Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Feb 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The world bashed Trump saying America First was protectionist. Those at the World Economic Forum were vehemently against him and his policies. Well now we have the rise of protectionism but instead of America First, it is now Green First. Britain’s ruthless Boris Johnson who is in bed with Gates, Soros, and Schwab, figuratively I hope, is now pushing at the next G7 summit Climate Tariffs, arguing that climate sanctions are now necessary to save the planet which is interestingly strangely connected to him destroying jobs and offering free education to retain people I suppose to make solar panels.

This is the same nonsense coming from John Kerry. These people are deliberately using the COVID fake pandemic with a kill ratio of only 0.028% to destroy jobs to redesign the economy as green. They say they’ll create millions of jobs,  but leave out the part that they will destroy far more jobs. They expect people to retain, but employers may not even be available in their area. So they are supposed to sell their home, move, and hope they get employed and make the same amount of money.  You can’t make up this level of stupidity!

By the time the sheep wake up and get it, they will make 2022 a very memorable year – politically – around the world!

Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 5, 2021 AT 10:36 AM

The first editorial cartoon published in America was said to be penned by Benjamin Franklin himself. Its title, “Join or Die,” was used as an inspirational meme during the Revolutionary War. The early American states had to combine in order to defeat British tyranny. 

Now we have an illegitimate regime in Washington D.C.

After stealing the election, the Democrat Socialists are now coming after Trump supporters, whom they consider ‘terrorists.’ They lie and say we are trying to kill them while they actively marginalize roughly half the country as enemy combatants. They’re even censuring a lawfully-elected representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Even many of her fellow Republicans (RINOs) have denounced her. Why? Because she supported Donald Trump a bit too vociferously. 

As socialists, the Democrats naturally hate Christianity. It’s predictable. They want to destroy our culture, our economy, and our freedom including freedom of religion. Yes, that will be extinguished too. Communists want to be worshipped and they will permit only their own religion, the worship of the state.

The Biden regime is quickly undoing President Trump’s accomplishments, while telling us we need to wear two to three masks at once. Biden and his comrades love the masks because they are symbols of submission–even though they do more harm than the virus itself. Masks cause bacterial pneumonia and impede oxygen flow to the brain. It’s not about health, though. Not really. What the socialists want is medical tyranny. They want us to pay for unlimited and even late-term abortion even if we disagree with the practice. They want us jabbed with deadly vaccines containing aborted fetal tissue. It’s not science, it’s ghoulishness.

They want to destroy our economy—especially our oil industry. They want open borders. Those in power are globalists, not nationalists. They talk about spreading ‘democracy,’ which really means they want to spread socialism. They have destroyed our Republic.

They have also destroyed our free speech and now they want to take away our guns. One way is through ‘licensing,’ which involves getting evaluated by government psychiatrists who will judge our mental competency before granting us the right to own a firearm. My guess is they will be very picky about doling out approval—especially to conservatives. Regardless, we all already have a license—it’s called the Second Amendment. The socialist control freaks are constantly working to infringe upon it.

What the socialist Democrats are doing is far worse than what we rebelled against with the British.

Therefore, the best solution may be ‘un-join and live.’ States should consider seceding from the unrecognizable and incredibly corrupt political hot mess that used to be our country. Why send money derived from our hard-earned labor to traitorous criminals back east? Why let our young citizens get sent to insane foreign wars to fight and die in order to fatten the wallets of the military industrial complex? Why pay money and respect to corrupt security agencies, courts, and politicians who hate us and deserve our contempt? Why be chained to the evil Federal Reserve?

Yes, the time has come for the red states to secede. Perhaps Montana can join with the Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, as well as the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon. We can use gold and silver as a basis for a new currency. Northern California can separate from the insane leftist Hell scape that Southern California is becoming. Maybe states in the south such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and West Virginia can all work together as well.

The key is getting ONE state to start to the process and that needs to be Texas. The Lone Star state should seceded and regain its independence. The Republic of Texas! Now that has a good ring to it.

Secede or Die!

Armstrong Economics Blog/Regulation Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Hi

Sweden on their way to vaccination passport

Denmark is also on its way to introduce the passport too.

Ready by summer.

Take Care

C “trapped in Sweden”

REPLY: I really appreciate the readers providing sources from around the world. I really have to wonder if politicians are just following because of peer-pressure because they are spineless, or are they starting to see Schwab’s big picture as the light at the end of the tunnel of insurmountable debt and the politically correct way to default. It just makes no sense that the death toll is 0.028% with COVID, no worse than the 1968 flu, and nowhere close to the Spanish Flu of 1918 at nearly 3%. Can they really be this stupid to shut down the entire world economy?

Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

I have stated that my cousin was a front-line nurse. She caught COVID and got over it. The hospital made her get the vaccine. After the first dose, she had a stroke. Fortunately, she has recovered. She has now refused the second dose. Another friend whose son-in-law works in a hospital was ordered to take the vaccine. He was in his 30s. He ended up violently ill for about one week. This entire drive to mandate vaccinations is political. The death toll is less than 0.02% compared to nearly 4% for the 1918 Spanish Flu. This very dangerous man is saying that 75% of Americans need to be vaccinated before we can return to normal.

