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Yes, #TheGreatReopening is happening as we speak. No, it will not be televised (or even YouTubed). Find out the details as James highlights the resistance movements that are rising up around the world on this week’s edition of #SolutionsWatch.
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SHOW NOTES
The Uprising Has Begun (New World Next Week)
30,000 Italian Restaurants Defy Lockdown Rules / Hugo talks #lockdown
100’s Of Polish Business’s To DEFY Lockdown / Hugo Talks #lockdown
“BURN IT DOWN!” – Anti-Lockdown RIOTS Lead To Covid Testing Facility Being TORCHED In Netherlands!
Ontario barbershop reopens despite provincial lockdown using loophole
Unmasked COVID protesters try, fail to place Canadian mayor under citizen’s arrest
What You Need to Know About Making a Citizen’s Arrest
Taking a Stand: Sheriffs, Local Officials, and Rule of Law VS. Covid Dictators
Left, Khaps, Gender, Caste: The solidarities propping up the farmers’ protest
Freedom Airway – #SolutionsWatch
Fact check: PCR testing and viral genetic sequencing serve different purposes
I posted this earlier. Two restaurants near me refuse the lockdown.
https://www.corbettreport.com/introducing-solutionswatch/#comment-102118
Very inspiring Episode. It makes one want to find a Protest to join the Movement. (I can’t image the Episode lasting more than a day on Gootube).
I live in Copenhagen. This saturday there was another big demonstration by the group called “Men in black”. On their facebookpage they write all are welcome for a peaceful demonstration for freedom. Of course the media covers it with clickbait titles that emphasizes the AGGRESSION happening in europe. Someone had unfortunately made a doll of the primeminister and someone else apparently set it on fire. That will surely make for 10 more fear-mongering articles ignoring the actual topic.
https://theliberal.ie/fighting-back-men-in-black-denmark-group-defy-curfew-burn-effigy-of-prime-minister-and-say-theyll-never-stay-locked-down/
If everyone did something small you would get a freaking huge cumulative effect.
Would mother consider sending emails? She can still write the letter, then take a photo of it and send it digitally.
James, thanks for the pick-up-up video. You reminded me that I wanted to follow through with that Mieila’s comment, but I got sidetracked. About 15 times, or so.
BTW, what’s your source stating that you need to have a source for your claims 😉
🙂
In relative terms, Vancouver Canada has been more or less open for business, except for very irritating and completely useless rules like having to wear a mask to traverse the 10 feet from the door to the table at a restaurant or bar, when you can then shed the mask and sit there eating and drinking – surely that’s because COVID doesn’t work when you’re sitting down…
Yep you read that correctly! It applies to OUTDOOR PATIOS as well as I found out yesterday, but at least I can go to some places unlike in other cities with far more draconian rules in place.
But what about Vancouver businesses that ARE NOT restaurants or bars? They have been dealt unfair and inconsistent measures. Well a local movie theatre – Rio Theatre – located in the commercial drive area of Vancouver has come up with an interesting solution:
http://riotheatre.ca/
That’s right…. I guess as they say: screw the arts for now – we are a sports bar!
I’ve been watching this well loved local institution and others try to struggle through these completely ridiculous and inconsistent rules in place by Workplace BC and it’s army of minions, and it is fantastic that they are (In the case of Rio) playing the loopholes and back in business at least to some extent.
I for one am heading down to my new favorite “sports bar” later for a beer beneath the big screen and hope to see fellow sane Vancouverites there so we can discuss how to address the ongoing lunacy.
I’ve worked in the arts myself and I have friends who still do and it is absolutely heartbreaking to see them being destroyed. But the powers that be have been going after live venues for some time now. It’s almost as if they can’t bear anything connected with fun or joy.
Yes you are right and it’s extremely shameful
…and afterall, the Arts offer critique and, as we have learned, critique is now subject to censorship and deplatforming (that last word – “deplatform” – will be added to future Dictionaries no doubt, as it becomes part of the New Norm’ and that’s even more shameful)
That was great for a laugh! More people need to issue the govt citations and spoof them back so they see how ridiculous we think they are. I loved how he ended the conversation with the PO with several “thank you”s…very classy.
“Hypothetical” Solutions:
1. burn down COVID testing facilities
2. burn down vaccine centers
3. perform a citizen’s arrest of any police officer who falsely arrests or imprisons law-abiding citizens as their arrest is likely a felony
4. create “mutual defense pacts” with your neighbors and friends
5. open your businesses
6. censor those who speak of COVID as if it’s some highly infectious deadly disease by leaving the conversation, disassociating from them as close friends, shame them by asking when they’re wearing a mask, “Are you afraid of the virus even though there’s a 99.9% chance that you’ll survive it even if you are infected?”
7. call your local sheriff to see where he stands — he’ll fear retribution from the population, so there’s a high chance he may side for Patriots
8. if you’re a business who’s been fined for staying open, fight it in court — I read recently that charges are always dropped because they know that they’ll lose on constitutional grounds and they don’t want to have a negative precedent.
If you all have any other great ideas, please share them as we need strategies to fight this with our minds before we have to fight this with lead.
This was a superb #TheGreatReopening – #SolutionsWatch!
Corbett…He da man!
This is Bonfire Building 101.
James Corbett is wearing his Hat!
The rest of the Alternative Media damn well better follow his lead. They better start publicizing every defiant action that they see or hear about…and play it up to glory.
They better massage every fiber to these acts of defiance. They need to nurture this spirit; inspire and instigate.
This is THE STORY for 2021 if we are gonna come out the other side.
In bringing about effective change, the mainstream media is not really the lead weights on our shoes…it is the Alternative Media which has the opportunity to help broadcast the message of how common people are spiting the Authoritarians.
If some of these folks in the Alternative Media don’t climb on board this ship, I’m ditching them. I won’t look back, because the ship is sailing.
RE: Dolores Cahill PCR claims factcheck by Reuters. In last night’s day 2 of The Greater Reset Activation live event, Ms. Cahill did address that issue “clarifying”, (I’m paraphrasing, see below link and timestamp for accuracy) the report she was referencing was not correct after all, and they are starting from scratch, currently seeking ethics approval to collect PCR test results for deep sequencing. Jump to 29:20 here: https://lbry.tv/@TheGreaterReset:4/Dolores-Cahill–Brave-New-World-of-Freedom–Solutions-in-the-areas-of-Health-and-Travel:e
I just saw it too. Was wondering if somebody already posted it, good to see you already did 🙂
I’m sure she will get back to James but I know Richie Allen had to wait a while for a response from her about something. I know that she is trying to do so much and spreading herself pretty thin. There are only a very small number of people fighting back here in Ireland. I don’t know what’s happened to the Irish rebel spirit, it seems to have disappeared.
