Senate Overrides President Trump Veto of Defense Bill


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

President Trump vetoed [H.R. 6395 (116)] the National Defense and Authorization Act spending bill last month, because the bill did not include a demand to repeal legal protections for social media companies known as Section 230. Additionally President Trump opposed forcing military bases to be renamed; and more importantly Trump objected to congressional limits on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan & Europe.

Congress used the NDAA to demand U.S. troops remain present around the world to expand our military influence. Various foreign governments pay congressional representatives -via the leadership PAC and monetary laundry service- to retain the blood of U.S. service-members on their soil.

DC politicians accept foreign money and trade in the currency of dead U.S. military members to enlarge their own stock portfolios. President Trump was viewed as against the interests of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees for his ongoing attempts to stop this payment scheme.

Today the senate voted 81-13 to override President Trump’s veto of the bill. Thirteen democrat and republican senators voted to support the veto, however, some of the GOP were hiding their alignment behind an opportunity to give the illusion of MAGA support.

The republicans supporting the veto were: Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and John Kennedy (R-La.). The democrats supporting the veto included: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

(Via Politico) […] “For 60 years in a row, the NDAA has provided necessary support for our troops and national security,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), said in a statement after the vote. “Today’s vote sent a clear message that Congress will not allow President Trump to stand in the way of that support, and I’m relieved the critical bipartisan priorities we fought for will become law.”

[…] “A lot of people contend, as I do, that every year the NDAA’s the most significant vote that we have,” Senate Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. “This year especially so in light of all of the disruptions and problems that we’ve had.”

“This legislation is essential to the national security of the United States and to the welfare of the troops and families who defense us every day,” added Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Armed Services Democrat.  (read more)

Hey, if it takes a few arms and legs to keep our portfolios fat and happy… and simultaneously we can protect our donor friends at Google and get rid of this annoying Trump…. well,…

COVID-19 Usefulness to Execute Great Reset, The Great Wealth Transfer of 2020 From Main Street to Wall Street


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

In this outline we will explain the usefulness of COVID-19 as a weaponized tool to transfer wealth and achieve a global economic reset.  If you have followed the economics of Main Street -vs- Wall Street (Multinationals), you have a baseline to understand these steps.

If you get too granular, missing the larger picture, it is difficult to understand. However, if you stay at the elevated perspective, understanding leads to awakening.  We begin…

In generally approximated terms 2020 has delivered a serious financial blow to Main Street businesses.

The COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have led to business in your local community suffering massive losses of income while simultaneously taking on debt directly from lenders or indirectly from government relief efforts.  Main Street has been hit hard, some analysts estimate 40 to 50 percent of those businesses may not recover.

Conversely, the COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns have created a massive income benefit for multinationals, Wall Street corporations and big tech.  Amazon, Walmart and massive tech companies had their highest earnings ever recorded in 2020.

According to most maco-analysis somewhere around forty percent of Main Street economic wealth was lost or suspended in 2020 due to COVID-19.  Simultaneously the multinational firms have seen increases in stock evaluations of forty percent.  These two almost identical numbers are not coincidental.  The billionaire class (multinationals) have gained wealth in an almost identical amount the middle-class (Main Street) lost.

These empirical results are accepted.  No-one is challenging the shift of financial resources was/is directly related to regional COVID policy.  The math is the math.

Where things change from simple economic math to downstream consequences is where the story is really told.

This is where we are going…

This is where we have been going ever for decades, COVID-19 has  (not coincidentally) just sped up the process.

If you take out a national map and: (1) put a green pin in the areas where the lock-downs are most severe (draw a 100 mile circle); then (2) put a red pin in the areas where the riots and local anxiety was highest in summer 2020; then (3) put a white pin in the seven counties where election fraud was prevalent; then (4) put a blue pin in the areas known as “Opportunity Zones“, what you will see is a direct correlation.  This is not accidental.

