A Serious Message From Chris Martenson

Guest Post by Chris Martenson

Like a windstorm toppling a hollowed-out tree, SARS-CoV-2 didn’t cause the current recession so much as it exposed how rotten things already were.

Even before SARS-CoV-2, households were struggling. Far too many were limping along without any savings at all, one crisis away from financial ruin.

Debts at every level were at record highs before SARS-CoV-2 came along, and the Federal Reserve was already busy bailing out the US financial system before the virus hit.

The shale oil industry had failed to generate any profits for over a decade before anyone ever heard of Covid19.

The worldwide wealth gap was already record levels before we were forced into lockdown.

What the coronavirus pandemic has done, though, is give the ruling authorities aircover to accelerate all of these trends to warp speed.

Billionaires have been, by far, the largest winners in this story so far.  Ditto for mega corporations.  Main Street and small and medium-sized businesses have been utterly crushed.

Where the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 could have been — and should have been — a wake-up call to operate the system more equitably and sustainably, it was used instead as an excuse to make things even worse.

No bank executives were charged or even went to jail for any crimes they played in bringing the financial system to the brink of disaster.  Accounting deceit, wire fraud, and forgery — anybody remember ‘robosigning’?  That was forgery, a felony, and not one charge was ever leveled.  Instead, the Too Big To Fail banks were bailed out and got bigger at the expense of smaller, more responsible firms.

My point here is that SARS-CoV-2 has laid bare our true value systems.  Some countries have done an admirable job of showing they care about their citizens, making public safety and health their top priority.  Other countries, such as mine (the US), have demonstrated the opposite.

When it comes to making judgment, I look at actions much more than words. What have been the actions of the US authorities so far?

  1. The Federal Reserve swooped in to assure that the wealthy got even wealthier.
  2. The CDC couldn’t get effective test kits prepared or deployed until months after many other countries did.
  3. $Billions and $billions were smoothly and rapidly delivered to the largest institutions, corporations and wealthiest households.
  4. But only a single $1200 stimulus check has been sent to the poorest of American families.  Well, most of them, but many are still waiting for their stimulus checks.  Every household sandwiched between the rich and the poor has received nothing.

In other words, the Fed has made its #1 priority the preservation of the financial advantages of the already-rich, while the federal government has made clear that public health isn’t really a priority at all.

The unfairness and legal and moral wrongness of this next bit of news stunned even long-time skeptics like myself:

(Source)

I object strenuously to any taxpayer money, my money, being sent to any and all religious organizations (I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state).  But to do so to help the Catholic church cover shortfalls due to payouts to victims of institutionalized pedophilia?  Really, that’s just…I’m out of words.

But more often than not, that’s the business the federal government is in: protecting the abusers, not the victims.

Thousands of hedge funds and other extremely wealthy financial firms are similarly feeding from the same trough of substantial taxpayer payouts.

But where real support is needed? The free money river has never been more than a trickle. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 has been throttled back due to lack of funding. Hospitals remain chronically short of critical PPE. 30% of all US households were unable to make last month’s mortgage payment.

As I said, these dots simply reveal the values and priorities of those running the show.  If I were to use a single word to sum things up, it would be: greed.

Anything and everything that funnels money from the many into the pockets of the few is being done and done swiftly.  Anything monies directed to the well-being of the masses is being done slowly, grudgingly, and sparingly (if at all).  “Never let a good crisis go to waste” is the motto of current crowd in charge.

I am asked all the time to decide between Covid-19 being real or this whole thing being a scam.  To which I reply, “why not both?”

The Elites Have Won

The elites have all the power and they have no interest in sharing any of it.  They are too blinded by greed and driven by fear to do otherwise.

In this way, they pretty much have won.

They’ll print up however much money they desire and hand it out to themselves — after, of course, laundering it through the ““markets”” to create the appearance that fairness was actually involved.

