investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--The Agenda is Right in the Open But the Media & Politicians Turn a Blind Eye

By some weird stroke of coincidence , your recent article “ Belgium Files Suit Against Gates & Neil Ferguson ” beat me to the punch .
I had planned to write you about the need for We the People of Planet Earth to organize ourselves globally and files millions of class actions the world over .
Your article linked to some Flemish and Dutch language sources .
The Belgian attorney who ’ s filed against the Belgian gov .
and Gates et al is MICHAEL VERSTRAELEN out of Brussels .
There are other suits in the pipeline , like “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ etc… ] ” at www.Globalresearch.ca from August 6th .
“ COVID-19 Class Action [ etc… ] ” on the Bill Whittle network is another example .
I could write a comprehensive thesis on We the People of Planet Earth ought to go about it .
However , I ’ ll be brief .
First , could you please post this for your global readership ?
How many attorneys do we have in the audience ?
Second , could readers please send you any and all info pertaining to this so that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down this unprecedented evil through the worldwide courts system , perhaps including the International Court at The Hague in the Netherlands .
I , for one , need to find out where the Michael Verstraelens of this world are in each and every country .
I ’ M MAD AS HELL AND I ’ M NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE , MR. & MRS. GLOBALIST .
Let ’ s all work together and legally bankrupt them before they commit global genocide on us .
Their next step is the roll-out of CovidPass — see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — whereby they will take your blood and DNA to dicide if you can do anything .
You get the picture .
I ’ m on the warpath in self defense .
REPLY : Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum are in league with others to subjugate the population .
Let ’ s be honest here .
This virus can be killed by just washing your hands .
Then 92 % of all death are in the very same category as the flu where they target those over 65 .
Bill Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work on the elderly .
This virus is nothing serious , yet they have destroyed the world economy all for their Great Reset to remake the world GREEN .
I would be the first to warn about the disease .
We have constructed models on this aspect because it has been so profound in changing the economy .
But the truth is this is no Black Death that will kill 35 % -50 % of the population ( 1347.83 , October 1347 ) .
That may arrive in 2022 .
It has reappeared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of it before was largely caused by people who did not bathe and it was carried by fleas on rats that infested the world .
Those conditions do not exist today in most of the industrialized world .
The target year 2022 is where the Plague Cycle turns up .
Consequently , this current virus is a contrived event that is being done for political purposes of pulling off this Great Reset , which they had already planned to do .
They are hell-bent on controlling the world to reduce the population .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ which Bill and Melina Gates have joined .
Nevertheless , there have also been concerted efforts to experiment on people in other countries .
Back in the 1940s , there were 750 victims who eventually filed a lawsuit against the Rockefeller Foundation and the Johns Hopkins various entities alleging that they were behind human experiments carried out using Guatemalans who were intentionally exposed to syphilis , gonorrhea , and other venereal diseases , without informed consent .
The experiments even used school children , psychiatric patients , and prison inmates by force .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ researchers were also behind the notorious Tuskegee Experiments that used 600 African-American sharecroppers without consent also for syphilis .
They seem to be at it again with vaccines testing them out in Africa .
They were using South Africans for testing other vaccines which led to protesters taking the position : “ We are not guinea pigs , ” shouted South African anti-vaccine protesters Nobody stops these efforts , and local politicians in these poor countries are routinely bribed to allow such experiments on their own people .
It is amazing how much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yet , many mainstream media sources refuse to investigate and seem to be part of those bribed to look the other way .

by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Dear Mr. Armstrong,
By some weird stroke of coincidence, your recent article “Belgium Files Suit Against Gates & Neil Ferguson” beat me to the punch.
I had planned to write you about the need for We the People of Planet Earth to organize ourselves globally and files millions of class actions the world over.
Your article linked to some Flemish and Dutch language sources. The Belgian attorney who’s filed against the Belgian gov. and Gates et al is MICHAEL VERSTRAELEN out of Brussels.
There are other suits in the pipeline, like “Wearing the Mask is Mandatory in Quebec [etc…]” at www.Globalresearch.ca from August 6th.
“COVID-19 Class Action [etc…]” on the Bill Whittle network is another example.
I could write a comprehensive thesis on We the People of Planet Earth ought to go about it.
However, I’ll be brief.
First, could you please post this for your global readership? How many attorneys do we have in the audience?
Second, could readers please send you any and all info pertaining to this so that we all share and work together to bring down this unprecedented evil through the worldwide courts system, perhaps including the International Court at The Hague in the Netherlands.
I, for one, need to find out where the Michael Verstraelens of this world are in each and every country.
I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE, MR. & MRS. GLOBALIST.
Let’s all work together and legally bankrupt them before they commit global genocide on us.
We are primarily funded by readers. Please subscribe and donate to support us!
Their next step is the roll-out of CovidPass — see the World Economic Forum from July 20th — whereby they will take your blood and DNA to dicide if you can do anything.
Then comes forced vaccines.
You get the picture.
I’m on the warpath in self defense.
God bless,
A member of the Martin Armstrong Global Army (MAGA)
JT
REPLY: Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum are in league with others to subjugate the population. Let’s be honest here. This virus can be killed by just washing your hands. Then 92% of all death are in the very same category as the flu where they target those over 65. Bill Gates himself admits that flu shots do not work on the elderly. This virus is nothing serious, yet they have destroyed the world economy all for their Great Reset to remake the world GREEN. I would be the first to warn about the disease. We have constructed models on this aspect because it has been so profound in changing the economy. But the truth is this is no Black Death that will kill 35%-50% of the population (1347.83, October 1347). That may arrive in 2022. It has reappeared in China once again. The spread of it before was largely caused by people who did not bathe and it was carried by fleas on rats that infested the world. Those conditions do not exist today in most of the industrialized world.
The target year 2022 is where the Plague Cycle turns up. Consequently, this current virus is a contrived event that is being done for political purposes of pulling off this Great Reset, which they had already planned to do. They are hell-bent on controlling the world to reduce the population. This has been a longtime goal to which Bill and Melina Gates have joined. Nevertheless, there have also been concerted efforts to experiment on people in other countries.
Back in the 1940s, there were 750 victims who eventually filed a lawsuit against the Rockefeller Foundation and the Johns Hopkins various entities alleging that they were behind human experiments carried out using Guatemalans who were intentionally exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea, and other venereal diseases, without informed consent. The experiments even used school children, psychiatric patients, and prison inmates by force. Both the Rockefeller Foundation and Johns Hopkins researchers were also behind the notorious Tuskegee Experiments that used 600 African-American sharecroppers without consent also for syphilis.
They seem to be at it again with vaccines testing them out in Africa. They were using South Africans for testing other vaccines which led to protesters taking the position: “We are not guinea pigs,” shouted South African anti-vaccine protesters Nobody stops these efforts, and local politicians in these poor countries are routinely bribed to allow such experiments on their own people.
It is amazing how much of this agenda is in the open. Yet, many mainstream media sources refuse to investigate and seem to be part of those bribed to look the other way.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--How COVID Relief Saved Texas Shale Jobs

How COVID Relief Saved Texas Shale Jobs

Four months ago , Congress approved the ambitious and unprecedented Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ) as part of the $ 2 trillion pandemic rescue package , and now we ’ re starting to see the benefits of that in the shale patch , of all places .
PPP involves federal loans to small- and medium-sized businesses primarily to help them keep their workers on the payroll .
The low-interest loans are potentially forgivable provided 60 % of the loan goes to pay workers over the course of 24 weeks .
About $ 660B of the loans have been disbursed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2.5B of that finding its way to the Texas shale patch where a huge number of companies were teetering on the edge of survival long before the pandemic struck .
As expected , the loans have received their fair share of flak , mainly on the grounds of fairness and accountability , with the WSJ lambasting them as being little more than legalized fraud .
The Texas shale patch is probably not complaining much , though : The majority of Texas oil field workers have been able to retain their jobs thanks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being one of the hardest hit by the pandemic .
The Houston Chronicle has reported that 93,117 jobs of the 182,500 people employed in the Texas oil field are still intact even as the worst of the oil price crash appears to be in the rearview mirror .
Data by the Small Business Administration ( SBA ) shows that a total of 6,610 PPP loans have been disbursed to oil and natural gas companies as well as oil field services companies and related equipment manufacturers headquartered in Texas .
The SBA listed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not exact amounts , making it hard to work out the exact amount the Texas companies received .
But using the provided ranges shows that a total of 4,877 oil and gas companies in Texas borrowed loans below $ 150,000 for a total of $ 188 million .
The other 1,733 companies borrowed amounts higher than $ 150,000 for a total of up to $ 2.3 billion .
Going by this math , Texas oil and gas companies could have received as much as $ 2.5B in loans under PPP .
Unfortunately , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patch from losing a staggering 26,300 jobs in April alone , and nearly 90,000 since the pandemic reared its ugly head .
And , we certainly know nothing about the quality of those jobs that were retained .
Oil and gas companies , both big and small , have been known to stiff their workers , especially blue-collar ones , when times are hard .
Case in point is Halliburton Inc. ( NYSE : HAL ) which in 2016 was forced to settle with the Department of Labor for $ 18 million after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than 1,000 workers including oil field service representatives , drilling tech advisors , pipe recovery specialists , and reliability tech specialists by refusing to pay them the required overtime .
DOL ’ s Houston Wage and Hour Division district director , Robin Mallett , has told DeSmog that oil and gas has a very large number of vulnerable workers : “ What we see in oil and gas is a lot of contingent workers , moving from job site to job site .
We look at the industry and pay practices and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The pay structure in oil and gas is fissured , and there ’ s a lot of subcontracting , with one big company paying another who pays another who pays another until you get to the oilfield workers .
The lower you go , the more likely there will be violations , because the money flows through a chain.
” Maybe that ’ s one reason why HAL was quick to furlough 3,500 workers at its Houston headquarters in March during the early stages of the pandemic when about 2000,000 roughnecks , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost their jobs .
While it appears that a lot of companies are using PPP for its intended purpose–i.e.
, pay their workers–a large number are not .
Back in July , the Houston Chronicle reported that more than 550,000 PPP recipients were listed in the official government data as having retained zero jobs .
That ’ s the case because of a glaring hole in the program that allows companies that have no intention of retaining employees to apply for–and receive–the loans before diverting the funds for other purposes as long as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ company is Midland , Texas-based compression equipment provider , Natural Gas Services Group ( NYSE : NGS ) which returned its $ 4.6M PPP loan and had to cut 20 % of its workforce .