There are more than 8,760 designated Qualified Opportunity Zones (PDF) located in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five United States territories. Investors can defer tax on any prior gains invested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund (QOF) until the earlier of the date on which the investment in a QOF is sold or exchanged or until December 31, 2026. (link)

If you are a member of ‘THE BIG CLUB’ with a massive influx in capital due to the benefits of the COVID-19 lockdowns, limits and regulations, the Opportunity Zones are now the perfect place to expand ownership and wealth.   Take advantage of the Main Street weakness, make moves with government authorization, and do so without capital gains.

The regions where real property will be purchased at a low cost will, not coincidentally, be the “opportunity zones” where investment transactions without capital gains can be made. The areas where riots took/take place will sell cheap. “Opportunity zones” allow for mass investment moves from billionaire class without paying capital gains taxes.

The mass accumulation of wealth (multinationals) at the upper tier of Big Tech and the multinational billionaire class (technocrats) during COVID is approximately +40% since it began.  40% of Main Street businesses wiped out. Not coincidentally almost 40% of wealth has been transferred from Main Street to the Wall Street mega-corps and multinationals.

“Never let a crisis go to waste”…

Only in 2020 the “crisis” was (yet again) by design. The highest level of COVID mitigation control in the Blue states is not coincidentally in the same states with the largest number of Opportunity Zone regions. As a direct result of this mass transfer of wealth to the upper tier the “opportunity” is an unprecedented level of Main Street ownership by elite interests and foreign nationals.

It gets worse… Just like the banking and real-estate crisis of ’07/’08 the government steps in to back-fill the Main Street losses to the mass U.S. population.  However, the problem is the relief funds cannot be spent in Main Street because it remains locked-down.

When an individual or family receives the relief money, they still cannot support Main Street because it remains forcibly closed. Paying down debt and making purchases in the same lock-down strata only ends up putting those relief funds into the hands of the multinationals who are allowed to operate.

Continued consumer spending only feeds the beast that is -by policy via purchased politicians- designed to destroy us.

In essence, we are paying the Technocrats/bankers to foreclose on our home/business.

This is by design…. This has always been the design… CTH has been warning about this for well over a decade and we exhibited the (un)natural conclusion with this graphic:

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There is a way out of this cycle and we will expand on those ideas in future posts.  However, it takes everyone fully understanding the dynamic to realize exactly how urgent this time is for our nation.  The global interests within the BIG CLUB have a plan; and they are executing that plan…  If you do not accept the battle, you cannot win the war.

Do not feed the system that is designed to destroy you.  Move your money away from big massive banking institutions and put it into local banks and credit unions.  Spend your income in smaller businesses on Main Street.  Do not shop at multinational corporations.

We are going to have to get out of convenience mode, or we will ultimately destroy ourselves. Do not use Amazon or related convenience systems for purchases.  Do as much local purchasing as possible.  Buy made in America products; it is an investment in our own economy.   Economic patriotism is how we defeat globalist economic expansion.

Example: The second highest expense to housing for the average American is food purchasing.  Do not shop at multinationals for food and beverages.  Shop at privately owned or independent grocery stores that are not part of the multinational system.  Publix (southeast), HEB (southwest) and IGA (national) are examples of privately owned grocers. Try to avoid Ahold, Aldi, Walmart, Whole Foods and other similar multinationals.

Defeating the “Great Reset” is a choice each individual has to make.

The weaponization of COVID is the ongoing crisis that will facilitate government solutions.  As the American people resist the COVID crisis, those who need to weaponize it will keep turning up the pressure.  They must control the economic activity.

That pressure will continue until the American people can no longer take it and will accept the solution.  We are watching deployment of an identical playbook used previously using taxpayer funds to finance Wall Street, Multinationals, Big Banks and political allies in 2008/2009.

  • COVID crisis 2020 replaces the housing/banking crisis 2008.
  • Pelosi repackages the TARP strategy as a COVID response.
  • Blue states are bailed out in 2020 like the Too Big to Fail banks in 2008.
  • Wall Street & multinationals benefit as they did in the 2008 operation.

…And the great reset begins.

Selective Enforcement – Who Gets Crushed by Joe Biden’s Pending COVID-19 Regulations


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 1, 2021 by Sundance

There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate.  [Usefulness As A Narrative]

Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?… That is the key question.