But we all know it’s not. The data is crystal clear: Wall Street’s mighty siphons assure that nearly all of the Fed’s freshly printed money goes straight into the pockets of the most well-connected players.

As I’ve taken pains to point out, given all the public’s focus on Black Lives Matter, somehow the Federal Reserve has escaped being called out for being a nearly pure-white organization whose efforts overwhelmingly funnel additional funds to white households.  Whether by design or accident, the Federal Reserve’s actions do more to cement racial inequality than any other entity, group, or organization in existence.  By far.

Looked at another way, Trump is soothed by the stock market hitting new all-time highs and I believe this has blunted the seriousness with which he takes SARS-CoV-2.  In jamming the stock markets higher, I see the Federal Reserve as also partly responsible for the lame US response to Covid, which has already cost far too many people their lives and many more people their health.

Of course, intervening in the financial markers to push them higher during an election year is a profoundly political act. Something the Fed has absolutely no business doing.

Put all that together and the Federal Reserve is a partisan, political organization that is costing people their lives and health while promoting racial inequality.

Yet it’s given a nearly free pass on all of that from the mainstream press, our supposed watchdog for truth.  Hardly is Fed Chair Jerome Powell ever asked a single daunting question along these lines.

Our health organizations like the CDC and the WHO are similarly compromised and complicit, too shot through with political intrigue and pharma money to be of any help.

All of which is both shameful and self-injurious, because if we’d like to avoid a very dark future filled with societal unraveling, then the Fed’s dangerous actions need to be brought to heel. And soon.

However, after all that has transpired, I don’t see much hope of the Fed changing its ways.  It has proven it can’t be goaded or shamed into introspection or altering course.

Conclusion

All of which is my way of saying that I am bracing for impact.

I simply don’t know what else to do.  We are on our own.

It’s time to consider how you will provide your family with the basics, the very bottom layers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — water, food, shelter, resources, health & safety — if the systems we depend on today start weakening:

When people are busy moving down the Hierarchy of Needs, that means society is crumbling.

And folks are already indeed moving. Literally. Real estate for sale in Manhattan is piling up without takers, while more rural properties are being snapped up.  Gardens are being planted and guns are being bought.

SARS-CoV-2 has taught many lessons and revealed much.  To me, it’s revealed that the elites as led by the Federal Reserve won’t deviate from accelerating inequity until being forced to stop.  Whether that will occur via social revolution, the destruction of the purchasing power of the US dollar, or something else, I don’t know.

But I do know that whatever it is, it won’t be the cause of all the misery that will follow.  The true culprits are the current and former managers (not leaders) with the Fed and within the DC beltway who failed to protect the vulnerable, set reasonable policies, and conduct themselves with integrity.

So my advice is to brace for impact.  There’s nothing any of us can do to affect national monetary policy or stop the major unraveling trends already set in motion, but we can do our best to step outside harm’s way and tend the welfare of ourselves and those we care about as the system falters.

In Part 2: Brace For Impact! I share the key indicators that have me most concerned about the nearness of the next systemic shock, as well as the key steps I recommend you take now using whatever time remains available to you.

We are facing unprecedented challenges that are accelerating at a faster rate than at any other time in human history. Every day we have left to prepare prudently is a gift. Use the time wisely.

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Auntie Kriest

“…the Federal Reserve is a partisan, political organization that is costing people their lives and health while promoting racial inequality.”
– Chris Martenson

Sorry, CHris, The Federal Reserve is, directly, the banking arm of The Evil Fuckers. Their only mission is to ensure the continuation of massive wealth extraction for the stakeholders. The Lumpen can eat shit and die.

motley
motley

this guy is misdirection … solid.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

It is more than racial inequality they are promoting; they are promoting class inequality.

Example: Demonstrations going on across the country; especially Los Angeles.

Peaceful demonstrations surrounded by police while looters a few blocks away are cleaning house without interference by the police.