By Alex Kimani
Four months ago, Congress approved the ambitious and unprecedented Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as part of the $2 trillion pandemic rescue package, and now we’re starting to see the benefits of that in the shale patch, of all places.
PPP involves federal loans to small- and medium-sized businesses primarily to help them keep their workers on the payroll. The low-interest loans are potentially forgivable provided 60% of the loan goes to pay workers over the course of 24 weeks.
About $660B of the loans have been disbursed to SMBs, with up to $2.5B of that finding its way to the Texas shale patch where a huge number of companies were teetering on the edge of survival long before the pandemic struck.
As expected, the loans have received their fair share of flak, mainly on the grounds of fairness and accountability, with the WSJ lambasting them as being little more than legalized fraud.
The Texas shale patch is probably not complaining much, though: The majority of Texas oil field workers have been able to retain their jobs thanks to PPP, despite the U.S. shale industry being one of the hardest hit by the pandemic.
The Houston Chronicle has reported that 93,117 jobs of the 182,500 people employed in the Texas oil field are still intact even as the worst of the oil price crash appears to be in the rearview mirror.
Lifesaver
Data by the Small Business Administration (SBA) shows that a total of 6,610 PPP loans have been disbursed to oil and natural gas companies as well as oil field services companies and related equipment manufacturers headquartered in Texas.
The SBA listed the amounts borrowed in five different ranges, not exact amounts, making it hard to work out the exact amount the Texas companies received.
But using the provided ranges shows that a total of 4,877 oil and gas companies in Texas borrowed loans below $150,000 for a total of $188 million. The other 1,733 companies borrowed amounts higher than $150,000 for a total of up to $2.3 billion. Going by this math, Texas oil and gas companies could have received as much as $2.5B in loans under PPP.
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Unfortunately, that did not stop the Texas shale patch from losing a staggering 26,300 jobs in April alone, and nearly 90,000 since the pandemic reared its ugly head.
And, we certainly know nothing about the quality of those jobs that were retained.
Oil and gas companies, both big and small, have been known to stiff their workers, especially blue-collar ones, when times are hard. Case in point is Halliburton Inc. (NYSE:HAL) which in 2016 was forced to settle with the Department of Labor for $18 million after DOL found the company guilty of cheating more than 1,000 workers including oil field service representatives, drilling tech advisors, pipe recovery specialists, and reliability tech specialists by refusing to pay them the required overtime. DOL’s Houston Wage and Hour Division district director, Robin Mallett, has told DeSmog that oil and gas has a very large number of vulnerable workers:
“What we see in oil and gas is a lot of contingent workers, moving from job site to job site. We look at the industry and pay practices and how industry may be set up. The pay structure in oil and gas is fissured, and there’s a lot of subcontracting, with one big company paying another who pays another who pays another until you get to the oilfield workers. The lower you go, the more likely there will be violations, because the money flows through a chain.”
Maybe that’s one reason why HAL was quick to furlough 3,500 workers at its Houston headquarters in March during the early stages of the pandemic when about 2000,000 roughnecks, or half the industry’s workforce, lost their jobs.
PPP Loopholes
While it appears that a lot of companies are using PPP for its intended purpose–i.e., pay their workers–a large number are not.
Back in July, the Houston Chronicle reported that more than 550,000 PPP recipients were listed in the official government data as having retained zero jobs.
That’s the case because of a glaring hole in the program that allows companies that have no intention of retaining employees to apply for–and receive–the loans before diverting the funds for other purposes as long as they repay their loans. One such company is Midland, Texas-based compression equipment provider, Natural Gas Services Group (NYSE:NGS) which returned its $4.6M PPP loan and had to cut 20% of its workforce.
By Alex Kimani for Oilprice.com


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Governments Ending Free Societies

Governments Ending Free Societies

COVID deaths have fallen in Britain by 96 % .
Even the number of people infected who are seeking some @ @ @ @ @ day to 700 .
The real question is why are governments escalating their authority ?
@ @ @ @ @ USA are clearly engaged in politics .
Pennsylvania has gone completely nuts .
If you @ @ @ @ @ anyone who has the virus and you fail to quarantine yourself for 14 days , @ @ @ @ @ imprison you for two weeks .
Some German states are saying they can take your @ @ @ @ @ .
In Melbourn , Australia , they have created a 100 % lockdown and an @ @ @ @ @ have turned the city into a prison camp .
This entire response by governments is @ @ @

by Martin Armstrong
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COVID deaths have fallen in Britain by 96%. Even the number of people infected who are seeking some treatment fell from 17,000 per day to 700. The real question is why are governments escalating their authority? The blue states in the USA are clearly engaged in politics. Pennsylvania has gone completely nuts. If you have come into contact with anyone who has the virus and you fail to quarantine yourself for 14 days, they will basically arrest and imprison you for two weeks. Some German states are saying they can take your children if you have COVID. In Melbourn, Australia, they have created a 100% lockdown and an 8 PM curfew. They have turned the city into a prison camp. This entire response by governments is totally insane.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Buyer Beware – Gold ETFs Like Gld Own No Gold

