The ruling class may decide that a traditional authoritarian coup, with military control and suspension of the rule of law, may be necessary in order to consolidate and sustain what is already, de facto, something close to a global fascist takeover.
In 1987 it was revealed, briefly, that the US has a secret protocol in place for the suspension of the Constitution.
Already, corona hysteria has allowed to ruling class to seize power and suspend democracy de facto in most of the Anglophone world and Europe, where government by decree has supplanted the legislative process and basic rights have been revoked in practice.
In New York State, for example, Governor Cuomo issued numerous diktats and changed 262 laws in 55 days under color of a public health emergency. His authoritarian rule continues long after virus deaths in the state have dwindled to insignificance. timesunion.com/news/article/W…
Mostly poor and non-white Australians were forcibly locked down in public housing projects under emergency orders ... rnz.co.nz/news/world/420…
Exceptionally harsh lockdowns in India and South Africa were enforced via the overnight consolidation of violent police states that targeted the poor.
In the US, much of the Bill of Rights has been abrogated by coronavirus diktats. Various states and municipalities have suspended, de facto, First Amendment rights of free speech, assembly, and religion ...
as well as Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure and numerous rights reserved to the people under the Tenth Amendment.
These attacks on popular sovereignty and the rule of laware executed in lockstep by the satraps of the global ruling class. Evidence is emerging that state COVID policies are directly coordinated and steered by ruling class elites.
Mike Bloomberg, the world’s ninth-richest person, gives US mayors their marching orders via a weekly Zoom call. axios.com/michael-bloomb…
Melinda Gates issues instructions to New Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern via teleconference. nzherald.co.nz/nz/melinda-gat…
This de facto fascist crackdown is still disguised as something temporary and is typically clothed in pseudo-legal justifications.
Despite all this, vestiges of democracy and the rule of law remain an impediment to the ruling class program. This is notwithstanding their continual efforts and frequently successful attempts to pervert and outflank popular will.
For instance, the world’s richest and perhaps most powerful man, Jeff Bezos, was thwarted in his effort to build palatial Amazon headquarters in Queens after community activists forced the New York City Council to demand concessions and accountability.
Laws and regulations governing health, safety, monopolization, labor, etc., not to mention constitutional rights – in short, the rule of law – require the rulers to engage in lengthy and expensive campaigns to accomplish their goals. They would prefer to remove such obstacles.
Bill Gates has made plain the contempt in which the ruling class holds democracy.
Expect, then, a rapidly escalating attack on the fundamental institutions of Western liberal democracy. They already reversed the Communist revolutions. Now, I fear, the goal is to reverse the French Revolution.
"Weather as a Force Multiplier" -- 1996 Pentagon research predicted that by 2025 US aerospace forces could "own the weather" by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war fighting applications. apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA33…
As mayor of NYC, Michael Bloomberg was widely criticised for the imposition of “nanny state” diktats intended to impose a health and environmental regime from above. These included, inter alia:
Requiring restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus; a ban on sugary sodas (a measure struck down by the courts); constructing elaborate bike lanes across the city, typically at the expense of efficient traffic flow;
thrusting the CitiBike rental scheme on the city, accompanied by the construction of eyesore rental stations that impeded movement, as well as draconian regulation of smoking including hefty "sin-taxes."
How the CDC was corrupted. (A thread adapted from my recent s*bst*ck article.)
1. It is not widely known that the CDC is substantially funded by private money. The agency’s lavish federal budget is padded with many hundreds of millions cheerfully supplied by industry, foundations, and billionaires.
2. In 1992 Congress created the CDC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization empowered to raise and contribute money to CDC. What should have been a disturbing development was little noticed at the time.
Indian government forced "fortified rice" – machine-carved simulated rice grains mixed with "micronutrients" and God knows what else — on 800 million Indians, who find it disgusting and refer to the processed sludge as "plastic rice." reporters-collective.in/twitter-thread…
Unsurprisingly, this junk food touted as good for health is unhealthy for children and other living things.
This thread contains remarks from a friend about the brilliant Francesco Rosi film "Uomini Contro" (1970).
Quoting my friend: I found it very interesting that, in Uomini Contro, the conscious revolutionary (the Volonte character) knows that it is criminal to play at insurrection; that what is needed is to press relentlessly forward, without pause, behead the top and seize power.
He also assesses, no doubt correctly, that the first rebellion by a section of the troops will fail, and there is no point in backing it; but he does not know - as no one can know the future - that, by biding his time, he and the majority of the troops will anyway be slaughtered,
Open AI billionaire Sam Altman is investing heavily in promoting Universal Basic Income, the scheme that would effectively force workers to pay for their own starvation-level subsidies. techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/the…
Altman is also co-founder of Y Combinator, the spooky venture capital firm that launched all manner of malign internet businesses.