Jordan Parlor has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for social media posts ‘intended to stir racial hatred’ during riots in Leeds. Parlour is believed to be the first person to be jailed for social media posts made in relation to riots across the country. #Leeds#JordanParolour#Socialmedia#riots#sentencing#crowncourt#c4news
The UK government has become absolutely tyrannical in their efforts to quell mass illegal immigration protests. I spoke about how the government has already begun arresting and jailing their own citizens for speaking out against migration. A simply tweet or retweet could turn a normal citizen into a criminal. Americans have been sharing words of praise for their brothers and sisters across the pond, leading the UK government to declare that they will extradite foreign citizens for sharing their thoughts online.
“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News. Commissioner Rowley said that the ongoing protests were a result of “hate speech” spread online, not mentioning the three little girls whose senseless murders sparked the fire.
He continued by saying that anyone could be found guilty for a hate crime. “You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material,” he said. “All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”
For now, the UK does not have the power to extradite American citizens who are protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The US government would need to comply with the UK government and hand over their own citizens to be prosecuted abroad. The two have extradition treaties that have been used in recent years to hunt down actual terrorists working with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. No one has been extradited for simply expressing a controversial viewpoint. Kamala is campaigning, and Joe Biden has been spotted on Delaware’s beaches. No one is in the White House. It is extremely concerning that our elected leaders have not spoken up for their own citizens or the very document that the US was founded upon that should award the people with freedom of speech.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 12, 2024 | Sundance
Comrades, the European Union’s digital enforcer Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote a letter to Twitter/X owner Elon Musk today ahead of a planned interview with President Donald Trump.
Komisar Breton reminded Musk of the EU’s rules on platforms allowing information the EU does not approve of. “As the relevant content is accessible to EU users and being amplified also in our jurisdiction, we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU,” Breton said.
Any information that undermines the rightful status of the elite governing authority within the EU will not be permitted. Breton added that “any negative effect of illegal content” could lead the EU to take further action against X, using “our full toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from [intellectual] harm.”
Posted originally on the CTH on August 11, 2024 | Sundance
Be thankful that God has allowed you to see what is unfolding. Others that remain asleep are not as lucky as you. Ask yourself in prayer, why you. Why now? Then, think about this daily. Affirm your spirit and allow this sense of fortunate knowledge to elevate your faith and confidence in a loving and purposeful God. You have the gift of discernment. Ultimately, you have been chosen. Be thankful.
POLITICO – Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday. (read more)
Susan Wojcicki, 56, was killed by rapid onset of lung cancer after being fully vaccinated and boosted. It was during her tenure that Google blocked any information about COVID-19, vaccinations or the virus origin that ran counter to the expressed opinions of those who run Google.
Susan Wojcicki, wife of Marco Troper, was a leading fellow traveler in the leftist control system. The modern system of digital control exists in large measure because of Susan Wojcicki and the small group of people around her life. She’s dead at 56, which is coincidentally the exact same age as Steve Jobs when he died.
YOUTUBE FMR CEO DIES SUDDENLY
Susan Wojcicki, 56, was killed by rapid onset of lung cancer after being fully vaxxed. Her body was found in the same Menlo-Park Garage where Google was founded.
Under her leadership, YouTube censored over 1 million videos on v*ccine safety… pic.twitter.com/zM3QQzCJCG
Earlier this year, Susan Wojcicki’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, killed himself using a drug overdose.
Susan Wojcicki’s sister, Anne Wojcicki, co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe which benefits from the COVID-19 testing database.
Susan Wojcicki’s husband is Dennis Troper, an ADL board member and key voice in the Google censorship complex. If you want to identify the key figure behind the demonetization of conservative content online, it would be Dennis Troper.
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Be thankful that God has allowed you to see what is unfolding. Others that remain asleep are not as lucky as you. Ask yourself in prayer, why you. Why now? Then, think about this daily in your quiet time. Affirm your spirit and allow this sense of fortunate knowledge to elevate your faith and confidence in a loving and purposeful God. You have the unique gift of discernment. Ultimately, you have been chosen.
Be thankful. Remember, Romans 13:12
Live a positive, affirming, purposeful and incredible life.
Within every battle, challenge and contest we encounter, always remember to be thankful and continue living your best life.
