Philip Giraldi – Strategic Review April 23, 2020
Police officers in protective masks prepare as protesters against the state’s extended stay-at-home order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) demonstrate at the Capitol building in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare. Click to enlarge
It is too early to say when or even whether the siege initiated by the coronavirus will end, but many Americans and Europeans are speculating over what kind of countries will emerge on the other side. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed illegal spying on American citizens, recently predicted that there would be a “slide into a less liberal and less free world,” that the surveillance systems being created to monitor the spread of the disease would become an “architecture of oppression.” To be sure he has a point in that governments have historically used crises to expand their powers. After the crisis is over, the emergency power granted to manage the activity of the people tends to be retained.
Much depends on the lessons learned from what is being done to contain the virus currently. If testing and “keep your distance” does not succeed in checking the spread of the disease and restoring a version of what once was normal life, harsher and more permanent measures might prevail. Alexander Dugin foresees a “military-medical” dictatorship developing.
The rapid spread of the virus has also spawned some unusual conspiracy theories. One claims that the virus was actually developed in the United States, stolen from a lab by Chinese scientists and then released in China before being allowed to propagate worldwide as part of a communist conspiracy to destroy the economy and political system in the U.S. Another has cast Bill Gates as the villain, claiming that he had a hand in the appearance of the virus as part of a nefarious plot to take over global health care. The megalomaniacal Gates certainly is to blame for using his wealth and status to promote a universal “health” surveillance system for the post-coronavirus world, but that he might have been behind the appearance of the virus itself is certainly a bit of a stretch. Still other theories connect the appearance of coronavirus to 5G telecommunications technology.
The reality of to what degree the national security state that already exists tightens its grip based on a continuing medical emergency pretty much depends on how the virus itself reacts to summer heat and the measures being taken to contain it. Meanwhile, there have been some decidedly extreme proposals about what the United States and other nations might consider doing to seize and maintain the high ground in the battle against a still proliferating, highly contagious and lethal disease.
The key to stopping the spread of the virus, most authorities would agree, is to test and monitor nearly all the public, to force them if needs be to maintain distance from individuals who are already infected. There have been several proposals for how to do that ranging from testing nearly everyone and issuing health ID cards based on the results, with those individuals considered contagious or especially vulnerable being subject to quarantine or some form of further isolation. One over-the-top plan would make the health status of individuals recorded and updated on a chip readable by government scanners that would be permanently embedded in everyone’s body.
The plan that appears to have the best possibly of being adopted is being promoted in a joint venture by Apple and Google that appears to have White House support. Bloomberg reports that “Apple Inc. and Google unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19. People must opt in to the system, but it has the potential to monitor about a third of the world’s population.”
The monitoring would be done by central computers and once the principle is established that phones can be manipulated there are no technical or practical limits to what other tasks could be included. That means that the observation made by protagonist Winston Smith in George Orwell’s “1984” has finally been realized. Smith was doing the mandatory half hour of exercise daily in front of his television, but when he began to slack off a voice from the tv set admonished him. He then accepted that in theory the government was actually capable of surveilling everyone all the time and might in fact be doing so. Well George and Winston, we have finally arrived at 1984.
Even if coronavirus fades into obscurity, government might plausibly exploit the fear created by it to push hard that a surveillance mechanism be continued and even expanded to prevent its recurrence or the development of future pandemics. That is what the “science” tells one is the right thing to do, at least according to some scientists, but it ignores individual liberty of association, guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. The U.S. and other governments have long demonstrated that when it comes to individual freedom versus the ability of the state to impose a statist uniformity, the rules makers will always win out. 9/11, for example, produced the Patriot and Military Commission Acts that have considerably abridged personal liberty in America, even though the threat of terrorism was overstated at the time and has considerably receded ever since. Yet, unfathomably, the Patriot Act has survived and keeps getting renewed by Congress.
Predictably perhaps, presidential son-in-law and jack of all trades Jared Kushner, fresh from his failure to bring peace to the Middle East, has been placed in charge of a White House task force that will determine how and when to develop a pandemic surveillance system which will also link those ill to hospital centers for mandatory screening and treatment. The argument being made is that tracking nearly everyone would enable the identification and quarantining of those who are sick in nearly real time, controlling the spread of future viruses that has up until now been impossible. That the information would be collected into a national data base appears to be part of the program and it would, of course, include information on the patient’s location and activities.
As social media is already being manipulated and controlled by the government working hand-in-hand with the oligarchs who own and operate the sites, the ability to further isolate members of the public so as to preempt the development of any genuine resistance to state policies might well be seen as highly desirable. It would be a gift to a developing police state to be able to know where everyone is at any given time and be able to intuit what they might be doing. Real troublemakers could be further identified and singled out for special attention.
