2021: The Gloves Come Off

 

The restructuring of the global political economy from consumer capitalism to a form of totalitarian neofeudalism has proceeded surprisingly smoothly and rapidly. The pretext of protecting the public from an unprecedented health emergency is an extraordinarly successful psyops campaign. The mainstream media is fully committed to this deep state propaganda campaign and much of the imperial liberal professionals (primarily Democrats) are fully caught up in the scare mongering which has been an inconvenience and disruption to them but little more. It is the lower rungs of society which are being hugely impacted, however, the full effects of the restructuring have been temporarily softened by COVID relief measures. Consequently, resistance has been muted and changes have occurred which are irreversible. Small businesses (the major source of employment) have been decimated, medium size businesses struggling with mounting debt. Most states, counties and cities are more or less bankrupt and drowning in debt. Millions of workers have effectively lost their jobs, income, and health care. Many are arrears in rent payment and face eviction in the new year.

With all of the temporary relief measures ending, 2021 will be a year of reckoning. The streets of Seattle (where I live) are already lined with the tents of the new homeless forced to live rough even as the winter flu season begins. Under these circumstances, all cause mortality statistics for the U.S. will likely increase dramatically in 2021, primarily a consequence of the economic restructuring. Lack of adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical care, along with depression and anxiety, is bad for the health. This is what happened in Russia under Yeltsin when the "Harvard boys" (Jeffrey Sachs, et al) implemented shock therapy and decimated the population. Our media propaganda system will blame COVID-19 for the increased mortality, in effect, using the consequences of the lockdown to justify the lockdown. Lockdown restrictions will remain in place until there is a demonstrable improvement in the health statistics, a virtual impossibility. It must be remembered that our elites are devious and ruthless and fully committed to the restructuring of the global political economy.

Some of the ostensibly "progressive" elites such as Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, claim that this restructuring (The Great Reset) presents an opportunity to improve society. Theoretically, he is correct, however, the final form of this restructuring will be determined by the oligarchs and corporations which effectively run society and who have no interest whatever in improving society and the lives of the majority of people. Rather, they are pursuing their lifelong goal of power acquisition and social control. The fat-cats at the apex of the social pyramid are more motivated by their psychopathic obsession with power accumulation along with characteristic ruthlessness and contempt for the masses. The final result will be anything but progressive. Essentially, we are moving toward a rentier economy of debt servitude for the majority, the energy intensive growth economy of consumer capitalism a thing of the past. For a variety of reasons, we are at the end of the hydrocarbon era of abundant cheap energy upon which we have become dependent. 

The elites began 2020 by establishing the myth of a natural zoonotic mutation of a bat derived "novel" corona virus. The virus supposedly originated in some bat cave and made it's way hundreds of miles to an open air market in Wuhan, China. Highly unlikely but theoretically possible. A more likely explanation is that this new virus may have escaped but was likely intentionally released from the Wuhan biolab which was performing gain-of-function experiments on bat corona viruses. These experiments had been conducted at the Fort Detrick biowarfare lab in the U.S. but were moved to the Wuhan lab in 2014. The appearance of COVID-19 in Wuhan immediately following the Event 201 pandemic simulation involving the Gates foundation, the World Economic Forum, and various deep state actors is more than a coincidence. Wuhan was a logical location for initiating a pandemic, Fort Detrick too obvious to be effective and U.S. allies excluded as well. The pandemic was introduced in an initially limited way with the first lockdowns scheduled for only several weeks as a necessary inconvenience. They were then continually extended supported by media fear mongering. We have now reached the point where mask wearing, social distancing, lockdowns and executive diktats have been normalized.

Now that the virus has been accepted as a tragic and threatening act of nature originating in an "enemy" country, follow-on releases can be made from any number of the hundreds of biolabs which develop these dangerous biological agents. Also, the use of a highly contagious but only moderately deadly biological weapon is perfectly suited to a weapon of mass economic disruption. A too lethal virus could pose a serious threat to the lives of the elite. As it is, COVID-19 seems to mostly effect the elderly with comorbidities. The death count seems exaggerated due to intentional labeling bias. If you test positive on one of these (unreliable) tests and die during the next 30 days you will be counted as a COVID-19 death regardless of other factors. The more testing the more cases and the more deaths labeled as COVID-19 deaths. The all-cause mortality data is considerably less alarming than the orchestrated hype, however, that will soon surge as the effects of winter and the lockdown take effect. There will be a significant increase in mortality which will be blamed on COVID-19 rather than on the inevitable and foreseeable consequences of shutting down the economy for an extended period. 

