We believe the 6 April 2017 Tomahawk missile attack on
Syria indicates that Donald Trump has concluded that the fiscal, economic and
political situations in the United States are beyond repair, and that without
continued, massive military interventionism and spending, U.S. GDP will
plunge, taking all of his campaign commitments down with it. Therefore, he
has capitulated to the agenda of the Deep State looters and war profiteers.
Trump’s capitulation has profound personal and financial implications for the
citizens of the United States and the world.
The strikingly weak March employment report issued on 7
April 2017 demonstrated that rhetoric, no matter how well-intended, does not
produce jobs or growth. Only genuine confidence, conviction and belief can do
that, and after eight years of Obama’s colossal and deliberate “Hope and
Change” lie, the people are not inclined to believe in political rhetoric at
this time. We regard it as no coincidence that the attack on Syria occurred
mere hours before the release of the March jobs report, the details of which
would have been available to the President and his senior advisers in
advance. Trump and his team knew that the news was bad, and that a course
change and distraction were needed.
Increasingly, it appears that the American people will
get a 21 ½ month Trump presidency (late January 2017 through early November
2018). Republicans are backing away from the Obamacare campaign promises they
made to the people by merely substituting one massive government bureaucracy
and socialized redistribution scheme for another. Far more troubling, they
are now signaling that while corporate tax reform remains on the table,
personal tax reform might have to wait. Which is their way of saying that
personal tax reform will never happen at all, or it will be a deceptive shell
game where a tax reduction to the left is completely neutralized by new or
increased taxes to the right. Everywhere the people turn, they see the elites
being further enriched while they sink further into an inescapable financial
morass.
Accordingly, the 2018 mid-term election is shaping up to
be a bloodbath for Republicans, with betrayed and disgusted Republican voters
staying at home in droves, or voting Democrat out of spite and revulsion
against the politicians who have betrayed them yet again. November 2018 will
therefore mark the end of the Trump presidency, with the Deep State firmly
running the show from then on as it prepares for 2020. There is no one on the
bench at this time that the Deep State can rely on as fully as Hillary
Clinton, try as they must and do to widen their options.
For her part, Clinton is taking a page out of Madonna’s
book by remaking herself. In a recent speech in San Francisco, gone was the
campaign era, pastel-colored pant suit, replaced by a dark leather outfit
reminiscent of what one would see at a bikers’ convention. Apparently, there
is going to be no more Mrs. Nice Guy. She is making it clear that she will no
longer even attempt to appeal to the “deplorables,” now broadened to include
the “misogynists,” whom she blames for her election loss. Instead, she is now
100% focused on her traditional, high-potential, core-constituencies, while
she also eyes a developing vote bonanza: the growing cohort of Trump
supporters who feel deceived, are furious about it, and will be out for
revenge.
Clinton’s addictions to power and control make her
enormously valuable to the Deep State. They know that she will effectively
advance their agenda and enforce their mandates. Her addiction to money
assures them that she will do exactly what she is well-paid to do. The
problem, as before, is her health. Her 6 April 2017 interview at the Women in
the World conference, during which she was seated the entire time, showed
that she remains obese. And her walk across the large stage to the interview
site was slow and measured, undermining the credibility of her repeated
comments about taking “long walks in the woods” to find solace after her
election loss. Nonetheless, on several occasions during the 48 minute
interview, she spoke as if she were a presidential candidate. We believe her
addictions to power, control and money will overcome, at least temporarily,
her addiction to consumption.
If the Deep State does, in fact, tap her for 2020, it
will spend millions on her medical and psychological care throughout the
election process, to ensure that she appears to the populace to be sound of
body and mind. There will be no more fainting spells or mental fade-outs, and
she will be buoyed up by the best doctors and drugs that money can buy. To
the greatest extent possible, her campaign will be conducted electronically,
to keep the wear and tear of physical campaigning to a minimum.
We expect that HRC will raise more money for her 2020 bid
than was spent by every single presidential and Congressional candidate in
2016; $7.5 billion, at a minimum, which will shatter the previous, 2016
record for presidential campaign spending. Given the trillions of dollars
that can be looted from the United States economy during a 4 year presidency,
donors can generate an astounding Return on Investment from their contributions,
which is exactly why they spend so much to buy politicians. Republican
donations will collapse.