Two major asset classes are major beneficiaries of the unlimited money printing and credit creation that is now taking place globally .
One of them will end in tears and the other one has just started a major secular bull market .
As the world economy and financial system is disintegrating , investors are under the illusion that all is well with many stock markets still not far from their all time bubble highs .
THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN STOCK AND THE REAL ECONOMY CONTINUES Many companies and services are haemorrhaging cash and are not going to recover for years and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are travelling , many airlines , cruise lines , hotels and restaurants for example will not survive .
This is a global industry that employs 330 million people and represents 10 % of global GDP .
International tourism could fall as much as 60-80 % in 2020 according to some estimates .
The car industry is 3 % of global GDP and is expected to drop 25 % in 2020 .
Real and hidden unemployment is a major problem and if furlough or social benefits are stopped many people will not survive .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ rents they will also become homeless .
Currently 31 million Americans are on some kind of unemployment benefits .
That is 20 % of all workers .
But if we include workers who are not receiving any benefits the total unemployment is 30 % according to Shadow Government Statistics .
This is worse than in the 1930s depression .
Stocks market investors still live in dreamland and translate all the bad news to good news as the continuous flood of printed money and credit inject liquidity .
This has always worked before so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
No one knows what the US deficit will be at the end of calendar 2020 but it could easily be $ 10 trillion as the debt grows to over $ 30t and on to $ 40 trillion within a year or two .
How wonderful for stock investors .
More liquidity means higher share prices .
Very few understand that all this money has zero value as it has been created out of thin air .
Also , none of the money goes to productive investments but instead just to give a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So the worthless money will go to individuals and businesses just to survive .
It will also in ever bigger quantities go to an extremely fragile financial system .
In the end $ 100s of trillions and later quadrillions of worthless money will have been spent on non productive survival aid .
It is possible that the stock mania continues based on the fake trillions created .
But at some point soon , stock markets will wake up to the nightmare the world is experiencing .
There is at least one asset class @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world and the continued destruction of paper money .
Gold is up $ 200 in the last two weeks and $ 500 or 33 % in 2020 .
Since the Maginot line at $ 1,350 was broken in June 2019 , gold has gone up by more than 50 % as I discussed already back in February 2019 .
But the spectacular market has been silver which has virtually exploded as I have been predicting in the last few weeks .
Here is a Tweet from May 14th when the silver price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ timely as silver started to move up the following day and surged $ 10 in the last three weeks to just under $ 30 .
Silver bottomed at $ 11.60 on March 18th and has gone up 2.5x since then .
The gold silver ratio duly crashed from 109 on May 14th to 72 today , a 35 % fall .
Since the peak in March at 128 , the gold silver ratio has come down 45 % .
Silver is now in an explosive phase on the way to much , much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also be vicious like the one we have just seen .
With such high volatility we have always advised investors not to hold more than 25 % in silver and 75 % in gold .
Sleeping well at night is an important part of your investment strategy .
The moves we have seen in the last few weeks in gold and silver is just the beginning .
The long term bull market is well established and will go to heights that no one can imagine today .
And we will see much bigger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just experienced as the market panics due to dire financial news combined with major shortages in physical gold and silver .
I would not be surprised to see gold move by $ 100s and silver by $ 10s in a single day .
GOLD ETFS ARE JUST PAPER GOLD AND MUST BE AVOIDED The gold market has this year not just been booming in price but also in volume .
For lazy investors , gold ETFs are the most convenient instrument .
But buying a gold ETF is in most cases just an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the paper has no security in the physical gold .
The total investment into gold ETFs and gold funds is today $ 316 billion or 4,878 tonnes , which is a record .
The increase in 2020 in the total value has been considerable and amounts to $ 160 billion which is a 100 % increase since the end of 2019 .
So all gold ETFs and Funds are today valued at $ 319 billion .
If we compare that to the S & P 500 total market cap of $ 27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The top 5 companies in the S & P index are worth $ 6 trillion .
Just take Apple that with their $ 200 billion cash pile and some stock could easily acquire all the gold funds and ETFs .
This tells us how small the gold market is .
In the next few years as stock markets crash and gold surges , the relative sizes of stocks versus gold will look very different .
The biggest gold ETF is GLD or State Street .
GLD holds a total 1,258 tonnes with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes GLD the 7th biggest holder of gold in the world .
GLD ’ s value has gone from $ 42 billion at the beginning of 2020 to $ 82b today as both inflow and the gold price have increased .
This ETF is the primary investment vehicle that investors use when they want exposure to gold .
What most investors don ’ t understand is that to own a gold ETF like GLD is no better than to have a futures contract in gold .
An ETF is a tracking vehicle and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The gold is not bought outright by GLD but is instead borrowed .
The holder of an GLD share has no claim on the borrowed gold and therefore does not own anything tangible .
Thus all he holds is a piece of paper with no underlying security in the form of gold in case of insolvency .
The gold is borrowed or leased from a central bank and not bought with clear title .
So a shareholder in GLD is just a holder of a piece of paper that doesn ’ t entitle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claim on gold is very different from owning real physical gold .
The gold price could surge but the ETF could still go bankrupt As I have often pointed out , when an ETF like GLD buys gold , it doesn ’ t come from the Swiss refiners .
Instead it comes from the bullion banks who borrows the gold from a central bank .
The GLD ETF has an official audit with bar lists and numbers .
But since central banks never publish a full physical audit , there is no way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been rehypothecated several times by the central bank .
So firstly the GLD doesn ’ t own the gold and secondly the gold that it doesn ’ t own might have been lent multiple times by central banks .
One of the major advantages with owning physical gold is that it is the only asset which is not someone else ’ s liability .
But buying a gold ETF like GLD involves multiple counterparty risk with no ownership of the underlying metal .
Investors in GLD buy shares in the fund ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ custodian , HSBC sources and stores the gold for the Trust .
This obviously makes HSBC a major counterparty risk .
But HSBC also uses sub-custodians , other bullion banks and even the Bank of England to source and store the gold .
This means that investors have multiple sub-custodian risk .
There are no contractual agreements between the Trustee and the sub-custodians or the custodian .
This means that the ability of the trustees or the custodian to take legal action against the sub-custodians is limited .
The Trustee is not insured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Gold held in the Trust ’ s unallocated gold account is not segregated from the custodian ’ s assets .
If a custodian becomes insolvent , its asset may not be adequate to satisfy the claim of the trust .
GLD INVESTORS DON ’ T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY HOLDING The above relatively detailed explanation how a gold ETF like GLD functions is intended to enlighten the investors of $ 82 billion in GLD what they are actually holding .
For wealth preservation investors , GLD doesn ’ t satisfy any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asset like gold totally risk free .
The main problems with buying gold through GLD , as outlined above , are the following : • It is a paper security held within the financial system • The gold holding are not segregated from custodians ’ assets • The gold is stored within the banking system • The gold held is probably rehypothecated • The gold is not fully insured • Investors have no access to their gold Thus holding gold through GLD is no better than holding gold futures .
For wealth preservation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the banking system in the safest private vaults in the world .
The gold must be controlled directly by the investor with direct access to his gold in the vault .
No other party must be allowed to touch his gold without his authorisation .
The gold must be held in the safest jurisdictions like Switzerland and possibly Singapore .
For major investors above $ 5 million we offer the largest private gold vault in the world in the Swiss Alps .
It is also the safest gold vault in the world with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exist anywhere else .
The vault is nuclear bomb proof , earthquake proof and gas attack proof .
We also have vaults for investors below $ 5 million .
This video clip gives an idea of the mountain vault but obviously doesn ’ t reveal any of the major security aspects .
What it does show is how major investors must store their gold rather than holding it in extremely unsafe form like GLD .
Holding physical gold in this mountain vault costs about the same as GLD and is fully insured .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ have full access .
Holding physical gold as described above is far superior to any gold ETF with none of the negatives .
It is really surprising that major gold investors can even consider an inferior method like a gold ETF .

Two major asset classes are major beneficiaries of the unlimited money printing and credit creation that is now taking place globally. One of them will end in tears and the other one has just started a major secular bull market.
As the world economy and financial system is disintegrating, investors are under the illusion that all is well with many stock markets still not far from their all time bubble highs.
THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN STOCK AND THE REAL ECONOMY CONTINUES
Many companies and services are haemorrhaging cash and are not going to recover for years and some never. As very few people are travelling, many airlines, cruise lines, hotels and restaurants for example will not survive. This is a global industry that employs 330 million people and represents 10% of global GDP. International tourism could fall as much as 60-80% in 2020 according to some estimates. The car industry is 3% of global GDP and is expected to drop 25% in 2020.
Real and hidden unemployment is a major problem and if furlough or social benefits are stopped many people will not survive. As many can’t pay their rents they will also become homeless.
Currently 31 million Americans are on some kind of unemployment benefits. That is 20% of all workers.
But if we include workers who are not receiving any benefits the total unemployment is 30% according to Shadow Government Statistics. This is worse than in the 1930s depression.
DREAMLAND STOCK INVESTORS IGNORE DEFICITS
Stocks market investors still live in dreamland and translate all the bad news to good news as the continuous flood of printed money and credit inject liquidity. This has always worked before so why won’t it this time? No one knows what the US deficit will be at the end of calendar 2020 but it could easily be $10 trillion as the debt grows to over $30t and on to $40 trillion within a year or two.
How wonderful for stock investors. More liquidity means higher share prices. Very few understand that all this money has zero value as it has been created out of thin air. Also, none of the money goes to productive investments but instead just to give a dying economy some temporary artificial respiration. So the worthless money will go to individuals and businesses just to survive. It will also in ever bigger quantities go to an extremely fragile financial system. In the end $100s of trillions and later quadrillions of worthless money will have been spent on non productive survival aid.
It is possible that the stock mania continues based on the fake trillions created. But at some point soon, stock markets will wake up to the nightmare the world is experiencing.
GOLD REVEALS THE DESTRUCTION OF PAPER MONEY
There is at least one asset class which reacts sensibly to the problems in the world and the continued destruction of paper money. Gold is up $200 in the last two weeks and $500 or 33% in 2020. Since the Maginot line at $1,350 was broken in June 2019, gold has gone up by more than 50% as I discussed already back in February 2019.
But the spectacular market has been silver which has virtually exploded as I have been predicting in the last few weeks.
Here is a Tweet from May 14th when the silver price was $15.50.
The Tweet was timely as silver started to move up the following day and surged $10 in the last three weeks to just under $30. Silver bottomed at $11.60 on March 18th and has gone up 2.5x since then.
The gold silver ratio duly crashed from 109 on May 14th to 72 today, a 35% fall. Since the peak in March at 128, the gold silver ratio has come down 45%.
SILVER IS EXPLODING
Silver is now in an explosive phase on the way to much, much higher levels. But the corrections will also be vicious like the one we have just seen. With such high volatility we have always advised investors not to hold more than 25% in silver and 75% in gold. Sleeping well at night is an important part of your investment strategy.
The moves we have seen in the last few weeks in gold and silver is just the beginning. The long term bull market is well established and will go to heights that no one can imagine today. And we will see much bigger daily and weekly moves than we have just experienced as the market panics due to dire financial news combined with major shortages in physical gold and silver. I would not be surprised to see gold move by $100s and silver by $10s in a single day.
GOLD ETFS ARE JUST PAPER GOLD AND MUST BE AVOIDED
The gold market has this year not just been booming in price but also in volume. For lazy investors, gold ETFs are the most convenient instrument. But buying a gold ETF is in most cases just an investment in paper gold. The holder of the paper has no security in the physical gold.
The total investment into gold ETFs and gold funds is today $316 billion or 4,878 tonnes, which is a record. The increase in 2020 in the total value has been considerable and amounts to $160 billion which is a 100% increase since the end of 2019.
So all gold ETFs and Funds are today valued at $319 billion. If we compare that to the S&P 500 total market cap of $27 trillion, it is totally insignificant. The top 5 companies in the S&P index are worth $6 trillion. Just take Apple that with their $200 billion cash pile and some stock could easily acquire all the gold funds and ETFs. This tells us how small the gold market is. In the next few years as stock markets crash and gold surges, the relative sizes of stocks versus gold will look very different.
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GLD STATE STREET GOLD ETF – AN INVESTMENT IN PAPER GOLD
The biggest gold ETF is GLD or State Street. GLD holds a total 1,258 tonnes with a value of $82 billion. This makes GLD the 7th biggest holder of gold in the world.
GLD’s value has gone from $42 billion at the beginning of 2020 to $82b today as both inflow and the gold price have increased. This ETF is the primary investment vehicle that investors use when they want exposure to gold.
What most investors don’t understand is that to own a gold ETF like GLD is no better than to have a futures contract in gold.
An ETF is a tracking vehicle and doesn’t own the gold. The gold is not bought outright by GLD but is instead borrowed. The holder of an GLD share has no claim on the borrowed gold and therefore does not own anything tangible. Thus all he holds is a piece of paper with no underlying security in the form of gold in case of insolvency. The gold is borrowed or leased from a central bank and not bought with clear title. So a shareholder in GLD is just a holder of a piece of paper that doesn’t entitle him to physical gold. A paper claim on gold is very different from owning real physical gold. The gold price could surge but the ETF could still go bankrupt
As I have often pointed out, when an ETF like GLD buys gold, it doesn’t come from the Swiss refiners. Instead it comes from the bullion banks who borrows the gold from a central bank. The GLD ETF has an official audit with bar lists and numbers. But since central banks never publish a full physical audit, there is no way of knowing if the same gold has been rehypothecated several times by the central bank.
So firstly the GLD doesn’t own the gold and secondly the gold that it doesn’t own might have been lent multiple times by central banks.
GLD IS SUBJECT TO MULTIPLE COUNTERPARTY RISK
One of the major advantages with owning physical gold is that it is the only asset which is not someone else’s liability. But buying a gold ETF like GLD involves multiple counterparty risk with no ownership of the underlying metal.
Investors in GLD buy shares in the fund’s trustee, SPDR Gold Trust. The custodian, HSBC sources and stores the gold for the Trust. This obviously makes HSBC a major counterparty risk.
But HSBC also uses sub-custodians, other bullion banks and even the Bank of England to source and store the gold. This means that investors have multiple sub-custodian risk.
There are no contractual agreements between the Trustee and the sub-custodians or the custodian. This means that the ability of the trustees or the custodian to take legal action against the sub-custodians is limited. The Trustee is not insured. That is left to the custodians. Gold held in the Trust’s unallocated gold account is not segregated from the custodian’s assets. If a custodian becomes insolvent, its asset may not be adequate to satisfy the claim of the trust.
GLD INVESTORS DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY HOLDING
The above relatively detailed explanation how a gold ETF like GLD functions is intended to enlighten the investors of $82 billion in GLD what they are actually holding.
For wealth preservation investors, GLD doesn’t satisfy any of the criteria of holding a reserve asset like gold totally risk free.
The main problems with buying gold through GLD, as outlined above, are the following:
It is a paper security held within the financial system
It has multiple counterparty risk
The gold holding are not segregated from custodians’ assets
It owns no gold directly
The gold is stored within the banking system
The gold held is probably rehypothecated
The gold is not fully insured
Investors have no access to their gold
Thus holding gold through GLD is no better than holding gold futures. For wealth preservation purposes, gold must be held outside the banking system in the safest private vaults in the world. The gold must be controlled directly by the investor with direct access to his gold in the vault. No other party must be allowed to touch his gold without his authorisation.
The gold must be held in the safest jurisdictions like Switzerland and possibly Singapore.
For major investors above $ 5 million we offer the largest private gold vault in the world in the Swiss Alps. It is also the safest gold vault in the world with a security level which doesn’t exist anywhere else. The vault is nuclear bomb proof, earthquake proof and gas attack proof. We also have vaults for investors below $5 million.
This video clip gives an idea of the mountain vault but obviously doesn’t reveal any of the major security aspects.
What it does show is how major investors must store their gold rather than holding it in extremely unsafe form like GLD. Holding physical gold in this mountain vault costs about the same as GLD and is fully insured. Buying and selling is instantaneous. Investors have full access.
Holding physical gold as described above is far superior to any gold ETF with none of the negatives. It is really surprising that major gold investors can even consider an inferior method like a gold ETF.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Flooding in China’s Sichuan to dump more water on Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is likely to see its fourth flood this year , as torrential rain has ravaged the @ @ @ @ @ River in Sichuan Province this week .
Flooding from heavy rain , which began hammering @ @ @ @ @ 10 ) , has cut off five expressways , five toll stations , and 12 @ @ @ @ @ About 100,000 people have been affected by flooding in 14 rivers across the province thus @ @ @ @ @ Changjiang Hydrology website , the water level in the upper and middle reaches of the @ @ @ @ @ , and the water depth in Chongqing ’ s Cuntan and Wulong districts , the @ @ @ @ @ Jinzhou ’ s Shashi District have all exceeded the warning level .
China ’ s @ @ @ @ @ waves of floods in July , and officials fear that the latest bout of rains @ @ @ @ @ , forcing authorities to open the sluicegates and flood communities downstream for the fourth time @ @ @

