Tulsi Gabbard Asks Biden: “Have You Declared Martial Law?”
“What is it that they are trying to accomplish now by creating an enduring presence?”
by Paul Joseph Watson
Info Wars
Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard asked Joe Biden if he had declared martial law after it was revealed that thousands of troops stationed in the capital will remain there until March.
As we highlighted earlier, at least 5,000 National Guard soldiers will remain in DC until the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump is completed, a process which won’t be concluded for at least six weeks.
[…] During an appearance on Fox News, Gabbard was asked if it was justified to have so many troops guard the Capitol building given that there was absolutely no unrest during or after Biden’s inauguration.
While asserting that troops had been “mistreated” after they were made to sleep on cement floors, the former Congresswoman said that the 25,000 troops used to occupy the capital was a massive overreaction given there was no evidence of an imminent attack.
Stocks Gone Wild with Nick Santiago (Ep #194)
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Ray Dalio: “We Are on the Brink of a Terrible Civil War”
from Zero Hedge
It was over a decade ago that we first warned the Fed’s unconstrained monetary lunacy will eventually result in civil war, a prediction for which Time magazine, which back then was still somewhat relevant, mocked us. This is what Time’s Stephen Gendel said in October 2010:
What is the most likely cause of civil unrest today? Immigration. Gay marriage. Abortion. The results of Election Day. The mosque at Ground Zero. Nope.
Try the Federal Reserve. Nov. 3 is when the Federal Reserve’s next policy committee meeting ends, and if you thought this was just another boring money meeting you would be wrong. It could be the most important meeting in the Fed’s history, maybe. The U.S. central bank is expected to announce its next move to boost the faltering economic recovery. To say there has been considerable debate and anxiety among Fed watchers about what the central bank should do would be an understatement. Chairman Ben Bernanke has indicated in recent speeches that the central bank plans to try to drive down already low interest rates by buying up long-term bonds. A number of people both inside the Fed and out believe this is the wrong move. But one website seems to indicate that Ben’s plan might actually lead to armed conflict. Last week, a post on the blog Zero Hedge said … that the Fed’s plan is not only moronic, but “positions US society one step closer to civil war if not worse.”
Ten Months After Stepping Down as Fed Chair, Janet Yellen Became Part of the “Leadership” Team for Forums Tied to the Chinese Communist Party
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Haven’t we learned anything about properly vetting people for the highest offices in the U.S. government?
Former Fed Chair and Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen has failed to report the details of millions of dollars in fees that she earned in 2018, the year she stepped down as Fed Chair, as she went on a whirlwind of speaking engagements in foreign cities around the world. Yellen’s “leadership” role with the Bloomberg New Economy Forums which had the “active participation and support” of an organization openly tied to the Chinese Communist Party, raises further serious red flags. And yet, Yellen sailed through her Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing this past week, gaining a favorable vote of 26-0. A full Senate vote to confirm Yellen as Treasury Secretary is expected to occur tomorrow.
What Yellen did disclose on her Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure form showed that in 2019 and 2020 she made a cash haul of more than $7 million in speaking fees, the majority of which came from Wall Street trading houses, mega banks and hedge funds. Yellen stepped down as Chair of the Fed on February 3, 2018. Over the next 10 months, in addition to her foreign gigs, Yellen also appeared at numerous stateside paid engagements for Wall Street firms like JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Jefferies. She has failed to make public the transcripts of her speeches at these events or the specific amounts she was paid.
The Latest Updates from Martin Armstrong – 2021.01.24
by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
There are Many Reports from Around the World of People Becoming Seriously Ill After the Vaccine
Armstrong Interview in Switzerland – “The Centralization of Power Always Fails”
The Two Worst States Are Running the Country?
California Nightmare = Florida Dreaming
1871 Act making DC a Corporation
Can Congress Really put Trump on Trial to Impeach him?
Is the Federal Government of the USA a Corporation?
Trump’s Impeachment Trial set for February 8th
So Now Biden Admits the Truth
by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
Biden says ‘nothing we can do’ to change pandemic ‘trajectory’ in coming months
More-specifically:
“If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” Biden said.
So why are you putting up with mask orders, business closures, restrictions on dining, quarantines when coming into or out of a place, etc? The President himself just told you they do nothing to change the course of disease spread.
Why take any economy-destroying act, say much less kid-destroying acts like forcing schools to virtual which also screws the economy because many parents rely on school to be part of their childcare if there is, and I quote The President himself, NOTHING WE CAN DO TO CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE PANDEMIC IN THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS?
