lewrockwell--2020-05-20--The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of a ‘Universal Lockdown’

First comes the farce , an ( almost ) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus , WHO named COVID-19 .
The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos , 21 – 24 January 2020 .
On January 30 , WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern ( PHEIC ) .
At that time , there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China .
No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic .
On March 11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ converted the PHEIC into a pandemic .
This gave the green light for the start if implementing “ The Plan ” .
The pandemic was needed as a pretext to halt and collapse the world economy and the underlying social fabric .
There is no coincidence .
There were a number of preparatory events , all pointing into the direction of aworldwide monumental historic disaster .
It started at least 10 years ago – probably considerably earlier – with the infamous 2010 Rockefeller Report , which painted the first phase of a monstrous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” scenario .
Among the last preparatory moves for the “ pandemic ” was Event 201 , held in NYC on 18 October 2019 .
The World Order and Re ... Koenig , Peter Best Price : $ 28.23 Buy New $ 26.14 The event was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF ) and the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) , the club of the rich and powerful that meets every January in Davos , Switzerland .
Participating were a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) , as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) ’ s of the US and – of China .
One of the objectives of Event 201 was a computer simulation of a corona virus pandemic .
The simulated virus was called SARS-2-nCoV , or later 2019-nCoV .
The simulation results were disastrous , killing 65 million people in 18 months and plunging the stock market by more than 30 % — causing untold unemployment and bankruptcies .
Precisely the scenario of which we are now living the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a number of ghastly and disturbing events or components of The Plan to be implemented by the so called Agenda ID2020 , a Bill Gates creation , fully integrated into the UN ’ s Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG ) – target date for completion – 2030 ( also called Agenda 2030 , the hidden agenda unknown to most of the UN members ) , the same target date for completion of the Agenda ID02020 .
Here , just the key elements as a precursor to what the world is living now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we don ’ t stop it – to demonstrate how this entirely criminal sham has been planned .
Parts of the scenario are : • A massive vaccination program , probably through compulsory vaccination – Bill Gates ’ dream and brainchild is vaccinating 7 billion people .
• Massive population reduction , a eugenics plan – in part through vaccination and other means ( Ref .
Bill Gates , “ if we are doing a real good job vaccinating , we may reduce the world population by 10 % to 15 % ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” , speech to the TED2010 annual conference , Long Beach , California , February 18 , 2010 ) .
• An electronic ID for every person on the planet – in the form of a nano chip , possibly injected along with the mandatory vaccination .
This nano-chip could be remotely uploaded with all personal data .
• Universal rolling out of 5G , later to be followed by 6G .
This is leading to a total control of every individuum on the planet .
It is sold to the public as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , meaning self-driving cars , robotized kitchen equipment , artificial intelligence ( AI ) for the production and delivery of everything .
What the sales pitch doesn ’ t say , is how humans would be marginalized and enslaved .
To carry this masterplan forward , high frequency electromagnet waves are needed .
Therefore , rolling out of 5G is a must , no matter what the health impact on humans , fauna and flora may be – and no matter how it may influence viral infections , like possibly the current COVID19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do admit that no independent official study has been carried out on the dangers of 5G – and electromagnetic fields in general .
Does that mean that WHO is coopted by the Big and Powerful into this deadly spiel ?
– Let it suffice to say that unlike other UN agencies , WHO was created in 1948 by the Rockefeller Foundation ( RF ) – see The Lancet .
It might be also noteworthy that about half of WHOs budget comes from private interest sources , mostly the pharma industry , but also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a precursor for understanding how things are being planned .
It may help connecting the dots for what is coming .
JUST IMAGINE ... : A SEC ... Holmes , Dr Joel S Buy New $ 7.95 It may also help us understand what is happening right now , in the first phase of the Lock Step scenario .
It portrays in vivid colors the criminal nature of the Dark Deep State .
Never mind the stock market crash – that ’ s a speculator ’ s syndrome , rich people ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a western invention to play with capital and capital gains to the detriment of the workers , whose lives depend on working that capital .
They are the first ones to go , when Big Money calls for a merger – or a bankruptcy .
Now the almost universal and justified by NOTHING quarantine , total lockdown of every business , small or big – restaurants , construction , tourism , little and big hardware stores , bakeries , air lines , transport – interrupted supply chains – factories , food processing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In the Global North some up to 90 % of business transactions are emanating from small and medium size enterprises ( SME ) .
Almost all of them are closed now .
Two thirds or more of them may never open again .
Employees and workers are laid off , or are reduced to part-time work , meaning part-time pay – but still need to sustain their families .
Poverty and desperation set in and becomes rampant .
No future in sight .
Suicide rates will rise – see Greece in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ten years later – broken families , foreclosures , families expulsed from rental apartments because they can no longer pay their rents .
Street begging becomes normal , except there is nobody left to spare a dime .
In Europe at least a third to maybe 50 % or more of the work force – depending on the country and structure of the labor force – is expected to be unemployed or will be reduced to part time work .
And that ’ s only the beginning .
In the US official @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in excess of 23 million – and are expected , by predictions of the FED , Goldman Sachs , Bloomberg -to reach between 32 % and 40 % in the next quarter .
Bankruptcies may spin out of control .
The Chronic Fatigue Sy ... Ortleb , Charles Best Price : $ 16.55 Buy New $ 17.95 The IMF predicts for 2020 a worldwide economic contraction of a mere 3 % – and a small growth rate in the latter part of 2021 .
How utterly ridiculous !
– What planet are these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fool , and why ?
Perhaps to encourage countries to borrow huge amounts of foreign exchange from these predatory Bretton Woods institutions , IMF and World Bank – to get deeply into debt , thinking with IMF predictions they will be fine ?
– Further enslavement by deceit ?
This is the Global North – which has some kind of social safety nets , whatever flimsy they may be – there is a sliver of hope for relief .
Another sliver of hope is built on the premises that mankind will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forward flowing like a river towards new horizons , creating new dynamics , new jobs… yes , that ’ s what mankind can do – and in our comfort we have forgotten this virtue – an essential virtue for survival – survival of the corona crisis .
The Global South – or developing countries – presents a grimmer story .
Under normal circumstances a third to half of the economy is informal , meaning not tight to any norm of formal or legal organization .
They are short-term workers , daily , hourly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ savings , no safety nets- and in most cases no health coverage .
They are left to the whims of the “ market ” , literally .
Now the market collapsed .
There is nothing left .
No work , no income , no money to pay for food , rent , medication – and the government orders them , the deprived poverty-stricken , to stay ‘ home ’ – ‘ lockdown ’ in quarantine – to protect themselves from a virus , an imposed virus that nobody sees , but the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aware – and SCARED – of its dangers , you never know whether true or false .
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– Where is home ?
Home is gone .
No money to pay rent .
Keep social distance – don ’ t get together .
Stay apart .
The infection could spread .
Fear is of the essence .
Take a city like Lima , Peru .
Peru ’ s total population about 30 million .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ which some 3 to 4 million live on the margins or below – in shantytowns , or worse .
Daily , or hourly laborers .
They live sometimes hours away from their work place .
Now , there is no workplace anymore .
They have no money to pay for food , transport or rent – landlords put them in streets , expel them from their properties .
How can they stay in confinement ?
How can they take care of themselves by quarantine – lockdown – having no shelter , no food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money to survive another day – and perhaps to share with their families ?
They can ’ t .
Lockdown-protection ( sic-sic ) is only for the rich .
The poor they starve with kids and families – and quite possibly with the corona disease .
They live within the circles of poverty and misery , where there is nothing to spare .
Nobody has anything .
Not even in solidarity .
There simply is nothing .
Total deprivation , caused by a total economic standstill – forced upon the world and especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps also evil women .
These 3 to 4 or 5 million people , they all have come at one point or another from the rural provinces , for which the government does nothing , or not enough to keep them there .
So , in search of a better life , they abandon their ‘ çhacras ’ ( little plots of land ) and move to the Big City – to paradise – where they are relegated to live in more misery than in their provincial meagre settlements .
