Gold Vs Fiat

The signs of inflation building up in the casedemic economy are now everywhere according to an IHS Markit report:

• "Inflationary pressures intensified as supplier delays and shortages pushed input prices higher."
  
  
• "The rate of input cost inflation was the fastest on record ... as soaring transportation and PPE costs were also noted."
  
  
• Amid stronger expansions in output and new orders, manufacturers experienced "significant supply chain delays, raw material shortages, and evidence of stockpiling at goods producers" that "pushed input prices up."

Yes, inflation is lurking in the shadows, and the government boys and girls don't want you to understand it is coming... and the mainstream media are not going to report it until it can't be ignored.

Partners in crime

Many things lie beneath the mystique of money besides greed and fear. Most Americans think of money in terms of dollars. This fact demonstrates the unbelievable power of propaganda over our thought processes.

Government(s) and their partners, the central banks, are involved in history's greatest fraud and deception. They are stealing and have stolen the wealth of the world with bank credit ("dollars") while forcing the deception upon the people that they work no longer to build real wealth, but to accumulate depreciating currency.

We "save" in depreciating currency. We buy life insurance in depreciating currency. And we leave our estates in depreciating currency.

Worth less

Did you know that in the progression of time, the U.S. currency is depreciating toward zero? The public is trained to accept this as "rising prices" or inflation, and rising wages. But it is more specifically depreciating paper money. The powers-that-shouldn't-be allow us to believe we "make more money" than we used to, but inflation means dollars are worth less, and so everything costs more to buy, and our purchasing power dwindles accordingly. However, they have learned through experimentation on us that it makes people feel good to have rising wages vs knowing their money has no value.

The entire world is now on this irredeemable currency standard characterized by inflation and resulting in competing devaluations. What that means is temporary advantage of one nation over another while all race toward bankruptcy. See the U.S. and China today.

It's the modern version of national and international suicide.

What comes with this? Wars and suppression of liberty. Are we not seeing this presently, and with great precision?

Gold allows no such monopoly of perception, and manipulation of value and credit by central banks. Gold is a natural creation extracted and fabricated by human production. It is not only long-term value, it is forever. It survives the deception and tyranny of political governments that always turn to dust.

As government dollars (credit) create immorality, gold supports morality and honesty. Gold is the substance of economic survival. It is the essence of privacy and the preservation of wealth.

The time will come again when we will think of gold in terms of value and money, not "dollars." This will be a move back toward the restriction of politicians and an expansion of and new birth of human liberty.

Governments hoard gold to stabilize their political and economic power. At the same time, they downplay gold to the people to destabilize their psyche and make them dependent on government credit which is being passed off as real money.

Gold stabilizes human emotions, dissipates fear of authority, and promotes individualism and human dignity. Government-created money (credit) destabilizes emotions, creates fear of unseen authority, creates political tyranny, and it expropriates the wealth of the people.

The critical point in awareness is reached when the people en masse realize that inflation is permanent. The result is that they quickly exchange cash for "things," as they did in Greece a few years ago. Greek businessmen exchanged their devalued and inaccessible currency for machinery and equipment, and people bought appliances and cars. Eventually, this results in economic breakdown and social chaos.

What do you 'know'?

There are many ways to extend the life of paper money. The foremost is by controlling information — a monopoly on what you "know." The monetary authorities suppress the price of gold as long as they can; they manipulate public perceptions with a fabricated consumer price index (CPI); they remove monetary indicators like M3; and they constantly talk about "managing inflation."

By now you have heard of the Federal Reserve's "2 percent goal" for inflation. And somehow, they seem to always come up with an official number right around their target. Curious? Not when they control the calculations and media reporting on the results of the calculations. And, yes, they constantly talk about the debt ceiling and limiting the national debt. All this is spurious nonsense, as anyone listening can hear the money printing presses roll in the background around the clock. Note that the government and its politicians never talk about the depreciation and loss of purchasing power of paper money. With the debasement of the currency goes the debasement of morality.

The U.S. Empire may indeed collapse into chaos sooner rather than later. If it does, that would be a good thing. We can go back to being "America" again. Even so, I suspect they know what we know — that collapsing currency finally creates crisis in spite of statist propaganda. Therefore, they must have contingency plans because their only purpose it to retain power at all costs.

The government reacts to its interpretation of public perceptions which are closely monitored, now very much more closely since "social media" has taken over everyone's waking consciousness. At some point, a segment of the population will become aware of the worthlessness of paper money and trigger an alert to the greater population. This foretells monetary crisis and social chaos. What will the government do? I would guess that the government will announce some sort of quasi gold standard which, at this point, will probably be fictional and it may or may not calm the people. If it does not bring calm, further action will be announced.

By this time, there will be many new population controls and perhaps some negative propaganda directed at "hoarders," gold owners, etc. We are already seeing people who are part of the liberty movement in this country hounded, oppressed, called "terrorists" and "enemies" who must be reprogrammed or exterminated. All is in preparation for this time of fake social crisis to cover up for the theft going on during the very real monetary crisis.

Precious metals

And guess what? At some point, the government will have a serious need for gold and silver to back a new currency. I don't think officials will announce that gold (the metal) will be used currently as money. Instead, a more likely event is to announce new currency with gold backing.

Silver money issued through 1964 will be used as emergency money because by that time we will probably be on plastic money since our current junk coins will have disappeared (according to Gresham's Law, which states that bad money runs good money out of circulation). Even now, this event is rearing its head. 

Even junk money has metal in it worth more than the exchange value. The little copper and nickel left in our coins, i.e., junk coins, are worth more as metal than money.

The government will need gold. Then, it may become known that there is no gold in Fort Knox.

What will the government do?