2020 set the stage for medical martial law, the destruction of main street and small business, and the drowning of local and state governments in massive debt, along with mass unemployment and massive personal debt. 2021 will see the consequences of this as millions wind up in de facto debt servitude and privatization of the political economy runs wild. Let me be crystal clear: this manufactured mass unemployment will result in a massive increase in families falling below the poverty line and a massive increase in children living in poverty even as U.S. billionaires increased their net worth by over $900 billion during the pandemic. There will be intense pressure for de facto mandatory COVID vaccination, along with contact tracing and other forms of surveillance. There will be a push to replace currency with digital money. 5G networks facilitate surveillance and will be pushed in spite of health risks. The attack on small business will extend to small scale farming, particularly in the Third World where India's farmers are being intentionally put out of business in favor of agribusiness and factory farming. Environmental rhetoric aside, the net effect of all of this will be to reduce or eliminate local autonomy making long term human survival problematic. 2020 saw the elites successfully lay the ground work for the restructuring of society, 2021 will be a full-on elite assault on the 90%, especially impacting the bottom 50%. How interesting that all of this appears to be hidden in plain sight, the majority of people distracted by COVID propaganda and unable to perceive the inevitable consequences of the pandemic restructuring. 2020 was bad, 2021 will be worse, perhaps much worse as the elites take off the gloves in pursuit of elite objectives. Media hype about a possible "recovery" is pure PR intended to calm the citizenry, nothing more.

Finally, the elites have been remarkably successful in obtaining support for their policies among the top 20 - 30% of the population who mostly support the Democrats and self-identify as liberal. This group has been much less effected by the lockdown and medical martial law than those below, particularly the bottom half of the citizenry who are feeling the full brunt of the economic impacts of the restructuring and who are becoming restive albeit ineffectively. In typical divide and rule fashion, the elites have convinced the "liberal" professionals that the bottom 50% of the population are crazed Trump fascists who threaten stability and prosperity, their resistance to medical martial law a threat to public safety. This professional class stands on the sidelines and averts their gaze from the harsh reality of this restructuring. Nowadays, the Democrats have become the faithful servants of Wall Street and the Deep State and de facto enemies of Blue Collar workers. 

COVID Epiphany

 

I have had a second epiphany. The first was when I saw that the Pandemic lockdown was an integral part of the controlled demolition of the current economy leading to the restructuring of the political economy from consumer capitalism to a form of neofeudalism. Now I have come to believe that the ending of the Pandemic relief measures will result in a somewhat softer version of the shock therapy administered to Russia by the U.S. following the breakup of the Soviet Union. After the violent installation of Boris Yeltsin, the US advisors, led by Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, essentially looted the Russian economy, selling off state assets to foreign investors and local oligarchs. Support for the Russian people virtually disappeared resulting in unprecedented and catastrophic impoverishment of the populace which, in turn, led to a massive increase in the number of deaths. "Low birth rates and abnormally high death rates caused Russia's population to decline at a 0.5% annual rate, or about 750,000 to 800,000 people per year from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#:~:text=Low%20birth%20rates%20and%20abnormally,1990s%20to%20the%20mid%2D2000s.&text=In%202018%2C%20the%20UN%20claimed,to%20132%20million%20by%202050.    

Back then there was no Corona virus to blame for these increased deaths, Russian public opinion of little importance to the empire in any event. The health and well-being of the Russian people was much more significantly impacted by this restructuring than what is now occurring with COVID-19, the effects of which are wildly exaggerated. Likewise, the impacts of the current restructuring will probably far exceed the impacts of COVID-19, but will be misrepresented as being a consequence of COVID-19. To make myself perfectly clear, the economic consequences of the pandemic lockdown are intentional and an integral part of this global restructuring, not some unanticipated and unavoidable consequence  of necessary medical precautions to "save lives." The power elite originally took steps to ameliorate the negative consequences of this unprecedented global lockdown so as to facilitate implementation. There will be no further amelioration of these draconian measures as this would interfere with elite objectives. This is a long planned and tightly orchestrated restructuring of the political economy in such a way as to deal with certain environmental and structural problems in such a way as to maintain elite control during the chaos of transition and the anticipated climate emergency. 