Posted originally on Aug 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The world has erupted in conflict as a direct result of the economy turning down. We are seeing it across the globe, from Bangladesh, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria to name a few. There is peace when everyone is fat and happy but that is no longer the case in the majority of the world amid the cost of living crisis. Some places have been hit far worse than others. The Nigerian naira lost 230% of its value in the past year and is utterly worthless. Inflation reached 34.19% in June 2024, the highest level since March 1996. Food inflation alone is up 40.87%. The cost of living crisis has caused the people to take to the streets to engage in what the media has deemed “the hunger protests.”
The World Bank valued Nigeria’s GDP at $362.81 billion in 2023 and expects it to surpass $386.4 billion by 2025. GDP advanced 2.98% YoY during Q1, primarily driven by the services sector, which contributed over 58% to the aggregate. Nigeria is an oil-rich nation and Africa’s largest oil producer.
Yet, overt corruption prevents the people from benefiting. Corruption has long been a problem in Nigeria. Most recently, Parliament attempted to impeach Siminalayi Fubara last October after serving only five months in office in favor of his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. Fast forward to the entire Parliament building burning down, followed by the resignation of 27 lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. Fubara’s proposed 2024 budget led to nine cabinet members and five elected officials resigning. Government then split in half – one supporting Fubara and the other supporting Wike. Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu overstepped by dropping all cases pending against Fubara. And basically, they have accomplished nothing but continued spending and were already knee-deep in the mess past governments have created. About 90% of the nation’s revenue goes toward repaying its debts. They have no real economic plan it place. Then leave it to government to cripple its own ability to earn. Last May, Tinubu implemented a slew of regulations and economic reforms that included ending energy subsidies and devaluing the naira.
Oh, and Tinbu approved of raising the salaries of government under his economic plan. He also found the funds to purchase a presidential yacht and luxury vehicle. He set aside public funds to renovate his own residence. All of this as the currency continued to decline while inflation rose. The people had been urging the government to remove the fuel regulations and do something, anything, to help.
The people are hungry. Their currency is worthless and they cannot afford food or energy. “Hunger … brought me out. I don’t have money to buy fuel … there’s total bad government. It’s 10 days (of rage). We’ll remain on the streets till our demands are met,” one man told CNN in regards to the 10 Days of Rageprotests.
Police and protestors have met fatal ends amid these protests and hundreds have been arrested. Human rights organizations are asking the Nigerian government not to fire live rounds at protestors. The situation is an absolute mess. The president rushed to address measures by removing some taxes on food imports and raising the minimum wage but it is far too little, too late. He must step aside and allow a new government to reform Nigeria’s economic situation. The people have nothing left to lose. This is what happens when corrupt governments push the people to a breaking point.
COMMENT: Marty, it is always obvious why you were named Economist of the Decade, Hedge Fund Manager of the Year, and FX Analyst of the Year for the Swiss Peg break. As you said on the private blog;
“Let’s see but it appears that we could have a bear trap forming with a plunge into Monday but then a bounce. Monday would be a 3-day reaction plunge. There remains the risk of a bounce and then a more serious pattern forming in September.”
Your skills are renowned, but your motive is to help society. People need to know that governments and central bankers go to you because you do not charge them and have no conflicts of interest. You could keep Socrates, trade only for yourself, and make a fortune. But you care. While others claim the Fed should pull an emergency 0.25% base cut, only you point out that theory never works.
Many are concerned that you have no one to pass Socrates on, and you have toyed with the idea of going public for its survival. There are those among us who share your view and would help.
Please comment on that for society.
Paul
REPLY: Look, 99% of the analysis you hear on TV is nonsense. These are people who repeat the same stupid theories that everyone else does, and not a single one ever takes the time to investigate whether their statements are true or false. Be it FOX or CNN; they only allow analysts who speak the same fake analysis. They would never dare to put me on TV because I would contradict what they say and all their guests.
This is typical of what the Daily Mail just published: “Economist issues dire warning about the US economy.”
He places the blame on the Fed for keeping its main interest rate at a two-decade high since 2022 in its zeal to stifle inflation.
Those hikes are now hitting the economy hard, he said, suggesting the Fed should have lowered rates earlier.