The Secret to the Stock Market: Just Buy Tech Companies That Are Losing Money and Watch Profits Rain from the Sky
by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
For those that can’t detect sarcasm, I am not actually sharing “investment advice” in this article. Rather, I am pointing out how absurd our financial markets have become at this point. While the real economy is mired in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the stock market just keeps soaring to record high after record high. If the underlying profits that these corporations were generating actually justified the extremely high stock prices that we have been witnessing, then I wouldn’t have anything to complain about. Sadly, the truth is that many of the companies that are seeing their stocks soar into the stratosphere are not making any money at all.
I know that this may sound bizarre to many of you that do not follow the markets on a regular basis, but this is what is actually happening.
Establishment War Against “We the People” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts with Greg Hunter
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts will talk about what is going on in America today and give his assessment of the economy in 2021.
[Ed. Note: For the FULL interview, visit Greg’s site by following the ‘Continue Reading’ link.]
by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Former Assistant Treasury Secretary and award winning journalist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (PCR) says the country has changed dramatically since the massively fraudulent and rigged 2020 Election that put Joe Biden in the White House. Dr. PCR says, “First, consider there is now an organized war by the establishment against anyone who takes exception to their explanation of the election. We see, for example, free speech is now dead. Many of the institutions in the United States no longer believe in it. You can’t protest what you perceive as a stolen election without being called an enemy of democracy. Well, someone who is protesting what they perceive as a stolen election is defending democracy. Now, that means they are an enemy because the narrative can’t be challenged. You can’t say anything is wrong with the 2020 Election even if you have enormous evidence. So, you don’t have free speech. Also, a lot of people who attended the Trump rally (in Washington D.C. 1/6/21) have been fired simply for attending the rally. So, you don’t have freedom of association. You cannot do anything that is seen as opposition to the establishment. . . . Biden was demanding personal allegiance from the troops who defended the inauguration. So, it looks more and more like a dictatorship.”
In 2020, Teachers Unions and Police Unions Showed Their True Colors
It’s time for the left and the right to take a hard look at their favorite public-sector unions.
by Peter Suderman
Reason.com
From the spread of COVID-19 and the wave of state-imposed closures that followed to the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the unrest that ensued, 2020 was a year in which American institutions flailed and failed. And few failures were bigger or more apparent than those of public-sector unions.
By pushing to keep schools closed even as evidence mounted that in-person classes were relatively low-risk and remote learning was ineffective, teachers unions failed students and parents. By pushing to protect bad cops in the wake of multiple scandals, police unions failed the public they were sworn to protect. And in the process, America got a glimpse of what public-sector unions, regardless of the profession they represent, really do.
Unions that represent government employees seek to maintain an image of themselves as protectors of common institutions that can be relied upon to serve the public interest.
Inflation is Spreading Broadly Into the Economy. Amid Surging Costs, Companies Raise Prices, and Customers Pay Them, Despite Weak Economy, Ten Million Missing Jobs
by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street
“Not only have the last two months seen supply shortages develop at a pace not previously seen in the survey’s history, but prices have also risen due to the imbalance of supply and demand.”
The signs of inflation building up in the economy are now everywhere. IHS Markit, in its release of the Flash PMI with data from companies in the services and manufacturing sectors, added to that pile of evidence.
For companies, inflation happens on two sides: what they are having to pay their suppliers, and what they can get away with charging their own customers, which may be consumers, governments, or other companies.
And increasingly, companies are able to pass higher input prices on to their customers – meaning, their customers are not totally balking at paying higher prices and they’re not switching to other sources to dodge those price increases. That’s a mindset that nurtures inflation.
Orange Man Gone
by David Stockman
LewRockwell.com
The everlasting irony of Donald J. Trump’s presidency is this: He had all the right enemies, but virtually without exception made all the wrong decisions during his hapless four-year sojourn in the Oval Office.
The list of his enemies is enough to make any right-thinking supporter of peace, prosperity and liberty proud. That starts with the TV networks and print organs of the mainstream stenographers club, who peddle the state’s propaganda and call it news. This most especially includes the masters of mendacity at CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
It also includes the bipartisan national security mafia, the climate change howlers, the race card hondlers, the Russophobes, the Neocon War Brigades, the NATO/IMF/UN acolytes, the Washington nomenclatura, the careerist racketeers of Capitol Hill, the beltway shills of the Lincoln Project, the Silicon Valley thought police and the celebrity scolds of entertainment and media, among others.
