https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/belarusian-president-claims-imf-world-bank-offered-him-a-bribe-to-impose-covid-restrictions/


Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said last month via Belarusian Telegraph Agency, BelTA., that World Bank and IMF offered him a bribe of $940 million USD in the form of “Covid Relief Aid.” In exchange for $940 million USD, the World Bank and IMF demanded that the President of Belarus:


• imposed “extreme lockdown on his people”

• force them to wear face masks

• impose very strict curfews

• impose a police state

• crash the economy


Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko REFUSED the offer and stated that he could not accept such an offer and would put his people above the needs of the IMF and World Bank. This is NOT a conspiracy. You may research this yourself. He actually said this!


Now IMF and World Bank are bailing out failing airlines with billions of dollars, and in exchange, they are FORCING airline CEOs to implement VERY STRICT POLICIES such as FORCED face masks covers on EVERYONE, including SMALL CHILDREN, whose health will suffer as a result of these policies.


And if it is true for Belarus, then it is true for the rest of the world! The IMF and World Bank want to crash every major economy with the intent of buying over every nation’s infrastructure at cents on the dollar!

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In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who's Emperor

September 7, 2020


Pretense and PR are not reality, and believing the Old Normal will magically be restored with sacrifice-free Federal Reserve printing is not an actual strategy.



Quick history quiz: who was the second-to-the-last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire? How about the third-to-the-last? Answers: Glycerius, 473-74 A.D. and Julius Nepos, 474-475 A.D. The last emperor was the grandly titled Romulus Augustus, who reigned less than a year until the whole shebang disintegrated in 476 A.D.


You get the point: when the momentum of collapse crosses the Event Horizon, it no longer matters who claims the title of Head Snake; the collapse is beyond the control of any individual or agency.


So when I hear the most important election in history, last chance for democracy, etc. I hear blah-blah-blah because we're following the footsteps of Rome's collapse to a T. As I explained in How Nations Collapse: Disunity (8/20/20), profound disunity between classes and within power elites is the key driver of collapse, as all the energy required to make the perilous, radical changes needed to save the system are squandered on in-fighting and jockeying for control of the dwindling centralized power.


The final generation of Romans also preferred pretense to reality. The last Roman elites found solace in Rome's past glories, as if it was inevitable that something or other would magically restore Rome's power and stability without any sacrifices being made by the elites or the public.


Today we hear the shrill, keening cries for the pretense of unity: since actual unity has been lost, then public-relations pretense is the best the elites can manage.


just as in the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, the elites got overly greedy and complacent--a fatal combination. America's billionaire class and the New Nobility just below the billionaires have scooped most of the economy's gains since 2008, and paid either zero or low taxes. (Just ask Mr. Gates how to make your fortune tax-free via philanthro-capitalist foundations that are simply other avenues for achieving the same dominance.)


Once you have a Big Tech monopoly, the political influence to protect your monopoly, and the Federal Reserve juicing stocks, junk bonds, etc., then your greed has no limit. Just as in Rome's waning days, the super-wealthy evade taxes and indeed, any sacrifice. Whatever wealth remains is sluiced into the coffers of the super-wealthy while the citizenry pay the price via the destruction of social mobility, higher taxes and a fast-decaying real economy.


The power elites are complacent, as they believe manipulating top-heavy bureaucracies and captured central bankers is the only skillset needed. Creating value or real-world goods and services? Why bother when the real money is made in corruption, fraud and legalized looting?


America squandered its last chance to make the necessary sacrifices and radical systemic changes in the 2008 Global Financial Meltdown. The power elites bailed themselves out at the cost of systemic stability, and now the dominoes are finally falling.


Human Wetware 1.0 hasn't changed since 473 A.D. and so our elites are filled with the same complacent hubris as the last batch of greedy, entitled, overly impressed with their wealth and power elites of Rome.


The Fed will continue to bail out all those whose self-serving greed undermined the republic, and print trillions to distribute bread and circuses to placate the milling mob, thereby destroying the value of the bread and the last pretenses of a "market economy."


Rather than face the need for a radical from-the-ground-up reformation of the political-economic system, our elites have focused on increasing their already destabilizing wealth and power and taking down their elite rivals.


