on the internet that the Australian Army is herding the unvaccinated population into “quarantine camps.” The army is not currently hunting down the vaccinated, yet, but there is a suspicious amount of funds going toward these quarantine facilities. The Guardian has reported that $130 million was recently invested by the Northern Territory into the Howard Springs quarantine camp. Howard Springs was designed as a fly-in-fly-out workers’ camp, but the mainstream media is reporting that the camps will become redundant as home quarantine pilot programs have begun. If that were true, why is the government continuing to invest in Howard Springs?

The Northern Territory hosts two main quarantine camps — Howard Springs and Alice Springs. Their website describes what those housed in those facilities have experienced:

A person in quarantine must;
  • stay in the person’s allocated room, including on any veranda space allocated to the room, unless permitted by an authorised officer; and
  • when not in their room, or on their veranda, residents must take all reasonable measures to stay at least 1.5 metres away from any other person in the quarantine facility, except for the person’s spouse, de facto partner, child or parent; and
  • wear a face mask when outside their room unless an authorised officer permits the person to remove the face mask; and
  • comply with any directions given by an authorised officer to avoid people congregating in a quarantine zone; and
  • must not leave the quarantine zone in which the person’s allocated room is located unless the person is escorted by an authorised officer, except in an emergency.
You are not able to share or hand over physical objects to residents who are not your family members. COVID-19 lives on surfaces so you must not give items, toys, food, activities, or play games like cards with people outside your family.

Quarantine facility staff will remind you about wearing your mask, staying on your veranda and physically distancing through information in your resident booklet, by sending you sms reminder texts and verbally in person if we see you are not following the Direction.

This is a horrifying abuse of power. People constantly compare conditions to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, but this is one example that is becoming dangerously close in nature. They have not begun killing off the unvaccinated population, but they have taken away their freedoms. “Residents” at these hotels may not leave their rooms unless supervised by an authorized officer. That is much more akin to a prison than a hotel. Officers will “remind” those held hostage by their government when they are disobeying the rules. Since COVID can spread on surfaces, people are not allowed to interact with those outside their immediate family. But it gets worse. The website states that family rooms are not always available.

Facilities

Quarantine facilities need to be a safe environment for all residents and staff. The following are not permitted in either quarantine facility;
  • Cooking equipment including, microwaves, electric fryers, rice cookers, induction cookers, sandwich presses, toasters, etc.
  • Alcohol, bags may be checked on arrival.
  • Toys or recreational items such as swimming pools (plastic or inflatable), scooters, skateboards, bikes, balls and roller blades. These will be stored until your exit.
  • Visitors.
  • Care packages, personal goods or meal deliveries.
Family rooms are not always available;
  • The Centre for National Resilience is primarily single room accommodation with no internal connecting doors. There are four rooms to a shared veranda space with mattresses and/or cots provided for small children. All rooms are king single beds and have ensuites.
  • The Alice Springs Quarantine Facility can accommodate families in shared rooms, based on room availability at the time.

The poor children who are subjected to this traumatizing experience! Toys are not allowed. Visitors are not allowed. There is a chance children will be separated from their parents, guarded only by the state. Similar to a prison environment, cooking appliances are not available in these quarantine camps. Officers in hazmats suits feed their hostages three times per day by leaving the meals outside the room on the ground as another reminder of lost freedoms. Bottled water and toiletries are not available. The camps boast having limited wifi service, but it is safe to bet that online activities will be monitored. How could we allow such cruel human rights abuses to occur in plain sight? Sending millions of dollars to these camps indicates that they have no real plans to end this abuse. As the Hong Kong protesters stated to the world a few short years ago: “If it happened here, it can happen to you.”

FBI Tweets Thanksgiving Message


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 25, 2021 | Sundance | 189 Comments

What the FSB is to Moscow, the FBI is to Washington DC.  And the FBI is not even trying to hide it any longer.

The FBI sends their Thanksgiving Day message 2021:

(link)

There’s really nothing that needs to be said.  When agencies show you their priorities, believe them.  When institutions show their politicization, do not excuse it.