About India,
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/farm-bills-indian-farm-reforms-2020-1606901455-1
By what I read the reforms look nice to me particularly Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act or Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act. If someone could explain what the problem is, I would appreciate.
We have to remember that if the government withdrew farm subsidies in most western countries, we would have te same reactions, even though they benefit big producers more than smaller ones, shift production and harm tax-slaves (as always).
The “people” are not always right, and just because they say some laws will benefit large corporations does not mean they will, or even that it is bad in itself.
I hate to be a “party pooper”, but I heard the 1-1/2 hours of The Greater Reset videos from Jan. 25th (and have not yet heard the videos from Jan. 26th – haven’t yet heard James Corbett’s section, which I’m most interested in, as well as Christian Westbrook’s (IAF)), but I’m a bit disappointed to say that I have yet to hear actual concrete solutions.
Please don’t get me wrong, I think that it’s a total all-star cast of the best speakers on these subjects, and I highly trust each of them and have total faith that they want the best for all of humanity, but I can’t even make a “To Do” list of potential solutions. It was literally: 1. maybe don’t pay your taxes to the IRS (in which case it’s possible the IRS might not even need our money anyway since the Fed can print as much as it wants before our dollar just blows up), and 2. consider withdrawing your money from the banks (where I again point out that they can get the money back from us by raising property and sales taxes, or just hyperinflating the dollar).
As an example, Rosa Koire, who I love listening to, just reiterated the same thing she’s been saying since Day 1. And while I like that these videos may be great for newbies (and this is not meant as a “dig” on any of these speakers, as I think they’re all incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable on these subjects and they were each in their own way inspiration), I think we’re way passed time to actually having tangible solutions.
A “hypothetical” solution would be organizing dates, times, and locations for “protests” at the capitol buildings. Or here’s how you go about going from city-slicker to being a farmer, off the grid.
Am I the only one who feels that at this rate, we’ll be shoveling snow in the Siberian gulags, or trapped in a megacity building with our allowance of 1 ounce of protein per week before we die of malnutrition?
Please tell me if I’m wrong.
gauntlet33,
I believe they are aimed at informing, I for example am not familiar with some speakers. About your solutions:
> 1. maybe don’t pay your taxes to the IRS
Go to jail? Unless you have a mass tax revolt, the Fed printing money is the least of your problems.
> 2. consider withdrawing your money from the banks
But don’t keep it in your local colored paper, buy gold or maybe crypto (though I would not put all or even a 10th of my savings in such volatile assets).
The thing is that there is no easy solution, agorism may sound good however most goods will always be traded in white markets (the cost of moving them to gray or black markets is too great due to state violence) and most people will be wage-labourers paid in their local colored paper. If our enlightened leaders prohibit cattle farming or ICE vehicles, it will be very difficult to continue those activities since you cannot hide them. I am not saying agorism may not be useful to buy some food or weapons, but it is a very limited approach.
If there is no opposition to this from at least 10% of the people (maybe less if heavily armed) then there is not much we can do. In regions, where ~25% of the people oppose this agenda, with a bit of regional sentimentalism, secessionist movements can be set up.
What we really need is a cultural revolution, but that takes many years.
@hidetora, thanks for response.
Also, those were not “my” solutions…they were suggested by one of the speakers Derrick Broze.
As for gold and crypto, what do you do with those? How would you spend them? I think most people figure they’ll buy gold and Bitcoin now, wait for the dollar to hyperinflate and then sell their gold and Bitcoin for 10x what they paid for them. But if that happens, in theory, your purchasing power hasn’t really gone up. Now you’re just paying 10x of what you used to pay in the same dollars that you had before.
Also, sounds easy, but what if the gold is prohibited as a means of transaction and you can’t get your dollars back? Or what if you sell your gold and the govt says that you can’t deposit your new dollars in the bank because they may be laundered since they can’t track where it came from? Sure, you can keep your dollars at your safe place at home, but for most people those dollars will eventually be used up.
As for crypto, what if the govt erases/deletes the value in your “wallet”? Nobody can prove that they can’t, and I and many others here believe that the crypto is a psyop and/or at best a beta test for the new digital currency that will be rolled out. Or what if all crypto are deemed illegal? The value would plummet overnight.
You’re right…I don’t expect an easy solution, but I would like solutions, and I believe that’s what The Greater Reset advertised, and after listening to 1.5 hrs, there was a lot of positivity (that’s great), but there were no solutions.
In short, without a “list” of CONCRETE things that people need to being doing right here and right now, and people actually taking action, we are going nowhere with this movement.
I therefore come to the conclusion that secession and armed conflict (as mentioned by Brandon Smith at http://www.alt-market.us are the only “solutions” until one side wipes out the other, or a new equilibrium is found wherein natural rights are respected in a truly representative govt.
Someone please tell me that I missed something and that there’s actual solutions on Day 2.
Crickets…
With all due respect to the speakers here and at The Greater Reset, if you’re looking for actual solutions, see Brandon Smith’s articles at http://www.alt-market.us
That’s the only solution I actually see working. The rest is just unicorn farts and wishful thinking. Sorry, but true.
Gauntlet33,
> As for gold and crypto, what do you do with those? How would you spend them?
> Also, sounds easy, but what if the gold is prohibited
For the first one, the easiest way is to sell it for fiat or crypto on a need basis, the main purpose is to shield your savings from inflation. For the second, you are supposed to use it when you can and exchange it for fiat when you cannot.
It is highly unlikely that gold is forbidden, it is a very important commodity both for industrial purposes and as a hedge against inflation. The super rich also have got gold.
There could be gold confiscations, and that is why you do not declare it and keep some of it in an offshore vault.
> As for crypto, what if the govt erases/deletes the value in your “wallet”?
Impossible, the blockchain technology makes it impossible.
> therefore come to the conclusion that secession and armed conflict (as mentioned by Brandon Smith at http://www.alt-market.us are the only “solutions”
Secession is the only way out of this, down to cities and towns, and ideally to individuals too. Extreme decentralization and organic communities is the only possible answer to this. I found out about Brandon a few months ago at LewRockwell.com, he’s excellent.
Secession sounds excellent and like a viable option in the US. Also supporting your militias is probably a good idea too. Salvaging your wealth is also important which gold and crypto can help with.
I would get out of the city and build a community in rural places.
Well I’m building a house in another state in a rural area. I will have chickens and try to trade food with others. The area I’m moving to is very liberty oriented so hope to build community. I anticipate working a regular job until (if and only if) they mandate a vaccine and I think there’s going to be pushback because these injections are not fully approved by the FDA.
You mentioned learning skills in another post. That’s a very good idea. As momentum builds as people resist the state will have to back off. I think grey and black markets will grow.
I’ll address some of the points made in this comment thread.