They endure – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the man-made corona crisis – has made life even worse , much worse for them .
There are none or far from enough government handouts – or they come too late or get lost in corruption .
In solidarity they assemble .
They need to get back to their provincial origins , to their çhacras , to their families – where they will get shelter and food , where they again may feel “ home ” and loved or at least welcome .
Profiles in Corruption ... Schweizer , Peter Best Price : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dictatorial military style government prevents them from leaving – for security reasons , of course – they may infect other people , — the farse continues .
And nobody says peep .
Nobody dares , for fear of being locked away .
Police brutality – sticks , tear gas – repression – back to no shelter – no food .
Until the central almighty government decides to “ organize ” repatriation – by buses , but there is not enough capacity , nor organization – chaos emerges – and the lot gets worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get ?
Famine will strike , will make them weaker and weaker , more prone to diseases and to die – not fromCOVID19 , but from famine .
But as statistics go , MUST go , by orders of the Masters , such deaths will automatically be attributed to the corona pandemic .
Naturally .
It ’ s done elsewhere , in the Global North .
Why not in the Global South ?
Lima is just a case in point – Its representative probably for most of Latin America , except for Venezuela @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the midst of misery , there is still a sense of solidarity uniting the people – where the government stands with the people , yet , where people are more severely suffering , because of western sanctions – they are literally being murdered by western sanctions – foremost the US of A .
A genocidal nation .
The New York Times ( 22 April 2020 ) reports , ‘ Instead of Coronavirus , the Hunger Will Kill Us.
’ A Global Food Crisis Looms .
The world has never faced a hunger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year .
Also , by the NYT – This reminds of the infamous Kissinger quote of the 1970s on famine , “ Who controls the food supply controls the people – the quote goes on saying , “ Who controls the energy can control whole continents ; who controls money can control the world.
” Kissinger , like the Gates , the Rockefellers are “ well meaning ” : They have never made a secret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population in a format that reminds one of eugenics , by “ eradicating poverty ” , for example through vaccination – starting in Africa .
Gates has recently suggested that he would try out his new corona vaccine in Africa – to which even his buddy , Dr. Tedros , the WHO Director General , protested .
The coronavirus pandemic has brought poverty and famine to millions of people around the world .
And there is no end in sight .
To the contrary , it would seem that almost all governments are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the “ guidelines ” .
It is both diabolical as well as beyond comprehension .
Why ?
The “ global elites ” really believe that they are contributing to the future and well-being of humanity .
Yet their actions have resulted in abject misery , unemployment and despair .
Without such coercive measures it could hardly be explained why almost all governments of the planet submit to this horrendous social and economic agenda – and lie , lie , abject lie – to their people .
The very people they are supposed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Under “ normal ” circumstances of our globe ’ s predatory inequality , some 9 million people die annually from hunger and famine-related diseases .
This figure may now shoot up exponentially .
Maybe into the tens of millions , or more .
Famine and death by famine could be further affected by artificially caused food shortages , or by droughts or floods – resulting from purposefully man-made climate change – not through the ludicrously touted CO2-caused temperature rise – but by the advanced US Air Force HAARP system ( HAARP = @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ During the Vietnam war , cloud-seeding techniques were used , starting in 1967 under Project Popeye , the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail ” .
Today the HAARP system has been perfected and weaponized .
According to US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report , weather modification ( for military use ) : Under the proposed Gates Foundation forced vaccination program – those who refuse vaccination , may , for example , not be able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is purposefully imposed upon mankind becomes ever more visible .
Aside from wiping out people ’ s and business ’ assets , it ’ s poverty and famine… There is today no Nuremberg-type Tribunal , honest , ethical and powerful enough to hold the global elites accountable and bring them to justice .
We the people have to take the reign in this ongoing paradigm shift .
We the people , have to get out of this atrocious lockdown .
Not confrontational , but with wisdom and savvy .
Letting the enemy ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and make us overcome .

First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos, 21 – 24 January 2020. On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). At that time, there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China. No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic. On March 11, Dr. Tedros, DG of WHO converted the PHEIC into a pandemic. This gave the green light for the start if implementing “The Plan”.
The pandemic was needed as a pretext to halt and collapse the world economy and the underlying social fabric.
There is no coincidence. There were a number of preparatory events, all pointing into the direction of aworldwide monumental historic disaster. It started at least 10 years ago – probably considerably earlier – with the infamous 2010 Rockefeller Report, which painted the first phase of a monstrous Plan, called the “Lock Step” scenario. Among the last preparatory moves for the “pandemic” was Event 201, held in NYC on 18 October 2019.
The World Order and Re... Koenig, Peter Best Price: $28.23 Buy New $26.14 (as of 04:10 UTC - Details) The event was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the club of the rich and powerful that meets every January in Davos, Switzerland. Participating were a number of pharmaceuticals (vaccine interest groups), as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s of the US and – of China.
One of the objectives of Event 201 was a computer simulation of a corona virus pandemic. The simulated virus was called SARS-2-nCoV, or later 2019-nCoV. The simulation results were disastrous, killing 65 million people in 18 months and plunging the stock market by more than 30% — causing untold unemployment and bankruptcies. Precisely the scenario of which we are now living the beginning.
The Lock Step scenario foresees a number of ghastly and disturbing events or components of The Plan to be implemented by the so called Agenda ID2020, a Bill Gates creation, fully integrated into the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) – target date for completion – 2030 (also called Agenda 2030, the hidden agenda unknown to most of the UN members), the same target date for completion of the Agenda ID02020.
Here, just the key elements as a precursor to what the world is living now, and what is to come, if we don’t stop it – to demonstrate how this entirely criminal sham has been planned. Parts of the scenario are:
A massive vaccination program, probably through compulsory vaccination – Bill Gates’ dream and brainchild is vaccinating 7 billion people.
Massive population reduction, a eugenics plan – in part through vaccination and other means (Ref. Bill Gates, “if we are doing a real good job vaccinating, we may reduce the world population by 10% to 15%”. See “Innovating to Zero!”, speech to the TED2010 annual conference, Long Beach, California, February 18, 2010). Planned Collapse Of Am... Glinka, Edward A. Best Price: $16.83 Buy New $15.95 (as of 03:36 UTC - Details )
Bill Gates has been advocating for years the need for a massive population reduction – and indeed the more than 20 years of the BMGF’s extensive vaccination programs in Africa, India and other places around the world have seen a record of involuntary sterilization of women between 14 and 49 years. See In 2014 and 2015 Kenya carried out a massive tetanus vaccination program, sponsored by WHO and UNICEF.
An electronic ID for every person on the planet – in the form of a nano chip, possibly injected along with the mandatory vaccination. This nano-chip could be remotely uploaded with all personal data.
Digitized money, no more cash.
Universal rolling out of 5G, later to be followed by 6G.
This is leading to a total control of every individuum on the planet. It is sold to the public as the Internet of Things (TIT), meaning self-driving cars, robotized kitchen equipment, artificial intelligence (AI) for the production and delivery of everything. What the sales pitch doesn’t say, is how humans would be marginalized and enslaved. To carry this masterplan forward, high frequency electromagnet waves are needed. Therefore, rolling out of 5G is a must, no matter what the health impact on humans, fauna and flora may be – and no matter how it may influence viral infections, like possibly the current COVID19.
WHO remains silent, although they do admit that no independent official study has been carried out on the dangers of 5G – and electromagnetic fields in general. Does that mean that WHO is coopted by the Big and Powerful into this deadly spiel? – Let it suffice to say that unlike other UN agencies, WHO was created in 1948 by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) – see The Lancet. It might be also noteworthy that about half of WHOs budget comes from private interest sources, mostly the pharma industry, but also others, like telecom giants.
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It may also help us understand what is happening right now, in the first phase of the Lock Step scenario. It portrays in vivid colors the criminal nature of the Dark Deep State.
Never mind the stock market crash – that’s a speculator’s syndrome, rich people’s risks, as the stock market is a western invention to play with capital and capital gains to the detriment of the workers, whose lives depend on working that capital. They are the first ones to go, when Big Money calls for a merger – or a bankruptcy.