Five Senate Democrats Oppose Biden Communist Nominee for Banking Position, If Accurate She’s Sunk


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 25, 2021 | Sundance | 117 Comments

If the report from Axios is accurate, the nomination of communist Saule Omarova to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is sunk.

However, this could also be viewed as an Overton window maneuver where the next radical nominated will be only slightly less communist, and thereby gain appointment.

AXIOS – […] In phone call on Wednesday, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), all members of the Senate Banking Committee, told Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — the panel’s chairman — of their opposition. They’re joined in opposing her by Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). (more)

Senator Mark Warner’s opposition is a little unusual. Perhaps this is a downstream consequence of the recent Virginia election.  Regardless, at least this is one nomination that did not get through.   So far, Biden’s economic, energy and finance policies have been disastrous for Main Street; unfortunately, that also looks like a feature not a flaw.

Moonbat Leftists Pretending Not To Know Stuff, While Proclaiming the Need For Government Intervention in Speech Platforms


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 25, 2021 | Sundance | 191 Comments

Under normal circumstances I would not subject anyone to a video containing the most self-centered, pontificating, vile and horrible Hillary Clinton.  However, in this example it is Moonbat framework by the insufferable Rachael Maddow that needs to be seen.  Keep in mind, his show is one of the most watched on the Moonbat Speaks and NoBody Cares (MSNBC) network.

Mr. Maddow introduces his point by referencing how Big Tech removed the voices of people who were critical of Vladimir Putin in the recent election.

Google, Apple, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all removed content, and Maddow is jaw agape at the crushing blow to democracy and ‘free speech’ that such action highlights.

In framing his viewpoint – notice how the MSNBC host has to completely ignore that Google, Apple YouTube, Facebook and Twitter did exactly the same thing to any American voice who was speaking out against Joe Biden and/or questioning the results of the 2020 election.  This is a perfect example of how leftists need to ignore things in order to advance their ideological points.

There’s not a single CTH reader who could not destroy Mr. Maddow in a debate, simply by staying silent and then dropping the ‘how does that reconcile‘  hammer at the end of the cognitive dissonance:

What is it that concerns you?… Maddow digs hole deeper

How is that damaging to democracy?… Maddow digs with more detail

Removal or silencing of political speech is dangerous?….  Maddow now digs with more ferocious uptalk to make her case

TRUTH HAMMER DEPLOYED – Didn’t that just happen in the 2020 U.S. election with the voices of Trump supporters banned, censored, deplatformed and removed?…  Maddow  ::: D’oh, crickets :::

The broader point is –  professional leftists are now openly advocating for the removal of speech they do not like.  When they don’t like the argument they shout racism.  Essentially that’s the larger point behind wokeism.  They don’t like your speech, so your speech must be defined as violence, or racism, or (fill_in_blank).

Their goal is the reason for the Facebook whistleblower propaganda that was advanced a few months ago.  Leftist ideologues now want the information on the internet to be controlled by government.  These people are crazy and must be ridiculed into irrelevance.

(First 45 seconds, WATCH):

Australia Protest Message, “Courage is Not The Absence of Fear”


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 25, 2021 | Sundance | 188 Comments

Courage is not the absence of fear.  Courage is being fearful and yet taking action despite that fear.  One Australian patriot, a former soldier, shares his message of courage while protesting to support the freedom of all Australians. {Direct Rumble Link}

Joshua 1-9:  “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

– WATCH:

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When this madness is over, there will be a reckoning.  History serves as a guide for what can be expected.  The officials within government who are pushing their totalitarian dictates under the guise of COVID fear will not succeed.   There will be a reckoning; of that, I am certain.