Gold in standard conditions can servr as a store of value, it has done so for thousands of years. Albeit, in intermittent periods. If you go hungry and so does the majority in your surroundings, gold probably will not get you far.
So this depends on what you are planning for. If it’s a mad max scenario, a couple of rifles and a few dozen fruit trees will serve you a lot better than several bars of gold.
Nobody will tell you what to plan for.
Regarding bitcoin being stolen, I would say there’s a very high probability something like that will happen inside a few years. That will probably destroy many people’s lives. Unlike gold, bitcoin is a lousy store of value.
Solutions are out there, it’s just that it is very difficult to cater to masses. Get autonomy, speak the truth and stop believeing that someone else will swoop in and save the day.
How about, rather than a “flashmob”, something we can agree to call a “normality bomb”? …
Arrange a group of 30-40 people to all arrive at a grocery store inside of a 20 minute window, let’s say, for example, from 12:35pm to 12:55pm.
** WEAR A MASK! **
Everyone sets their phone to vibrate, and sets an alarm for EXACTLY 1:00pm. at _EXACTLY_ _EXACTLY_ _EXACTLY_ 1:00pm, everyone in “the group” removes their masks quietly, and continue grocery shopping as if nothing is out of the ordinary. The idea is to have 40 maskless people all appear, seemingly, out of thin air.
Don’t give anyone in the store any reason to think an organized protest is taking place. Deny, Deny, Deny you’re a part of anything.
If anyone asks if there’s an anti-mask protest taking place, reply, “not one that I’m aware of.”
If someone tells you to, or asks you why you’re not wearing a mask, simply reply, “There’s at least 50 people in here without a mask on, I don’t see what it would help for me to wear one.”
It would be interesting to watch and see how many other shoppers remove their own mask when they see that most customers aren’t wearing one. You’d know who’s not “in the group” if you see them taking it off at 1:01, 1:02, etc, etc.
-S
I absolutely love this idea! 🙂
That’s a grest idea and I hope you are able to carry it out. Where I am I just wouldn’t be able to get anyone to do it, it’s so frustrating.
The ‘Common Man’ sticks it to Wall Street – the recent “GameStop Event”
This should be a long story, but I will give a brief, coffee-shop rendition…
Starting around Friday January 22nd , a group of Wall Street traders on Reddit with more than two million users (called “WallStreetBets”) completely disrupted the mainstream narrative. In fact, MainStream Media didn’t know what to do, because they lost control of the narrative. Mainstream Media could no longer could ply their trade of influencing markets, and some of the heavy weights of the Wall Street gang (Hedge Funds) were losing control. Not only did some of these Hedge Funds lose control – they got their asses whooped badly.
SHORTING A STOCK
In the stock market, if an investor thinks that a company’s stock price will go down, they can “short” it. Considering 2020, there is no argument that a variety of stocks should go down in price.
However, as is often the case, some Hedge Funds have been taking advantage of this “short” aspect to the extreme. By being heavily invested in shorting a stock, it tends to manipulate the marketplace in the Hedge Fund’s favor and drive down the price of that stock.
“WallStreetBets” Reddit Group decided to go against some of these Hedge Funds who were shorting stocks. The news spread on alternative media platforms such as Zero Hedge. A host of companies whose stock price was headed for the grave yard because they were highly shorted, suddenly found their stock price surging to unheard of levels.
EXAMPLES: GameStop Corporation (GME) went from $40 a share to almost $400 a share in the span of less than a week.
AMC Theatres (AMC) stock price had been hanging on by a thread. AMC stock price had been hovering between $2 and $3. By Wednesday it was near $20 per share.
This Zero Hedge article gives an overview as things played out after Monday.
Here Are All Of Melvin Capital’s Crushed Put Positions
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-are-all-melvin-capitals-crushed-put-positions
However, the real story here is how the MAINSTREAM SYSTEM responded.
From restrictions by Trading Platforms to the Biden Administration monitoring the situation…
…the narrative. Mainstream lost control of the narrative.
At first, there were harsh media critics, but then later, some of the pundits on the airways cautiously muffled their descriptions of “The GameStop Event” for fear of ticking-off the common man.
READ BELOW
WallStreetBets User Writes Open Letter To CNBC
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wallstreetbets-user-writes-open-letter-cnbc
FULL STORY
In the aftermath of Gamespot’s historic eruption, where infamous r/wallstreetbets, a group of traders on Reddit with more than two million users, was able to outsmart and blow up a bunch of hedge funds short the stock. A user on the reddit site published an open letter, criticizing CNBC’s reporting of the investing forum.
Here is u/RADIO02118’s open letter to CNBC:
Before you spend another day hosting your shill hedge fund buddies to come on the air and demonize r/wallstreetbets I hope you read this.
Your contempt for the retail investor (your audience) is palpable and if you don’t get it together, you’ll lose an entire new generation of investors.
I keep thinking about these funds that are short GME like your boys at Melvin Capital / your coverage of this subreddit and I’m getting madder and madder.
These funds can manipulate the market via your network and if they screw up big because they don’t even know the basics of portfolio risk 101 and using position sizing, they just get a bailout from their billionaire friends at Citadel. Then they have the nerve to turn us into public enemy #1 just because we believe in an underdog company getting a second chance.
We don’t have billionaires to bail us out when we mess up our portfolio risk and a position goes against us. We can’t go on TV and make attempts to manipulate millions to take our side of the trade. If we mess up as bad as they did, we’re wiped out, have to start from scratch and are back to giving handjobs behind the dumpster at Wendy’s.
Seriously. Motherf**k these people. I sincerely hope they suffer. We want to see the loss porn.
This open-letter comes after a renewed battle today in the video-game retailer stock (this time involving Chamath Palihapatitya and Cameron Winklevoss) is likely to gain business media’s attention.
Users of r/wallstreetbets appear displeased with CNBC’s reporting. It only takes one Reddit post on the forum to go viral, one where it calls for a boycott of the financial television news network.
Wednesday – January 27, 2021 – Zero Hedge
Biden Administration Is “Monitoring” Marketwide Short Squeeze
(One minute Video in article)(“First Female” style)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-administration-monitoring-marketwide-short-squeeze
EXCERPTS
Following the last several sessions of massive short squeezes in numerous stocks, including Gamestop, AMC Entertainment Holdings, BlackBerry Limited, among others, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed these issues with reporters on Wednesday afternoon, saying that the Biden administration, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, are “monitoring” the situation in the stock market (which, needless to say, is a bit odd – the president rarely monitors the market when a cabal of hedge funds manages to ramp a stock 100%, 200%, or more, yet when retail investors do it… time for alarm).
Psaki reminded everyone that “the stock market isn’t the only measure of the health of our economy.”
[VIDEO]
This begs the question why is the government monitoring markets when retail traders are making hand over fist buying most shorted stocks, while hedge funds are getting crushed by their short positions?