As a result, there is no way to stop the dominoes from falling. Pretense and PR are not reality, and believing the Old Normal will magically be restored with sacrifice-free Federal Reserve printing is not an actual strategy

A sort of sector rotation of layoffs, and it’s not a good sign, even as millions of lower-wage workers are being hired back.

By Wolf Richter. This is the transcript of my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT. You can listen to it on YouTube or download it at Apple Podcasts and others.

At first the job cuts hit lower-level employees at retailers, hotels, restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, and the like. At retailers alone, over one million people got sacked in April. And then retailers started trimming their corporate jobs. Then airlines, constrained by the bailout package they took under the CARES Act, offered voluntary buyouts and early retirements.


Innumerable companies have quietly laid off workers. Many companies have shut down. And all the suppliers to the industries that were hardest hit were also hit, as the problems spiraled up the supply chains.



By July, after many of these businesses – those that were still around – had already re-opened, there were over 32 million people collecting unemployment insurance.


Early on in the Pandemic, big tech companies said that they would not lay off people for now. But they slowed their hiring or stopped hiring.



So restaurants have been reopening and they’ve hired back some of their staff, though many remain closed, and a portion may never reopen in their prior form. And retailers have reopened some of their stores and rehired staff, but many stores were permanently shuttered. Gyms and movie theaters are trying to reopen under immense difficulties, as are barbers, hair salons, nail salons, and the like.


While millions of these lower-paid employees are now being brought back – and we see that happening everywhere – a whole new wave of layoffs has been building momentum. And now it’s well-paid jobs with decent benefits at big companies, including tech companies, that are being shed. We got a dose of those big-company layoffs over the past few days.



Salesforce confirmed rumors that it was laying off 1,000 employees later this year. Back at the end of March, it had said that it wouldn’t do any layoffs for 90 days. Those 90 days expired about two months ago, and so now, it’s time to cut costs and shed employees.


Not so ironically, the news came the day after Salesforce beat earnings expectations for the quarter, and its shares skyrocketed 26% in just one day. Any layoff news is always welcome on Wall Street – the bigger the better – as a sign of cost cutting and improvements in earnings per share.


On Friday, Coca-Cola Company, which had been hit by a 28%-plunge in second quarter revenues, announced that it would offer voluntary buyouts to about 4,000 employees with some seniority in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and that it would lay off other employees. It also said that it would trim and reorganize its corporate structure by replacing 17 existing business units with just 9 new business units.




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Logistics giant and freight broker C.H. Robinson added a new spin to the theme of not-bringing-back furloughed workers: In April it had said it would temporarily furlough 7% of its workforce or about 1,000 people. But now it turns out that it won’t bring back hundreds of them because their jobs had been automated during their absence. And those jobs disappeared permanently, as the company told investors recently, and they would become, as it said “permanent cost savings from our investments in tech.”



Wells Fargo, which has slashed its dividend by 80%, is now trying to cut costs to please its shareholders. Early on in the Pandemic, the bank, like so many other big companies, had announced that it would put a moratorium on job cuts. It has now ended that moratorium.


A spokesperson, in confirming the rumors, told Bloomberg News that starting in early August, the bank “resumed regular job displacement activity.” They didn’t give numbers. But this may ultimately lead to tens of thousands of jobs getting cut over the next many months, sources said. In the statement, the bank told Bloomberg that it expects to reduce the size of the workforce through “attrition, the elimination of open roles, and job displacements.”



There is still a backlog of employees to be cut. Those job cuts were planned before the Pandemic, but then put on hold during the Pandemic. Then there are the additional reductions, the new ones, that include thinning management ranks. The ultimate scope of those cuts has not been decided yet, according to sources.


CEO Charlie Scharf told analysts during the earnings call in July, that “It’s like an onion: The more we do, the clearer the next round will become.” And so I guess these rounds are becoming clearer.


To the theme of temporary furloughs turning into permanent layoffs: On Friday, MGM Resorts, which has gotten hit by the collapse in tourism and the shutdown of casinos and other venues, and whose revenues in the second quarter plunged by 91%, said that it would lay off 18,000 workers in the US who’d been temporarily furloughed in March. That’s over a quarter of its workforce in the US.


