investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Can this be explained?

Can this be explained?

Now I ’ m not saying this is “ *PROOF* ” of fraud , that just seems like a brown @ @ @ @ @ But it sure is one heck of a coincidence “ We ’ ve Identified 450,000 @ @ @ @ @ a vote for Joe Biden … algorithm used to calculate number of votes needed to @ @ @ @ @ those votes from Trump to Biden and from other Republican candidates to their competitors also @ @ @ @ @ Powell

by DandyChiggins07
Source
Georgia had other irregularities
Now I’m not saying this is “*PROOF*” of fraud, that just seems like a brown note among the deniers. But it sure is one heck of a coincidence
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On November 2nd, in Arizona, there was a massive spike in a particular Google search. The search? Election fraud punishment. Crazy how Arizona is also one of the states that had one of them “clerical errors” like Michigan and Wisconsin… oh wait, those 2 states ALSO had a massive Google search surge in October concerning the punishment for election fraud??? Weird, but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=Election%20fraud%20punishment
“We’ve Identified 450,000 Ballots that Miraculously ONLY have a vote for Joe Biden … algorithm used to calculate number of votes needed to flip… computers used to flip those votes from Trump to Biden and from other Republican candidates to their competitors also. ” – Attorney Sidney Powell
“We believe these people are thieves. The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election. Best pollster in Britain wrote this morning that this clearly was a stolen election, that it’s impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Hedge funds are record net short on bitcoin. They must know something.

They can barely short one month out .
This market is still illiquid as hell .
pic.twitter.com/knrj7dFrfx

They can barely short one month out. This market is still illiquid as hell. pic.twitter.com/knrj7dFrfx
— Silver Watchdog (@Silver_Watchdog) November 8, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Judge Jeannine Pirro SUSPENDED from Fox

Judge Jeannine Pirro SUSPENDED from Fox

ICYMI : Fox News cancels 'Justice With Judge Jeanine ' for the weekend – due to her defense of President @ @ @

ICYMI: Fox News cancels 'Justice With Judge Jeanine' for the weekend – due to her defense of President Trump t.co/NjS7wmd6Ya pic.twitter.com/71cidMfna8
— Newsmax (@newsmax) November 8, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Why was the Election Rigged!

Why was the Election Rigged!

COMMENT : You only say the election is rigged because your boy Trump got what he deserved .
REPLY : This entire mail-in ballot was orchestrated using a fake pandemic , to begin with .
This was a very strategic plot and it has been carried out with masterful execution .
You voted for Biden thinking this was just a normal election .
I dare to say , you will get what you deserve .
The Supreme Court recently noted , “ [ e ] xtending the date by which ballots may be cast by voters [ until ] after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature of the election.
” Republican Nat ’ l Comm .
v. Democratic Nat ’ l Comm.
, 140 S. Ct. 1205 , 1207 ( 2020 ) .
If you count the legal votes , Trump won .
If you count the illegal and late votes , you boy Biden wins .
I have studied corrupt elections throughout history .
The reason we have the Julian Calendar and not the calendar based on the Moon , was because during the Roman Republic the decision to insert the leap days to adjust the Moon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the discretion of the high priest .
Whenever there were controversy and the politicians did not want to confront it , the high priest was bribed to insert extra days and even months .
It got to the point that what was summer became winter .
Julius Caesar took the office of Pontiff Maximus ( high priest ) so he could end the corruption and created a calendar to end the corruption .
It was Caesar who created standardized leap years .
The 2020 American election will rank in history as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The ramifications will ripple through in time for decades to come .
This is a battle of Communism over Freedom .
Thank God I am not 18 .
If you voted for Biden , you voted to put your children and grandchildren into economic slavery .
You probably will not believe that because your arrogance will prevent you from ever admitting a mistake .
That is the mark of a fool .

by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: You only say the election is rigged because your boy Trump got what he deserved.
FP
REPLY: This entire mail-in ballot was orchestrated using a fake pandemic, to begin with. This was a very strategic plot and it has been carried out with masterful execution. You voted for Biden thinking this was just a normal election. I dare to say, you will get what you deserve.
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The Supreme Court recently noted, “[e]xtending the date by which ballots may be cast by voters [until] after the scheduled election day fundamentally alters the nature of the election.” Republican Nat’l Comm. v. Democratic Nat’l Comm., 140 S. Ct. 1205, 1207 (2020).
If you count the legal votes, Trump won. If you count the illegal and late votes, you boy Biden wins.
I have studied corrupt elections throughout history. The reason we have the Julian Calendar and not the calendar based on the Moon, was because during the Roman Republic the decision to insert the leap days to adjust the Moon Calendar to that of the Sun Calendar was the discretion of the high priest. Whenever there were controversy and the politicians did not want to confront it, the high priest was bribed to insert extra days and even months. It got to the point that what was summer became winter. Julius Caesar took the office of Pontiff Maximus (high priest) so he could end the corruption and created a calendar to end the corruption. It was Caesar who created standardized leap years.
The 2020 American election will rank in history as the MOST corrupt election in modern history. The ramifications will ripple through in time for decades to come. This is a battle of Communism over Freedom. Thank God I am not 18. If you voted for Biden, you voted to put your children and grandchildren into economic slavery. You probably will not believe that because your arrogance will prevent you from ever admitting a mistake. That is the mark of a fool.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--We are now in the timeline where Democrats gave Dick Cheney power

I can ’ t believe how stupid people are to fail for this trap .
CNN has said good old @ @ @ @ @ Joe on Foreign Policy Oh and Bill Gates just tweeted he can ’ t wait @ @ @ @ @ getting the pandemic under control .
Congrats

I can’t believe how stupid people are to fail for this trap. CNN has said good old Dick will be advising Grandpa Joe on Foreign Policy
Oh and Bill Gates just tweeted he can’t wait to work with Biden on getting the pandemic under control. Congrats
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The new boss weighs in, giving Biden his to-do list. I notice he doesn’t allow any Twitter replies from mere citizens. t.co/lh7b7ELR9l — Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) November 8, 2020
CNN saying Dick Cheney will advise Biden on foreign policy. The Horror. This is Dick Cheney 🤐 pic.twitter.com/ozjz2ZgMRs — Patricia M. (@mirpa13) November 7, 2020
h/t Typoqueen00


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--11 ETF Diversification Arguments – Why Weighting Matters More Than Holdings – QQQ

This will be a short post regarding the weighting of individual securities in an ETF and taking the implications of that into consideration .
ETFs can often be associated with security due to their large number of holdings , it is seen as an indicator for reduced risk , but something that needs to be considered more is this – are all your holdings being weighed equally , why/why not ?
Weighting Matters and How It Will Increase/Decrease Your Risk Exposure : An important consideration is that the “ diverse ” ETFs or funds may not be as diversified as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ securities are taken into account .
Let ’ s take a very popular ETF as an example : QQQ .
QQQ is very popular market-cap-weighted ( larger companies are given more weight more than smaller ones ) tracking the NASDAQ 100 index .
Because of this weighting system , the top 8 of the stocks in QQQ have a much more significant impact to the growth or decline of the ETF than the other 92 !
Technology stocks alone make up over 50 % of QQQ , so how diversified are you really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ portfolio is dependent on how well the largest 8 tech companies are doing ?
The way to minimize your risk to one particular sector or from ETFs that are overweight on several stocks would be to simply search for equal-weight funds ( funds that give equal weighting to large/smaller companies ) , or funds that are simply more broadly diversified than the NASDAQ-100 .
However be aware there are also plenty of arguments against these funds .
For example , you limit your upsides potential , or you give more weight to potential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ created equal .
Regardless the point here is , if you are looking for diversification/security , then , the most important thing is exposure to different sectors so that your portfolio isn ’ t subject to the exact same risks .
( Tech / Oil / Subway ) Not all market sectors move in tandem , the tech sector has done incredibly well over the past year , however , it is dangerous to take that and project it forward into the future .
It was this exact thinking that led to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an argument against owning QQQ ( or any similar ETFs ) , it simply a post regarding to how the weighting of stocks in a fund can affect performance and sector exposure .
Take your risk tolerance into account , are you fine with a large percentage of your portfolio being dedicated to tech , or some other sector ?
If yeah then have at it , but always do you research .
If not , then more broadly diversified funds like SPY or VTI will be more your friend .
There are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of ETFs and their individual holdings + weightings of those holdings .
Research your funds to ensure they line up with your diversification or consolidation goals .
Thanks for reading guys , if anyone has good researching recommendations or favorite ETFs to recommend then please comment .
And have a good day !
( or don ’ t if you don ’ t want to , I ’ m not your mom , I can ’ t tell you what to do ) Disclaimer : This information is only for educational purposes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the information in this article .
Do you own due diligence or consult your financial professional before making any investment decision .