Now the almost universal and justified by NOTHING quarantine, total lockdown of every business, small or big – restaurants, construction, tourism, little and big hardware stores, bakeries, air lines, transport – interrupted supply chains – factories, food processing – and it goes on and on.
In the Global North some up to 90% of business transactions are emanating from small and medium size enterprises (SME). Almost all of them are closed now. Two thirds or more of them may never open again. Employees and workers are laid off, or are reduced to part-time work, meaning part-time pay – but still need to sustain their families. Poverty and desperation set in and becomes rampant. No future in sight. Suicide rates will rise – see Greece in the 2008 / 2009 crisis – and up to ten years later – broken families, foreclosures, families expulsed from rental apartments because they can no longer pay their rents. Street begging becomes normal, except there is nobody left to spare a dime.
In Europe at least a third to maybe 50% or more of the work force – depending on the country and structure of the labor force – is expected to be unemployed or will be reduced to part time work. And that’s only the beginning. In the US official unemployment figures are as of this writing in excess of 23 million – and are expected, by predictions of the FED, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg -to reach between 32% and 40% in the next quarter. Bankruptcies may spin out of control. The Chronic Fatigue Sy... Ortleb, Charles Best Price: $16.55 Buy New $17.95 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
The IMF predicts for 2020 a worldwide economic contraction of a mere 3% – and a small growth rate in the latter part of 2021. How utterly ridiculous! – What planet are these people on? Whom are they trying to fool, and why? Perhaps to encourage countries to borrow huge amounts of foreign exchange from these predatory Bretton Woods institutions, IMF and World Bank – to get deeply into debt, thinking with IMF predictions they will be fine? – Further enslavement by deceit?
This is the Global North – which has some kind of social safety nets, whatever flimsy they may be – there is a sliver of hope for relief. Another sliver of hope is built on the premises that mankind will be constantly creating – working ingeniously inventing -moving forward flowing like a river towards new horizons, creating new dynamics, new jobs… yes, that’s what mankind can do – and in our comfort we have forgotten this virtue – an essential virtue for survival – survival of the corona crisis.
The Global South – or developing countries – presents a grimmer story. Under normal circumstances a third to half of the economy is informal, meaning not tight to any norm of formal or legal organization. They are short-term workers, daily, hourly laborers – living from hand-to-mouth, no savings, no safety nets- and in most cases no health coverage. They are left to the whims of the “market”, literally. Now the market collapsed.
There is nothing left. No work, no income, no money to pay for food, rent, medication – and the government orders them, the deprived poverty-stricken, to stay ‘home’ – ‘lockdown’ in quarantine – to protect themselves from a virus, an imposed virus that nobody sees, but the government and the media make sure you are aware – and SCARED – of its dangers, you never know whether true or false. Good Intentions: How B... Nussbaum, Bruce Best Price: $42.79 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
Confinement at ”home”? – Where is home? Home is gone. No money to pay rent. Keep social distance – don’t get together. Stay apart. The infection could spread. Fear is of the essence.
Take a city like Lima, Peru. Peru’s total population about 30 million. Lima, about eleven million – of which some 3 to 4 million live on the margins or below – in shantytowns, or worse. Daily, or hourly laborers. They live sometimes hours away from their work place. Now, there is no workplace anymore. They have no money to pay for food, transport or rent – landlords put them in streets, expel them from their properties. How can they stay in confinement? How can they take care of themselves by quarantine – lockdown – having no shelter, no food – desperately looking to earn just enough money to survive another day – and perhaps to share with their families? They can’t.
Lockdown-protection (sic-sic) is only for the rich. The poor they starve with kids and families – and quite possibly with the corona disease. They live within the circles of poverty and misery, where there is nothing to spare. Nobody has anything. Not even in solidarity. There simply is nothing. Total deprivation, caused by a total economic standstill – forced upon the world and especially the poor by evil men – and perhaps also evil women.
These 3 to 4 or 5 million people, they all have come at one point or another from the rural provinces, for which the government does nothing, or not enough to keep them there. So, in search of a better life, they abandon their ‘çhacras’ (little plots of land) and move to the Big City – to paradise – where they are relegated to live in more misery than in their provincial meagre settlements. They endure – always with hope. Now this – the man-made corona crisis – has made life even worse, much worse for them. There are none or far from enough government handouts – or they come too late or get lost in corruption.
In solidarity they assemble. They need to get back to their provincial origins, to their çhacras, to their families – where they will get shelter and food, where they again may feel “home” and loved or at least welcome. Profiles in Corruption... Schweizer, Peter Best Price: $17.98 Buy New $17.99 (as of 03:27 UTC - Details)
A dictatorial military style government prevents them from leaving – for security reasons, of course – they may infect other people, — the farse continues. And nobody says peep. Nobody dares, for fear of being locked away. Police brutality – sticks, tear gas – repression – back to no shelter – no food. Until the central almighty government decides to “organize” repatriation – by buses, but there is not enough capacity, nor organization – chaos emerges – and the lot gets worse – and how much worse can it get? Famine will strike, will make them weaker and weaker, more prone to diseases and to die – not fromCOVID19, but from famine. But as statistics go, MUST go, by orders of the Masters, such deaths will automatically be attributed to the corona pandemic. Naturally. It’s done elsewhere, in the Global North. Why not in the Global South?
Lima is just a case in point – Its representative probably for most of Latin America, except for Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba – where, in the midst of misery, there is still a sense of solidarity uniting the people – where the government stands with the people, yet, where people are more severely suffering, because of western sanctions – they are literally being murdered by western sanctions – foremost the US of A. A genocidal nation.
The New York Times (22 April 2020) reports, ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms. The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.
Also, by the NYT –
“In Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, residents already live in extreme poverty. Desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead.” “In India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay.” “And across Colombia, poor households are hanging red clothing and flags from their windows and balconies as a sign that they are hungry.”
This reminds of the infamous Kissinger quote of the 1970s on famine,
“Who controls the food supply controls the people – the quote goes on saying,
“Who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Kissinger, like the Gates, the Rockefellers are “well meaning”: They have never made a secret of their desire to reduce the world population in a format that reminds one of eugenics, by “eradicating poverty”, for example through vaccination – starting in Africa.
Gates has recently suggested that he would try out his new corona vaccine in Africa – to which even his buddy, Dr. Tedros, the WHO Director General, protested.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought poverty and famine to millions of people around the world. And there is no end in sight.
To the contrary, it would seem that almost all governments are coopted or tacitly coerced into adhering to the “guidelines”.
It is both diabolical as well as beyond comprehension. Why? The “global elites” really believe that they are contributing to the future and well-being of humanity. Yet their actions have resulted in abject misery, unemployment and despair.
Without such coercive measures it could hardly be explained why almost all governments of the planet submit to this horrendous social and economic agenda – and lie, lie, abject lie – to their people. The very people they are supposed to protect against unemployment, famine and despair.
Corona Tyranny – and Death by Famine
Under “normal” circumstances of our globe’s predatory inequality, some 9 million people die annually from hunger and famine-related diseases. This figure may now shoot up exponentially. Maybe into the tens of millions, or more.
Famine and death by famine could be further affected by artificially caused food shortages, or by droughts or floods – resulting from purposefully man-made climate change – not through the ludicrously touted CO2-caused temperature rise – but by the advanced US Air Force HAARP system (HAARP = High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program).
“During the Vietnam war, cloud-seeding techniques were used, starting in 1967 under Project Popeye, the objective of which was to prolong the monsoon season and block enemy supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail”. Today the HAARP system has been perfected and weaponized. According to US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, weather modification (for military use):
“offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary …
‘Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather… and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of [military] technologies.”
Under the proposed Gates Foundation forced vaccination program – those who refuse vaccination, may, for example, not be able to travel.
The abject misery that is purposefully imposed upon mankind becomes ever more visible. Aside from wiping out people’s and business’ assets, it’s poverty and famine…
There is today no Nuremberg-type Tribunal, honest, ethical and powerful enough to hold the global elites accountable and bring them to justice.