And a better question: does the Biden admin realize that it was Yellen’s policies for half a decade that enabled this market idiocy?
Below we present some of the best responses to this latest example of how the Biden nanny state will soon crash the last trace of capitalism:….
RELATED HEADLINES
Tuesday Morning–> From GameStop to BlackBerry, here’s why the shorts are getting squeezed
~~WWW finance.yahoo.com/news/shorts-get-squeezed-morning-brief-111100682.html
Gamestop Insanity: Stock Hits $385, Even After Shorts Melvin, Citron Capitulate
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gamespot-chaos-stock-hits-365-then-dips-after-report-melvin-citron-cover-shorts
In Unprecedented Move, TD Ameritrade Puts “Restrictions” On Transactions In GME, AMC
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unprecedented-move-td-ameritrade-puts-restrictions-transactions-gme-amc
Retail Brokerages Suffer Widespread Outages As Short-Squeeze Surge Accelerates
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/retail-brokerages-suffer-widespread-outages-short-squeeze-surge-accelerates
Hedge Funds Are Puking Longs To Cover Short-Squeeze Losses
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-funds-are-puking-longs-cover-short-squeeze-losses
Most Shorted Stocks Update: Here Come The Microcaps
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/most-shorted-stocks-update-here-come-microcaps
AMC Stock Tops GameStop’s Surge Amid Reddit-Hedge Fund Game Of Chicken
~~WWW investors.com/news/amc-stock-gamestop-stock-surge-reddit-hedge-fund-showdown/?src=A00220
EDUCATION
What Does Short Percentage of Float Mean?
https://www.investorgreg.net/guides/what-does-short-percentage-of-float-mean
…AND…early evening Wednesday – 1/27/2021
Crackdown Begins: Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets From Its Platform
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sec-joins-biden-admin-actively-monitoring-option-volatility
”What does it mean to SHORT STOCKS?” – (Very Simplified)
A person or Hedge Fund can bet that a stock price will go down by “Shorting the Stock”.
The person enters a contract with the promise to pay the price of a stock at some time in the future to a Broker on a bet that the price will be lower in the future.
The contract states that the bettor MUST buy the stock in the future.
Thus, if a stock is currently $100 per share, but falls to $10 per share in a month, the bettor gains $90 per share.
However, if the stock rises to $200 per share, then the bettor will have to pay the broker $100 per share. The bettor loses $100 per share.
If 1,000,000 shares are on the bet, this can be a sizable amount of money gained or lost.
The Broker protects himself by insisting on funds any time the stock price rises.
Here’s the rub:
SHORT SQUEEZE
If the bettor is losing money rapidly, he becomes forced to BUY the stock at the higher price.
The more people buying the stock, the higher the demand and thus, the higher the price.
Suddenly, the bettor is buying stock at high prices which drives up the price of the stock even more. So the “Short Seller” is buying tremendous amounts of stock forcing the price higher and higher and higher.
BUT THERE’S MORE…
Example: There are 100,000,000 shares available of XYZ stock.
However, a “Short Seller” Hedge Fund is betting 150,000,000 shares will go lower in price.
Get it?!!!!!
Even if the Short Seller buys every last 100,000,000 stocks available, how can the Short Seller buy the other 50 million shares?
Stock prices could go to the moon!
This was the exact essence of the “GameStop” scenario. A bunch of ‘common folk’ at WallStreetBets recognized the insanity of this kind of stock shorting.
From the top post’s article Here Are All Of Melvin Capital’s Crushed Put Positions
—->See this IMAGE ! https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/most%20shorted%20stocks_4.jpg?itok=47G0KrOP
Notice: “Short interest as a percent of Float” – 151.8% for GameStop
(HRS Disclaimer – This comment is only to relay a ‘conceptual idea’, not specific technical details/facts.)
The Basics of Shorting Stock
A Beginner’s Guide for How to Short Stocks
https://www.thebalance.com/the-basics-of-shorting-stock-356327
EXCERPTS
— Beware of the Risks —
When you short a stock, you expose yourself to a potentially large financial risk.
One famous—and catastrophic—example of losing money due to shorting a stock is the Northern Pacific Corner of 1901. Shares of the Northern Pacific Railroad shot up to $1,000, resulting in the bankruptcy of some of the wealthiest men in the United States as they tried to repurchase shares and return them to the lenders from whom they had borrowed them from.
If you want to sell stock short, do not assume you’ll always be able to repurchase it whenever you want, at a price you want.
Understand that stock prices can be volatile, and never assume that for a stock to go from price A to price C, it has to go through price B.
The market for a given stock has to be there.
If no one is selling the stock, or there are many buyers caused by other short sellers attempting to close out their positions as they lose money, you may be in a position to incur serious losses.
— Different Than Investing —
Shorting a stock is subject to its own set of rules that are different from regular stock investing.
This includes a rule designed to restrict short selling from further driving down the price of a stock that has dropped more than 10% in one day compared to the previous day’s closing price.
The risk of losses on a short sale is infinite, in theory, because the stock price could continue to rise with no limit.
The short-selling tactic is best used by seasoned traders who know and understand the risks.
Thanks for the detailed explanations. Never grew interest for these type of things, personally. If I had an urge to gamble, I’d go to a casino. With a friend ready to break my legs if I put up resistance when it’s the time to leave.
SILVER & WallStreetBets & First Majestic Silver Corporation’s Stock SHORTS
Coincidently, on Tuesday Jan 26th, I called the company “Miles Franklin” which deals in physical gold and silver. After getting some information on ordering some 1 oz “U.S. Mint 2021 Silver American Eagles”, I told the broker I would call him back Wednesday morning depending upon how much money I could scrape together. Wednesday morning, for the coins, the silver spot price was $25.19 plus $4.25 premium per coin.
SIDENOTE: Everyone should hear this interview segment (or read the transcript) with Andy Schectman, President of “Miles Franklin” :
Recent activity – Gold and Silver – Central Banks, BIS, “The Elite Others”
https://www.corbettreport.com/the-year-ahead-part-1-currency/#comment-103200
During the interview, Schectman mentions Keith Neumeyer of “First Majestic Silver”, who you will hear about further below.
By Wednesday evening, after I had made my coin purchase, and also after I had started this Sub-Thread here at Corbett Report, “WallStreetBets” was whispering about going after the Silver market.
They did!
Thursday morning at the market open, the silver ETF ‘SLV’ was climbing high, but First Majestic Silver Corporation (AG) blew out the ceiling.
— Bloomberg – Thursday – January 28th, 2021 – (3 minute read)
Silver Is the Latest Market Hit by Reddit Day-Trader Frenzy – (IMAGE)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/silver-latest-market-hit-reddit-151147282.html
EXCERPT
… Small silver miners began surging first thing in the New York morning Thursday with First Majestic Silver Corp., cited on Reddit as a short-squeeze target, soaring as much as 39%. Then retail investors started flooding into IShares Silver Trust (SLV), driving it up by as much as 7.2%. Spot silver gained 6.8% at one point, the biggest jump since August….