Casinos in Nevada were allowed to reopen in early June, but gambling revenues in Las Vegas were still down nearly 40% in July compared to July last year. There are also social distancing requirements and capacity restrictions that make casino operations tougher to pull off. And MGM still hasn’t opened all its casinos.


In early August, NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast, started cutting up to 10% of its workforce across its broadcast and cable-television divisions, movie studios, and theme parks.


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AT&T, which owns the Warner Brothers studio and cable channels HBO, CNN and TBS, has also started slashing its workforce.


Stanley Black & Decker announced at the end of July that it would lay off 1,000 people and make those layoffs permanent, while reversing the furloughs of 9,000 people and bring those people back. The company is benefiting from the home-improvement do-it-yourself craze that has started during the Pandemic. While part of the company’s business was down, the retail end of it, meaning sales in stores, jumped by 50%. And still, 1,000 permanent layoffs.


Also in July, LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, announced it would lay off about 1,000 employees, as its business has gotten hit by the slowdown in hiring during the pandemic.


In terms of the airlines in the US, they already shed in one way or another many tens of thousands of workers between March and July. And now they’re busy announcing more staff shedding, either through layoffs or some sort of voluntary buyout or early retirement.


For them, October 1 is the big day when they’re free under the bailout package to lay off people involuntarily. Between American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta, the additional cuts announced so far could amount to more than 55,000 employees.


The difficulties of the airlines business are translating into layoffs at a host of other industries, including manufacturers of aircraft, engines, and components.


Boeing said at the end of July that it is preparing a second round of buyouts this year. The 10% cut of its workforce unveiled in April wasn’t enough, amid a flood of cancellations of its key product, the misbegotten 737 MAX.


Raytheon said at the end of July that it cut 8,000 people in its commercial aviation division, which makes jet engines and airliner systems. General Electric had already announced in May that its aviation unit would cut 13,000 jobs.


Oil-and-gas drillers and oil-field services providers have been cutting jobs in massive numbers, amid a surge of bankruptcy filings, as both demand and prices collapsed. A month ago, Schlumberger, the giant US oil-field services provider, threw another 21,000 job cuts on top of that pile.


So this is now a mix of new job cuts, and temporary furloughs becoming permanent layoffs. Goldman Sachs estimated that nearly a quarter of US workers that were temporarily furloughed probably won’t be called back. That’s millions of people.


Many of these big-company layoff announcements take time to become actual layoffs. An announcement in August may lead to actual layoffs weeks or months later. But other layoffs, especially by smaller companies, come to light when they’re already happening, or they’re just happening quietly.


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Outplacement giant Randstad RiseSmart released a survey a few days ago of human resource executives in 20 industries that found that nearly half of US employers who have already furloughed or laid off staff as a result of the Pandemic are considering making additional cuts over the next 12 months.


So now, this is no longer a knee-jerk reaction to a sudden Pandemic, lockdowns, and a collapse in demand. Now it’s methodical, systematic, carefully planned, and calculated. Now companies are looking at data and projections, and they’re going through their workforce with a fine-toothed comb to trim jobs and costs.


And we’re seeing this in the numbers. Over the past four weeks, nearly 7 million people filed initial unemployment claims under state and federal unemployment insurance programs.


This means that over the past four weeks, nearly 7 million people, who were eligible for state or federal unemployment insurance, got newly laid off. That’s a huge and catastrophic number.


And it includes the kind of layoffs I mentioned – well-paid jobs at big companies, in carefully orchestrated and calculated moves, based on projections where their business is heading over the next few years. These companies don’t permanently lay off that number of people just to get over a three-month dry spell. There are now some long-term thinking and projections involved here.


Over the same four-week period, the total number of people on unemployment insurance dropped by 4 million, from 31 million to 27 million. This means that four million more people got their jobs back than were newly laid off.


But many of those people who got their jobs back are working in retail and restaurants and in the lodging industry, in the lower-paid end of the services sector. And at the same time, big manufacturers, tech companies, airlines, companies in the entertainment business, and the like are now slashing jobs in large numbers.


It’s sort of a sector rotation of layoffs, with layoffs rotating into industries with higher pay and decent benefits, hitting many of the people that had been spared in the early months of the Pandemic. And this is another bad twist the Pandemic economy is serving up.


