offguardian--2020-09-22--COVID World – Resist!

COVID World – Resist!

COVID 19 is being used to create a global fascist dictatorship .
From New Zealand to the the U.S , so called western democracies have adopted and developed the Chinese model of technocracy to create a single biosecurity State .
This globalist corporate State is to be centrally controlled and administered by a distant global governance cartel of appointed bureaucrats .
Tasked only to serve the interests of a tiny , disproportionately wealthy group we can call the parasite class .
Every aspect of your life will be monitored and controlled , as we move towards the ultimate surveillance State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socialise , to travel , conduct business , access public services and to purchase essential goods and services will be dictated to you , and restricted , by the State , based upon your biosecurity or immunity status .
This transformation process is well underway .
You are no longer a human being , you are a biosecurity risk .
As such you may be removed to a military controlled quarantine camp as and when the State sees fit .
Detention without trial will be the norm .
All protest will be outlawed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the parasite class .
Your children will no longer be your own .
They will belong to the State .
Parental consent for medical procedures will be presumed or , in the case of mandatory procedures , not required .
Once the biosecurity State is firmly established consent will be a distant memory .
We have a diminishing window of opportunity to stop this global fascist dictatorship .
Violent protest will not work .
Not only are they morally indefensible , they are tactically naive .
Violence is the language of the oppressor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over instigation of the use of force .
To crack down , in response to a violent uprising , is the fervent hope of the oppressor .
It allows the State to exercise more , not less , authoritarian control .
In reality , to stop it , all we need to do is refuse , en masse , to comply .
We must do this with our eyes open .
It won ’ t be easy and many of us will face harsh punishment from a desperate tyrant .
However , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we are condemning future generations to unimaginable levels of slavery and misery .
In order to foist this upon us , the apparatus behind it has invested billions in propaganda .
The fascist technocracy , presently being constructed at an alarming pace , requires our cooperation .
Without it , the biosecurity dictatorship can not gain its desired authority .
Our representative democratic systems are not what our forebears gave everything to build .
The parasite class have hollowed them out , replacing the organs of State with their own , leaving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maintain our delusions and keep us believing that we have a semblance of control .
It is a fool ’ s errand to attempt to use their system to win our freedom .
It is designed to control us .
Appeals to their courts will never deliver justice to us .
Temporary , small victories will always be overturned .
Nor can we vote harder expecting yet another of their puppets to save us .
The purpose of the representative democratic apparition is to centralise all global power in the hands of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and , while we persist in our electoral folly , we will not alter it .
We must build something new to replace it .
The obvious solution is the decentralisation of all power to the individual .
We must construct a voluntary society .
Without us , without our obedience , the parasite class is currently nothing but a group of ineffectual , wannabe plutocrats , sat on piles of paper , created from nothing and worth nothing .
If we don ’ t obey , there are no rulers .
Should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , their usury will be fruitless ; if we decide not to pay their taxes , we cut will off their economic exploitation and if we never vote for their bureaucrats we won ’ t consent to their nominated , elected aristocracy .
We are the scientists and the engineers , the doctors and the nurses ; we are the builders and the architects , the mechanics and the farmers ; we are the soldiers who kill and die for their enrichment , we are the police officers who enforce their unlawful rules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and work in their factories , we are the office workers and bank clerks who administer their system , the shop workers , the programmers , the writers , the artists , the teachers and we are the people who , through our belief in their mythical authority , allow the parasite class to control us .
We are the meek , we are the receivers of all knowledge and all wisdom .
We possess all the technology we need and we are the experts .
It is our world , leased from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Without us the parasite class are utterly incapable of controlling anyone or anything .
We must create , not destroy .
We must liberate science , technology , art and knowledge itself from their occult control .
We must build alternative decentralised systems , enabling humanity to live as a coexistence of free , sovereign beings .
We must focus upon self sufficiency , we must support each other , turn our backs on the control systems of the parasitic State and build our own autonomous communities .
We must refuse to comply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power .
We can do this by rejecting , outright , the concept of authority .
No one ever has any right to tell anyone else what to do .
But nor does anyone ever have the right to cause any harm or loss to another human being .
We can live in harmony because we are capable of respecting each other equally , without reservation .
We know this .
Not a single human being on this Earth has the right to order any other to obey their authority .
None of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this power can never be derived from us .
We do not have it to give .
The State ’ s claim of authority , gleaned from their electoral anointment ceremony , is a charade .
Their authority does not exist in reality , only in our imaginations .
We don ’ t need anyone to tell us how to live .
Nor how to deal with the tiny minority incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions .
A voluntary society would be a society without rulers , not a society without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their systems of authority to live in relative peace and harmony and we never have .
Spontaneous order is all around us .
We already live the overwhelming majority of our lives free from State control and without the need for anyone to impose any rulers upon us .
With a few exceptions , no State compels the farmer to grow crops , no State coerces labourers to pick the harvest or engineers to design and operate packing plants and no State forces anyone to transport the produce to market nor any consumer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t controlled by any single authority .
It is an intricate , often global , network of free individuals , each acting in their own best interests , creating a harmonious social order way beyond the operational control of any State .
The State has no part in this social order of immeasurable complexity .
This ordered social construct , bringing food to the family table , is entirely voluntary .
Our society is built from millions of such systems and trillions of voluntary actions and exchanges that happen every day .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ we need do is recognise it , and then seize it .
The State is , and always has been , entirely unnecessary .
It is a hindrance , not a utility .
What benefit does the State and its regulation bring to our food supply chains ?
It claims to protect it .
Protect for whom ?
It removes the free market to protect the profits of multinational corporations .
It imposes taxes , raising everyone ’ s costs , to pay for its wars of neocolonialist exploitation .
It forces wages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everyone from growers to retailers , pushing some into poverty to be preyed upon by the same corporate State .
Its food standard regulations , supposedly designed to keep us safe , effectively reduce food quality , creates massive waste , reduces nutrition , causes more sickness and lengthens the queues at the pharmacy .
Again for the benefit of the parasite class and their pharmaceutical corporations .
In a truly voluntary , free market what would a supplier gain from providing low quality , expensive produce to consumers ?
They would quickly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regulations can possibly facilitate lowering quality , while raising prices , without anyone in the supply chain , other than the oligarchs at the top , profiting from it .
Corporate profit is the bottom line and the State ’ s sole purpose is to protect it .
Yet , somehow , we remain convinced that society could not possibly order itself spontaneously , without the forced coercion of the State .
Despite the fact that , in great measure , it already does .