by 036Gooddaysir036
Introduction:
This will be a short post regarding the weighting of individual securities in an ETF and taking the implications of that into consideration. ETFs can often be associated with security due to their large number of holdings, it is seen as an indicator for reduced risk, but something that needs to be considered more is this – are all your holdings being weighed equally, why/why not?
Weighting Matters and How It Will Increase/Decrease Your Risk Exposure:
An important consideration is that the “diverse” ETFs or funds may not be as diversified as you think when the weightings of individual securities are taken into account. Let’s take a very popular ETF as an example: QQQ.
QQQ is very popular market-cap-weighted (larger companies are given more weight more than smaller ones) tracking the NASDAQ 100 index. Because of this weighting system, the top 8 of the stocks in QQQ have a much more significant impact to the growth or decline of the ETF than the other 92! Technology stocks alone make up over 50% of QQQ, so how diversified are you really when over 50% of your potential portfolio is dependent on how well the largest 8 tech companies are doing?
The way to minimize your risk to one particular sector or from ETFs that are overweight on several stocks would be to simply search for equal-weight funds (funds that give equal weighting to large/smaller companies), or funds that are simply more broadly diversified than the NASDAQ-100. However be aware there are also plenty of arguments against these funds. For example, you limit your upsides potential, or you give more weight to potential bad apples since all companies are not created equal.
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Regardless the point here is, if you are looking for diversification/security, then, the most important thing is exposure to different sectors so that your portfolio isn’t subject to the exact same risks. (Tech / Oil / Subway) Not all market sectors move in tandem, the tech sector has done incredibly well over the past year, however, it is dangerous to take that and project it forward into the future. It was this exact thinking that led to the 2000 tech bubble.
Final Thoughts:
This is not an argument against owning QQQ (or any similar ETFs), it simply a post regarding to how the weighting of stocks in a fund can affect performance and sector exposure. Take your risk tolerance into account, are you fine with a large percentage of your portfolio being dedicated to tech, or some other sector? If yeah then have at it, but always do you research. If not, then more broadly diversified funds like SPY or VTI will be more your friend.
There are many sites that break down the goals of ETFs and their individual holdings + weightings of those holdings. Research your funds to ensure they line up with your diversification or consolidation goals.
Thanks for reading guys, if anyone has good researching recommendations or favorite ETFs to recommend then please comment. And have a good day! (or don’t if you don’t want to, I’m not your mom, I can’t tell you what to do)
Disclaimer: This information is only for educational purposes. Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in this article. Do you own due diligence or consult your financial professional before making any investment decision.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Berkshire Hathaway buys back $9B in stock in Q3

Berkshire Hathaway ( NYSE : BRK.B ) ( NYSE : BRK.A ) bought back ~ $ 9B of stock during Q3 , bringing the nine-month total to ~ $ 16B .
That ’ s up from the $ 5.1B of stock the conglomerate bought in Q2 .
Q3 operating earnings of $ 5.48B vs. $ 5.51B in Q2 and $ 8.07B in the year-ago quarter .
The only major business segment to see a Y/Y increase in operating earnings was railroad , utilities and energy , while insurance underwriting posted a loss vs. a year-ago profit .
( updated at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associated with COVID-19 negatively hurt its commercial insurance and reinsurance underwriting results ; furthermore , future judicial rulings and regulatory and legislative actions relating to insurance coverage and claims may affect future results .
“ Our underwriting results for the remainder of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 for certain business may be adversely affected from lower premiums attributable to credits granted to policyholders and where premiums are a function of the insured ’ s payroll , ” the company said in its 10-Q .
• Insurance underwriting : loss of $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year ago .
• Other : loss of $ 412M vs. earnings of $ 1.05B a year ago .

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) (NYSE:BRK.A) bought back ~$9B of stock during Q3, bringing the nine-month total to ~$16B.
That’s up from the $5.1B of stock the conglomerate bought in Q2.
Q3 operating earnings of $5.48B vs. $5.51B in Q2 and $8.07B in the year-ago quarter.
The only major business segment to see a Y/Y increase in operating earnings was railroad, utilities and energy, while insurance underwriting posted a loss vs. a year-ago profit. (updated at 8:18 AM).
Losses and costs associated with COVID-19 negatively hurt its commercial insurance and reinsurance underwriting results; furthermore, future judicial rulings and regulatory and legislative actions relating to insurance coverage and claims may affect future results.
“Our underwriting results for the remainder of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 for certain business may be adversely affected from lower premiums attributable to credits granted to policyholders and where premiums are a function of the insured’s payroll,” the company said in its 10-Q.
Operating earnings by segment:


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Costco’s (COST) expansion into China seems to be a massive success so far?

The average Costco warehouse in western countries average around 60k subscriptions .
In other Asian countries a warehouse might get around 100k subscriptions after 2 years of being open .
After the Warehouse in Shanghai opened in late 2019 , its subscription count grew to 250k in under 3 months .
With the warehouse shutting down local traffic and being forced to close early due to the chaos that ensued on opening day .
Costco plans on opening a second warehouse in Suzhou .
And may grow more rapidly after they gain more experience with operating in China .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country , and see how they operate over the first couple of years , … We are off to a good start with our first opening last year.
” – Richard Galanti , CFO , “ It may take a couple of years to improve efficiencies .
That ’ s one of the reasons why we generally go slow in new countries because we want to get it right from customer experience and also from the operational side , ” he added .
With China ’ s growing middle class and Costco ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese… It could be plausible that China will end up becoming the majority of Costco ’ s revenue one day ?

The average Costco warehouse in western countries average around 60k subscriptions. In other Asian countries a warehouse might get around 100k subscriptions after 2 years of being open.
After the Warehouse in Shanghai opened in late 2019, its subscription count grew to 250k in under 3 months. With the warehouse shutting down local traffic and being forced to close early due to the chaos that ensued on opening day.
Costco plans on opening a second warehouse in Suzhou. And may grow more rapidly after they gain more experience with operating in China.
“We typically open 2-3 locations in a country, and see how they operate over the first couple of years, … We are off to a good start with our first opening last year.” – Richard Galanti, CFO,
“It may take a couple of years to improve efficiencies. That’s one of the reasons why we generally go slow in new countries because we want to get it right from customer experience and also from the operational side,” he added.
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With China’s growing middle class and Costco’s brand being extremely popular among the Chinese… It could be plausible that China will end up becoming the majority of Costco’s revenue one day?
Sources:
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/27/business/costco-china-intl-hnk/index.html
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Costco-plans-more-China-openings-as-sales-boom-at-Shanghai-store2


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Powell made his opinion clear on directly financing the Federal Government.

Powell made his opinion clear on directly financing the Federal Government .

Powell made his opinion clear on directly financing the Federal Government.
Important question and response. pic.twitter.com/NC0VpiCEOD
— Eric Basmajian (@EPBResearch) November 5, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Biden’s Victory Makes Major Stimulus Unlikely Before January

Joe Biden ’ s victory in the presidential election and the unresolved status of Senate control left slim prospects for a major fiscal-stimulus package before January .
While President Donald Trump last month pledged a large post-election stimulus act , it was based on his assumption that he ’ d win re-election .
He now has little political incentive — or capital — to drive a deal through a divided Congress in his remaining weeks in office .
Democratic and Republican lawmakers were quick to restate their opposing positions on Friday as Biden closed in on his win .
Senate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in arguing for a “ highly targeted ” relief bill .
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected that idea , saying “ that isn ’ t something we should be looking at.
” While each side called for renewed talks , and neither advocated holding off until next year , Democrats potentially have an incentive to wait until two Senate runoff races in Georgia in January make clear whether they ’ ll retake control of the upper chamber .
That would allow Biden , Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to push ahead @ @ @ @ @

Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election and the unresolved status of Senate control left slim prospects for a major fiscal-stimulus package before January.
While President Donald Trump last month pledged a large post-election stimulus act, it was based on his assumption that he’d win re-election. He now has little political incentive — or capital — to drive a deal through a divided Congress in his remaining weeks in office.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers were quick to restate their opposing positions on Friday as Biden closed in on his win. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cited falling unemployment in arguing for a “highly targeted” relief bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected that idea, saying “that isn’t something we should be looking at.”
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While each side called for renewed talks, and neither advocated holding off until next year, Democrats potentially have an incentive to wait until two Senate runoff races in Georgia in January make clear whether they’ll retake control of the upper chamber. That would allow Biden, Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to push ahead with their own plan.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-07/biden-s-victory-makes-major-stimulus-unlikely-before-january


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--‘Is the dollar oversold?’

‘Is the dollar oversold?’

