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When drafting the ending paragraph of my book, Communism Returns, in July of 2019, I had little idea it would be happening in America as soon as this first week of June 2020. See excerpt page 215 below:

“It will be outright war between the CSC’s fascist type socialism and the bureaucratic elite’s synthesized Maoist-Marxist-Leninist communism. Both schools will use the common men and women serfs that they’ve enslaved as collateral in their sophist war, not unlike Hitler and Stalin did in the Second World War or Mao in his disastrous Great Leap and Cultural Revolution campaigns. In fact Xi Jinping, China’s new lifetime leader, and Putin’s Marxist-Leninist coalition with Castro’s Cuba are counting on such a civil war to collapse the Western world and its free democratic values once and for all.”

With the coronavirus, lockdowns and incompetence of America’s bureaucratic elites, the Global Socialist Alliance has unfortunately succeeded in stoking nationwide riots throughout America’s cities after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. What America is seeing now is the socialists’ battle lines being drawn between the corporate socialists (CSC) and bureaucratic elite of the “deep state.” The Marxist-Leninist doctrine advocates the use of “armed violence and terror to break existing structures of civil government.” This includes the rioting and looting that is being oppressed upon the common citizens of America’s mega-cities today.

What has been surprising is that the financial markets are thus far holding up, having rebounded measurably in May from the coronavirus’ economic shock. The markets, already distorted by the Fed’s perpetual intervention, are likely to correct sharply by late summer once the second quarter’s dismal corporate earnings results and outlook are released come mid-July.

The economic forecast by late summer is likely another collapse in the financial markets followed this time by a rapid wealth decline, triggering another crisis-driven economic correction that again spikes unemployment and income losses. The economic crisis will re-ignite the ongoing civil unrest (i.e. shootings, rioting, looting, lockdowns, Antifa thuggery) with local and state governments incompetent to do much about it, some even complicit with their actions causing more unrest. Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan allowing protesters to lawlessly takeover the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and establish the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) the is an example of such complicity.

In addition, local, state and national government activists of America’s socialist Left will purposely intensify the unrest and economic hardship to divide and collapse the civil peace, hoping the people will cower to them out of desperation, letting thuggery rule their jurisdictions.

There are 3 things to know about the socialist Left’s activists in America’s government. First, they are ideologically motivated in anger & hate. It is part of the socialist ideology and their actions (i.e. rioting, looting, hypocritical intolerance) are doctrinaire textbook examples to divide and collapse the civic governmental institutions, so they can take control.

Second, they are getting their strategic and tactical direction from an organized central socialist figure that planned America’s upheaval years ago. A good guess is that it’s Obama’s shadow government loyalists and/or espionage networks of the Chinese Communist Party and Putin operating in the United States.

Third, the socialist Left’s goal is to completely discredit the 2020 presidential election no matter who comes out victorious be it Trump or the democrats’ presumed candidate Biden, because the Western approach to socialism calls for a complete dissolution of free democratic elections. It won’t stop at the presidential level either; their plans are also unfolding at the state and local electoral levels.

The actions of the socialist Left since the 2016 presidential election (i.e. Russia hoax, Obamagate, baseless impeachment, violent protests) are a trial-run for their ultimate strategy, which is to take absolute control (AC) of all branches of the US government, completely rewriting the US Constitution to rule by executive decree, making the whole Western free democratic election process irrelevant, keeping themselves in power indefinitely. Voicing the national opinion of the socialist Left, their congressional leader Nancy Pelosi has already stated that she will not accept the outcome of the 2020 election, arrogantly stating that the American people cannot be trusted to decide the next US president.

The lockdowns, “stay at home” orders and extended economic shutdowns are a view of the future under the socialist Left’s next government!

For six weeks there has been a calm before the storm in the economy. As the United States’ reported second quarter (2Q2020) GDP contracted over 30%, the financial markets have melted up with big technology companies (i.e. Amazon, Facebook) earning’s report showing stellar growth though the banking sector has forecast a rash of defaults for the foreseeable future.

The Global Central Bankers Club (GCBC) had their bi-monthly Bank of International Settlements (BIS) meeting on July 29 as the financial markets’ upward momentum continued. The central bankers’ annual Jackson Hole symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will only be virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was at this Jackson Hole meeting preceding the 2008 presidential election when the consensus strengthened that there was a financial crisis beyond central bankers’ control, leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. To briefly recap what happened, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy on September 15, 2008 and then Fed Chairman Bernanke incompetently warned that America and the world were on the verge of a second Great Depression, causing the financial markets’ free-fall collapse into 2009 when they finally troughed on March 9th.

To put this in further perspective, an excerpt from page 215 (paragraph two) of the conclusion to Communism Returns is provided: “…if the socialist elite of the Global Central Bankers Club (GCBC) could engineer a financial panic even half the magnitude of the 2008 market crash, then it would be a matter of months until the unemployment, poverty and dependence leads to a despairing surrender of the Western middle class to the socialists’ fear campaigns.”