We neither lack the ability nor the knowledge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lack the confidence , because this pernicious system is purpose built to rob us of it .
We are taught , practically from birth , that respecting authority is a virtue .
To obey is to be good , disobedience is punished .
What could we be if instead we taught our children to think critically , that all of us have equal , inalienable rights , never to cause harm or loss and to take responsibility for themselves because there is no claimed protection from any authority ?
Unfortunately , once we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority is vigorously reinforced through perpetual repetition and the systemic application of reward and punishment .
We are taught what we are allowed to know .
This prepares us to be productive workers and responsible members of the State .
We are then permitted to work until we are no longer productive , with every last ounce of profit milked from us , as we shuffle off to our graves on pharmaceutical life support , before the State swoops in to hoover up the remnants of our lives .
This is not done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to believe in the farcical notion of a benevolent State .
A State which exclusively serves the parasite class and one in which our lives are the real commodity .
COVID 19 is not a high impact infectious disease , it has low mortality rates and is absolutely comparable to influenza .
It isn ’ t even clear that is can be identified as a disease at all .
Sadly , it seems the vast majority of us are so adapted to our authoritarian environment that we are incapable of ever questioning anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID 19 is nothing more than a casus belli for the Third World War .
As the representatives of the State openly admit , that war is a hybrid war .
Just as there is no such thing as a healthy human being , nor is there any distinction between war and peace .
All is war and we are the enemy .
The military objective is to grind us into docile and compliant slaves , serving the new normal State .
We must face reality .
In the new normal , driven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” our labour is no longer required .
We are destined only to consume , and that consumption is to be ruthlessly controlled .
As are we .
There is no black and no white , no right-wing nor any leftists , there is no gay and no straight , no Republicans nor Democrats , no Conservatives nor Labour supporters .
These are just some of the divisions forced upon us by the parasite class , and its compliant lapdog the mainstream media , to keep us divided and to stop us realising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together .
All of us .
No matter where we live or what we believe .
We are all part of a single , inviolable truth .
Call it God , Allah , Yahweh , the Divine Spirit , the Universe , Mother Earth or Natural Law , there is one truth and we all understand it .
Cause no harm , cause no loss , take responsibility for our actions and treat all with compassion and respect .
We are not merely a random cluster of atoms .
We are sovereign spiritual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life has inestimable value .
We stand together or divided we fall .
You can read more of Iain ’ s work at his blog In This Together

Iain Davis
COVID 19 is being used to create a global fascist dictatorship. From New Zealand to the the U.S, so called western democracies have adopted and developed the Chinese model of technocracy to create a single biosecurity State.
This globalist corporate State is to be centrally controlled and administered by a distant global governance cartel of appointed bureaucrats. Tasked only to serve the interests of a tiny, disproportionately wealthy group we can call the parasite class.
Every aspect of your life will be monitored and controlled, as we move towards the ultimate surveillance State. Your ability to work, to socialise, to travel, conduct business, access public services and to purchase essential goods and services will be dictated to you, and restricted, by the State, based upon your biosecurity or immunity status.
This transformation process is well underway. You are no longer a human being, you are a biosecurity risk. As such you may be removed to a military controlled quarantine camp as and when the State sees fit. Detention without trial will be the norm. All protest will be outlawed unless the protest suits the agenda of the parasite class.
Your children will no longer be your own. They will belong to the State. Parental consent for medical procedures will be presumed or, in the case of mandatory procedures, not required. Once the biosecurity State is firmly established consent will be a distant memory.
We have a diminishing window of opportunity to stop this global fascist dictatorship. Violent protest will not work. Not only are they morally indefensible, they are tactically naive.
Violence is the language of the oppressor. The global State holds total dominion over instigation of the use of force. To crack down, in response to a violent uprising, is the fervent hope of the oppressor. It allows the State to exercise more, not less, authoritarian control.
In reality, to stop it, all we need to do is refuse, en masse, to comply. We must do this with our eyes open. It won’t be easy and many of us will face harsh punishment from a desperate tyrant. However, if we don’t stand up now, we are condemning future generations to unimaginable levels of slavery and misery.
In order to foist this upon us, the apparatus behind it has invested billions in propaganda. The fascist technocracy, presently being constructed at an alarming pace, requires our cooperation. Without it, the biosecurity dictatorship cannot gain its desired authority.
Our representative democratic systems are not what our forebears gave everything to build. The parasite class have hollowed them out, replacing the organs of State with their own, leaving only the shell as a chimera to maintain our delusions and keep us believing that we have a semblance of control.
It is a fool’s errand to attempt to use their system to win our freedom. It is designed to control us. Appeals to their courts will never deliver justice to us. Temporary, small victories will always be overturned. Nor can we vote harder expecting yet another of their puppets to save us.
The purpose of the representative democratic apparition is to centralise all global power in the hands of the parasite class. This course is inexorable and, while we persist in our electoral folly, we will not alter it.
We must build something new to replace it. The obvious solution is the decentralisation of all power to the individual. We must construct a voluntary society.
Without us, without our obedience, the parasite class is currently nothing but a group of ineffectual, wannabe plutocrats, sat on piles of paper, created from nothing and worth nothing. If we don’t obey, there are no rulers.
Should we refuse to use their monetary system, their usury will be fruitless; if we decide not to pay their taxes, we cut will off their economic exploitation and if we never vote for their bureaucrats we won’t consent to their nominated, elected aristocracy.
We are the scientists and the engineers, the doctors and the nurses; we are the builders and the architects, the mechanics and the farmers; we are the soldiers who kill and die for their enrichment, we are the police officers who enforce their unlawful rules; we are the people who build and work in their factories, we are the office workers and bank clerks who administer their system, the shop workers, the programmers, the writers, the artists, the teachers and we are the people who, through our belief in their mythical authority, allow the parasite class to control us.
We are the meek, we are the receivers of all knowledge and all wisdom. We possess all the technology we need and we are the experts. It is our world, leased from our future generations, not theirs. Without us the parasite class are utterly incapable of controlling anyone or anything.
We must create, not destroy. We must liberate science, technology, art and knowledge itself from their occult control. We must build alternative decentralised systems, enabling humanity to live as a coexistence of free, sovereign beings. We must focus upon self sufficiency, we must support each other, turn our backs on the control systems of the parasitic State and build our own autonomous communities.
We must refuse to comply with any and all attempts to centralise power. We can do this by rejecting, outright, the concept of authority.
No one ever has any right to tell anyone else what to do. But nor does anyone ever have the right to cause any harm or loss to another human being. We can live in harmony because we are capable of respecting each other equally, without reservation. We know this.
