{"id":20925,"date":"2020-07-18T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20925"},"modified":"2020-07-19T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T19:23:06","slug":"welcome-to-the-permanent-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20925","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the permanent pandemic! And the <i>New World Order<\/i>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Covid-19: Phase 1 of the \u201cPermanent Crisis\u201d?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Mike Whitney<br \/>\nGlobal Research<\/p>\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shutterstock_55621168-600x372-400x248.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shutterstock_55621168-600x372-400x248.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shutterstock_55621168-600x372-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/shutterstock_55621168-600x372.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume that the events of the last five months are neither random nor unexpected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><em><span class=\"contents\">Let\u2019s say they\u2019re part of an ingenious plan to transform American democracy into a lockdown police state controlled by criminal elites and their puppet governors.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><em><span class=\"contents\">And let\u2019s say the media\u2019s role is to fan the flames of mass hysteria by sensationalizing every gory detail, every ominous prediction and every slightest uptick in the death toll in order to exert greater control over the population.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><em><span class=\"contents\">And let\u2019s say the media used their power to craft a message of terror they\u2019d repeat over and over again until finally, there was just one frightening storyline ringing-out from every soapbox and bullhorn, one group of governors from the same political party implementing the same destructive policies, and one small group of infectious disease experts \u2013all incestuously related\u2013 issuing edicts in the form of \u201cprofessional advice.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><strong><span class=\"contents\">Could such a thing happen in America?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">What\u2019s most astonishing about the Covid-19 operation is the manner in which the elected government was circumvented by public health experts (connected to a power-mad billionaire activist.) That was a stroke of genius. Most people regard the US as a fairly stable democracy and yet, the first sign of infection triggered the rapid transfer of power from the president to unelected \u201cprofessionals\u201d whose conflicts of interest are too vast to list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Equally fascinating is the fact that the lockdowns were not the brainchild of Donald Trump but the mainly Democrat governors who shrugged-off any Constitutional limits to their power and arbitrarily ordered people to stay in their homes, wear masks and avoid close physical contact with other humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">All of this was done in the name of \u201cscience\u201d and condoned under \u201cemergency powers\u201d despite the fact that mass quarantines of healthy people have no historical precedent or scientific basis. No matter, this was never about science or logic anyway, and it certainly wasn\u2019t about saving lives. It was always about power, pure, unalloyed political power. The power to push the economy into freefall destroying millions of jobs and businesses. The power to bail out Wall Street while diverting attention to a fairly-mild infection that kills roughly 1 in every 500 people. The power to create a permanent underclass willing to work for table scraps or less. And the power to fundamentally restructure human relations so that normal intimacies like handshakes, hugs or social gatherings are entirely banned. This, of course, was the most ambitious part of the project, the basic changes to human interaction that date back thousands of years, and which are now seen as an obstacle to a new order in which the individual must be isolated, desensitized and kept in a constant state of fear to be more easily controlled and manipulated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">On top of that, all of this is taking place in plain sight where anyone with even minimal critical thinking skills should be able to see what is happening, but very few do. Why is that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Fear. Fear has gripped the population and is preventing typically intelligent, perceptive people from seeing something that\u2019s right beneath their noses. Check out this clip from an article titled \u201cWhen Will the Madness End?\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">\u201cWhat\u2019s happening now is a spread of this serious medical condition to the whole population\u2026<strong>\u00a0The public is adopting a personality disorder \u2026 paranoid delusions, and irrational fear. \u2026 It can happen with anything but here we see a primal fear of disease turning into mass panic\u2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>\u2026. Once fear reaches a certain threshold, normalcy, rationality, morality, and decency fade and are replaced by shocking stupidity and cruelty.<\/strong>\u2026..We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. ..\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">\u2026This is made far worse by politics, which has only fed the beast of fear. This is the most politicized disease in history, and doing so has done nothing to help manage it and much to make it all vastly worse.\u201d (\u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/when-will-the-madness-end\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/when-will-the-madness-end\/\">When Will the Madness End?<\/a>\u201c,\u00a0<em>AIER<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">We\u2019re not saying that Covid doesn\u2019t kill people, and we\u2019re not suggesting that Covid is a bioweapon released on the public for nefarious purposes. (although that\u2019s certainly a possibility.)<strong>\u00a0What we\u2019re saying is that scheming elites and their allies in the media and politics see every crisis as an opportunity to advance their own authoritarian agenda.