Thanksgiving Costs on the Rise


Armstrong Economics Blog/Inflation Re-Posted Nov 24, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Expect to pay at least 14% more for this year’s Thanksgiving festivities, according to the American Farm Bureau. The bureau estimates that a feast for ten will cost $53.31 this year, and I would personally like to know what grocery store has such low prices; the estimate seems drastically low. The US Department of Agriculture noted that wholesale prices of 8-16 lb frozen turkeys are up 21% from November 2020. Pumpkin prices have risen 5% due to droughts in California and heavy rains leading to fungal infestations in Illinois. Green beans, a typically cheap staple, advanced 4% YoY, while cranberry sauce prices increased 2.5%. Milk, eggs, potatoes, and many other Thanksgiving staples have all increased in price. Butterball President and CEO Jay Jandrain said that turkey prices will remain elevated into 2022 due to increased feed, labor, and transportation costs. However, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he is confident Americans will still foot the higher bill to maintain the annual tradition.

Was Darrell Brooks Another Known Wolf?


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 24, 2021 | Sundance | 178 Comments

We have recent familiarity with FBI connections as they pertain to high profile criminal cases; specifically cases with a framework of domestic terrorism {Go Deep}.  Against that backdrop, the Daily Mail is now reporting that Darrell Brooks was arrested and convicted in 2007 for a bomb plot against a Nevada casino.

Via Daily Mail – The man accused of murdering five after mowing them down in his car during a Wisconsin holiday parade was previously convicted for threatening to bomb a casino, DailyMail.com can reveal.  Darrell Brooks, 39, was busted in March 2007 for calling in a bomb threat to the $43-per-night Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada. (read more)

We already know Brooks had a lengthy 20-page rap sheet of previous criminal conduct.  However, the question being raised is: would the FBI have Darrell Brooks on their radar after the events in Nevada?

Unfortunately, it would not be a surprise to discover Brooks was a lone wolf and also a “known wolf”.   There is a pattern of the FBI having contact -of varying degrees- with domestic terrorism events and the suspects who carry out such attacks.  The fact that Brooks was released from prison just prior to the Wisconsin Christmas parade attack is enough to make the cynical senses tingle.

The FBI was fully aware of the Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, before they executed their plot.  The FBI took no action.  The FBI knew about the San Bernardino terrorists, specifically Tasfeen Malik, and were monitoring her phone calls and communications before her and Syed Farook executed their attack killing 14 people and leaving 22 others seriously injured.  The FBI took no action.  The FBI knew Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad Alissa before he executed his attack.  The FBI took no action.

The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and was tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance of the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians.  The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan), and the FBI knew in advance of Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa.  The FBI took no action.

Consider the case of the first recorded ISIS attack on U.S. soil in Garland, Texas in 2015.  The FBI not only knew the shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi) in advance, the FBI took the shooters to the venue and were standing only a few yards away when Simpson and Soofi opened fire.  Yes, you read that correctly – the FBI took the terrorists to the event and then watched it unfold.  “An FBI trainer suggested in an interview with “60 Minutes” that, had the attack been bigger, the agency’s numerous ties to the shooter would have led to a congressional investigation.”

Remember, shortly before the 2018 mid-term election, when Ceasar Syoc – a man living in his van – was caught sending “energetic material that can become combustible when subjected to heat or friction”, or what FBI Director Christopher Wray called “not hoax devices“?   Remember how sketchy everything about that was, including the childlike perpetrator telling a judge later than he was trying to walk back his guilty plea because he was tricked into signing a confession for a crime he did not create.

Or more recently, the goofball plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer that involved 18 suspects, twelve of them actually working for the FBI as the plot was hatched?  And we cannot forget the January 6th DC protest turned insurrection effort, which is clearly looking like an FBI inspired and coordinated effort.  Have we forgotten the Atlanta “Olympic Park Bombing”, and the FBI intentionally setting up transparently innocent, Richard Jewel?

Then, there’s the entirety of the FBI conduct in “Spygate”, the effort against Donald Trump using FBI resources; the coverup operation using the Mueller/Weissmann special counsel using 50 investigative FBI agents; the 13 FBI agents assigned to evaluate a NASCAR racetrack garage door pull-down rope; the FBI involvement with the Hunter Biden laptop that went nowhere; the disappearing Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner laptop –in the known custody of the FBI; and the missing investigation of the Awan brothers.