‘I really do worry that we may lose US economic exceptionalism because of a policy mistake,’ he told Bloomberg TV, as worldwide markets continued to plummet.
Here is the last Emergency Rate Cut, which was on March 4th, 2020, in the middle of that plunge. Three days later, the market made new lows and continued to fall. NOBODY ever seems to review past actions and simply ask, did that work?
YES, I can walk into any central bank. They all know (1) I refuse ever to accept any money from any government because there will ALWAYS be strings attached. (2) I am NOT allowed to invest in any shares, for I cannot have a CONFLICT OF INTEREST when I must comply with the laws of every country because we are GLOBAL – not domestic. Normally, when the government falsely charges you, they will charge you with something else like insider trading or tax fraud. I could not have any such personal account, and instead of saying I ran a clean shop, they said, “You are one smart MF”because they could not find anything despite advising on numerous takeovers. Even after the HSBC takeover of Republic National Bank, the former head of HSBC came to my London office to ask my opinion on buying that bank.
It is impossible to deal with all the different laws internationally. In some jurisdictions, if you asked me about IBM and I had just one share, I would be required by law to reveal everything I own to the client. You cannot be an international adviser with anything that can be seen as a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
They came to me in 1985 when they were creating G5 and the Euro. I was the first Western Analyst to be called into the Bank of China. I have had a front-row seat to the world. I have made more than I could spend. Money does not define a person; it defines character. Contracts are WORTHLESS, for if the person on the other is not trustworthy, the contract means nothing. I grew up when your word was your bond. Before recorded phone lines, you had to honor your word, or nobody would deal with you.
It is always difficult to choose a successor. I must also consider their character. I would never take in someone from the NY bankers or Bill Gates. Money is not the issue. I like the character of Elon Musk, but this is a very difficult proposition. I have traded billions and advised on trillions. Then you finish for the day and go out to dinner, and it costs you $300. Billions are just phone numbers, as we used to say. That kind of money is only suitable for bribing others to do what you want – i.e.Gates and Soros. It cannot be spent on living expenses. It is monopoly money. It’s not “real” at that point. Accomplishment makes a man – not money.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 6, 2024 | Sundance
After two years of pre-trial litigation, and a year of trial in front of U.S. District Judge Amit Mehtata, the court has determined that Google is factually a monopoly operation in the business of online search engine use and advertising. Google is violating section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by running a monopoly business model.
COURT RULING pdf – […] “Google has not achieved market dominance by happenstance. It has hired thousands of highly skilled engineers, innovated consistently, and made shrewd business decisions. The result is the industry’s highest quality search engine, which has earned Google the trust of hundreds of millions of daily users.
But Google also has a major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals: default distribution. Most users access a general search engine through a browser (like Apple’s Safari) or a search widget that comes preloaded on a mobile device. Those search access points are preset with a “default” search engine. The default is extremely valuable real estate.
Because many users simply stick to searching with the default, Google receives billions of queries every day through those access points. Google derives extraordinary volumes of user data from such searches. It then uses that information to improve search quality. Google so values such data that, absent a user-initiated change, it stores 18 months-worth of a user’s search history and activity.
The distribution agreements benefit Google in another important way. More users mean more advertisers, and more advertisers mean more revenues. As queries on Google have grown, so too has the amount it earns in advertising dollars. In 2014, Google booked nearly $47 billion in advertising revenue. By 2021, that number had increased more than three-fold to over $146 billion. Bing, by comparison, generated only a fraction of that amount—less than $12 billion in 2022.
For years, Google has secured default placements through distribution contracts. It has entered into such agreements with browser developers, mobile device manufacturers, and wireless carriers. These partners agree to install Google as the search engine that is delivered to the user right out of the box at key search access points.
Google pays huge sums to secure these preloaded defaults. Usually, the amount is calculated as a percentage of the advertising revenue that Google generates from queries run through the default search access points. This is known as “revenue share.” In 2021, those payments totaled more than $26 billion. That is nearly four times more than all of Google’s other search-specific costs combined.
In exchange for revenue share, Google not only receives default placement at the key search access points, but its partners also agree not to preload any other general search engine on the device. Thus, most devices in the United States come preloaded exclusively with Google. These distribution deals have forced Google’s rivals to find other ways to reach users.