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In fact, the restructuring of basic democratic institutions can only take place within the confines of a major crisis. That\u2019s why the CIA, the giant corporations, the WHO and the Gates Posse gathered for meetings that anticipated an event just like the Covid outbreak. They needed a crisis of that magnitude to achieve their ultimate objective; total control. That\u2019s what they mean when they say there will be \u201cno return to normal\u201d, they mean they\u2019re replacing representative government with a new totalitarian model in which the levers of state power will be controlled by them. So while the virus outbreak might be coincidental, the management of the crisis certainly is not. This is from an article by Gary Barnett:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>\u201cWe are in the midst of an attempt by the oligarchs to eliminate the human spirit, and if this attempt is successful, the singular majesty of the human experience will have been abolished, and only a technocratic black hole of emptiness and despair will remain.<\/strong>\u00a0This is the essence of a failed society brought about by the destruction of human intellect by state education, mass propaganda, and the planned control of individuals through physical and psychological manipulation due to fear.\u201d(\u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2020\/07\/gary-d-barnett\/pandemic-madness-the-states-plan-rests-on-the-destruction-of-the-human-spirit\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2020\/07\/gary-d-barnett\/pandemic-madness-the-states-plan-rests-on-the-destruction-of-the-human-spirit\/\">Pandemic Madness: The State\u2019s Plan Rests on the Destruction of the Human Spirit<\/a>\u201c, Gary Barnett,\u00a0<em>Lew Rockwell<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Is the author exaggerating?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">I don\u2019t think so. Our species has withstood myriad epidemics in the past without ever resorting to the extremist measures we have taken during this latest outbreak. Take the state of Oregon, for example, whose Democratic governor Kate Brown just signed another executive order extending a state of emergency through Sept. 4. The move comes months after the peak in deaths was reached in mid-April. As of Tuesday, Oregon\u2019s death toll is a meager 240 nearly 90% of who are over 65 with underlying health conditions. That means that Brown shut down a $226 billion per year economy, put tens of thousands of people out of work, destroyed countless small and medium-sized businesses and plunged the state deep into debt, to save roughly 24 or 25 people under 65 with no underlying health conditions. That\u2019s not the reaction of an intelligent, responsible political leader acting in the best interests of the people. That is the reaction of someone who is either criminally insane or doing someone else\u2019s bidding. So which is it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Like many of the other mainly Democrat governors, Brown also issued a \u201cmask\u201d mandate, punishable by a fine. The new executive order was neither approved by the House or by any other democratic body. It\u2019s just Brown testing the limits of her new emergency powers. Interestingly, the mask mandate comes a full three months after the state reached its peak in fatalities which means that it has less to do with controlling the infection than it does with using the virus to usurp tyrannical powers. Does that mean Brown or the other Democrat governors are closet tyrants?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Probably not. But it does suggest that the people who fund Brown\u2019s campaigns and pull her strings want to see how far they can push things before the public fights back. Here\u2019s a comment by Carlo Caduff in the Medical Anthropology Quarterly that helps to put these developments into perspective:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>\u201cAcross the world, the pandemic unleashed authoritarian longings in democratic societies allowing governments to seize the opportunity, create states of exception and push political agendas.<\/strong>\u00a0Commentators have presented the pandemic as a chance for the West to learn authoritarianism from the East. This pandemic risks teaching people to love power and call for its meticulous application.\u201d (<a title=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/42829792\/What_Went_Wrong_Corona_and_the_World_after_the_Full_Stop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/42829792\/What_Went_Wrong_Corona_and_the_World_after_the_Full_Stop\">\u201cWhat Went Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop\u201c<\/a>\u00a0<em>Academia.edu<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Once again, we are not denying that Covid kills people. All we\u2019re saying is that powerful elites are using crisis management to advance their own narrow political agenda.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_17\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>It should be no surprise that states governed by Democrats are doing considerably worse than those run by Republicans. Watching the eagerness with which the Dems impose their economy-crushing measures, one can only wonder how the states will ever dig out of the current mess and regain solvency. Of course, maybe that\u2019s the goal, to generate so much red ink that essential social services will have to be slashed, the poor will be left to starve, and the big money guys will buy-up public assets for pennies on the dollar. Indeed, that must be the plan, \u201cshock therapy for the proles while the Democrat governors act as a battering ram to open the state to the plunder and looting of their Wall Street crony friends and others in the parasite class. Here\u2019s how Israel Shamir summed it up in a recent article at the\u00a0<em>Unz Review<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_18\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>\u201cThere are people who think we have it too good. They think we did nothing to deserve our high civilization. They think we shouldn\u2019t be able to afford food, the roof above our heads and other goodies. This is the view of some very wealthy people.<\/strong>\u00a0They are annoyed at seeing Tom, Dick and Harry going to Acapulco and eating in a restaurant, instead of being at their beck and call. They want to lower our income and raise the cost of living. They are willing to fund anyone who calls for more austerity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_19\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Now they support lockdowns, claiming that it is the best way to fight disease. Yesterday they were calling on us to shut down industry in order to save the climate. Today these same people are still trying to reduce us to poverty, this time for the sake of Covid\u201d (<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/ishamir\/unmasking-freedom\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/ishamir\/unmasking-freedom\/\">\u201cUnmasking Freedom,<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Unz review<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_20\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Shamir is right of course, the justifications are forever changing while the ultimate goal remains the same, wreak havoc the economy, divide the