Who Profits from the Pandemic? | The Vineyard of the Saker

By Pepe Escobar and crossposted with Consortium News

You don’t need to read Michel Foucault’s work on biopolitics to understand that neoliberalism – in deep crisis since at least 2008 – is a control/governing technique in which surveillance capitalism is deeply embedded.

But now, with the world-system collapsing at breathtaking speed, neoliberalism is at a loss to deal with the next stage of dystopia, ever present in our hyper-connected angst: global mass unemployment.

Henry Kissinger, anointed oracle/gatekeeper of the ruling class, is predictably scared. He claims that, “sustaining the public trust is crucial to social solidarity.” He’s convinced the Hegemon should “safeguard the principles of the liberal world order.” Otherwise, “failure could set the world on fire.”

That’s so quaint. Public trust is dead across the spectrum. The liberal world “order” is now social Darwinist chaos. Just wait for the fire to rage.

The numbers are staggering. The Japan-based Asian Development Bank (ADB), in its annual economic report, may not have been exactly original. But it did note that the impact of the “worst pandemic in a century” will be as high as $4.1 trillion, or 4.8 percent of global GDP.

This an underestimation, as “supply disruptions, interrupted remittances, possible social and financial crises, and long-term effects on health care and education are excluded from the analysis.”

We cannot even start to imagine the cataclysmic social consequences of the crash. Entire sub-sectors of the global economy may not be recomposed at all.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) forecasts global unemployment at a conservative, additonal 24.7 million people – especially in aviation, tourism and hospitality.

The global aviation industry is a humongous $2.7 trillion business. That’s 3.6 percent of global GDP. It employs 2.7 million people. When you add air transport and tourism —everything from hotels and restaurants to theme parks and museums — it accounts for a minimum of 65.5 million jobs around the world.

According to the ILO, income losses for workers may range from $860 billion to an astonishing $3.4 trillion. “Working poverty” will be the new normal – especially across the Global South.

“Working poor,” in ILO terminology, means employed people living in households with a per capita income below the poverty line of $2 a day. As many as an additional 35 million people worldwide will become working poor in 2020.

Switching to feasible perspectives for global trade, it’s enlightening to examine that this report about how the economy may rebound is centered on the notorious hyperactive merchants and traders of Yiwu in eastern China – the world’s busiest small-commodity, business hub.

Their experience spells out a long and difficult recovery. As the rest of the world is in a coma, Lu Ting, chief China economist at Nomura in Hong Kong stresses that China faces a 30 percent decline in external demand at least until next Fall.

Neoliberalism in Reverse?

San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines, 2016. (Judgefloro, CC0, Wikimedia Commons)

In the next stage, the strategic competition between the U.S. and China will be no-holds-barred, as emerging narratives of China’s new, multifaceted global role – on trade, technology, cyberspace, climate change – will set in, even more far-reaching than the New Silk Roads. That will also be the case in global public health policies. Get ready for an accelerated Hybrid War between the “Chinese virus” narrative and the Health Silk Road.

The latest report by the China Institute of International Studies would be quite helpful for the West — hubris permitting — to understand how Beijing adopted key measures putting the health and safety of the general population first.

Now, as the Chinese economy slowly picks up, hordes of fund managers from across Asia are tracking everything from trips on the metro to noodle consumption to preview what kind of economy may emerge post-lockdown.

In contrast, across the West, the prevailing doom and gloom elicited a priceless editorial from The Financial Times. Like James Brown in the 1980s Blues Brothers pop epic, the City of London seems to have seen the light, or at least giving the impression it really means it. Neoliberalism in reverse. New social contract. “Secure” labor markets. Redistribution.

Cynics won’t be fooled. The cryogenic state of the global economy spells out a vicious Great Depression 2.0 and an unemployment tsunami. The plebs eventually reaching for the pitchforks and the AR-15s en masse is now a distinct possibility. Might as well start throwing a few breadcrumbs to the beggars’ banquet.

That may apply to European latitudes. But the American story is in a class by itself.

Mural, Seattle, February 2017. (Mitchell Haindfield, Flickr)

For decades, we were led to believe that the world-system put in place after WWII provided the U.S. with unrivalled structural power. Now, all that’s left is structural fragility, grotesque inequalities, unpayable Himalayas of debt, and a rolling crisis.

No one is fooled anymore by the Fed’s magic quantitative easing powers, or the acronym salad – TALF, ESF, SPV – built into the Fed/U.S. Treasury exclusive obsession with big banks, corporations and the Goddess of the Market, to the detriment of the average American.

It was only a few months ago that a serious discussion evolved around the $2.5 quadrillion derivatives market imploding and collapsing the global economy, based on the price of oil skyrocketing, in case the Strait of Hormuz – for whatever reason – was shut down.

Now it’s about Great Depression 2.0: the whole system crashing as a result of the shutdown of the global economy. The questions are absolutely legitimate: is the political and social cataclysm of the global economic crisis arguably a larger catastrophe than Covid-19 itself? And will it provide an opportunity to end neoliberalism and usher in a more equitable system, or something even worse?

‘Transparent’ BlackRock

Wall Street, of course, lives in an alternative universe. In a nutshell, Wall Street turned the Fed into a hedge fund. The Fed is going to own at least two thirds of all U.S. Treasury bills in the market before the end of 2020.

The U.S. Treasury will be buying every security and loan in sight while the Fed will be the banker – financing the whole scheme.

So essentially this is a Fed/Treasury merger. A behemoth dispensing loads of helicopter money.

And the winner is BlackRock—the biggest money manager on the planet, with tentacles everywhere, managing the assets of over 170 pension funds, banks, foundations, insurance companies, in fact a great deal of the money in private equity and hedge funds. BlackRock — promising to be fully “transparent” — will buy these securities and manage those dodgy SPVs on behalf of the Treasury.

BlackRock, founded in 1988 by Larry Fink, may not be as big as Vanguard, but it’s the top investor in Goldman Sachs, along with Vanguard and State Street, and with $6.5 trillion in assets, bigger than Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank combined.

Now, BlackRock is the new operating system (OS) of the Fed and the Treasury. The world’s biggest shadow bank – and no, it’s not Chinese.

Compared to this high-stakes game, mini-scandals such as the one around Georgia Senator Kelly Loffler are peanuts. Loffler allegedly profited from inside information on Covid-19 by the CDC to make a stock market killing. Loffler is married to Jeffrey Sprecher – who happens to be the chairman of the NYSE, installed by Goldman Sachs.

While corporate media followed this story like headless chickens, post-Covid-19 plans, in Pentagon parlance, “move forward” by stealth.

The price? A meager $1,200 check per person for a month. Anyone knows that, based on median salary income, a typical American family would need $12,000 to survive for two months. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in an act of supreme effrontry, allows them a mere 10 percent of that. So American taxpayers will be left with a tsunami of debt while selected Wall Street players grab the whole loot, part of an unparalleled transfer of wealth upwards, complete with bankruptcies en masse of small and medium businesses.

Fink’s letter to his shareholders almost gives the game away: “I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”

And right on cue, he forecasted that, “in the near future – and sooner than most anticipate – there will be a significant reallocation of capital.”

He was referring, then, to climate change. Now that refers to Covid-19.

Implant Our Nanochip, Or Else?

West Virginia National Guard members reporting to a Charleston nursing home to assist with Covid-19 testing. April 6, 2020. (U.S. Army National Guard, Edwin L. Wriston)

The game ahead for the elites, taking advantage of the crisis, might well contain these four elements: a social credit system, mandatory vaccination, a digital currency and a Universal Basic Income (UBI). This is what used to be called, according to the decades-old, time-tested CIA playbook, a “conspiracy theory.” Well, it might actually happen.

A social credit system is something that China set up already in 2014. Before the end of 2020, every Chinese citizen will be assigned his/her own credit score – a de facto “dynamic profile”, elaborated with extensive use of AI and the internet of things (IoT), including ubiquitous facial recognition technology. This implies, of course, 24/7 surveillance, complete with Blade Runner-style roving robotic birds.

The U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, Canada, Russia and India may not be far behind. Germany, for instance, is tweaking its universal credit rating system, SCHUFA. France has an ID app very similar to the Chinese model, verified by facial recognition.

Mandatory vaccination is Bill Gates’s dream, working in conjunction with the WHO, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Big Pharma. He wants “billions of doses” to be enforced over the Global South. And it could be a cover to everyone getting a digital implant.

Here it is, in his own words. At 34:15: “Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person…Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly. You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around.”

Then comes the last sentence which was erased from the official TED video. This was noted by Rosemary Frei, who has a master on molecular biology and is an independent investigative journalist in Canada. Gates says: “So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”

This “digital immunity proof” is crucial to keep in mind, something that could be misused by the state for nefarious purposes.

The three top candidates to produce a coronavirus vaccine are American biotech firm Moderna, as well as Germans CureVac and BioNTech.

Digital cash might then become an offspring of blockchain. Not only the U.S., but China and Russia are also interested in a national crypto-currency. A global currency – of course controlled by central bankers – may soon be adopted in the form of a basket of currencies, and would circulate virtually. Endless permutations of the toxic cocktail of IoT, blockchain technology and the social credit system could loom ahead.

Already Spain has announced that it is introducing UBI, and wants it to be permanent. It’s a form insurance for the elite against social uprisings, especially if millions of jobs never come back.

So the key working hypothesis is that Covid-19 could be used as cover for the usual suspects to bring in a new digital financial system and a mandatory vaccine with a “digital identity” nanochip with dissent not tolerated: what Slavoj Zizek calls the “erotic dream” of every totalitarian government.

Yet underneath it all, amid so much anxiety, a pent-up rage seems to be gathering strength, to eventually explode in unforeseeable ways. As much as the system may be changing at breakneck speed, there’s no guarantee even the 0.1 percent will be safe.

amarynth on April 10, 2020 · at 12:18 pm EST/EDT

I’m writing this out in some details in the hope that it may enthuse some people to grow food.

Growing food is about the most radical political statement one can make and there is always a way. It very clearly spells out ones non-dependance on big Ag, big Pharma and then big Medicine. It employs capital directly to benefit people directly.

It is also Good Friday or Semana Santa in our world, and this is good news, so, I’ll write it out. Bear in mind we are in the tropics so your mileage may very. Plant what grows in your area.

RATM, ranting at the mouth, this is the kind of ‘quality’ comment that I guess one can expect from one who confuses ‘food security’ with ‘gardening’. Gardening is a subset of food security and is a small part of overall solution and good for the belly, the body and the soul on a personal and neighbourly basis.

I know of two farmers on The Saker Site. Both of us are laughing at you RATM, because both of us know that armies march on their stomachs. And we also both know that clean food (without pesticides and herbicides) keeps us healthy and keeps the Armies functional. The other farmer here has grass finished beef and a full set of products around this type of farming.