These are some of the more than 300 companies that declared bankruptcy in the U.S. this year and blamed Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ t.co/cjS0LCDQLb

These are some of the more than 300 companies that declared bankruptcy in the U.S. this year and blamed Covid-19 in part for their demise t.co/cjS0LCDQLb
— Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) November 7, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--No Biden Has not Won – The Electoral College Votes December 14

Mainstream media is naturally proclaiming Biden won .
They may think they now run the country , but they do not declar5e the President – that ’ s the Electoral College .
Trump has not conceded and with all the fraud with a razor-thin victory for Biden , he should not .
Just in May 2020 , a Judge confessed that he took bribes to stuff the ballot for Democrats in Philadelphia which is one of the most corrupt cities in the USA .
Electoral College electors in each state don ’ t vote until Dec. 14 .
The electors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote in each state – nut they do not have to in most states .
Indeed , not all states require the votes cast by electors to mirror the popular vote .
Some states can still vote for Trump regardless of the corrupt elections .
Certificates recording the electoral vote results in each state must be received by the president of the Senate and the archivist no later than Dec. 23 .
The media does not call the election no matter what they think .
They take “ grants ” from Gates anyhow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7 faithless electors who did not vote according to who they were supposed to vote for .
Five voted against Hillary and two voted against Trump .
Yet Trump had 36 votes in surplus so their actions did not change the national vote .
What a lot of people may be ignoring is that the Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY in July 2020 unanimously that Article 2 , Section 1 of the Constitution accords states broad power over their electors .
Justice Kagan wrote in the opinion for eight justices : “ Article II @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gives the States far-reaching authority over presidential electors , absent some other constitutional constraint .
As [ the Constitution says ] , each State may appoint electors ‘ in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.
’ … This Court has described that clause as ‘ conveying the broadest power of determination ’ over who becomes an elector.
” “ The Constitution is barebones about electors .
Article II includes only the instruction to each State to appoint , in whatever way it likes , [ its presidential electors ] .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their States , to vote for President and Vice President separately , and to transmit lists of all their votes to the President of the United States Senate for counting .
… That is all.
” Justice Thomas reached the same conclusion as the other justices , but he ( and Justice Gorsuch ) said that the 10th Amendment provided a basis for the decision .
Thomas wrote that the “ powers related to electors reside with States to the extent that the Constitution does not remove or restrict that power .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there must be ‘ something in the Federal Constitution that deprives the [ States of ] the power to enact such a measure.
’ ” While this is a very clear reaffirmation of the power of states to appoint their electoral votes “ in whatever way it likes ” under Article II , section 1 , in two states , electoral votes are NOT ‘ winner-take-all ‘ .
Maine and Nebraska allocate electors using the ‘ congressional district method ’ whereby these states allocate two electoral votes to the state popular vote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district ( 2 in Maine , 3 in Nebraska ) .
According to AP , California which has 55 electoral votes they give 100 % to Biden , the popular vote looks like : That means whatever Republicans there are in California , their vote never means anything .
If the electoral votes were cast according to the popular vote that the left always screams about , then Trump should have gotten 18 votes from California instead of Biden taking it all at 55 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is the slogan in this election by the left media .
In the 18 states currently without faithless elector laws , the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would operate in a manner identical to the system used by most states currently .
In these states which use the state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes , the presidential electors are chosen by the political party whose presidential candidate receives the most popular votes inside the state , and there are no additional requirements placed upon the elector .
In reality , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ votes as Maine and Nebraska , the Supreme Court has held that is solely their discretion .
That presents a very interesting twist .
They could even order electors to vote for Trump and argue that the vote is not certain being too close .
They probably would not , but anything actually goes .
I want to point out something very interesting .
Aside from the fact that our computer projected a 50/50 split on the popular vote and never showed Biden ahead by 12 % or 24 % as the pollsters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ array pinpointed to the Panic cycle the week of 10/26 which was spot on .
It showed the week of the 9th more so than that of the 2nd .
But the main target was the week of the 23rd .
Since that first Array generated back in September , we have the updated array from November into January .
Note that the week of the 23rd is still the big target .
So we could get perhaps a Supreme Court decision by then .
But look at when the Electoral College starts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have a Panic Cycle the week of the 21st with rising volatility into January and the next inauguration .
This is warning clearly that it ain ’ t over until the fat lady sings as in opera .

by Martin Armstrong
Mainstream media is naturally proclaiming Biden won. They may think they now run the country, but they do not declar5e the President – that’s the Electoral College. Trump has not conceded and with all the fraud with a razor-thin victory for Biden, he should not. Just in May 2020, a Judge confessed that he took bribes to stuff the ballot for Democrats in Philadelphia which is one of the most corrupt cities in the USA. Electoral College electors in each state don’t vote until Dec. 14. The electors’ votes typically align with the popular vote in each state – nut they do not have to in most states. Indeed, not all states require the votes cast by electors to mirror the popular vote. Some states can still vote for Trump regardless of the corrupt elections.
Certificates recording the electoral vote results in each state must be received by the president of the Senate and the archivist no later than Dec. 23. The media does not call the election no matter what they think. They take “grants” from Gates anyhow. Back in 2016, there were 7 faithless electors who did not vote according to who they were supposed to vote for. Five voted against Hillary and two voted against Trump. Yet Trump had 36 votes in surplus so their actions did not change the national vote.
What a lot of people may be ignoring is that the Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY in July 2020 unanimously that Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution accords states broad power over their electors. Justice Kagan wrote in the opinion for eight justices:
“Article II, section 1’s appointments power gives the States far-reaching authority over presidential electors, absent some other constitutional constraint. As [the Constitution says], each State may appoint electors ‘in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.’ … This Court has described that clause as ‘conveying the broadest power of determination’ over who becomes an elector.”
The opinion continues on:
“The Constitution is barebones about electors. Article II includes only the instruction to each State to appoint, in whatever way it likes, [its presidential electors]. The Twelfth Amendment then tells electors to meet in their States, to vote for President and Vice President separately, and to transmit lists of all their votes to the President of the United States Senate for counting. … That is all.”
Justice Thomas reached the same conclusion as the other justices, but he (and Justice Gorsuch) said that the 10th Amendment provided a basis for the decision. Thomas wrote that the “powers related to electors reside with States to the extent that the Constitution does not remove or restrict that power. Thus, to invalidate a state law, there must be ‘something in the Federal Constitution that deprives the [States of] the power to enact such a measure.’”
While this is a very clear reaffirmation of the power of states to appoint their electoral votes “in whatever way it likes” under Article II, section 1, in two states, electoral votes are NOT ‘winner-take-all‘. Maine and Nebraska allocate electors using the ‘congressional district method’ whereby these states allocate two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska). According to AP, California which has 55 electoral votes they give 100% to Biden, the popular vote looks like:
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Donald Trump: 3,899,436 – 32.9%
Joe Biden: 7,722,795 – 65.2%
That means whatever Republicans there are in California, their vote never means anything. If the electoral votes were cast according to the popular vote that the left always screams about, then Trump should have gotten 18 votes from California instead of Biden taking it all at 55. So much for every vote counts, which is the slogan in this election by the left media.
In the 18 states currently without faithless elector laws, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would operate in a manner identical to the system used by most states currently. In these states which use the state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes, the presidential electors are chosen by the political party whose presidential candidate receives the most popular votes inside the state, and there are no additional requirements placed upon the elector.
In reality, if the Republican States decide to split their votes as Maine and Nebraska, the Supreme Court has held that is solely their discretion. That presents a very interesting twist. They could even order electors to vote for Trump and argue that the vote is not certain being too close. They probably would not, but anything actually goes.
I want to point out something very interesting. Aside from the fact that our computer projected a 50/50 split on the popular vote and never showed Biden ahead by 12% or 24% as the pollsters were trying to sell, our forecast array pinpointed to the Panic cycle the week of 10/26 which was spot on. It showed the week of the 9th more so than that of the 2nd. But the main target was the week of the 23rd.
Since that first Array generated back in September, we have the updated array from November into January. Note that the week of the 23rd is still the big target. So we could get perhaps a Supreme Court decision by then. But look at when the Electoral College starts to vote by December 14. We have a Panic Cycle the week of the 21st with rising volatility into January and the next inauguration.
This is warning clearly that it ain’t over until the fat lady sings as in opera.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--America’s Premier Pollsters are as Corrupt as Mainstream Media