First Majestic Silver Corp. versus Short Sellers with CEO Keith Neumeyer
(QUEUED at 12:09 minute mark – About 4 minutes)
https://youtu.be/uU0QR7RgXrk?t=729
From MiningStockEducation.com YouTube Channel (which has some excellent interviews)
DESCRIPTION
There is a movement currently gaining steam on social media to burn the silver short sellers. So, hear what First Majestic Silver Corp.’s CEO Keith Neumeyer has to say about the largest short seller position currently occurring in his company’s stock (12:09 mark). Will silver and First Majestic short sellers be delivered a painful lesson?
NOTE: At around the 12:45 mark, there is a graphic which shows about 220 million shares. Keith Neumeyer talks about the extremely high “Stock Short” of 23%.
23% Short Position !?!
(…continuing…)
(…SILVER continued…)
Keith Neumeyer was voted mining company CEO of the year by the broad public. I had voted for him on the Kitco “Vote” webpage. He runs a sharp company, and I spoke about it on this March 24, 2020 comment which contained a video interview of Keith. https://www.corbettreport.com/mml2020/#comment-74775
Also, to keep news of “First Majestic Silver” in perspective, late Wednesday 1/27, Bloomberg had this article:
First Majestic Gets Break in Opening Round of Mexico Tax Case (2 minute read)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-majestic-gets-break-opening-011605204.html
(This gives some insight into how Mexico is going after revenue.)
…First Majestic is facing down authorities in court after other major companies including Wal-Mart de Mexico caved in front of potential criminal tax charges last year and made more than $1 billion in tax settlements. Mexican tax prosecutors have discretion to settle criminal charges even after they have handed complaints over to the Attorney General’s Office.
While other countries doled out tax breaks during the pandemic, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pushed forward with a campaign using criminal enforcement of the tax code. Lopez Obrador has accused major companies of failing to pay their fair share for decades.
Mexican tax authorities won a court victory in September when magistrates ruled that Primero Mining Corp., which First Majestic purchased in 2018, had hatched an illegal pricing agreement with tax authorities early last decade.
First Majestic filed an appeal in late November to that decision….
Friday January 29, 2021 – Trading Economics
Silver rallied to 3-week highs at $27.40 an ounce on Friday and is on course to book an over 7% weekly gain, the most in six weeks, after a push by Reddit posters to create a short squeeze. Comments started on the Reddit chatroom r/wallstreetbets, known for fueling a short squeeze in Gamestop Corp., saying banks have been manipulating silver prices.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/silver
First Majestic Silver (NYSE:AG) – Short Interest Data –
Short Percent of Float: 23.30%
https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/AG/short-interest/
Float Size – 196,590,000 shares
1/15/2021 Current Short Volume – 45,800,000 shares
Price on 1/15/21 – $16.86
FAQ Information on Short Interest for First Majestic at webpage
Short interest about other gold/silver mining companies give a startling comparative.
An updated end of January “short interest report” should soon be available.
SILVER UPDATE – Saturday Jan 30, 2021
Reddit Preparing To Unleash “World’s Biggest Short Squeeze” In Silver
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/reddit-preparing-unleash-worlds-biggest-short-squeeze-silver
EXCERPTS
…and judging by the unprecedented flows into the Silver ETF (SLV) they just got started…
SLV saw inflows of almost one billion dollars on Friday, almost double the previous record inflow for this 15 year-old ETF.
[GRAPHS]
Which helped prompt a spike in SLV off Wednesday’s lows of over 11% (and note that every surge in price was mimicked by gold, but gold was instantly monkey-hammered lower after the spike)…
…This surge came after Reddit user ‘TheHappyHawaiian’ posted the following thesis on buying silver noting that “the worlds biggest short squeeze is possible and we can make history.”
‘TheHappyHawaiian’ cites two reasons to buy – The Short Squeeze and Fundamentals.
— The short squeeze: —
Buy SLV shares (or PSLV shares) and SLV call options to force physical delivery of silver to the SLV vaults.
The silver futures market has oscillated between having roughly 100-1 and 500-1 ratio of paper traded silver to physical silver, but lets call it 250-1 for now.
This means that for every 250 ounces in open interest in the futures market, only 1 actually gets delivered.
Most traders would rather settle with cash rather than take delivery of thousands of ounces of silver and have to figure out to store and transport it in the future.
The people naked shorting silver via the futures markets are a couple of large banks and making them pay dearly for their over leveraged naked shorts would be incredible.
It’s not Melvin capital on the other side of this trade, its JP Morgan.
Time to get some payback for the bailouts and manipulation they’ve done for decades (look up silver manipulation fines that JPM has paid over the years).
The way the squeeze could occur is by forcing a much higher percentage of the futures contracts to actually deliver physical silver. There is very little silver in the COMEX vaults or available to actually be use to deliver, and if they have to start buying en masse on the open market they will drive the price massively higher.
There is no way to magically create more physical silver in the world that is ready to be delivered. With a stock you can eventually just issue more shares if the price rises too much, but this simply isn’t the case here….
UPDATES – Sunday January 31st (evening in the U.S.)
Silver Futures Soar 8%, Rise Above $29 As Reddit Hordes Pile In
…and…
“Everyone Is Afraid Ahead Of The Open”
– Reddit-Raiders Spark Nationwide Physical Silver Shortage –
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/reddit-preparing-unleash-worlds-biggest-short-squeeze-silver
[Zero Hedge continues to give a string of updates on the Thread.]
UPDATE – Feb 2nd Tuesday SILVER
Why #SilverSqueeze ‘backfired’; price is now collapsing – Peter Hug
Kitco.com News
(15 minute video gives a great summary of previous trading days and Tuesday’s price crash, while explaining the mechanics involved with prices.)
https://youtu.be/6FWNbN6Ksk0
DESCRIPTION
The silver price dropped 10% on Tuesday as the CME raised margin requirements for silver contracts.
Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals, said that the silver squeeze attempt has now “backfired” as bullion inventories have run dry as a result, and with premiums up and few physical products to sell, it is now even more difficult for retail investors to push the price up.
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RELATED: On Tuesday, “First Majestic Silver” was suddenly in the news cycle (Reuters and others) with recycled stories about their ongoing litigation with Mexican tax authorities, with the stories painting it bad light, which of course would be negative for stock prices.
“First Majestic Silver” stock was in the middle of a short squeeze with prices skyrocketing higher, then crashed on Tuesday.
