The imposition of the nationwide lockdowns required elite
consensus. There’s no way that a project of that magnitude could have been
carried out absent the nearly universal support of establishment elites and
their lackeys in the political class. There must have also been a
fairly-detailed media strategy that excluded the voices of lockdown opponents
while– at the same time– promoting an extremely dubious theory of universal
quarantine that had no basis in science, no historical precedent, and no chance
of preventing the long-term spread of the infection. All of this suggests that
the lockdowns were not a spontaneous overreaction to a fairly-mild virus that
kills roughly 1 in 500 mainly-older and infirm victims, but a comprehensive and
thoroughly-vetted plan to impose “shock therapy” on the US economy in order to
achieve the long-term strategic ambitions of ruling class elites. As one
sardonic official opined, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
It was clear from the
beginning, that the lockdowns were going to have a catastrophic effect on the
economy, and so they have. As of today, 30 million people
have lost their jobs, tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses
have been shuttered, second quarter GDP has plunged to an eye watering -45.5
percent (Atlanta Fed), and the economy has experienced its greatest shock in
history. Even so, pundits in the mainstream media, remain steadfast in their
opposition to lifting the lockdowns or modifying the medical martial law edicts
that have been arbitrarily imposed by mainly-liberal governors across the
country. Why? Why would the so-called “experts throw their weight behind such a
sketchy policy when they knew how much suffering it was going to cause for
ordinary working people? And why has the media continued to attack countries
like Sweden who merely settled on a more conventional approach instead of
imposing a full-blown lockdown? Swedish leaders and epidemiologists were
unaware that adopting their own policy would be seen as a sign of defiance by
their global overlords, but it was. Elites have decided that there can be no
challenge to their idiotic lockdown model which is why Sweden had to be
punished, ridiculed, and dragged through the mud. The treatment of Sweden
further underscores the fact that the lockdown policy (and the destruction of
the US economy) was not a random and impulsive act, but one part of a broader
plan to restructure the economy to better serve the interests of elites. That’s
what’s really going on. The lockdowns are being used to “reset” the economy and
impose a new social order.
But why would corporate mandarins agree to a plan that would
shrink their earnings and eviscerate short-term profitability?
Why? Because of the stock
market, that’s why. The recycling of earnings into
financial assets has replaced product sales as the primary driver of profits.
As you may have noticed, both the Fed and the US Treasury have taken
unprecedented steps to ensure that stock prices will only go higher. To date,
the Fed and Treasury have committed $8 trillion dollars to backstopping the
weaker areas of the market in an effort to flood the market with liquidity.
“Backstopping” is an innocuous-sounding term that analysts use to conceal what
is really going on, which is, the Fed is “price fixing”, buying up trillions of
dollars of corporate debt, ETF’s, MBS, and US Treasuries to keep prices
artificially high in order to reward the investor class it secretly serves.
This is why the corporations and Tech giants are not concerned about the vast
devastation that has been inflicted on the economy. They’ll still be raking
hefty profits via the stock market while the real economy slips deeper into a
long-term coma. Besides, when the lockdowns are finally lifted, these same
corporations will see a surge of consolidation brought on by the destruction of
so many Mom and Pop industries that couldn’t survive the downturn. No doubt,
the expansion of America’s tenacious monopolies factored heavily into the
calculation to blow up the economy. Meanwhile, the deepening slump will
undoubtedly create a permanent underclass that will eagerly work for a pittance
of what they earned before the crash. So, there you have it: Profitability,
consolidation and cheap labor. Why wouldn’t corporate bosses love the idea of
crashing the economy? It’s a win-win situation for them.
We should have seen this
coming. It’s been clear since the Russiagate fiasco that elites had
settled on a more aggressive form of social control via nonstop disinformation
presented as headline news based on spurious accusations from anonymous
sources, none of who were ever identified, and none of whose claims could ever
be verified. The media continued this “breathless” saturation campaign without
pause and without the slightest hesitation even after its central claims were
exposed as lies. If you are a liberal who watches the liberal cable channels or
reads the New York Times, you might still be unaware that the central claim
that the emails were stolen from the DNC by Russia (or anyone else for that
matter) has not only been disproved, but also, that Mueller, Comey, Clapper etc
knew the story was false way back in 2017. Let that sink in for a minute. They
all knew it was a lie after the cyber security team (Crowdstrike) that
inspected the DNC computers testified that there was no evidence that the
emails had been “exfiltrated”. In other words, there was no proof the emails
were stolen. There was no justification for the Mueller investigation because
there was no evidence that the DNC emails had been hacked, downloaded or
pilfered. The whole thing was a hoax from the get go.
There’s no way to overstate the importance these recent findings,
in fact, our understanding of Russiagate must be applied to the lockdowns, the
Black Lives Matter protests and other psychological operations still in the
making. What’s critical to grasp is not simply that the allegations were based
on false claims, (which they were) but that a large number of senior-level
officials in law enforcement (FBI), intel agencies, media and the White House
knew with absolute certainty that the claims were false (from 2017 and on) but
continued to propagate fake stories, spy on members of the new administration
and use whatever tools they had at their disposal to overthrow an elected
president. The guilty parties in this ruse have never admitted their guilt nor
have they changed their fictitious storyline which still routinely appears in
the media to this day. What we can glean from this incident, is that there is a
vast secret state operating within the government, media and the DNC, that does
not accept our system of government, does not accept the results of elections
and will lie, cheat and steal to achieve their nefarious objectives. . That’s
the lesson of Russiagate that has to be applied to both the lockdowns and the
Black Lives Matter protests. They are just the next phase of the ongoing war on
the American people.