And one should note that it all comes at a time of great vulnerability to both revolution and repression, when representative government is under siege in many countries, unable to control the narrative as it once did. Donald Trump in a tweet barrage last Friday called on his followers to “liberate” Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia because he disapproved of the policies on coronavirus and gun control being advanced by their respective governors, all Democrats. Calling for the overthrow of state governments is illegal, a call to insurrection, but Trump apparently believes that having survived one impeachment attempt he is now untouchable. If many Americans begin to take Trump’s exhortations literally, it could be a sign that the admittedly dystopian political equilibrium in the U.S. is about to spin out of control.
The killer plague is real. We’re all going to die. Zog is imposing measures to “protect” us (but they’ll “probably” want to maintain that control after the virus is gone). Run and hide. It’s really dangerous.
That’s how I read the above article, hardly different from the lies pushed by the BBC.
Trump is completely controlled, pretending to be for the people! That is why he flip flops
Once a Spook, always a Spook. Controlled opposition. Enough half truths to mollify.
Check the data even though they keep trying to obfuscate it is clearly JUST THE FLU!
Vladimir Kvachkov – What is behind the Covid psyop
“Ex-Russian Intel Officer: Depopulation agenda is real” (TS April 23-24)
“1) Depopulation initiative
2) Political control over the remaining population
3) Deflation of the current financial bubble
4) Liquidation of geo-economic competitors”
Few things from Russia are accidental and this is very high-level. whistle-blowing stuff to help guide us. In my view it is indirect from the entire Russian Kremlin struggling for the sovereignty and self-determination of their nation, while trying to get out from under the megalomaniac grip of the Western-controlled international banking cartel (i.e. – the Rothschild cartel) which not only has directed the US to impose crippling sanctions on them, but together with the leading corporate powers initiated the Covid psyop for the controls we are now seeing, and to centralize and concentrate more and more power and control over our lives for their totalitarian and hegemonic ends.
We have to remember that it was the same cartel which spawned and financially sustained the communist Soviet Union from its inception in Russia until 1992 providing, supplying it with military and technological and military intel as well as numerous satellite nations after WWII to plunder. As well, we ought to remember that the same cartel supported Mao and spawned the communist take-over of China and was mainly responsible for outsourcing and draining of the West in building up that totalitarian nation, which they exemplify as a “model nation”.
“Conspiracy theorist?” You have to remember where the term came from. It always has derogatory connotations and it arose in the US mainstream media (i.e. the US CIA mockingbird media) mainly to dispel the idea that Kennedy was the victim of a high level inside assassination plot. Now only morons believe it was Oswald and not the CIA who were involved.
What is being revealed now about this Covid house-arrest of the public is not from “conspiracy theorists” but “probability realists”. It is only in our criminal courts or in classic medical science were things have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In our civil courts we prove everything on the balance of probabilities. It is on that basis that perps like OJ Simpson are really punished and big banks and corporations are brought down for their wrongs, that is if the courts can ever remain independent enough for the public and the little guy to get a shot at them. This same standard of proof (the balance of probabilities) which now leads modern science to rational conclusions, and is the basis of sound judgement in the court of public opinion. As for “motive” as a element in human affairs, it is as strong or even stronger an element in wrong-doing than even in the criminal courts.
The only body powerful enough in the world to make all nations comply with the psyop hype, is the same international banking cartel controlling most of the finances in the world, including much of those in China and also trade opportunities for Russia. That fact alone explains the participation of these nations with the unwarranted shutdowns. As for the West, we are directly under the monopolistic thumb of the cartel. This cartel is the only body powerful enough to ensure global compliance with the psyop in the media and with our governments to enforce such lock downs, and especially among nations virtually at war with each other. Now, that is what you call a fact. It does not prove they did it, but no one who knows anything about politics or finances would doubt that it is this central banking cartel which is the only body which could demand compliance and at the same time threaten or make hard to resist offers to all participating nations. Whether the cartel concocted the psyop, or is directing it, is not relevant, the allegation is that it had to approve it and it likely serves the ends of the cartel, directly or indirectly.
The next question is whether the media and our governments have deliberately exaggerated the risk of this flu virus. Go figure. It is obvious, or you have not done any real research.
Then you have the question of whether or not the lock downs have been necessary to protect that “clearly identified” very very small percent of the population, who are overwhelmingly the very fragile with serious pre-existing heath issues, and mostly of a very advanced age, who are the ones who have any real and substantial risk of suffering serious symptoms or even death from the virus. This segment is at risk to any respiratory disease and is easily protected by reasonable and usually voluntary means, and it is totally unnecessary for any government to impose any restrictive measures over the rest of the general population.