Let’s hope that the current Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, is more prudent than his predecessors this year, because the global socialists would gleefully cheer another financial crisis like 2008’s this presidential election year, no matter the disastrous consequences.

The 2020 election season will be kicking into full gear this month of August starting with the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions that will be mostly virtual due, once again, to the coronavirus hype. The democrats’ contender, Joe Biden, will face President Donald Trump. Looking ahead to after Labor Day (September 7th), if there is any uncertainty surrounding Trump’s prospect for a second term or there is a prolonged dispute over the November 3rd results, expect volatility to hit the financial markets with a vengeance. Be forewarned that global socialists’ radical Antifa thugs terrorizing America’s cities this summer fully intend to undermine the presidential election no matter the victor, so please be vigilant and protect yourselves this coming fall.

With all the upheaval surrounding America’s 2020 election year there is plenty of good news on the economic front with signs of a robust recovery from the coronavirus shutdown. Job hiring, consumer spending and manufacturing & production have all posted healthy gains since June and are forecast to pick up momentum through the remainder of the year. So, what could disrupt the positive trend? A lot and it is all on the financial and political fronts.

As my June and August blogs forecasted a correction in the financial markets ensued in the days proceeding the Labor Day holiday, led by a heavy sell-off in technology stocks even though they had carried the S&P 500 (3,581) and Nasdaq (12,056) to historical highs on September 2, 2020. This peak and sell dynamic all happened after the central bankers’ Jackson Hole symposium on August 27, 2020, held virtually this year. Expect more market volatility surrounding the Federal Reserve’s meeting on September 16 as Silicon Valley’s Technology Oligarchs and the monolithic media flex their political influence over the November 3rd election.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other technology giants have quite conspicuously shown allegiance with communist China over the best interests of America. While not specifically stated, their actions have all but declared opposition to President Trump’s America First platform that is reshaping America’s domestic economy away from dependence on China. They are running disinformation campaigns that clearly challenge Trump’s successes (i.e. economic rebound, foreign policy, trade deals, etc.) while funding Washington’s established special interests that have been selling-out the American working class for over 25 years.

The Technology Oligarchs ((i.e. Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Bill Gates and more) are heavily allied with the socialist Left that is stoking non-stop civil unrest in America’s cities, using Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM ) thugs to harass peaceful citizens dining at restaurants in Rochester (NY), Pittsburgh(PA) and Denver (CO) over the Labor Day weekend, physically assaulting the elderly and disabled. The Left’s disruptions are revealing a pattern of targeting America’s small business owners who are struggling to stay open as they recovery from the coronavirus shock. The appeasing mayors and governors of the cities and states being destroyed by the rioting show little concern for their citizens’ welfare, having embraced the Left’s agenda while, quite bewilderingly, casting blame for the Antifa-BLM violence on President Trump.

Hence, America has entered the final stretch into this November’s election with what is becoming a choice between Trump’s traditional American exceptionalism and the Democratic party’s hardline socialist platform camouflaged in figurehead Joe Biden. With no apparent concern for the consequences, the Democrats’ established leadership is already defiantly voicing that they will in no way accept the November 3rd election results should Trump win.

If anything is evident on America’s political stage this year, it is that the Democrats are in a civil war that is spreading belligerently into greater America. The energized radical socialist faction led by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Elizabeth Warren is purging moderate centrist voices in the party such as congressmen Collin Peterson and Dan Lipinski, the latter who lost his primary on March 18, 2020. The aggression bares stark similarities to the dangerous socialist campaigns of Hitler’s Nazis in inter-war Germany and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 that led to the Russian Civil War and deadly Red Terror.

This brings forth the 2020 end-game goals of the socialist Left and Technology Oligarchs who are calling for a New World Order (NWO) with what’s looking to be a one-world, global socialist government controlled by Central Bankers, Technology Oligarchs and Bureaucratic Elite of the government class that appease not just the Left’s domestic terrorism, but also bully nations like Xi’s China, Putin’s Russia and Castro’s communist Cuba. This heavily socialist NWO would no doubt bring a second American civil war, destroy the Western world’s exceptional prosperity and be globally disastrous to humanity, evidenced by socialism’s 20th century history of killing over 140 million people.

With that, there is a lot that could happen on the economic front this fall after the Fed’s September 16 meeting-the last before the November election-so we need to be vigilant to protect our finances and stay safe. Please enjoy the fall season this year and look for my next blog update after the Federal Reserve’s September meeting minutes are released on October 7.

The economy is forging ahead robustly as mainstream America is re-opening and the financial markets have mostly recovered from the September sell-off. All the positive economic news keeps coming despite the non-stop politicking in the distorted election pollsters, media’s continuous fear campaign over the coronavirus and Antifa’s thuggery destroying America’s cities. The reality is most Americans have likely already decided the 2020 election or, if there was any uncertainty, the stock markets would be in a free fall collapse.

However, expect trouble ahead as the November 3rd election will be disputed by the socialist Left with several incidents of post-election fraud in the states that ultimately decide America’s presidency and the control of both chambers of Congress, especially the Senate.