The Three Gorges Dam is likely to see its fourth flood this year, as torrential rain has ravaged the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Sichuan Province this week.
Flooding from heavy rain, which began hammering Sichuan on Monday (Aug. 10), has cut off five expressways, five toll stations, and 12 national and provincial roads. About 100,000 people have been affected by flooding in 14 rivers across the province thus far.
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According to the Changjiang Hydrology website, the water level in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River has risen again, and the water depth in Chongqing’s Cuntan and Wulong districts, the city of Yichang, and Jinzhou’s Shashi District have all exceeded the warning level. China’s Three Gorges Dam suffered three waves of floods in July, and officials fear that the latest bout of rains will swell its reservoir again, forcing authorities to open the sluicegates and flood communities downstream for the fourth time this year.
www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3986497


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--A Greener Future Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Giving Up On Oil

No matter how you slice it , it ’ s clear that we are heading into a new and unprecedented era for energy .
The novel coronavirus has shaken up the global energy sector in previously unimaginable ways .
At the beginning of this year , who could have predicted in just four months the West Texas Intermediate crude benchmark would plunge into unprecedented negative territory , that Halliburton would leave the shale shale sector for dead , and that nations around the world would be scrambling to design stimulus packages that will define the future trajectory of the ways @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunity to redefine the future of the energy sector has not gone unnoticed by pundits , world leaders , or the private sector .
The World Economic Forum has loudly advocated for a “ new energy order ” and a “ great reset.
” International agencies such as the United Nations , the International Energy Agency , and the European Union , are all either currently considering or actively drafting green stimulus plans .
One notable exception , however , is the United States , which has been slow to follow the green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a major economic opportunity , and earning the scorn of a number of blue chip companies , around 30 of which petitioned the U.S. Congress to reconsider and develop a stimulus package rooted in green energy .
Now that “ Big Oil ’ s Most Profitable Business Is No Longer Oil , ” leaning into the global green energy transition makes a lot of economic sense .
But in the United States , it ’ s going to require a huge sea change and governmental mobilization as sweeping as Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy in time to prevent catastrophic climate change .
But it can–and should–be done .
PV Tech recently reported that there is “ a raft of new studies ” which has “ come to underscore the business case of pushing renewables to the heart of the COVID-19 recovery , amid claims green energy plays offer a low-cost , high-return opportunity for investors.
” And just last week , “ physicist , engineer , researcher , inventor , serial entrepreneur , and MacArthur ‘ genius ’ grant winner ” Saul Griffith ’ s organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a jobs report showing that rapid decarbonization through electrification would create 15 million to 20 million jobs in the next decade , with 5 million permanent jobs after that.
” Related : Big Oil Forced To Change Strategy After The Oil Price Crash While it remains to be seen whether leadership in the U.S. will see the writing on the wall in terms of the economic necessity of a green energy transition , many other governments and much of the private sector isn ’ t wasting any time .
“ Global investment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first half of 2020 .
More new wind farms were approved at the height of the pandemic than during all last year , ” reports Greentech Media .
“ Some of these offshore projects include battery storage or hydrogen .
Some of them include floating solar panels .
Is this what the future of projects looks like for oil and gas majors ?
” According to some experts , the future of energy doesn ’ t just lie in renewables , it lies in a “ super-hybrid ” approach to renewables .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ energy giants have entered a sort of race for their slice of the green hydrogen pie .
And in this market , “ super-hybrid ” renewable production makes a lot of sense .
Hydrogen holds great promise as a clean fuel source that burns leaving nothing but water vapor in its wake .
But hydrogen ’ s carbon neutrality is in vain if that hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels , creating what ’ s known as “ gray hydrogen.
” To truly decarbonize the global economy , the entire life cycle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all stages of production need to be green .
In short , we need to innovate .
And so far , it looks like these super hybrids are winning the race to the top of a new era for oil majors .

By Haley Zaremba
No matter how you slice it, it’s clear that we are heading into a new and unprecedented era for energy. The novel coronavirus has shaken up the global energy sector in previously unimaginable ways. At the beginning of this year, who could have predicted in just four months the West Texas Intermediate crude benchmark would plunge into unprecedented negative territory, that Halliburton would leave the shale shale sector for dead, and that nations around the world would be scrambling to design stimulus packages that will define the future trajectory of the ways we power our planet?
This rare opportunity to redefine the future of the energy sector has not gone unnoticed by pundits, world leaders, or the private sector. The World Economic Forum has loudly advocated for a “new energy order” and a “great reset.” International agencies such as the United Nations, the International Energy Agency, and the European Union, are all either currently considering or actively drafting green stimulus plans. One notable exception, however, is the United States, which has been slow to follow the green stimulus trend, potentially missing out on a major economic opportunity, and earning the scorn of a number of blue chip companies, around 30 of which petitioned the U.S. Congress to reconsider and develop a stimulus package rooted in green energy.
Now that “Big Oil’s Most Profitable Business Is No Longer Oil,” leaning into the global green energy transition makes a lot of economic sense. But in the United States, it’s going to require a huge sea change and governmental mobilization as sweeping as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal to decarbonize the domestic economy in time to prevent catastrophic climate change. But it can–and should–be done. PV Tech recently reported that there is “a raft of new studies” which has “come to underscore the business case of pushing renewables to the heart of the COVID-19 recovery, amid claims green energy plays offer a low-cost, high-return opportunity for investors.” And just last week, “physicist, engineer, researcher, inventor, serial entrepreneur, and MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winner” Saul Griffith’s organization Rewiring America “made its big debut with a jobs report showing that rapid decarbonization through electrification would create 15 million to 20 million jobs in the next decade, with 5 million permanent jobs after that.”Related: Big Oil Forced To Change Strategy After The Oil Price Crash
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While it remains to be seen whether leadership in the U.S. will see the writing on the wall in terms of the economic necessity of a green energy transition, many other governments and much of the private sector isn’t wasting any time. “Global investment in offshore wind more than quadrupled in the first half of 2020. More new wind farms were approved at the height of the pandemic than during all last year,” reports Greentech Media. “Some of these offshore projects include battery storage or hydrogen. Some of them include floating solar panels. Is this what the future of projects looks like for oil and gas majors?” According to some experts, the future of energy doesn’t just lie in renewables, it lies in a “super-hybrid” approach to renewables.
Over recent years and months, global energy giants have entered a sort of race for their slice of the green hydrogen pie. And in this market, “super-hybrid” renewable production makes a lot of sense. Hydrogen holds great promise as a clean fuel source that burns leaving nothing but water vapor in its wake. But hydrogen’s carbon neutrality is in vain if that hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels, creating what’s known as “gray hydrogen.” To truly decarbonize the global economy, the entire life cycle of energy has to be assessed, and all stages of production need to be green. In short, we need to innovate. And so far, it looks like these super hybrids are winning the race to the top of a new era for oil majors.
By Haley Zaremba for Oilprice.com