1. Confiscate gold in all bank deposit boxes and as much as it can get from individuals.

2. Nationalize all gold and silver mines.

3. Confiscate all exchange traded funds (ETFs); gold and silver. By that time, this will be a huge bag of gold and silver, and they are watching it. You don't think they will do it? Study history!

What are some options for you?

Currency is faith itself — a belief system. When you think of money or currency, you think of green paper, but 95 percent of "money" is computer symbols in bank computers. More specifically, your money is a pure psychological entity that evaporates as confidence fails.

Gold is substance. It is hard currency. It is the only hard currency.

Gold stands on its own.

If your pension or retirement fund is in the form of computer symbols in some bank, and it is, you might want to consider putting a percentage in gold coins to keep in your possession. It may turn out to be all you have. And brother, this is not fear hysteria when you understand how fast things can implode into financial disaster. ETFs may or may not hold gold. A bank may or may not give you access to your gold, and may let the government confiscate it from you. Keep your gold!

For gold to be all that we say it is, it needs to be in your possession. We don't mean in your "safe deposit box" at the bank, and we certainly don't mean in some "trust" account. It should be in your private safe with other valuable effects.

When obtaining gold, it is essential that you:

1. Obey all laws as far as possible.
   
   
2. At some point in time (you to be the judge), begin to sell mining stocks and buy more gold and silver coins. How will we know? Watch the propaganda and look for new controls.
   
   
3. You should already have food storage and barter items, as well as alternative power.
   
   
4. Educate those you care about as to the mechanics of survival. Not many will listen as long as they perceive no crisis.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

As economic fraud is exposed, the globalists are gonna need a bigger virus

 From Brandon Smith of the Bob Livingston Personal Liberty Alerts Letter

It is a general rule that corrupt economies tend to operate on faith and not on fundamentals. And to be clear, it's not so much about naive faith that the system is stable or functional. No, it's more about people having faith that the corruption and instability will never be exposed. Most people are not as stupid as the establishment and central bankers think they are — almost everyone knows the system is broken, they just refuse to consider the possibility that the fraud will fail, or that it will be allowed to fail.

In other words, the old mantra "too big to fail" is a lie. Nothing is too big to fail, and that includes the U.S. economy, the dollar and the elaborate Kabuki theater that keeps them both afloat. All it takes is a single moment, an epiphany that the Ponzi scheme is unsustainable rather than unstoppable.

I'm reminded specifically of the inflationary crisis of Argentina in 2001–2002.

Argentina's economy was highly dependent on foreign capital inflows, its currency peg to the U.S. dollar and they were precariously reliant on support from the IMF. The IMF openly supported the government of Argentina and their currency peg model, but foreign capital began to decline, and the peg became unsustainable. Without tangible growth in manufacturing and a strong middle class, an economy cannot survive for long. A top-down system based on illusory "financial products" and creative accounting is doomed to crash eventually.

All it took was for the IMF to criticize the policies they initially endorsed and funded and announced that they were removing financial aid, and all hell broke loose in Argentina.

Almost overnight, the Argentina peso plunged in value, interest rates spiked and inflation struck hard. People poured into the streets and civil unrest erupted. The IMF would later admit it made "errors" in its handling of the Argentina situation, but this was simply spin control designed to protect them from further scrutiny. The IMF avoided most of the blame and has been growing into a monstrous global centralization machine ever since.

I think we are witnessing the beginning of a similar end of mass faith in fraud in the U.S. The recent Robinhood short squeeze event as well as the current decoupling of physical silver prices from the paper ETF market have accelerated the timetable. Not surprisingly, these moves have forced the establishment to intervene to some extent to essentially stop traders from freely trading. Accusations are flying and deplatforming has ensued. The idea that the system is a functional fraud is gone; The world now knows it is a dysfunctional fraud, and collapse cannot be very far behind.

Furthermore, the collusion between banks, hedge funds and Big Tech is blatantly revealed. These relationships are supposed to remain hidden in the ether. They are obvious to anyone with any financial knowledge and sense, but they aren't supposed to be wielded in the open. Conspirators aren't supposed to admit to the conspiracy? Right?

Some people might say the establishment has been forced to unmask by activists. Maybe. But, as I have been warning for many years, when criminals start openly admitting to their crimes it is probably because they think that it is too late for anyone to do anything about it.

The point is bankers and globalists have ways of avoiding responsibility for the disasters they engineer. When the con-game breaks, they always have patsies to take the fall.

This sets up a bizarre dynamic in which the money elites that constructed the economy like a time-bomb are treated like victims (or heroes) and the people undermining the fraud are treated like villains and criminals. Are activist stock market traders and silver market guerrillas to blame for any crisis that erupts in the near future? No, of course not, but they will be blamed anyway.

That said, propaganda narratives and scapegoats may not be enough to save the bankers this time. They will never allow a major fiscal crash to develop in a vacuum. They need more cover, and they need to have the means to lock down the public to prevent civil unrest or rebellion from spilling over into their backyards. I have long suspected that the COVID pandemic was a useful tool in this regard. As I noted in an article published in January 2020:

Even if a pandemic does not kill a large number of people, it still disrupts international travel, it disrupts exports and imports, it disrupts consumer behavior and retail sales, and it disrupts domestic trade. If it does kill a large number of people, and if the Chinese government's response is any indication, it could result in global martial law. With many economies including the U.S. economy already in a precarious balancing act of historic debt vs. crashing demand and useless central bank repo market intervention, there is little chance that the system can withstand such a tsunami...

As we all know, global martial law in the name of "public health" is being established in most countries. The insane globalist rantings of the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab have also been very revealing; Schwab and other elites have even called the pandemic a "perfect opportunity" to execute their agenda for the "Great Reset."