Not a single human being on this Earth has the right to order any other to obey their authority. None of us possess this power. Therefore, this power can never be derived from us. We do not have it to give. The State’s claim of authority, gleaned from their electoral anointment ceremony, is a charade. Their authority does not exist in reality, only in our imaginations.
We don’t need anyone to tell us how to live. Nor how to deal with the tiny minority incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions. A voluntary society would be a society without rulers, not a society without rules.
We don’t need their systems of authority to live in relative peace and harmony and we never have. Spontaneous order is all around us. We already live the overwhelming majority of our lives free from State control and without the need for anyone to impose any rulers upon us.
A disease, or a control mechanism?
With a few exceptions, no State compels the farmer to grow crops, no State coerces labourers to pick the harvest or engineers to design and operate packing plants and no State forces anyone to transport the produce to market nor any consumer to buy it.
This system isn’t controlled by any single authority. It is an intricate, often global, network of free individuals, each acting in their own best interests, creating a harmonious social order way beyond the operational control of any State. The State has no part in this social order of immeasurable complexity.
This ordered social construct, bringing food to the family table, is entirely voluntary. Our society is built from millions of such systems and trillions of voluntary actions and exchanges that happen every day. The voluntary society already exists. All we need do is recognise it, and then seize it. The State is, and always has been, entirely unnecessary. It is a hindrance, not a utility.
What benefit does the State and its regulation bring to our food supply chains? It claims to protect it. Protect for whom?
It removes the free market to protect the profits of multinational corporations. It imposes taxes, raising everyone’s costs, to pay for its wars of neocolonialist exploitation. It forces wages down, it cuts the margins for everyone from growers to retailers, pushing some into poverty to be preyed upon by the same corporate State.
Its food standard regulations, supposedly designed to keep us safe, effectively reduce food quality, creates massive waste, reduces nutrition, causes more sickness and lengthens the queues at the pharmacy. Again for the benefit of the parasite class and their pharmaceutical corporations.
In a truly voluntary, free market what would a supplier gain from providing low quality, expensive produce to consumers? They would quickly go out of business.
Only State regulations can possibly facilitate lowering quality, while raising prices, without anyone in the supply chain, other than the oligarchs at the top, profiting from it. Corporate profit is the bottom line and the State’s sole purpose is to protect it.
Yet, somehow, we remain convinced that society could not possibly order itself spontaneously, without the forced coercion of the State. Despite the fact that, in great measure, it already does. We neither lack the ability nor the knowledge to build a voluntary society. We lack the confidence, because this pernicious system is purpose built to rob us of it.
We are taught, practically from birth, that respecting authority is a virtue. To obey is to be good, disobedience is punished. What could we be if instead we taught our children to think critically, that all of us have equal, inalienable rights, never to cause harm or loss and to take responsibility for themselves because there is no claimed protection from any authority?
Unfortunately, once we enter the education system the doctrine of authority is vigorously reinforced through perpetual repetition and the systemic application of reward and punishment. We are taught what we are allowed to know. This prepares us to be productive workers and responsible members of the State.
We are then permitted to work until we are no longer productive, with every last ounce of profit milked from us, as we shuffle off to our graves on pharmaceutical life support, before the State swoops in to hoover up the remnants of our lives.
This is not done for our benefit. We are programmed to believe in the farcical notion of a benevolent State. A State which exclusively serves the parasite class and one in which our lives are the real commodity.
COVID 19 is not a high impact infectious disease, it has low mortality rates and is absolutely comparable to influenza. It isn’t even clear that is can be identified as a disease at all. Sadly, it seems the vast majority of us are so adapted to our authoritarian environment that we are incapable of ever questioning anything we are told by our superiors.
COVID 19 is nothing more than a casus belli for the Third World War. As the representatives of the State openly admit, that war is a hybrid war. Just as there is no such thing as a healthy human being, nor is there any distinction between war and peace.
All is war and we are the enemy. The military objective is to grind us into docile and compliant slaves, serving the new normal State.
We must face reality. In the new normal, driven by the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” our labour is no longer required. We are destined only to consume, and that consumption is to be ruthlessly controlled. As are we.
There is no black and no white, no right-wing nor any leftists, there is no gay and no straight, no Republicans nor Democrats, no Conservatives nor Labour supporters. These are just some of the divisions forced upon us by the parasite class, and its compliant lapdog the mainstream media, to keep us divided and to stop us realising the truth.
We are in this together. All of us. No matter where we live or what we believe. We are all part of a single, inviolable truth.
Call it God, Allah, Yahweh, the Divine Spirit, the Universe, Mother Earth or Natural Law, there is one truth and we all understand it. Cause no harm, cause no loss, take responsibility for our actions and treat all with compassion and respect.
We are not merely a random cluster of atoms. We are sovereign spiritual beings. We have purpose and every life has inestimable value. We stand together or divided we fall.
You have a choice. Choose wisely.
Resist!
You can read more of Iain’s work at his blog In This Together


offguardian--2020-09-21--Coronavirus Factcheck #7: “The Four Risks of Covid”

In today ’ s “ Covid briefing ” Chris Whitty – the UK ’ s Chief Medical Officer – outlined that the Sars-Cov-2 virus poses four types of risk .
But is he right ?
Let ’ s take them one at a time .
Misleading .
Chris Whitty himself has been more than clear that the odds of dying from Covid19 are very very small .
All of the serological studies done to date found an infection-fatality ratio of around 0.2 % Meaning an infected person has 99.8 % chance of surviving .
Risk 2 : The virus can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bogus .
The hypothetical “ covid surge ” was first predicted back in March , and never materialised .
Whitty admits as much in his statement .
Even at the peak of the “ pandemic ” ICUs were operating at less than 60 % capacity .
To this day surgeons are working at 50 % capacity .
Risk 3 : The virus can impact public health indirectly via postponed operations , cancelled tests etc .
False .
It ’ s not the “ virus ” which cancelled operations , it was the lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ avoid the hospitals being overrun .
Which , as Whitty admitted , never happened .
It was not the virus which caused people to avoid healthcare out fear , but the press coverage deliberately designed to frighten people .
Risk 4 : The virus can adversely affect public health through economic impact .
False .
The virus has no economic impact of itself , lockdown does .
Lockdown closed businesses and lost jobs and started a recession .
A lockdown which was only put in place to # ProtectheNHS , which did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whitty ’ s “ four risks ” , one of them has a 99.8 % survival rate , one of them never actually happened and the other two are consequences of lockdown policy and not related to the virus at all .