UPDATE – Physical Silver Short Squeeze
The objective is to buy physical silver in order to squeeze the “paper derivative market” (which might ‘own’ 500 ounces for every one ounce of real silver.)
– RECAP –
Thursday – Jan 28th – Silver prices start going higher
Friday – Jan 29th – Silver shoots up
Weekend – Physical silver virtually sells out
Monday – Feb 1st – Silver prices shoot higher touching $30 oz
Tuesday – Feb 2nd – Silver prices crash lower to near $27 oz
Wed & Thurs – 3rd & 4th -Silver is below $27 oz
Two ETF’s – SLV and PSLV are stocks which are supposed to allocate physical silver to their warehouse inventory when people purchase shares. PSLV is more trusted, because Sprott controls it. SLV has dubious parties in control of the inventory and audits, such as JP Morgan.
QUEUED VIDEO of Wed. Feb 3rd (about 5-10 minutes)
Chart is shown. 34 million ‘physical’ ounces of silver bought Friday to SLV
(Remember 34 million on Friday in SLV)(Monday Feb 1st, another 20 million ounces were added.)(57 million on Tuesday Feb 2nd)
https://youtu.be/APlGWHYCgPg?t=546
The chart demonstrates just how tight the available physical silver supplies are. Something in the system could break, could be exposed.
Feb 8th Monday
Verified SILVER Short Squeeze – It’s real
– A repeat of previous trading days will deplete physical silver for paper trades
Excellent video with visual sources which succinctly goes through the data from charts, government reports, and articles.
The figures show that about 3,000 tons are available for transfer to the appropriate trading entity. This same quantity was sucked up during the previous bull run trading days.
“Real Silver is Dangerously Close to Being Unobtainable”
(20 minutes)
https://youtu.be/RSZ5Tb8L0DQ
(NOTE: JP Morgan is custodian for many of these physical ETF trusts traded on Wall Street. See above video.)
Feb 7th Sunday article by well respected Ronan Manly…
“Houston, we have a Problem”: 85% of Silver in London already held by ETFs.
https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/houston-we-have-a-problem-85-of-silver-in-london-already-held-by-etfs/
Ronan details the numbers.
…Conclusion
If the above 14 ETFs see continued investment inflows, they will all have to compete for the available silver in London which is not already held within these ETFs. And that available silver is at an historic low, some 3000 tonnes or so. A few more days of inflows like the ones seen over 29 January to 2 February would be a major emergency for these ETF providers, particularly the iShares SLV. Because there is just not that much physical silver left in the vaults of JP Morgan, Brinks, Malca-Amit, Loomis and HSBC, which is not already reported as being in these ETFs.
And lets not forget all the unallocated silver positions which are outstanding which are claims against the bullion banks for silver which they have not got. Anyone with deep enough pockets could now cause a serious run on the remaining available silver stored in London that is not currently attributed to the above ETFs.
UPDATE Feb 20th – Saturday SILVER SHORT SQUEEZE
Physical silver is still in extremely high demand. People are paying very high premiums to get it (if the dealer is not out).
I have been following the scuttlebutt and silver COMEX prices daily.
GATA – Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee – GATA.org is a good source for news items. They have been at this game a long time.
Some pretty wild recent developments which highlight the covert manipulation to keep silver prices depressed…
There are some big silver ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) which are supposed to add physical silver into their vaults when people purchase their stock shares. Examples SLV and SIVR.
These ETFs are supposed to be for the shareholders who advocate physical silver and higher silver prices.
They also have intimate ties to the Big Banks. Just after the huge spike in silver prices a few weeks ago, they quietly amended their Prospectus to imply that they do not have to add physical silver. In fact, they made it where the shareholder gets taken for a ride, and also stated that they did not want higher silver prices.
“Twilight Zone as ETF Provider Warns Buying Silver will Harm Hedge Funds and Large Banks” by Ronan Manly – Feb 16th
https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/twilight-zone-as-etf-provider-warns-buying-silver-will-harm-hedge-funds-and-large-banks/
There are a host of “silver” YouTube Videos out there which discuss this.
PSLV is a Sprott owned physical silver ETF. This one has integrity. Recently, money has been flowing away from the corrupt ETFs into this one.
Sprott is well respected in the precious metals sector.
Friday – Feb 19, 2021
INSANE Silver Demand #SILVERSQUEEZE | Andy Schectman @Miles Franklin
(20 minutes)
https://youtu.be/Q2BtRn4pcrc
1,000 ounce bars typically are used for deliveries by COMEX and many industrial buyers. They are not available.
DESCRIPTION
#SilverSqueeze has made current demand “the closest thing I’ve seen to insanity” Miles Franklin’s president Andy Schectman says, “Phones are ringing off the hook.” He says current demand pales in comparison to the huge demand we saw last March.
Are precious metals manipulated by naked short selling or spoofing? Learn more about the debate: (LINK in show notes)
For important context, please scroll up to the comment link Recent activity – Gold and Silver – Central Banks, BIS, “The Elite Others”. I kid you not – At that link, Andy Schectman lets us know what the Elite of the world are doing with their quiet buying of precious metals.
INFORMATION about TRADING & CORPORATE FISCAL RESPONSIBLITIY
I want to help set a balanced view regarding all this “WallStreetBets” market mayhem, and there some data that people should know.
There is what is called “T+2 Settlement Date” (“trade day” plus two days). It takes some time for funds to transfer. A place which handles your stock trades like Charles Schwab, Ameritrade, RobinHood, etc. need to have extra funds available is order to process the trading transactions.
“Option Trading” gets even trickier.
In this era, a huge number of traders are operating on “margin”. In other words, they are controlling a vast amount of stock with temporarily borrowed money, but very little of their own money.
This is what happened in 1929 when the stock market crashed: Most people bought stock on margin. When everyone was selling all at once, the congestion was so bad that sell orders could not be processed fast enough, plus no one was buying. People lost their shirt is a flash.
Friday – Jan 29th
Webull CEO explains why trading was restricted amid the GameStop market mania
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/we-bull-ceo-explains-why-trading-was-restricted-amid-the-game-stop-market-mania-172539318.html
EXCERPTS
As trading of GameStop (GME) got wilder on Thursday, “Robinhood”, “Interactive Brokers”, and “Webull” shut down the buying feature for the beleaguered video game retailer’s stock.
The move has been roundly bashed by politicians on the left and right and caused a wave of anger towards Wall Street for supposedly rigging the system against individual retail investors, and specifically Robinhood for abandoning its core beliefs of “democratizing finance.”
But in an interview with Yahoo Finance, Webull CEO Anthony Denier explained that the situation was not an unsavory conspiracy against traders who had made money from the so-called short squeeze on GameStop.