However, the globalists are highly fallible, and mistakes in judgment have been made. During the Event 201 pandemic wargame on a coronavirus outbreak (conveniently held two months before the real thing happened), the elites forecast at least 65 million initial deaths globally from such a virus. We are a year into the pandemic and nowhere near that kind of death rate. In fact, the death rate is so minuscule (0.26 percent) that the public is beginning to realize the lockdown mandates are pointless.

In the U.S., conservative states are moving on and keeping their economies wide open. Half the population is refusing to take the vaccines, and many members of law enforcement are refusing to implement lockdown policies. I don't think this is what the globalists expected at all. They needed mass fear and they are getting mass defiance. They're going to need a bigger threat or a bigger virus.

This is why I have been repeatedly warning that the talk of reopenings by Biden and other democrats is going to be very short-lived. I have predicted that Biden will attempt a federal lockdown similar to the Level 4 lockdowns used in Europe and Australia after a couple of months of relative calm. I based this prediction on the COVID "mutation" narrative being spread right now by the mainstream media and establishment cronies like Anthony Fauci. It is not hard to see where this is headed.

The globalists must have the "legal" option of restricting public movement as well as large gatherings, and they must have the option of surveillance on individuals 24/7 through contact tracing. This is the only way to prevent rebellion against the Reset and rising anger due to economic turmoil. The veil has been lifted; the conspiracy is being widely broadcast. Martial law alone would only inspire more descent, medical tyranny in the name of "saving lives" is the only play the globalists have. They have to have help from a large portion of the citizenry, so they must maintain the appearance that they are operating from the moral high ground.

The COVID mutation story is clearly the next play, and Bank of America economists appear to agree with me. They recently stated that they see little optimism in terms of a reopening of the economy and that hard lockdowns will return, possibly in March or April.

Another factor to consider is that the economic crash will have to reach a peak soon because Joe Biden now resides in the White House. If the crash happens soon, the pandemic can be blamed, Trump can be blamed and conservatives and liberty activists can be blamed. If the crash happens a year or two from now, only Biden and the globalists will get the blame.

Without lockdowns and scapegoats, the scenario will end very badly for the globalists. It might end badly for them anyway. Be ready for severe chaos by spring; I suspect the elites are getting desperate, and if they allow America to go back to normal and for the pandemic to end with a whimper, they will never get another chance at their precious Reset.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith                                                                                                                                                                   

Biden's presidency will be a catalyst for secession... and perhaps civil war

 From Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty author Brandon Smith:

Over the past few months, I have written a handful of articles that discussed what would probably happen if Joe Biden actually entered the White House and launched his administration. My initial belief was that Trump would refuse to concede and that this would be a trigger for national chaos, but I have also noted that Biden's entry is almost just as disruptive, as it sends a signal to the political left that it is "open season" on conservatives.

Of course, conservatives are not going to simply sit still and be purged and abused, they are going to strike back, and this sets the stage for a number of events and outcomes, some of which are completely unpredictable, even for establishment globalists.

First, we need to address how Biden and the globalists are going to create chaos so that they can then demand their own brand of "order."

In an article I published in October, I outlined why the ongoing economic crisis will accelerate in the wake of a Biden takeover. More specifically, I predicted that one of Biden's very first actions will be to implement a federal COVID lockdown, similar to the Level 4 lockdowns implemented in Europe and Australia. Such a lockdown, if Americans submit, would mean an even larger spike in unemployment, a loss of hundreds of thousands of small businesses as well as a huge loss in tax revenues for some states (mostly blue states).

Another scenario is that Biden leaves the lockdowns in the hands of states, but pursues a nationwide program for medical passports. The passport, of course, would require people to take the vaccine and accept contact tracing apps on their phones before they can receive one. At least 30 percent of Americans have said in polling that they will refuse the vaccines outright. Another 60 percent have said they are wary of the vaccines and need proof of their effectiveness. So, the medical passports will lead to millions of people being denied participation in the economy and collapse happens anyway.

In other words, the elites are going to try to hold the economy hostage while telling the public that if we don't accept medical tyranny it will be our fault if the system breaks down.

The economic crisis, however, started long before the pandemic, long before Biden and long before Trump. It has been building since the credit crash of 2008, and in the 12 years since, the Federal Reserve and other central banks have been pumping out trillions in stimulus while encouraging non-stop debt accumulation. Right before the beginning of the pandemic, the U.S. was suffering from the highest corporate debt in history, the highest consumer debt in history as well as the highest national debt in history.

What we are witnessing right now is the final phase of a collapse scenario that was more than a decade in the making, and Biden is about to help finish the job.

Biden will no doubt seek to hyperinflate the dollar in the name of offsetting the losses and keep things afloat for a short time, but the real agenda will be to trigger price spikes in goods as well as eventually killing the dollar. No amount of stimulus will stop the crash that has already been set in motion; the bailout measures from this point on are Kabuki theater, a show put on for the masses to make us believe that the government and the banks "did everything they could" to save us. The elites have no intention of stalling or stopping the collapse; their "great reset" demands it.

One's initial assumption would be that Biden would then take the blame for the economic crisis, but it appears that the establishment is going to set up a Herbert Hoover narrative and lay all the blame squarely on Trump and conservatives. In the past, I have noted that Trump's trajectory was very similar to Herbert Hoover's, in that he was a business mogul and Republican that pushed for corporate tax cut policies and also extensive tariffs.

Hoover also took the blame for the crash of 1929 and the advent of the Great Depression, even though the crash was primarily caused by the Federal Reserve's ultra-low interest rates and easy money, followed by a series of rate hikes (a fact which former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke would later openly admit to in 2002). This launched the three-term dominion of Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most communistic presidents in our history and the initiator of socialist programs that have since buried the American public in Quadrillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.

