what we have here is a failure to communicate
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire
It’s become abundantly clear that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other tech giants, via their algorithms and arbitrary censorship rules, are at the very least not being honest with us, and at the very worst are manipulating society - bending our thoughts and our very will - to conform to the dictates they deem most profitable for their respective corporations. It’s rather ironic that in this time of the ‘great internet communication age’, that in reality, “What we have here”, as Cool Hand Luke said to the local sheriff just before a deputy pumped him full of hot lead, ”is a failure to communicate”(1).
Because this series of articles is about health and wellness, in particular, SARS CoV-2, the focus of this piece will be on the detrimental impact the tech industry is having in this arena. I should preface this by saying that, due to their dependency on high technology to manufacture their modern pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, and their ever growing corporate collaboration with tech giants, I have have no qualms about grouping the pharmaceutical industry in the tech category.
Although these tech giants may not be pulling the trigger, as did the officer who shot Luke, given the amount of control and influence they have over our health, they are most certainly manipulating affairs in directions that may be in their best financial interest, but are nonetheless detrimental to our health. Corporate profits and good health rarely go hand in hand.
After all, many of these technocrats often have massive investments in, or produce products or provide services for two of the most dangerous and profitable industries on earth, the military industrial complex (MIC) and the pharmaceutical industry (PI). In his last speech as president General Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the American people about the overwhelming power and influence the MIC was accruing. A few years later president John F. Kennedy also alluded to the looming power and influence of the greater deep state and was later assassinated for trying to do something about it. We can go back even further to find that even President Lincoln pointed out the problems that occur when power and influence become concentrated in the hands of a few elite who wield their wealth and power in ways that threaten the sovereignty of the US. Lincoln even went so far as to have the US government print U.S. Treasury Notes as a form of legal tender… outside the banking system. He too, was assassinated for his efforts.
Although the MIC and other large financial institutions and industries still threaten our sovereignty and freedoms, three major changes have occurred since the early 1960’s that have shifted the balance of power among the elites. 1) The pharmaceutical industry has emerged as the largest, most profitable industry on earth, even surpassing the oil industry. 2) The tech industry has exploded into a force to be reckoned with. 3) The scariest scenario of all - the tech industry has begun to collaborate with, and invest in, the pharmaceutical industry.
Unfortunately, the introduction of the internet has created a format that has made the elitist agenda much easier to implement. By manipulating social media, using strategic ad placement, limiting search results, implementing censorship and highlighting their preferred results in our searches, these technocrats can now bend our thoughts, beliefs and actions to conform to the whims of their world view. What is their world view? I don’t know, but I can tell you what it looks like. It looks like a fascist technocracy, by and for the billionaire class. Indeed the influence and control of the larger technocracy has become so out-sized that it is now capable leveraging a run-of-the-mill virus into a program to lock down the entire planet, something that the three major world powers, US, Russia and China are incapable of doing. Folks, this is awesome power and we need to be very concerned about it. It’s time we wake up and realize whats going on behind the scenes. Once we get past our dissonance and begin to look at things with wide open eyes, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place.
Who are the big players responsible for taking away our freedom to breath fresh air, to move about freely, who are stripping away our Constitutional rights to free speech, who seek to destroy the very fabric of the United States of America? How do they operate?
First of all, it’s important to understand who they are not: They are not Republicans, or Democrats, nor are they Tea Party folks, Socialists, Green Party folks or progressives. They’re not the Proud Boys or Antifa. They’re not even conservatives or liberals. Although they may not be card carrying communists or nazis, many of the approaches they use share common ground with both of those ideologies, such as Hitlers fear tactics and Lenin’s version of top-down, centralized, communistic control. Perhaps the best ideological pigeon hole they fit is fascism. By and large these elites are billionaires who own or control key financial sectors in tech, pharmaceuticals, banking, manufacturing and energy and they use their positions of power and influence to manipulate the government and society to do their will. Corporate fascism is effectively what they are practicing. In some circles the term technofascism, or technocracy, has taken hold as a moniker for them, either of which I find appropriate due to their use of technology to implement their elitist agenda. The reason these people are so hard to pigeon hole politically is because they essentially have no need for politics - they operate outside of the guidelines of constitutional and national laws and international agreements. This is verified by the fact that most of these billionaires pay no taxes, rarely go to jail for committing crimes that would put common folks in jail for decades, and abide by no trade agreements. One example of the latter is provided by Haliburton, which had a trade deal with China well before Nixons US/China trade agreement made it legal to do so. Don’t bother searching for this, much of this history has effectively been scrubbed from the internet.