The question you will never see asked in mainstream media is how can a computer , Socrates , call every election correctly when all the pollsters get it ALWAYS wrong ?
Mainstream media is so biased they will NEVER dare report that Socrates even exists .
Why ?
Because they are on the payroll of this Great Reset just as the New York Times was reporting how great Stalin was and how America should follow his example in 1933 .
This is what we wrote in our report on the Election : “ Here are the first six models .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ much tighter race than perhaps the polls suggest putting Biden 12 % ahead .
Here we can see that the next two models , presented here as # 1 and # 2 , do show that Trump could exceed 51 % and come in between 52 % and 54 % .
Here we do see these 6 models put it at 50/50.
” America ’ s premier pollsters have flunked Tuesday ’ s presidential election precisely as they did in 2016 and their same methodology failed in Britain .
Are they really just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leftists themselves ?
The battery of Pollsters also forecast that Republicans in key Senate races would lose , yet they won .
So it was not just of Trump , but they were clearly ; y wrong on every possible race that they could have been wrong .
That suggests either their methodology is totally bogus or they too have been bribed as we see with heads of states in other countries and the media which has become really anti-everythi8ng that is American .
Republican Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine won which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reelection when the polls said she would lose and all 14 polls projected she was really a laughing stock .
There is no question that the news media , Big Tech , and EVERY research firm were deliberately misreporting everything about this election for the sole purpose to mislead the American public into thinking President Trump and other Republicans can ’ t win so throw in with Biden .
This was outright manipulation of the people – Russian style .
They have indeed conspired against the people and I would love to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gates and Soros indirectly .
Gates admits he hands money to the BBC in Britain and ABC and NPR in the United States .
Gates knows how to create monopolies .
He has bought the United Nations , the colleges doing forecasts with fake models , controls most vaccine companies , and funnels money to the media .
They have locked everything down and we should not be surprised .
Gates does not believe in anything upon which America stands or he would have run for office on his agenda to save the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ India and Africa .
On August 11th , 2020 .
George Soros did an interview in La Republica where he actually said we needed a revolution against Trump .
“ I would describe it as a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times.
” We really have to ask the question : Have journalists become traitors to the establishment of America and our freedom ?
They are clearly preaching an agenda from overseas .
The World Economic Forum bluntly states that the United States will NO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be shared among nations with the United Nations in charge of our nuclear arsenal .
That is the overthrow of the United States and in a real-world , mainstream media should be prosecuted and shut down .
They are giving aid to the World Economic Forum and the United Nations .
This video clearly states their intention is to end the United States as a superpower and George Soros wants to conquer the United States and turn it into a vassal state of the United Nations – his open society .
Whoever , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ levies war against them or adheres to their enemies , giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere , is guilty of treason and shall suffer death , or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $ 10,000 ; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States .
Even the Department of Justice , with the tidbits we get that Trump ’ s 2016 campaign was illegally monitored by the Obama Administration , delayed any investigative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questionable .
They had 4 years to investigate and dragged their heels to protect the rest of the government players in the Deep State who tried to interfere in the 2016 election and then falsely blamed the Russians .
To me , they were smiling while stabbing Trump in the back .
This is not about Trump as a person .
A lot of people stupidly voted for Biden because they hate Trump .
They never bother to look at the big picture and how they have set the United States up to @ @ @ @ @

by Martin Armstrong
The question you will never see asked in mainstream media is how can a computer, Socrates, call every election correctly when all the pollsters get it ALWAYS wrong? Mainstream media is so biased they will NEVER dare report that Socrates even exists. Why? Because they are on the payroll of this Great Reset just as the New York Times was reporting how great Stalin was and how America should follow his example in 1933. This is what we wrote in our report on the Election:
“Here are the first six models. What we are showing overall is a much tighter race than perhaps the polls suggest putting Biden 12% ahead. Here we can see that the next two models, presented here as #1 and #2, do show that Trump could exceed 51% and come in between 52% and 54%. Here we do see these 6 models put it at 50/50.”
America’s premier pollsters have flunked Tuesday’s presidential election precisely as they did in 2016 and their same methodology failed in Britain. Are they really just always overestimating the left because they are leftists themselves? The battery of Pollsters also forecast that Republicans in key Senate races would lose, yet they won. So it was not just of Trump, but they were clearly;y wrong on every possible race that they could have been wrong. That suggests either their methodology is totally bogus or they too have been bribed as we see with heads of states in other countries and the media which has become really anti-everythi8ng that is American.
Republican Sen. Susan M. Collins of Maine won which was just another example. She won reelection when the polls said she would lose and all 14 polls projected she was really a laughing stock. There is no question that the news media, Big Tech, and EVERY research firm were deliberately misreporting everything about this election for the sole purpose to mislead the American public into thinking President Trump and other Republicans can’t win so throw in with Biden. This was outright manipulation of the people – Russian style.
They have indeed conspired against the people and I would love to see how much money they are getting from Gates and Soros indirectly. Gates admits he hands money to the BBC in Britain and ABC and NPR in the United States. Gates knows how to create monopolies. He has bought the United Nations, the colleges doing forecasts with fake models, controls most vaccine companies, and funnels money to the media. They have locked everything down and we should not be surprised. Gates does not believe in anything upon which America stands or he would have run for office on his agenda to save the planet and reduce the population starting with India and Africa.
On August 11th, 2020. George Soros did an interview in La Republica where he actually said we needed a revolution against Trump.
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“I would describe it as a revolutionary moment when the range of possibilities is much greater than in normal times.”
We really have to ask the question: Have journalists become traitors to the establishment of America and our freedom? They are clearly preaching an agenda from overseas. The World Economic Forum bluntly states that the United States will NO LONGER be a superpower. That will be shared among nations with the United Nations in charge of our nuclear arsenal. That is the overthrow of the United States and in a real-world, mainstream media should be prosecuted and shut down. They are giving aid to the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. This video clearly states their intention is to end the United States as a superpower and George Soros wants to conquer the United States and turn it into a vassal state of the United Nations – his open society.
18 USC §15
§2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Even the Department of Justice, with the tidbits we get that Trump’s 2016 campaign was illegally monitored by the Obama Administration, delayed any investigative report until after the election was also questionable. They had 4 years to investigate and dragged their heels to protect the rest of the government players in the Deep State who tried to interfere in the 2016 election and then falsely blamed the Russians. To me, they were smiling while stabbing Trump in the back.
This is not about Trump as a person. A lot of people stupidly voted for Biden because they hate Trump. They never bother to look at the big picture and how they have set the United States up to be overthrown from within.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Earthquake in Massachusetts! Do you think this is a sign from God to the Democrats?

Residents across southern New England were jolted on Sunday morning after an earthquake struck off the coast of Massachusetts and @ @ @ @ @ , according to officials .
The U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) said the temblor @ @ @ @ @ magnitude 4.2 earthquake before being downgraded to 3.6 and struck just after 9 a.m. “ @ @ @ @ @ at this time , ” the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency ( MEMA ) tweeted .

Residents across southern New England were jolted on Sunday morning after an earthquake struck off the coast of Massachusetts and was felt around the region, according to officials.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the temblor was originally listed as a magnitude 4.2 earthquake before being downgraded to 3.6 and struck just after 9 a.m.
“No damage or injuries reported at this time,” the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) tweeted.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--How will the US election impact the gold price?

In this week ’ s deep dive into the gold and silver markets , Andrew Maguire provides insight into the short and long term impact of the US election on the gold price .
Andrew Maguire believes that regardless of the ultimate resolution of the US election , once an initial period of volatility settles the outlook for gold is positive .
For positive indicators for the gold price , the precious metals expert points to the massive stimulus package announced by each presidential candidate .
According to Andrew Maguire , the vast inflow of stimulus into the economy will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ swelling physical gold demand .
“ Investors will turn to the safe-haven asset , as has been the case for thousands of years .
In the wider market , Andrew Maguire shares word of safe-haven demand coming in from large European and Asian banks .
The precious metals expert reports the banks are already securing physical gold and silver against paper gold and silver , ahead of an anticipated depreciation of fiat value .
In an unprecedented move , the banks intend to take physical delivery for December gold long Futures contracts .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the desk of a very large first-tier European bank , disclosing that their institution is busy locking in Futures contracts for delivery .
The professionally hedged positions are seeking delivery , at the end of November .
What does this mean for traders and investors ?
In light of the current market conditions , Andrew Maguires suggests that margined traders should watch their “ stops or stand aside until the situation becomes clearer.
” Speaking on this period for investors , the long-time wholesaler believes “ this is a hell of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gold and silver at bargain prices.
” In the terms of the long term outlook for gold , Andrew Maguire predicts that “ once the volatility has settled , very strong fundamentals will come into focus.
” Don ’ t miss out : Subscribe to the Kinesis YouTube Channel Next Episode : Andrew Maguire carries out another detailed round-up of the gold and silver markets .
The opinions expressed in this publication are those of Andrew Maguire and do not purport to reflect the official policy or position of Kinesis .
This publication @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not intended to be a solicitation , offering or recommendation of any security , commodity , derivative , investment management service or advisory service and is not commodity trading advice .
This publication does not intend to provide investment , tax or legal advice on either a general or specific basis .