Google’s dominance eventually attracted the attention of antitrust enforcers—the U.S. Department of Justice and nearly every state’s Attorney General. They homed in on Google’s distribution agreements and in late 2020 filed two separate lawsuits alleging that the agreements and certain other conduct violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act. According to their complaints, Google has unlawfully used the distribution agreements to thwart competition and maintain its monopoly in the market for general search services and in various online advertising markets.
The proceedings that followed have been remarkable. Discovery began in December 2020 and concluded in March 2023.
[…] After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
Specifically, the court holds that (1) there are relevant product markets for general search services and general search text ads; (2) Google has monopoly power in those markets; (3) Google’s distribution agreements are exclusive and have anticompetitive effects; and (4) Google has not offered valid procompetitive justifications for those agreements. Importantly, the court also finds that Google has exercised its monopoly power by charging supracompetitive prices for general search text ads. That conduct has allowed Google to earn monopoly profits.” (read more)
This is only one facet to the Google monopoly enterprise. There are other lawsuits challenging the Advertising rules and regulations enforced by Google that block funds from online content providers. Google is a leftist control operation, with comprehensive totalitarian alignment.
Don’t think that our U.S. Government is against this monopoly just because they were forced to respond to it with a lawsuit. DHS and the IC love having a single control point they can exploit and compromise. Monopolies are useful for the interests of the government who corrupts and utilizes them.
Within the Public/Private Technocracy system that Barack Obama helped to build between Big Tech and Government, they both collaborate on the benefits of singular power structures. A pox on all of them!
MSM – Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said the company intends to appeal Mehta’s findings.
“This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available,” Walker said.
For now, the decision vindicates antitrust regulators at the Justice Department, which filed its lawsuit nearly four years ago while Donald Trump was still president, and has been escalating it efforts to rein in Big Tech’s power during President Joe Biden’s administration.
“This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.”
The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically has thwarted competition to protect a search engine that has become the centerpiece of a digital advertising machine that generated nearly $240 billion in revenue last year. Justice Department lawyers argued that Google’s monopoly enabled it to charge advertisers artificially high prices while also enjoying the luxury of not having to invest more time and money into improving the quality of its search engine — a lax approach that hurt consumers. (MORE)
Posted originally on Aug 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Massive riots have erupted across the UK following the tragic fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport. The girls were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class when a cowardly 17-year-old male, born to Rwandan parents, attacked the innocent children. The law protects the murderer over the three innocent young girls, and this preventable attack may have been the final straw for the people of the UK. Tensions between citizens and migrants were already at a boiling point. Now, the UK government is calling protests against migrants “far-right thuggery” and looking to silence dissent.
I utterly condemn the far-right thuggery we have seen this weekend.
Be in no doubt: those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law. pic.twitter.com/uNeJtD8pCQ
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a World Economic Forum favorite, believes the UK should revert to “COVID-style” restrictions to prevent rioting. “Back in Covid, they were prepared to back measures that were needed in that situation and I think they would take a similar approach to keeping rioters off the streets now given the scale of damage that has been done to communities,” Starmer said while adding that the government must take “whatever measures they feel is necessary to get this situation under control.”
The people are livid and the government is willing to do anything necessary to quiet them, other than addressing the real problem. Starmer’s government has sent dogs after protestors. He has allowed authorities to punish them in ways that they never punished those protesting against Israel or other far-left causes. Every headline calls the protestors “far-right extremists” and “anti-immigration Islamaphobes.” The international press would like the would to believe that the outrage is unjustified.
What about migrant reform and preventing illegals or those with no loyalty to the nation in which they reside from continually committing crimes? Why were these three little girls unsafe in the classroom? The people want answers but Starmer won’t provide them. These riots are rampant and passion-fueled. It is estimated that rioters have already caused between £200m and £500m in damages. Over 400 people have been arrested at the time of this writing.
It is unfortunate when the masses resort to violence to be heard, but the people of the UK have finally snapped after years of begging their elected officials to close the borders. Around 672,000 illegals entered the UK in 2023 alone, with 84,000 claiming asylum. The foreign-born population reached 14.5% by 2021, and has doubled since the beginning of the decade. The open border policy never faltered when Britain left the EU.