Yes, I know my neighbors, and the farmers around me as well. I specifically know most everyone in the small village closest to our farm, where we work on food security, and we garden as well and we get extra hands at harvest time or to chop the tropical growth .. when we need it. They know me as well and every growing problem that anyone encounters, comes to me for finding solutions. These folks now make compost, they know how to trim their fruit trees for excellent harvest, and how to replant baby banana trees (a lot of knowledge was just lost with the advent of food from a supermarket). They also know that papayas if dealt with correctly gives a year round harvest in our world and they know how to process the papaya seeds into pepper. They also know now that pineapples will not bear a 2nd time, but they understand how to trim that pineapple and how to plant the leafy bit again, and how to harvest the pups from a pineapple plant – so, one gets a delicious pineapple or two and at least 3 or 4 new pineapple plants. We’ve also re-introduced making vinegars from our fruit bounty and people are slowly remembering their grandmother’s methods. My next experimentation is Honey Mead when time opens up for that.

They all have one or two old Mayan nut trees which I brought to the community, where the nuts are used for a flour, as well as for making beverages and is a beautiful yellow/red hardwood tree, so 3 times valuable, and we together harvested baby trees and planted them everywhere (I have an orchard of these nuts now needing two more years to mature from planting .. it takes about 7 years). We have made so many personal gardens on hard and clapped out tropical land using composting that I forget how many. They are everywhere in our area. We also figured out which coconut is best for our area – these also take about 4 years before bearing nuts. I can make coconut oil from the coconuts, so we always have at least coconut oil and sesame oil on hand. This is food security.

I also know my neighbors in town. My one neighbor is a bankster, and we still talk even during these times when we are in town (he gives me loads of insider information). He stands on his side of the road and I stand on my side of the road, and we drink coffee and shout around the time when the sun rises. His wife comes out at about 7.30 for her first mass and she now prays just outside their house as their church is closed for the duration. My other neighbors are two Canadian men and I told them about the fruit trees that they have on their land. They are not here full time so, we email about their local and very precious fruit trees and how to deal with them during a remodel of their house – what they can let go of, what to keep even if they have to design around it. My other neighbor is a retired accountant, and his wife educated me in how to make jam with one of these fruits, that I did not know. (Local Tropical fruits). She also educated me in how to make a jelly from used Jamaica tea leaves …

We grow tropical fruit, and Jamaica tea (very healthy herbal and medicinal tea), a good crop of sesame (and they do pop hanging upside down in bags after harvest while drying) which we sell to a sesame seed factory, a lot of moringa, which is a multi-use tree and the leaves are used in alternative health (we dry and encapsulate ourselves), ginger and turmeric, which are some of the most bioactive medicinal roots in existence. To my sadness, our land is not good for garlic but I still plant and use the greens and the very little bulb that develops. I admit to buying Chinese garlic.

In addition we have about 200 various kinds of nut and fruit trees, many times I experiment with the more exotic tropicals that are not used widely because their fruit cannot be transported and they have to be consumed locally. We also have a full garden, with cherry tomatoes … in the tropics tomatoes mold, and we do not use poison, so I found this little local cherry tomato that molds late, only after it has delivered its bounty. So, now we are good with tomatoes as well. We also have a tropical tree which is a tomato tree and few people know about its existence. Other root vegetables are local tropical vegetables as we do not grow potatoes (modern ones prone to too many diseases). But we do grow sweet potato for the garden, summer cabbage and a full set of vegetables like zucchini, various onions, carrots, watermelon for sure and even tobacco leaves for making a liquid for pest and ant control. Do you know how to make anything out of zucchini flowers? Do you know how to prepare young sweet potato leaves so that they are more delicious than baby spinach? I guess not because you confuse gardening with food security and you don’t understand that the one is a subset of the other so you mock something that if you understood it, you would embrace. R A T M

This year we are not gardening on the farm DV (during virus). Our design however is permaculture, so given enough rain this rainy season, nothing will be harmed we will just have a hell of a lot of cleaning up and chopping to do AV (After Virus). The local community knows that they are free to pick any ripe fruit.

We do not have big animals but we have chickens, ducks and geese (for making compost with droppings). We buy unpasteurized milk and good cheese from a farm owned by Italians close by. They also make delicious tiramisu. I pay back with anything sweet that I make, but we don’t use sugar. We have three bee hives and my husband grows a bit of sweet leaf (stevia) for his sweet tooth. A few years ago, during a bad drought, I cut as much moringa for the Italians as what I could without busting and losing trees (but they are hardy buggers in our climate), and we brought their herd of milk cows through the drought.

A very quick way to get gardening is to get a set of planting containers and get some microgreen seeds. Some good soil and sprinkle water, not too wet and not dry out .. correct level of sun and 3 weeks later cut it with a gardening scissors. Very quick, very delicious and if you plan it correctly and continue planting, you have a green salad daily. (Seeds should be open pollinated or heritage). While you wait for your microgreens to grow, do some sprouting .. green food that is excellent and good for you. Be radical. Garden and plant and make food!

So RATM, next time you want to hashtag your way to heaven, choose somebody who does not know their business. I know mine. Take your hopeless hashtags and go and bankrupt the fed for us quickly. You are interrupting real work taking place. Guess who still have their jobs and their income, or at least sufficient produce to replace mostly an income. Guess who is laughing at the powers that be.

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Larchmonter445 on April 09, 2020 · at 8:48 pm EST/EDT

Well, that was a downer.

This COVID-19 crisis is the opportunity to grab power and wealth and implant control over humanity.

Third rate “minds” like Bill Gates and CEOs from banks, wealth management giants and other ideologues of the Feudal World Order (Silicon Valley) are the rapacious freaks of transhumanism.

These Freedom-threatening modalities and mandates that appear to be their immediate To-Do list is only the beginning. Much worse is back behind the dark curtains.

Pepe hints at the violence that may boil up to confront this menace.

War by the Feudal Lords is being launched against humanity. It is no less than massive, coercive murderous war.

This war against us requires everyone to comprehend that they need to fight back.

I phrase it in calm terms. We, the People of the Planet, our planet, need to cull these vermin and deviants, not laud them for accomplishment whose value is no greater than a well-mopped and polished floor. They are plunderers, no more, no less. Thieves.

And they need to be eliminated from influence, power and presence on Earth. Or they will eliminate us.
- JohnH on April 09, 2020 · at 9:42 pm EST/EDT
  
  well said! Long live the revolution!
- Amerikanski on April 10, 2020 · at 12:45 am EST/EDT
  
  If the French Revolution is any guide, there’s no telling who will grab the levers of power once those reptiles are gone.
  
  Could be some nut that thinks 5G rays are making him think evil thoughts. Or ‘Islamic’ radicals, or ‘Democratic’ radicals. Or it could just be some megachurch in Atlanta.
  - Ryan on April 10, 2020 · at 6:38 am EST/EDT
    
    So you’re advising us not to resist the oncoming genocide, as it might just make things worse?
    - Stan on April 10, 2020 · at 11:36 am EST/EDT
      
      The American is quite comfortable with the status quo — after all, it votes for it every chance it gets. And 5G millimeter waves and microwaves are delicious too; only “some nut” would be concerned.
    - Amerikanski on April 10, 2020 · at 12:45 pm EST/EDT
      
      Nope, just remarking on what to expect.
      
      Also worth noting is that a well-fed populace does not rise up. But that can change, quickly, as we have seen over the last several weeks.
      
      The bankers and oligarchs will be targets, of course, but very few will be exempt. But their replacements are likely to be corrupt, or quickly become corrupted, as well.
      - Serbian girl on April 10, 2020 · at 1:12 pm EST/EDT
        
        Agree with Americanski. Not just the French revolution, look who came to power in Germany during the Great Depression.
        
        The financial system is on the brink of collapse. Probably too late to fight for it now anyways.
        Where are these revolutionaries who will rise up and fight? Most of the population is addicted to sugar and social media and debt.
        
        bluedogg on April 10, 2020 · at 5:22 pm EST/EDT
        
        The financial system is what’s brought us to this point anyway so why fight for it,let it go and take all the rot with it and those that created it.Amazing how many patriots you would find if the SHTF, those millions of weapons aren’t in the hands of the people for nothing for they know what’s coming.
        
        I was told long ago that we would see another revolution in the country as they slowly stole our freedoms,every generation is less free then the one before and ever since 2000 its been on fast track.Now if a person was smart they would put away a little food and be prepared for a cold winter.!!
- ben sampson on April 10, 2020 · at 1:46 am EST/EDT
  
  now that is the point L445. it took a long time to hear such from you and others here.
  
  and part of the answer to all that above there is pure, naked, unadulturated NATIONALISM! kick capitalism off, and any form of globalism out, off the planet, and the nations buckle down to deal with their issue themselves.
  
  I am not a fan of any Silk Roads. the silk roads will ensure negative nationalist developments where the Chinse substitute their capability at the expense of the nationalist development of the nations whom they sell their products too. Chinse trade is simply too large and injurious to the nationalist development of the nations with whom they may deal. let China look after itself as all other do, and let trade ultimatley take forms consistent with and disciplined by all the nationalist self reliance that develps in the world.
  
  I imagine there will be trade between nations ultimately but that is how it must be disciplined – by natonalism..the development of the nations and where they find they need to trade for this or that then they do so. but no silk roads! Silk roads is capitalism large and powerful and by capitalist principle it will subsume nationalsit development all along the way, no matter how well intentioned the Chinese are
  
  cooperation is fine, exchange of skills and whatever forms of international relations that needs to take place to facilitate the nationalist developments.. that makes sense and fits into global nationalist development..to the solution of the nations problems. but labor is the original form of wealth..labor and brains. the nations must be free to release their people fully on the nations problems of securing life for all citizens, based on what they have.
  
  where are those right now who can make legal cases against the likes of Bill gates, Soros, Adelson and their ilk?
  
  those should make those cases post haste and proceed to arrest those people..civilian arrest if necessary. let them run to Isreal and stay there if they can get away in time.
  
  and it is time for the world to drive Isreal and the Jews into self realiance by cutting off their parastism in the world…on the world
  
  and to include in the case making and arrests first off against the International banking
  familes of such as the Rothschilds as well, for longstanding crimes against humanity.. and move to arrest them too, their entire families, all of them..and if found guilty put them to death. let them run to Isreal too if they can make it in time..and stay there as Israel is cut off from it’s parasitism into self reliance.
  
  all the wealth of the billionaire/rillionaie Jews must be confiscated and those who have been criminal prosecuted for their crimes..the wealth redirected to where they were looted from
  
  what is Isreal going to do… threaten to nuke the planet? are they going to open up their vaults of biological weapons on the planet?
  
  I am sure the Russians an Chinese, Iranians, will have something to say and do about that prospect.
  
  it ewould be best if Israel gave up their criminals to international justice and finally join the rest of humanity by make a deal with the Palestinians.. and both build a nation of the peoples now in Palestine. it would be the only sane option for the Jews and for the world
  
  ane when thse Jewish cricminals are forced to be given up by Israel the world must move to eliminate them with the greatest relief. those people are what???? I can find no words to decribe them adequately relavant to their known rop! only their elimination makes the world safe enough to go on
- Col...'the farmer from NZ' on April 10, 2020 · at 1:49 am EST/EDT
  
  Yes, Larchmonter…I absolutely agree…dark indeed but Pepe is almost upbeat compared to my prognosis today…
  
  Indeed, Leonard Cohen’s words spring to mind…
  
  “If you are the dealer Let me out of the game
  If you are the healer I’m broken and lame
  If thine is the glory Mine must be the shame
  You want it darker”?
  