Samuel Briggs via Kinesis
In this week’s deep dive into the gold and silver markets, Andrew Maguire provides insight into the short and long term impact of the US election on the gold price.
Andrew Maguire believes that regardless of the ultimate resolution of the US election, once an initial period of volatility settles the outlook for gold is positive.
For positive indicators for the gold price, the precious metals expert points to the massive stimulus package announced by each presidential candidate. According to Andrew Maguire, the vast inflow of stimulus into the economy will balloon global debt, in turn, swelling physical gold demand.
“Investors will turn to the safe-haven asset, as has been the case for thousands of years.
Andrew Maguire
International safe-haven physical demand
In the wider market, Andrew Maguire shares word of safe-haven demand coming in from large European and Asian banks. The precious metals expert reports the banks are already securing physical gold and silver against paper gold and silver, ahead of an anticipated depreciation of fiat value.
We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us!
In an unprecedented move, the banks intend to take physical delivery for December gold long Futures contracts. The reports have confirmed by a source at the desk of a very large first-tier European bank, disclosing that their institution is busy locking in Futures contracts for delivery. The professionally hedged positions are seeking delivery, at the end of November.
What does this mean for traders and investors?
In light of the current market conditions, Andrew Maguires suggests that margined traders should watch their “stops or stand aside until the situation becomes clearer.” Speaking on this period for investors, the long-time wholesaler believes “this is a hell of an opportunity to average in and buy some gold and silver at bargain prices.”
In the terms of the long term outlook for gold, Andrew Maguire predicts that “once the volatility has settled, very strong fundamentals will come into focus.”
Don’t miss out: Subscribe to the Kinesis YouTube Channel
Next Episode: Andrew Maguire carries out another detailed round-up of the gold and silver markets.
The opinions expressed in this publication are those of Andrew Maguire and do not purport to reflect the official policy or position of Kinesis.
This publication is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a solicitation, offering or recommendation of any security, commodity, derivative, investment management service or advisory service and is not commodity trading advice. This publication does not intend to provide investment, tax or legal advice on either a general or specific basis.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--“Gold is Money, Everything Else Is Credit” As We Enter 50th Year Of Monstrous Debt Bubble

By now it is probably obvious , even to the most naive of mainstream narrative followers , that we are well past the point of no return on many fronts .
Politics , on a national and global level , are never getting back to “ normal ” , the economy is already knee-deep in a severe recession , while social frictions and public discontent with governments , institutions and all kinds of rulers and central planners is on a sharp and dangerous trajectory .
In this charged environment and during these uncertain times , it is increasingly difficult for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basic questions , especially as we ’ re being constantly bombarded with new directives , news stories and “ expert ” opinions that not only contradict each other , but very often common sense too .
Under these circumstances , separating the signal from the noise might be particularly challenging , but never before has it been more important .
From the markets to the economy and from political risks to real and sound money , there are crucial questions that investors need to be asking themselves .
To help navigate these murky @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his views and analysis , which I ’ ve always found very insightful .
His background and experiences , as well as his unique way of weaving relevant historical and cultural perspectives into his arguments , have long produced very interesting points and useful reflections .
Rafi Farber , pen name Austrolib , is the publisher of The End Game Investor , a daily market commentary written from an Austrian economics perspective focusing on precious metals markets , the Comex , and monetary analysis .
His work is followed by leaders in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He also writes a weekly column on the gaming industry at CalvinAyre .
Contact him at endgameinvestor @ gmail.com Claudio Grass ( CG ) : We ’ re now at an advanced enough stage of this pandemic to have reliable data and a decent idea of the economic damage and wider implications of the lockdowns and various restrictions .
Given what we know , what do you make of the hopes and predictions of a swift , “ V-shaped ” recovery ?
Rafi Farber ( RF ) : I think the entire phrase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
By even using the term , we are falling into the same fallacies of the Keynesian econometricians who see nothing but aggregate numbers and statistics in their monetary voodoo .
As if the economy is some kind of “ shape ” that can be measured to come to any sort of meaningful conclusion , prodded and poked like we ’ re all lab rats in the cage of their social experiments .
The truth is , as the Austrian School of economics states and as the title of Ludwig von Mises ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economy is itself Human Action .
It is our lives .
For all intents and purposes , human action is now illegal , or at the very least extremely restricted , so what are we even talking about when we say “ V shaped recovery ” when people can ’ t even live ?
Hundreds of millions of people are effectively under house arrest and we ’ re talking about a recovery ?
The most acute damage of all this is unspoken and unseen , like Frédéric Bastiat ’ s broken window @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been had the window not been broken .
In this case , the unseen casualty of all this is the human mind , basic human sanity .
That doesn ’ t show up in the Keynesian GDP charts .
The value of human capital depends among other things upon the mental health of human beings , which wasn ’ t so top notch before government started locking people in their homes and starving them of social interaction and their basic livelihoods .
There has never been a global assault on the human race @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that as a Jew with emotional attachment to Hitler ’ s holocaust not to mention Mao ’ s and Stalin ’ s as well .
Those attacks on humanity were of course worse in terms of the direct deaths caused and the lockdowns aren ’ t as bad in that narrow sense , but what is happening now is worse in the sense that governments are cooperating globally to cast a much wider net on all humankind as a species , to attack their minds all at once all across the world simultaneously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and suicide , and looking the other way as it happens .
These lockdowns are a pure crime against humanity .
Does anybody know anyone who hasn ’ t had their mental health severely damaged by this insanity ?
How could there possibly be a “ V shaped recovery ” when people are not allowed to go about their daily lives , to even breathe without a cloth strapped across their faces ?
I ’ ll tell you what ’ s going to happen .
People are going to go much deeper into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ negative and doesn ’ t even so much as pad the pockets of the lenders anymore , and the deeper they go the Keynesians will show us all the stuff that they ’ re consuming , tell us that this is all so great , that we ’ re “ recovering ” and we will be one giant leap closer to the entire debt pyramid collapsing across the world .
When that finally happens , the Keynesians will call it an unexpected disaster .
But in reality , it is the cure to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t happen soon enough .
CG : Unemployment figures in most advanced economies paint a horrifying picture .
A lot of lost jobs aren ’ t even counted in the official data , as a result of government policies like furlough programs that mask the problem , especially in Europe .
To what extent do you think this kind of damage is reversible and are there any policies or initiatives that you believe could actually help ?
RF : I may sound like a pessimist , but I promise you I am @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a famous saying in Judaism by Rabbi Nahman of Breslov .
He says , “ There is no despair in this world at all.
” Not to say that we don ’ t all feel despair from time to time , but we must keep in mind that it is never permanent .
This , too , shall pass .
All damage is ultimately reversible .
That ’ s why society has progressed until now despite constant attacks from governments .
Society will continue , and humanity will absolutely endure .
The lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this can not be sustained .
When they are over , my guess is by the time fiat money finally dies its ignominious death and lockdowns can no longer be financed with more debt , there will be ecstatic celebrations in the streets all across the world .
I can already see them , and thinking about them sustains me and keeps me sane .
In terms of policies or initiatives I have no interest in advising governments or suggesting they follow this or that policy .
Not to say I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s just not where I put my faith or energy , at least not anymore .
I can only say the best all governments can do for people is tear down all these lockdowns and restrictions and completely reverse everything they ’ ve done .
Let individuals decide how they want to protect themselves from this virus on their own and stay out of it , whether they want to wear masks or not , lock themselves down or not .
Let people go to work !
Let people get married , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christmas , Hanukah with their families and friends for the love of God .
Let people breathe , literally !
How about that policy ?
What can people do though from the ground up ?
They can do a lot .
They can practice civil disobedience .
This is already happening in Israel thank God .
The Ultra Orthodox led by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky God bless him – a 92 year old sage who contracted the coronavirus and survived just fine by the way – they are defying the lockdowns in Israel and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of backpacks kids use shopping bags for their books so it looks like they ’ re shopping for food at an “ essential business , ” staggering school hours and changing locations so it ’ s more difficult for police to catch them learning with other kids .
Meanwhile the despicable Israeli media disparages them .
It ’ s time we recognize this for what it is .
In Hebrew it ’ s called a time of “ Shmad ” .
That literally means “ destruction ” but it ’ s used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is much broader though .
It ’ s against all humanity .
It ’ s broad-based against life itself .
People can protest peacefully together , fight for their right to live , for their lives and livelihoods , for the minds of their friends and families that are being pounded into the dust by the most insane generation of politicians since the 1930 ’ s .
That ’ s what I suggest .
Band together peacefully and fight for your right to life and liberty for God ’ s sake and for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the start of the covid crisis , we saw central banks and governments take unprecedented steps and extreme monetary and fiscal measures .
But when we also consider the scale of the economic destruction , it can be challenging to determine which force will prevail , so there ’ s a raging “ inflation vs deflation ” debate .
Where do you stand on it ?
RF : This is a fascinating question .
Let me answer it cryptically and then explain .
Inflation/deflation is a false dichotomy .
Inflation is deflation .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ you say !
How is that possible ?
I ’ ll explain it simply .
Real production has plummeted across the world , and fiat money supplies are going parabolic .
How could anyone possibly say this is not inflationary when all central banks are doing is literally inflating ?
The answer is that as debt comes due but payment flows stop , debt can not be serviced , and therefore cash must be raised by any means possible to pay it off or bonds default and the entire global banking system stuffed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They ’ re all loaded to the gills with this poison .
In the fury to raise cash by any means , the demand for money rises precipitously and the demand for goods and services conversely falls in the emergency , pushing the general price level down temporarily .
This is perceived as perceived is deflation .
The thing is , the sole job of a central bank , the very reason for its entire existence , is to keep the entire debt scheme going , in Orwellian terms to be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so they absolutely can not allow this to happen , ever .
So rather than let everything finally deflate in a spectacular implosion and let all the toxic debt be wiped out to its intrinsic value of zero , central banks simply buy all the junk and hand out the cash they conjure out of nothing .
Now everyone is literally in debt to them , because they ’ ve bought all the debt with nothing .
At some point very soon , international holders of dollars are going to catch on to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dollars for anything tangible .
China is already doing this with agricultural commodities like wheat and soybeans .
So are Egypt and Jordan by the way .
The price of plane tickets may be falling , but that ’ s only because flying anywhere is almost impossible without quarantines .
The price of food however is rising everywhere , and fast .
Once the dollar is dumped internationally in favor of tangible commodities – and I believe this could possibly start getting really serious after the next multitrillion dollar bailout passes – the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US is going to be drastic and scary , and that ’ s when we could quickly see hyperinflation in consumer prices .
But if you think about this a bit more deeply , what really is hyperinflation ?
It is the destruction of all debt in real terms , all paper assets really , in favor of real assets .
Hyperinflation is really complete and utter deflation of everything in gold and silver terms .
In terms of real money , all prices absolutely plummet .
True , those without any real @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s just horrible .
Those with real money though , gold and silver , suddenly have all the purchasing power .
In Weimar Germany in 1923 for example you could buy a nice house in Berlin with just four 1oz gold coins .
That ’ s it .
Hyperinflation is just hyperdeflation by another name .
It all leads to the same objective – the final end of the fiat money bubble that enabled this ongoing crime against human civilization , which is now finally peaking in more ways than one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it hyperinflates and explodes .
Either way the end result is the same .
Murray Rothbard describes hyperinflation in Man Economy and State not as some tragedy to be avoided , but as the people ’ s last remaining defense against the systematic theft of money printing .
It is only a tragedy if you ’ re not prepared for it .
We are now in the jubilee , the 50th year of this monstrous debt bubble that began in 1971 and it desperately wants to deflate .
And it will .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debt completely deflate and die and let its crony banks loaded with this crap go bankrupt , then the people are going to fight back and destroy the bubble on their own by attacking the dollar itself .
Inflation is deflation in real money terms .
It ’ s the same thing .
That ’ s where we are headed .
In the upcoming second part , we look at the wider impact of the lockdown policy , while Rafi also outlines his outlook of equity markets and his views on physical precious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this crisis .