“There is an outcry because a lot of the retail, they don’t actually understand the dynamics that happen after a trade,” Denier said. “It has nothing to do with the decision or some sort of closed room smoke-filled cigar room of Wall Street firms getting together to the dismay of the retail trader. This has to do with settlement mechanics of the market.”…
(…continuing…)
(…continued…)
…The stock went from $65 a share at market close on Friday, Jan. 22 to close at $347.51 the following Wednesday.
That’s when the three online brokerages stepped in to put the brakes on the buying. For Webull, this was not a nanny move to protect investors from buying at the top and then getting mad nor was it a move to save the hedge funds that were shorting GameStop, Denier said.
“Our clearing firm simply cannot afford the cost to settle those trades,” he said.
During moments of volatility, the transaction costs can spike due to risk and a variety of factors.
“We cannot use customer funds to front that cost due to regulation,” Denier said. “So the brokerages or the clearing firms have to go into their own pockets to do it. And they simply can’t afford the cost.”
That, he said, was the reason GameStop, AMC (AMC), BlackBerry (BB), and a handful of other stocks experiencing a similar phenomenon were taken off the table for prospective buyers.
Charles Schwab Corporation Statement on Recent Trading Activity
https://www.aboutschwab.com/schwab-statement-on-recent-trading-activity
EXCERPTS
In recent days, much attention has been paid to trading in a group of securities that include GME, AMC, EXPR and others, that are part of what is being called a “short-squeeze.” As part of the increased media attention around this activity, there has been some confusion about what Charles Schwab & Co. and TD Ameritrade have each done in response to the situation. To clarify:
Neither Charles Schwab & Co. nor TD Ameritrade halted buying or selling ANY stocks this week. Neither firm restricted buying or selling basic options. Both firms did adjust margin requirements on select stocks to ensure clients had sufficient assets to pay for stock purchases. Both firms also restricted certain advanced options strategies.
(…Schwab continuing…)
(…Schwab continued…)
More specifically, the actions taken include:
Both firms put in place some restrictions on certain types of options transactions to help mitigate risk. For example, we are not allowing clients to sell naked call options in order to mitigate an unlimited risk situation. These decisions are based on risk and volatility and are made on an individual security basis.
Both firms, as normal course of business, review and alter margin requirements in highly volatile securities. As margin requirements increase, clients are required to hold more equity in their accounts to make trades in these securities.
As an example, for the GME security, both firms changed the requirement to 100%, thereby removing margin from the security. This process began on Jan 13th, 2021. Since that time, clients have been restricted from using GME as collateral for a margin loan; before Jan 13th clients could do so in a limited way. The example below illustrates what this means:
a)~~~ Client owns $100,000 of a marginable stock (i.e., XYZ). They can take out a margin loan against XYZ to buy non-marginable securities, like GME.
b)~~~ Client owns $100,000 of a non-marginable stock, like GME. They cannot take out a margin loan against GME to buy XYZ.
We believe these steps appropriately balance investors’ ability to trade these securities with the firm’s duty to protect itself from potentially absorbing losses incurred by an individual’s trading or investing strategies. They are consistent with our long-standing risk management practices and similar to steps we have taken with other high-risk or highly volatile securities in the past.
[Lots of fine print at end of Schwab notice]
r/WallStreetBets – Meme Thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
r/wallstreetbets is now the largest Hedge Fund in the world.
Except it’s completely decentralized and entirely democratic.
— Chamath Palihapitiya
WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS.
WE ALL HAVE FREE WILL.
WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN THOUGHTS AND SNACKS OF PREFERENCE.
UPDATE – February 2nd – Tuesday
The Editor of OILPRICE.COM pens…
“Naked Short Selling:
The Truth Is Much Worse Than You Have Been Told”
https://www.corbettreport.com/the-year-ahead-part-1-currency/#comment-103748
I want to stress that this article is a great read coming from a mainstream news outlet!
Also, there is an excellent short video at the link which hits some big events surrounding market manipulation and oil prices.
Feb 3rd – Zero Hedge
Meet The Hedge Fund That Made A Killing On The Reddit-Fueled Short Squeeze
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meet-hedge-fund-made-killing-reddit-fueled-squeeze
EXCERPTS
So much for “sticking it to the suits”.
The unfortunate reality of Wall Street is that, sooner or later, we knew that hedge fund players would emerge who capitalized on the Reddit-fueled squeezes of the last two weeks.
One such fund was Jason Mudrick’s hedge fund. Mudrick Capital Management made almost $200 million, fueled by stakes in names that squeezed higher during the GameStop frenzy, according to Bloomberg. His fund made 9.8% in January, one of the best months since the fund’s inception. Most of its gains came from debt and equity options in AMC and volatility bets in GameStop…
…Mudrick bought AMC’s second-lien bonds for 7 to 20 cents on the dollar, before they rose to about 70 cents on the dollar last week. His firm specializes in distressed debt investments and is in the process of expanding further into Europe. It recently bought a credit hedge fund run by CVC Credit Partners….
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[What we haven’t heard much about in 2020 is the amount of debt (bond market) owed by many companies who already were in deep debt in 2019.]
UPDATE
Feb 8th (recorded Feb 1st) – Interview 1617 – James Corbett on The REAL Meaning of GameStop
…and…
Recommended article(s) by Catherine Austin Fitts:
…plus other relevant comments.
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1617-james-corbett-on-the-real-meaning-of-gamestop/#comment-103993
UPDATE – Feb 14th Sunday – Zero Hedge
– FRONTRUNNING –
It is kind of ‘understood’ by many traders that when orders are placed, some big outfits can use that inside data to their advantage in trading stocks,(e.g. making trades in advance of the trader’s order fulfillment).
It should also be known that by default, Robinhood traders get signed to margin accounts (credit). Margin accounts can get expensive to the trader, because a high interest is paid for the credit.
Exposing The Robinhood Scam: Here’s How Much Citadel Paid To Robinhood To Buy Your Orders
(Long article)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/exposing-robinhood-scam-heres-how-much-citadel-paid-robinhood-buy-your-orders
EXCERPTS
… Citadel which made billions by having an advance look at the biggest surge in retail stock and option orders flow in history, and being able to trade ahead of and around it…
…Well, we now officially know all about Citadel’s modus operandi because just a few days after we received that letter, none other than financial regulator FINRA, revealed that Citadel Securities was censured and fined for engaging in – drumroll – “trading ahead of customer orders” as Letter of Acceptance No. 2014041859401 revealed:…
…Now we admit that our financial jargon is a bit rusty these days, but “trading ahead of customer orders” sounds awfully similar to another far more popular “term of art”, one which we know very well: frontrunning!…
…we were not the first to expose Robinhood’s ways. That honor falls to our friend Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk, who for over a decade have led the crusade against high frequency trading, and who in November 2014 wrote “Beware of Those Offering Free Retail Trades.”….