  My view from the south seas…ummm…well pretty dark actually!
  
  The real crisis at the moment is not the health aspect of CV-19 nor will it be the vast financial repercussions that stem from it. The salient loss for humanity is the control of the narrative and the fact that it remains firmly and absolutely in the clutches of the Neocons.
  
  In my lifetime pre 2020 there were two huge tests for Mainstreet to triumph over and to establish a true narrative of events…both were lost and seemingly lost forever. When I was nine years old JFK was gunned down and that was a huge shock to me even though I was absolutely naive to the core of what had really happened as well as to the motives and the multiple hidden agendas. This for me personally was event #1.
  
  Later I was to learn that as despicable as the murder was, the real tragedy was humanity’s complete inability to correct the narrative and to identify and to hold the perpetrators to account. Of course, the Robert Kennedy murder was the same playbook…same end result…a win for the Deep State and a humiliating double loss for humanity. The sick gut-wrenching feeling I experienced as a schoolchild revisits constantly to this day…only intensified as I begin to comprehend the workings of the Neocon agenda.
  
  The next event [#2] that ended up being permanently etched in my mind was of course 911 and that same profound sick feeling was revisited with a vengeance. I could see through this false flag event immediately as I witnessed it on TV. It was painfully obvious that it was a controlled demolition. This time I thought they won’t get away with it as it was so completely farcically obvious it was an inside job. I assumed it would be impossible for them to sell a false narrative this time…but they did.
  
  Event #3 for me is Assange’s ongoing incarceration and the likelihood of his never leaving jail alive…this is a tragedy involving only one life this time…except of course this is absolutely not just about one life at all. This one is about millions of lives…the millions of lives that the Neocon’s take with their perpetual wars and terrorism. This is the story of the narrative also, not of a life, but of a courageous hero’s defeat in attempting to get a potentially life-saving truth out to Mainstreet.
  
  So, whilst #3 is unfolding suddenly whammo CV-19 arrives with the accompanying massive health, financial and behavioral ramifications that are so far-reaching they are completely impossible to estimate. And yet once again, horrendous as this is for humanity, this is not the real story either.
  
  It has been a dark forlorn road humanity has traveled since that grim day in 1963. As the atrocities become more outrageous with each new event, the perpetrators become more emboldened, adventurous, and destructive. In none of these events have the criminals even been identified let alone arrested or brought to justice…on the contrary they have more often than not been rewarded with wealth or high office.
  
  With the China-virus mantra that is being bandied about, even by the moronic MAGA POTUS, humanity once again loses the true narrative to the very same group. This loss will be the biggest loss of all time. Along with the health and financial aspects will come the horrendous effects of demonizing China.
  
  So here we go again 63 years later Oswald is not the patsy. This time it’s China and with this will come a terrifying torrent of social controls, plus racial, economic, and world security disasters that will be practically overwhelming for the man on the street.
  
  I see the survival of the truth of this latest event slipping away day by day. In my heart, I know that this is a lab-engineered bioweapon. I also know that patient zero was not in the Wuhan…neither was he in China!
  
  Every time I see Pompeo’s evil obscene smirk, I cringe in the knowledge that this repulsive arch-Neocon is one of the ultimate assets of the Deep State. He remains firmly ensconced in the halls of power, shaping the narrative, enthusiastically implementing their agenda of mayhem and warfare whilst reveling in his mob-like power and control
  
  Even more sickening is to witness the fact that Trump is such a moronic imbecile he has virtually no grasp of what his Lieutenants [think Mnuchin, Espers etc] are up to, either behind his back, or in full view. What’s more I am sure he doesn’t give a flying toss as long as he can keep his own ravenous nepotist snout firmly in the trough whilst at the same time constantly stroking his own monumental ego with continual rambling self-congratulatory proclamations.
  
  As I said this is not about health or economics…this is about narrative…if Mainstreet loses this round there will be no hope of us ever displacing the Neocons from total power…all that is left is for us to compete for a few meager scraps after the pigs have had their fill and to quietly cower in the margins of a perpetual and nightmarish Orwellian dystopia.
  
  Can you imagine the smirks on the faces of the Pompeo’s and the Bolton’s et al.
  Sad times…I call it game, set and match to Neoconservatism… and to humanity…well a great big fat O.
  
  Was going to say cheers…but I can’t this time…way too dark!
  Col
  - RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 2:37 am EST/EDT
    
    Exceptional comment!
    Bravo!
  - Col...'the farmer from NZ' on April 10, 2020 · at 2:55 am EST/EDT
    
    I really should have included these lines too as they hit the nail on the head in regard to social responsibility… from the same song…
    
    “They’re lining up the prisoners
    And the guards are taking aim
    I struggled with some demons
    They were middle-class and tame
    I didn’t know I had permission
    To murder and to maim
    You want it darker
    
    Hineni, hineni
    I’m ready, my Lord”
    
    I think Cohen was referring to his own impending death and to the viscous stranglehold of Neoconservatism on humanity. I know he died despairing at Mainstreet’s impending fate. By the way, Hineni is Hebrew for ‘here I am’.
    
    All the best
    Col
  - 2cw on April 10, 2020 · at 4:05 am EST/EDT
    
    Cheer up old Kiwi…,
    
    a. “This too, will pass, …”
    
    b. “Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
    I would like to see you living
    In better conditions,
    For your mother and my mother
    Were friends. …” (Hafiz, c. 1320-89)
    
    c. “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself”
    (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933)
    —–
    a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
    b. Translated by Daniel Ladinsky (1999) from “The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master”
    c. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Inaugural “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself” Speech. March 4, 1933 https://youtu.be/rIKMbma6_dc
    —–
    
    A good list of remembered trauma, but being a fellow cousin down under, I also remember “9/11” 1.0 in 1973 when not only did Henry Kissinger (why he’s not dead yet is a mystery, perhaps only explained by fetal blood transfusions and Palestinian organ harvest transplants) and that arch a-hole and fiat-money pusher, Richard Nixon, smoked Salvador Allende in Chile on 11 September, 1973.
    
    Here in Oz, 1973 was a radical change year. Gough Whitlam’s new Labor government (after 23 years of the conservative opposition rule) struggled through the 1973 Arab Oil Crisis (which Royal Dutch Shell exploited [but of course did not precipitate, hmmm..?] via scenario planning, and rose from 7th to 2nd ranking in global energy corporate value) and the subsequent 1973–75 recession. He and the government were eventually dismissed by the British Queen’s local drunkard representative in what was generally seen as a ‘soft’ CIA supported coup.
    
    However, I think the USA 9/11 and subsequent BS about what happened (especially Building 7 and the Pentagon audit project hit by an alleged ‘jet liner’ that magically disappeared before public cameras could review the evidence — think MH17!) has been the more cancerous effect on modern liberty and free thought and speech. And while you rightly identify Pompeo and his “evil obscene smirk” as the public face of this tumor in the body public, remember Dick(head) Cheney and his boy-Bush puppet reading his kid’y book to primary school students. There is a cultural pattern there — a kind of US ‘Punch and Judy’ show working the north American TV-land psyche.
    
    Imo, after several weeks focus on the Covid-19 event, it looks suspiciously like a similar event — aka, a slow demolition of the already crumbling system of criminal ‘financial’ capitalism. Now an ‘invisible hand’ with stats so far not being too far off a normal bad flu/influenza year (except for the aged with co-morbidity issues) has ’caused’ the economic problems, systemic failures, and most likely economic Depression. A convenient catalyst and opportunity not to be wasted in order to mainline Fed Reserve (central bank) imaginary cornucopia-fiat$ money to the well placed rich and powerful as socialism for the 10% while the rest sink to the bottom of the abyss like the Titanic. And all the time, the MSM plays on the desk like the orchestra that old familiar tune called “Austerity for you all!” And when the time comes to swoop in like vultures and buy at the bottom of the failed market, they will be able to re-boot the same old crony capitalist system and carry on as before as if nothing unusual happened — and especially, under some ‘modern monetary theory,’ without change to values or ideology.
    
    What you and many others most likely suffer is grief at what could have been alternative futures springing out of the late 20th century’s reformations, and exhaustion from a lifetime of trying to steer things right against an overwhelming tide of mendacity and criminality masquerading as ‘normal’ — and trending worse in the emerging generations of greasy pole climbers.
    
    I now place us in the West collectively at the end of the arch (evil cycle) started by Thatcher and Reagan under the influence of that deviant product of “Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg” — Ayn Rand. She ran a cult effectively, and little Alan Greenspan was her toy-boy for a while. What we have now (especially in the USA & UK) are the fruits of their labors (“by which ye shall know them”) — No society; and small ineffectual government. And now that neo-plantation-ism has horded their tax avoiding fiat loot off-shore in some minor island Excel spreadsheet claiming to be a bank; they are claiming to be ‘too big to fail’ and holding their corporate hands out for more top-end socialism. “Winner!” robber Barons they are on the way up. And poor little victims on the way down.
    
    Only the French thinkers managed a few cracks in the faux facades. For example, Foucault’s theory of power ‘tactics of domination’ frames Power as an expression of the Will to dominate … through controlling even options or choices. One only needs to link this view with Gregory Bateson’s framework and the corrective change(s) in the system of sets of alternatives from which choice is made to see the strategy and tactics at work before and here now with the physical shutdowns (except Sweden).
    
    Change in the Learning II processes, “e.g., a corrective change in the system of sets of alternatives from
    which choice is made . . . [and] to demand this level of performance of some men and some mammals is
    sometimes pathogenic.” (G. Bateson “Steps to an Ecology of Mind” 1972/2000, 287–303).
    
    The much higher use of the internet and social media (FB etc) by the average person is the only differing factor and a game-changer, imo — either way.
    
    So what can individuals do to manage all this anticipatory grief?
    
    David Kessler has some ideas on how to frame it in a cycle of six stages. Kessler co-wrote with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss” and his
    new book adds another 6th stage to the process; “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief.”
    
    See here. It is worth considering to help get useful perspective (global orientation) and defined local sphere(s) of concern for action (ie. Covey’s 7 Habits etc).
    
    https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief
  - casey on April 10, 2020 · at 9:32 am EST/EDT
    
    Well said. The ops get bigger and bolder and more all-encompassing over time. I would include Waco and Oklahoma City and Las Vegas in the list of crimes that we would rather just “went away” so as not to ruffle our willful ignorance and depraved indifference to the human suffering we allow and embolden, largely in other countries. I don’t see how this all comes out as anything buy a towering win for the elite sponsors of the Kissingers and the Gates, et. al., of the world. Maybe I am too pessimistic, since I live in NYC, which is a hotbed of devotion to Empire and all manner of psyops, no matter how painfully obvious. Call me when the mansions in the Hamptons are in flames.
    - Col...'the farmer from NZ' on April 10, 2020 · at 7:09 pm EST/EDT
      
      casey
      Thank you and greetings from the south seas.
      