by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch
Interview with Rafi Farber – Part I of II
By now it is probably obvious, even to the most naive of mainstream narrative followers, that we are well past the point of no return on many fronts. Politics, on a national and global level, are never getting back to “normal”, the economy is already knee-deep in a severe recession, while social frictions and public discontent with governments, institutions and all kinds of rulers and central planners is on a sharp and dangerous trajectory.
In this charged environment and during these uncertain times, it is increasingly difficult for responsible investors and citizens to answer even basic questions, especially as we’re being constantly bombarded with new directives, news stories and “expert” opinions that not only contradict each other, but very often common sense too. Under these circumstances, separating the signal from the noise might be particularly challenging, but never before has it been more important. From the markets to the economy and from political risks to real and sound money, there are crucial questions that investors need to be asking themselves. To help navigate these murky waters, I asked Rafi Farber for his views and analysis, which I’ve always found very insightful. His background and experiences, as well as his unique way of weaving relevant historical and cultural perspectives into his arguments, have long produced very interesting points and useful reflections.
Rafi Farber, pen name Austrolib, is the publisher of The End Game Investor, a daily market commentary written from an Austrian economics perspective focusing on precious metals markets, the Comex, and monetary analysis. His work is followed by leaders in the precious metals industry including Eric Sprott. He also writes a weekly column on the gaming industry at CalvinAyre. Contact him at endgameinvestor@gmail.com
Claudio Grass (CG): We’re now at an advanced enough stage of this pandemic to have reliable data and a decent idea of the economic damage and wider implications of the lockdowns and various restrictions. Given what we know, what do you make of the hopes and predictions of a swift, “V-shaped” recovery?
Rafi Farber (RF): I think the entire phrase “V-shaped recovery” is patently ridiculous. By even using the term, we are falling into the same fallacies of the Keynesian econometricians who see nothing but aggregate numbers and statistics in their monetary voodoo. As if the economy is some kind of “shape” that can be measured to come to any sort of meaningful conclusion, prodded and poked like we’re all lab rats in the cage of their social experiments.
The truth is, as the Austrian School of economics states and as the title of Ludwig von Mises’ treatise on economics makes very clear, the economy is itself Human Action. It is our lives. For all intents and purposes, human action is now illegal, or at the very least extremely restricted, so what are we even talking about when we say “V shaped recovery” when people can’t even live?
Hundreds of millions of people are effectively under house arrest and we’re talking about a recovery? The most acute damage of all this is unspoken and unseen, like Frédéric Bastiat’s broken window. The unseen is what could have been had the window not been broken. In this case, the unseen casualty of all this is the human mind, basic human sanity. That doesn’t show up in the Keynesian GDP charts. The value of human capital depends among other things upon the mental health of human beings, which wasn’t so top notch before government started locking people in their homes and starving them of social interaction and their basic livelihoods.
There has never been a global assault on the human race on this scale, and I say that as a Jew with emotional attachment to Hitler’s holocaust not to mention Mao’s and Stalin’s as well. Those attacks on humanity were of course worse in terms of the direct deaths caused and the lockdowns aren’t as bad in that narrow sense, but what is happening now is worse in the sense that governments are cooperating globally to cast a much wider net on all humankind as a species, to attack their minds all at once all across the world simultaneously. They are provoking mass mental illness and suicide, and looking the other way as it happens. These lockdowns are a pure crime against humanity.
Does anybody know anyone who hasn’t had their mental health severely damaged by this insanity? How could there possibly be a “V shaped recovery” when people are not allowed to go about their daily lives, to even breathe without a cloth strapped across their faces?
I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. People are going to go much deeper into debt, debt that’s yielding negative and doesn’t even so much as pad the pockets of the lenders anymore, and the deeper they go the Keynesians will show us all the stuff that they’re consuming, tell us that this is all so great, that we’re “recovering” and we will be one giant leap closer to the entire debt pyramid collapsing across the world.
When that finally happens, the Keynesians will call it an unexpected disaster. But in reality, it is the cure to all this madness, and it can’t happen soon enough.
CG: Unemployment figures in most advanced economies paint a horrifying picture. A lot of lost jobs aren’t even counted in the official data, as a result of government policies like furlough programs that mask the problem, especially in Europe. To what extent do you think this kind of damage is reversible and are there any policies or initiatives that you believe could actually help?
RF: I may sound like a pessimist, but I promise you I am a pure optimist. There’s a famous saying in Judaism by Rabbi Nahman of Breslov. He says, “There is no despair in this world at all.” Not to say that we don’t all feel despair from time to time, but we must keep in mind that it is never permanent. This, too, shall pass. All damage is ultimately reversible. That’s why society has progressed until now despite constant attacks from governments. Society will continue, and humanity will absolutely endure. The lockdowns will end, simply by necessity because this cannot be sustained. When they are over, my guess is by the time fiat money finally dies its ignominious death and lockdowns can no longer be financed with more debt, there will be ecstatic celebrations in the streets all across the world. I can already see them, and thinking about them sustains me and keeps me sane.
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In terms of policies or initiatives I have no interest in advising governments or suggesting they follow this or that policy. Not to say I’m against the top down approach, it’s just not where I put my faith or energy, at least not anymore. I can only say the best all governments can do for people is tear down all these lockdowns and restrictions and completely reverse everything they’ve done. Let individuals decide how they want to protect themselves from this virus on their own and stay out of it, whether they want to wear masks or not, lock themselves down or not. Let people go to work! Let people get married, have big weddings, celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah with their families and friends for the love of God. Let people breathe, literally! How about that policy?
What can people do though from the ground up? They can do a lot. They can practice civil disobedience. This is already happening in Israel thank God. The Ultra Orthodox led by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky God bless him – a 92 year old sage who contracted the coronavirus and survived just fine by the way – they are defying the lockdowns in Israel and sending their children to school. Instead of backpacks kids use shopping bags for their books so it looks like they’re shopping for food at an “essential business,” staggering school hours and changing locations so it’s more difficult for police to catch them learning with other kids. Meanwhile the despicable Israeli media disparages them.
It’s time we recognize this for what it is. In Hebrew it’s called a time of “Shmad”. That literally means “destruction” but it’s used to refer to religious persecution. This shmad is much broader though. It’s against all humanity. It’s broad-based against life itself.
People can protest peacefully together, fight for their right to live, for their lives and livelihoods, for the minds of their friends and families that are being pounded into the dust by the most insane generation of politicians since the 1930’s. That’s what I suggest. Band together peacefully and fight for your right to life and liberty for God’s sake and for your own.
CG: Right from the start of the covid crisis, we saw central banks and governments take unprecedented steps and extreme monetary and fiscal measures. But when we also consider the scale of the economic destruction, it can be challenging to determine which force will prevail, so there’s a raging “inflation vs deflation” debate. Where do you stand on it?
RF: This is a fascinating question. Let me answer it cryptically and then explain. Inflation/deflation is a false dichotomy. Inflation is deflation. They are the same thing. Nonsense you say! How is that possible? I’ll explain it simply.
Real production has plummeted across the world, and fiat money supplies are going parabolic. How could anyone possibly say this is not inflationary when all central banks are doing is literally inflating? The answer is that as debt comes due but payment flows stop, debt cannot be serviced, and therefore cash must be raised by any means possible to pay it off or bonds default and the entire global banking system stuffed with toxic debt up the wazoo collapses. They’re all loaded to the gills with this poison.
In the fury to raise cash by any means, the demand for money rises precipitously and the demand for goods and services conversely falls in the emergency, pushing the general price level down temporarily. This is perceived as perceived is deflation. The thing is, the sole job of a central bank, the very reason for its entire existence, is to keep the entire debt scheme going, in Orwellian terms to be the “lender of last resort” and so they absolutely cannot allow this to happen, ever. So rather than let everything finally deflate in a spectacular implosion and let all the toxic debt be wiped out to its intrinsic value of zero, central banks simply buy all the junk and hand out the cash they conjure out of nothing. Now everyone is literally in debt to them, because they’ve bought all the debt with nothing.
At some point very soon, international holders of dollars are going to catch on to what’s happening and dump their dollars for anything tangible. China is already doing this with agricultural commodities like wheat and soybeans. So are Egypt and Jordan by the way. The price of plane tickets may be falling, but that’s only because flying anywhere is almost impossible without quarantines. The price of food however is rising everywhere, and fast. Once the dollar is dumped internationally in favor of tangible commodities – and I believe this could possibly start getting really serious after the next multitrillion dollar bailout passes – the affect on domestic consumer prices in the US is going to be drastic and scary, and that’s when we could quickly see hyperinflation in consumer prices.
But if you think about this a bit more deeply, what really is hyperinflation? It is the destruction of all debt in real terms, all paper assets really, in favor of real assets. Hyperinflation is really complete and utter deflation of everything in gold and silver terms. In terms of real money, all prices absolutely plummet. True, those without any real money end up desperately poor, and that’s just horrible. Those with real money though, gold and silver, suddenly have all the purchasing power. In Weimar Germany in 1923 for example you could buy a nice house in Berlin with just four 1oz gold coins. That’s it. Hyperinflation is just hyperdeflation by another name. It all leads to the same objective – the final end of the fiat money bubble that enabled this ongoing crime against human civilization, which is now finally peaking in more ways than one.
Either the bubble deflates, or it hyperinflates and explodes. Either way the end result is the same.
Murray Rothbard describes hyperinflation in Man Economy and State not as some tragedy to be avoided, but as the people’s last remaining defense against the systematic theft of money printing. It is only a tragedy if you’re not prepared for it. We are now in the jubilee, the 50th year of this monstrous debt bubble that began in 1971 and it desperately wants to deflate. And it will. If the Fed will not let toxic negative-yielding debt completely deflate and die and let its crony banks loaded with this crap go bankrupt, then the people are going to fight back and destroy the bubble on their own by attacking the dollar itself. Inflation is deflation in real money terms. It’s the same thing. That’s where we are headed.
Claudio Grass, Hünenberg, Switzerland
———————-END PART 1
In the upcoming second part, we look at the wider impact of the lockdown policy, while Rafi also outlines his outlook of equity markets and his views on physical precious metals and their role, especially during this crisis.


investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--Here’s Our Historical Analogy Menu: Rome, the USSR or Revolutionary France

by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds The core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large .
There ’ s a definite end of days feeling to the euphoria that the world didn ’ t end on November 3 .
And what better way to celebrate the victory of what passes for normalcy with a manic stock market rally ?
It ’ s as if everyone knows there is no returning to the good old days of a well-oiled Imperial machine chewing through any and all obstacles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the need to pretend everything is fine , just fine , overwhelms the last remaining ties to reality .
And since there ’ s a brief intermission between gladiator battles while the Coliseum attendants remove the fallen heroes from the last entertainment , let ’ s play the historical analogy game : which collapse will America track most closely ?
Rome circa 475 AD , the USSR circa 1989 , or Revolutionary France circa 1789 ?
I ’ m tempted to include China ’ s Song Dynasty circa 1276 AD , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t a likely fit .
The Khmer Empire circa 1350-1430 AD and the Mayan Civilization in the 9th century might be excellent analogies but not enough is known about these complex declines to make an analogy more than guesswork .
Rome , the USSR and Revolutionary France are all compelling analogies due to the hubristic cluelessness of their fractured elites as the pretensions of stability collapsed around them .
Even though Nero didn ’ t actually fiddle while Rome burned and Marie Antoinette didn ’ t gush “ Let them eat brioche @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no bread ( or more accurately , could no longer afford it ) , these myths are handy encapsulations of the disconnect from reality that infested the elites in the last years before the deluge of non-linear chaos overwhelmed the regimes .
While historians gather evidence of tipping points such as pandemics , ecological damage , invasions , droughts , inflation , etc.
, the core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large .
As a generality , the permanence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by elites , who then feel free to squabble amongst themselves over the spoils of wealth and power .
Distracted by their own infighting , the elites are blind to the erosion of the foundations of their power .
As coherence in the elites unravels , the ties uniting the elites with the masses unravel as well .
One camp within the elites recognizes the danger and seeks reforms , but the reforms are too little , too late , and in any event , the elites who cling most ardently to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a standstill .
As social cohesion unravels , systems that once seemed immutable ( i.e .
linear ) suddenly display non-linear dynamics in which modest changes that would have made little difference in the past now unleash regime-shattering disorder .
So take your pick , America : what ’ s the closest analogy ?
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by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds
The core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large.
There’s a definite end of days feeling to the euphoria that the world didn’t end on November 3. And what better way to celebrate the victory of what passes for normalcy with a manic stock market rally?
It’s as if everyone knows there is no returning to the good old days of a well-oiled Imperial machine chewing through any and all obstacles, and this realization is so frightening that the need to pretend everything is fine, just fine, overwhelms the last remaining ties to reality.
And since there’s a brief intermission between gladiator battles while the Coliseum attendants remove the fallen heroes from the last entertainment, let’s play the historical analogy game: which collapse will America track most closely? Rome circa 475 AD, the USSR circa 1989, or Revolutionary France circa 1789?
I’m tempted to include China’s Song Dynasty circa 1276 AD, but the analog of the Mongol invasion isn’t a likely fit. The Khmer Empire circa 1350-1430 AD and the Mayan Civilization in the 9th century might be excellent analogies but not enough is known about these complex declines to make an analogy more than guesswork.
Rome, the USSR and Revolutionary France are all compelling analogies due to the hubristic cluelessness of their fractured elites as the pretensions of stability collapsed around them. Even though Nero didn’t actually fiddle while Rome burned and Marie Antoinette didn’t gush “Let them eat brioche” when notified that the peasants had no bread (or more accurately, could no longer afford it), these myths are handy encapsulations of the disconnect from reality that infested the elites in the last years before the deluge of non-linear chaos overwhelmed the regimes.
While historians gather evidence of tipping points such as pandemics, ecological damage, invasions, droughts, inflation, etc., the core dynamic is ultimately the loss of social cohesion within the ruling elites and in the social order at large.
As a generality, the permanence of the status quo is taken for granted by elites, who then feel free to squabble amongst themselves over the spoils of wealth and power. Distracted by their own infighting, the elites are blind to the erosion of the foundations of their power.
As coherence in the elites unravels, the ties uniting the elites with the masses unravel as well.
One camp within the elites recognizes the danger and seeks reforms, but the reforms are too little, too late, and in any event, the elites who cling most ardently to the past stability fight the reform movement to a standstill.
As social cohesion unravels, systems that once seemed immutable (i.e. linear) suddenly display non-linear dynamics in which modest changes that would have made little difference in the past now unleash regime-shattering disorder.
So take your pick, America: what’s the closest analogy? A sclerotic Politburo of elders living in the past, an elite fiddling while the nation disintegrates, or an elite so out of touch with reality that it claims inflation is zero while the populace can no longer afford bread?
They all lead to the same destination:
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investmentwatchblog--2020-11-08--ELECTORAL FRAUD: DOES OHIO HOLD THE KEY?