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Fighting and Winning against "Big Everything"

September 2, 2020


So what can we do about all this when our politics, regulation and policies are all captured? We go directly to the source of value, which is demand.



Editor's note: This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., who has contributed essays to Of Two Minds since 2009.


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"The assumption I see everywhere in the alt financial media is the elite will do fine because they own the gold, land, factories, apartment complexes, etc. All true. However the Roman Elites owned all this too, but that didn't save them from systemic collapse. They weren't still fabulously rich once the Imperial structure collapsed." Charles Hugh Smith, August 23, 2020 email to zeus@citizenzeus.com


The gravy train for a pampered and protected elite won't last forever. It never does. But before these elites fall, just like those of Ancient Rome, there must be a combination of internal broken trust, opting out of the system, and independent, decisive rebellion by a critical mass of citizens as well as significant external pressures.


These citizens would have to start an exodus, aided by exterior forces, to decouple from the values, ethics, and imagination of the ruling elite which whispers, "You too, could be one of us." Just like the bread and circuses of old Rome so have the entertainment spectacles and endless social media diversions kept our eyes off economic manipulation and abuse. The breakdown of the Ancient Roman spectacle was aided by the invasion by Visigoths from the North, who sacked Rome and brought the empire to its knees. It looks like American imperial delusions are beginning to be broken by Covid-19.


We see both internal and external forces interacting with the Covid-19 crisis and the eye-opening shift it has created in perspectives around the desirability of urban living, consuming, and tolerating unsatisfying work. Once the goodies have been removed (TV sports, nights at the bar, etc.) it is remarkable how much we realize we have been evicted from well-being by allowing our senses to be occupied rather than by inhabiting of our intelligence.


The external pressures also brought by Covid-19 have compelled a response that further reveals the fragility and exploitation (unequal bailouts, rigged medical system, no social safety net) rife in our system.


It is interesting that March 2020, during the Covid-19 shutdown, was the first March without a school shooting in nearly two decades not to mention 30% reduced pollution levels and a host of other neglected benefits of stopping or slowing consumption and "growth" and pursuing healthy, broadly popular policies!


On a whole host of policies, 80-90+% of Americans (and the entire world, for that matter) agree on basic issues--environmental protection, sensible background checks for gun ownership, working class protections, help for the middle and working class, greater taxes for the rentier and leisure classes, (and on and on) yet without a single policy change in sight.


On the other hand, corporations are given a deference quite reminiscent of Old Rome. Virginia, a state now controlled by supposedly "liberal" (read neo-liberal corporatist) Democrats, has the worst worker rights record in the United States. Its neo-liberal governor, Ralph Northam, is proposing to delay by four months even modest increase in wages and tepid boosts to collective bargaining, already passed into law and scheduled for January 2021.


In an Orwellian statement, Northam's office claimed, "This will ensure workers get the support they need while allowing greater economic certainty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic." What!? The very people most in need of aid and a raise, the most affected, are once again the last in line, just as with the recent 2.2 trillion dollar bailout? This a particular form of disaster capitalism, what I call extortion capitalism aided and abetted by both major parties.


So what can we do about all this when our politics, regulation and policies are all captured by those who are determined to exploit us and extract ever higher rents from our labor, our talents, and our assets? We go directly to the source of value, which is demand. The organic food movement and the Covid-19 virus are showing us how.


When organic foods spread from a fringe subculture in the early 1970s to a conscious and viable desire for suburban soccer moms in the 2000s, big corporations had to respond or lose out. They spooned us cheap, high-fructose-corn-syrup garbage for decades that decimated our health and clouded our minds.


We rebelled successfully by moving to organic foods and conscious eating. They had to follow. We did not necessarily need any regulation or government mandate to change behavior. They tried to buy off regulation by making pesticide / sugar-laden food "natural", but we did not buy it, and citizen-activist groups successfully kept the label "organic" from being watered down. Now, these corporations are trying to buy up family-owned organic businesses.


Currently Covid-19 is showing us how we can really call the shots with Big Oil and, perhaps, make them invest more in alternative energy. Oil futures plunged into the negative range for the first time in history during the pandemic (costing more to store than sell). If we take the lesson, and insist on working from home (and businesses find that productivity actually improves, as research shows), and demand stays depressed, Big Oil will have to adjust, just as Big Ag had to adjust with organic foods.