Biden's latest statements indicate he will be introducing numerous executive orders to "correct the mistakes of the Trump administration," thereby implanting the idea that whatever happens next is Trump's fault. The "Reset" globalists and their central banking partners will have to bring down the U.S. economy very quickly under a Biden White House. Why? Because if they wait, or if they try to drag out the collapse and the worst happens a few years down the road, Biden and the globalists will get the blame. They must crash the old-world order now so that Trump and conservatives get the blame.

The strategy seems to be set up like this: Demonize conservatives as much as possible as quickly as possible so that our purge can be rationalized. When we are incapable of defending ourselves in the public sphere because we have been removed from the internet, the establishment and leftists can blame us for everything going wrong. The public would have no access to any other points of view or contradictory facts and evidence because the alternative media will be gone. We become the monsters... the bogeymen... and the source of all American suffering.

We didn't fall into the trap of supporting martial law measures during the BLM riots, so this must be Plan B.

Will this plan work? I doubt it. Just as the globalist rollout of the pandemic lockdowns and medical tyranny is failing to gain traction in the U.S. as huge numbers of people refuse to take the questionable vaccines, I suspect millions upon millions of Americans are already savvy to the propaganda schemes of the establishment and will not buy in. But that doesn't mean the elites won't try it anyway.

In early November I war gamed the Biden scenario extensively and concluded that if he were to enter the White House it would have to be followed by a massive erasure of conservative media platforms from the internet. I stated that:

If Biden does indeed enter the White House and take control of the presidency, expect certain consequences right away: A complete full spectrum censorship campaign of conservative news sources will be undertaken by tech companies and government. There is no way Biden and the democrats could keep control of the situation while conservatives are able to share information in real time. Do not be surprised if web providers suddenly start kicking conservative sites off their servers, just as Bitchute (a YouTube alternative) was kicked off their server for 24 hours on election night.

This is already happening, and Biden hasn't even stepped foot in the Oval Office yet. The coordinated effort by Big Tech to remove Parler, a Twitter alternative, from the web completely was not all that surprising, and it's only going to get worse from here on. Biden will support and defend the censorship efforts by Big Tech and the marriage between government and the corporate world will be complete.

As noted, the globalists have to silence us before they can effectively demonize us. The truth is on our side; facts and logic are on our side. They can't win the war of ideas if we are allowed to speak, so, they have to silence us.

Sweeping gun control measures would be issued by Biden, but only after the conservative purge from the internet is close to finished. If conservatives are isolated from one another in terms of communication, this makes it harder to organize a defense against aggressive gun confiscation. Biden will most likely try to assert Red Flag gun laws first, this would allow him to declare anyone to be "a threat to public safety" without due process, and have their guns taken away.

There is an obvious outcome to all of these actions, and I don't think it's farfetched to suggest that conservative counties and states will demand secession. At the very least, conservatives are going to continue to relocate to red states and red counties, just so they can continue to do business and make a living without government interference. There's no way that most red states or counties are going to submit to any federal lockdown mandates or medical passports, and economies in conservative regions are going to remain stable because of this while blue states are going to crumble.

Undoubtedly, Biden will seek to retaliate against conservative controlled areas of the country in response.

There comes a point when it is impossible for those that value freedom, logic and reason to live side-by-side with those that are irrationally obsessed with control. The American constitutional framework, in particular, was designed to prevent collectivism from overriding individual liberties, but if the system is overtaken through subversion and the Bill of Rights is violated, then maintaining the system is no longer plausible.

The best option for a number of reasons is to separate. Secession is often referred to as "running away" from a cultural problem, but this is an ignorant way of looking at it.

We are reaching a stage right now in the U.S. where it will be virtually impossible to voice political concerns without risking retribution. If you are a conservative, you will be targeted.

If conservatives and moderates migrate away from leftist-controlled areas and congregate in "red states "or red counties, then it will be nearly impossible for leftists to attack you for voicing your views. If your employer is a conservative, then he's not going to care if a leftist mob demands you be fired. If you own a business in a conservative community, then the people that live there will continue as your customers regardless of what leftists say about you.

Conservative and moderates must start to physically separate from the political left because this allows us to remain free to think and speak as we like, and it takes all power away from leftists to hurt us by sabotaging our means of making a living.

Secession is a more extreme measure, but it will become necessary if leftists refuse to accept that we are no longer participating in their games of fear and subterfuge. Leftists are collectivist by nature, and collectivists see people as property. Walking away is not an option in their minds. So, though we might successfully separate, this would only be the beginning of the battle.

The important thing is to first make sure that conservatives know that there are places they can go where their rights are valued and defended. If conservatives feel completely isolated and alone, many will give up, go dark and pray they are not discovered. This is unacceptable.

The advantage of secession is clear; by separating, conservatives force the enemy to come to them, on the ground they have prepared. The leftists will be the aggressors. They will try to present the situation otherwise, but it won't matter. We will have the moral high ground as well as the superior strategic position.

There are multiple narratives that will be used to demonize the secession movement beyond the terrorism angle. In particular, I think the government and the media will try to tie secession to "foreign entities." In other words, they will claim the secession movement is being funded or supported by Russia, or some other foreign power. This is what almost every government in history has done when faced with a viable secession that could threaten their control. They accuse the people who want to separate of being agents for evil outsiders.

It doesn't matter.

Conservatives cannot live with leftists, their cultism and zealotry have made it impossible. And we will not live under a globalist tyranny built around their reset agenda. Separation allows us to consolidate for defense and protects us economically. It is the only way to ensure that we remain free. The globalists and the leftists will try to stop us; they can't help themselves. They are insane, after all. This will lead to a war many of us have been expecting for quite some time. At the very least, with separation and secession, we will be in the best possible position to stop them. If we remain isolated from each other, the fight will be over before it even begins.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith                                                                                                                        

Biden's administration — the company you keep

 More from Bob Livingston:

In Aesop's Fable The Ass and His Purchaser, a man looking to buy a donkey wanted to test the animal before completing the purchase. So he put the donkey in his field with the other donkeys to see what would happen.