We the people have to take the reign in this ongoing paradigm shift.
We the people, have to get out of this atrocious lockdown.
Not confrontational, but with wisdom and savvy. Letting the enemy’s ferocious forces strengthen our weakness – and make us overcome.
A good General doesn’t like aggression A good warrior doesn’t know hate If you want to conquer your enemy, don’t confront him. Put yourself below him This is called the power of not-fighting This is using the ability of men This is called since ancient times, to be in harmony with heaven, And it is the greatest power there is (Tao 68)
Reprinted with permission from Global Research.


lewrockwell--2020-05-20--Washington’s New Anti-China Strategy

Washington’s New Anti-China Strategy

Regardless of the anti-Chinese hysteria of the group that imposed Western health policy responses to the Covid-19 epidemic , it demonstrated Western dependence on Chinese manufactured products .
This led the Trump administration to move from a desire to rebalance trade to a military confrontation , without however resorting to war .
The sabotage of the Silk Roads has officially begun .
One of the consequences of the Coronavirus epidemic is that Westerners have realised their dependence on Chinese manufacturing capacity .
Neither the Europeans nor the Americans were able to manufacture the millions of surgical masks they urgently wanted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had to buy them in China and often fought among themselves on the tarmacs to take them home at the expense of their allies .
Revitalising the Silk ... Griffiths , Richard T. Best Price : $ 19.82 Buy New $ 26.50 In this context of general save-and-go , US leadership over the West no longer made sense .
This is why Washington decided not to rebalance trade relations with China , but to oppose the construction of the silk roads and to help the Europeans relocate part of their industry .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a partial halt to the process of globalization that had begun , with the disappearance of the Soviet Union .
Beware : this is not an economic decision to call into question the principles of free trade , but a geopolitical strategy to sabotage Chinese ambitions .
This change of strategy had been announced by the campaign not only economic , but also political and military against Huawei .
The United States and NATO feared that if Huawei won the Western government contracts to install the G5 , the Chinese army would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ importantly , they knew that if the Chinese took these contracts , they would technically be the only ones who could take the next step [ 1 ] .
This is not a rallying of the Trump administration to the Red Dawn fantasies [ 2 ] , whose anti-Chinese obsession is based on primary anti-communism , but an awareness of Beijing ’ s gigantic military progress .
Admittedly , the budget of the People ’ s Liberation Army is derisory compared to that of the US Armed Forces , but precisely its very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it today to challenge the US monster .
At the end of the First World War , the Chinese of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party together set out to reunify their country and avenge a long century of colonial humiliation .
A Kuomintang personality , Chiang Kai-shek , tried to eliminate the Communist Party but was defeated by it and went into exile in Taiwan .
Mao Zedong pursued this nationalist dream while guiding the Communist Party in the social transformation of the country .
However , his aim was always nationalist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Island in 1969 showed .
In the 1980s , Admiral Liu Huaqing ( the man who put down the coup attempt by Zhao Ziyang in Tiananmen Square ) devised a strategy to push the US armies out of the Chinese cultural zone .
This strategy has been patiently implemented for forty years .
Without ever provoking a war , Beijing is extending its territorial sovereignty in the China Sea and harassing the US Navy .
The time is not far off when the US Navy will have to withdraw , leaving China to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Exposing the ... Singh , Janardan Prasad Best Price : $ 21.33 Buy New $ 17.50 After the dissolution of the USSR , President George Bush Sr. considered that the US had no rivals left and that it was time to make money .
He demobilized a million soldiers and opened the way for financial globalization .
US multinationals relocated their companies to China where their products were manufactured by countless untrained workers , paid twenty times less than US workers .
Gradually , almost all the goods consumed in the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ middle class became poorer , while China trained its workers and became richer .
From the principle of free trade , the movement spread throughout the West and then to the whole world .
The Communist Party decided to re-establish a modern equivalent to the ancient Silk Road and , in 2013 , elected Xi Jinping to carry out this project .
When it is realized , if it is realized , China could have a virtual monopoly of manufacturing goods in the world .
By deciding to sabotage the Silk Roads , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China out of its own cultural zone just as it is pushing the United States out of its own .
To do so , he will be able to count on his “ allies ” whose companies are already devastated by excellent Chinese products at low prices .
Some of them have experienced revolts because of this , such as the Yellow Vests revolt in France .
In the past , the ancient Silk Road brought unknown products to Europe , while today ’ s roads carry the same products as those made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Contrary to popular belief , China could give up the Silk Roads for geostrategic reasons , regardless of the amount of its investment .
It has done so in the past .
It had thought of opening a maritime silk route in the 15th century , sent Admiral Zheng He , “ the eunuch with the three jewels ” , at the head of a formidable armada , as far as Africa and the Middle East , before withdrawing and scuttling its gigantic fleet never to return .
Haunted by Chaos : Chin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : $ 30.94 Buy New $ 27.57 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel under lockdown .
He tried to convince the two future prime ministers , Benjamin Netanyahu ( Jewish colonialist ) and his deputy , who were nevertheless opposed to General Benny Gantz ( Israeli nationalist ) , to stop Chinese investments in their country [ 3 ] Chinese companies already control half of Israel ’ s agricultural sector and are expected to account for 90 % of its trade in the coming months .
Mike Pompeo should similarly try @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fattah el-Sissi .
Indeed , the Suez Canal and the Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod were to be the terminals of the modern silk route in the Mediterranean .
After various attempts , China assessed the instability of Iraq , Syria and Turkey and gave up crossing them .
A tacit agreement was reached between Washington and Moscow to leave a jihadist pocket anywhere on the Syrian-Turkish border to discourage Chinese investment in the area .
Moscow intends to base its alliance with Beijing on silk routes crossing its own territory and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ project of President Vladimir Putin ’ s ’ Great Eurasian Partnership ’ [ 4 ] .
We come back tirelessly to the same dilemma ( “ Thucydides ’ trap ” ) : faced with the rise of a new power ( China ) , the dominant power ( the United States ) must either wage war on it ( like Sparta against Athens ) , or give space to the newcomer , that is , accept the division of the world .
[ 2 ] “ Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lagassé , Voltaire Network , 28 April 2020 .
[ 3 ] “ The Silk Route will pass through Jordan , Egypt and Israel ” , Translation Anoosha Boralessa , Voltaire Network , 19 October 2018 .
“ The Silk Road and Israël ” , by Thierry Meyssan , Translation Pete Kimberley , Information Clearing House ( USA ) , Voltaire Network , 30 October 2018 .
[ 4 ] “ Speech by Sergey Lavrov at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly ” , by Sergey Lavrov , Voltaire Network , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Big Lie Thierry Meyssan Best Price : $ 3.97 Buy New $ 76.90 Poorly Made in China : ... Midler , Paul Best Price : $ 3.96 Buy New $ 9.84 The Best of Thierry Meyssan

Regardless of the anti-Chinese hysteria of the group that imposed Western health policy responses to the Covid-19 epidemic, it demonstrated Western dependence on Chinese manufactured products. This led the Trump administration to move from a desire to rebalance trade to a military confrontation, without however resorting to war. The sabotage of the Silk Roads has officially begun.
One of the consequences of the Coronavirus epidemic is that Westerners have realised their dependence on Chinese manufacturing capacity. Neither the Europeans nor the Americans were able to manufacture the millions of surgical masks they urgently wanted to distribute to their population. They had to buy them in China and often fought among themselves on the tarmacs to take them home at the expense of their allies.
Revitalising the Silk ... Griffiths, Richard T. Best Price: $19.82 Buy New $26.50 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details) In this context of general save-and-go, US leadership over the West no longer made sense. This is why Washington decided not to rebalance trade relations with China, but to oppose the construction of the silk roads and to help the Europeans relocate part of their industry. This could be a decisive turning point: a partial halt to the process of globalization that had begun, with the disappearance of the Soviet Union. Beware: this is not an economic decision to call into question the principles of free trade, but a geopolitical strategy to sabotage Chinese ambitions.