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--NIGEL FARAGE – Has Law & Order Broken Down in UK

I believe law and order will be the next big issue in our country .
You won ’ t believe @ @ @ @ @ small seaside town in England .
I went to investigate… Active Patriot and fellow patriots @ @ @ @ @ Public Car Park in Dover .

I believe law and order will be the next big issue in our country. You won’t believe what took place in this small seaside town in England. I went to investigate…
Meanwhile…
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Active Patriot and fellow patriots being locked out of the Public Car Park in Dover.
AC


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Stein Mart files for bankruptcy and plans to close most, if not all, of its stores

• The off-price retailer Stein Mart has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to shutter most of its stores .
• Stein Mart operates 281 stores across 30 states in the U.S. , according to its website .
• More than 40 retailers have filed for bankruptcy so far this year , according to a tracking by S & P Global Market Intelligence .
The off-price chain Stein Mart announced Wednesday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to permanently close most , if not all , of its stores , adding to the turmoil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hammered by the coronavirus pandemic .
The Jacksonville , Florida-based company said in a press release that it has already launched a liquidation process to kick off going-out-of-business sales .
It said it is evaluating alternatives , including the potential sale of its e-commerce operations and intellectual property .
“ The combined effects of a challenging retail environment coupled with the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic have caused significant financial distress on our business , ” Chief Executive Hunt Hawkins said in a statement .
“ The Company lacks sufficient liquidity to continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Stein Mart shares , which are priced under $ 1 , sank 35 % in afternoon trading Wednesday .
The company has a market cap of $ 9.1 million .
Its stock has tumbled more than 70 % this year .
Stein Mart operates 281 stores across 30 states in the U.S. , according to its website .

The off-price retailer Stein Mart has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to shutter most of its stores.
Stein Mart operates 281 stores across 30 states in the U.S., according to its website.
More than 40 retailers have filed for bankruptcy so far this year, according to a tracking by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The off-price chain Stein Mart announced Wednesday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to permanently close most, if not all, of its stores, adding to the turmoil in a retail industry that has been hammered by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based company said in a press release that it has already launched a liquidation process to kick off going-out-of-business sales. It said it is evaluating alternatives, including the potential sale of its e-commerce operations and intellectual property.
“The combined effects of a challenging retail environment coupled with the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic have caused significant financial distress on our business,” Chief Executive Hunt Hawkins said in a statement. “The Company lacks sufficient liquidity to continue operating in the ordinary course of business.”
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Stein Mart shares, which are priced under $1, sank 35% in afternoon trading Wednesday. The company has a market cap of $9.1 million. Its stock has tumbled more than 70% this year.
Stein Mart operates 281 stores across 30 states in the U.S., according to its website.
www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/stein-mart-files-for-bankruptcy-plans-to-close-most-stores-for-good.html


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Gary Wagner: Why did the gold price crash, and how long will the correction last?

Gold prices saw their worst daily drop since 2013 on Tuesday .
This sharp pullback was due to profit taking @ @ @ @ @ the long-term bullish picture , said Gary Wagner , editor of TheGoldForecast.com .
“ Personally @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s the end of a bull rally .
We have entered some sort @ @ @ @ @ question I ’ m asking myself and the technical studies I ’ m looking at @ @ @ @ @ or not this will be a shallow or short correction , or an extended correction @ @ @ @ @ News Wednesday .

Kitco News, Released on 8/12/20
Gold prices saw their worst daily drop since 2013 on Tuesday. This sharp pullback was due to profit taking and did not detract from the long-term bullish picture, said Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com.
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“Personally, I do not believe it’s the end of a bull rally. We have entered some sort of a correction. The question I’m asking myself and the technical studies I’m looking at for the answers is whether or not this will be a shallow or short correction, or an extended correction,” Wagner told Kitco News Wednesday.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Why Is Silver & Gold CRASHING Again? – Something BIG Is Happening!

by Josh Sigurdson with Tim Picciott via World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott , The Liberty Advisor about the latest collapse in silver and gold prices as we see obvious signs of massive market manipulation as per usual .
While the future looks great for silver and gold , the price of silver and gold is falling substantially following near record highs over the past months .
From one perspective this seems absolutely healthy for the market considering its rallies , but on the other end , this appears to be a massively manipulated correction likely caused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something they ’ ve been known to do for quite some time .
In fact , many of the big banks have already been caught red-handed and charged in court for spoofing gold and silver markets , trying to turn a wealth insurance into an investment for the sole purpose of making money fast off of the ETFs and other stocks .
As the Federal Reserve pumps incredible amounts of currency into the stock market trying to keep the bubble afloat , long term people will choose that which insures their wealth .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @

by Josh Sigurdson with Tim Picciott via World Alternative Media
Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the latest collapse in silver and gold prices as we see obvious signs of massive market manipulation as per usual.
While the future looks great for silver and gold, the price of silver and gold is falling substantially following near record highs over the past months. From one perspective this seems absolutely healthy for the market considering its rallies, but on the other end, this appears to be a massively manipulated correction likely caused by major banks spoofing the markets, something they’ve been known to do for quite some time.
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In fact, many of the big banks have already been caught red-handed and charged in court for spoofing gold and silver markets, trying to turn a wealth insurance into an investment for the sole purpose of making money fast off of the ETFs and other stocks.
As the Federal Reserve pumps incredible amounts of currency into the stock market trying to keep the bubble afloat, long term people will choose that which insures their wealth.
Stay tuned for more from WAM!


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--NEW ZEALAND INTRODUCES QUARANTINE CAMPS

NEW ZEALAND INTRODUCES QUARANTINE CAMPS

`` mandatory quarantine will apply to both new cases and , if necessary , close family members who might be @ @ @ @ @ forced removal from your home if you do not comply How do you expose a @ @ @ @ @ like one .

"mandatory quarantine will apply to both new cases and, if necessary, close family members who might be at risk." …with forced removal from your home if you do not comply
How do you expose a dictator, make them act like one.
— reddpill (@_reddpill) August 13, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--BRACE FOR THE WORST ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY

This time , it literally won ’ t matter who wins , loses , is selected , or elected .
The elitists have already made it clear this election will be a contested one that will seal the division they seek in order to conquer us all .
Now they are mixing in a potential world war narrative that should alert everyone that it ’ s all set up .
Back in April , journalist Caitlin Johnstone began alerting the public to the plans for this “ election.
” She said , “ China ’ s gon na be so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the November election.
” Now , three months ahead of schedule China is already getting its surprise , alongside Iran and Russia .
We have also been attempting to warn the public that this election is going to be one that will play us like fiddles .
And yet , Americans , rather than stand up for real rights , liberty , and justice , will go vote in November , in an election that ’ s already been decided to they feel like they did their duty the ruling class told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have already modeled this election , months before it will happen , just like they did with Event 201 for the coronavirus scamdemic .
What this completely unsubstantiated narrative means , of course , is that no matter who wins in November America ’ s opaque government agencies will have already primed the nation for more dangerous escalations against countries which have resisted being absorbed into the blob of the US-centralized empire .
If Trump wins we can expect his administration to continue its escalations against Russia in retaliation for its 2020 “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wins we can expect his cabinet of Obama administration holdovers to ramp up escalations against China in the same way while Joe mumbles to himself off to the side as his brain turns to chowder .
–Caitlin Johnstone Can you really not see what ’ s happening ?
They are setting up the voting pawns to react regardless of the outcome , with potential violence that could lead to civil war , or even worse , another world war by blaming other countries for the election results .
If you are easily triggered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To actually believe your vote matters is the height of delusion .
We don ’ t choose the president or any of the other political puppets .
The Federal Reserve does , and they are trying to take over the world right now .
To assume they will allow you a say in the matter when they know all they have to do is tell you to vote , is naive .
They have already decided which puppet will win the selection .
We are being played like a grand piano and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media uses this type of propaganda to control the narrative .
They do this for the central banks and political puppets because all of those entities understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world , and there is no amount of evil they won ’ t do to ensure that they continue to control the world .
The reason sociopaths are able to insert themselves so easily into positions of power and influence in human civilization is that highly manipulative people with no empathy quickly learn that society is dominated by narrative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not understand this .
This must change before we will be able to create a healthy world .
We all have to wake up to what has been done to us .
There ’ s no other option unless you want to be a slave for the foreseeable future .
The best way to prepare at this point in human history is to be aware that this is a war for your mind .
There are no amount of preps I could suggest if you choose to remain blind to the reality that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a spiritual and mental battle .
Prepare by exercising critical thinking , and you ’ ll soon be able to see through the facade .