The donkey immediately strayed from the majority of the herd and cozied up to the laziest donkey of all.

Seeing that, the man led the donkey back to his owner. When the owner asked how he could judge the donkey's character so quickly the man explained, "I didn't even need to see how he worked. I knew he would be just like the one he chose to be his friend."

Fables are popular because they tell the story of the way things in life really work. In business, when someone takes over a department or company, that person promotes those he or she likes to positions of authority. The new manager seeks out those who have a philosophy, work ethic and disposition similar to his.

One would expect a president to do the same thing. After all, a president is elected — supposedly — based on the vision, ideas and proposals he championed during the campaign. It would then make sense that he would put in place those who supported his vision and would therefore be enthusiastic in working to achieve it.

So who are President Biden's friends, and who has he put in charge of the effort to enact his policies? And what do the friends he has chosen and the people he has put in positions of authority in his administration say about him?

The Washington Free Beacon said it succinctly: "Not only is Biden filling his administration with the same people who made such a hash of things from 2009 to 2017. He has also selected, for some of the most important offices, progressive ideologues who believe it is the bureaucracy's job to pick new fights in the culture war."

Following is a list of some of Biden's friends, advisors and people charged with enacting his policies:

• Biden has chosen perhaps the worst, and the least popular governor in the U.S., to be Commerce Secretary.

The Justice Department launched an investigation into Rhode Island's Health and Human Services Department because Gina Raimondo's administration rubber-stamped a massive overhaul of the state's welfare-distribution program that left thousands without Medicare or food assistance for months. The U.S. Agriculture Department levied an $800,000 fine on the state, and the ACLU sued the health department. And she chose an unqualified woman to lead her state's children's-services department.

The Governess co-chaired the failed Bloomberg presidential campaign and was "unqualified," as Democrats love to shout, for the original position Biden wanted to give her — health and human services. She is no more qualified for this position than she was for that role.

• Biden will nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department. She'll be the first Native American to hold the post.

The problem is, she'll be leading the department that will be on the front lines of Biden's sure-to-be-harmful war on the nonsensical [read: fake] issue of "climate change." Biden will stop new oil and gas drilling on public lands and has said that he will rejoin the Paris Climate Accords — which lets polluters off scot-free and punishes American industry.

She said in a recent interview. "We don't want to go back to normal, right? We don't want to go back to where we were because that economy wasn't working for a lot of people."

• Biden will install California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to oversee the vast Department of Health and Human Services.

He's a proponent of socialized medicine for all. The Washington Examiner reports that, "As attorney general, Becerra has pressed Catholic hospitals inappropriately to perform abortions … he has used his power to persecute pro-life activists for exposing Planned Parenthood's trafficking in human body parts. His voting record in Congress was 100% pro-abortion." He's also an anti-gunner who wants to be able to tell you what guns you should and shouldn't be allowed to buy.

• Biden will choose a military officer for the civilian role of Secretary of Defense.

Retired general Lloyd Austin is the former CENTCOM commander, and Biden chose him because, reportedly, he had a good relationship with Joe's son Beau Biden.

• For his national security, Biden will choose former State Department official Jake Sullivan.

According to classified emails made public under lawsuits from the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, Sullivan — soon to be a national security advisor, mind you — was deeply involved in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal which saw her and her associates mishandle classified information about America on a private email server.

• Biden wants Antony Blinken to be his secretary of state.

He's not just your average warmonger. He wants to strike Syria, Iran, and anyone else who hasn't been bombed as of yet. Responsiblestatecraft.org describes him thusly: Blinken "agreed with some of the biggest foreign policy mistakes that Biden and Obama made, and he has tended to be more of an interventionist than both of them."

• Biden has picked Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA under Obama and president of the leftist environmental group National Resources Defense Council, to become his "climate czar."

She's another climate propagandist.

• Biden announced Miguel Cardona would be his pick for education secretary.

The Washington Times reported that Cardona spent most of his short tenure in charge of Connecticut public schools dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. He "took an aggressive stance in favor of keeping schools open, a position that put him at odds with the powerful teachers unions."

Excellent, except that he's still a lifelong proponent of our non-education system, and wants kids in the indoctrination centers no matter what. "There is no substitute for in-classroom learning," he said in an interview.

Also, Susan Rice will reappear to ply her duplicitousness to domestic policy. Denis McDonough, Obama's chief of staff during the time Obama was trying to have the Syrian government overthrown, will be the secretary for Veterans' Affairs.

These are just a few of the folks who have occupied or currently occupy Biden's inner circle. He was passed off by the mainstream media as being a centrist and moderate, but many of his friends are anything but that, and some are quite radical. And when you parse some of his words or find video or audio from several years ago you know that Biden himself has some radical views.

But the media ignored Biden's love for Obama's radical friends and his own ties to communists. That, and Biden's misleading rhetoric led many otherwise thoughtful and good people down the primrose path, and they voted him without realizing what they were getting.

But as the truth gets out about his associates, the cover is coming off. He's becoming known by the company he keeps, as well as his own deeds.

Yours for the truth, 

Bob Livingston

Who are the terrorists, again?

 From Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty Letter, Monday, January 18th, 2021:

The Democratic Party is the party of tolerance. We are told this with regularity. After all, the party tolerates — promotes, actually — deviant lifestyles, the murder of babies in the womb, legalized theft by government, general sloth by the populace, terrorists, big government, coercion, mob violence and thuggishness (workers unions), central planning (socialism and Marxism), and crony capitalism (which is essentially fascism).

What it doesn't tolerate is free speech. In fact, it goes to great lengths — even engaging in criminal activity — and great expense to ensure that dissenting views are squelched, particularly the views from the right.

