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Juan uses Facebook (and MySpace) lol.


Of Economic Crises & Pandemics:
Facebook As Fact, Government As Truth, Big Pharma As God

https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/29/of-economic-crises-and-pandemics-facebook-as-fact-government-as-truth-big-pharma-as-god/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2020/03/observing-elites-manipulate-our-fear-covid-19-propaganda-and-knowledge/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2015924.Stuffed_And_Starved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEUktOrQV8 Ardern Cunt Prop Queen
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/whitepaper/bii-macro-perspectives-august-2019.pdf
https://www.bis.org/publ/work804.pdf
https://powerbase.info/index.php/Dupont:_Corporate_crimes
https://powerbase.info/index.php/Bayer:_Corporate_Crimes
https://www.corp-research.org/monsanto
https://www.corp-research.org/cargill
https://www.corp-research.org/pfizer

If events since March 2020 have shown us anything, it is that fear is
a powerful weapon for securing hegemony. Any government can manipulate
fear about certain things while conveniently ignoring real dangers
that a population faces.

Author and researcher Robert J Burrowes says:

    …if we were seriously concerned about our world, the gravest and
longest-standing health crisis on the planet is the one that starves
to death 100,000 people each day. No panic about that, of course.”

No panic because the controlling interests of the global food system
have long profited from a ‘stuffed and starved’ strategy that ensures
people unnecessarily go hungry when corporate profit rather than need
dictates policies.

US social commentator Walter Lippmann once said that ‘responsible men’
make decisions and must be protected from the ‘bewildered herd’ – the
public. He added that the public should be subdued, obedient and
distracted from what is really happening. Screaming patriotic slogans
and fearing for their lives, they should be admiring with awe leaders
who save them from destruction.

During COVID, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern urged
citizens to trust the government and its agencies for all information
and stated:

    Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your
single source of truth.”

In the US, Fauci presented himself as ‘the science’. In New Zealand,
Ardern was ‘the truth’. It was similar in countries across the world –
different figures but the same approach.

Like other political leaders, Ardern clamped down on civil liberties
with the full force of state violence on hand to ensure compliance
with ‘the truth’. Those who questioned the COVID narrative – including
world-renowned scientists – were smeared, shut down and censored.

It was an internationally orchestrated campaign involving governments,
the big tech companies, media and the WHO, among others.

The EU Times reported on 17 December 2022 that the US Centers for
Disease Control worked with social media to censor facts and
information about COVID that ran afoul of official narratives.

The organisation America First Legal noted in a press release that the
fourth set of documents it released – obtained from litigation against
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – revealed:

    …further concrete evidence of collusion between the CDC and social
media companies to censor free speech and silence the public square
under the government’s label of ‘misinformation’.”

Twitter ran a ‘Partner Support Portal’ for government employees and
other ‘stakeholders’ to submit posts that it would remove or flag as
‘misinformation’ on its platform.

The US government was actively working to ‘socially inoculate’ the
public against anything that threatened its narrative. Big tech
corporations monitored and manipulated users for the purposes of
censoring unapproved information and pushing government propaganda.
Facebook sent written materials to the CDC in which it talked of
censoring more than sixteen million ‘pieces of content’ containing
opinions or information the government wanted suppressed.

AFL noted that the CDC was “collaborating with UNICEF, the WHO and
IFCN member and leading civil society organisation Mafindo” to
mitigate ‘disinformation’. Mafindo is a Facebook third-party
fact-checking partner based in Indonesia and funded by Google.

AFL states:

    What is clear is that the United States government, big tech
platforms, and international organizations were fully entangled in an
intricate campaign to violate the First Amendment, to silence the
American people, and to censor dissenting views.”

The CDC’s mask guidance policies for school children were also shown
to be driven by politics rather than science.

Across all the major Western nations, there was a clamp down on
dissent and a massive censorship campaign to justify a policy
framework of social and economic lockdowns, masking, distancing and
state intrusion into almost every aspect of private life.

The findings of AFL indicate how centres of power can and do act in
unison when they need to. The fact that it involved a worldwide
campaign shows something huge was at stake.

The official narrative was about protecting populations from a deadly
virus. And any dissent that did seep into the edges of mainstream
discourse (like Tucker Carlson on Fox News or a few presenters on Talk
Radio in the UK, for instance) tended to focus on politicians going
too far on lockdowns and restrictions and being caught up in their
egotistical lust for power and control.

Such a superficial explanation avoided a deep, critical analysis of
the situation. Indeed, any focus on big finance’s – Wall Street and
the City of London – role in this was conspicuous by its absence.

In March 2022, BlackRock’s Rob Kapito warned that a ‘very entitled’
generation of people would soon have to face shortages for the first
time in their lives as some goods grow scarce because of rising
inflation. BlackRock is the world’s most powerful investment fund.

Kapito talked about the situation in Ukraine and COVID being
responsible for the current economic crisis, conveniently ignoring the
inflationary impact of the trillions pumped into imploding financial
markets in 2019 and 2020 (dwarfing the crisis of 2008).

The war in Ukraine as well as COVID are being used to explain the
roots of the current economic crisis. But COVID policies were a
symptom not a cause of the crisis – they were used to manage what by
late 2019 was regarded as an impending economic meltdown. Draconian
COVID policies had little to do with a public health emergency.