      Would it be at all possible for you to give us some local ‘street reporting’ on how the virus is impacting your locality?
      
      Just me, but given the mass graves excavators are digging on Haart island it certainly looks a bit more serious than the ‘a variation of the common cold’ scenario that the SS brigade would have us all swallow.
      
      MAGA, of course, is reassuring us that there is great progress being made as we ‘speak’!
      Just me, but whenever his lips move [which is fairly often as well as a tad exaggerated…actually the contortions are quite painful to watch at times] I am somewhat suspicious.
      
      My very best regards to you
      Col
  - Craig Mouldey on April 10, 2020 · at 11:14 am EST/EDT
    
    There are a number of pointed comments on this. I think most of us know something nasty is going on and this sudden appearance of a Coronavirus is the cover for a larger agenda. There are just too many coincidences to brush all that is going on as unexpected events.
    
    “…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    
    People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
    
    There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
    Aldous Huxley
    
    Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
    Aldous Huxley
    
    With these quotes in mind, I would say we have arrived! I live in a rural location in central Ontario. People have been thrown into a complete panic and many will now do anything the government will order. They are exhibiting severe stress which I think is made much worse by solitary confinement. They are turning against each other and the snitches are out in force against anyone they feel is not isolating themself as they should. Our lisping, self-described feminist PM dictator has made his declaration with a broad brushstroke of what our future will now be. He said this will be the new normal until a vaccine is produced! That should send alarm bells ringing in everybody who has a functioning conscience, but it won’t. They have come to love their servitude. Everyone would be well advised to reject forced vaccinations, but they won’t. And they will be snitching on and ostracizing people like me because I will not consent! Kill me if they like, in one way or another, and kill me they may. But in the Orthodox mind, there is no longer death as it used to be. Christ conquered death by death.
    We have appeared at the same time this economic collapse. I don’t see this as the bankers losing control. They planned this. After all, it was one of them recently who said that they have unlimited ability to create needed funds. And who are they creating the funds for? Trillions go immediately to chosen mega-corporations but the U.S. Congress has to vote regarding any meager funds to the public who, through no fault of their own are now destitute. Here is your little bag of cookies. Eat them slowly. Every bit of horrible news regarding the condition of the public causes the stock market to soar higher. The state and corporations/money powers have now become one and this is the ruling entity going forward. The enforcer of the rules-based order. They are buying up every company, city, state, country that is worth anything to them. The rest, those who remain, will be slaves. There may be sporadic violence in the U.S. Likewise in any major city because the bottom line is that everyone has to eat sooner or later. And where is the food coming from under these conditions? Staples like flour and bread yeast are becoming difficult to find.
    We are now entering a very dark and evil time, but I’ve been expecting it. I will spend the next week or so focused on Holy Week leading to Paska. The same mess will still be here when I return. These events afford everyone an opportunity to say no to evil.
- бели орао збг on April 10, 2020 · at 12:01 pm EST/EDT
  
  @ Larchmonter445
  
  … ” … And they need to be eliminated … ” …
  
  Yes.
  But how ?
  They will not step down voluntarily , so how to make them gone … eliminated ?
  
  They hold all structures on earth , all military , police , financial force.
  
  They rule this earth and its mankind for several thousand years ,
  and nobody suceeded to remove them. They just continue with their plans.
  They are firm in power with network of theirs spies , soldiers , slaves.
  
  And against them they have zombies , brain washed by mass media.
  What spark is to be expected to remove zombie mist from peoples brains ?
  
  Or they will eliminate us.
  Or just turn into new kind of slaves with controllable microchips implanted.
  .
Anonymous on April 09, 2020 · at 8:57 pm EST/EDT

“As much as the system may be changing at breakneck speed, there’s no guarantee even the 0.1 percent will be safe.”

Snipers R Us?
- Ane nymous on April 10, 2020 · at 7:12 pm EST/EDT
  
  Yep, a good old and inexpensive Mosin-Nagant suffices…
Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 9:12 pm EST/EDT

Well, your article is well written, well researched, and quite accurate, as to our impending doom if we continue to remain inside the box, and play ‘their game’.
Consider, however, what exactly the true source of actual wealth (abundance) is, in reality. It most certainly does not emanate from a piece of paper, or from Wall Street speculators. It also does not spring forth from the assumption or acceptance of debt.
Abundance is, in essence, one of the many virtues which is naturally expressed by living beings.
That is why all of these speculators, and financiers (and their little friends) try so very hard to lay claim to the living beings that we actually are.
Because they know, as an absolute fact, that we are what and who actually generate genuine wealth, and abundance.
The institution of debt must be absolutely abolished.
A genuine, and verifiable (transparent to all parties concerned), system of ‘for fair value trade’ must be established, on both an individual and collective scale.
Barring these things coming to pass, we will continue to suffer the consequences of allowing ourselves to be preyed upon by the evil and inhuman beings which are working to murder and enslave us at this time.
R. Kithil on April 09, 2020 · at 9:18 pm EST/EDT

See http://www.stalkerzone.org “Man made Virus?”
- Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 9:53 pm EST/EDT
  
  A man can pick up a stick and hit you with it, even though he is not the stick’s creator.
  - Larchmonter445 on April 09, 2020 · at 10:23 pm EST/EDT
    
    Exactly.
    
    They have labs were they practice handling and moving the viruses.
    
    The entire line that says it wasn’t a weapon (this or any biological) because it was not man-made is not refutation.
    A weapon is “a stick” that someone uses to hit you.
    
    Who controls the labs? Military. What does our Military brag about? “We break things and kill people.”
    
    You don’t need a Ph.D. to understand that people who kill people develop these viruses and study the viruses that nature provides.
    - Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 10:29 pm EST/EDT
      
      Yes. Exactly the case.
      The arguement of ‘who controls black-op sites’, as in ‘good guy vs bad guy’ is irrelevant, to my mind and honest belief.
    - red1chief on April 09, 2020 · at 11:33 pm EST/EDT
      
      The virus was clearly used against Iran, given sanctions were tightened as they were fighting it.
      - Anonymous on April 10, 2020 · at 7:53 am EST/EDT
        
        Yes, an encircling strategy.
        A strategy.
        A plan.
        Step 1, then Step 2.
        Malice aforethought.
        A planned crime.
        
        So perhaps it is absurd to speak of a duty to rescue.
        Still, there are some interesting observations here:
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
        
        Katherine
  - chimmy on April 10, 2020 · at 7:36 am EST/EDT
    
    An image is created in a laboratory of which to represents some kind of signature of God/ the Natural order ( I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made) .
    Accusations are leveled
    
    The so called ‘virus’ is an an artifact of our allopathic mamoncetric system of healthcare, a macguffin if you will.
    
    No need to weaponize this not fully real something when the larger context is weaponized.
Bone on April 09, 2020 · at 10:28 pm EST/EDT

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency that allows people to avoid the parasitic central bankers and deal peer to peer. The banning of cash is definitely on the agenda here in Australia. All controlled by the big accounting firms.

The earth is due for a big cataclysm that will put all of this into perspective. We might be able to divert asteroids and comets if we get our acts together, but we can’t do anything about volcanoes turning the earth into a dark and sunless nightmare. The magnetic poles are also due to shift at any time now, it will be interesting to see what occurs.
- Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 10:42 pm EST/EDT
  
  I am going off on a limb here, sort of a tangent.
  But, please indulge me.
  The sun in our sky is but a star.
  Our planet is but one of this star’s offsprings (literally, at the birth of this star system, its planetary bodies were formed as well).
  As I understand it, this star system is just about at the edge of the outer rim of our galaxy.
  Well, let’s just go ahead and assume that Life’s entirety consists of a great deal more than the stupid $#:t that we have been putting up with around here. 😊
RATM on April 09, 2020 · at 10:39 pm EST/EDT

I agree with the article, and it is Pepe’s better one.

Masses need to act swiftly, to show the will for resistance. This is priority #1 at this point. Now is the possibility to wake up many out of the matrix. E.g. many don’t care if Trump accuses China or not, some even welcome it, but everybody cares about their livelihood. Use this time now effectively for ppl to fight back and resist. Again: priority #1
KINZAZA on April 09, 2020 · at 10:51 pm EST/EDT

“But now, with the world-system collapsing at breathtaking speed, neoliberalism is at a loss to deal with the next stage of dystopia, ever present in our hyper-connected angst: global mass unemployment.”

Is it collapsing, or morphing into something far more ghastly?

“…there’s no guarantee even the 0.1 percent will be safe.”
I truly hope they all will be bulldozed into the multitudes of hells, into some far away, parallel universe.

Bill Gates couldn’t be happier right now. He is apparently in the position to dictate to the rest of us the conditions for returning to “normal”.

Anyone had a chance to read a message from Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Instagram post today?

His Instagram account was really glitch shortly after this message. I copied the text right away so, just in case, I’m reposting it here. Please read it. I think it is very important:

“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism.
Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.
Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously.
In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.
In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.
In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a trial of a GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,049 children.
During Gates 2002 MenAfriVac Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Between 50-500 children developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for drug makers”
Nelson Mandela’s former Senior Economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philanthropic practices as “ruthless” and immoral”.
In 2010, Gates committed $ 10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”.
In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines.
A 2017 study (Morgensen et.Al.2017) showed that WHO’s popular DTP is killing more African than the disease it pretends to prevent. Vaccinated girls suffered 10x the death rate of unvaccinated children.
Gates and the WHO refused to recall the lethal vaccine which WHO forces upon millions of African children annually. Global public health advocates around the world accuse Gates of – hijacking WHO’s agenda away from the projects that are proven to curb infectious diseases; clean water, hygiene, nutrition and economic development.
They say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal fetish – that good health only comes in a syringe.
In addition to using his philanthropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and PATH, Gates funds private pharmaceutical companies that manufacture vaccines, and a massive network of pharmaceutical -industry front groups that broadcast deceptive propaganda, develop fraudulent studies, conduct surveillance and psychological operations against vaccine hesitancy and use Gates’ power and money to silence dissent and coerce compliance.
In this recent nonstop Pharmacia appearances, Gates appears gleeful that the Covid-19 crisis will give him the opportunity to force his third-world vaccine programs on American children.”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/from-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-instagram-post-today/

In addition to that, Canadian PM, just announced that nothing will be normal again, until the COVID 19 vaccines will become available.
- Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 11:13 pm EST/EDT
  
  Remember back in 2008, when the ‘markets’ had a sudden cardiac arrest? It was on the news…
  Well, basically, the idiots who caused it (speculators and workers of debt slavery), had absolutely no choice but to back off.
  And, they did… But, only enough to stave off immediate catastrophic failure of the entire financial system.
  However, they did not affect correction of the financial imbalances which had by that time developed to the point of critical systemic failure.
  And so on… And so on…
  And, so here we are again (still).
- Babuška on April 09, 2020 · at 11:42 pm EST/EDT
  
  An Australian politician has said much the same: the current regime will last 18 months to two years , when we will have the vaccine to protect us all.
  