The present centralized capital economies (focused in cities) were constructed to do one thing: concentrate as much money and power in as few hands as possible. The opposite movement is needed, radical decentralization, regionalization, and localization of economy (as Charles Smith has written about extensively in his books and blogs).


Here is a summary starter list of ways to take on the big corporations (Big Everything) directly and accelerate the move toward decentralization:


Taking on Big Ag: By ramping up urban gardening, especially in inner city "food deserts," patronizing farmers markets, and supporting organic farm-to-table, citizen consumers and take a big chunk out of the consolidation and monopolization created by corporate farms.


Taking on Big Oil: By radically reducing consumption, curtailing driving, downsizing houses, increasing energy efficiency, going solar (even though that has an environmental cost as well), and getting rid of plastics (8-10% of total oil output is used just for plastics), will put a significant ding in the demand for oil, and the power of oil producers. How much money would be saved and oil would be refused if we simply used bikes to get around to do our local shopping?


Taking on Big Pharma: Almost all of Big Pharma's profits (in collaboration with Big Ag's junk food agenda) come from pains, depressions, and chronic breakdowns of health created by entirely preventable lifestyle choices. By radically reducing consumption, unnecessary work, eating well, and using the extra time to get off the corporate hamster wheel and actually go for regular walks with our families, the physical, mental, and emotional health increase will put a serious dent into Big Pharma profits.


Taking on Big Rent and Housing: Housing prices have become completely extortionist. Lower-wage earners are paying upwards of 60-70% of income for rent and even "middle class" Millennials are paying 45%. Why not form cooperative communities, co-housing, or moving in with families as an act of liberation and rebellion? Again, demand, demand, demand. The rentier class cannot support extravagant rates if few people are wanting what they are selling.


Taking on Big Finance and Big Credit: Why do we need to get ripped off, getting absolutely zero interest rates on our savings, when we can peer-lend to each other and set up systems where both lender and borrower prosper from productive, healthy pursuits while cutting out the middleman? New Rule: You must add real value to an exchange to be valuable. To this end local currency becomes indispensable, a voluntary, community- based system of exchange that cuts out credit card fees and other premiums ginned up by predatory finance.


Taking on Big Government and Big Taxes: Why is it that the most profitable companies in the world, like Amazon, are not only paying 0% in income taxes, but getting tax rebates and subsidies to the tune of billions of dollars? Why is it that a successful, self-owned small business has the effective tax rate of 50% in California? Enough!


By bartering or gifting (which is completely legal up to 15,000 dollars per person in 2020), we can all lower our overheads and send less to the military industrial complex that dominates government spending.


By pooling our resources informally for necessities, like food, shelter, and clothing, we can live a lot better on a lot less, lowering our formal incomes and paying less to bureaucratic, technocratic, and militaristic state mechanisms.


Taking on Big Business: Support local businesses, even if they are a little more expensive. Even on Amazon (though Amazon does get a percentage), there are family-run businesses, who do great work and who don't cost much more than foreign-made junk products. I ordered an organic bamboo, expandable silverware tray from Royal Craft Wood, a family run, American enterprise, owned by a single father and military vet. I now realize they ship free from their own site, and I will go directly there from now on.


Perhaps we can develop a nationwide directory, much like the Green Directory for small to medium, family-run businesses. To intensify the effect, why not divest from corporate stocks of all stripes, except those that run their companies in a conscious and community friendly way? Why not lobby your pension funds to do likewise?


Taking on Big Med and Big Insurance: It's no secret that there is no profit in health and well-being for Big MedInsur. Sickcare is the name of the game. Scare the wits out of people, and bankrupt them with expensive procedures (gastric bypass) and drugs (for Diabetes 2, etc.) that could have been avoided entirely with exercise, good food, and decent preventive support in community health cooperatives. Not only would a single-payer Medicare for All save about 500 billion dollars a year (and about 65,000 lives), but easily a trillion dollars a year could be saved with a healthy populace (not to mention being far more microbe-resistant, and lower-risk when it comes to communicable diseases).


I could take on many more in the "Big Everything" category (i.e. Big Sports and Entertainment vs. local sports and artistic participation), and the boondoggle called Big Education (largely expensive and useless factory-style "higher" education vs. community learning and engagement) but let's leave it at the main offenders for the time being.