The answer is economic wealth transfer, and societal shifts under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon and we are about to discover exactly what the purpose of the hype is all about.

What follows will help understand; and when you encounter the fear it will help to reconcile what people cannot figure out.

Joe Biden is an avatar; a political pawn; a cognitively declining guy who has no idea what is happening around him. The people behind the Biden campaign, those in real control of what this is about, have not hidden their goals and aspirations. These are not stupid people. They are scheming, conniving, ever-planning, ever-manipulating & Machiavellian types within the political system; lusting for power, influence and affluence.

What they are planning to do is weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within it for almost a year. Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.

Think about the Dept of Agriculture (SNAP/food stamps), the Dept. of Labor, the Dept of Education, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Dept of Labor, Dept of Energy and how they would join with the DoT to create the aggregate raging river of regulation.

Think about the federal government using mandates for enforced national COVID-19 compliance rules. Think about USDA (Dept of Agriculture) and OSHA federal inspections for social distancing (etc) in all businesses, not just restaurants.

Think about the COVID-19 regulatory and compliance system and what political beneficiaries stand to gain.

Think about the Dept of Education using COVID to restructure the way education is taught and the downstream regulations on charter schools and non-compliant educational systems that do not meet the ideological objectives of the master control plan.

Think about how the Dept. of Labor (complaint division) can be weaponized against political opposition based on arbitrary inspections under the guise of employee health and safety…. using federal COVID compliance rules.

Think about required days off for the entire employee base if a single infection is identified in the workplace. Paid days off…. funded by Federal Government. Think about how that changes the income dependency dynamic.

Think about the larger Green New Deal (goals and objectives), and then contrast those objectives while aligning an overlay map of how federal COVID mitigation rules can be applied as a back door to the EXACT SAME objective.

Far beyond masks…. Workspaces being forced to be redesigned. New rules on labor density. New rules on labor/manufacturing and office proximity. New rules on uniforms. New rules on hand-washing stations. New rules on sick pay, shift hours, time-off when a COVID infection is detected in the workplace.

Think about everything from rules on surfaces, to rules on packaging, to rules on ALL business operations as an outcome of federal regulatory policy under the guise of CVOID-19 mitigation. OSHA, Labor, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Education, Housing, Health and Human Services, and even federal building permits… the entire regulatory system and compliance network.

Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants. Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to “ensure the common safety” of the citizens.

If you think this is fear-mongering, I want to to evaluate that cynicism while contemplating this recent example from California:

ENFORCEMENT – Think about those types of business regulations applied on a National level…. and then, as seen in prior Democrat administrations with IRS etc, think about them also being enforced through the prism of political affiliation.

Think about how states that refuse to participate will be cut off from federal grants and funding for college tuition, Medicare and/or medicaid reimbursement, etc. etc.

Think about what happens to Main Street USA?

Think about companies on the NASDAQ or national companies on the stock-market?

Think about how those USA-specific federal COVID compliance regulations apply when considering U.S. business operations -vs- just taking operations overseas without those worries.

Think about who in Washington DC then takes control of what types of business interests are allowed to operation…. who determines the winning and losing.

Think about how Federal COVID-19 regulations can be used to put the multinational corporate world back (the globalists) on their former financial pathways, even without TPP and TTIP trade deals.

[Every domestic regulation weaponized against Main Street USA is a win for the Wall Street multinationals.]

Think about how much China and Europe would love to see our economy knee-capped in a Biden regulatory stranglehold; essentially achieving the same objectives as the Paris Climate Treaty.

Think long and hard about how far the tentacles of achieving the Green New Deal can extend under the auspices of federal COVID-19 mitigation.

Remember, those who are working on this don’t care about the middle-class and they have not for decades. The visibility of the ‘rust belt’ is the reference. This is about government bureaucrats using their DC power-base to control trillions in economic value and sell their ability to influence the winners and losers to the highest foreign bidder.

