A request for serious consideration and comment

[RhisiartGwilym]

The upheaval this year has been extraordinary. For much of the time, the fog of uncertainty has been so bad that - literally - no-one at all has been in a position to give a clear, deservedly-authoritative account of it. This fog, though, is now clearing.

The picture emerging seems to look like this:

Firstly, crucially, there is no pandemic! This ('19/'20) Winter’s flu season has been just marginally worse than average, because of some novel pathogen - possibly a newly-mutated virus, if you go with the orthodox germ theory of illness; though many in the naturopathic and ‘alt-medicine’ community don’t.

It’s now starting to seem that this novel pathogen followed a usual path for new Winter flus: it produces a particularly nasty flu illness, with some evidence of long-term complications in some unfortunates. It’s made a fairly vigorous debut, which cleared out a lot of vulnerable older people in poor overall health, who had been lingering on for now, having survived the somewhat less than usually-lethal seasons of '19 and '18. This wave of illness was mostly finished by May. But all that said, it’s beginning to appear that the all-causes death rate for this year will not be strikingly higher than usual. Even in the scattered hot spots of medical emergency, like Lumbardia, London and NYC, there was no total overwhelming of the medical system.

Ergo, there has been NO pandemic.

Nothing remotely comparable to the yearly, wholly-unremarked, non-panicking global kill rate of - for just one of numerous chronic examples - tuberculosis.

What there has been is a weird melange of Terror-Derangement-Syndrome-driven mass panicking by pols, mediawhores, and that substantial tranche of the populace who still trust them; together with various separate coteries of criminal chancers seeing and seizing a golden opportunity for - what they see as - benefits to be harvested. The obvious one of these, of course, is the huge rip-off that the Big Pharma criminal gangsters have foisted on the - wilfully - panicked governments of the world: billions of pound’s worth of wholly untrustworthy, and un-needed vaccines already bought, with many more such foistings still to come, if the chancers can keep swinging it.

There appears to have been a massive flood upwards of wealth to the one-percenters during this scam (though much of it of delusional real value), whilst the majority of we plebs have been seriously - and undelusionally - handicapped financially, and with more still to come, already baked in by the sequelae of the chaos. And the vast debt increases which have been engaged by governments during the panic will be for us to pay off - if anyone ever does; by no means certain: debts which can’t be paid off eventually won’t be…

It begins to seem that most of us have already encountered covid, and have seen it off without much trouble, if at all, because of previously-acquired immunity to closely-similar illnesses of the recent past, which immunity protected us this time round: The usual story in the endless dance of all creatures with their predators, in the permanent evolutionary process. (I’ve collected a raft of stories from friends and neighbours of remembered incidents of some slight sense of being a bit under the weather very early this year, or some time late last year; something a bit odd and unusual, but nothing that needed much attention, if at all.) If this is so, then the new pathogen has been spreading since before the hugely psyched-up Wuhan melodrama, and we have mostly acquired natural immunity already; well above the herd-immunity thresholds. Hence, there will be no particularly frightening ‘next waves’ of covid. Er - probably (we have yet to see about that, this Winter/Spring season).

The vaccine hysteria is an utter racket. The constant outright lies about ‘fully proven safe and effective’ cannot possibly be true, because it’s never been possible in the past to say this with honesty about previous vaccines until they’ve been in use and under scrutiny for at least several years. Some are useful and safe. Plenty have proven to be neither. And the vaccines now being foisted on us have several highly-speculative new characteristics, about whose effects no-one can possibly be sure. They are not PROVEN safe.

In any case, no vaccine is necessary, because this year has demonstrated graphically, in front-line hectic situations, where frantic medical personnel have tried out on the hoof various intuitions that turned out to work, that there at least half a dozen highly-effective treatments: specifics freely and cheaply available, most of them both prophylactic and powerfully curative of the illness. And all of them already-well-proven safe and effective by long clinical use, and often by randomised tests also.