So yeah, when it comes to a lone wolf driving purposefully and with malicious intent into a Christmas parade, suspicious cat remains, well, suspicious…

James O’Keefe Provides Update on Project Veritas Case Against New York Times


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 24, 2021 | Sundance | 26 Comments

[NEW YORK – Nov. 23, 2021] Project Veritas released a new video today refuting The New York Times’ legally flawed claim that the New York State Supreme Court acted in an “unconstitutional” way when it ruled that The Times must temporarily stop publishing Veritas’ attorney-client privileged communications with the attorneys representing Veritas in the defamation case, and further ordered The Times to explain the reasoning behind why they did so in an article earlier this month.

Veritas is currently suing The Times for defamation after they libelously labeled a September 2020 video exposing ballot harvesting in Minnesota as “deceptive.” The lawsuit was filed over a year ago. (read more)

Fox News Legal Pundit Johnathan Turley Makes False Comparison Between Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on November 24, 2021 | Sundance | 70 Comments

CTH doesn’t do direct refutation unless the issues are very important.    Earlier today, immediately following the jury conviction of three men in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a longtime Fox News legal analyst named Johnathan Turley made a claim of fact that must be refuted.  My apologies for the delay here.

I do not have video citation, but watched in real time as it happened.  Attorney and Law School Professor Johnathan Turley appeared on Fox News to discuss the jury verdict in the Arbery case.

During his appearance, Professor Turley stated the difference between Ahmaud Arbery’s death and the death of Trayvon Martin was video evidence.

Turley compared the Arbery case to the Trayvon case by saying there were no eyewitnesses for either events, but the difference in the Arbery case there was video.

The explicit and intended implication was that if video evidence existed in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, there’s a possibility George Zimmerman would have been convicted, or in the words of Turley, “there would have been a different outcome in that case.”   Everything about this claim by Turley is FALSE.

Turley’s viewpoint for the Arbery case discussion is not only wrong, it dangerously presents a possibility that is entirely fictitious.

THERE WAS a direct eye witness in the fight between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.  Direct eye witness Jonathan Good testified during the Zimmerman trial to witnessing the fight from his window in the condo unit next to the confrontation [LINK].  John Good testified in court to seeing Trayvon on top of Zimmerman and raining down blows MMA style, “ground and pound“, while Zimmerman was “shouting for help“, just before the fatal shot was fired.

John Good (pictured below right) originally gave the same statement to the police on the night of the incident, and all of the forensic evidence supported the description of the events as told during Good’s statement and court appearance.  Mr. Good’s first hand eyewitness account, and all of the subsequent physical evidence in the case – which included recordings of 911 phone calls which documented the sound of the fight, was the primary reason why detectives in the case and the local district attorney in Orlando did not file charges against George Zimmerman after the shooting.

All of the evidence in the case supported traditional self defense.  Ignored by most, and falsely reported by national media, George Zimmerman did not use a “stand your ground” defense, because traditional self-defense was evident in the facts of the case.  The “duty to retreat” was never debated in court or even by prosecutors, because Zimmerman had no opportunity to retreat from a physical confrontation he did not initiate.

The media’s false reporting in the Zimmerman case was jaw-dropping, and all these years later – thanks to the fabrications by people like Johnathan Turley – most of the public still have no idea what factually took place in the encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.

Perhaps Turley does not know about the police statements and direct courtroom testimony by eyewitness John Good, because what he said did not match the false media narrative that was built in the aftermath.   The media ignored the evidence, and their complicit alignment with a prosecution narrative actually provided room for state special prosecutors Angela Corey and Bernie De La Rionda to carry out another egregious miscarriage of justice.  They completely fabricated a pro-prosecution witness named Rachel Jeantel {Go Deep}.