Our leaders have no plan to change the status quo.

The demonstrators are chanting their demands. Who is there to listen? Only the police who are only there to arrest them in mass numbers for curfew violations. The authorities are hoping that eventually the peaceful demonstrators will tire of their demonstrations and go home.

What a big mistake the authorities are making.

When the demonstrators realize no one is listening and peaceful demonstrations don’t work they are going to lose it. That is when the police are going to be in trouble because they will lose control.

Notice that the Los Angeles City Hall is being protected by a line of police and behind them a line a National Guard? The demonstrations are becoming the people vs the government. This is where it is going.

I believe we are coming very close to a civil insurrection against the government. The fireworks are just starting.

Glock-N-Load

Chris’s best piece to date, imo.

“As I said, these dots simply reveal the values and priorities of those running the show. If I were to use a single word to sum things up, it would be: greed.”

G.R.E.E.D

Seems I’ve been saying that for years now.

Also…

“Good or bad, right or wrong, like it or not, wealth/income inequality, if it gets bad enough, causes many many problems and is the #1 problem America faces today”.

Craven Warrior
Craven Warrior

Hard for me to even bother reading anything by this face diaper pusher.

SeeBee
SeeBee

I used to admire CM very much. So much I traveled to attend a weekend seminar. Something happened with him along the way. He has either succumbed to some MK ultra programming, he was a hustler?, his echo chambering is no longer acceptable. His insights have gotten stale, his foresight dim, his hindsight hyperbole.. After all his years of proselytizing, he offers “brace for impact.” This IMHO, of course.

mark
mark

Yep…fool or tool or both? Go away Chris…

Glock-N-Load

But is he wrong in this posting? Yeah, the Covid crap sure, but the rest of it?

mark
mark

Donkey,

I was just referencing the mask bullshit for the healthy, and the non-risk situations. I would wear one if I was ever around someone who was sick and or asked me to if I knew them.

I agree with him on much as a lifelong Prepper (started in the 80’s – was called a Survivalist then) and heading hard to get completely off the grid.

Some of his stuff is good and some is Peak Bullshit.

I am also one of the few in the Raleigh/Durham retail stores not wearing a mask.

I have put one on to get into a couple of stores…and immediately took it off once in…and so far nobody has said a word…so far, nothing but glares…but I’m an open carry guy ‘often’ (not always) and I always wear my black SAT CONG hat…brings a smile to the few who know what it means. Seems to make snowflakes confused and or nervous.

You can also tell by my demeanor, eye contact, and body language I’m not to be trifled with. I am intentional about all three.

My Sat Cong hat goes well with this T shirt, and removes any doubt that I don’t give a shit about how anyone FEELS.

If I ever face Antifa/BLM again the above will be what I will wear.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load

Love the shirt. I don’t know what SAT CONG is.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load

Wow, I asked my daughter’s military friend, the one who says he has “special” knowledge about all things military. He said it’s offensive. For the life of me, I CANNOT agree with him. Nothing offensive about that.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

It used to mean “Kill Commies”.

Glock-N-Load

Flea,

Sounds like a good message. What is it supposed to mean now?

mark
mark

Donkey,

Kill Commies…

The Commie ORCs are massing…I sniff opium wafting in the air…they will soon be coming in boocoo Dinky Dow waves…bend your frag pins in…be ready to blow the claymores… time to Sat Sat is coming.

Auntie Kriest

Auntie loves it when you talk that way, Mark.

mark
mark

Auntie,

If I am anything I am straight talker…and an even straighter shooter.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

I bet you won’t say Sin Loi after you Sat Cong either.

mark
mark

You are correct HR…I was big into Get Some and Payback is a Mothefuker compliments of the Mother Green Sat Cong Machine…until my last hump and the FUBAR laid me down the last time, three strikes and you’re out. My 5 man gun team left with 12 purples…my Freedom Bird was a C-130 laying on a stretcher…Now I’m the last man standing. Seems survival is habit forming.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Glock.
Maybe he meant it’s offensive as in it implies an offensive attack on Progs(Sedated Commies).
Speaking of which. The tourists are passing through and I’ve noticed the all the allegedly Progster males? walk as if they have loose bowels or loose Sphincters.
Do you suppose it’s an occupational hazard from virtue signaling to the Alpha blacks?