In today’s “Covid briefing” Chris Whitty – the UK’s Chief Medical Officer – outlined that the Sars-Cov-2 virus poses four types of risk. But is he right? Let’s take them one at a time.
Risk 1: The virus can kill people.
Misleading. Chris Whitty himself has been more than clear that the odds of dying from Covid19 are very very small. All of the serological studies done to date found an infection-fatality ratio of around 0.2% Meaning an infected person has 99.8% chance of surviving.
Risk 2: The virus can lead to the NHS being overrun.
Bogus. The hypothetical “covid surge” was first predicted back in March, and never materialised. Whitty admits as much in his statement. Even at the peak of the “pandemic” ICUs were operating at less than 60% capacity. To this day surgeons are working at 50% capacity.
Risk 3: The virus can impact public health indirectly via postponed operations, cancelled tests etc.
False. It’s not the “virus” which cancelled operations, it was the lockdown policies which were put in place to avoid the hospitals being overrun. Which, as Whitty admitted, never happened. It was not the virus which caused people to avoid healthcare out fear, but the press coverage deliberately designed to frighten people.
Risk 4: The virus can adversely affect public health through economic impact.
False. The virus has no economic impact of itself, lockdown does. Lockdown closed businesses and lost jobs and started a recession. A lockdown which was only put in place to #ProtectheNHS, which did not need protecting.
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So, of Chris Whitty’s “four risks”, one of them has a 99.8% survival rate, one of them never actually happened and the other two are consequences of lockdown policy and not related to the virus at all.


offguardian--2020-09-21--Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture

In a 2017 article , I asked what might a future India look like and concluded that , if current neoliberal policies continue , there could be dozens of mega-cities with up to 40 million inhabitants and just two to three hundred million ( perhaps 15-20 % of the population ) left in an emptied-out countryside .
And it could also mean hundreds of millions of displaced rural dwellers without any work .
The policies referred to have not only continued but have been given a massive boost in the form of three parliamentary bills : The Farmers Produce Trade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ordinance , 2020 ; The Farmers ( Empowerment and Protection ) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance , 2020 ; and The Essential Commodities ( Amendment ) Ordinance , 2020 .
The ordinances were issued by the Modi-led government in June and ( according to official rhetoric ) seek to create barrier-free trade for farmers and allow them to enter into agreements with private players prior to the production for sale of agri-produce .
Some have commended these bills , claiming they will completely ‘ liberalise ’ the farm economy , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offering freedom and choice to farmers and buyers of produce .
Others claim they effectively serve to impose the tenets of neoliberalism on the sector , finally clearing the way to restructure the agri-food sector for the benefit of large commodity traders and other ( international ) corporations : smallholder farmers will go to the wall in a landscape of ‘ get big or get out ’ , mirroring the US model of food cultivation and retail .
As reported in the Economic Times , the Congress party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tooth and nail ” on this issue : He added that farmers would not be able to get a remunerative price for their crop under the current system of minimum support price and that his party will join with other parties to put up a joint opposition to the draconian ordinances of the BJP government aimed at : The proposed legislation will mean that mandis – state-run market locations for farmers ( overseen by Agricultural Produce Market Committees ) to sell their agricultural produce via auction to traders – can be bypassed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elsewhere ( physically and online ) , thereby undermining the regulatory role of the public sector .
In trade areas open to the private sector , no fees will be levied ( fees levied in mandis go to the states and , in principle , are used to enhance market infrastructure to help farmers ) .
This could incentivise the corporate sector operating outside of the mandis to ( initially at least ) offer better prices to farmers ; eventually , however , as the mandi system is run down completely , these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sector and dictate prices to farmers .
Another outcome of the proposed legislation could see the unregulated storage of produce and speculation , opening the farming sector to free-for-all profiteering for the big players .
Randeep Surjewala argues that the three ordinances are also a direct attack on the federal structure of India ( farming and mandis come under the jurisdiction of states ) , but the government did not even consider it appropriate to consult them before promulgating the ordinances .
Sitaram Yechury , leader of the Communist Party of India , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transnational agri-food corporations like Cargill and Walmart and home-grown billionaire capitalists like Gautam Adani and his agribusiness conglomerate and Mukesh Ambini and his Reliance retail chain to decide on what is to be cultivated , how much of it is to be cultivated within India and how it is to be produced and processed .
From seed to field to plate , the corporate take-over of the food and agriculture chain will be complete .
Smallholder and marginal farmers will be further forced out and those remaining in the sector will be squeezed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seed and agrochemical suppliers , trader , distributors and retail concerns .
Industrial agriculture will be the norm ( with all the devastating externalised health , social and environmental costs that the model brings with it ) .
It may make some wonder who is actually determining policy in India when hundreds of millions of ordinary people could lose their livelihoods .
Instead of pursuing a path of democratic development , the Indian government has chosen to submit to the regime of foreign finance , awaiting signals on how much it can spend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation states to curb spending and roll back interventions and support mechanisms so that private investors can occupy the arena left open .
And this is exactly what we are seeing in agriculture .
Foreign capital and sections of India ’ s billionaire class are working to displace the prevailing agrifood model and recast it in their own image .
Tens of millions of small-scale and marginal farmers are already suffering economic distress and leaving farming as the sector is deliberately made financially non-viable for them .
The Modi administration is fully on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pro-corporate ‘ enabling the business of agriculture ’ and other such policies aimed at further incorporating nation states into the neoliberal fold , while equating neoliberal policies with ‘ development ’ .
Other recent policies will also serve to accelerate current trends in Indian agriculture as we see with regard to the Karnataka Land Reform Act , which will make it easier for business to purchase and consolidate agricultural land ( leading to landlessness and urban migration ) .
Both ongoing and proposed ‘ reforms ’ are ultimately about ‘ liberalising ’ agriculture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agribusiness interests and serve the needs of India ’ s home-grown billionaires .
The Modi government is predictably facilitating what could eventually lead to a trillion-dollar ( value of the Indian economy according to Modi ’ s former associates at APCO Worldwide ) corporate hijack of India three steps closer with the ‘ ordinances ’ .
By bringing the full force of liberalisation to the farm economy and in the process fundamentally restructuring Indian society ( around 60 % of the population still rely on agriculture for their livelihoods ) , any remnants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be hollowed out and India will become a fully incorporated subsidiary of global capitalism and its fundamentally flawed and exploitative food regime .
Of course , many millions have already been displaced from the Indian countryside and have had to seek work in the cities .