Further to this picture of things, there has surfaced evidence of a nasty idea amongst some particularly manipulative multi-billionaire gic factions that the - alleged - crisis can be used to rush forward some longer-term, gleamintheeye scams which they’d like to pull. FWIW, my sense is that this peripheral aspect of the panic isn’t going to make a lot of headway; not this time round, anyway. But definitely there, and real all the same, not just silly cospithirries. It does seem, though, that there’s a steady increase in people, both medical professional and lay, standing up in vigorous dissent against the manipulators, and their pocket-pol and mediawhore panic-mongers, and telling them publicly to get lost.

This is just a brief sketch of where the whole ‘crisis’ situation seems to stand right now. Comments welcome.

PS: Should have added: Various health ‘authorities’, such as the US CDCs and the other three-letterers, and - notoriously - the constantly flip-flopping WHO, have been shown up strikingly as thoroughly untrustworthy. The usual cause for this, apart from the natural wish of the apparatchiks who work in them to be well-in with, and part of the ruling technocrat class, seems to be gross conflicts of interest. In a nutshell, they’ve been bought by the gangsters. Or more accurately, they’ve been carrot-and-sticked: big ackers and career advancement if you line-toe; career death and disaster, and quite possibly physical death if you don’t. Consigliere Tony Fauci is the poster child for these traitors.

The upshot of this is that none of these agencies are to be trusted now, in ANY of their pronouncements.

[PatB]

I agree with all you say @RhisiartGwilym. Although you do say

@RhisiartGwilym

It does seem, though, that there’s a steady increase in people, both medical professional and lay, standing up in vigorous dissent against the manipulators

The lack of those to date, willing to stand up and be counted in my view is appalling. Every hospital doctor, nurse, porter must have seen something fishy. Even a friend of mine told me a story about a consultant at a London hospital he knows personally, and the hospital is (was) almost empty. There were too few letters to MP’s, councils, too few turned up (Berlin excepted) at demonstrations, and the police seemed mostly to relish their new found freedom to behave like the thugs they have always been.

I sure I’ve got this quote wrong but it’s something like, “All it needs for evil to flourish, is that good men (and of course women) do nothing”.

[RhisiartGwilym]

Thanks for the response, Pat. Those anecdotes of quiet hospitals seem to have multiplied quite a bit this year. Of course, we need to treat them with the caution that ANY assertion about this weird event absolutely requires, when trying to navigate through the PBB, which clearly has risen to storm force this year. But nonetheless, the stories are there, to be considered.

I think your recall of that famous saying is pretty accurate. Thank heaven some of the medical professionals are standing up - together - to denounce the con. And yes, let’s hope to see a whole lot more emboldened by the path-finders!

[spike]

Hi Rhis

Yes, agree with all that apart fom a minor quibble about whether there’s been a pandemic. I’d say there has been in the narrow definition of the word - “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people” - however what there hasn’t been is a PANDEMIC ™.

The real dangers now are that the response that we’ve seen (lockdowns, even more tracking of movement, government by decree etc) will be the norm from here on in. the prescendent has been set and when the virus fades into obscurity and we ‘learn to live with it’ this response can be triggered when any new threat, manufactured or otherwise, dangerous or not dangerous, emerges. Already you can see this version of history being baked in, vis 9-11, to become orthodoxy. The unborn wiill learn about this as an entirely rational response to an invisible enemy and internalise the values. Furthermore they’ll grow up in a world where distancing, lockdowns, masks, vaccine passports and everything else that can be crammed into this window of opportunity will be the norm and they won’t know any better as competing narratives, again, vis 9-11, will be omerta.

The speed with which The Barrington Declaration was squashed is a case in point. A sane, workable way to cope with the virus while protecting EVERYTHING ELSE was quickly defamed as a right wing eugenics project, which wouldn’t work anyway, was too impractical oh and by the way, they’re all climate change deniers. This approach, which wouldn’t have been even mildly controvertial even 12 months ago, was denegrated and cast aside by the usual suspects of course, but the response of people who should know better and their pathological desire to cling onto the crisis narrative is, perhaps, instructive of the kind of irrational world view that will become the norm as we lurch ever onwards.

[spike]

Apropos this conversation, a good summation from Off-G

The Great Reset: The end of Capitalism as we know it “building back better” means technocracy & the end of liberalism and democracy in one fell swoop

Sean Stinson

To suggest that there has been an overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic may be the understatement of the century. The spark that began as a rational fear of disease has been fanned into flames of widespread panic which have raged through state and civil institutions. The spectacle of the US election aside (or perhaps a case in point), it is fair to say that democracy no longer exists. The rule of law has been suspended.