TampaRed

mark,
they’ve come up w/a word 4 guys like us who wear the masks as little as possible–
we’re a bunch of maskholes–
i’m thinking of making a sign 4 my truck–proud deplorable maskhole

mark
mark

Yea Red, I was in Lowes Home Improvement the other day and besides me there were only two others I saw in the entire store not wearing a mask…I made eye contact and smiled at both of them…they smiled back…a 50 something man, and a 30 something woman.

They both looked like no one to jack with. You can tell that most of the time.

Somebody calls me a Maskhole I’ll start fake coughing on them, and call’em a Sheephole. Then I’ll tell’em I have a medical condition, if they ask what it is I’ll say. ANTI-SUBMISSION.

My pin is already almost pulled over this anyway…I’m waiting for the first one…SAT KAREN!

brewer55
brewer55

I agree wholeheartedly with your comments and those of SeeBee and mark below.
I followed Martenson for years and liked much of what he had to say. It was all during the early years of my own ‘awakening’. He talked a lot at the time (early on) about Peak Oil and how everything would come crashing down when the wells dried up. He talked about preparedness and that was a good thing.
However, and it was before this coronavirus boondoggle, he started coming across as a guy that really just wanted you to subscribe to his expensive (IMO) website “Peak Prosperity”.
Then, Covid comes on the stage and initially, I started listening to his daily update. He was wrong — wrong on his statistics, RO factors, how sick the population would get, etc. He continues to harp on these things (I believe as he still puts out a daily or near daily video on Covid) but, I stopped listening months ago. Even this article smacks a little of liberalism and a supporter of BLM. (This may be a stretch and I may be extrapolating) but, to bring up Wall Street as “white” helping out “whites”. I’m not sure why he needed to go there.

Anyway, he makes some good points but, I’m so done with this guy.

22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster

Really, that’s just…I’m out of words.

Then stuff a sock in it, Chris, and LISTEN.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1979/10/a-witness-and-a-warning?lang=eng (1979)

Yahsure
Yahsure

Yep, Nothing changed after 08, the only thing learned was that you could keep on doing the same thing and get bailed out.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

“In jamming the stock markets higher, I see the Federal Reserve as also partly responsible for the lame US response to Covid, which has already cost far too many people their lives and many more people their health.”

When all you have is a hammer…

Who is he writing this for, aren’t we all supposed to be dead by now?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

HFC
That’s exactly what I picked out from this pile of print posing as commentary.

brewer55
brewer55

Exactly. Can you say “Peak Oil”???

rhs jr
rhs jr

We The People need to apply the Inca Solution to the Vampire Squid and its’ Minions before they give us the Mark of the Beast and enslave us.

mark
mark

Here is a bold prediction I hope is too soon, for personal reasons, but is inevitable.

He is hanging his reputation on it.

Spreading my cash to multiple accounts in a Bank, Credit Union, Community Bank, a Trust that supposedly can’t be touched, and in my hands. Hope to be 95% out in two months…his timing in this interview has me nervous in the fiat service.

Mygirl....Maybe

If a money crisis happens then there is no place safe. Not because one cannot hide money but rather, that current cash money, will be made obsolete and, like company script, it will be changed so that pre-existing money will be made illegal. Another thing to bear in mind is that the wealthy and the world still use dollars as the global currency. The alphabet agencies need cash to carry on with their drug trades and the money laundering banks also need those dollars.