Having said all of that, I understand the propensity of some to blame the Republicans or the Democrats or the Communists or the Chinese, or Antifa, especially if doing so gets you brownie points with a particular audience. It is, and always has been, easier to blame ones opponent, or some other party, then to take the responsibility of doing something about it. In reality, the technocracy doesn’t give hoot about which party is in control because they don’t work within that system. They function independently of nations, their governments and politics, which is how they’re able to create this pandemic and lock down the entire planet.
In fact, they encourage division over left/right politics and concerns about foreign governments because it serves as a diversion from what’s really going on behind the curtain where the levers of manipulation are being pulled. It’s the tried and true, age old war technique of ‘divide and conquer’ - create illusions within society to prevent the masses from ever finding out about the great and powerful Oz manipulating the levers behind the curtain.
There are several shadowy, and not so shadowy organizations working behind the scenes to implement this and many books have been written and much has been discussed online about them, so I’ll not delve into all of that here. However, to reinforce everything I’ve said up to this point let me just highlight one of the bigger players, one not so well known in the US, one that also happens to be quite forthright about this agenda - Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In the video linked below Mr. Schwab has no qualms about getting right to the point by calling his billionaire cohorts and their agenda “stakeholder capitalism”(3). Apparently, in Mr. Schwabs world view, “stakeholder capitalists” are the only people worthy of running things. His thinking seems to go like this: If you have the cut-throat personality it takes to destroy lives to get what you need, if you have the inconsiderate mind-set to rape the Earth of far more than your fair share of its natural resources - all in the greedy pursuit to become a billionaire - then you have what it takes to join their club and run the world. The short translation of Stakeholder Capitalism would be: A coup d’tate by the billionaire class.
If you’re fan of Frank Herberts science fiction series Dune, then you know the timely parallel in that series is the all-powerful, interplanetary business consortium known as CHOAM.
Fascist stakeholders believe everyone else is beneath them, which is why they don’t feel a need to pay their employees a living wage. They also believe representative government is a waste of time. Both of these things explain why they hate democratically elected unions. They will be the first ones in line for socialistic bailout checks when they themselves cause economic collapse, as was the case when the banks that caused the economic collapse of 2008 got bailed out to the tune of trillions of dollars. But they can’t stand the thought of any of their paltry tax money going towards any kind of social program for their underpaid employees(2). Hence, they do everything they can to avoid paying taxes.
Ronald Reagan created the mold for this type of neoconservatism by busting unions and giving the billionaire class big tax breaks, which allowed them to further concentrate planetary wealth into ever fewer hands. What Mr. Schwab calls stakeholder capitalism, both presidents Bush senior and junior (and numerous other billionaires) fondly called “the new world order”, a term that should send chills down our spine anytime they hear someone say that in an endearing way. Lest we forget, the Bush family long ago became “stakeholder capitalists” in the cutthroat oil industry. Clinton furthered the stakeholder cause by signing the NAFTA treaty (written by Republicans) and by signing executive order 12850 which sent millions of American jobs to China. Obama’s cabinet and staff was riddled with stakeholder capitalists, many of whom were on a list provided by then Wall Street executive Michael Froman from Citigroup(4). To add insult to injury, this happened during a time when Wall Street executives were causing a global economic meltdown that led to the previously mentioned Great Recession, which then led to the massive social, communistic bailout of Wall Street bankers. Beholding to his neoliberal base, Obama then pushed for another Wall Street dream plan, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would have sent even more jobs overseas. The point being, both neocons and neoliberals have been working on behalf of billionaire stakeholders - and against the people - for many decades.
Trump has proven to be a very effective stooge for stakeholder capitalists. His abrasive divisiveness and his propensity to blame women, the Mexicans, the Chinese, Antifa and the democrats for everything that’s wrong in the US, while ignoring white supremacy groups and never fessing up to the fact that the buck stops with him, has used these as very effective ploys to keep the US population distracted while his billionaire country club cronies impose their agenda to lockdown the US by using the corona virus as a fulcrum and lever to implement more of their technofascist agenda. I see Trump as sort of a country club version of Jeffery Epstein. While Jeffery Epstein hosted many of these warped billionaire elites at his island in the Caribbean to molest children, Trump continues to host some of those same elites at his resorts around the world to play golf, get a massage and do who-knows-what-else. Is he a player in the billionaire coup d’tate? I don’t know. But he certainly has not taken any steps to remedy the situation.
The road to corona virus perdition continues…
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/2008-financial-bailout-809731/
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(4) https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/obamas-cabinet-was-built-by-a-wall-street-banker