It bears noting that as of 12/20/20, the (exaggerated) claimed global deaths from COVID-19 are 1.69 million out of a population of 7.8 billion for a per capita death rate of 217 per million population. During the 1918 "Spanish" flu pandemic, there were an estimated 50 million deaths out of a population of 1.8 billion people for a per capita death rate of just under 27,800 per million population. In other words, globally, the claimed COVID death toll, serious as it is, is still less than 1 % of the 1918 flu deaths per capita. Hardly an existential threat "ravaging" the planet as the media hype claims. Yet, COVID is a convenient pretext which is here to stay. Medical martial law and government by executive mandates is part of the new normal. The harsh reality is that the 1% has normalized the use of bio-terror against the 90% (not the 99%) as a means of ongoing social control. Make no mistake, we live in a globalized world in which the global elites rule over the rest of the global population with the active collusion/cooperation of the upper levels of the 99%. National rivalries still exist to a certain extent, however, we are dealing with a global matrix of control primarily involving financial control and informational control of global interdependencies. The use of domestic bio-terror utilizing the hundreds of biolabs globally is a new and highly effective wrinkle. Most folks can't even conceive of such a thing even though there is no other reason to have these labs and their emphasis on "gain-of-function." How long have these labs been working on "gain-of-function" of the bat derived corona virus? At least a decade. And the use of an invisible virus whose presence and lethality is seen primarily through orchestrated media accounts is an ideal weapon to terrorize the population into submitting to draconian control and massive change to the political economy. Actually, some of the upcoming changes are probably necessary and can only be implemented by scaring the public into compliance. Yet, on balance, these upcoming changes strongly favor the current elites. 

An interesting and informative article appeared in the December 23, 2020 Seattle Times written by Mike Stobbe of the Associated Press. The article's headline claims 3 million U.S. deaths expected in 2020. This refers to the all-cause death statistics put out by the CDC (although that is not made clear) and is an estimate. Many will incorrectly assume that this refers to the COVID-19 (exaggerated) death estimate which is about 10% of that. The article further claims that U.S. life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as three full years. Once again, the implication is that COVID is to blame. Since the median age for reported COVID deaths in the U.S. is 78 years and the average U.S. life expectancy is 78.8, it seems unbelievable that COVID-19 could lower U.S. life expectancy by 3 years. On the other hand, increased mortality due to lockdown measures which would have a greater impact on younger people could result in a significant reduction. Journalist Mark Ames who was in Russia when Yeltsin came to power claims that the U.S. instigated "shock therapy" resulted in Russian male life expectancy dropping from 68 years to 56 years. Could this article be preparing the American people for a significant reduction in U.S. life expectancy due to economic restructuring which will be blamed on COVID-19? Of course it is. 

Finally, an interesting phenomenon is the "liberal" media completely ignoring the structural aspects of the lockdown while ridiculously claiming that a Biden presidency will result in a return to "normal," possibly even a "progressive" era. Are these people sane? The harsh reality is that what remains of the old economy will be destroyed (much of this necessarily so) while the "new normal" of totalitarian neofeudalism will be implemented. For the upper middle class "liberals" (imperial liberals) who favor the Democrats, this will be seen as a tolerable and necessary inconvenience. For the blue collar workers who inhabit the lower rungs of society and who the Democrats abandoned long ago, times will be increasingly difficult. Loss of jobs, income, healthcare, educational opportunities and housing insecurity will result in alienation and anger. There will probably be some sort of guaranteed basic income for those who comply with the ongoing restructuring. The bottom half of the population, along with State and local governments will drown in debt. Most small and many medium size businesses will go out of business, their assets acquired by the large corporations for pennies on the dollar as the Lords of Capitalism establish total neofeudal control. Surveillance and security will be ubiquitous. Vaccination will become de facto mandatory as biological means of social control become more available. The near future will be increasingly chaotic. None of this will be even remotely sufficient to prevent the ecological disaster now unfolding, rather, it will provide the means to enable the elite to have access to the relatively small number of potential islands of survivability as the entire global ecosystem collapses.