The progressives' ideas of unlimited government and unlimited spending can't stand up to arguments against smaller government and liberty. So the leftists resort to thuggery, intimidation and the courts to silence their detractors. Trump supporters at the Capitol learned from the best.

That includes Susan Rosenberg. Have you heard of her? She's now called an "activist" and a "writer" by the lamestream media.

What she really is, is a domestic terrorist.

Scott Walter of the Capital Research Center wrote: "Rosenberg, who started out as a member of the 1960s revolutionary group Weather Underground, graduated into even more violent, and arguably successful, forms of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s — including bombings at an FBI field office in Staten Island, the Navy Yard Officers' Club in Washington, D.C., and even the U.S. Capitol building."

Yes, in 1983, Rosenberg didn't protest at the Capitol and walk through a hall with a lectern or sit at Nancy Pelosi's desk. Rosenberg set off a huge bomb inside the U.S. Capitol building. She was caught in 1984 while unloading from her car and into a New Jersey storage unit hundreds of pounds of dynamite along with myriad guns. She went to prison for 16 years.

She was not a "political prisoner" as the Left would have you believe.

In the present day, she served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for none other than… Black Lives Matter.

The left's embracing — and funding — of convicted domestic terrorist Rosenberg is eerily similar to its embracing of convicted bomber Bill Ayers.

Ayers groomed President Barack Obama and launched his political career. Yet his association with a man who, also as part of the Weather Underground, set off numerous bombs — including one that may have killed a San Francisco police officer — did not hurt Obama's standing in the least.

That the left and Democrats would even embrace convicted domestic terrorists like Rosenberg — and, in fact, invite them into their inner circle and encourage their tactics — demonstrates that the progressives who have taken over the party are true enemies of America.

Now, president-elect Biden wants to use his (no)Justice Department to strengthen Obama's idea of a domestic terrorism czar, along with a whole department to battle the newest greatest threat — behind nonexistent global warming — to America: the white Christian male gun-owning liberty lover.

Soon after Obama took office, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report titled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." Possible terrorists include people opposed to President Obama; those upset by the high unemployment rate; supporters of gun rights; those who believe in conspiracy theories involving a coming martial law declaration and the creation of detention camps; those who stockpile food, ammunition and weapons in anticipation of a collapse; military veterans; and Christians.

As the Washington Examiner points out, The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, "first passed by the House in September of last year, is gaining traction again. It would create 'dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism,' according to the bill's language."

The target is always liberty-loving Americans. Also, the powers-that-shouldn't be devote extra scrutiny to Christians who believe the Bible is God's word, Christian "fundamentalists" (whatever those are), Americans who believe the country was founded on the principles of liberty and individual freedom (it was) and those who believe the Constitution stands as the law of the land (it does, even though it's now ignored).

Biden will only continue to advocate for the notion that if you are white, or Christian, own guns, believe the Constitution is the law of the land and not what a majority of a group of nine robe-wearing Satanists say the law is, oppose oppressive totalitarian government, advocate for low taxes and/or are against the Federal Reserve, etc., then you are a domestic terrorist worthy of indefinite detention or worse.

How have we come to this point, that free Americans could be viewed as terroristic enemies in the very nation their forefathers created? Part of the answer is that America has been subjected to a long-term, clever process of demoralization and destabilization from within, as occurred on a more speedy schedule in South Africa.

Another part of the answer is to be found in the fact that the two-party system has been compromised and subverted. Both the Republican "big tent" strategy and the Democratic "diversity" appeal are actually the same.

It is utterly unacceptable to we who love liberty that the two parties have conspired to destroy the Constitution and bring the United States into a totalitarian New World Order. In the last 12 years, the Obama presidency, the Republican-majority Congress and the black-robed U.S. judiciary have combined to cut back constitutional and civil liberties more than any other comparable period in history. The federal government is a Bigger Brother than ever and its two busy hands are the Republican and Democratic parties...

Yours for the truth, 

Bob Livingston

Re: THE COVID-19 PLANDEMIC and "THE GREAT RESET:"

SO, WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE?! 

Criminal (((hypocrites,))) aka psychopaths, leftists, collectivists, communists, etc want what everyone else has, and they don't want to have to work to earn it (unless anyone really thinks that lending money is a form of "work"?!) so they demand this "equality of outcome" for them selves, but then (beyond being members of the global counterfeiter's union) they also simply have to sell it to others in order to form extortive "totalitarian" crime-gangs to 'totally' control and enslave everyone else, by claiming to want that very same equality of outcome to be available for everyone else as equally-helpless fellow victims, too. And the way they pretend to justify that, is by asserting that their original right to an equality of opportunity was denied to them by evil straight White alpha males, because superficially they are obviously more evolved for competitive survival than beta-male and beta-female "gays," non-Whites, and women. And that's all there ever really is to any of it.

So it's only the same, ages-old communist gangster demand for equality of outcome (aka theft from industrious Makers to be given to lazy Takers). Mobs of lazy criminals want to "RESET" ownership and "BUILD BACK BETTER" with them having all the stuff others built this time. And all any "SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES" will measure is one's ability to lie about it, to go along (with those criminal lies,) to get along (with the lying criminal extortionist gangsters telling them). There's really nothing more or less to it all than that - it's very simple; binary, even.