  I read it yesterday without copying the link. I’ll look for it now
  - Dr.NG Maroudas on April 10, 2020 · at 1:03 am EST/EDT
    
    Babushka in Oz, do you believe that politician who promised you a vaccine “in 2 years”? Where is the vaccine against HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that they promised 30 years ago? As for a vaccine against Corona (Bird flu) the worldwide poultry industry employs researchers to find such a vaccine; these researchers have tried, generation after generation, and the word from the researchers has been: mission impossible.
    
    Even the WHO annual vaccine against common flu is a lottery. How many people do you know that have had their annual jab yet still had the flu? I know 2 this year. People who promise a vaccine against flu don’t know simple virology: the flu virus mutates too fast, every year turns up a dozen “novel” strains — like the 5 different strains of Cov19 that have arisen in the U$A and are now spreading to the rest of the world.
    
    The bright side of high infectivity is, low mortality. Law of Evolution says: a virus cannot be both highly infectious and highly dangerous because everyone would soon be dead — including the virus. The actual WHO figures in their updated Link, which Zuess supplied on his previous article, is 95% of those infected show only “mild symptoms”. This is simply a rather nasty example of ordinary flu that is being Trumped up for purposes known only to Uncle $cam and other democratically elected minions of the Anglo Zio Capitalists’ to herd Australian and other sheeple into their “New World Order”.
    
    The New World Order — copyright A.Hitler and G.Bush. Motto: People will do anything if you frighten them enough.
    - Babuška on April 10, 2020 · at 3:50 am EST/EDT
      
      Dear Dr M
      
      I was replying to this comment by KINZAZA
      
      “In addition to that, Canadian PM, just announced that nothing will be normal again, until the COVID 19 vaccines will become available.”
      
      My comment was intended to demonstrate how the politicians of these two countries -Canada and Australia- read from the same script.
      
      I believe these people/politicians have no real idea of what catastrophe they are playing along with.
      
      Bill Gates and his quadrillionaire parasitic empire reflects himself and the people/institutions that spawned him.
      
      I’ve read about the Corona Virus being a parasite. It attaches to host cells where it multiplies itself.
      
      As in the individual, so the ‘society’ it is ensconced into.
      
      So to answer your question, no I do not have any faith in any vaccine produced in any laboratory today.
      
      The Body of Christ must as One, rid itself of this “parasite”
      
      Peace and Blessings to You
  - RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 2:44 am EST/EDT
    
    No, it will last until the masses decide to rise up and revolt.
- KINZAZA on April 09, 2020 · at 11:45 pm EST/EDT
  
  Bill Gates might not appreciate this mainstream segment:
  I wonder how much he is going to pay for in damage control fees.
  
  Dr Scott Jensen On Broad Covid-19 Death Count Guidelines & Financial Incentives
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMSEHmeaNQ
  The interesting thing is that Italy they now started reclassifying all COVID19 Deaths. This is a theater.
  - KINZAZA on April 10, 2020 · at 12:05 am EST/EDT
    
    I often type with my kids jumping all over me, hence massive amount of typos, and incomplete sentences. My apologies.
    - Anonymous on April 10, 2020 · at 10:08 am EST/EDT
      
      Good for you, KINZAZA!
      I have been sort of hammering on this topic of the very clear instructions regarding precision in cause-of-death reporting as detailed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in their Instructions regarding completion of the so-called Blue Form. I became familiar with this form and these instructions as a result of the deaths of both of my parents, and sloppiness in how the death certificate was filled out in both cases (which I outlined in an recent thread at this blog).
      
      I commented at this and another blog that is more oriented toward medical info that commenters who bandy around mortality rates should read this document so that understand what information such COD rates should be derived from. And they should be wary that a lot of figures are being fudged.
      
      Jenson confirms everything that I myself said! But it’s easy! Because the USDHHS says the same thing on their Instructions.
      
      Once again here is that link:
      https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/blue_form.pdf
      
      Just read the first few paragraphs. This is basically what Jenson, too, tells Fox News.
      
      Birx and Fauci are pathetic clowns. Neither one is any kind of health worker or physician. They are both “health operatives.” Representing certain business interests. I bet neither one of these fools has ever even heard of the Hippocratic Oath. (That also goes for the WHO head, Tedros Adhemon, or whatever his name is. No medical qualifications. Au contraire, genocidal activities occurred under his aegis in Ethiopia. He is a Gates-Clinton creature.)
      
      These jokers do not know what they are talking about. Fauci has the chutzpah to sneer/laugh/ridicule the idea of following rules put in place by the USDHH to ensure reliable COD figures. What an AH. He and Birx should be fired for this medical disinformation alone.
      
      Katherine
      - Anonymous on April 10, 2020 · at 3:54 pm EST/EDT
        
        Correction:
        Fauci attended medical school and is an expert in infectious diseases and Birx is an MD.
        This makes the new directive on cause of death doubly hard to understand.
        
        Katherine
- Anonymous on April 10, 2020 · at 12:29 am EST/EDT
  
  Fwiw, I watched the Canadian PM’s press conference today, and given that the Australian politician made a similar reference about vaccines 18-24 months out, my impression is that both are distancing themselves from a rushed vaccine, which would be available in the next few months.
  
  My best is that they both guess (or know) that, politically, the globe will look very different in 18 months, and maybe this whole discussion on a COVID vaccine will be moot.
  - Anonymous on April 10, 2020 · at 8:23 pm EST/EDT
    
    Just one further comment with respect to our politicians awareness or lack of it about what is actually happening.
    
    In Canada, I genuinely believe that the pols know exactly what they are dealing with, courtesy of the business community. They are pissed – the word “rage” is used frequently in business media coverage. To them, it is all too obvious that this is an act of economic warfare, where Canadian businesses will go bankrupt, and then be bought up by American, European and other Exceptional competitors. Not to mention natural resources. This is not a new, novel, development.
    
    BTW, has it been confirmed that COVID-19 is transmitted from person-to-person? Or should we consider “super-spreaders” and in a slightly different context?
    
    Anyway, there is talk of “aggressive contact tracing” and “aggressive testing” as the fundamentals of Canadian long-term response to the virus. Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (most important one in the country) discovered two employees tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. As part of their response, the Public Health Agency of Canada said “Contact tracing is underway by local public health who will implement all follow-up procedures necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.” It’s just my opinion, but with the way the winds are blowing, I would interpret that to indicate the most “aggressive” action possible. With more to follow.
- Rubicon on April 10, 2020 · at 5:05 pm EST/EDT
  
  “Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans.”
  
  Some of us are well aware of this grotesque creature named Bill Gates.
  
  But it’s the same old story: You Take The Profit Motive Out Of Gates’ And You See An Old, CORRUPT MAN WHO’S TIME HAS PAST…..Adios Bill Gates.
  
  If you continue to use capitals – your comments will go to trash. Mod.
Joshua on April 09, 2020 · at 11:57 pm EST/EDT

Pepe Escobar,
Thank You.
I admire the work that you do, and the ethic with which you do your work.
Your analysis and determination of not only the essences, but also the verifiable and objective facts, of the subjects and materials that you cover, are inspiring to all who wish to know Truth.
Thank you for yet another excellent offering.
Joshua on April 10, 2020 · at 12:22 am EST/EDT

Man, I don’ t think that we are brothers…
I know that we are.
Phil on April 10, 2020 · at 1:52 am EST/EDT

Blackrock founder Larry Fink’s letter to shareholders on climate change follows:

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter

This letter refers to climate change and not Covid-19, as Pepe suggests.

Quotes from letter:

“Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.”

“How can we model economic growth if emerging markets see their productivity decline due to extreme heat and other climate impacts?”

Mr. Fink has nailed it … we are in the midst of abrupt and irreversible climate change.
- Larchmonter445 on April 10, 2020 · at 8:44 am EST/EDT
  
  Irreversible climate change has occurred many times in the life of the Blue Planet.
  
  So what? Nature adjusts, nature adapts, nature reacts, nature is always in flux.
  
  The wet pants crybabies of Climate Change Cult Religion understand nothing except “now”, like two-year olds.
  
  Hysteria is their ceremonial.
  
  Piss rolling down their legs, wailing and sobbing.
  
  Over the edge of emotional regression.
  
  Did you see how the atmosphere over China when it was shut down and the Indian Himalayas with India shut down cleared up to blue skies and a hundred miles of clear air?
  
  Irreversible, my ass!
  
  Change the diaper and leave the cult. Study Nature and go plant some trees. We need billions of trees, not tears from the Cult.
  
  What seems irreversible is the massive stupidity of a lot of people.
  - abc123 on April 10, 2020 · at 11:22 am EST/EDT
    
    Couldn’t agree more. When political scientists start saying that rising levels of CO2, which comprises just 0.035% of our atmoshphere and absolutely crucial for plants to grow, is the cause of the ‘climate change’ you need to stop listening to the hearsay and start using some gray matter.
    
    Climate zealouts are seemingly incapable of critical thinking.
  - Abu Aisha on April 14, 2020 · at 1:52 pm EST/EDT
    
    Fools be the likes that think industrial pollution doesn’t exist, that fire doesn’t cause smoke and that somehow just ignore the nuclear age. The is no going back from having fucked with nature. We have more or less trashed our home. Caustic, toxic, radiated mess with no known way to clean it up. Wait that’s right we can at least dip all conventional munitions in depleted uranium! That’s right parts of jugoslavija and Iraq are more irradiated than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Go ahead dude and plant that tree. It’s dead on arrival. As the respected Latin American journalist Walter Martinez calls it: “our dear, contaminated, and only space ship”. Salamat
Johny Conspiranoid on April 10, 2020 · at 3:47 am EST/EDT

will they still keep telling us we’re ‘free’ and we have ‘democracy’?

“But now, with the world-system collapsing at breathtaking speed, neoliberalism is at a loss to deal with the next stage of dystopia,”. More of a controlled demolition with explosives and the rest of your article doesn’t suggest they are ‘at a loss’.
Roacheforque on April 10, 2020 · at 6:48 am EST/EDT

Who profits from the pandemic? For starters, companies like ConAgra, ADM, Monsanto – basically the global corporations that generational wealth invests in. Has anyone really thought to notice or write about the incredible disparity between the global “brand” and it’s biggest wholesaler? The wholesaler (generic store brands) is DEAD. So, for example, if we were to measure actual food inflation today, from a standpoint of what is available, necessary items are running at 200 to 300%. So be prepared for continued (and even more) supply chain inflation as the dollar weakens.

But the problem runs deep. The moral hazard implications of the “debt as wealth” dollar system are so pervasive, there will be no return to a world where “people invest in a company because it provides a great product at a good value with superior social benefits and a moral values culture”. Those companies are being assassinated by “companies that PROFIT through exploitation, wage arbitrage and cheap labor outsourcing, legal manipulation and intimidation, neo liberal favored status and systemic importance”.