A ‘state of emergency’ persists throughout much of the world and will likely remain indefinitely. All of this has been normalised under cover of a declared medical emergency, and like some modern Milgram experiment, the masses have fallen into line. Anyone who dares to even question the new normal – the constant hand sanitizing; the ubiquitous temperature taking; the social distancing; the contact tracing – is now perceived as a threat to society.

If there’s an elephant in the room it’s probably the fact that there seems to be no pandemic to speak of. Regardless of the overblown case reporting there is no significant spike in the overall number of deaths compared to a normal flu season.

Covid 19 manifests as a mild flu in the majority of people who get sick from it, while presenting no symptoms at all in most people, it scarcely impacts children, and according to a growing number of physicians it can be successfully treated with inexpensive and readily available medications such as vitamins D, C and zinc.

So what on earth is going on? Why are plexiglass screens popping up in front of every teller and checkout? Why the mask mandates and tracing apps? Why have schools and businesses been forced to close? Why has the global economy been brought to a standstill? Why are people being locked in their homes? Why are the elderly being left to die alone?

This whole thing needs to be unpacked, but where to even begin? What is a reasonable point of entry into this horror story? What are the foundational facts needed to present a fair and balanced assessment? What assumptions, if any, do we need to start with?

Perhaps we could just dive right into the Great Reset, a proposal put forward by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to rebuild the global economy ‘sustainably’ following the COVID-19 pandemic, which you can read all about here.

But how do we begin to talk about resetting the global economy without at least a perfunctory introduction to the work of Karl Marx, surely one of if not the most important political economist of the modern era? You should have learned about him in school.

Dare we frame this story without at least a minimal understanding of the cult of technocracy, the ideology forged in the embers of the Great Depression which sought to remake the world in a more resilient fashion, leaving out the corruptible human element from decision making processes? This may seem of esoteric interest only, but when novels like 1984 and Brave New World begin to read more like instruction manuals than fiction, one has to wonder.

Can we even hope to grasp the full extent of our current situation without understanding the fragile nature of the Post WWII economy and how the petrodollar system came to effectively replace the gold standard? Probably something more of interest to budding political economists, but again, important fundamentals.

Is it essential to know who John D Rockefeller was; to know about his history of philanthropy and ties to the pharmaceutical industry, or that the very ground on which the United Nations stands was donated by him and his family? (Half a century later the building of the World Trade Centre would be financed by his grandsons Nelson and David, but surely I digress…)

Or how David Rockefeller, aided and abetted by his protégé Maurice Strong, brought the climate agenda front and centre in the 1970s in order to wrest control of the world’s natural resources from sovereign governments and indigenous peoples into the hands of corporate-owned non-government organisations? Or should all of this be filed away under ‘conspiracy theory’?

Would it be useful to understand the perverse creed of transhumanism, where its agenda intersects with all of the above, and what radical cultural shift has led to puberty blockers now being commonly prescribed to mentally disordered children? Or why the words biological reality can no longer be spoken in polite company?

All of these are potential chapters of a book which I simply don’t have the time or energy to write. So for our present purposes can we just agree that when you live under a system that rewards wealth and power and prioritises private profit over human need, and distribute that out across 7 billion people, you end up with the worst aberrations the human species can produce at the apex of power? We are ruled over by psychopaths.

If that is too much for you to take in, I suggest you leave off here and go back to your favourite television news channel and await further programming. Hint: it doesn’t matter which channel. When six mega corporations own all of the news outlets, IT’S ALL FAKE NEWS.

Nothing is as it seems. The world as we knew it was never as it seemed anyway. But now there has been a fundamental change.

To put this into historical context, to speak of the modern era is to speak of a distinct historical period with its own distinctive economic and social characteristics. Chief among these is a system of property relations controlled by markets, which exist within agreed institutional frameworks backed by political authority.

“Private property is the golden calf of capitalism and unregulated capitalism is the bible of the ruling class.” writes Bernd Hamm. A succinct observation, but I feel the metaphor needs to be extended somewhat, for it seems to me that the golden calf, once worshipped, is now being sacrificed.