Those that want a human world and those that don’t know they are. Here in B.C. Canada there have been three high profile cases with fines assessed for breaking emergency health mandates. When each of the charged demanded their day in court the cases against them were quietly dropped. Either the legal status of the mandates are shaky or the authorities do not want a rebuttal on the science they are using as the basis for the carnage of civil rights they have caused….or both.
Thanks James it’s great to hear about all the actions being taken around the world in protest of the lockdowns and other Covid measures.
A couple of housekeeping notes:
I mentioned a few months ago that the file size of your videos had started to balloon to huge sizes for even short videos.
Soon after the file sizes dropped to regular sizes again.
Once again there is a balloon in size (200 Meg for this video 23 minute video.)
I tried to clean my monitor during this video as I was sure there was some dirt on the screen.
I had no success.
Turns out it was James’ cursor that was pinned to the top right of his sweater for the first half of the video. 🙂
Thanks for the information on the Indian Farmer protests. We live in Brampton, Ontario, a city with a very large Indian population, and we have seen many related rallies (usually on Saturdays), sufficient to create traffic issues on some of the busier main streets. For several weeks now, I have seen many vehicles with signs saying “Support Indian Farmers” on them. So I just wanted to let you know that the Indian Farmer movement is having an impact beyond India’s borders. Your piece helped to put our local situation into context. Many thanks for covering this.
@ Allen Taylor: Indians are great people. Indians own the local liquor store in our small town. They have NEVER required masks to enter.
Thanks James for the uplifting video. I really like this Solutions format.
My ex-wife’s parents grew up in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan. They are a hardy group of Welsh miners. Lots of iron mines in the UP. I’m not surprised that they told Gov. Witless to go to hell.
I live in France.
A restaurant called Poppies Brasserie in NICE decided to go against the government dictates and opened their doors for eat in service on Wednesday during lunch time.
Currently, restaurants can only stay open if they offer take out service.
Anyway, the police got word, arrived before opening and watched outside until the lunch service ended.
They then arrested the owner Christophe Wilson. They also included in the charges that one of his employees did not have proper working papers. So that person probably got deported.
Apparently all of this was video taped etc. Because the police also announced that they will fine anyone who attended, if they are able identify them, for non-compliance of the compulsory mask laws and for not respecting the ban of groups of more than 6 people. Even though people here are allowed to cram themselves into public transport, offices, super markets, shopping malls etc.
The dictatorship real and is already in place here in France.
Happy days! 🙁
That’s how it is here in Ireland, government by brown envelope. The pharmaceutical industry is the biggest industry here and they have a very cosy relationship with the Irish government and its advisors. I think that’s why we’ve had probably the toughest measures in Europe.
I have avoided linking to my 2015 book because I try to avoid ringing my own bell, but since James has shifted his focus to solutions I feel I must say something. My book “SEDITION SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL No. 1, A Three Part Solution to The State” is available in audio or PDF for free at my web site badquaker.com or the hard copy can be found on Amazon. If you go to badquaker.com, scroll down the page to my first book and get it for free. There are already thousands of us using this field manual to resist the State, and we have been actively doing it since at least 2015. We just don’t talk about it.
SEDITION SUBVERSION AND SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL No. 1, A Three Part Solution to The State
Get it
Read/listen
Act today
Kill The State!
Not sure? search: foam parking meters
You have to love those officials clammoring at the expense.
Thanks for your book, I have read and listened to it. While I understand the points it brings forward and as much as I’d find it pleasurable to stick a dozen bananas up the mayors towncar muffler, I find it a more natural to just walk away from the system as much as possible.
Mkey: Thanks for the kind words. As you likely know, I was just one part of assembling that book and its audio version. Many people, credited and silent, made that project happen. I am currently working on a Field Manual #2.
However, to your point, escapism and its limitations leave The State alive.
Our job won’t end as long as The State lives. It will follow us. It will hunt us. It will kill and imprison us, as it always has since its inception, until we kill it.
If any person is not ready to take on the true fight, then I still respect that person and wish them the best. Protect yourself and your family as best as you can.
But I must fight and not flee.
I must walk into the flames.
Those like me should learn how to use wisdom and fight productively and move to the goal of killing The State.
Death is not the worst option.
A wasted death is the worst option, next to pushing this battle off for our children to fight.
Ben
I wouldn’t refer to it as much as “escapism”, it’s more something akin to “starvation”. Srarvation of “money”, energy and meaning.
The example you have given is certainly not without its merits, but in the end does it boil down to anything more than debt funny money? I think not.
Additionally, as is pointed out in the book, it leaves you open to getting caught, especially if the “act of vandalism” is repeated several times. I’d say it is quite difficult to disable dozens or hundreds of these devices without being seen. While for them sufficient to just monitor one of the points and wait.
These guys know how to spend something they don’t own; they have been doing it since the dawn of government and it is up to each individual to understand what is happening, what is real and what is not.
The state will fail only when people get smart to its ways. To that end, I see some potential in stickering up the place, following the lead of, for instance, the order of white rose.
It’s either that or I’m simply not immaginative enough to figure out ways to hinder the state in an efficient way.
Thanks again for the reply, mkey, but keep in mind, I’m not speaking in theory. We are practicing these things and so far, since 2015, not one of us has been caught. We don’t repeat tactics. We meet in small numbers and exchange ideas and plans. Then we act. Coverage of our actions stays mostly with local news, which is what we count on happening. I only meet with two people, and they only meet with a very few people. We exchange ideas, then we never know if the others acted or not. But we trust that actions are happening. We monitor the local news of the areas where our cells operate, even though we don’t know who is in those cells.
There is a very real risk. All of us know this. But the risk of letting another generation become slaves is greater for us than our fear of being caught.
But it’s not for everyone.
Our actions should be denounced by most.
Great episode of Solutions Watch! Especially like the Sheriffs Dept. in Barraga County nixing Whitmer’s orders and letting people be free! Have to salute our Yooper brothers to the north for taking a stand!
Keep it up James, this is great stuff!!!
“Don’t be good, be great!”
-JW
I live in Barcelona Spain, but I cannot find any info on what is happening here, or on anything that is planned. I have never been to a protest, but my wife and I have decided that we have to participate as this thing is out of control, and has been so for some time now.
Join freedomcell.org and join Barcelona Catalunya + 50 Kms to find local pals.
Correction. That’s freedomcells.org
Jumping ahead, it’s happened! The Deep State is out and the GREATER Reset is in. Yes!! Yet, after the celebration, then what? We still have hundreds of millions who don’t understand what happened. They’re reeling because what they thought was their world… was in many ways, a lie. They are confused, hurt, unbalanced, or worse.
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This is happening in Michigan! Can’t locate yet the list of restaurants defying the shut down order but will share it if we find it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/michigan-restaurants-covid-restrictions/2021/01/30/e97b53ba-5b49-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html