These are the types of companies the Rothschilds, Warbucks and Roacheforques invest in. And these are the types of companies that most people think of in terms of “How do I profit from the equity bubble?” COVID 19 and the latest mutation of the dollar system – outright in your face dollar corporatism / fascism simply guarantees the profits and the disparity in economic opportunity. Small businesses will be slaughtered.

These are the entities who profit from JFK’s assassination, 911, and COVID 19. Far and wide, from the little people’s 401K’s to the nations that still support the global dollar system, the enablers and the supporters of world-wide debt-derivative economics are the true profiteers of any top-down crisis response.
amarynth on April 10, 2020 · at 8:57 am EST/EDT

So, now we have the financialists breathtakingly taking stabs at how much the world economy is going to loose and each number is different. Those numbers are equally meaningless as compared to frequently meaningless virus statistics. We just don’t know and taking stabs at it, just further confuses people that are not educated in these kinds of magical statistical modeling. If you think this is a deliberate chaos strategy you would be right, but it is not everywhere.

We have the announcements of ‘wait for the vaccine’ and the timeline here is 12 to 18 months, while big pharma and vaccine conglomerates race to say that they are shaving off these few weeks, or those months toward a vaccine. This is meaningless and done to deceive. It will take 12 to 18 months to deal with the actual virus if we do the right things and that is to deprive it of hosts.

We have a massive type of piranha capitalism going on, where those ones with worthless money bail out those with a little less worthless money by buying up what could be valuable in the future, as seen in the current system. These ones, the big conglomerates think that the old system will continue and they are taking profits. There is happening careful buying up of robotics technologies and new technology companies. This is happening in the west more than in the east.

Big companies and conglomerates are not going bankrupt which they should, they seek bailouts which should not be given to them. Let them sell their stock for what they can get for it and get back on their feet if they can, with their own resources that have been carefully hidden and stockpiled throughout many years of capitalism. These companies are sitting on a massive pile of value and trying to hold on to that, while attacking and eating others.

We have a staggering jobless problem throughout the world. People are not earning money to pay for their daily bread. Again, not everywhere, but everywhere where capitalism ruled the roost for many years. Governments need to bail out people who will then have the wherewithal to create our world again – hopefully this time with some clear morals and ethics. $1,200 is an insult, a slap in the face. We have to however work now for a universal basic income, not because this is the absolute and complete right way for the future, but because we have to bankrupt the bad governments and use that time to re-strategize and rebuild.

There has to be a decision, people or economy, health or sickness (of the soul as well). This is the decision that most of the governments in the world are not brave enough to take because they are inherently cowards and too scared they lose something profitable. So they stand up on a daily basis before their people with an endless stream of worthless promises.

Then, we have the ones that shout .. Do Something .. Go out in the Streets. Well, what will that accomplish. It is just a waste of energy and running at the mouth at this stage.

It is now the time to do what Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”
It is time that we now pull our local communities together, get ourselves food secure, forgive local debts, and build what we need to see in our world because it is now that the governmental cadres are weak.

And it is time that the banker’s wars stop. I know many people have given up on Abby Martin but in this case, she is absolutely right in terms of what is happening in the background here. There is the foreground game that we see that is given you and me in a cacophony of management by chaos. But in the background this waste of resource and trading in hatred and hell must stop and we need to make it stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZymN9YYTaE&feature=emb_logo

The pent up rage that Pepe talks about, use that energy wisely.
- RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 9:48 am EST/EDT
  
  “It is time that we now pull our local communities together, get ourselves food secure”
  
  So your solution to fight off the fascist state is to do some gardening?! Hahaha.
  I bet you don’t even know your next door neighbour – so much about ‘bringing the community together’. And noone in the West knows how to grow their own food. Never mind that their are locked inside, social distancing, haven’t you heard.
  
  How about this: they wanna play gods with us, we play right back. Bill Gates wants to vaccinate us, we use the same vaccines on him and his family.
  McCain wants to b0mb Iran, we strap a b0mb to him and his family… We should make it expensive for those who are sociopaths. This is how we gonna remove them from being on top to the fringes of society were they belong.
  
  #fightback
  #revolt
  #bornfree
  - RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 10:01 am EST/EDT
    
    Before someone tries to be a smarta** and diverts the discussion into deadends…
    
    I know very well McCain is rotting in hell. I mentioned him only as an example.
  - Larchmonter445 on April 10, 2020 · at 10:14 am EST/EDT
    
    Hastags, hahaha!
    
    Changing the food paradigm requires gardening, RATM.
    Basic vegetables for starters. Some fruits next. Can be done is small plots, planters and pots.
    Neighbors can barter across the fences and walls.
    Communities, churches, groups, can develop commons where small farming can produce food uncontaminated by chemicals and pesticides.
    
    Hastags? Really?
    
    Amarynth has the simple solution to one aspect of the challenge. Begin with clean food. It will help clean your body, and the effort will help clean your mind.
    
    I have six 4×4 grow boxes. Plenty of zucchini, tomatoes, peppers and beets. Neighbors (mostly Vietnamese) appreciate the abundance I share. I have lemons, tangerines and guava trees.
    
    I’m all for culling the elite from our midst. But I can’t get there with hashtags. You are shooting blanks.
    - RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 10:36 am EST/EDT
      
      Yes. Hashtags to reach the masses.
      Yes. Hashtags for masses to repeat.
      
      If you were less a bighead and stop looking down on others , you’d realize hashtags are the way to raise mass awareness.
      - Larchmonter445 on April 10, 2020 · at 11:32 am EST/EDT
        
        ########!
  - amarynth on April 10, 2020 · at 12:18 pm EST/EDT
    
    I’m writing this out in some details in the hope that it may enthuse some people to grow food.
    
    Growing food is about the most radical political statement one can make and there is always a way. It very clearly spells out ones non-dependance on big Ag, big Pharma and then big Medicine. It employs capital directly to benefit people directly.
    
    It is also Good Friday or Semana Santa in our world, and this is good news, so, I’ll write it out. Bear in mind we are in the tropics so your mileage may very. Plant what grows in your area.
    
    RATM, ranting at the mouth, this is the kind of ‘quality’ comment that I guess one can expect from one who confuses ‘food security’ with ‘gardening’. Gardening is a subset of food security and is a small part of overall solution and good for the belly, the body and the soul on a personal and neighbourly basis.
    
    I know of two farmers on The Saker Site. Both of us are laughing at you RATM, because both of us know that armies march on their stomachs. And we also both know that clean food (without pesticides and herbicides) keeps us healthy and keeps the Armies functional. The other farmer here has grass finished beef and a full set of products around this type of farming.
    
    Yes, I know my neighbors, and the farmers around me as well. I specifically know most everyone in the small village closest to our farm, where we work on food security, and we garden as well and we get extra hands at harvest time or to chop the tropical growth .. when we need it. They know me as well and every growing problem that anyone encounters, comes to me for finding solutions. These folks now make compost, they know how to trim their fruit trees for excellent harvest, and how to replant baby banana trees (a lot of knowledge was just lost with the advent of food from a supermarket). They also know that papayas if dealt with correctly gives a year round harvest in our world and they know how to process the papaya seeds into pepper. They also know now that pineapples will not bear a 2nd time, but they understand how to trim that pineapple and how to plant the leafy bit again, and how to harvest the pups from a pineapple plant – so, one gets a delicious pineapple or two and at least 3 or 4 new pineapple plants. We’ve also re-introduced making vinegars from our fruit bounty and people are slowly remembering their grandmother’s methods. My next experimentation is Honey Mead when time opens up for that.
    
    They all have one or two old Mayan nut trees which I brought to the community, where the nuts are used for a flour, as well as for making beverages and is a beautiful yellow/red hardwood tree, so 3 times valuable, and we together harvested baby trees and planted them everywhere (I have an orchard of these nuts now needing two more years to mature from planting .. it takes about 7 years). We have made so many personal gardens on hard and clapped out tropical land using composting that I forget how many. They are everywhere in our area. We also figured out which coconut is best for our area – these also take about 4 years before bearing nuts. I can make coconut oil from the coconuts, so we always have at least coconut oil and sesame oil on hand. This is food security.
    
    I also know my neighbors in town. My one neighbor is a bankster, and we still talk even during these times when we are in town (he gives me loads of insider information). He stands on his side of the road and I stand on my side of the road, and we drink coffee and shout around the time when the sun rises. His wife comes out at about 7.30 for her first mass and she now prays just outside their house as their church is closed for the duration. My other neighbors are two Canadian men and I told them about the fruit trees that they have on their land. They are not here full time so, we email about their local and very precious fruit trees and how to deal with them during a remodel of their house – what they can let go of, what to keep even if they have to design around it. My other neighbor is a retired accountant, and his wife educated me in how to make jam with one of these fruits, that I did not know. (Local Tropical fruits). She also educated me in how to make a jelly from used Jamaica tea leaves …
    
    We grow tropical fruit, and Jamaica tea (very healthy herbal and medicinal tea), a good crop of sesame (and they do pop hanging upside down in bags after harvest while drying) which we sell to a sesame seed factory, a lot of moringa, which is a multi-use tree and the leaves are used in alternative health (we dry and encapsulate ourselves), ginger and turmeric, which are some of the most bioactive medicinal roots in existence. To my sadness, our land is not good for garlic but I still plant and use the greens and the very little bulb that develops. I admit to buying Chinese garlic.
    
    In addition we have about 200 various kinds of nut and fruit trees, many times I experiment with the more exotic tropicals that are not used widely because their fruit cannot be transported and they have to be consumed locally. We also have a full garden, with cherry tomatoes … in the tropics tomatoes mold, and we do not use poison, so I found this little local cherry tomato that molds late, only after it has delivered its bounty. So, now we are good with tomatoes as well. We also have a tropical tree which is a tomato tree and few people know about its existence. Other root vegetables are local tropical vegetables as we do not grow potatoes (modern ones prone to too many diseases). But we do grow sweet potato for the garden, summer cabbage and a full set of vegetables like zucchini, various onions, carrots, watermelon for sure and even tobacco leaves for making a liquid for pest and ant control. Do you know how to make anything out of zucchini flowers? Do you know how to prepare young sweet potato leaves so that they are more delicious than baby spinach? I guess not because you confuse gardening with food security and you don’t understand that the one is a subset of the other so you mock something that if you understood it, you would embrace. R A T M
    
    This year we are not gardening on the farm DV (during virus). Our design however is permaculture, so given enough rain this rainy season, nothing will be harmed we will just have a hell of a lot of cleaning up and chopping to do AV (After Virus). The local community knows that they are free to pick any ripe fruit.
    