Market Report: Biden Stimulus
by Alasdair MacLeod
Gold Money
This was the week President Biden took office, with the promise of MMT-style economic stimulus. Gold and silver reacted by recovering some of the previous week’s falls. From last Friday’s close, gold rose $31 to trade at $1857 in today’s European morning trade, and silver rose 58 cents to $25.30 on the same timescale. Trading was subdued, with Monday being the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday in America.
In the most recently available Commitment of Traders report (12 January) there is evidence that hedge funds have begun to cut their long futures positions. This is consistent with expectations for a dollar rally and is laid out in the table below.
To reduce their net longs by over 38,000 contracts is a major change for the Managed Money category (hedge funds), much to the relief of the bullion banks, who managed to close nearly 24,000 of their net shorts. From the subsequent price action, it would appear that this trend continued into last Friday. But the bullion banks are not out of the woods by any means, as the next chart shows.
The Silver Shorts’ Last Stand?
by Ted Butler
Silver Seek
I started calculating the financial plight of the 8 big shorts in COMEX gold and silver on a twice-weekly basis around June 2019. That’s when gold moved higher. The big shorts had added quite aggressively to short positions early in the move and when gold rose $100, the big shorts were out $2.2 billion. As gold rose, the big shorts kept getting deeper and deeper into a financial hole. From the end of the third quarter of 2019 when the 8 big shorts were underwater by $2.4 billion, the losses have progressively worsened over the five subsequent quarters to yearend 2020, when the combined loss hit $14 billion.
The drastic turn in the financial fortunes for the 8 big shorts is not the only change that has occurred since the summer of 2019. A development I believe may be just as important, is the change in the composition of the big shorts. The former king of the big shorts since 2008, JPMorgan, broke ranks and completely covered its gold and silver short positions.
Biden’s Presidency Will Be a Catalyst for Secession, and Perhaps Civil War
by Brandon Smith
Alt Market
Over the past few months I have written a handful of articles which discussed what would probably happen if Joe Biden actually entered the White House and launched his administration. My initial belief was that Trump would refuse to concede and that this would be a trigger for national chaos blamed on conservatives, but I have also noted that Biden’s entry is almost just as disruptive, as it sends a signal to the political left that it is “open season” on anyone that disagrees with their ideology.
Of course, conservatives are not going to simply sit still and be purged and abused, they are going to strike back, and this sets the stage for a number of events and outcomes, some of which are completely unpredictable, even for establishment globalists.
First, though, we need to address how Biden and the globalists are going to create chaos so that they can then demand their own brand of “order”.
Back to the Obama’s Failed Policies and Blinkered Personnel
by Clarice Feldman
American Thinker
Donald J. Trump has been the most consequential President in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan. Issues & Insights counts some of the ways, listing the 10 most significant.
“He slashed individual and business taxes, he forged peace in the Middle East, He created Operation Warp Speed, which “may well end up saving hundreds of thousands of lives in coming years,” he deregulated our economy, saving “the average American household an average of $3,100 a year,” he got rid of Obama’s individual mandate, he restored balance on the Supreme Court, he forced NATO to reform and in so doing “likely saved the West’s main military alliance,” he encouraged U.S. energy independence so that we are “one of the only major countries whose CO2 emissions are plunging, with output now at the lowest levels since 1984,” he reformed immigration and built more than 450 miles of wall “to control entrance to our nation,” he withdrew from the Paris Climate Deal which commits only major industrial nations to shrink their economies.
Rough Ridin’ with Biden
by James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Speaking of the inauguration, I don’t know what was more peculiar: Lady Gaga sweeping out onto the capitol dais in Hunger Games drag —and I mean but exactly, down to the golden mockingjay pinned above her left breast — or Garth Brooks post-hymn dash to the exit as though he just heard the repo man was coming for his Gulfstream jet parked across the Potomac at Reagan National Airport.
The immense field of ranked American flags deployed silently down the mall in place of annoying US citizens lent a funereal vibe to the proceedings (as in the death of your country), while the thousands of massed national guard troops signaled the paranoia crackling under the surface as Ol’ White Joe Biden stepped forward to commence his party’s punishments against the unWoke (disguised as a call for “unity”). He was surrounded by a virtual wax museum of Deep Staters salivating for the upcoming blood-feast: The Obamas, Hillary and Bill (nodding off), Nancy, Chuck, Mitch… but just who was the Asian chap sitting behind the man-of-the-hour? Secret Service? Or his new minder (courtesy of Uncle Xi)?