And if the coronavirus lockdown has indicated anything , it is that many of these ‘ migrant workers ’ have failed to gain a secure foothold and were compelled to return ‘ home ’ to their villages .
Their lives are defined by low pay , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It raises the question : what does the future hold for the hundreds of millions of others who will be victims of the dispossessive policies of neoliberal capitalism ?

Colin Todhunter
In a 2017 article, I asked what might a future India look like and concluded that, if current neoliberal policies continue, there could be dozens of mega-cities with up to 40 million inhabitants and just two to three hundred million (perhaps 15-20% of the population) left in an emptied-out countryside.
And it could also mean hundreds of millions of displaced rural dwellers without any work.
The policies referred to have not only continued but have been given a massive boost in the form of three parliamentary bills: The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.
The ordinances were issued by the Modi-led government in June and (according to official rhetoric) seek to create barrier-free trade for farmers and allow them to enter into agreements with private players prior to the production for sale of agri-produce.
Some have commended these bills, claiming they will completely ‘liberalise’ the farm economy, leading to greater flexibility and efficiency and offering freedom and choice to farmers and buyers of produce. Others claim they effectively serve to impose the tenets of neoliberalism on the sector, finally clearing the way to restructure the agri-food sector for the benefit of large commodity traders and other (international) corporations: smallholder farmers will go to the wall in a landscape of ‘get big or get out’, mirroring the US model of food cultivation and retail.
As reported in the Economic Times, the Congress party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said his party will fight the government “tooth and nail” on this issue:
These three draconian ordinances are a death knell for agriculture in India. They will subjugate the farmer at the altar of a handful of crony capitalists…”
He added that farmers would not be able to get a remunerative price for their crop under the current system of minimum support price and that his party will join with other parties to put up a joint opposition to the draconian ordinances of the BJP government aimed at:
Subjugating the farming community and abolishing the livelihood of crores [tens of millions] of people who are aligned with the grain markets and other market systems”.
The proposed legislation will mean that mandis – state-run market locations for farmers (overseen by Agricultural Produce Market Committees) to sell their agricultural produce via auction to traders – can be bypassed, allowing farmers to sell to private players elsewhere (physically and online), thereby undermining the regulatory role of the public sector.
In trade areas open to the private sector, no fees will be levied (fees levied in mandis go to the states and, in principle, are used to enhance market infrastructure to help farmers).
This could incentivise the corporate sector operating outside of the mandis to (initially at least) offer better prices to farmers; eventually, however, as the mandi system is run down completely, these corporations will monopolise trade, capture the sector and dictate prices to farmers.
Another outcome of the proposed legislation could see the unregulated storage of produce and speculation, opening the farming sector to free-for-all profiteering for the big players.
Randeep Surjewala argues that the three ordinances are also a direct attack on the federal structure of India (farming and mandis come under the jurisdiction of states), but the government did not even consider it appropriate to consult them before promulgating the ordinances.
Sitaram Yechury, leader of the Communist Party of India, tweeted:
No amount of propaganda and spin can conceal such destruction of India and it’s economy. Withdraw these ordinances handing over our agriculture to multinational agribusinesses, further ruining our ‘annadaata’, demolishing India’s food security.”
The proposed legislation will enable transnational agri-food corporations like Cargill and Walmart and home-grown billionaire capitalists like Gautam Adani and his agribusiness conglomerate and Mukesh Ambini and his Reliance retail chain to decide on what is to be cultivated, how much of it is to be cultivated within India and how it is to be produced and processed.
From seed to field to plate, the corporate take-over of the food and agriculture chain will be complete.
Smallholder and marginal farmers will be further forced out and those remaining in the sector will be squeezed, working on contracts for market-dominating global seed and agrochemical suppliers, trader, distributors and retail concerns. Industrial agriculture will be the norm (with all the devastating externalised health, social and environmental costs that the model brings with it).
It may make some wonder who is actually determining policy in India when hundreds of millions of ordinary people could lose their livelihoods. Instead of pursuing a path of democratic development, the Indian government has chosen to submit to the regime of foreign finance, awaiting signals on how much it can spend.
The imperatives of global capital require nation states to curb spending and roll back interventions and support mechanisms so that private investors can occupy the arena left open. And this is exactly what we are seeing in agriculture.
Foreign capital and sections of India’s billionaire class are working to displace the prevailing agrifood model and recast it in their own image. Tens of millions of small-scale and marginal farmers are already suffering economic distress and leaving farming as the sector is deliberately made financially non-viable for them.
The Modi administration is fully on board with the World Bank’s pro-corporate ‘enabling the business of agriculture’ and other such policies aimed at further incorporating nation states into the neoliberal fold, while equating neoliberal policies with ‘development’.
Other recent policies will also serve to accelerate current trends in Indian agriculture as we see with regard to the Karnataka Land Reform Act, which will make it easier for business to purchase and consolidate agricultural land (leading to landlessness and urban migration).
Both ongoing and proposed ‘reforms’ are ultimately about ‘liberalising’ agriculture to further ease the entrance of foreign agribusiness interests and serve the needs of India’s home-grown billionaires. The Modi government is predictably facilitating what could eventually lead to a trillion-dollar (value of the Indian economy according to Modi’s former associates at APCO Worldwide) corporate hijack of India three steps closer with the ‘ordinances’.
By bringing the full force of liberalisation to the farm economy and in the process fundamentally restructuring Indian society (around 60% of the population still rely on agriculture for their livelihoods), any remnants of economic sovereignty and sovereign state status will be hollowed out and India will become a fully incorporated subsidiary of global capitalism and its fundamentally flawed and exploitative food regime.
Of course, many millions have already been displaced from the Indian countryside and have had to seek work in the cities. And if the coronavirus lockdown has indicated anything, it is that many of these ‘migrant workers’ have failed to gain a secure foothold and were compelled to return ‘home’ to their villages.
Their lives are defined by low pay, insecurity and callous treatment by the government.
It raises the question: what does the future hold for the hundreds of millions of others who will be victims of the dispossessive policies of neoliberal capitalism?


offguardian--2020-09-20--The War on Populism: The Final Act

The War on Populism: The Final Act

So , it appears the War on Populism is building toward an exciting climax .
All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color revolution , and maybe even civil war .
You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president , your imaginary apocalyptic pandemic , your violent identitarian civil unrest , your heavily-armed politically-polarized populace , your ominous rumblings from military quarters…you couldn ’ t really ask for much more .