Our governments have known about the actual “clearly defined” risk segment from the get go. The science hacks the government agencies used in informing the media and directing our governments first focused on an Israeli-owned liner, the Diamond Princess, as the petri dish to show a 1% mortality rate of those infected, and since then a few others have mysteriously been reported to have died. However, other liners which were also locked down with the virus have had no such deaths.
Then we have the damning evidence of the US CDC (and likely similar agencies in most other nations) ordering hospital and care-home officials to ensure they put “the primary cause” of death as “Covid-19” even when the primary and immediate cause is something else. In fact the very, very corrupt and big-pharma controlled US CDC pushing one vaccination program after another on the now on the hapless, exploited, and severely-immune-compromised public, is now faced with statistics were for this flu season, and because of the widespread fudging of death certificates, the number of deaths attributed to all respiratory diseases like pneumonia is far less than in former seasons.
Yet, our governments and shill politicians carry blithely along imposing on us unnecessary lock down, saying they are waiting for further testing, or that there may be a second wave, or we have to have lock downs until the magic vaccine is developed. Yet the overall flu deaths for this season are will below those of the 2017-2018 season and many other recent seasons.
This way of reasoning is not tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory. It is “probability reality” which we do not ever get with the fake-news MSM or from our fake-science and lying governments, busy destroying as much small business as possible and reducing economic activity to as much corporate control and what they highhandedly have sat down together and deemed as “essential”.
“Calling for the overthrow of State governments is illegal”. What Trump actually did was to warn State officials that they could not go much further in insulting the constitutional rights of their citizens before the government of the United States–in the person of Trump himself–would step in, which is plainly not “a call to insurrection”. Before Mr. Giraldi writes more on this subject in this vein he should read Title 18 of the United States Code, sections 241 and 242, and especially Title 10 of the United States Code sections 252 and 253.
“It is widely expected that tackling the coronavirus pandemic will trigger the deepest global recession in peacetime.”
…”tackling the coronavirus pandemic”…
I would like to tackle the idiots who blame everything on a non-existing virus!!!
It is widely recognized that NOT tackling the God damn bastards who have triggered this bullshit epidemic has triggered the deepest global illegitimate and illegal lockdown in the history of the world!!!
“The actual decline in GDP could be even greater, in part because the PMI excludes the vast majority of the self-employed and the retail sector, which have been especially hard-hit by the COVID-19 containment measures.”
So the survey doesn’t even account for reality, just a portion of reality! Bunch of incompetent idiots once again! As if we needed these officials to tell us something a 12 year-old can easily figure out.
“The dire survey readings will inevitably raise questions about the cost of the lockdown, and how long current containment measures will last.”
No kidding Bozo! The dire survey readings will inevitably raise mere questions?
Who are you going to ask these questions to? The same sick freaks who are telling you they are doing all this for a fucking virus?! GTFOH!!
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Amazing Polly nails Gates the smirking weasel to the wall, once again. She undoes
the magic spell by looking at the Kill & Maligna Gates Foundation for Mass Murder, his strategic investment in the World Hell Organization, etc…
Amazing Polly:
“Put on your seat belts, you’re in for a bumpy ride. I show you how so-called ‘philanthropists’ use language and veneers to hide their bad deeds as they de-humanize us. These people are like vampire aliens determined to hijack free will. This might be my magnum opus.”
To Serve Man – The Lie Of Philanthropy
Amazing Polly
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm19xYwJ2nQ
Dead wrong: “Calling for the overthrow of state governments is illegal, a call to insurrection.”
The law is “Calling for the VIOLENT overthrow of state governments is illegal, a call to insurrection”. That’s a world of difference.
Some places it has to be: “Calling for the VIOLENT, IMMEDIATE (‘instigating a riot’ standard) overthrow of state governments is illegal, a call to insurrection,”
BUT NOT what the author writes!
Polly won’t go all the way. And so what if she expands on the welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. Gets really boring when you end it at bill without going further and that’s all she does. She didn’t nail anything because it was always known and not one consequence will come from it anyway.
She would have to verify and validate the virus exists and was lab made before one step further. Otherwise she is just another cult of personality, suspect on someone’s payroll.
“She would have to verify and validate the virus exists and was lab made before one step further.”
Why? All kinds of viruses exist everywhere. That discussion is NOT a priority. In no way do viruses (regardless of what they are or are not) justify the impositions of these stark raving lunatics who are trying to wipe the truth off the map of the People’s Republic of The Internet. They are OBVIOUSLY lying their less-than-useless heads off!
Those who have the greatest influence over the masses are complete and utter criminals!
Who is going to put them in jail or otherwise neutralize their malignant influence on society? That is the only question I have.