Numerous reports indicate that Bill Clinton’s health is
failing. His marked weight loss is obvious, as are several other observable
symptoms of decline. Unfortunately, none of us can live forever, particularly
those who have led “full,” pedal-to-the-metal lives.
Running to become both the first woman and first widowed
president, HRC will uncork a vast, additive sympathy vote that will sweep her
to victory. Millions of previously non-HRC voters will feel that she deserves
the presidency, at long last, after everything she has been through. The
people will be told that she lost her beloved husband due, in large part, to
the toll taken by his profound sadness over the surprise outcome of the
unfair, “Russian-rigged” 2016 election. USA!, USA!, USA! She will be cast as
a brave, determined fighter who has persisted against all odds to bring the
people to the Promised Land of government-manufactured utopia.
HRC’s victory in 2020 is critically important to the Deep
State because the United States will be entering the advanced looting phase
by then. It will be clear that the deficits are endemic and non-containable;
that the nation’s debt is propulsive and non-payable; that the systemic
economic drags cannot be ameliorated; that the health care system has spun
out of control; that the public and private pension systems are collapsing;
and that the dollar is failing, portending systemic, punishing inflation for
the people. The people will be desperate for salvation, and will be putty in
the hands of professional prevaricators who smother them in soothing lies.
In the fast-disintegrating economy, the Deep State’s best
and possibly last opportunity to loot the nation will be to go straight for
the people’s money, which they will do with a vengeance. In the process, the
Crony Communist overthrow of the United States that was started by Obama and
Soros will be finalized. Crony Communism is where the serious money is for the
Deep State, which explains why this is the track on which the country is
traveling.
As we have previously pointed out, all Life Forces seek
to evolve and expand, and communism is no exception. Crony Communism is the
most virulent, destructive, ruthless and evolved form of communism ever
developed, exponentially intensifying the absolute worst aspects of cronyism
and communism. Crony Communism will result in communistic impoverishment and
misery for the people, while awarding epic wealth and power to its
orchestrators and thugs.
For maximum effectiveness and control, Crony Communism
requires gun bans and cash elimination. The delay in the enactment of these
agendas is the primary reason why the Deep State Crony Communists are so
infuriated by HRC’s 2016 loss. For them, time is big money. And delays carry
risks, such as the populace finally waking up to what is happening to them,
and resisting their newly perceived enemy with all their might.
Now that Trump has capitulated to the Deep State, we can
expect the cash elimination engine to go full power. Gun confiscation will be
more difficult to implement at present, given Gorsuch, and will be
substituted by continued, massive militarization of federal, state and local
policing agencies. The United Airlines customer assault shows how this
process is swiftly metastasizing throughout the nation. One way or another,
the Deep State will be well prepared when they launch their war against the
people’s money.
On 7 April 2017, in total defiance of fiscal, monetary and
economic logic given Trump’s military action plus the clear economic
degradation reflected by the March employment report and the Atlanta Fed’s
revised 1Q GDP forecast, which printed at an astoundingly poor 0.6%, gold
closed $18 per ounce below its daily high, while silver suffered a $0.68 per
ounce intra-day flash crash, and closed $0.48 below its daily high.
Taken together, the Global Market Capitalization of owned
physical gold and silver was smashed down by more than $120 billion
($120,000,000,000.00) on a day when it should have surged.
In other words, $120 billion was stolen from citizens
worldwide by the Deep State plunderers who operate with impunity out of Wall
Street, the City in London and several dark trading posts immune to
visibility, supervision or regulation. We estimate that the criminals who
conducted this latest price raid netted on that day at least $900 million in
profits in the precious metals futures, options on futures, ETF and equities
markets. While a one day $900 million profit (much of it made in seconds)
might not sound like much in today’s multi-trillion dollar financial trading
world, please keep in mind that this EXACT method of crime has been
perpetrated literally thousands of times over a period of 37+ years, without
any criminal prosecutions whatsoever. It is a crime of historic proportions,
as we explained in a previous article on the subject. (“Gold and Silver Price
Manipulation: the Biggest Financial Crime in History.”)