OK , the plot is pretty obvious by now ( as it is in all big-budget action spectacles , which is essentially what color revolutions are ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our viewing experience .
The fun isn ’ t in guessing what is going to happen .
Everybody knows what ’ s going to happen .
The fun is in watching Bruce , or Sigourney , or “ the moderate rebels , ” or the GloboCap “ Resistance , ” take down the monster , or the terrorists , or Hitler , and save the world , or democracy , or whatever .
The show-runners at GloboCap understand this , and they are sticking to the classic Act III formula ( i.e.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scriptwriting seminars , which , full disclosure , I teach a few of those ) .
They ’ ve been running the War on Populism by the numbers since the very beginning .
I ’ m going to break that down in just a moment , act by act , plot point by plot point , but , first , let ’ s quickly cover the basics .
The first thing every big Hollywood action picture ( or GloboCap color revolution ) needs is a solid logline to build the plot around .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) our protagonist , ( 2 ) what our protagonist is trying to do , and ( 3 ) our antagonist or antagonistic force .
For example , here ’ s one everyone will recognize : In our case , the logline writes itself : Donald Trump is our antagonist , of course .
And what an antagonist he has been !
As the deep-state spooks and the corporate media have been relentlessly repeating for the last four years , the man is both a Russian-backed traitor and literally the resurrection of Hitler @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doesn ’ t get any better .
It goes without saying that our protagonist is GloboCap ( i.e.
, the global capitalist empire ) , or “ democracy , ” as it is known in the entertainment business .
Now , we ’ re in the middle of Act III already , and , as in every big-budget action movie , our protagonist suffered a series of mounting losses all throughout Act II , and the baddie was mostly driving the action .
Now it ’ s time for the Final Push , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ underway , here ’ s a quick recap of those previous acts .
Ready ?
All right , here we go… There democracy ( i.e.
, GloboCap ) was , peacefully operating its de facto global capitalist empire like a normal global hegemon ( i.e.
, destabilizing , restructuring , and privatizing everything it hadn ’ t already destabilized and privatized , and OK , occasionally murdering , torturing , and otherwise mercilessly oppressing people ) , when out of nowhere it was viciously attacked by Donald Trump and his Putin-Nazi “ populists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Clinton with those insidious Facebook ads .
( For you writers , this was the Inciting Incident . )
GloboCap did not take this well .
The deep state and the corporate media started shrieking about a coming “ Age of Darkness , ” “ The death of globalization at the hands of white supremacy , ” “ racial Orwellianism , ” “ Zionist anti-Semitism , ” the “ Bottomless Pit of Fascism , ” and so on .
Liberals festooned themselves with safety pins and went out looking for minorities to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to GloboCap , every “ populist ” that voted for Trump ( or just refused to vote for Clinton ) was a genocidal white supremacist undeserving of either empathy or mercy .
Somewhere in there , the “ Resistance ” was born .
( This is the plot point known as the Lock-In , where the protagonist commits to the struggle ahead . )
As is traditional at the opening of Act II , things were looking promising for GloboCap .
The “ Resistance ” staged those pink pussyhat protests , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia and Hitler propaganda like a Goebbelsian piano .
Yes , there were obstacles , but the “ Resistance ” was growing .
And then , in May of 2017 , special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed , and “ Russiagate ” was officially launched .
It appeared that Donald Trump ’ s days were numbered !
But , no , it was never going to be that easy .
( If it was , feature films would be less than an hour long , not to mention incredibly boring . )
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endless series of “ bombshells ” ) throughout the ensuing two years , but by the end of March 2019 , “ Russiagate ” had blown up in GloboCap ’ s face .
“ Populism ” was still on the rise !
It was time for GloboCap to get serious .
( This was the classic first culmination , sometimes known as The Point of No Return . )
In the aftermath of the “ Russiagate ” fiasco , the GloboCap “ Resistance ” flailed around for a while .
An assortment of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Pornstargate ( and I ’ m probably forgetting some “ gates ” ) , white-supremacist non-terrorist terrorism , brain-devouring Russian-Cubano crickets , Russian spy whales , and other such nonsense .
Meanwhile , the forces of “ populism ” were running amok all across the planet .
The gilets jaunes were on the verge of taking down Macron in France , and gangs of neo-nationalist boneheads had launched a series of frontal assaults on Portlandia , GloboCap Anti-Fascist HQ , which Antifa was barely holding off .
All wasn ’ t totally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into action , successfully Hitlerizing Jeremy Corbyn , the leader of leftist “ populism , ” and thus preventing the mass exdodus of Jews from Great Britain .
And the US elections were on the horizon .
Trump was still Russian-agent Hitler , after all , so he wasn ’ t going to be too hard to beat .
All that GloboCap had to do was put forth a viable Democratic candidate , then let the corporate media do their thing .
OK , first , they had to do Bernie Sanders ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figurehead , and the point of the entire War on Populism has been to crush the “ populist ” resistance to global capitalism from both the Left and the Right ) , but the DNC made short work of that .
So , everything was looking hunky-dory until — and you screenwriters saw this coming , didn ’ t you ?
— the pivotal plot-point at the end of Act II , The Major Setback , or The Dark Night of the Soul , when all seems lost for our protagonist .
Yes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Democratic Party nominated Joe Biden , a clearly cognitively-compromised person who literally sucked his wife ’ s fingers on camera and who can ’ t get through a two-minute speech without totally losing his train of thought and babbling non-sequiturial gibberish .
Exactly why they did this will be debated forever , but , obviously , Biden was not GloboCap ’ s first choice .
The man is as inspiring as a head of lettuce .
( There is an actual campaign group called “ Settle for Biden !
” ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of certain swing-voter death .
And as if things weren ’ t already dire enough , the “ populists ” rolled out a catchy new slogan : “ TRUMP 2020 , BECAUSE FUCK YOU AGAIN !
” So , all right , this is part where Neo orders up “ guns…lots of guns.
” Which is exactly what our friends at GloboCap did .
The time for playing grab-ass was over .
Faced with four more years of Trump and this “ populist ” rebellion against global capitalism and its increasingly insufferable woke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went full-totalitarian all at once .
Suddenly , a rather undeadly virus ( as far as deadly pestilences go ) became the excuse for GloboCap to lock down most of humanity for months , destroy the economy , unleash the goon squads , terrorize everyone with hysterical propaganda , and otherwise remake society into a global totalitarian police state .
And that wasn ’ t all…no , far from it .
GloboCap was just getting started .