The lockdowns are an
Americanized version of the “Shock Doctrine”, that is, the country has been
thrust into a severe crisis that will result in the implementing of neoliberal
economic policies such as privatization, deregulation and cuts
to social services. Already many of the liberal governors have driven their
states into bankruptcy ensuring that budgets will have to be slashed, more jobs
will be lost, funding for education and vital infrastructure will shrink, and
assistance to the poor and needy will be sharply reduced. Shutting down the US
economy, will create a catastrophe unlike anything we have ever seen in the
United States. US Treasuries will likely loose their risk-free status while the
dollar’s as days as the “world’s reserve currency” are probably numbered. That
“exorbitant privilege” is based on confidence, and confidence in US leadership
is at its lowest point in history.
It’s not surprising that the Black Lives Matter protests took
place at the same time as the lockdowns. The looting, rioting and desecration
of statues provided the perfect one-two punch for those who see some tactical
advantage in intensifying public anxiety by exacerbating racial tensions and
splitting the country into two warring camps. Divide and conquer remains the
modus operandi of imperialists everywhere. That same rule applies here.
Here’s more background from an article at the Off-Guardian:
“It is no coincidence that another Soros funded activism group
Black Lives Matter has diverted the spotlight away from the lockdown’s broader
impact on the fundamental human rights of billions of people, using the
reliable methods of divide and rule, to highlight the plight of specific
strata’s of society, and not all.
It’s worth pointing out that BLM’s activity spikes every four
years. Always prior to the elections in the US, as African Americans
make up an important social segment of Democrat votes. The same Democrats who
play both sides like any smart gambler would. The Clintons, for example, are
investors into BLM”s partner, the anti-fascist ANTIFA. While Hilary Clinton’s
mentor (and best friend) was former KKK leader Robert Byrd.
BLM is a massively hyped, TV-made, politicized event, that panders
to the populist and escapist appetite of the people. Blinding them from their
true call to arms in defense of the universal rights of everyone.
Cashing in on the youths pent-up aggression …. And weaponising the tiger locked
in a rattled cage for 3-months, and unleashed by puppet masters as the mob…
As a general rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that if a social
movement has the backing of big industry, big philanthropy or big politics,
then its ideals run contrary to citizen empowerment.” (“The Co-opting of Activism
by the State“, Off-Guardian)
Black Lives Matter protests
provide another significant diversion from the massive destruction of the US
economy. This basic plan has been used effectively many times in the past,
most notably in the year following the invasion of Iraq. Some readers will
remember how Iraqis militants fought US occupation forces following the invasion
in 2003. The escalating violence and rising death-toll created a public
relations nightmare for the Bush team that finally settled on a plan for
crushing the resistance by arming and training Shia death squads. But the
Bushies wanted to confuse the public about what they were really up to, so they
concocted a narrative about a “sectarian war” that was intended to divert
attention from the attacks on American soldiers.
In order to make the narrative more believable, US intel agents
devised a plan to blow up the Shia’s most sacred religious site, the Golden
Dome Mosque of Samarra, and blame it on Sunni extremists. The
incident was then used to convince the American people that what was taking
place in Iraq was not a war over foreign occupation, but a bitter sectarian
conflict between Sunnis and Shia in which the US was just an impartial referee.
The killing of George Floyd has been used in much the same way as the implosion
of the mosque. It creates a credible narrative for a massive and coordinated protests
that have less to do with racial injustice than they do with diverting
attention from the destruction of the economy and sowing division among the
American people. This is a classic example of how elites use myth and media to
conceal their trouble-making and escape any accountability for their actions.
Check out this excerpt from a paper by Carlo Caduff, an academic
at King’s College London, in a journal called Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
It’s entitled “What Went
Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop”:
“Across the world, the pandemic unleashed authoritarian longings in
democratic societies allowing governments to seize the opportunity, create
states of exception and push political agendas. Commentators have presented the
pandemic as a chance for the West to learn authoritarianism from the East. This
pandemic risks teaching people to love power and call for its meticulous
application. As a result of the unforeseeable social, political and economic
consequences of today’s sweeping measures, governments across the world have
launched record “stimulus” bills costing trillions of dollars, pounds, pesos,
rand and rupees…. The trillions that governments are spending now as “stimulus”
packages surpass even those of the 2008 financial crisis and will need to be
paid for somehow. ... If austerity policies of the past are at the root of the
current crisis with overwhelmed healthcare systems in some countries, the
rapidly rising public debt is creating the perfect conditions for more
austerity in the future. The pandemic response will have major implications for
the public funding of education, welfare, social security, environment and
health in the future.” (Lockdownskeptics.org)
This is precisely right. The country has been deliberately plunged into
another Great Depression with the clear intention of imposing harsh austerity
measures that will eviscerate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and any other
social safety net programs that benefit ordinary working people, retirees, or
anyone else for that matter. None of it is random, spontaneous or
spur-of-the-moment policymaking. It’s all drawn from a centuries-old Imperial
Playbook that’s being used by scheming elites to implement their final plan for
America: Tear down the statues, destroy the icons and symbols, rewrite the
history, crush the populist resistance, create a permanent underclass that will
work for pennies on the dollar, pit one group against the other by inciting
racial hatred, political polarization and fratricidal warfare, promote the
vandals who burn and loot our cities, attack anyone who speaks the truth, and
offer unlimited support to the party that has aligned itself with the corrupt
Intel agencies, the traitorous media, the sinister deep state, and the
tyrannical elites who are determined to control the all the levers of state
power and crush anyone who gets in their way.