John Good was an inconvenient witness that destroyed the media narrative about the confrontation between Trayvon and Zimmerman; so the media ignored it.  Additionally, the officials in/around Sanford and Orlando Florida kept the spotlight away from John Good because there was a genuine worry that he would be targeted by the mob that was stirred up by the false racist narrative.

Essentially John Good was in hiding until he could give his first-hand eyewitness account in court.  Those facts are likely why Professor Johnathan Turley doesn’t know about the eyewitness; however, in the larger picture, what does that reality say about the media?

CTH came to the defense of George Zimmerman, because we were defending the truth.  Not the manipulated truth, and not any version of any individual truth; but the literal and empirical truth that undermined the myriad of lies around the Zimmerman case.   The lies were so thick in the case against Zimmerman, the state prosecution even believed it would be possible to successfully create witness #8 out of nothing and get away with it.

Witness #8, Rachel Jeantel, appeared at the trial and gave testimony; unfortunately for the prosecution, she could not answer most questions because she never saw, heard, or had anything to do with the events.   Jeantel was handed to the prosecution by the lawyers and family of Trayvon Martin.  Jeantel signed a statement for the prosecution that she did not write and couldn’t even read.

Jeantel was needed because lawyers for Trayvon Martin’s family claimed publicly a girl was on the phone with Trayvon when the encounter with Zimmerman took place.  Everything about that claim was a lie.  However, worse still, the state prosecution was willing to go along with the lie because the falsehood became the central point of their case.

As a consequence, Rachel Jeantel was a completely made up witness by the Florida state prosecution in the highest profile legal case in the past decade…. and no one was ever held accountable for that.

Let that TRUTH sink in a while…

I hope everyone can see how dangerous this stuff is…

Schumer’s Dilemma


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 24, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Chuck Schumer is up for re-election in 2022. When the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court took place, New York Progressives who are out to change America into the next Marxist-Wonderland, warned Schumer to “step up to the plate” and publicly support stuffing the Supreme Court with progressives who would rule against the Constitution in the manner that they want. They threatened Schumer that if he did not comply with their demands, then he will face a tough fight to keep his Senate seat when he is up for re-election in 2022.

The threat came in a very strongly-worded letter to Schumer signed by a coalition of 22 progressive New York City and state officials. The letter demanded that Schumer counter a number of “right-wing ideologues” on the country’s Supreme Court, which is described as not being an impartial arbiter of whether policies enacted by branches of government were in keeping with the US Constitution and US. laws. Biden’s pick for the top bank regulator is an outright Communist and against banking. Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell Law School, is probably the most anti-capitalist person who was educated in Russia and nostalgic for communism. Indeed, in her Senate hearing, some asked if they should call her comrade or professor. Either way, she has no experience in the real world of banking. She is just another academic with theories to experiment on society.

Schumer is up for re-election in 2022 and the Democratic Party is being torn apart. This Build Back Better spending bill is the single largest spending bill as a percentage of the national debt in the entire history of the nation. It has nothing to do with stimulating the economy. About one-third is all about the environment; shutting down fossils fuels is the main goal decades before there is any replacement. Forget just heating people’s homes, they are out to end commuting to work, eliminating office buildings, and shut down fossil fuels now even before a theory of alternative energy could ever replace everything in 20 years. The real objective seems to be reducing the population, for that is the ONLY way to ever achieve their unrealistic goals.

Looking at Schumer’s career, 2022 is the peak. Even if he is re-elected, there will be a decline between 2022 and 2026. So either the Democrats lose the Senate in 2022, or Schumer loses the election. Either way, his political career is peaking out in 2022. The vast majority of Americans are NOT progressives willing to surrender everything and overturn the Constitution.

Already 70% of Americans feel that the Democrats are taking the country in the wrong direction. Biden will never run in 2024, and the progressives do not care about the polls of the Democrats. They are forcing their agenda through come hell or high water, as they say. They just got the Democrats to pass the Build Back Better bill in the House. This is the takeover of the United States and the imposition of raw tyranny to create this new world of the Great Reset.