Having terrorized the masses into a state of anus-puckering paranoia over an imaginary apocalyptic plague and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humiliating ideological-compliance rituals , they unleashed the identitarian civil unrest .
Because what would a color revolution be without rioting , looting , wanton destruction , clouds of tear gas , robocops , and GloboCap-sponsored “ moderate rebels ” and “ pro-regime forces ” shooting each other down in the streets on television ?
( In an homage to Orwell ’ s Ministry of Truth , the corporate media , with totally straight faces , have been describing this rioting as “ mostly peaceful.
” ) That brings us up to speed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ III should be pretty exciting , despite the fact that the outcome is certain .
One way or another , Trump is history .
Or do you seriously believe that GloboCap is going to allow him to serve another four years ?
Not that Trump is an actual threat to them .
As I have said repeatedly over the past four years , Donald Trump is not a populist .
Donald Trump is a narcissistic ass clown who is playing president to feed his ego .
He is not a threat to global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him president are .
In order to teach these people a lesson , GloboCap needs to make an example of Trump .
Odds are , it ’ s not going to be pretty .
See , they have him between a rock and a hard place .
As CNN ’ s Fareed Zakaria explains , on election night , Trump will appear to have won ( because the Democrats will all be mailing in their votes due to the apocalyptic plague ) , but later , once the mail-in votes are all counted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months , it will turn out that Biden really won .
But , by then , it won ’ t matter who really won , because one of two scenarios will have already played out .
In Scenario Number One , Trump declares victory before the mail-in votes have been tallied and is “ removed from office ” for “ attempting a coup.
” In Scenario Number Two , he doesn ’ t declare victory , and the country enters a state of limbo , which the Democrats will prolong as long as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out .
Rioting that makes the “ BLM protests ” we have witnessed so far look like a game of touch football .
And this is where the US military ( or the military-industrial complex ) comes in .
I ’ ll leave you with just a few of the many ominous headlines that GloboCap has been generating : Does it sound like GloboCap is bluffing ?
Because it doesn ’ t sound like that to me .
I could be totally wrong , of course , and just letting my imagination run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were back home in the USA , instead of here in Berlin , I wouldn ’ t bet on it .
In any event , whatever is coming , whether this is the end of the War on Populism or just the beginning of a new , more dramatic phase of it , the next two months are going to be exciting .
So , go grab your popcorn , or your AR-15 , and your mask , or full-body anti-virus bubble suit ( which you might want to have retrofitted with Kevlar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the show !

CJ Hopkins
So, it appears the War on Populism is building toward an exciting climax. All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color revolution, and maybe even civil war. You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president, your imaginary apocalyptic pandemic, your violent identitarian civil unrest, your heavily-armed politically-polarized populace, your ominous rumblings from military quarters…you couldn’t really ask for much more.
OK, the plot is pretty obvious by now (as it is in all big-budget action spectacles, which is essentially what color revolutions are), but that won’t spoil our viewing experience. The fun isn’t in guessing what is going to happen.
Everybody knows what’s going to happen. The fun is in watching Bruce, or Sigourney, or “the moderate rebels,” or the GloboCap “Resistance,” take down the monster, or the terrorists, or Hitler, and save the world, or democracy, or whatever.
The show-runners at GloboCap understand this, and they are sticking to the classic Act III formula (i.e., the one they teach in all those scriptwriting seminars, which, full disclosure, I teach a few of those). They’ve been running the War on Populism by the numbers since the very beginning.
I’m going to break that down in just a moment, act by act, plot point by plot point, but, first, let’s quickly cover the basics.
The first thing every big Hollywood action picture (or GloboCap color revolution) needs is a solid logline to build the plot around. The logline shows us: (1) our protagonist, (2) what our protagonist is trying to do, and (3) our antagonist or antagonistic force.
For example, here’s one everyone will recognize:
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.”
In our case, the logline writes itself:
After America is taken over by a Russian-backed Hitlerian dictator, the forces of democracy unite to depose the tyrant and save the free world.”
Donald Trump is our antagonist, of course. And what an antagonist he has been! As the deep-state spooks and the corporate media have been relentlessly repeating for the last four years, the man is both a Russian-backed traitor and literally the resurrection of Hitler! In terms of baddies, it doesn’t get any better.
It goes without saying that our protagonist is GloboCap (i.e., the global capitalist empire), or “democracy,” as it is known in the entertainment business.
Now, we’re in the middle of Act III already, and, as in every big-budget action movie, our protagonist suffered a series of mounting losses all throughout Act II, and the baddie was mostly driving the action. Now it’s time for the Final Push, but, before all the action gets underway, here’s a quick recap of those previous acts. Ready? All right, here we go…
Act I
(status quo/inciting incident)
There democracy (i.e., GloboCap) was, peacefully operating its de facto global capitalist empire like a normal global hegemon (i.e., destabilizing, restructuring, and privatizing everything it hadn’t already destabilized and privatized, and OK, occasionally murdering, torturing, and otherwise mercilessly oppressing people), when out of nowhere it was viciously attacked by Donald Trump and his Putin-Nazi “populists,” who stole the 2016 election from Clinton with those insidious Facebook ads. (For you writers, this was the Inciting Incident.)
(new situation/predicament/lock-in)
GloboCap did not take this well. The deep state and the corporate media started shrieking about a coming “Age of Darkness,” “The death of globalization at the hands of white supremacy,” “racial Orwellianism,” “Zionist anti-Semitism,” the “Bottomless Pit of Fascism,” and so on.
Liberals festooned themselves with safety pins and went out looking for minorities to hide in their attics throughout the occupation.
According to GloboCap, every “populist” that voted for Trump (or just refused to vote for Clinton) was a genocidal white supremacist undeserving of either empathy or mercy. Somewhere in there, the “Resistance” was born. (This is the plot point known as the Lock-In, where the protagonist commits to the struggle ahead.)
Act II (a)
(progress/obstacles)
As is traditional at the opening of Act II, things were looking promising for GloboCap. The “Resistance” staged those pink pussyhat protests, and the corporate media were pumping out Russia and Hitler propaganda like a Goebbelsian piano. Yes, there were obstacles, but the “Resistance” was growing.
And then, in May of 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed, and “Russiagate” was officially launched. It appeared that Donald Trump’s days were numbered!
(rising action/first culmination)
But, no, it was never going to be that easy. (If it was, feature films would be less than an hour long, not to mention incredibly boring.) There was plenty of action (and an endless series of “bombshells”) throughout the ensuing two years, but by the end of March 2019, “Russiagate” had blown up in GloboCap’s face.