Nigel Farage is one of the only politicians in the UK to question what is happening in his country. “I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. I don’t know the answer to that, but I think it is a fair and legitimate question,” Farage stated when the riots first began. He has condemned the riots but has at least acknowledged why the people are enraged. “The majority of our population can see the fracturing of our communities as a result of mass, uncontrolled immigration, whether legal or illegal,” Farage said. “Yet to attempt to debate this in the public arena leads to immediate howls of condemnation. A population explosion without integration was always going to end badly. I have said this for many years. We must have a more honest debate about these vital issues and give people the confidence that there are political solutions that are relevant to them. A recall of Parliament would be an appropriate start to this.”
England is hardly a Christian nation as the migrant crisis has permanently changed the landscape. In the United Kingdom, for example, Islam is the second-largest religion. In fact, Muhammad was the most popular name for baby boys born in the UK in 2023. The 2021 England and Wales Census marked the first time that less than half of the population (46.2%; 27.5 million people) identified as Christian. Christianity has fallen by 13.1% since the last census in 2011. The number of people abandoning religion entirely has continued to rise as well, with 37.2% (22.2 million people) declaring they do not believe in a God in 2021 compared to 25.2% (14.1 million people) ten years prior.
Pew Research Center believes that Muslim women will have more children than Christian women by 2035, and Islam could become the most followed religion in the world. There is nothing inherently wrong with the religion of course, but it is understandable that people want to maintain their own nation’s traditions, religion, and morals.
Home Office minister Lord Hanson has warned “far-right” rioters that they will be met with the full force of the law. Yet, no politician bothers to ask WHY the people are rioting. The headlines stating that these protests are a result of islamophobia are simply wrong. People no longer feel safe walking in major cities among the Build Back Better nations. Violent crimes, especially violent crimes against girls and women, are through the roof, and none of the politicians are protecting these innocent people. The Davos crowd now rules the UK, and they have every intention of keeping the borders open.
Posted originally on Aug 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Americans are preparing for a prolonged inflationary period, based on new data from the New York Fed. The New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that Americans are still pessimistic about inflation waning, with no one now believing it is transitory. The median expectation is that inflation will remain at the 3% level in 2025.
The public does not anticipate inflation tapering off in a meaningful way in the years to come. The Federal Reserve is still honing in on that 2% target but the people have lost confidence in its ability to do so. Most Americans see inflation sitting at 2.9% in three years from now, up from the 2.4% estimate in January 2024. Even in five year’s time, the average consumer believes inflation will be above target at 2.6%.
The central bank believes they can meet that 2% target. Policymakers believe inflation will fall to 2.1% by 2025 before finally reaching 2% in 2026. Amid the sell off this week, Chicago Fed President Goolsbee came out and said that the central bank will simply “fix it” if the economy continues to deteriorate.
“The Fed’s job is very straightforward, maximize employment, stabilize prices and maintain financial stability. That’s what we’re going to do,” Goolsbee told CNBC. “We’re forward-looking about it. So if the conditions collectively start coming in like that on the through line, there’s deterioration on any of those parts, we’re going to fix it.”
Unfortunately, there is not much that the central bank can do to offset government’s suicidal fiscal policy. Remember, inflation was only 1.4% when Joe Biden took office – far beneath the Fed’s target. Inflation has risen as a direct result of fiscal policies under Bidenomics.
The Fed was unable to prevent policies that ended America’s energy independence. They were unable to stop the supply chain issues exacerbated by the pandemic. They cannot alter the weak jobs reports that are propped up by multiplying the public sector, which only detracts from overall GDP. The Federal Reserve cannot maintain diplomatic relations with America’s trade partners or prevent the likes of Japan and China from selling off US government debt. The millions of immigrants now subsidized by the taxpayers cannot be curtailed by Jerome Powell or the FOMC. Worst of all, war is the most powerful driver of inflation. The Federal Reserve can do absolutely nothing to prevent America from steering NATO into three potential battles. Our Treasury Secretary says we can afford numerous wars. The $35 trillion in government debt rises every day and those in the central bank simply KNOW that the government has no intention on paying it off – how could they?
Americans are rightfully pessimistic about the future of the economy. All the talking heads insist that the economy is thriving under Bidenomics, but we the people are living in a different reality. This is what happens when people lose trust in the government entirely.
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