    We do not have big animals but we have chickens, ducks and geese (for making compost with droppings). We buy unpasteurized milk and good cheese from a farm owned by Italians close by. They also make delicious tiramisu. I pay back with anything sweet that I make, but we don’t use sugar. We have three bee hives and my husband grows a bit of sweet leaf (stevia) for his sweet tooth. A few years ago, during a bad drought, I cut as much moringa for the Italians as what I could without busting and losing trees (but they are hardy buggers in our climate), and we brought their herd of milk cows through the drought.
    
    A very quick way to get gardening is to get a set of planting containers and get some microgreen seeds. Some good soil and sprinkle water, not too wet and not dry out .. correct level of sun and 3 weeks later cut it with a gardening scissors. Very quick, very delicious and if you plan it correctly and continue planting, you have a green salad daily. (Seeds should be open pollinated or heritage). While you wait for your microgreens to grow, do some sprouting .. green food that is excellent and good for you. Be radical. Garden and plant and make food!
    
    So RATM, next time you want to hashtag your way to heaven, choose somebody who does not know their business. I know mine. Take your hopeless hashtags and go and bankrupt the fed for us quickly. You are interrupting real work taking place. Guess who still have their jobs and their income, or at least sufficient produce to replace mostly an income. Guess who is laughing at the powers that be.
    - Larchmonter445 on April 10, 2020 · at 12:55 pm EST/EDT
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A&list=TLPQMTAwNDIwMjAKlBenj5gEYA&index=1
      
      Nicely done, Amarynth.
    - Craig Mouldey on April 10, 2020 · at 2:06 pm EST/EDT
      
      Wow, it’s comments like yours that make me smile and get me excited. And I have questions for you, since I live in central Ontario with a short growings season and not great soil or sunlight. I need to find out why my two Macintosh apple trees will not blossom. We planted them one fall and the next spring they were full of blossoms. We had a frost in June and I wasn’t able to save most. We got 5 tiny apples on the one tree, three of which the birds took. But they have not blossomed since and that was almost 6 years ago.
      As long as the country you live in doesn’t have a U.S. military base you may be in better shape. I don’t think there is a greater polluter of the planet than them.
      - amarynth on April 10, 2020 · at 3:09 pm EST/EDT
        
        Craig, I’m a tropical bird and do not know how to grow apples in the cold. I would guess that your trees were damaged and you have to get new trees. Just on the basis of that I know this happens to trees.
      - sean the leprechaun on April 10, 2020 · at 4:24 pm EST/EDT
        
        Craig, your apple trees have a pollination issue, the old school way to motivate your apple trees is to get a flowering branch (during spring time) from another apple tree and wave the flowering branch along your trees’ branches. You may not notice any change this year but subsequent years the apple production should increase.
        Best to find a healthy flowering tree from somewhere else in your area.
        
        This is off-topic – it should be discussed in MFC. I will leave for a short time – them it will go to trash. Mod.
        
        Craig Mouldey on April 11, 2020 · at 10:35 am EST/EDT
        
        Thanks Mod. I knew it was way off topic. My bad. My excuse? I’m old. Thanks for the brief reprieve.
    - amarynth on April 10, 2020 · at 3:06 pm EST/EDT
      
      I’m so sorry RATM, you’re just blowing at the mouth. You mocked me, and accused me of not knowing my neighbors and of not knowing how to grow food. You were wrong then and are trying to walk backwards now. And you are wrong on mass action. If you go out on mass action and eat MacDonalds, you are just a pretender.
      
      You get rid of the fascist state by not consuming their products, or their information, or their banks, or their roads, or their laws, or their food or their gmo’s. You get rid of the fascist state by not allowing them to kill you by virus (even if you have to keep yourself from being infected for months on end). You get rid of the fascist state by being healthy and not partaking of their poisonous feast. There are villages in the Latin Americas that took their own rights back, and are allowing or not allowing entrance into their communities, so that they do not die from virus.
      
      The yellow vests asked … do not make this austerity come across us. It did not work so far. And most of previous mass action did not work in our history. Either we drag them from their thrones and have *something real* to replace them with, because we all know that universe abhors a vacuum and today, you create a vacuum and the mobs slip in there. I don’t see you have anything real.
      
      So, as long as you cannot determine what mass action, the what, when, where and how, and what will be accomplished, you are just bleating about hash tags. Sorry but this is true.
      
      You get rid of them by making them irrelevant in the personal lives first, in the community lives, in the greater than community lives and you get rid of them by staying alive and staying real and staying in philosophical revolt, while you build new systems under their noses. You get rid of them by being Venezuela, or by being Iran, or by being Russian.
      
      Even if this planet of ours has to bifurcate into sections of human and inhuman, we can still do it. But if we are stupid, if we go about bleating and dancing in the street, we will simply do what the ones previous of us did. And we will fail and not survive. Dancing in the streets is political action based on who is going to win the next election. Today it does not work for us.
      
      Our focus has to be on rebuilding ourselves, and not on ‘ending the fed’ or similar type nonsense. We can end the fed today if we stop using their money and stop paying taxes.
      
      There is a real virus out there. There also is a real new stealing from and impoverishing the masses out there. Profits are being taken and losses being socialized – right now, as we speak.
      
      Mass action should be massively refusing to pay taxes while money is being spent on wars. Is anyone brave enough? No.
      
      Mass action should be massively refusing to use money. Is anyone brave enough? No.
      
      Mass action should be (refer the video that I linked in my first post) massive letter writing to Mr Trump – while you are continuing sanctions and while you are continuing war, we will not vote. Millions and millions. Is anyone brave enough? No.
      
      Mass action should be massively looking into alternative methods to beat slanty eyed virus. Is anyone brave enough to refuse to be killed by virus by keeping strict rules, so that virus does not get us. No, people are skreetching about their precious human rights.
      
      We have no human rights. We have to make those again, from damn bottom up.
      
      So, besides yelling, what you really doing?
    - VictorNoel on April 10, 2020 · at 10:38 pm EST/EDT
      
      I do appreciate what you are saying amarynth, but you live on a farm and are thus able to provide for yourself. That’s great for you, but that does not help the vast numbers of people who do not have sufficient land to do so. Gardening is great, but city folk cannot hope to grow anywhere near the amount of food to survive. I totally agree we need to look for sustainable local food sources. I’m lucky enough to live in a low density area with lots of local farms etc., but most of us don’t. What’s to become of them? They depend on food being delivered to them to eat.
      
      RATM has a point, that without collective action by a large number of people to change the system, nothing will change. It’s simply not true that “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality”, as any number of successful revolutions in history will attest.
      - amarynth on April 11, 2020 · at 11:00 am EST/EDT
        
        I’m going a bit off topic here now, but just to answer you question … there is always a way. Please read about community supported agriculture – this is just the wiki writeup but using that term you will find a lot. Language may be different in your country.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture
        
        OK, let’s take the agriculture conversation somewhere else. I suggest the saker.community and will set up a space there. Watch for details. We will be among friends there.
Gerry on April 10, 2020 · at 9:22 am EST/EDT

in a new digital financial system and a mandatory vaccine with a “digital identity” nanochip with dissent not tolerated: what Slavoj Zizek calls the “erotic dream” of every totalitarian government.

What a godsend computer tech has been for the world. Nothing except perhaps the discovery of oil has so changed our world than computers and computing.

Dr. Orville G. Brim Jr., head of the Russell Sage Foundation, said,

“There is no doubt that we can run the society better with this information but doing this could well be in conflict with all our fears of having privacy invaded.”

For the world of banking this was especially helpful which given all of the accounting were drowning in paperwork. Computer has allowed a wonderful change but as it has reduced us all to a number in a gigantic system of control I’m left pondering the words

“No man might buy or sell, save he that had the number Rev. 13

Whatever ones religious convictions this desire to implant ones number on ones person will surely be the line in the sand that for the believer cannot be crossed. More significantly though for the world here will be proof positive evidence that the bible did indeed warn us of this coming catastrophe!
frank reps on April 10, 2020 · at 10:14 am EST/EDT

Four questions; 1. Are the Bankers the blame ?…….2. Who are the Bankers ?……3.What Was the reason for the Second Amendment ?…4.Why is no one addressing Geo Engineering ?.
- gerry on April 10, 2020 · at 11:04 am EST/EDT
  
  frank reps
  
  4.Why is no one addressing Geo Engineering ?.
  
  Well, it may not be nationally addressed by I have and am trying to!!!:
  
  https://twitter.com/GerryFo62113279/status/1216359036452405249?s=20
- Nussiminen on April 10, 2020 · at 1:40 pm EST/EDT
  
  Q & A
  
  Q1: Are the bankers to blame?
  
  A: With regard to the immiseration of the Global South, the answer is a resounding yes. The City (London) in particular squeezes interest out of the Global South while trading the latter’s natural resources at rock-bottom prices.
  
  Q2: Who are the bankers?
  
  A: The people in charge of the ECB, the Fed, the City, etc. plus the owners of the sewer of venture capital companies.
  
  Q3: What was the reason for the 2nd amendment?
  
  A: For the Euro-squatters in North America and their ”revolution” by premeditated land-grabbing and genocide, an ”exceptional” situation arose — unknown to any (genuine) revolutions before and since — in that firearns-for-all turned out to be a splendid strategy for amassing White shock troops, a.k.a. the US Army. To wit: When an entire rabble is committed to slaughtering native peoples, it’s really safe. In more, shall we say, normal conditions of revolutionary war, you can’t do such a thing since that would be doling out arms to your mortal enemies too right in front of yourself.
  
  Q4: Why is no one addressing Geo Engineering?
  
  A: There seems to be plenty of links addressing this subject; e.g.
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2514848619844771
Ricardo Gomes on April 10, 2020 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT

Hello Everyone.
I am a regular reader of this blog for some time now. And with all the brilliant documents i read about our current situation, i absolutely agree that action from the 99% is needed. But what i would love to read ( not criticising anyone ) is what should the, Individual from the 99%, actually do. At home i always try to explain to my family alternative versions of some news we see on MSM and recomend people to this and other alternative information forums, so that they can inform themselvs and take their own conclusions. Other than that i am always left wondering what we, alone individuals in a sea of people who believe MSM with all their hearts, can do.

Sorry for my bad english, not my first language.

Best Regards
- RATM on April 10, 2020 · at 11:04 am EST/EDT
  
  Very good question.
  
  Explain that this pandemic is no pandemic, just a media cover-up of the big theft of public monies by the elites. Mention the trillions printed, the bailouts for big corporations/banks/wallstreet and that mainsteet will get only peanuts or nil.
  And that the people should disobey fascist orders. And not fear. Never fear.
  
  This could be augmented by demands for the authorities to follow their own rules.
  For example, if a gov head was close to a corona positive, be it family members or coworkers, they too need to be under arrest. Let them taste their own medicine. For they own safety of course wink wink
  - Nussiminen on April 10, 2020 · at 3:36 pm EST/EDT
    
    ”Other than that i am always left wondering what we, alone individuals in a sea of people who believe MSM with all their hearts, can do.”
    