“Populism” was still on the rise! It was time for GloboCap to get serious. (This was the classic first culmination, sometimes known as The Point of No Return.)
Act II (b)
(complications/subplots/higher stakes)
In the aftermath of the “Russiagate” fiasco, the GloboCap “Resistance” flailed around for a while. An assortment of ridiculous subplots unfolded … Obstructiongate, Ukrainegate, Pornstargate (and I’m probably forgetting some “gates”), white-supremacist non-terrorist terrorism, brain-devouring Russian-Cubano crickets, Russian spy whales, and other such nonsense.
Meanwhile, the forces of “populism” were running amok all across the planet. The gilets jaunes were on the verge of taking down Macron in France, and gangs of neo-nationalist boneheads had launched a series of frontal assaults on Portlandia, GloboCap Anti-Fascist HQ, which Antifa was barely holding off.
(second culmination/major setback)
All wasn’t totally lost, however. GloboCap sprang back into action, successfully Hitlerizing Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of leftist “populism,” and thus preventing the mass exdodus of Jews from Great Britain. And the US elections were on the horizon.
Trump was still Russian-agent Hitler, after all, so he wasn’t going to be too hard to beat. All that GloboCap had to do was put forth a viable Democratic candidate, then let the corporate media do their thing.
OK, first, they had to do Bernie Sanders (because he was another “populist” figurehead, and the point of the entire War on Populism has been to crush the “populist” resistance to global capitalism from both the Left and the Right), but the DNC made short work of that.
So, everything was looking hunky-dory until — and you screenwriters saw this coming, didn’t you? — the pivotal plot-point at the end of Act II, The Major Setback, or The Dark Night of the Soul, when all seems lost for our protagonist.
Yes, implausible as it probably still seems, the Democratic Party nominated Joe Biden, a clearly cognitively-compromised person who literally sucked his wife’s fingers on camera and who can’t get through a two-minute speech without totally losing his train of thought and babbling non-sequiturial gibberish.
Exactly why they did this will be debated forever, but, obviously, Biden was not GloboCap’s first choice. The man is as inspiring as a head of lettuce. (There is an actual campaign group called “Settle for Biden!”) GloboCap was now staring down the barrel of certain swing-voter death.
And as if things weren’t already dire enough, the “populists” rolled out a catchy new slogan: “TRUMP 2020, BECAUSE FUCK YOU AGAIN!”
Act III
So, all right, this is part where Neo orders up “guns…lots of guns.” Which is exactly what our friends at GloboCap did. The time for playing grab-ass was over. Faced with four more years of Trump and this “populist” rebellion against global capitalism and its increasingly insufferable woke ideology, the entire global capitalist machine went full-totalitarian all at once.
Suddenly, a rather undeadly virus (as far as deadly pestilences go) became the excuse for GloboCap to lock down most of humanity for months, destroy the economy, unleash the goon squads, terrorize everyone with hysterical propaganda, and otherwise remake society into a global totalitarian police state.
And that wasn’t all…no, far from it. GloboCap was just getting started. Having terrorized the masses into a state of anus-puckering paranoia over an imaginary apocalyptic plague and forced everyone to perform a variety of humiliating ideological-compliance rituals, they unleashed the identitarian civil unrest.
Because what would a color revolution be without rioting, looting, wanton destruction, clouds of tear gas, robocops, and GloboCap-sponsored “moderate rebels” and “pro-regime forces” shooting each other down in the streets on television? (In an homage to Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the corporate media, with totally straight faces, have been describing this rioting as “mostly peaceful.”)
*
That brings us up to speed, I think. The rest of Act III should be pretty exciting, despite the fact that the outcome is certain. One way or another, Trump is history. Or do you seriously believe that GloboCap is going to allow him to serve another four years? Not that Trump is an actual threat to them.
As I have said repeatedly over the past four years, Donald Trump is not a populist. Donald Trump is a narcissistic ass clown who is playing president to feed his ego. He is not a threat to global capitalism, but the people who elected him president are.
In order to teach these people a lesson, GloboCap needs to make an example of Trump. Odds are, it’s not going to be pretty.
See, they have him between a rock and a hard place. As CNN’s Fareed Zakaria explains, on election night, Trump will appear to have won (because the Democrats will all be mailing in their votes due to the apocalyptic plague), but later, once the mail-in votes are all counted, which may take weeks or even months, it will turn out that Biden really won. But, by then, it won’t matter who really won, because one of two scenarios will have already played out.
In Scenario Number One, Trump declares victory before the mail-in votes have been tallied and is “removed from office” for “attempting a coup.” In Scenario Number Two, he doesn’t declare victory, and the country enters a state of limbo, which the Democrats will prolong as long as possible. Either way, rioting breaks out.
Serious rioting … not “peaceful” rioting.
Rioting that makes the “BLM protests” we have witnessed so far look like a game of touch football.
And this is where the US military (or the military-industrial complex) comes in. I’ll leave you with just a few of the many ominous headlines that GloboCap has been generating:
This Election Has Become Dangerous for the U.S. Military”
Foreign Policy
Al Gore suggests military will remove Trump from office if he won’t concede on election night”
Fox News
Former ambassador warns of election violence”
The Guardian
All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic”: An Open Letter to Gen. Milley (“If the commander in chief attempts to ignore the election’s results, you will face a choice.)”
Defense One
Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État?”
The Nation
Trump could refuse to concede”
Washington Post
What happens if Trump loses but refuses to concede?”
Financial Times
White Supremacists, Domestic Terrorists Pose Biggest Threat Of ‘Lethal Violence’ This Election, DHS Assessment Finds”
Forbes
Trump’s Attacks Put Military In Presidential Campaign Minefield”
NPR
Trump’s Election Delay Threat Is a Coup in the Making”
Common Dreams
What If Trump Won’t Leave?”
The Intercept
How to Plan a Coup”
Bill Moyers on Democracy
It can happen here: A Trump election coup?”
Wall Street International Magazine
Whose America Is It?”
The New York Times
Does it sound like GloboCap is bluffing? Because it doesn’t sound like that to me. I could be totally wrong, of course, and just letting my imagination run away with itself, but if I were back home in the USA, instead of here in Berlin, I wouldn’t bet on it.
In any event, whatever is coming, whether this is the end of the War on Populism or just the beginning of a new, more dramatic phase of it, the next two months are going to be exciting. So, go grab your popcorn, or your AR-15, and your mask, or full-body anti-virus bubble suit (which you might want to have retrofitted with Kevlar), and sit back and enjoy the show!
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volume I of his Consent Factory Essays is published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.