Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915) declared that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. “There are substantial differences between legislative immunity and a pardon; the latter carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it, while the former is noncommittal, and tantamount to silence of the witness,” legislation declares. “There is a distinction between amnesty and pardon; the former overlooks the offense, and is usually addressed to crimes against the sovereignty of the state and political offenses, the latter remits punishment and condones infractions of the peace of the state.”
The deep state will say that the committee should be preemptively pardoned in case Donald Trump prosecutes his political enemies as the left has done relentlessly over the past four years. Pardoning Bennie Thompson would also likely result in a pardon for Liz Cheney as both have allegedly destroyed evidence surrounding the J6 case.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/pardon-for-j6-committee/

The nursing home for retired neocons, also known as NATO, continually disregards any offers for peace. Russia has been adamant that NATO must not back it into a corner or the situation could go nuclear. Yet, NATO has revealed plans to build another factory close to Russia’s border. Russia has been increasing its military presence in Kaliningrad over the years and believes it is on the defensive against NATO. The necons do not want peace with Russia. They are actively building facilities to instigate tensions and relay the message that their war will not end until they seize Russia – a goal that will fail.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/nato-to-build-ammunition-plant-in-lithuania/

It is improbable to think that this virus naturally spread globally at a rapid speed. All the COVID vaccine manufacturers took a major hit in the markets on the very day that Trump announced he was hiring Robert F. Kennedy to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Will they ever release the ingredients in the actual vaccine? Will those who demanded lockdowns, masking, and distancing without evidence face their day in court? Justice has NOT been served, and one can hope that those responsible will be prosecuted. The upside is that people have lost all trust in “the science” and are beginning to think independently.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/majority-of-americans-will-not-take-updated-covid-vax/

(admin) The Forecasts were Propaganda
Socrates Wins Again – Beats All the Forecasts & Mainstream Media
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/socrates-wins-again-beats-all-the-forecasts-mainstream-media/?awt_a=1JPVU&awt_l=C59pu&awt_m=8ptF9ig7IGqvxrVU

REPLY: Socrates was the only one correct in 2016 and BRXIT. It functions WITHOUT polling – it’s economic based. Those in the media are mostly LEFTISTS so they always forecast what they want to see. Polls are not reliable because they sample people but who controls the sample? If you had conducted a poll only in Washington, DC, Trump would have had maybe 5%.

As I have said on Greg Hinter’s Podcast, the computer was showing the gap would be TOO BIG to fix this time. Trump’s reelection has brought him into a unique club, joining Democrat Grover Cleveland as one of only two U.S. presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms. Trump is the 45th president and now the 47th president. Trump followed Cleveland’s path, which was held in office in 1885 and then again in 1893. The rare achievement highlights Trump’s sustained influence over a divided electorate and the discontent with the establishment. Cleveland may have been a Democrat, but he was also against members of his own party – the Silver Democrats.

GOOD MORNING FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS: YESTERDAY I DIDN'T POST ANYTHING, I WAS NOT FEELING GOOD AND SPENT MY MORNING (UNTIL 1 PM) IN A HOSPITAL BUT I WAS BACK HOME JUST ON TIME TO WATCH IN FULL THE TRUMP RALLY AT THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. IT WAS A GREAT SHOW, AS ONLY TRUMP COULD PUT TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY. IT LOOKED LIKE AN ENHANCED AND AMPLIFIED VERSION OF A REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. THE LINE UP OF SPEAKERS WAS WONDERFUL, INCLUDING RFKjr, TULSI GABBARD, ELON MUSK AND TUCKER CARLSON AMONG MANY. THE LIST WOULD BE TOO LONG TO MENTION EVERYONE. I HAD ALREADY CHOSEN THE VIDEOS FOR YESTERDAY BUT, SINCE I COULDN'T POST THEM, I'M POSTING THEM TODAY, BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL RELEVANT IN THE NEWS AND POLITICS CYCLE. WE MAY BE WRONG WHEN WE JUDGE KAMALA AS "STUPID" BECAUSE OF 'WORD SALADS' SHE REPEATS OVER AND OVER THAT SEEM LIKE THEY HAVE NO MEANING. SOME OF THE SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS SHE REPEATS, ARE DEEPLY ROOTED IN COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY AND TEXTS OF MARXIST PHILOSOPHY. NEVER FORGET THAT SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF A MARXIST UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WHO WAS AN ADVISER IN ECONOMICS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMUNIST PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA (MICHAEL MANLEY) BACK IN THE 1970s. BACK THEN, THE JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT WAS A CLOSE ALLY OF FIDEL CASTRO (JAMAICA'S NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH). THE POLICIES OF KAMALA'S FATHER AND PRIME MINISTER MANLEY, CREATED INFLATION, FOOD SHORTAGES AND BLACK MARKET, ALMOST DESTROYING JAMAICA. SO, LISTEN TO THIS ANALYSIS OF ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN KAMALA'S 'WORD SALADS'.

TRADING ECONOMICS: COMMODITY PRICES (& CHARTS (CLICK ON ANY)

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities

Doesn’t look like there’s anything to be worried about here.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/dark-hole-opens-in-the-sun-we-are-in-a-solar-minimum/

Since 1990 Bank of America showed that the rise of unproductive debt has created a significant problem for the United States economy concern of our time. This type of debt carries greater systemic bad default in economy. The question why economics seems to have made no progress?

The History of Kamala Harris
by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)
For your knowledge and interest about the Biden Vice President, Kamala Harris:
 Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins:
 Kamala Harris' father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris' parents were active in the Berkeley based African-American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the African-American Association.
The group's leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.
Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown's political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers.
Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris' Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris' political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California's Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA.
Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party's best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.
While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.  
Kamala Harris's sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group.
Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow Communists. Phillips married into the multibillion-dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris's political campaigns for various California elective offices plus Cory Booker, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams to name a few.
Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which "boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its 'Communist China investment Services' branch. He was just appointed Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism.
When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.
 Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.
 The US constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People's Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People's Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.
 If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon's article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office.
Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.
 Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.
American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years.
President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.  
Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)