by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan
This time, it literally won’t matter who wins, loses, is selected, or elected. The elitists have already made it clear this election will be a contested one that will seal the division they seek in order to conquer us all. Now they are mixing in a potential world war narrative that should alert everyone that it’s all set up.
Back in April, journalist Caitlin Johnstone began alerting the public to the plans for this “election.” She said, “China’s gonna be so surprised when it finds out it interfered in the November election.” Now, three months ahead of schedule China is already getting its surprise, alongside Iran and Russia.
U.S. intelligence agencies say China and Iran are working to sway voters against Trump while Russia is working against Biden t.co/enFRpMEBkr — Bloomberg (@business) August 7, 2020
We have also been attempting to warn the public that this election is going to be one that will play us like fiddles. And yet, Americans, rather than stand up for real rights, liberty, and justice, will go vote in November, in an election that’s already been decided to they feel like they did their duty the ruling class told them they had to fulfill. They have already modeled this election, months before it will happen, just like they did with Event 201 for the coronavirus scamdemic.
Another Secret Model: A Contested 2020 Election
What this completely unsubstantiated narrative means, of course, is that no matter who wins in November America’s opaque government agencies will have already primed the nation for more dangerous escalations against countries which have resisted being absorbed into the blob of the US-centralized empire. If Trump wins we can expect his administration to continue its escalations against Russia in retaliation for its 2020 “election interference,” and if Biden wins we can expect his cabinet of Obama administration holdovers to ramp up escalations against China in the same way while Joe mumbles to himself off to the side as his brain turns to chowder. –Caitlin Johnstone
Can you really not see what’s happening? They are setting up the voting pawns to react regardless of the outcome, with potential violence that could lead to civil war, or even worse, another world war by blaming other countries for the election results. If you are easily triggered by political truths, stop reading here.
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The dumbest thing about believing foreign nations are interfering in American democracy is believing America has any democracy to interfere with. The integrity of US elections ranks dead last among all western democracies, public opinion is constantly manipulated by the media-owning plutocratic class which has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo which keeps them rich and powerful, and it’s a two-headed one-party system where both corporate-owned parties advance the same establishment agendas. –Caitlin Johnstone
To actually believe your vote matters is the height of delusion. We don’t choose the president or any of the other political puppets. The Federal Reserve does, and they are trying to take over the world right now. To assume they will allow you a say in the matter when they know all they have to do is tell you to vote, is naive. They have already decided which puppet will win the selection.
We are being played like a grand piano and most have no idea.
The mainstream media uses this type of propaganda to control the narrative. They do this for the central banks and political puppets because all of those entities understand that whoever controls the narrative controls the world, and there is no amount of evil they won’t do to ensure that they continue to control the world.
The reason sociopaths are able to insert themselves so easily into positions of power and influence in human civilization is that highly manipulative people with no empathy quickly learn that society is dominated by narrative, while the rest of us do not understand this. This must change before we will be able to create a healthy world. We all have to wake up to what has been done to us. There’s no other option unless you want to be a slave for the foreseeable future.
The best way to prepare at this point in human history is to be aware that this is a war for your mind. There are no amount of preps I could suggest if you choose to remain blind to the reality that your perception is being altered. This is a spiritual and mental battle. Prepare by exercising critical thinking, and you’ll soon be able to see through the facade.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--OUCH: Sanders’ former press secretary: Let’s face it, the Harris pick is a disaster for progressives

OUCH: Sanders’ former press secretary: Let’s face it, the Harris pick is a disaster for progressives.

“ Just what exactly do progressives — especially those with antipathy to law enforcement — get from a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket ?
The media has spent much of the past thirty hours celebrating this union rather than analyzing it , but not everyone ’ s tossing confetti .
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These are not new concerns ; last year , back when the New York Times felt more comfortable in drilling into Harris ’ record , it laid out the issues in more detail.
” The best thing about a contested primary is that it ’ s basically the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ negative about leading Democrats .
Flashback : While Democrats get crazier , Tulsi Gabbard hits Kamala Harris criticism right on the nose .
As Gabbard pointed out , then California attorney general , Harris was responsible for putting “ over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
” Harris ’ office also blocked DNA evidence that could have freed a man who may be innocent .
And what ’ s more , as Gabbard said , “ She kept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use them as cheap labor for the state of California .
And she fought to keep ( the ) cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
” UPDATE : A friend on Facebook comments : “ As my conservative friends relish the ‘ unwinnable Biden/Harris ticket , ’ I ’ m reminded of when my liberal friends were celebrating the ‘ unwinnable Trump/Pence ticket.
’ The American voter can be ( and usually is ) a fairly contrary critter .
Taking them for granted is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wakeup call.
” Yep .
And they ’ ll have that famous five-to-fifteen point media wind at their back .
Don ’ t get cocky , kids .
Get out and work for it if you want to win .

via hotair:
“Just what exactly do progressives — especially those with antipathy to law enforcement — get from a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket? The media has spent much of the past thirty hours celebrating this union rather than analyzing it, but not everyone’s tossing confetti. . . . These are not new concerns; last year, back when the New York Times felt more comfortable in drilling into Harris’ record, it laid out the issues in more detail.”
The best thing about a contested primary is that it’s basically the only time the press will report anything negative about leading Democrats.
Related:
Remember when @TulsiGabbard reminded Kamala Harris of her terrible record of locking up thousands of young minorities, of being an overzealous drug warrior and of her record as a harsh prosecutor? I do. t.co/xhLfBqxGGs — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 11, 2020
Flashback: While Democrats get crazier, Tulsi Gabbard hits Kamala Harris criticism right on the nose.
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As Gabbard pointed out, then California attorney general, Harris was responsible for putting “over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” Harris’ office also blocked DNA evidence that could have freed a man who may be innocent. And what’s more, as Gabbard said, “She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep (the) cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”
Related: Kamala Harris: Introducing a faked confession isn’t outrageous prosecutorial misconduct.
UPDATE: A friend on Facebook comments: “As my conservative friends relish the ‘unwinnable Biden/Harris ticket,’ I’m reminded of when my liberal friends were celebrating the ‘unwinnable Trump/Pence ticket.’ The American voter can be (and usually is) a fairly contrary critter. Taking them for granted is a quick way to get a November wakeup call.”
Yep. And they’ll have that famous five-to-fifteen point media wind at their back. Don’t get cocky, kids. Get out and work for it if you want to win.
h/t Glenn


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Lockdown Restrictions Are A Test To See How Much Tyranny Americans Will Accept