Whatever you think of Donald Trump , the notion that there were no grounds for suspicion about the 2020 Presidential Election is preposterous Just as ‘ Build Back Better ’ , ‘ New Normal ’ and ‘ The Great Reset ’ have all zoomed around the world unchanged in the last year , the mainstream media have , in the last 36 hours , relentlessly pushed the same robotic approach in the shape of ‘ No evidence whatsoever ’ for postal ballot fraud in the Trump v Biden contest .
Well , the idiocy of this statement is beyond parody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the obvious : there ’ s no evidence until you investigate .
One doesn ’ t investigate very often on the basis of evidence ; most of the time , the investigation begins because something in the order of events seems odd , abnormal or even incredible .
Suspicion is more than enough for any open-minded detective .
Looking at local State judiciary reactions to Trump ’ s lawyers , it is hard to see any Blind Justice in play .
In Pennsylvania , the Court of common pleas rejected the case out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed that decision , and gave Trump overseers access to the count .
Within minutes , the Democrats rushed over to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania….which took under an hour to reverse the decision .
If you had nothing to hide , why would you do that ?
And how could that Supreme Court know enough to reject a lower court ’ s decision in such short order ?
In Michigan , the Court of Claims was handed a legal request to halt counting until meaningful access has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have merit .
It ’ s a frivolous lawsuit and it ’ s really an example of the type of misinformation designed to sow seeds of doubt among our voters about the integrity of our elections process ” .
The inclusion of all the usual syntax smears in that statement would lead you to think Ms Benson is a left-of-centre Democrat .
You ’ d be right : here ’ s a brief resumé of her career : She founded the Women in American Political Activism conference .
She took her further degree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masters for conducting research into the sociological implications of white supremacy and neo-Nazism .
Yes , all the tell-tale signs are there .
Was The Donald ever going to be given a fair trial trial from her sort ?
Doubtful .
But as the DNC ’ s leftist tentacles wrap around the necks of those responsible for equal treatment before the law , as a trained psephologist ( and therefore more than a little sad ) I do find the case of Ohio a fascinating one .
This fascination lies in the exceptional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turnout votes .
When the postal ballots were counted is central to the air of suspicion that surrounds the Democrat resurgence in the wee small hours .
It ’ s not just that the DNC actively encouraged its franchise to vote by mail : equally , it ’ s the general 4 am nature of postal boxes being opened ( or “ found ” ) ….when inspectors have gone home to catch much-needed sleep… .
That , and the almost universal decision to count turnout votes first .
But that didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ postal votes were counted first…..and it turned out to be a mirror image of everywhere else – viz , Joe Biden seized an early lead among the initial count , only to see Trump eventually win by a 53-45 percentage margin .
Here ’ s another thing about Ohio : the pollsters listed it beforehand as too close to call .
This was rubbish .
I spoke yesterday with a long-standing research friend in Boston – a lifelong Democrat – and he told me , “ I don ’ t know anyone in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It was always in the bag for Trump ” .
I believe the DNC ’ s canvassers knew this perfectly well , and let nature take its course .
The ‘ dead-heat ’ polls were part of a widespread attempt to position Trump as miles behind Biden across America .
They were happy for the postal votes to be counted under supervision in Ohio .
If you want to convincingly fix elections , then there are two rules : first , count the genuine votes in order to assess the size of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ second , ensure that most folks are asleep when the stuffed envelopes get opened .
This might all sound paranoid were it not for ( a ) the DNC ’ s campaign to get their supporters to vote postally ( why did they do that ? )
and ( b ) the sheer size of Biden ’ s advantage by that medium .
In Pennsylvania for example , Joe got 73 % of all postal votes .
This asks us to believe that Biden supporters are three times more likely to be scared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Really ?
Last but not least , stuffing ballot boxes – when done extensively – can lead to unfeasibly high turnouts in total .
This US presidential election was projected to be the highest voter turnout since 1900 , at around 64.5 % .
This highest vote in 120 years is unusual in its own right , but the actual turnout now looks closer to something closer to 67 % .
If , therefore , there ’ s a reasonable basis for doubt about the legality of 2.5 % of all votes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden in the White House given the closeness of this election – then the forces of Law in the US should act .
They haven ’ t .
Tonight , the world ’ s media are tripping over their knickers in a rush to declare Biden the victor .
Whatever : I have no time for Trump as an individual , but he isn ’ t Shadow State – whereas Sleepy Joe is….and his V-P is a standard issue narcisisstic , politically correct member of that broad church .
But if Trump is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then such will not represent any kind of justice I recognise .

by John Ward
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, the notion that there were no grounds for suspicion about the 2020 Presidential Election is preposterous
Just as ‘Build Back Better’, ‘New Normal’ and ‘The Great Reset’ have all zoomed around the world unchanged in the last year, the mainstream media have, in the last 36 hours, relentlessly pushed the same robotic approach in the shape of ‘No evidence whatsoever’ for postal ballot fraud in the Trump v Biden contest.
Well, the idiocy of this statement is beyond parody, so I must restrict myself to the obvious: there’s no evidence until you investigate. One doesn’t investigate very often on the basis of evidence; most of the time, the investigation begins because something in the order of events seems odd, abnormal or even incredible. Suspicion is more than enough for any open-minded detective.
Looking at local State judiciary reactions to Trump’s lawyers, it is hard to see any Blind Justice in play.
In Pennsylvania, the Court of common pleas rejected the case out of hand. But the more senior Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed that decision, and gave Trump overseers access to the count.
Within minutes, the Democrats rushed over to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania….which took under an hour to reverse the decision.
If you had nothing to hide, why would you do that? And how could that Supreme Court know enough to reject a lower court’s decision in such short order?
In Michigan, the Court of Claims was handed a legal request to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told CBS news:
‘This demand does not have merit. It’s a frivolous lawsuit and it’s really an example of the type of misinformation designed to sow seeds of doubt among our voters about the integrity of our elections process”.
The inclusion of all the usual syntax smears in that statement would lead you to think Ms Benson is a left-of-centre Democrat. You’d be right: here’s a brief resumé of her career:
She founded the Women in American Political Activism conference. She took her further degree at Oxbridge, where she got a masters for conducting research into the sociological implications of white supremacy and neo-Nazism. Yes, all the tell-tale signs are there.
Was The Donald ever going to be given a fair trial trial from her sort? Doubtful.
But as the DNC’s leftist tentacles wrap around the necks of those responsible for equal treatment before the law, as a trained psephologist (and therefore more than a little sad) I do find the case of Ohio a fascinating one. This fascination lies in the exceptional nature of vote counting between postal and turnout votes.
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When the postal ballots were counted is central to the air of suspicion that surrounds the Democrat resurgence in the wee small hours.
It’s not just that the DNC actively encouraged its franchise to vote by mail: equally, it’s the general 4 am nature of postal boxes being opened (or “found”)….when inspectors have gone home to catch much-needed sleep…. That, and the almost universal decision to count turnout votes first.
But that didn’t happen in Ohio. There, the postal votes were counted first…..and it turned out to be a mirror image of everywhere else – viz, Joe Biden seized an early lead among the initial count, only to see Trump eventually win by a 53-45 percentage margin.
Here’s another thing about Ohio: the pollsters listed it beforehand as too close to call. This was rubbish. I spoke yesterday with a long-standing research friend in Boston – a lifelong Democrat – and he told me, “I don’t know anyone in the profession who saw Ohio a close. It was always in the bag for Trump”.
I believe the DNC’s canvassers knew this perfectly well, and let nature take its course. The ‘dead-heat’ polls were part of a widespread attempt to position Trump as miles behind Biden across America. They were happy for the postal votes to be counted under supervision in Ohio.
Here’s why.
If you want to convincingly fix elections, then there are two rules: first, count the genuine votes in order to assess the size of your problem – if any; and second, ensure that most folks are asleep when the stuffed envelopes get opened.
This might all sound paranoid were it not for (a) the DNC’s campaign to get their supporters to vote postally (why did they do that?) and (b) the sheer size of Biden’s advantage by that medium.
In Pennsylvania for example, Joe got 73% of all postal votes. This asks us to believe that Biden supporters are three times more likely to be scared of Covid19 versus those for The Donald. Really?
Last but not least, stuffing ballot boxes – when done extensively – can lead to unfeasibly high turnouts in total.
This US presidential election was projected to be the highest voter turnout since 1900, at around 64.5%. This highest vote in 120 years is unusual in its own right, but the actual turnout now looks closer to something closer to 67%.
If, therefore, there’s a reasonable basis for doubt about the legality of 2.5% of all votes cast – more than enough to put Biden in the White House given the closeness of this election – then the forces of Law in the US should act. They haven’t.
Tonight, the world’s media are tripping over their knickers in a rush to declare Biden the victor.
Whatever: I have no time for Trump as an individual, but he isn’t Shadow State – whereas Sleepy Joe is….and his V-P is a standard issue narcisisstic, politically correct member of that broad church.
But if Trump is denied a full inquiry into electoral fraud, then such will not represent any kind of justice I recognise.