This change of strategy had been announced by the campaign not only economic, but also political and military against Huawei. The United States and NATO feared that if Huawei won the Western government contracts to install the G5, the Chinese army would be able to intercept its signals. More importantly, they knew that if the Chinese took these contracts, they would technically be the only ones who could take the next step [1].
This is not a rallying of the Trump administration to the Red Dawn fantasies [2], whose anti-Chinese obsession is based on primary anti-communism, but an awareness of Beijing’s gigantic military progress. Admittedly, the budget of the People’s Liberation Army is derisory compared to that of the US Armed Forces, but precisely its very thrifty strategy and its technical progress allow it today to challenge the US monster.
At the end of the First World War, the Chinese of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party together set out to reunify their country and avenge a long century of colonial humiliation. A Kuomintang personality, Chiang Kai-shek, tried to eliminate the Communist Party but was defeated by it and went into exile in Taiwan. Mao Zedong pursued this nationalist dream while guiding the Communist Party in the social transformation of the country. However, his aim was always nationalist, as the Sino-Russian war on Zhenbao Island in 1969 showed. In the 1980s, Admiral Liu Huaqing (the man who put down the coup attempt by Zhao Ziyang in Tiananmen Square) devised a strategy to push the US armies out of the Chinese cultural zone. This strategy has been patiently implemented for forty years. Without ever provoking a war, Beijing is extending its territorial sovereignty in the China Sea and harassing the US Navy. The time is not far off when the US Navy will have to withdraw, leaving China to take Taiwan by force. China Rx: Exposing the... Singh, Janardan Prasad Best Price: $21.33 Buy New $17.50 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details)
After the dissolution of the USSR, President George Bush Sr. considered that the US had no rivals left and that it was time to make money. He demobilized a million soldiers and opened the way for financial globalization. US multinationals relocated their companies to China where their products were manufactured by countless untrained workers, paid twenty times less than US workers. Gradually, almost all the goods consumed in the US were imported from China. The U.S. middle class became poorer, while China trained its workers and became richer. From the principle of free trade, the movement spread throughout the West and then to the whole world. The Communist Party decided to re-establish a modern equivalent to the ancient Silk Road and, in 2013, elected Xi Jinping to carry out this project. When it is realized, if it is realized, China could have a virtual monopoly of manufacturing goods in the world.
By deciding to sabotage the Silk Roads, President Donald Trump is trying to push China out of its own cultural zone just as it is pushing the United States out of its own. To do so, he will be able to count on his “allies” whose companies are already devastated by excellent Chinese products at low prices. Some of them have experienced revolts because of this, such as the Yellow Vests revolt in France. In the past, the ancient Silk Road brought unknown products to Europe, while today’s roads carry the same products as those made in Europe, but much cheaper.
Contrary to popular belief, China could give up the Silk Roads for geostrategic reasons, regardless of the amount of its investment. It has done so in the past. It had thought of opening a maritime silk route in the 15th century, sent Admiral Zheng He, “the eunuch with the three jewels”, at the head of a formidable armada, as far as Africa and the Middle East, before withdrawing and scuttling its gigantic fleet never to return. Haunted by Chaos: Chin... Khan, Sulmaan Wasif Best Price: $30.94 Buy New $27.57 (as of 03:37 UTC - Details)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel under lockdown. He tried to convince the two future prime ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu (Jewish colonialist) and his deputy, who were nevertheless opposed to General Benny Gantz (Israeli nationalist), to stop Chinese investments in their country [3] Chinese companies already control half of Israel’s agricultural sector and are expected to account for 90% of its trade in the coming months. Mike Pompeo should similarly try to convince the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. Indeed, the Suez Canal and the Israeli ports of Haifa and Ashdod were to be the terminals of the modern silk route in the Mediterranean.
After various attempts, China assessed the instability of Iraq, Syria and Turkey and gave up crossing them. A tacit agreement was reached between Washington and Moscow to leave a jihadist pocket anywhere on the Syrian-Turkish border to discourage Chinese investment in the area. Moscow intends to base its alliance with Beijing on silk routes crossing its own territory and not Western countries. This is the project of President Vladimir Putin’s ’Great Eurasian Partnership’ [4].
We come back tirelessly to the same dilemma (“Thucydides’ trap”): faced with the rise of a new power (China), the dominant power (the United States) must either wage war on it (like Sparta against Athens), or give space to the newcomer, that is, accept the division of the world.
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[1] «Huawei», Voltaire Network.
[2] “Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 28 April 2020.
[3] “The Silk Route will pass through Jordan, Egypt and Israel”, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 19 October 2018. “The Silk Road and Israël”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Information Clearing House (USA) , Voltaire Network, 30 October 2018.
[4] “Speech by Sergey Lavrov at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly”, by Sergey Lavrov, Voltaire Network, 27 September 2019.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-20--The Parts We Don’t Like

The Parts We Don’t Like

I have an “ ask ” at the end of this post , and will appreciate any feedback .
A few months ago , I decided to read the Bible all the way through , from beginning to end .
As familiar as I am with some parts of the Bible , I have never read it all the way through before and there are many parts I have likely never read .
I think we can all say that it ’ s pretty exciting until the middle of Exodus , then it becomes a slog for quite awhile before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But what I am after in this post is the genocidal-type stuff : things like God said to slaughter them all , and God took displeasure if the Israelites didn ’ t obey this edict .
The Great Transformati ... Armstrong , Karen Best Price : $ 2.02 Buy New $ 9.49 I have written something on my thoughts about this before ; instead of coming up with some new way to say it , I will just copy and paste : To properly understand this book and the time , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , especially when it comes to the Israelites and aspects of the Jewish tradition beyond that which pointed to Jesus .
I am not trying to understand or develop theology when I note the history : there is much of Old Testament Jewish history prior to the times of the prophets that is greatly similar to all Middle Eastern cultures of the time : wars , territories conquering and conquered , massacres , slavery , dislocation , etc.
, etc.
, etc .
Why do I point this out ?
The Old Testament @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , can be a history about any of the tribes and gods in the Middle East of the time .
Change the names and the victors , and it is the same story : my god is bigger than your god ; god will lead us to victory in battle ; god , why have you forsaken your people ; god , why have you abandoned us ?
In the beginning was the Word .
The Word became flesh .
This is unique .
In the Old Testament , it is what points @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unique vs. other Middle Eastern religions and unique , to my knowledge , among any of the major religions around the world .
Without the Word , it is just tribes doing battle and hoping that my god is stronger than your god .
The Great Evil : Christ ... Nunpa Ph.D , Chris Mato Buy New $ 19.95 Jesus summarized the law with two commandments : Love the Lord your God ; love your neighbor as yourself .
On the surface ( and maybe deeper ) , this is quite contrary to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Old Testament .
I will add : while I have not yet made it to the time of the exile in my reading , from my recollection ( and also from reading The Great Transformation : The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions , by Karen Armstrong ) , my sense is that the story changes significantly – the relationship of God to man starts moving toward what Christians see in Jesus and the Apostle Paul .
Maybe I am wrong about this , but this is somewhat secondary for now .
So , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ am certain that the early church fathers and many since then have dealt with this question of what clearly are recounted as genocidal stories .
How do these fit into an understanding of proper Christianity ?
So , I ask for any references to serious apologists on this matter .
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I have an “ask” at the end of this post, and will appreciate any feedback.
A few months ago, I decided to read the Bible all the way through, from beginning to end. As familiar as I am with some parts of the Bible, I have never read it all the way through before and there are many parts I have likely never read.