We also have Fauci now appearing with the World Economic Forum promo for the Great Reset now saying “inequality” has to be fixed. Where is this in his portfolio of expertise? Those who claim anyone who is against him is a conspiracy nut is very curious because they are refusing to tell the truth about anything. Nearly 40% of the people in France and 23% in Germany say they definitely or probably will not get vaccinated against Covid-19, as reported by the Guardian. In Italy, it was 12% and in the UK it was 14%. Over in the Netherlands, it was at 17%. Meanwhile, 57% of people from minority ethnic backgrounds say they will get the vaccine.

Then we have the Biden Adinitration saying even if you are vaccinated, you still must wear a mask and social-distance. So what is the point of the vaccination?

Fauci made it clear at the outset that a mask will not prevent you from getting the disease. Indeed, when I went to the doctor and said I did not even know anyone with COVID, they said I could have gotten it from pumping my own gas. These people av deliberately destroyed the economy for climate purposes – not for a virus.

Now we have Mark Carney who previously served as the Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013, and was the Governor of the Bank of England until March 2020, come out and said that more people will die from Climate Change than COVID so it is a far greater crisis. Carney is an economist and a favorite at the WEF. Every person who is coming out about this is tied one way or another to the WEF.

However, we then have Biden’s climate czar who tells us we will NEVER return to normal. I am sorry. The one thing I have come to understand is that those in government NEVER tell the truth. This virus has been used for political purposes because they follow Schwab’s global agenda to end capitalism as we know

Kerry is a Davos-Man. What he is saying is that we need to surrender sovereignty to the United Nations becau7se no single country can fight climate change. This is why Schwab says in his promo that the United States will no longer be a superpower – it will be shared and controlled by the Uni8ted Nations which is George Soros’ dream.

Schwab now has his strategic placement in all Western countries and the destruction of jobs and the Great Reset is in motion without even allowing the world population to vote on the changing of the world economy. They expect miners to suddenly manufacture solar panels, yet there is no consideration if there is even such employment available in their area. Do these people have to sell their homes and migrate in hopes of finding a job? It is easy for these elites to just come together and pontificate when they have never worked with their hands or ever had to really work for a living in the real world.

They have turned Washington into a military fortress. They claim it was to prevent Trump supporters from invading again. That did not happen, so now they will continue to remain they are staying into March because of the Trump Impeachment trial. I seriously doubt we will see Washington itself ever return to normal. Biden is even now promoting that Washington DC should be admitted as the 51st state.

The Patriots are no longer in Washington. They are the enemy from Washington’s perspective. Unfortunately, the computer will be right to my disappointment. The USA will break up and will never be the land of freedom ever again. What these people are doing is tearing down every piece of fabric that once made the United States the land of opportunity and the beacon of liberty in the world.

You may think that what we are going through is unique. History repeats because the corruption in government always unfolds. This quote that people have been attributing to Plato for 150 years or so, but I cannot locate in his works. It appears to have been made up by a man running for president in 1872. George Francis Train campaigned to become President of the United States, and a collection of his speeches was published under the title “The People’s Candidate for President, 1872.” Accordingly, Train caused quite a sensation when he said this quotation.  What is interesting is that this did reflect the sentiment at the time. It did not fit Plato since he was the one running schools in Athens back then. Nevertheless, we could make it up again today and once more call it strange times when anyone who disagrees with CNN should be taken off the air and labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics R-Posted Feb 8, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

When we look at 2020, it will be a year most prefer to forget. Overall, productivity decreased 4.8% in Q4 2020 while unit labor costs increase sharply by 6.8% (annual rates) which is fulfilling what Socrates has been forecasting that this wave into 2024 will be inflationary. The December 2020 jobless rate was up over the year in 379 of 389 metro areas while what was really interesting is that payroll jobs were down in 232 metro areas.  When we turn to compensation costs, that rose by 0.7% from September 2020 to December 2020 and it was up 2.5% over the year ending Dec 2020. Meanwhile, Gross job losses 20.4 million and gross job gains 5.7 million in the 2nd quarter of 2020. (see Bureau of Labor Statistics).

To put this in proportion, the total employment in government is about 21 million (Federal, State, Local). Therefore, the proportion of the UNPRODUCTIVE workforce is staggering (unemployed + government). The total civil workforce is about 160.57 million people in the United States. Therefore, the total UNPRODUCTIVE portion of the civil workforce is really comparable to 1932 and is now standing at about 25%. (far fewer people worked for the government in 1932 pre-New Deal)

The damage of the lockdowns which are really for climate change since Florida had fewer deaths with minimal lockdowns compared to New York which was virtually imprisonment. There are many studies showing lockdowns have failed. Freedom has become a luxury for the elite exclusively. Washington has been militarized because they fear a revolution when the sleeping sheep awake that this Great Reset is all about transforming capitalism into full-blown socialist authoritarianism and changing our way of life by incremental lockdowns that always manage to be extended.

Our greatest problem is that these world leaders are deliberately destroying the Western Economy and are clueless as to even how you would build back better and how long will it take to create this fictional world that they have been sold coming out of the World Economic Forum orchestrated by academics with no practice experience to accomplish something that has NEVER been done since the failure of Marx and his utopian vision of Communism. Who will direct the build back? Bureaucrats with also no practical experience.

Those who have questioned our computer forecasting the shift from the West to Asia and China will become the #1 world economy and the new Financial Capital of the World, better wake up and smell the coffee. Our computer will be ABSOLUTELY correct and this is by no means my personal desire nor opinion. If you want to prove me wrong – then get off your ass and be heard. Otherwise, start learning Mandarin.