Look at what blue states have already done to seize power and control. Now think about that same manipulative intent spread throughout the entire country by weaponizing federal agencies with advanced regulation.

That should start to frame the reference point going forward. Remember, within totalitarian states religion is a risk… the assembly for religious worship is always considered a risk to by those who demand control over free-thought and lives.

The national legislative priority will be entirely focused on retention of that power system by generating an entirely new form of congressional representation. New states, new senators, new election systems, and funding for the needs of the executive…. that will be the focus of the facilitating legislative branch.

Those behind the executive branch; those controlling Joe Biden; will harness and weaponize the power. The legislative leftists will attempt to ensure the new systems they create under the guise of COVID-19 are never in a position to be withdrawn.

Why? – Why all of this effort?… why such extremes?… why would blue state governors willingly destroy their economy?….  Follow the money, it’s always about the money.

The global ideology is worthless without money.   Wall Street’s Rick Santelli knows, he’s watching the second deployment of an identical playbook.

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Happy New Year 2021


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com DEC 31, 2020 AT 10:23 AMU Happy New Year- Tina Toon

The year 2020 has come to an end. Thank goodness! We are all survivors of a year to remember, even if we’d rather forget it. It was the year that the ‘great reset’ began, whether we liked it or not. It started with the plandemic fear mongering, the mask wearing, the lockdowns followed by violent, anti-American riots throughout the summer. ‘Non essential’ businesses were ordered closed while big multi-national corporate box stores flourished. Amazon took over and Bezos became unimaginably richer. Government recompense for those out of work was minuscule, and we also saw the destruction of a great many small businesses. Schools were also shut down. As the year wound down we saw our presidential election get blatantly stolen and now we are facing the threat of mandatory vaccination.

Yes, 2020 was a historic year. A sea-change year. A year that portends even worse events to come. It was a wake-up year for Rip Van Public. We awoke to find our constitutional liberties being trampled. Hectoring mayors and governors became dictatorial tyrants who thought they could micro-manage our lives because of a virus similar to the common cold.

Our task for 2021 is clear. We must fight to keep our Republic. We need to save our country’s former way of life from the onslaught of socialism, globalism, and medical tyranny. We want to keep America intact, not see it taken over by those who want a Chinese communist system for us all.

It’s very important to keep China Joe out of the White House. He’s a corrupt, demented, lying politician who will do the bidding of his mega billionaire globalist masters. He wants mask wearing to become permanent. He wants war. He wants to break us for his own personal gain and glory. Kamala is even worse.

No matter what lies ahead, we will hold the line and stand strong against the winds of tyranny…together!

—The GrrrTeam

Eric Clapton & Van Morrison New Song – Stand & Deliver


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Jan 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Split is Coming


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Socrates has been projecting political upheaval which began with the 2016 election where Trump took the presidency against all odds. The press was always covering Trump and ignored the other Republican candidates because they were trying to manipulate the election back then. They assumed Trump was a joke so they covered him all the time. When he won, the Democrats blasted them when Trump won. That is why the media then turned against Trump aggressively because they believed they made him trying to reverse everything.

Thie wave began 1985.65 and 31.4 years into it we warned that was when for the first time a 3rd party could win. That was Trump albeit under the guise of the Republican banner. But when he won, the Republicans hated him. He was an outsider never a politician sot o them it was like a revolution.

The political establishment worldwide was frightened. They saw Trump as leading the charge by the people – POPULISM they called it. But isn’t Democracy supposed to be about the people voting?

Populism became a dirty word among politicians. How dare the people try to overthrow the establishment! Just who the hell do people really think they are? The established political class rules – not “We the People” which they did away with a long time ago.

Now we will witness the self-destruction of the Republican Party. The majority of Republicans are against Trump. They are already telling the minority to shut up and let this go. They want Trump out! They succeeded in surrounding him with their own ME TOO movement of the seasoned political elite. AG Barr declined to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden because a special counsel cannot be dismissed by Biden or his AG. This way any investigation of Hunter will be covered-up.