I think we can all say that it’s pretty exciting until the middle of Exodus, then it becomes a slog for quite awhile before getting to some more interesting reading again. But what I am after in this post is the genocidal-type stuff: things like God said to slaughter them all, and God took displeasure if the Israelites didn’t obey this edict. The Great Transformati... Armstrong, Karen Best Price: $2.02 Buy New $9.49 (as of 12:45 UTC - Details)
I have written something on my thoughts about this before; instead of coming up with some new way to say it, I will just copy and paste:
To properly understand this book and the time, I will be walking on some difficult terrain, especially when it comes to the Israelites and aspects of the Jewish tradition beyond that which pointed to Jesus. I am not trying to understand or develop theology when I note the history: there is much of Old Testament Jewish history prior to the times of the prophets that is greatly similar to all Middle Eastern cultures of the time: wars, territories conquering and conquered, massacres, slavery, dislocation, etc., etc., etc. Why do I point this out? The Old Testament, absent that which points to Jesus, can be a history about any of the tribes and gods in the Middle East of the time. Change the names and the victors, and it is the same story: my god is bigger than your god; god will lead us to victory in battle; god, why have you forsaken your people; god, why have you abandoned us? In the beginning was the Word. The Word became flesh. This is unique. In the Old Testament, it is what points to this Word that is unique – unique vs. other Middle Eastern religions and unique, to my knowledge, among any of the major religions around the world. Without the Word, it is just tribes doing battle and hoping that my god is stronger than your god.
The Great Evil: Christ... Nunpa Ph.D, Chris Mato Buy New $19.95 (as of 03:39 UTC - Details) Jesus summarized the law with two commandments: Love the Lord your God; love your neighbor as yourself. On the surface (and maybe deeper), this is quite contrary to much of what we read in the Old Testament.
I will add: while I have not yet made it to the time of the exile in my reading, from my recollection (and also from reading The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, by Karen Armstrong), my sense is that the story changes significantly – the relationship of God to man starts moving toward what Christians see in Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Maybe I am wrong about this, but this is somewhat secondary for now.
So, why am I writing this? I am certain that the early church fathers and many since then have dealt with this question of what clearly are recounted as genocidal stories. How do these fit into an understanding of proper Christianity?
So, I ask for any references to serious apologists on this matter.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-20--Will Americans Submit to a Second Lockdown?

On March 24 , President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “ opened up and just raring to go by Easter.
” Easter came and went .
And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic .
Yet , with Ascension Thursday at hand , 40 days after Easter , the president seems to have been ahead of his time .
The country , as a whole , is , and has been , opening up .
Sunday ’ s New York Times reports that , for weeks now , more than two-thirds of the states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ urged .
The reasons : weariness with the lockdown and sheltering in place , a growing belief that the worst of the pandemic is behind us and undeniably positive news from several fronts in the coronavirus war .
“ New Cases in U.S.
Slow , ” ran The New York Times top headline Sunday , adding the cautionary warning , “ Posing Risks of Complacency.
” The facts suggest a positive trend .
The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. has been dropping for a month .
The number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in April to closer to 1,400 a day in mid-May .
Several days last week recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths , an awful toll but a clear improvement over April .
As of Friday , the rate of new cases of the coronavirus was declining in 19 states and rising in only three .
New Orleans and Detroit have seen sharp drops .
The number of new cases in New York , Massachusetts and Rhode Island has dropped .
New cases in Cass County , Indiana , and Sioux Falls , South Dakota @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , have declined .
“ On eight of the past nine days , ” said the Times , “ there have been fewer deaths announced than there were seven days prior , indicating that the virus toll appears to be easing .
More than half of the 24 counties that have recorded the most coronavirus deaths , including Oakland County , Mich. , and Hartford County , Conn. , are seeing sustained declines.
” Still , the thrust of the Times article was about the new crisis we will be courting , should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soon .
Do that , says the Times , and we could easily forfeit all the progress we have made .
Message : Social distancing , sheltering in place , wearing masks , working at home — the practices that broke the back of the pandemic — should be sustained for those able to do so .
Clearly , the opening in many states has been driven by popular protest and public demand .
Crowds have ignored social distancing to demonstrate for an end to the shutdown .
Protesters have refused to wear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since the ’ 60s of civil defiance and disobedience .
The protesters seem to be saying : We deplore the losses and know the risks , but we can not live our lives behind closed doors in our homes until the elites tell us , as though we were children , when we may go out in the yard .
Hence , the next question we are all likely to confront : If there is a sudden resurgence of the coronavirus , a second wave , and the media elite and blue state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new closure of beaches , parks , shops , restaurants and churches , will the people of this republic comply with those demands or defy them ?
Will the nation answer back to the elites : We did that .
We sheltered in place .
We wore the masks .
We socially distanced .
We stayed in our homes .
We stayed home from work .
We have done all we were told to do to contain the virus .
But , now , with the shutdown having put 36 million Americans on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ levels , we ’ re going back to work .
The political divide has already begun to appear .
Among those making the case for ending the shutdown and reopening the country and economy will be Trump , red state governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Brian Kemp in Georgia , conservatives in Congress and populists .
The proponents of a second shutdown will be liberal governors and mayors , the mainstream media and the Nancy Pelosi wing of Congress .
It should not go unmentioned that the latter ’ s political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shutdown endures and the worse the economic situation on Nov. 3 .
If the economy has failed to begin a robust recovery by fall , the greater the odds that Joe Biden wins the White House .
Yet , even if the pandemic returns in the fall , the establishment can not keep the country closed indefinitely .
Prediction : If the people conclude they have done all they can do to mitigate the suffering from a virus they can not eradicate , they will resist the imposition of another shutdown , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nor ability to push them back into their homes .
Ultimately , the people will decide when this shutdown ends , and when a plurality so concludes , the elites will be swept aside .
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On March 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.”
Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic. Yet, with Ascension Thursday at hand, 40 days after Easter, the president seems to have been ahead of his time.
The country, as a whole, is, and has been, opening up. Sunday’s New York Times reports that, for weeks now, more than two-thirds of the states have been relaxing restrictions as Trump had urged.
The reasons: weariness with the lockdown and sheltering in place, a growing belief that the worst of the pandemic is behind us and undeniably positive news from several fronts in the coronavirus war. Nixon’s White Ho... Buchanan, Patrick J. Best Price: $2.03 Buy New $8.50 (as of 12:15 UTC - Details)
“New Cases in U.S. Slow,” ran The New York Times top headline Sunday, adding the cautionary warning, “Posing Risks of Complacency.”
The facts suggest a positive trend. The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. has been dropping for a month. The number of deaths has fallen from 2,200 a day in April to closer to 1,400 a day in mid-May. Several days last week recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths, an awful toll but a clear improvement over April.
As of Friday, the rate of new cases of the coronavirus was declining in 19 states and rising in only three. New Orleans and Detroit have seen sharp drops. The number of new cases in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island has dropped. New cases in Cass County, Indiana, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where meatpacking plants had seen outbreaks, have declined.
“On eight of the past nine days,” said the Times, “there have been fewer deaths announced than there were seven days prior, indicating that the virus toll appears to be easing. More than half of the 24 counties that have recorded the most coronavirus deaths, including Oakland County, Mich., and Hartford County, Conn., are seeing sustained declines.”
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Message: Social distancing, sheltering in place, wearing masks, working at home — the practices that broke the back of the pandemic — should be sustained for those able to do so.
Clearly, the opening in many states has been driven by popular protest and public demand. Crowds have ignored social distancing to demonstrate for an end to the shutdown. Protesters have refused to wear masks and engaged in the time-honored practice since the ’60s of civil defiance and disobedience.
The protesters seem to be saying: We deplore the losses and know the risks, but we cannot live our lives behind closed doors in our homes until the elites tell us, as though we were children, when we may go out in the yard.
Hence, the next question we are all likely to confront:
If there is a sudden resurgence of the coronavirus, a second wave, and the media elite and blue state governors demand a new shutdown, a new closure of beaches, parks, shops, restaurants and churches, will the people of this republic comply with those demands or defy them?
AFTER LOCKDOWN WE WILL... HILL, LYDIA Buy New $6.99 (as of 08:43 UTC - Details) Will the nation answer back to the elites: We did that. We sheltered in place. We wore the masks. We socially distanced. We stayed in our homes. We stayed home from work. We have done all we were told to do to contain the virus. But, now, with the shutdown having put 36 million Americans on unemployment and sunk our GDP to Depression-era levels, we’re going back to work.
The political divide has already begun to appear.