That much is made clear in the article A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy:
Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation by Professor Fabio Vighi.

On 15 August 2019, BlackRock issued a white paper instructing the US
Federal Reserve to inject liquidity directly into the financial system
to prevent “a dramatic downturn”. The message was unequivocal:

    An unprecedented response is needed when monetary policy is
exhausted and fiscal policy alone is not enough. That response will
likely involve ‘going direct’.”

It also stated the need to find ways to get central bank money
directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders while
avoiding hyperinflation.

Six days earlier, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) had in a
working paper called for “unconventional monetary policy measures” to
“insulate the real economy from further deterioration in financial
conditions”.

Vighi’s shows why the hegemonic class reacted so severely to a public
health issue that impacted a minority of the population. This response
only makes sense when viewed within the context of economics.

Come late 2019 and especially 2020, pumping trillions into the
financial system followed by lockdowns (to prevent hyperinflation)
were used as the “unconventional monetary policies” that the BIS had
called for on 9 August 2019.

Did you really think the authorities cared so much about something
that mainly affected the over-80s and those with severe comorbidities
that they would lock down the entire global economy?

Did they really care so much about ordinary people, especially
unproductive labour – the working class old and working class infirm –
when through the years of imposed austerity, we saw the working
classes being treated with utter contempt?

And did those who imposed restrictions and lockdowns really believe
there was a ‘deadly’ virus on the loose?

Think of booze parties at Downing Street, Neil Ferguson’s breaking of
lockdown rules to carry on an extra-marital affair, Matt Hancock
breaking his own COVID rules with his lover, maskless world leaders
gathering in London while their servants wore masks, various US
political leaders ignoring their own rules and the public theatre of
Fauci et al masking up for TV cameras then maskless as soon as they
were off camera.

While such people tyrannised populations with fear and lockdowns, it
is clear they themselves were unworried about ‘the virus’.

After embarking on a massive anti-Russia media propaganda campaign
earlier this year to garner public support for Ukraine, the centres of
power in the West are now sending billions of dollars of the public’s
money into the coffers of the likes of weapons manufacturers Raytheon
and Boeing.

Such corporations are more than happy to profit from sacrificing the
lives of ordinary Ukrainians in the geopolitical quest to weaken and
balkanise Russia so that US interests can gain a dominant, strategic
foothold on the Eurasian landmass.

And while billions of dollars are being spent to achieve this, a
wholly unnecessary ‘cost of living’ crisis (resulting from reckless
economic neoliberalism which has finally imploded) is being imposed on
working people in the Western countries – regarded as mere collateral
damage when it comes to economic policies, war and corporate profit.
The result is misery and poverty and the demonisation of some of the
(now striking) workers who were lauded as ‘heroes’ during COVID.

But – of course – the powers that have so much demonstrable contempt
for the lives of ordinary people at home and abroad will close down
the entire global economy to protect their health!

Those who believe this are testament to the power of propaganda.

COVID-related policies were wholly disproportionate to any risk posed
to public health, especially when considering the way ‘COVID death’
definitions and data were often massaged and how PCR tests were
misused to scare populations into submission.

And the big winner has been Big Pharma, an industry with a track
record of dirty tricks, false advertising and death and injury
resulting from its products. If, say, Pfizer were an individual, given
its corporate crimes, it would be serving a lengthy prison sentence
with the proverbial key being thrown away.

But corporations with lengthy corporate rap sheets across many sectors
are promoted to the public as being trustworthy and dependable. When
governments partner (conspire) with such enterprises, they are
conspiring with criminal recidivist companies. And when people
purchase stock in them, the same applies.

Given the reference to the global food system at the beginning of this
article, of particular interest are the crimes of Dupont and Bayer
(see the Powerbase website), and Monsanto and Cargill (see the
Corporate Research Project (CRP) website).

And, of course, Pfizer and its disturbing corporate rap sheet also
appears on the CRP site.

These immensely wealthy corporations spend millions each year funding
various groups and lobbying governments and international bodies.
Little wonder that they wield tremendous influence and, in one way or
another, become ‘trusted partners’ of governments, the WHO, the WTO
and the like.

In Pfizer’s case, trusted so much as being granted ‘emergency use
authorisation’ to have its ‘vaccines’ brought to market and then
forced on the public via the coercive policies of governments.

Returning to Lippmann, since early 2020 so many people have feared for
their lives and have admired with awe leaders who supposedly saved
them from destruction. Even now as reports on vaccine injuries,
vaccine inefficacy and increased mortality rates since the jab
rollouts are largely taboo within the mainstream media, the public are
being kept on message as the WHO and Big Pharma work towards a global
treaty that will strip all their rights come the next economic
meltdown or ‘pandemic’.

This article was written over the Yuletide period, an increasingly
secular celebration stripped of religious connotation. These days, ‘in
Big Pharma we trust’ might be more apt along with blind faith in a
Zuckerberg-esque fantasy metaverse where Facebook is fact, government
is truth and Big Pharma is God.

Because (heaven help us) that we should be left to think for ourselves!