What the Republicans think is they will get back to NORMAL. They will cut their corrupt deals with the Democrats and it will be a return to business as usual. They think the people are stupid and they will just shut up and still vote Republican.

Our model shows that both the Democrats and the Republicans have made a VERY SERIOUS mistake. There will be no return to NORMAL. We are looking at a 3rd Party rising and this will become much more dominant in 2022. Their own corruption was shown in the relief package. $600 for American, more for illegal aliens, and endless overseas bailouts. It was a joke. $600 would not pay one month’s rent in many places no less food. It was the government that deliberately used lockdowns to create unemployment.

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There is so much evidence of fraud it is off the charts. But the left press and BigTech keep saying there was none. That is a lie since there is always fraud in every election. Some are starting to say ok, it was not enough fraud without allowing the evidence to even be published. The question is simply was there enough to change the outcome, which they will not address. This has been set in motion since 2016. It was not even about Biden being better than Trump. This is Agenda 2030 which is coming from the World Economic Forum in league with the United Nations.

The politicians think they can put this all back together with the way it was and ensure the swamp is expanded. We are facing a major political revolution and the Republicans who are trying to stop any objection on January 6th, fail to realize that they are on the wrong side. This is no longer about Trump. It is about the wholesale corruptio

We Can Beat Them if we Just Try – Happy New Year


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Dec 31, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Once Upon a Time We were Pleasantly Surprised


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Jan 1, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Everyone judged Susan Boyle by her looks and laughed at the thought that she could even sing. We need that wake-up call to not judge the future by what the politicians are telling us for they are conspiring against the people. They are deliberately destroying jobs and created an atmosphere of fear to push their agenda upon the world.

Susan Boyle reminded us that you cannot judge someone or something from its appearance. AS did Emanne Beasha who was only 10 years old.

We have to put a little more effort into this if we want to save our future. It is not always as it seems!

The 3 Players Beside the Central Bankers


Armstrong Economics Blog/Banking Crisis Re-Posted Dec 31, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi AE….of all the 100’s of your posts that I’ve read, over the past, this is the most confusing. You seem to be absolving the international banksters of wrongdoing, when clearly they have been a huge part of the problem, trying to manipulate everything from the economy to wars. The financial sector, rather than facilitating trade & commerce, has become little more than a huge criminal organization, that drains equity from honest Americans. Hope you will elaborate. Still, hugely appreciate what you do.

HS

REPLY: The central banks are not the INSTIGATOR of the digital currency. The benefactor is the government through taxation. The central bankers do not gain from that. Then you have the investment bankers who have been wildly trading and when they blow up they run to the government for bailouts. There are three groups here. Do not mix them up.

By moving to a digital currency it is the politicians who benefit for they see this as eliminating the underground economy. They are also in bed with BigTech which they are allowing to compete with the main banks. Part of Agenda 2030 is “You will Own nothing, and You’ll Be Happy!” is not for your benefit. They want to eliminate all your debts, mortgages student loans etc., which then wipes out the bankers. But it also allows them to default on government debt. Once that takes place, they no longer need the investment bankers to sell their debt. Hence, they are throwing the investment bankers to the wolves.

It is vital to step back and look at all three players in the game for all their interests are not the same.

D’Souza: “GOP establishment should realize Trump supporters demand the election challenge”


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 31, 2020 by Sundance

Dinesh D’Souza points out: “the GOP establishment must recognize there is no way forward without the Trump voters, and the Trump voters demand a challenge of the election results.”  I would slightly disagree with the party linguistics, but essentially D’Souza has a point.  Unfortunately, the GOPe doesn’t care.

Also unfortunately the un-discussed aspect is the unity pact between both wings of the UniParty bird.  The GOPe wants elimination of “Trump” supporters in exactly the same way the GOP wanted, and orchestrated, the elimination of the Tea Party.

If America-First or “MAGA” ideology is the Republican brand, that means the elimination (ie. lots of republicans being primaried) of tenured GOPe politicians.  As an outcome, “Trumpism” is a risk to their structural power.  The charge against the Tea Party was led by Republicans.  The same charge against Trump is led by Republicans.