Among those making the case for ending the shutdown and reopening the country and economy will be Trump, red state governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida and Brian Kemp in Georgia, conservatives in Congress and populists.
The proponents of a second shutdown will be liberal governors and mayors, the mainstream media and the Nancy Pelosi wing of Congress.
It should not go unmentioned that the latter’s political interests are best served the longer the shutdown endures and the worse the economic situation on Nov. 3. If the economy has failed to begin a robust recovery by fall, the greater the odds that Joe Biden wins the White House.
Yet, even if the pandemic returns in the fall, the establishment cannot keep the country closed indefinitely.
Prediction: If the people conclude they have done all they can do to mitigate the suffering from a virus they cannot eradicate, they will resist the imposition of another shutdown, and the establishment will have neither the will nor ability to push them back into their homes.
Ultimately, the people will decide when this shutdown ends, and when a plurality so concludes, the elites will be swept aside.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-20--China Updates Its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’

China Updates Its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’

In 1999 , Qiao Liang , then a senior air force colonel in the People ’ s Liberation Army , and Wang Xiangsui , another senior colonel , caused a tremendous uproar with the publication of Unrestricted Warfare : China ’ s Master Plan to Destroy America .
Unrestricted Warfare was essentially the PLA ’ s manual for asymmetric warfare : an updating of Sun Tzu ’ s Art of War .
At the time of original publication , with China still a long way from its current geopolitical and geo-economic clout , the book was conceived as laying out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensationalist “ destroy America ” added to the title for US publication in 2004 .
Now the book is available in a new edition and Qiao Liang , as a retired general and director of the Council for Research on National Security , has resurfaced in a quite revealing interview originally published in the current edition of the Hong Kong-based magazine Zijing ( Bauhinia ) .
Unrestricted Warfare : ... Xiangsui , Wang Best Price : $ 18.24 Buy New $ 13.48 General Qiao is not a Politburo member entitled to dictate official @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with agree that the key points he makes in a personal capacity are quite revealing of PLA thinking .
Let ’ s review some of the highlights .
The bulk of his argument concentrates on the shortcomings of US manufacturing : “ How can the US today want to wage war against the biggest manufacturing power in the world while its own industry is hollowed out ?
” An example , referring to Covid-19 , is the capacity to produce ventilators : “ Out of over 1,400 pieces necessary for a ventilator , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including final assembly .
That ’ s the US problem today .
They have state of the art technology , but not the methods and production capacity .
So they have to rely on Chinese production.
” General Qiao dismisses the possibility that Vietnam , the Philippines , Bangladesh , India and other Asian nations may replace China ’ s cheap workforce : “ Think about which of these countries has more skilled workers than China .
What quantity of medium and high level human resources was produced in China in these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ educating over 100 million students at secondary and university levels ?
The energy of all these people is still far from being liberated for China ’ s economic development.
” Globalistan : How the G ... Pepe Escobar Best Price : $ 17.22 Buy New $ 20.83 He acknowledges US military power even in times of epidemic and economic difficulties is always capable of “ interfering directly or indirectly in the Taiwan straits question ” and finding an excuse to “ block and sanction China and exclude it from the West.
” He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country , we still can not satisfy our manufacturing industry with our own resources and rely on our own markets to consume our products.
” In consequence , he argues , it ’ s a “ good thing ” for China to engage in the cause of reunification , “ but it ’ s always a bad thing if it ’ s done at the wrong time .
We can only act at the right time .
We can not allow our generation to commit the sin of interrupting the process of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Qiao counsels , “ Don ’ t think that only territorial sovereignty is linked to the fundamental interests of a nation .
Other kinds of sovereignty – economic , financial , defense , food , resources , biological and cultural sovereignty – are all linked to the interests and survival of nations and are components of national sovereignty.
” To arrest movement toward Taiwan ’ s independence , “ apart from war , other options must be taken into consideration .
We can think about the means to act in the immense gray @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can even think about more particular means , like launching military operations that will not lead to war , but may involve a moderate use of force.
” In a graphic formulation , General Qiao thinks that , “ if we have to dance with the wolves , we should not dance to the rhythm of the US .
We should have our own rhythm , and even try to break their rhythm , to minimize its influence .
If American power is brandishing its stick , it ’ s because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pepe Escobar Best Price : $ 11.76 Buy New $ 8.95 In a nutshell , for General Qiao , “ China first of all must show proof of strategic determination to solve the Taiwan question , and then strategic patience .
Of course , the premise is that we should develop and maintain our strategic force to solve the Taiwan question by force at any moment.
” Now compare General Qiao ’ s analysis with the by now obvious geopolitical and geo-economic fact that Beijing will respond tit for tat to any hybrid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government .
The gloves are definitely off .
The gold standard expression has come in a no-holds barred Global Times editorial : “ We must be clear that coping with US suppression will be the key focus of China ’ s national strategy .
We should enhance cooperation with most countries .
The US is expected to contain China ’ s international front lines , and we must knock out this US plot and make China-US rivalry a process of US self-isolation.
” An inevitable corollary is that the all-out offensive to cripple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targeting Apple , Qualcom , Cisco and Boeing , even including “ investigations or suspensions of their right to do business in China.
” So for all practical purposes , Beijing has now publicly unveiled its strategy to counteract US President Donald Trump ’ s “ We could cut off the whole relationship ” kind of assertions .
Obama Does Globalistan Escobar , Pepe Best Price : $ 9.94 Buy New $ 20.51 A toxic racism-meets-anti-communism matrix is responsible for the predominant anti-Chinese sentiment across the US , encompassing at least 66 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seized it – and repackaged it as his re-election campaign theme , fully approved by Steve Bannon .
The strategic objective is to go after China across the full spectrum .
The tactical objective is to forge an anti-China front across the West : another instance of encirclement , hybrid war-style , focused on economic war .
This will imply a concerted offensive , trying to enforce embargoes and trying to block regional markets to Chinese companies .
Lawfare will be the norm .
Even freezing Chinese assets in the US is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Silk Road branch-out – on the energy front , ports , the Health Silk Road , digital interconnection – will be strategically targeted .
Those who were dreaming that Covid-19 could be the ideal pretext for a new Yalta – uniting Trump , Xi and Putin – may rest in peace .
“ Containment ” will go into overdrive .
A neat example is Admiral Philip Davidson – head of the Indo-Pacific Command – asking for $ 20 billion for a “ robust military cordon ” from California to Japan and down the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survivable , precision-strike networks ” along the Pacific Rim and “ forward-based , rotational joint forces ” to counteract the “ renewed threat we face from great power competition.
” Davidson argues that , “ without a valid and convincing conventional deterrent , China and Russia will be emboldened to take action in the region to supplant US interests.
” Red Zone Blues : a snap ... Escobar , Pepe Best Price : $ 29.42 Buy New $ 15.64 From the point of view of large swathes of the Global South , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New Cold War , is mostly interpreted as the progressive ending of the Western coalition ’ s hegemony over the whole planet .
Still , scores of nations are being asked , bluntly , by the hegemon to position themselves once again in a “ you ’ re with us or against us ” global war on terror imperative .
At the annual session of the National People ’ s Congress , starting this Friday , we will see how China will be dealing with its top priority : to reorganize domestically after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 35 years , Beijing will be forced to relinquish its economic growth targets .
This also means that the objective of doubling GDP and per capita income by 2020 compared with 2010 will also be postponed .
What we should expect is absolute emphasis on domestic spending – and social stability – over a struggle to become a global leader , even if that ’ s not totally overlooked .
Empire of Chaos Pepe Escobar Best Price : $ 24.50 Buy New $ 36.65 After all , President Xi Jinping made it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 vaccine development and deployment in China , when available , ” won ’ t be subjected to Big Pharma logic , but “ will be made a global public good .
This will be China ’ s contribution to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.
” The Global South is paying attention .
Internally , Beijing will boost support for state-owned enterprises that are strong in innovation and risk-taking .
China always defies predictions by Western “ experts.
” For instance , exports rose 3.5 % in April , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15.7 % .