The Deep State looters are mono-maniacally focused on
regularly smashing precious metals prices for two primary reasons: 1) It
provides them with a vast, recurring, no-lose,
totally-illegal-but-never-prosecuted profit source; and, 2) it is an
extremely effective way for them to scare everyday citizens away from metals,
which is a key DS objective. If the people ever figure out, en masse, that
they would greatly benefit by transferring their money into physical precious
metals, as opposed to keeping it in digital bank accounts that can be seized
at any time and under any pretext, the Deep State’s looting opportunity will
be reduced. The Deep State works 60x60x24x365, or every second of every day
to prevent the people from having that “Aha Moment” of personal financial
clarity and sanity.
If the people fully understood how resilient precious
metals prices have been despite the constant, multi-year, 24 hour per day,
criminal, full-spectrum Deep State manipulation campaign, they would gain a
new-found respect for precious metals as assets. Greed-fueled frauds always
collapse in time, and when the precious metals price manipulation fraud
fails, gold, silver and platinum’s reflexive revaluation will almost
certainly be historic.
The Deep State agenda is to eliminate cash as soon as
possible and force the people’s money to become nothing but electrons housed
in digital currency prisons euphemistically called banks. Next, they will
deactivate the precious metals dealers’ bank accounts, making it extremely
difficult for citizens who have not already done so to acquire precious
metals. This action will be taken under the totally dishonest pretext of
combating drugs, crime, terrorism and other fake, so-called dreaded threats.
When people get wind that this is coming, a precious metals buying stampede
will break out, much the same way that the ammunition buying frenzy developed
when rumors spread that Obama was going to sharply control, turbo-tax or even
prohibit bullet sales. Time and time again throughout history, people have
exhibited a passionate desire to buy the things they expect will be taken
away from them. When the precious metals buying stampede is triggered, people
throughout the west will learn in a hurry that the quantity of physical
precious metals actually available to them is extremely limited and quickly
vanishing. Supplies will completely disappear in a day or two, if not before,
just as ammunition disappeared from the shelves, nationwide, during that
buying explosion.
We fully realize there will be risks to metals ownership,
such as possible government prohibition. But if it ever comes to that, the
people will know for an absolute fact that capitalism and freedom have been
murdered and will not be coming back to life anytime soon, if ever again in
the citizens’ lifetimes. It will be every person for him or herself
going forward from there. With physical precious metals, at least a person
will have a chance; with a digital bank balance controlled by Deep State
looters, a person will not. The more mainstream media propaganda you hear
about the wonderful virtues of cash elimination, the less time you have to
prepare, because they will be closing the window of opportunity on you.
Only a short five years ago, there was virtually no one in Venezuela who
could even have imagined the total collapse of society and quality of life
that was headed straight at them like the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. As we
see, Maduro and his communist cronies are as rich as ever and living in sheer
luxury, while citizens die in the streets and scavenge like rodents for
scraps. History proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that it is NEVER any
different when predatory politicians plunge a nation into communism to feed
their lust for power and loot their way to wealth. And it will be no
different in the United States when Obama and Soros’s Crony Communist
revolution is handed off to the First Widow, for its consummation.
We believe that 2017 is a gift from God that provides thinking citizens an
extraordinary, and perhaps last opportunity to seriously prepare for what is
coming, and to push back with fury against the indescribably evil Deep State
agenda that is methodically being crammed down the people’s throats. We urge
readers to take to heart this gift of time, and use it for all it’s worth.
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Stewart Dougherty is the creator of Inferential Analytics, a
forecasting method that applies to events proprietary, time-tested
principles of human instinct, desire and action. In his view, forecasting
methods not fundamentally based upon principles of human action are
unlikely to be reliable over time. He regards the current, intense
mobilization of money, power, ideology and ambition to force agendas upon
increasingly fractured and reactive peoples and nations as creating
extraordinary, unprecedented risk. This risk must be managed personally and
institutionally with advanced, strategic thinking and preemptive action. He
is a graduate of Tufts University (BA) and Harvard Business School (MBA),
has developed his strategic analysis expertise during a 35+ year career,
has traveled to and conducted research in over 25 countries and has refined
Inferential Analytics into a reliable predictive instrument over a period
of 16+ years.
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