The pandemic lockdowns are a complicated issue , and that is absolutely deliberate .
The point of 4th Generation psychological warfare is to present the target individual or population with a hard choice – a no-win scenario .
You are damned if you do and damned if you don ’ t .
I often equate this to the key moves in a difficult chess game ; your primary goal is to create a dual threat and force your opponent to sacrifice one piece over another in order to escape with the least amount of damage .
Do this a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ game .
There are multiple aspects to the global pandemic which seem engineered to push our society to make “ sacrificial decisions ” .
We can choose to sacrifice the lives of those that are susceptible to the virus , sacrifice our economy , or sacrifice many of our freedoms with the promise that the economy and lives will be protected .
The easiest choice is always to give away a little more freedom .
We ’ ll get it all back eventually…right ?
Of course , we don ’ t actually get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ play along with this game .
4th Gen warfare is meant to eventually take IT ALL from the target population while making people think it was their choice to give those things away .
To be clear , it ’ s not only the pandemic being exploited as leverage to conjure these situations .
The leftist riots are another example of a bought and paid for crisis that is being used in an attempt to convince half of Americans that breaking constitutional principles and instituting unprecedented government power is somehow an acceptable sacrifice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work hand-in-hand ; one is created to get leftists to demand totalitarianism in the name of public safety , the other is created to get conservatives to demand totalitarianism in the name of public safety .
The solution always ends up being totalitarian government .
There are those that would have you believe that this is the only way .
The new propaganda meme out there is : “ Silly libertarians live in a fantasy world where freedom is valued over security in times of crisis .
We don ’ t have the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ threaten to destroy the fabric of our society… ” Sound familiar ?
Yes , this nonsense narrative is everywhere on forums and message boards these days , almost as if someone was paying people to inject it into everyday discussion .
The problem is , I ’ ve seen this all before .
Right after the events of 9/11 , America went insane for at least a few years , hyperfocused on the threat of terrorists while ignoring the greater root danger of all powerful government .
The number of constitutional protections being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the terrorists ” was staggering , and the number of mostly conservative citizens cheering for this at the time was immense .
Today ’ s calls for overreaching government power in the name of “ beating coronavirus ” or “ beating the extreme left ” are no different .
In the wake of widespread fear , people suffer from fits of temporary madness that allows them rationalize moral relativism and unnecessary sacrifices .
I ’ ve never really understood that aspect of behavior among certain groups .
I ’ ve never been so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was willing to hand over anything including my freedom and my future on the mere chance that I could stay alive just a little longer .
But for some , that fear dominates their every waking moment .
To me , this would be a torturous and empty existence .
What do these people have to live for anyway ?
Obviously they don ’ t care about their children because they are willing to give away their children ’ s future just so they can feel safer today .
Do they have some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of humanity and they feel they must do anything to survive long enough to make it happen ?
Are they working on the cure for cancer or a path to world peace ?
I doubt it .
More likely they work in an office building or a McDonalds or teach kindergarten at a public school .
They aren ’ t contributing all that much , but they are perfectly willing to trade their freedom and everyone ’ s freedom for a little more time on this Earth .
I ’ ve seen 85-year-old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a walker raging about people who “ don ’ t wear masks ” and how they should be “ thrown in jail ” .
Buddy , you have lived your life fully .
You had your fun .
Yet , you are still clinging so desperately to existence that you are demanding the draconian destruction of our society ’ s core principles just so you can eek out a couple more years of grumbling in misery and eating soft foods ?
I ’ m not saying I contribute much more in comparison @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in controlling the destinies of other people .
I ’ m just trying to live my life as free as possible while helping to ensure others can do the same .
And if I die from a virus , then I die , but at least I never aided in the enslavement of future generations .
There are plenty of Americans of all ages that feel the same way as I do ; but there are many others that seem to be missing that ability to control their fear .
The question I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when it comes to the pandemic is this – Is it really all worth it ?
Is it worth it to shut down large swaths of the US economy , threatening millions of jobs , sending millions of people into poverty , risking speedy financial collapse and degrading our fundamental freedoms just to save .03 % of the population ?
What if it was 1 % of the population ?
Would it be worth it then ?
What about 3 % ?
The reality is , it ’ s NEVER worth it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reserve , Neel Kashkari , argued that the US needs renewed hard lockdowns , meaning most Americans stay stuck at home for at least 6 weeks with little access to the economy .
His rationale ?
The US savings rate has spiked , therefore more Americans are saving , therefore they can financially handle another lockdown .
Now , either Kashkari is very stupid or very evil .
I ’ m going to go with evil .
This is just more proof that supports my position that the Fed is a suicide bomber @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the name of an ideological cult ( globalism ) .
First , the savings rate does not necessarily represent the majority of Americans .
The savings rate can increase dramatically due to a small subsection of the population , such as the upper middle class or the 1 % , setting large amounts of money aside , yet the statistics treat this as if it represents the whole population .
The Personal Savings Rate also includes stocks and bonds as “ savings ” , which helps to skew the numbers as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans added to the unemployment rolls after the last lockdown , how can we take the recent increase in the savings rate seriously ?
How many average middle class or poverty stricken Americans are included in that stat ?
Thirdly , even if the Fed stat was accurate and most Americans were saving more , how is this an excuse to enforce even harsher lockdowns ?
People generally save in order to prepare for the worst case scenario .
So , because they are saving for the worst case scenario , Kashkari wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenario , thereby wiping out their savings ?
Again , he ’ s either stupid or evil ; take your pick .
All no-win scenarios are constructed on lies and false narratives .
They require you to believe certain fallacies before you can feel trapped by the decision that is imposed on you .
Kashkari will claim that his strategy will be better for the country in the long run , but he knows full well that the economy was crashing well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the crash by addicting the system to easy debt through stimulus measures and low interest rates , then they took away the punch bowl triggering a bubble implosion , and now they are the world with punch until everyone drowns in the inflation .
The US economy was broken even without the pandemic lockdowns so there is no point in giving up your freedom or economic access to save the system .
Another lie is that we can somehow avoid or escape the virus .
Eventually , almost everyone is going to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter of time .
Hope that a working vaccine can be developed in less than a year is deluded , and given the terrible results of previous attempts by governments to rush vaccines into production , I think I would rather take my chances with Covid .
Even medical tyrant Dr. Fauci himself admits that a vaccine will not be fully effective and that the virus may be around for many years to come .
So , why are we beating around the bush ?
Why are we shutting down the economy ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedoms ?
Who are we saving ?
No one .
The people that are going to die from coronavirus are going to die from it sooner or later .
If we are going to get into a discussion on the so-called “ greater good ” , then let ’ s really be logical about it .
The decision is not all that hard when you set aside the propaganda and think about it .
Dragging the pandemic out over years with lockdowns hurts the majority of people .
It expedites an economic crash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will lead to massive poverty levels in the US as well as a supply chain breakdown .
It may even lead to full-on collapse .
To be clear , I respect the private property rights of businesses that want customers to wear masks or take other precautions in their establishments .
I have the right to not shop at those businesses if I don ’ t like it .
The problems arise when government officials try to FORCE businesses to institute pandemic restrictions or to close down completely .
An even bigger problem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restrictions onto individuals in their everyday lives .
This is simply unacceptable .
Government edicts forcing people to social distance or wear masks or deny them the right to free assembly , once instituted , will probably never go away .
Once government has the power to dictate your movements and behavior as if your moment-by-moment decisions are a threat to “ public health ” , they have total power to do anything they wish .
Many of these orders are also being made at the executive level .
No state governor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right to unilaterally create laws and assert unchecked authority .
It is the job of legislatures to pass laws that affect the common public , and often these laws must be voted on by the citizenry through ballot initiatives .
The governor has no more power to force me to wear a mask than some lunatic leftist Karen on the street .
It ’ s not that I don ’ t care about the people that are susceptible to the virus , it ’ s just that I ’ m not willing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those people .
No , they aren ’ t worth it , and I include myself in that statement in the event that I am susceptible to the virus .
Why should over 99 % of people be treated like prisoners so less than 1 % of the population can feel safer ?
If you are really at risk then STAY HOME , shop online and let the rest of us get on with our lives .
I would never ask the majority of people to sacrifice their liberties for my personal comfort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