Further, re: "Does anyone really thinks that lending money is a form of "work"?" When you only have to "reserve" a tiny (10% at most) fraction of your "reserves" ("fractional reserves" lending) then you're 'lending' (selling money by renting it out on the installment plan) nine or ten times the money you don't actually have - that's counterfeiting! There's no risk involved! Beyond that, when you relentlessly and routinely 'lend' to both sides in every conflict, then, when the dust clears, the losers still owe you AND the winners, the winners still owe you, and they BOTH have to take out more loans for the reconstruction efforts! And, beyond even all that, when they put all of their "future derivatives" into bet-"hedging" "baskets" of funds, it all evens out! So, in the end, there's absolutely ZERO calculation involved. The (((globalist))) banksters print the money, and, since the world currently runs on the oil standard based on the American dollar, and most if not all corporations are indebted to (((them,))) they already literally OWN THE WORLD. But the only thing left, the real trick, is to convince the peons that, because we owe (((them))) that (((they))) own us! These Ponzi pyramid "finance" schemes they've built up - where charging "interest" (usury) always pays the userers, even if and when businesses fail, through insurance they themselves own, (whereas in real investments, both sides win and lose and the risks and rewards are shared equally) like in our pension plans, always have to have every-new inputs at the front end to remain viable or "sustainable." And so, while they simultaneously destroyed the West by tricking our women into believing we were enslaving them, seducing them by "Feminism" into diluting the labor pool (thus doubling their own pools of available workers, while cutting ALL of our wages in half!) they thereby punked not only "their own" workers, but also their potential customers, into having far less disposable income to spend! "SO" they then had to repeat the process, by shaming us into thinking we had enslaved the rest of the world, so we owed all those poor oppressed "People of Color" the right to come here, dilute our workforces while - once again! - cutting our wages in half, doubling their workers pools, and replacing us with hordes of swarthy Muslims who literally work for food!and replacing us with hordes of swarthy Muslims who literally work for food!

Brandon Smith: Is the globalist “reset” failing? The elites may have overplayed their hand

One aspect of narcopaths (narcissistic sociopaths) that is important to remember is that they live in their own little world in which their desires and bizarre dysfunctions are universally "admired." They believe themselves superior to most people because they are predatory and don't suffer from annoying hang-ups like empathy and conscience, and they generally tend to believe they have pulled the wool over everyone's eyes the majority of the time. They think that you are a submissive idiot and that when they bark an order, you will simply jump to attention because you "believe."

Almost every aspect of the globalists and their behavior indicates they are a club or cult of narcopaths. Their obsessive need to control as well as to corrupt and destroy in order to get what they want is not an extension of mere greed, it is a deep-seated aspect of who they are as beings. It is a defining mechanism at the core of their character. They are real-world monsters, like vampires attempting to blend into an unsuspecting population.

In their arrogance, they tend to believe they can drain the public dry at will without being resisted or exposed. The problem is, as soon as they start to feed and destroy, they draw attention to themselves. Eventually, they will attract the suspicions of the public along with some vampire hunters. Unless they find a way to hide, a stake through the heart is inevitable.

I have been writing about the threats of globalism and the "reset" for many years now, and I have noted for some time two separate quandaries: one affecting the liberty movement and the other affecting the globalists:

1) First, criminals tend to brag about their crimes when they think that it's too late for anyone to do anything about them. I predicted the globalists would be very open in revealing their agenda the moment they believed themselves "untouchable." For the freedom loving public this suggests that in 2020 going into 2021 that the elites must think there is nothing that can be done to stop the machine; they are so blatant in their calls for the global "reset," a cashless society, totalitarian lockdowns and a surveillance state that no one in their right mind can claim these notions are "conspiracy theory" anymore.

The fact is, the "conspiracy theorists" were right all along, and now there is nothing anyone can say about it.

2) Second, I have also argued in the past that the globalist push for a "new world order" is a double-edged sword that could very well end up annihilating them. As they attempt to initiate their reset agenda, they become more and more exposed; they can no longer lurk in the safety of the shadows and there is no going back once the process is started. Once the globalists become widely known, they must either swiftly take control through engineered chaos and collapse, or face retribution that could eliminate a cabal that took them centuries to build. Vampires must make the rest of the world a dark place before leaving the shadows, or they risk dying in the light of day.

There are two schools of thought in the liberty movement; one suggesting that the globalist agenda is fixed and unstoppable and that the best anyone can do is survive. The second suggests that the reset can be stopped, and the globalists can be brought to justice. I stand in both camps.

There are aspects of the reset that are indeed fixed and that cannot be undone. For example, numerous national economies including the U.S. are in the midst of a stagflationary collapse and there is nothing that can be done to reverse it. Perhaps a decade ago we could have changed course, but now it is too late. The pain can be reduced if people quickly end their dependency on the system and create localized trade networks of their own, but the economy as we know it right now is dead and it is not coming back anytime soon.

I do not see this, though, as a win for the elites. Crashing the economy is one thing, rebuilding it into the collectivist dystopia they desperately want is another. Everything depends on who rebuilds; maybe it will be them, maybe it will be us.

I am seeing some encouraging signs these days that the globalist reset is not a sure thing, and those that know my work know I have never been one for misplaced optimism. Specifically, the exploitation of the pandemic response as a means to ram through numerous draconian measures does not seem to be going exactly as the elites planned.

I have to look back at Event 201 to really gauge the state of the game because what the elites planned and what has happened do not completely match up. For those not familiar, Event 201 was a type of "war game" held by globalists from the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The scenario? A pandemic outbreak of a coronavirus that would spread like wildfire and kill a predicted 65 million people. The simulation was held only a couple of months before the real thing happened at the start of 2020.

In the year since the outbreak, the globalists have attempted to enforce nearly every plan that was outlined during Event 201, including using social media to censor or restrict any news or information outside of the establishment approved narrative (Yes, narrative control was discussed at the event in great detail). 

Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has consistently and excitedly applauded the pandemic crisis as a "perfect opportunity" to institute the "reset" that the globalists have been talking about for years.

Unfortunately for them, the virus has not been anywhere near as deadly as they appear to have hoped. With a death rate of well below 1 percent for anyone outside of a nursing home with preexisting conditions, the establishment has now been forced to pump up infection numbers as a means to terrorize the populace because the death numbers are not enough to convince people to willingly hand over their freedoms. The Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for COVID-19 not counting nursing home deaths with preexisting conditions is only 0.26 percent of those infected.