It is a far more likely scenario that what will happen will be a ‘Cyprus’ moment where the money is seized by the banks (government) and ‘stock’ in the bank is issued in it’s stead. Remember Obama pushing the ‘myra?’

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Mark.
My only objection to that video was that he seems unaware of the Zionist factor or else he is and wants to remain free and solvent.

mark
mark

Flea, Mygirl,

I agree…with you both – my concern is a sudden ‘Bank Bail In’ as I have most of my fiat exposed as I am spending (on average 3K a day) building our final ultimate prep…a second house behind two gates in deep woods. It is being built like a fort…lots of unusual defensive features.

I have long ago decided to get out of fiat and into hard assets. Between both houses and family with RVs, my farm/compound can feed/shelter my tribe…ringed with hidden fighting positions. (One reason I call it the Last Stand Markamo).

If we go down it will be fighting, and I want us to be extremely expensive.

Yea, he doesn’t mention the Z word…but he has a decent record, and has gone out on a limb…I hope he is wrong, I need more time. Would have had had this completed sooner but had a long, hard, heartbreaking family illness to deal with…and a slow county permit system.

Mygirl....Maybe

I have done what I can. I now sit back and watch. Here in S Central Texas we are currently undergoing a heat wave and drought, now on stage I water restrictions. The developments and massive influx of out-of-state arrivals is taxing an already fragile system, aquifers are being sucked dry and not one person in the state gov. is doing squat to stem the tide. Just the opposite.
There is a point where things must be left to collapse.

SeeBee
SeeBee

Yes, we will all go down together.

mark
mark

First time I heard that song it blew me away…actually made me weep.

SeeBee
SeeBee

Me too. Still does.

mark
mark

Here ya go SeeBee. I wrote this long before the song came out…but we all did go down…down…down together my brother.

COMBAT ASSAULT INTO GREEN HELL

Down
down
down
at 100 miles an hour
in a runaway airborne roller coaster
spiraling wildly
sucked towards the ground
into an invisible whirlpool
down
down
down
the M-60 rips the air
spitting staccato bullets
ripping into the tangled green canopy
looming closer and larger
anti-aircraft fire answers
cracking and popping around us
as we sit hunched on our helmets
twitching
fearing the round
that might explode through the floor
and rip off our balls
one man prays whispering out loud
another vomits
grim silence owns most
as the vortex sucks us
down
down
down
the sergeant stands
bellowing above our fear
the chopper slaps the ground
bounces violently
settles
I can hear myself breathing
GO! GO! GO!
screams through my fear
down the ramp we charge
out and deep into the bowels of Green Hell

pbfurn
pbfurn

Mark,

Does your vehicle have a NC license plate that makes an unmistakable reference to TBP? If not, we have another real kindred spirit in the Raleigh/Durham area.

I wish we all the best in your efforts. Sorry to learn of your family trauma; been there, done that.

mark
mark

pbfurn,

No that’s not me buddy. If I ever see him/her I’ll try and say hello!

I rarely go into either city and then just the fringes to shop or when forced and I have to have the VA work on me. After two injuries/ER visits (always wear your chaps) and a successful surgery for me, and another two ER visits for my 87 year old Father-in-Law (a crusty tough ole Marine Korean War Vet – they call him the Iron Man) I am doing my best to stay on the farm, and away from the ORCs.

brewer55
brewer55

Thanks. I’ll check it out.

Articles of Confederation

Just give me time to cash out my 401(k) and sink it into the next preparatory stage.

Mary Christine

Naomi Prins interview was posted today. She predicts we still have a couple years left before a real crisis. One of them is way off. I’m thinking she might be smoking something that is clouding her mind. I’m not seeing 2 years. I’m hoping for a little more time than Macleod is predicting, but I fear he is right. At any rate, by his predictions, we should know by the end of this month if he is right.

mark
mark

Mary,

I really hope he is off as well…it is a bold prediction…many have been taken aback by it as it is unusual for him.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

We have 116 days left.