    I am happy to share a sincere piece of advice which instantly kills the despair and has it replaced by joy and Schadenfreude:
    
    Ridicule and insult them by refined amusement (not by shouting and swearing at them). Like: ”How is the liberation of illegally annexed Crimea going?” or ”If there were a global plebiscite about the world’s most detested country and people, who would you think would be the ’winners’ ?”. And, of course, the corollary question: ”Why, then, do you side with these dregs against the decent part of humanity?”.
    
    Bottom line: If you can’t change the worldview of Ziomedia addicts, then at least you’re fully entitled to have some fun at the slobs’ expense.
- Serbian girl on April 10, 2020 · at 1:32 pm EST/EDT
  
  Hello Ricardo,
  You should disengage from the financial paradigm. As you correctly state, there is a “sea of people” who will only wake up when it’s far too late and the financial system is on the brink of collapse.
  
  Amarynth and Larchmonter have made great comments /ideas on how to secure your food supply. Also think about how to store food (fermented vegetables etc).
  - KINZAZA on April 10, 2020 · at 5:51 pm EST/EDT
    
    In my area, we used to have beautiful apple trees. Then the government came and announced that all these apple trees (Organic apple trees) were spreading some infection, and other trees were badly suffering from that said infection. In short, they ordered all these trees to be cut down. All of that to say, is that these maniacs might come to “save” us from our independent food production any time. I’d not be surprised, if the ‘elites” might “scientifically” prove that vitamins are causing deadly pandemics.
    
    Anyhow, my family is planting things, and we partnered with some farmers in our area to make sure that we can stay independent. Watching your food grow, is an incredibly satisfying experience.
    - Serbian girl on April 10, 2020 · at 8:27 pm EST/EDT
      
      Kinzaza,
      This is the danger. This is what they tried to do to us during the war. The WFP showed up and declared the food supply unsanitary. They brought the food logistics to a halt. Many still continued to source from the small local farmers and refused the WFP food. Btw, the WFP spreads ideology. They are not what they say they are.
Rod Coffman on April 10, 2020 · at 11:45 am EST/EDT

Meanwhile the Federal Reserve adds another $6 Trillion to it’s balance sheet of US corporate debt and mortgage assets all purchased on the cheap with some keyboard entries.
ben sampson on April 10, 2020 · at 12:27 pm EST/EDT

the answer lies in the rise of the people..Main Street or People Street..the peoples rise to bell the political and intellectual classes..the source from when flows that brains that smoothes the way of the capitalists

talk about belling the Jews and driving them into self reliance..those gentile classes are the pits, a concentration of total betrayal of basic human principles by their unrelenting sell-out of the peoples interest

the people must rise and be unsparing with the political classes, relenless with them. clesnse the process completelyby inserting themslves as the arbiters and mangers of the social power instituting the vast popular interest, bent on focuse on period the creation of organization ways to ensure total representaion in all that is socially decisive all the way

in so doing the people must leave no room at all for any re-rise of politics as we have known it to now..none, nada.

and the universities ust be turned inside out and upside down and shaken to alow the egg heads to fall out on their noggins..clesned out and flattened to popular interest and need..eliminate the intellectual elites, fakes and frauds and parasites all

education must not be about producing these great brains a kind of untouchable at plus 100k per anumm for doing lityerally nothing when the day comes but preen as superior, better fine but are really about betrayal of the people. and in the sciense where they do somethng they are harnessed to the purposes of war-making mostly.

education is about teaching students up to the day we are here, about how we survived/survive, and the skills we developed and the skills needed to go forward with the best chance we have in nature..the cutting edge of our skills developed out of nature and needed to work out our best chances as we go.

education should be a practical purposed process and goal..not detaching the brain from the body and making it separate and supreme over the rest

but it is crucial to put in the open ended principle into education..we dont know and we must know in order to win suvivla in nature..and education must be about knowing, proving more, learning more to improve human chances in existence.

education must be about developing truth in a social system in which truth is no danger to anyone at all..because the people have prevailed in the social struggle. truth would have become what it must be in order for us to make in existence..in everyones best interest
abc123 on April 10, 2020 · at 1:55 pm EST/EDT

I do wonder if this COVID-19 thing will be analogous to the ‘year 2000 computer bug’ of last century. I realize it is acknowledged universally as a real pandemic that needs to be controlled but not all people who contract it happen to die from it. The number of deaths around the world have been comparatively small compared to the ‘common’ flu, according to the WHO’s own (potentially inflated?) figures.

If there is no cure for the flu, why are we waiting for a cure for COVID? If I could answer my own question while segueing into Pepe’s question, it is likely big pharma and its shareholders who stand to win big. If the people are convinced that many are dying from this illness, many will take up vaccines to attempt safeguard their health.

My gut feeling is that COVID (whether impact is as real as reported or not) is just a smokescreen for an engineered global economic collapse.
- VictorNoel on April 10, 2020 · at 9:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  This is not just the flu, as evidenced by the overflowing hospitals everywhere it is widespread, and the reports of vastly greater “excess deaths” where measured. The fatality rate doesn’t have to be that high to kill enormous numbers of people, if it infects a large percentage of us, which it seemly does. And yes, it is killing young people too, which the flu doesn’t. Reports are that a large percentage of new infections are of people under 50, so it could be mutating into something even deadlier.
  
  This is not a conspiracy, as almost every single country in the world is reporting the same phenomenon. There is no reason China and the USA and Europe Russia and Iran would all be saying the same thing, and suffering the same way if this wasn’t real.
  
  And yes, this will be used by the powerful to fulfill their grand designs of conquest and exploitation. We must resist this by any and all means available. But that doesn’t mean that they have all gotten together and are intentionally destroying the current system that they have profited so well by, in the hopes that in the chaos they will end up ahead.
  - Anonymous on April 11, 2020 · at 3:54 am EST/EDT
    
    “But that doesn’t mean that they have all gotten together and are intentionally destroying the current system that they have profited so well by, in the hopes that in the chaos they will end up ahead.”
    
    I wonder what your perspective is on 9/11? The elites did get together in Oct. 2019:
    
    “But back on October 18th there was a simulation of a coronavirus pandemic. It was called Event 201. That simulation was integrated by a whole series of people from mainly private financial institutions, corporate execs, foundations, Big Pharma, CIA, there was a representative from the CDC but there were no health officials on behalf of national governments or the WHO. It was essentially a simulation which included quite a number of things, including the collapse of stock markets, the extension of the virus to something like 65 million people and so on and so forth.”
    
    And the elites congregated in Davos at WEF in January:
    
    “The WHO Director-General, who had been in Davos just a few days earlier, determined that the so-called outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and, as I mentioned, that decision was taken on the basis of 150 confirmed cases outside China.”
    
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-crisis/5706741
    
    While not conclusive, these events allow for questioning of your assertion in that statement, I would think.
    - VictorNoel on April 11, 2020 · at 11:11 am EST/EDT
      
      Do you not want our officials to prepare for such events? The fact that these simulations didn’t result in better preparedness is surely incompetence and not really caring for the welfare of the general public, and not a grand conspiracy to sit back and watch the entire economy crumble before their eyes.
      
      But note that I am saying that there are powers that wish to take advantage of the situation to increase their power and wealth and control over the masses. It’s just that it’s not necessary to assume that they caused the crises in the first place.
      
      It really doesn’t matter to some degree how we got here, what matters is how we respond to this, which is exactly what they are thinking as well.
      
      As to 9/11, much the same thing: regardless of who did what, we allowed that event to increase the power of the ruling classes over us without much protest or push-back. They will never let a good crisis go to waste.
Serbian girl on April 10, 2020 · at 2:12 pm EST/EDT

I had a look at Moderna, which is one of the companies which will supposedly provide the world with a Coronoavirus vaccine. The company has indeed been all over the news as it is the most valuable biotech company in the US right now, worth several billion USD (not bad for a start up that isn’t earning any income).

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4336914-moderna-12-billion-brand-built-on-hope-and-mrna

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/13/moderna-therapeutics-biotech-mrna/

I was surprised to learn that they’re just barely out of phase I testing. This means they tested successfully only in animals. Also, they haven’t even announced the clinical indication of their human trials. They’re being very secretive.

It would appear that they are literally decades away from having a viable vaccine…so I don’t understand the hype…

I looked up the CEO of Moderna. He used to be head of a French company called Biomerieux which is a direct supplier of the US army.
- william burke on April 12, 2020 · at 4:48 pm EST/EDT
  
  one of my boys is manager of a dept there, he is a believer, and says it is in human trials, I dont tell him, but I think it all is for dif reasons, and I personally think it all fake theater and if anyone is actually sick like in iran, I would guess they were directly poisoned by a person. Or arial spray. I think it all is for reasons economic and to make all fall under the getting injected tyranny, plus, this will be the years of billions dying due to starvation and tiidal waves and whatever else. My fathers generation of catholics that knew too much, said this to me, ” there is no one as bloodthirsty as a priest with power ” I still cannot say they were wrong.
evilempire on April 10, 2020 · at 2:28 pm EST/EDT

The really insidious part of this is that these “pandemics” of seemingly ordinary
flus are being exacerbated by persistent environmental and iatrogenic toxins that
will make these “pandemics” recurrent. 5G not only weakens the immune system but can also
cause cell poisoning that releases exosomes which the body may react to as foreign resulting in
an immune response that resembles flu symptoms. Persistent vaccination campaigns might
be responsible for the cytokine storm we are seeing in patients suffering from ARDS. Vaccine
induced cytokine storm might be responsible for many of the fatalities we are seeing and may be
the reason for the higher mortality rates. Since these environmental and iatrogenic toxins are
deeply embedded in the system, the pandemics will be permanent.
WikiBlabs on April 12, 2020 · at 11:30 am EST/EDT

So many great insights! I can’t write as well as you guys, so I made a video. These are my thoughts after 10 years of living in China.

https://youtu.be/0OgYob2Iqxo

There are a lot of things nobody has yet considered.
william burke on April 12, 2020 · at 4:41 pm EST/EDT

this is, along with all else, to depopulate billions via starvation, as it is happening, cover is provided by a seeming all in the same boat inability to help stop it. Lovely. summer of death
Anti Evil on April 13, 2020 · at 12:24 pm EST/EDT

Im scared , not of the virus but of the Agenda -and that the multitudes will follow in ignorance to their fate -observing the sheep running around with masks unquestioningly says it all – people of the earth we face the prospect of returning to feudal times when men again will be ruled by the Lords if we dont resist – when you and your Grandchildren are forced to be marked, vacinated annually ,cash is forbidden etc 5G is in control then you will know you have been enslaved Listen to what is the Bill Gates objective – this from a man that already controls the worlds systems – the stats from Italy prove this whole thing is a hype – all the people affected have died due to weaken ed immune ie due to underlying health conditions ie diabetes and hbp – etc etc not to say its not serious but as the saying goes “follow the money ” Let me say not being a citizen of the US I wouldnt step foot into your country as you dont know if you will be “Assanged” for writing this post You even have to state your email to make a post -makes you think and drink – A once great country has the likes of Bolton – Pompeo ” we lie,we steal ” – this is the morality -im scared – where does this end