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FILE PHOTO: Employees reacts as Jay Heller, head of capital markets & initial public offering (IPO) execution of Nasdaq Inc, center, opens trading on Zoom Video Communications Inc. during the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite on April 18, 2019 in New York City \u00a9 Getty Images \/ Kena Betancur<\/p><\/div> Who benefits from lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? Look no further than the emerging global oligarchy.<\/p>\n In October 2019, a pandemic simulation exercise called\u00a0Event 201<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation \u2013 concluded that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up killing at least 65 million people worldwide within 18 months of an outbreak.<\/p>\n When Covid-19 coincidentally emerged from Wuhan two months later, scientists were rushing to generate similar alarmist forecasts using a variety of questionable scientific models. Researchers from the Imperial College London, for instance,\u00a0approximated<\/a>\u00a0death tolls of 500,000 in the UK and two million in the US by October this year.<\/p>\n While scientific models are admittedly fallible, one would nonetheless be hard-pressed to justify the endless string of contradictions, discrepancies and willful amnesia in the global pandemic narrative. Was it the science of mass-mediated hysteria? There are many troubling questions yet unanswered.<\/p>\n Perhaps what we are really dealing with is a case of mass\u00a0\u201ccoronapsychosis<\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as Belarus\u2019 President Alexander Lukashenko aptly called it. Who benefits from global lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? The following four\u00a0\u201cgreat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0undercurrents may provide a clue.<\/p>\n As this author has warned for more than a decade, the world is staring at a confluence of risk overloads, socioeconomic meltdowns and a Second Great Depression. For the ruling classes, Covid-19 is fortuitously deflecting public attention away from the disastrous consequences of decades of economic mismanagement and wealth fractionation. The consolidation of Big Tech with Big Media has created an Orwellian world where collective hysteria is shifting loci from bogeymen like Russia to those who disagree with the pandemic narrative.<\/p>\n We have entered a\u00a0\u201cnew normal\u201d<\/em>\u00a0where Pyongyang, North Korea affords more ambulatory freedom than\u00a0Melbourne<\/a>, Australia. While rioting and mass demonstrations by assorted radicals are given a free pass \u2013 even encouraged by leaders in the West \u2013 Facebook posts questioning lockdowns are deemed subversive. This is a world where Australian Blueshirts beat up\u00a0women<\/a>, manhandle a\u00a0pregnant woman<\/a>\u00a0in her own home and perform wolf pack policing on an\u00a0elderly lady<\/a>\u00a0in a park. Yet, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria remains unfazed by the unflattering moniker of\u00a0Kim Jong Dan<\/a>.<\/p>\n The corona-totalitarianism is unsurprisingly most pronounced in the Anglosphere and its dependencies. After all, these nations are staring at socioeconomic bankruptcies of unprecedented proportions vis-a-vis their counterparts. Even their own governments are being systematically undermined from within. The US Department of Homeland Security, created in the aftermath of 9\/11 to combat terrorism, is now providing\u00a0$10 million<\/a>\u00a0in grants to organizations which supposedly combat\u00a0\u201cfar-right extremism and white supremacy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This will further radicalize leftist malcontents who are razing down US cities and its economies in the name of social justice. There is however a curious rationale behind this inane policy as the following section illustrates.<\/p>\n While the circus continues, the bread is thinning out, except for the\u00a0top 0.001%<\/a>.\u00a0 Instead of\u00a0bankruptcy<\/a>, as recent trends indicated, Silicon Valley and affiliated monopolies are notching up record profits along with record social media censorships. US billionaires raked in\u00a0$434 billion<\/a>\u00a0in the first two months of the lockdown alone. The more the lockdowns, the more the wealth accrued to the techno-elite. As tens of millions of individuals and small businesses face bankruptcy by Christmas, the remote work revolution is gifting multibillion dollar jackpots to the likes of Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Azure (Microsoft) and AWS (Amazon) cloud ecosystems, among others, have expanded by 50 percent since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n In the face of such runaway wealth fractionation, panoptic contact tracing tools from Big Tech are increasingly employed to pacify restive populations. And of course, to prevent a second, third or nth wave of Covid-19 for our collective good!<\/p>\n In the meantime, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Tech and other monopolies are getting lavish central bank\u00a0bailouts<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0\u201cstimulus packages\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to gobble up\u00a0struggling<\/a>\u00a0smaller enterprises. Covid-19 is a gift that never stops giving to a select few. But how will the techno-oligarchy maintain a degree of social credibility and control in an impoverished and tumultuous world?<\/p>\n Oligarchic philanthropy will be a dominant feature of this VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) decade.<\/p>\n According to a recent\u00a0Guardian<\/a>\u00a0report, philanthropic foundations have multiplied exponentially in the past two decades, controlling a war chest worth more than $1.5 trillion. That is sufficient to bankroll a horde of experts, NGOs, industry lobbies,\u00a0media<\/a>\u00a0and fact-checkers worldwide. Large sums can also be distributed rapidly to undermine governments.<\/p>\n The laws governing scientific empiricism are no longer static and immutable; they must dance in tandem with the funding. Those who scream fake news are usually its foremost peddlers. This is yet another\u00a0\u201cnew normal\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which had predated Covid-19 by years.<\/p>\n The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a prime example of how oligarchic philanthropy works. Since 2000, it has donated more than $45 billion to\u00a0\u201ccharitable causes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and a chunk of this is designed to control the\u00a0global media<\/a>\u00a0narrative. As for the BMGF\u2019s alleged success in eradicating polio, officials now fear that a dangerous new strain could soon\u00a0\u201cjump continents<\/a>.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0After spending $16 billion over 30 years to eradicate polio, international health bodies \u2013 which work closely with BMGF \u2013 have\u00a0\u201caccidentally\u201d<\/em>\u00a0reintroduced the disease to Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.<\/p>\n Poverty, hunger and desperation will spawn a tangible degree of public gratitude despite\u00a0elite<\/a>\u00a0philanthropy\u2019s entrenched bias towards elite institutions and causes. By the Guardian\u2019s own admission,\u00a0\u201cBritish millionaires gave \u00a31.04bn to the arts, and just \u00a3222m to alleviating poverty\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the 10-year period to 2017. Contrast this with the annual $10 billion earmarked by the philanthropic pool for\u00a0\u201cideological persuasion in the US alone.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The rabble is worth their weight only for the potential havoc they can wreak.<\/p>\n There is enough money floating around to reduce our cities into bedlams of anarchy as seen in the United States today. The crumbs left over can be delegated to threadbare charities. One only needs to reflect on soup kitchens in the post-1929 Weimar Republic. The most popular ones were organized by the Nazi party and funded by wealthy patrons. The march towards a new order has a familiar historical meme. The new Brownshirts are those who terrorise citizens for not wearing masks, for not being locked down in their pens, and for simply supporting a political candidate of choice.<\/p>\n
\nBy\u00a0Dr. Mathew Maavak<\/strong>, a Malaysian expert on risk foresight and governance.<\/em>
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