people into warring camps, and clear the way for the new streamlined system of authoritarian government, the glorious NWO. And the speed at which we are moving towards this new order is truly breathtaking. Take a look at this sampling of articles I\u2019ve compiled which illustrates the catastrophic damage that is being done to the economy but swept under the rug by the media. In short, Covid is the diversion that keeps the American people from realizing that the system that keeps them employed, pays the mortgage and puts food on the table is being decimated by voracious oligarchs who want to start fresh. Check out these articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2020\/05\/15\/some-42-of-jobs-lost-in-pandemic-are-gone-for-good\/#2cf1348650ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kenrapoza\/2020\/05\/15\/some-42-of-jobs-lost-in-pandemic-are-gone-for-good\/#2cf1348650ab\">Some 42% Of Jobs Lost In Pandemic Are Gone For Good<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/finanz.dk\/us-consumer-credit-crashes-as-americans-repay-a-record-amount-of-credit-card-debt\/\" href=\"https:\/\/finanz.dk\/us-consumer-credit-crashes-as-americans-repay-a-record-amount-of-credit-card-debt\/\">US Consumer Credit Crashes As Americans Repay A Record Amount Of Credit Card Debt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/18\/business\/corporate-bankruptcy-coronavirus.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/18\/business\/corporate-bankruptcy-coronavirus.html\">A Tidal Wave of Bankruptcies is Coming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/tragic-record-first-time-ever-more-half-us-population-not-working\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/tragic-record-first-time-ever-more-half-us-population-not-working\">\u201cMore Than Half Of The US Population Is Not Working\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-05-06\/majority-of-u-s-small-businesses-expect-to-close-survey-says\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-05-06\/majority-of-u-s-small-businesses-expect-to-close-survey-says\">52% Of Small Businesses Expect To Be Out Of Business Within Six Months<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/53-of-restaurants-closed-amid-coronavirus-have-shuttered-permanently-yelp\/581024\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/53-of-restaurants-closed-amid-coronavirus-have-shuttered-permanently-yelp\/581024\/\">\u201c53% Of Restaurants Closed Amid Coronavirus Have Shuttered Permanently\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/tsunami-evictions-could-make-28-million-americans-homeless-summer-alone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/tsunami-evictions-could-make-28-million-americans-homeless-summer-alone\">Tsunami\u201d Of Evictions Could Make 28 Million Americans Homeless This Summer Alone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0235654\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0235654\">Hurtling towards Depression\u2013Based on information as of May 2020, we show that global consumption losses amount to 3.8$tr, triggering significant job (147 million full-time equivalent) and income (2.1$tr) losses.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/poll-80-percent-voters-say-things-are-out-control-u-n1226276\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/poll-80-percent-voters-say-things-are-out-control-u-n1226276\">Eighty percent feel country is spiraling out of control, according to Wall Street Journal\/NBC poll<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"p_1_21\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Anyway, you get the picture, the situation is dire. But as severe as the economic carnage may be, the psychic damage is that much worse. Many readers probably already know that suicides, divorces, child abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse and domestic violence have all risen sharply in the last 5 months. The impact of the lockdowns on people suffering from chronic depression or other mental health conditions has also increased dramatically. As Doctor Waqar Rashid opines in an article at\u00a0<em>The Spectator<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_22\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">\u201cMany people are\u2026 still terrified.,\u2026 afraid of venturing back into the outside world\u2026. Masks are everywhere, and are compulsory on public transport. The result is a reminder that this \u2018new normal\u2019 is utterly unlike what we are used to.\u00a0<strong>Even to those who don\u2019t suffer from mental health problems it\u2019s a depressing and dispiriting sight. And I fear this ongoing state of stress and anxiety is doing profound damage to people\u2019s psychological wellbeing.<\/strong>..<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_23\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It was widely acknowledged before the pandemic struck that mental health problems were not only increasing in number but also being seen more frequently in younger people. As a neurologist, the people I see are especially at risk from suffering from mental health problems. It\u2019s a sad fact that in my line of work, we can cure very little. But we can try to control and mitigate the illnesses we seek to treat. Much of this relies on the patient remaining hopeful and optimistic about their prospects. But now, surrounded as we are by this \u2018invisible enemy\u2019, all too often hope has been substituted for fear, even terror.\u201d (<a title=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/what-s-the-true-cost-of-lockdown-\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/what-s-the-true-cost-of-lockdown-\">\u201cWhat\u2019s the true cost of lockdown?\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Spectator<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_24\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Covid-19; Phase 1 of the \u201cPermanent Crisis\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_25\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It all boils down to this: Ruling class elites are using a public health crisis to wage a full-scale war on the American people and their system of representative government. The Democrat-CIA-Media Axis has been instrumental in prosecuting the conflict, as they were in the Russiagate fiasco. These are the shock troops who execute the battleplan of economic strangulation, covert skulduggery, and relentless disinformation. By the time the American people figure out what\u2019s going on, the political landscape will have changed completely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-19-phase-1-permanent-crisis\/5718727\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/covid-19-phase-1-permanent-crisis\/5718727<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19: Phase 1 of the \u201cPermanent Crisis\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}