The trade surplus was $ 45.3 billion , when experts were forecasting only $ 6.3 billion .
Beijing seems to identify clearly the extending gap between a West , especially the US , that ’ s plunging into de facto New Great Depression territory with a China that ’ s about to rekindle economic growth .
The center of gravity of global economic power keeps moving , inexorably , toward Asia .

In 1999, Qiao Liang, then a senior air force colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, and Wang Xiangsui, another senior colonel, caused a tremendous uproar with the publication of Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America.
Unrestricted Warfare was essentially the PLA’s manual for asymmetric warfare: an updating of Sun Tzu’s Art of War. At the time of original publication, with China still a long way from its current geopolitical and geo-economic clout, the book was conceived as laying out a defensive approach, far from the sensationalist “destroy America” added to the title for US publication in 2004.
Now the book is available in a new edition and Qiao Liang, as a retired general and director of the Council for Research on National Security, has resurfaced in a quite revealing interview originally published in the current edition of the Hong Kong-based magazine Zijing (Bauhinia). Unrestricted Warfare: ... Xiangsui, Wang Best Price: $18.24 Buy New $13.48 (as of 03:44 UTC - Details)
General Qiao is not a Politburo member entitled to dictate official policy. But some analysts I talked with agree that the key points he makes in a personal capacity are quite revealing of PLA thinking. Let’s review some of the highlights.
Dancing with wolves
The bulk of his argument concentrates on the shortcomings of US manufacturing: “How can the US today want to wage war against the biggest manufacturing power in the world while its own industry is hollowed out?”
An example, referring to Covid-19, is the capacity to produce ventilators: “Out of over 1,400 pieces necessary for a ventilator, over 1,100 must be produced in China, including final assembly. That’s the US problem today. They have state of the art technology, but not the methods and production capacity. So they have to rely on Chinese production.”
General Qiao dismisses the possibility that Vietnam, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India and other Asian nations may replace China’s cheap workforce: “Think about which of these countries has more skilled workers than China. What quantity of medium and high level human resources was produced in China in these past 30 years? Which country is educating over 100 million students at secondary and university levels? The energy of all these people is still far from being liberated for China’s economic development.”
Globalistan: How the G... Pepe Escobar Best Price: $17.22 Buy New $20.83 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details) He acknowledges US military power even in times of epidemic and economic difficulties is always capable of “interfering directly or indirectly in the Taiwan straits question” and finding an excuse to “block and sanction China and exclude it from the West.” He adds that, “as a producing country, we still cannot satisfy our manufacturing industry with our own resources and rely on our own markets to consume our products.”
In consequence, he argues, it’s a “good thing” for China to engage in the cause of reunification, “but it’s always a bad thing if it’s done at the wrong time. We can only act at the right time. We cannot allow our generation to commit the sin of interrupting the process of the Chinese nation’s renaissance.”
General Qiao counsels, “Don’t think that only territorial sovereignty is linked to the fundamental interests of a nation. Other kinds of sovereignty – economic, financial, defense, food, resources, biological and cultural sovereignty – are all linked to the interests and survival of nations and are components of national sovereignty.”
To arrest movement toward Taiwan’s independence, “apart from war, other options must be taken into consideration. We can think about the means to act in the immense gray zone between war and peace, and we can even think about more particular means, like launching military operations that will not lead to war, but may involve a moderate use of force.”
In a graphic formulation, General Qiao thinks that, “if we have to dance with the wolves, we should not dance to the rhythm of the US. We should have our own rhythm, and even try to break their rhythm, to minimize its influence. If American power is brandishing its stick, it’s because it has fallen into a trap.” 2030 Pepe Escobar Best Price: $11.76 Buy New $8.95 (as of 06:35 UTC - Details)
In a nutshell, for General Qiao, “China first of all must show proof of strategic determination to solve the Taiwan question, and then strategic patience. Of course, the premise is that we should develop and maintain our strategic force to solve the Taiwan question by force at any moment.”
Gloves are off
Now compare General Qiao’s analysis with the by now obvious geopolitical and geo-economic fact that Beijing will respond tit for tat to any hybrid war tactics deployed by the United States government. The gloves are definitely off.
The gold standard expression has come in a no-holds barred Global Times editorial: “We must be clear that coping with US suppression will be the key focus of China’s national strategy. We should enhance cooperation with most countries. The US is expected to contain China’s international front lines, and we must knock out this US plot and make China-US rivalry a process of US self-isolation.”
An inevitable corollary is that the all-out offensive to cripple Huawei will be counterpunched in kind, targeting Apple, Qualcom, Cisco and Boeing, even including “investigations or suspensions of their right to do business in China.”
So for all practical purposes, Beijing has now publicly unveiled its strategy to counteract US President Donald Trump’s “We could cut off the whole relationship” kind of assertions. Obama Does Globalistan Escobar, Pepe Best Price: $9.94 Buy New $20.51 (as of 11:45 UTC - Details)
A toxic racism-meets-anti-communism matrix is responsible for the predominant anti-Chinese sentiment across the US, encompassing at least 66% of the whole population. Trump instinctively seized it – and repackaged it as his re-election campaign theme, fully approved by Steve Bannon.
The strategic objective is to go after China across the full spectrum. The tactical objective is to forge an anti-China front across the West: another instance of encirclement, hybrid war-style, focused on economic war.
This will imply a concerted offensive, trying to enforce embargoes and trying to block regional markets to Chinese companies. Lawfare will be the norm. Even freezing Chinese assets in the US is not a far-fetched proposition anymore.
Every possible Silk Road branch-out – on the energy front, ports, the Health Silk Road, digital interconnection – will be strategically targeted. Those who were dreaming that Covid-19 could be the ideal pretext for a new Yalta – uniting Trump, Xi and Putin – may rest in peace.
“Containment” will go into overdrive. A neat example is Admiral Philip Davidson – head of the Indo-Pacific Command – asking for $20 billion for a “robust military cordon” from California to Japan and down the Pacific Rim, complete with “highly survivable, precision-strike networks” along the Pacific Rim and “forward-based, rotational joint forces” to counteract the “renewed threat we face from great power competition.”
Davidson argues that, “without a valid and convincing conventional deterrent, China and Russia will be emboldened to take action in the region to supplant US interests.” Red Zone Blues: a snap... Escobar, Pepe Best Price: $29.42 Buy New $15.64 (as of 03:44 UTC - Details)
Watch People’s Congress
From the point of view of large swathes of the Global South, the current, extremely dangerous incandescence, or New Cold War, is mostly interpreted as the progressive ending of the Western coalition’s hegemony over the whole planet.
Still, scores of nations are being asked, bluntly, by the hegemon to position themselves once again in a “you’re with us or against us” global war on terror imperative.
At the annual session of the National People’s Congress, starting this Friday, we will see how China will be dealing with its top priority: to reorganize domestically after the pandemic.
For the first time in 35 years, Beijing will be forced to relinquish its economic growth targets. This also means that the objective of doubling GDP and per capita income by 2020 compared with 2010 will also be postponed.
What we should expect is absolute emphasis on domestic spending – and social stability – over a struggle to become a global leader, even if that’s not totally overlooked.
Empire of Chaos Pepe Escobar Best Price: $24.50 Buy New $36.65 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details) After all, President Xi Jinping made it clear earlier this week that a “Covid-19 vaccine development and deployment in China, when available,” won’t be subjected to Big Pharma logic, but “will be made a global public good. This will be China’s contribution to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.” The Global South is paying attention.
Internally, Beijing will boost support for state-owned enterprises that are strong in innovation and risk-taking. China always defies predictions by Western “experts.” For instance, exports rose 3.5% in April, when the experts were forecasting a decline of 15.7%. The trade surplus was $45.3 billion, when experts were forecasting only $6.3 billion.
Beijing seems to identify clearly the extending gap between a West, especially the US, that’s plunging into de facto New Great Depression territory with a China that’s about to rekindle economic growth. The center of gravity of global economic power keeps moving, inexorably, toward Asia.
Hybrid war? Bring it on.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.