That is all.

No matter which way the election goes, The Terror begins on November 4th.

I’m fairly certain we all know this, but no one wants to say it because, well, reasons.

Four months is a lot of time for someone who knows what they need to get done, use it wisely.

mark
mark

Roger that.

CCRider
CCRider

Great post Mark. Thanks for posting.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Three monts ago it was still acceptable to qualify your commentary with “I think the Covid is real”. To do it now means you’re on the take.
As for the rest of it? Not an ounce of new information in it.
Welcome to Neo Feudalism. Same as Paleo Feudalism but with a few Commie trappings to keep the useful and useless idiots on the Rez till Feb.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/american-economy-four-words-neofeudal-extortion-decline-collapse

Anonymous
Anonymous

“I object strenuously to any taxpayer money, my money, being sent to any and all religious organizations (I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state).” Oh, but it’s ok to fund their religions; evolution, globalism, BLM, homoism, earth worship, global warming…. What an idiot.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I do guess that this just about sums it all up. But it makes me so sick I can hardly breathe.

Articles of Confederation

I feel like Chris is desperately searching for an out to his hand-waving hysteria.

mark
mark

Too late…trust once violated is never given back completely.

He helped the panicked stampede.

Articles of Confederation

Concur.

Panzerlied

You could stop reading this diatribe right after he states: I’m a big believer in the separation of church and state). Sorry to inform you, but our Constitution has no such clause regarding separation of church and state. It does exist in the communist constitution, however, which plays perfectly into the slanted misdirection of his writings. This guy is classic controlled opposition, which makes him more of the problem, than the solution.
Anyone that writes supposed “conservative” articles and calls out the “elites,” or the bankers, or globalists, etc., and doesn’t name the Jew, instantly fails the litmus test.
For those souls that are truly seeking the truth, it can become your shibboleth, which is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.
In other words, you will know them by their fruits. If they can’t mention the Jew, then they are controlled by their masters and are either knowingly, or unknowingly aiding the enemy.
The times are coming soon that knowing the truth will be a rare commodity indeed.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Amen to the shibboleth comment. If they choke on it trying to say the JEW word it tells me they’re cowed and I’m not sharing a foxhole with them because they most likely think I’m the enemy. Cut one they all bleed. Pay one they all benefit. To think otherwise means they don’t know the Fish.

TC
TC

“somehow the Federal Reserve has escaped being called out for being a nearly pure-white organization”

Laughably bad characterization, but Martenson probably saw that the ADL got $10M in bailout funds and wants to keep his paypal account.

AC
AC

LOL. It’s the “white people,” again.

“As I’ve taken pains to point out, given all the public’s focus on Black Lives Matter, somehow the Federal Reserve has escaped being called out for being a nearly (((pure-white))) organization whose efforts overwhelmingly funnel additional funds to (((white households))).”

FIFY

No mention of the even more Jewish BlackRock, of which the Fed is effectively a subsidiary now.
https://russia-insider.com/en/huge-jewish-finance-firm-just-took-over-us-treasury-and-fed-blackrock-transcript-audio/ri28494

Panzerlied

Except for the fact that Khazarian Jews are not white, let alone “pure white” as you suppose. And those “white households” that receive additional funds? They are merely the kosher kin of those running the counting houses for the moneychangers. The entire world is owned and controlled by the Jewish financial system. Allow them to print unlimited amounts of currency and they will own it all, including the jackals who masquerade as our Congress.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Money for the sake of money is a sickness of the mind. For some reason society admires these sick minded people. they are no different than perverts or gluttons. good article Chris – Most anyone raised by parents is taught to share. Could you imagine walking into kindergarten and taking all the toys. Where I was raised an ass kicking would have insued by the other kids and then another when I got home. The rich don’t raise their kids the kids are taught to take it all — true entitlement. Take what you need and leave the rest. No one needs 10 million dollars.

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