There is a propaganda meme being passed around these days that tries to exaggerate the danger of death from COVID, and it goes a little something like this:

"COVID has killed more people than the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars combined in a single year, therefore your freedoms are forfeit..."

This is an idiotic talking point but luckily no one is buying it. Over 40 percent of COVID deaths are people that are already sick and on the verge of dying anyway (And no, refusing to wear masks is not the same as endorsing "death panels," because a death panel is about socialists refusing treatment to people at risk because of their age. No one is suggesting that old people be refused treatment, and they always have the option of staying under quarantine if they fear they will become infected. They are already retired and receiving Social Security, perhaps if we are going to stimulate then the bailout money should go to those most at risk so that the rest of us can continue on with normal life?)

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year from diseases and illnesses including the flu, common colds and pneumonia, yet, the prospect of abandoning the Bill of Rights, submitting to economic shutdowns and wearing a muzzle on our faces wherever we go was never brought up before.

Why should we ask 99.7 percent of Americans or the world to accept medical tyranny just to make .26 percent of the population feel safe? People who question the mask mandates are called "selfish," but even if I was one of the people susceptible to the virus, I would never demand that 99 percent of the population bow to totalitarianism at the off chance that I might live a little while longer. Now that would be selfish.

As more and more studies and data are released, the mask mandates are also coming into question. Though Big Tech has sought to suppress or censor studies that run contrary to the mainstream narrative, this has only led more people to question the motivations of government pushing the mandates. After all, the mainstream media keeps saying that we should "listen to the science," but they ignore or censor the science. So, if the pandemic response is not based on science, then it must only be about control.

Many Americans are not as stupid as the elites think. They see the inconsistencies in the rhetoric and the data, and they are increasingly prone to refuse to comply. This might be why the establishment is suddenly rushing out two COVID vaccines in the span of half a year; they have to get the vaccine phase of the Reset underway before too many people jump from the panic bandwagon.

The vaccine rush and the claims of effectiveness of 94 percent to 95 percent from Pfizer and Moderna are coming into question. The average effectiveness of most vaccines is around 50 percent, and these are vaccines with hundreds of trials and years of usage. Somehow, Pfizer and Moderna were both able to produce a vaccine for a SARS type virus when the multiple governments tried for over a decade to produce vaccines for SARS in China and were unsuccessful, and they were able to achieve 95 percent effectiveness?

Many people are not buying the vaccine story, and this is perhaps why the elites are jumping headlong into vaccination so fast. Consider this fact:

Numerous polls indicate that at least 1 in 3 Americans plan to refuse the COVID vaccine when it is released to the general public. Sixty percent of Americans have stated in polls that they will not take the vaccine unless it is proven to be at least 75 percent effective.

Here I think we have our explanation for the vaccination bonanza. The elites know that a third of Americans (and probably Europeans) will not take the vaccine regardless of any propaganda they dish out. They also know that 60 percent of Americans are unlikely to take the vaccine unless they can show an effectiveness rate of at least 75 percent. Neither Moderna nor Pfizer have actually produced any evidence that their vaccines have prevented severe illness or death from COVID, so, their effectiveness rate is based on "projections" of success according to their minimal trials. Meaning, the effectiveness rate of 95 percent is completely made up.

Why did they go with such a high number instead of a more realistic 50 percent to 60 percent? Because the polls say they need a high rate in order to trick Americans into taking the vaccine. I think it is really as simple as that.

Americans are skeptical of the vaccines for a number of reasons. The reality that they are highly untested and rushed out in less than a year is one reason. The fact that the government and the media have been caught censoring or lying about COVID data is another reason. People just don't trust the elites, and who can blame them? Who would trust a cabal of psychopaths to inject them with an unknown viral cocktail? Maybe their intentions are not so pure?

The public is right to be suspicious. A former Pfizer vice president, Dr. Michael Yeadon among other medical professionals have recently warned that the vaccines have not been adequately tested and that there is a risk of "indefinite infertility" for women who take the current COVID vaccine due to damaging autoimmune response. In other words, the vaccine could make many women barren and unable to bear children.

Maybe this is what Bill Gates meant when he stated in his TED Talk that "vaccines and reproductive services" could help contribute to a reduction of the Earth's population of 10 percent to 15 percent as a means to "stop global warming."

Why would Bill Gates mention vaccines in the same breath as "reproductive services" in reference to population reduction? Aren't vaccines supposed to help people live longer? Well, the Pfizer VP's warning about the COVID vaccine is ringing bells for me. Maybe the COVID vaccine won't make you sick or kill you. Maybe you will live a long life free of coronavirus, but you'll find out a few years after taking the vaccine that you won't ever be able to ever have kids.

In the meantime, the elites are trying with everything they have to convince the public that they must abandon notions of civil liberties in the name of survival and "the greater good." They are already talking about how things will never go back to normal and how the changes being made today will stay in place for many years to come.

Governments are in the media right now claiming the vaccines "will not be mandatory." This is a lie. At the same time, they are putting mandates in place to require you to prove you are vaccinated in order to go to public places and even to go to work. Basically, you take the vaccine or you die from poverty. This is not a choice.

But I see millions of Americans standing in opposition to this agenda. I see sheriffs and police across the country refusing to enforce the agenda, even in hard-left states like California. I see the reset scheme being exposed and the truth breaking into the mainstream. I see something rising to the surface, and I smell that gunpowder scent of rebellion, and I like it.

I'm not pessimistic about the future. I know a crash is coming. I know a fight is coming. But right now, what I see is a fight that can and will be won by those that respect the principles of freedom. The globalists may have overplayed their hand.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

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