Marx’s theoretical framework is fundamental to understanding our current situation. Marx was absolutely correct when he said that the crises of capitalist production are due to under-consumption, ie, production outstripping demand. In a nutshell, continuing to produce more and more while paying workers less and less results in workers not being able to afford to buy the goods they produce.

Marx describes this as an internal contradiction; A contradiction embedded in the very DNA of the capitalist system.

Let’s not fool ourselves that the ruling class haven’t studied history as well, and don’t know what fate awaits them if capitalism is allowed to follow its ordained path. Which is why I suggest they have chosen to bring the revolution to the toiling masses, before we bring it to them.

The current global recession may have been inevitable, but the (mis)management of the pandemic has been a wrecking ball. The dire situation in which we now find ourselves presents a “narrow window of opportunity”, according to Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO of the WEF, in which to “reflect, reimagine, and reset our world”.

It all sounds quite noble and grand, until you realise this cosplaying sociopath is actually calling for the complete annihilation of national economies – economies which have still not recovered from the 2008 global capitalist crisis.

The BoE is calling this the biggest recession since 1706. That’s not just a 300 year credit bubble, but the entire capitalist enterprise. The entire modern era. Capitalism, liberalism, democracy, all gone in one fell swoop. And it’s never coming back – they have made certain of it.

What we are seeing today is a shift away from production based economies, which you can read all about in the WEF’s own literature. What is proposed by the resetters under the rubric of ‘building back better’ is not capitalism; it is a different system of social and economic organisation altogether.

A ‘sharing economy’ in the new parlance – a system of energy inputs and outputs perfectly balanced thanks to the modern marvels of the blockchain and the Internet of Things/Internet of Bodies. The defining features of capitalism – competitive markets, a price system, private property and the recognition of property rights, voluntary exchange and wage labor – are conspicuously absent from this new economy, along with any hope of upward mobility. In real language this is TECHNOCRACY.

This is a paradigm shift.

Marx was right when he predicted that capitalism would end because of its own internal contradictions. He was naive to think it would necessarily end due to the revolutionary struggle of the working class. The ruling class have other options, and the system they intend to foist on us next will be more efficient, more resilient, and more brutal than anything John D Rockefeller could have conceived of in his wildest fantasies.

I was asked by a comrade recently why I labour the point that we are no longer living under capitalism. To this I can only answer, how are we supposed to mount an effective counter attack when we aren’t aware that the terrain has changed? Whistling in the dark and pissing into the wind at the same time takes no special talent. We need to address our changing material conditions and update our theoretical framework, or we risk becoming irrelevant.

What we are seeing is not just business as usual. Not just the latest power grab; the latest upward redistribution of wealth to the 1%. Nor is it ‘just’ fascism, ie capitalism in crisis mode. What we are seeing, or rather failing to see, is so much more than this. In order to fully understand, we need to look past the theatrics and examine the mechanics.

The virus is theatre. Just like climate change was theatre. ‘Climate change’ is a deliberately meaningless buzzword invented to serve elite interests. Blaming all of our problems on an invisible gas which makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere does nothing to address any of the serious environmental issues we face. Rather the proposed link between atmospheric warming and ‘greenhouse’ gases acts as a diversion from issues which the elites have no intention of addressing.

Deforestation is something we desperately need to take action on. Clearing millions of acres to make way for solar farms clearly misses the point. Dumping billions of tonnes of plastic and chemical waste into the oceans each year poses a serious danger to marine ecosystems and ultimately the entire food chain, but this pales next to current plans by multinational conglomerates to begin strip-mining the ocean floor.

The destruction of aquifers through horizontal drilling puts our precious water supply under continual threat and is allowed to go ahead because natural gas is considered a clean fuel? Blow me. Modern industrial farming practices, GMO foods and fertilizers have a devastating impact on biodiversity, but are integral to supply chain management under ‘green capitalism’. I could go on and on.

But while the climate change industry has been a boon for certain elite interests, it failed the ultimate test – the total transformation of society. Despite all the expert scientists prophesying certain extinction within decades, the looming threat of a climate apocalypse was still not enough to justify the changes we’ve seen in recent months.