All the traitorous politics of Washington’s warring factions since 2016 could soon culminate into a near term economic collapse with an upheaval of America’s leading institutions after the 2020 election.
The fact is that the nation’s vital institutions-schools, universities, labor unions, government, corporations, media and social establishments-have already failed greater America in the 21st century, making a near majority dependent on an inept government STATE, creating the prospect of long-term poverty for many.

The blatant shutdown of America’s economy during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic will likely reveal the ugly truth in the New Year 2021. More and more people, including the more affluent, will soon come to understand the socialist Left’s “new normal” means more business shutdowns, persistent unemployment, having to work two or three part time jobs and reliance upon subsistence government welfare (i.e. unemployment, stimulus checks, food stamps), not unlike the stagnated Obama-Biden economy from 2009-2016.

With the above said, it is actually after the 2020 election that Americans will really have to decide their future. There are a few directions the United States can go amidst the post-election upheaval. The best case is that Americans will solidly unite, embrace freedom once again and restore the country back to the free enterprise that has delivered America’s exceptional prosperity time and again over the ages.

The worst case is that Washington’s treachery will push the country closer to a second civil war with a dissolution of the United States similar to that of the Soviet Union in 1991. In fact, America’s radical socialist Left has been planning a civil war since even before its denial of Trump’s 2016 election victory, having executed it methodically in 2020 with Pelosi’s partisan impeachment of President Trump, the overreaching lockdowns and Antifa’s rioting in the streets since June. The post-election fraud will likely be the Left’s declaration of war, stating that its reluctant candidate Biden won with bundles of uncounted ballots surfacing in all the close races.

Of course, there is also a middle case (and there is one) that 2020’s chaotic election will force Americans to reevaluate their mistaken descent down socialism’s failed path in the 21st century and start to reform the nations’ failed institutions. What could this look like? We will look at this in my next blog coming in November after Thanksgiving.

For the near future please be safe, vigilant, prudent in your alliances and prepared for more uncertainty over America’s future for the next few months.

The financial markets are surprisingly calm amidst America’s political chaos, perhaps just a calm before the storm heading into the 2021 New Year. While the markets (i.e. Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq) hit new historical peaks on November 27th, 2020, a market correction is expected. It could just be a rebalancing and profit taking before the 2020 year end, or could also be a more dramatic sell-off as America’s socialist political realties sink in.

The most probable scenario for a market correction is that the radically anti-business economic policies of a Biden-Harris government will cause consumer and institutional investors to sell and run for cover. Of course, the presidency could well be headed for a contested election where neither Biden nor Trump have the necessary 271 electoral college votes come the congressional roll call on January 6, 2021, which could cause a sharp sell-off in the technology sector, taking most of the market averages down with it.

The socialist Left’s treachery reached a new apex in the November 3rd election drama with coordinated after-midnight election fraud that, by the next morning, suspiciously showed Biden winning the critical swing states of Pennsylvania (PA), Michigan (MI), Wisconsin (WI) and, quite surprisingly, Georgia (GA). The skepticism lies in the fact that when the counting stopped shortly before midnight of election night, Trump was beating Biden by wide margins in all these states: PA 57% to 42%, MI 55% to 44%, WI 51% to 48%, and GA 57% to 42%.

From midnight until the next morning hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots amazingly surfaced in the megacity poll counting centers of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta where republican observers were bluntly denied their right to monitor the counting, much less verify the mail-in ballots’ legal integrity. These midnight to next-morning ballots overwhelmingly favored Joe Biden defying statistical believability, drawing a qualified analytical critique from a prominent Ivy League mathematician, Professor Steven Miller, as well as a groundswell of complaints from the disenfranchised observers.

On November 7,2020, with no official electoral college presidential victor confirmed, the media and Washington’s bi-partisan Bureaucratic Elite declared Joe Biden the winner, attempting to “steal the election.” Biden and his vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris even gave emphatic victory speeches, televised worldwide with their supporters celebrating all over the world. In the month since, Biden has been popularly referred as the “president-elect” and has proceeded with plans to take over the presidency, already forming a cabinet.

The Biden camp’s attempted election coup was premeditated by the socialist Left, hoping that Americans will either surrender to them or, when the presidential winner is officially decided, unleash its Antifa-BLM thugs to resume their rioting and looting campaign started back in June. Unfortunately, Biden’s abrupt rush to declare victory stokes up the worst case mentioned in my October 2020 blog and could pave the way to the socialist Left’s long-planned civil war.

This leaves scant hope for the best case of Americans uniting to live free and prosper, with little better for the middle case. When the aftermath of the election finally settles, there might be some chance for a middle of the road course, so it’s worth mentioning that for the United States to survive as one country, its people will need to reconcile by, first and foremost, agreeing that we are all Americans, acknowledging the real challenges ahead of us.

My next blog will be coming after Christmas when there will hopefully be more clarity over America’s precarious future. Here is wishing you and yours Happy Holidays. Enjoy the season and please be safe in these uncertain times.