by Brandon Smith
The pandemic lockdowns are a complicated issue, and that is absolutely deliberate. The point of 4th Generation psychological warfare is to present the target individual or population with a hard choice – a no-win scenario. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I often equate this to the key moves in a difficult chess game; your primary goal is to create a dual threat and force your opponent to sacrifice one piece over another in order to escape with the least amount of damage. Do this a few times and you have won the long game.
There are multiple aspects to the global pandemic which seem engineered to push our society to make “sacrificial decisions”. We can choose to sacrifice the lives of those that are susceptible to the virus, sacrifice our economy, or sacrifice many of our freedoms with the promise that the economy and lives will be protected. The easiest choice is always to give away a little more freedom. We’ll get it all back eventually…right?
Of course, we don’t actually get to “choose” anything when we play along with this game. 4th Gen warfare is meant to eventually take IT ALL from the target population while making people think it was their choice to give those things away.
To be clear, it’s not only the pandemic being exploited as leverage to conjure these situations. The leftist riots are another example of a bought and paid for crisis that is being used in an attempt to convince half of Americans that breaking constitutional principles and instituting unprecedented government power is somehow an acceptable sacrifice. The riots and the virus response work hand-in-hand; one is created to get leftists to demand totalitarianism in the name of public safety, the other is created to get conservatives to demand totalitarianism in the name of public safety.
The solution always ends up being totalitarian government. There are those that would have you believe that this is the only way. The new propaganda meme out there is:
“Silly libertarians live in a fantasy world where freedom is valued over security in times of crisis. We don’t have the luxury of freedom when communist terrorists/deadly virus threaten to destroy the fabric of our society…”
Sound familiar? Yes, this nonsense narrative is everywhere on forums and message boards these days, almost as if someone was paying people to inject it into everyday discussion. The problem is, I’ve seen this all before. Right after the events of 9/11, America went insane for at least a few years, hyperfocused on the threat of terrorists while ignoring the greater root danger of all powerful government. The number of constitutional protections being violated in the name of “beating the terrorists” was staggering, and the number of mostly conservative citizens cheering for this at the time was immense.
Today’s calls for overreaching government power in the name of “beating coronavirus” or “beating the extreme left” are no different. In the wake of widespread fear, people suffer from fits of temporary madness that allows them rationalize moral relativism and unnecessary sacrifices.
I’ve never really understood that aspect of behavior among certain groups. I’ve never been so fearful of losing my life that I was willing to hand over anything including my freedom and my future on the mere chance that I could stay alive just a little longer. But for some, that fear dominates their every waking moment.
To me, this would be a torturous and empty existence. What do these people have to live for anyway? Obviously they don’t care about their children because they are willing to give away their children’s future just so they can feel safer today. Do they have some kind of epic contribution for the good of humanity and they feel they must do anything to survive long enough to make it happen? Are they working on the cure for cancer or a path to world peace? I doubt it.
More likely they work in an office building or a McDonalds or teach kindergarten at a public school. They aren’t contributing all that much, but they are perfectly willing to trade their freedom and everyone’s freedom for a little more time on this Earth. I’ve seen 85-year-old men that can’t move around without a walker raging about people who “don’t wear masks” and how they should be “thrown in jail”.
Buddy, you have lived your life fully. You had your fun. Yet, you are still clinging so desperately to existence that you are demanding the draconian destruction of our society’s core principles just so you can eek out a couple more years of grumbling in misery and eating soft foods?
I’m not saying I contribute much more in comparison, but I also have no interest in controlling the destinies of other people. I’m just trying to live my life as free as possible while helping to ensure others can do the same. And if I die from a virus, then I die, but at least I never aided in the enslavement of future generations. There are plenty of Americans of all ages that feel the same way as I do; but there are many others that seem to be missing that ability to control their fear.
The question I almost never see asked in the mainstream when it comes to the pandemic is this – Is it really all worth it?
Is it worth it to shut down large swaths of the US economy, threatening millions of jobs, sending millions of people into poverty, risking speedy financial collapse and degrading our fundamental freedoms just to save .03% of the population? What if it was 1% of the population? Would it be worth it then? What about 3%?
The reality is, it’s NEVER worth it.
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Recently a voting member of the Federal Reserve, Neel Kashkari, argued that the US needs renewed hard lockdowns, meaning most Americans stay stuck at home for at least 6 weeks with little access to the economy. His rationale? The US savings rate has spiked, therefore more Americans are saving, therefore they can financially handle another lockdown.
Now, either Kashkari is very stupid or very evil. I’m going to go with evil. This is just more proof that supports my position that the Fed is a suicide bomber seeking the deliberate destruction of the US in the name of an ideological cult (globalism).
First, the savings rate does not necessarily represent the majority of Americans. The savings rate can increase dramatically due to a small subsection of the population, such as the upper middle class or the 1%, setting large amounts of money aside, yet the statistics treat this as if it represents the whole population. The Personal Savings Rate also includes stocks and bonds as “savings”, which helps to skew the numbers as well.
Secondly, with 30 million more Americans added to the unemployment rolls after the last lockdown, how can we take the recent increase in the savings rate seriously? How many average middle class or poverty stricken Americans are included in that stat?
Thirdly, even if the Fed stat was accurate and most Americans were saving more, how is this an excuse to enforce even harsher lockdowns? People generally save in order to prepare for the worst case scenario. So, because they are saving for the worst case scenario, Kashkari wants to punish them with the worst case scenario, thereby wiping out their savings? Again, he’s either stupid or evil; take your pick.
All no-win scenarios are constructed on lies and false narratives. They require you to believe certain fallacies before you can feel trapped by the decision that is imposed on you.
Kashkari will claim that his strategy will be better for the country in the long run, but he knows full well that the economy was crashing well before the coronavirus arrived on the scene. In fact, the Federal Reserve built the framework for the crash by addicting the system to easy debt through stimulus measures and low interest rates, then they took away the punch bowl triggering a bubble implosion, and now they are the world with punch until everyone drowns in the inflation.
The US economy was broken even without the pandemic lockdowns so there is no point in giving up your freedom or economic access to save the system.
Another lie is that we can somehow avoid or escape the virus. Eventually, almost everyone is going to get it, it’s just a matter of time. Hope that a working vaccine can be developed in less than a year is deluded, and given the terrible results of previous attempts by governments to rush vaccines into production, I think I would rather take my chances with Covid. Even medical tyrant Dr. Fauci himself admits that a vaccine will not be fully effective and that the virus may be around for many years to come.
So, why are we beating around the bush? Why are we shutting down the economy? Why are we giving up our everyday freedoms? Who are we saving? No one. The people that are going to die from coronavirus are going to die from it sooner or later. If we are going to get into a discussion on the so-called “greater good”, then let’s really be logical about it. The decision is not all that hard when you set aside the propaganda and think about it.
Dragging the pandemic out over years with lockdowns hurts the majority of people. It expedites an economic crash that was already in motion and it will lead to massive poverty levels in the US as well as a supply chain breakdown. It may even lead to full-on collapse.
To be clear, I respect the private property rights of businesses that want customers to wear masks or take other precautions in their establishments. I have the right to not shop at those businesses if I don’t like it. The problems arise when government officials try to FORCE businesses to institute pandemic restrictions or to close down completely. An even bigger problem arises when governments try to force pandemic restrictions onto individuals in their everyday lives. This is simply unacceptable.
Government edicts forcing people to social distance or wear masks or deny them the right to free assembly, once instituted, will probably never go away. Once government has the power to dictate your movements and behavior as if your moment-by-moment decisions are a threat to “public health”, they have total power to do anything they wish.
Many of these orders are also being made at the executive level. No state governor, no mayor, no president has the right to unilaterally create laws and assert unchecked authority. It is the job of legislatures to pass laws that affect the common public, and often these laws must be voted on by the citizenry through ballot initiatives. The governor has no more power to force me to wear a mask than some lunatic leftist Karen on the street.
It’s not that I don’t care about the people that are susceptible to the virus, it’s just that I’m not willing to play a rigged game of sacrifice for those people. No, they aren’t worth it, and I include myself in that statement in the event that I am susceptible to the virus. Why should over 99% of people be treated like prisoners so less than 1% of the population can feel safer? If you are really at risk then STAY HOME, shop online and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
I would never ask the majority of people to sacrifice their liberties for my personal comfort. Anyone who does is a coward.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--SETI Observatory Wrecked After Cable Mysteriously Breaks – Recently received $19M to find asteroids

There is a kick-ass conspiracy in this story somewhere .
A broken cable at Puerto Rico ’ s Arecibo Observatory @ @ @ @ @ hole in the dish of one of the largest radio telescopes in the world , @ @ @ @ @ repairs can be made .
Arecibo ’ s massive reflector dish , which is built @ @ @ @ @ northern Puerto Rico , was damaged when a 3″ diameter support cable unexpectedly snapped before @ @ @ @ @ to the University of Central Florida , which manages the observatory .
August 25 , @ @ @ @ @ 19 Million NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids www.ucf.edu/news/arecibo-observatory-gets-19-million-nasa-grant-to-help-protect-earth-from-asteroids/ August 6 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ Storm Isaias Lockdown to Track Asteroid for NASA solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1421/arecibo-observatory-returns-from-tropical-storm-isaias-lockdown-to-track-asteroid-for-nasa/

There is a kick-ass conspiracy in this story somewhere.
A broken cable at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory has torn a gaping 100-foot hole in the dish of one of the largest radio telescopes in the world, taking the instrument offline until repairs can be made.
Arecibo’s massive reflector dish, which is built inside a sink hole in northern Puerto Rico, was damaged when a 3″ diameter support cable unexpectedly snapped before dawn on Monday, according to the University of Central Florida, which manages the observatory.
www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901920638/puerto-ricos-arecibo-radio-telescope-damaged-by-falling-cable
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August 25, 2019
Arecibo Observatory Gets $19 Million NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids
www.ucf.edu/news/arecibo-observatory-gets-19-million-nasa-grant-to-help-protect-earth-from-asteroids/
August 6, 2020
Arecibo Observatory Returns from Tropical Storm Isaias Lockdown to Track Asteroid for NASA
solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1421/arecibo-observatory-returns-from-tropical-storm-isaias-lockdown-to-track-asteroid-for-nasa/
h/t AggregateThreat


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Putin’s vaccine: 38 test subjects, 144 side effects

The article is in Russian : translate.google.com/translate ?
sl=ru & tl=en & u=https % 3A % 2F % 2Fwww.fontanka.ru % @ @ @ @ @ % 2F69416050 % 2F “ The protective caption is currently unknown .
The duration of @ @ @ @ @ No clinical studies have been conducted to study the epidemiological effectiveness , ” the report @ @ @ @ @ partly due to the fact that on the 42nd day from the start of vaccination @ @ @ @ @ virus with an average titer of 49.3 were detected in the blood serum of all @ @ @ @ @ the limiting dilution of serum at which antibodies can be detected .
The lower the @ @ @ @ @ ( international milliliter per milliliter ) , the less antibodies in the body .
The @ @ @ @ @ even reach the average level of antibodies .
As a rule , it becomes even @ @ @ @

The article is in Russian: translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fontanka.ru%2F2020%2F08%2F11%2F69416050%2F
Excerpt:
“The protective caption is currently unknown. The duration of the protection is unknown. No clinical studies have been conducted to study the epidemiological effectiveness, ”the report says.
This may be partly due to the fact that on the 42nd day from the start of vaccination, neutralizing antibodies to the virus with an average titer of 49.3 were detected in the blood serum of all volunteers.
The titer is the limiting dilution of serum at which antibodies can be detected. The lower the value of mIU / ml (international milliliter per milliliter), the less antibodies in the body. The value of 49.3 does not even reach the average level of antibodies. As a rule, it becomes even smaller over time.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--[The Street] Jim Cramer: “Don’t Own Uber Stock: This Is Death Knell”

A judge in California issued a preliminary injunction on Monday requiring Uber and Lyft to stop classifying their drivers as @ @ @ @ @ setting the stage for a major shift in their business models .
Judge Ethan Schulman @ @ @ @ @ granted a 10-day stay before the preliminary order takes effect .
If the order is @ @ @ @ @ could be required to reclassify drivers as employees eligible for certain benefits and protections , @ @ @ @ @ work for themselves .
Judge Schulman opined that Uber and Lyft use “ circular ” @ @ @ @ @ tech developers are employees , while their drivers are not .

www.thestreet.com/streetlightning/stock-picks/this-is-death-knell-for-uber-says-jim-cramer

A judge in California issued a preliminary injunction on Monday requiring Uber and Lyft to stop classifying their drivers as independent contractors, and potentially setting the stage for a major shift in their business models.
Judge Ethan Schulman of San Francisco Superior Court granted a 10-day stay before the preliminary order takes effect. If the order is upheld, Uber and Lyft could be required to reclassify drivers as employees eligible for certain benefits and protections, rather than as contractors who work for themselves.
Judge Schulman opined that Uber and Lyft use “circular” reasoning in arguing that their tech developers are employees, while their drivers are not.


investmentwatchblog--2020-08-13--Frank Holmes Calls $4,000 Gold on CNBC

Frank Holmes Calls $4,000 Gold on CNBC

Frank believes we are in a secular bull market and highlighted gold ’ s positive track record : “ Since @ @ @ @ @ has been up 80 percent of the time .
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Frank believes we are in a secular bull market and highlighted gold’s positive track record: “Since the year 2000, gold has been up 80 percent of the time.”
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