They needed something more tangible. They needed to be able to show the dead bodies piling up. At least on TV. Enter covid-19 – Something we could all be REALLY scared of.

And just like that, governments acted in perfect synchronicity, on the advice of ‘expert panels’ and ‘top scientists’, to put the brakes on national economies; economies with no more levers left to pull. 25% of small businesses have now closed, most never to reopen, while retail and tech giants have swept up their market share posting record profits.

In the last eight months Jeff Bezos has added $70 billion to his personal wealth, while Elon Musk has pocketed a cool $110 billion. Small change compared to what Bill Gates stands to make from a vaccine which will likely be required by everyone, every year, for life.

This a corporate coup d’etat. We are never going back to ‘normal’.

“Build back better”, they keep repeating. As if they have any intention of rebuilding the pillars of liberal democracy which they just took the axe to. Privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly etc. Nope. If you comply with the new rules they might issue you a “freedom passport”. So long as your shots are up to date and your social credit is good you might even get to keep your pension or your disability payment. But probably not your house.

A few are talking about it. There are vague murmurings from the conservative and libertarian camps warning us about this diabolical plot by the elites to install world socialism. Because, well because anything they don’t like is socialism, right?

Because they have never studied history or political science, in fact most of them sound like they have never read a book. They just repeat what they hear from their favourite right wing pundits. Remember those six corporations?

No, the Great Reset is not about socialism. Would that that were the case. The oligarchs want to create a permanent rentier class. They and their kind will own ALL while the rest of us own nothing. This is fundamentally different from socialism which seeks the elimination of private property and restoration of the commons.

n the new economy, everything will be rented. No one needs to sleep all the time. Why own a bed when you can rent or share one? Why own a car or a bicycle when you can pool a ride in a self driving taxi cab? You get the idea.

Some are calling it stakeholder capitalism, but this too is inaccurate. A more accurate term would be techno-feudalism. Fiat currency has outlived its usefulness. Capital markets are being replaced by impact markets which will trade in human misery while biometric sensors track our every move. Did you ever wonder why they call it the world wide web? If it’s not obvious by now why they are in such a rush to roll out 5G, just read/watch any dystopian sci-fi made in the last fifty years.

This is the world they are creating for us right now. The old one is gone, and is not coming back. One way or another we are going forward.

But where to?

The Great Reset: The end of Capitalism as we know it

[RhisiartGwilym]

Yet again I find myself murmuring: “Thank the gods for the Long Descent!”

Just inform yourself about the realities on current and near-future production of ‘the master resource’ - energy, the absolute sine qua non of modern industrial society - to see what’s really happening, behind these hallucinatory day-dreams of the ‘resetter’ psychopath crooks.

The wholly unavoidable, irreversible end of cheap, abundant fossil-hydrocarbon energy easily trumps the sick nightmare dreams of the Billenders and the Schwaboids. They may manage to get some sort of feudalism going patchily, here and there across the world, but their chances of a whole-planet feudal racket are absolute zero. The critically-essential energy and the other indispensable physical commodities absolutely required in order to install and run such a nightmare are simply not going to be available.

Nor will the Russian people ever consent to submit to such a lunacy (what, after their recent escape from bleak bolshevist authoritarianism…!), whilst the Chinese will run up eventually against the same limits to growth which is over-shadowing everyone else on Earth, and will find themselves engulfed in there own horrendous problems, as they strive to cope with their intractable over-population nightmare, and the civil upheavals that it will spark, as their prosperity ‘miracle’ fades and pops. What price their electronic brownie-points for being obedient line-toer citizens then? Only tolerable whilst their newly-burgeoning middle-class continue to get their placatory consumer toys and comforts - for a shortish while longer… (JMGreer reckons that these pressures mean that it’s inevitable for the Chinese to try to spread out into Eastern Siberia, with the unavoidable terminal friction with Russia that that would be bound to provoke.)

Authoritarian technocratic globalism is yesterday’s fad, and the peremptory eco-geophysical realities now controlling our near-future trajectory will take no account whatever of the ambitions of some humans to keep it going. It’s already a walking-dead zombie.