These are ways to collectively rebel. There are also individual ways, which I will talk about, in my next essay, Plugging into Small Everything: Wake Up and Smell the 3 C's—Community, Cash, and Coin (Coffee optional)!




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The

Infiltrated

Revolution

by Miles Mathis

First published September 1, 2020

There have been big Corona protests all over the world in the past week, including in Berlin and a

large one in London. I don't believe they were manufactured, but they were definitely infiltrated. Of

the tens of thousands who showed up, thousands were hired to blackwash the movement by holding up

purposely stupid signs or to act crazy. But more importantly the protests were infiltrated directly from

the podium, where the German and British governments cleverly installed their own “leaders” of the

movement. In London, the protest was also purposely limited by holding it in the smallish Trafalgar

square, where only a few thousand could possibly gather.

In London, these fake leaders included David Icke, Piers Corbyn, and Vernon Coleman—all three have

strong previous ties to the mainstream media and are obviously trying to control the opposition.

I have previously outed David Icke. Piers Corbyn is the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy

Corbyn, and he has previous ties to the Heartland Institute, a huge red flag. And guess what he looks

like:

They make this so easy. He might as well be wearing purple robes.

Ditto for Vernon Coleman,

who they have been pushing on Youtube to warm us up for his Covid appearances. There, he has been

careful to say everything right, to appeal to his audience, but his bio gives him away. He worked for

the Sunday People up until 2003, and has had several books promoted by major publishers and The

Sunday Times bestseller lists, despite allegedly being counter-mainstream. That doesn't happen unless

you are controlled opposition. You will never see the mainstream publishing my books or promoting

me. Just the opposite. So when we see The Economist say “he is the Lone Ranger, Robin Hood, and

the Equalizer rolled into one”, we know something is wrong. The Glasgow Evening Times has called

him a “national treasure”. The Sunday Mirror has said he is “compulsive reading”. BBC World has

called him “refreshingly sensible”. You may want to remind yourself who owns all those media

outlets.

Again, he has been promoted by The Economist, of all places. The Economist, which specializes in

horntooting for privatization and deregulation. The Economist, which is firmly in the pocket of big

pharma and big medicine. The Economist, which is majority-owned by the Agnelli family, founders of

Fiat, and famous for being big supporters of Mussolini. That is, fascism. That family and company has

been accused of corruption from the beginning, and is famous in Italy for being convicted in the 1990s

of massive fraud, bribery, and general skullduggery.

At Amazon, we learn Coleman is published by the European Medical Journal, which is now pushing

Covid. That seems strange, doesn't it? This is a guy who is most famous for saying you are most likely

to be killed by your doctor, and yet he is published by the European Medical Journal? How does that

make any sense, unless he is controlled opposition. Yes, he is right about some things, but that is how

it is done. You control the opposition by telling them a lot of things they already know and want to

hear, then spin them off. He is right about vaccines, for instance, but among his other 100 books are

titles like The Coming Apocalypse and Are you Living with a Psychopath?

He also has a book entitled The 100 Greatest Englishmen and Women. This isn't just a mainstream list,

these are his “personal heroes”. Oliver Cromwell is number 4. Churchill is number 7. William

Wilberforce is high on the list. See the other paper I published today. William Petty is at #22: Petty

was Cromwell's Jewish land surveyor, mapping out lands to be stolen in war and given to his soldiers.

Like everyone else on the list, he was a big crook. John Lilburne is #30. You really have to read his

Wiki page, if you don't know who he was. Here is just a taste:

On 18 April 1638 Lilburne was fogged with a three-thonged whip on his bare back, as he was

dragged by his hands tied to the rear of an ox cart from Fleet Prison to the pillory at Westminster.

He was then forced to stoop in the pillory where he still managed to campaign against his censors,

while distributing more unlicensed literature to the crowds.[7] He was then gagged. Finally he

was thrown in prison. He was taken back to the court and again imprisoned. During his

imprisonment in Fleet he was cruelly treated.[12] While in prison he however managed to write

and to get printed in 1638 an account of his own punishment styled The Work of the Beast and in

1639 an apology for separation from the church of England, entitled Come out of her, my people.

He distributed unlicensed literature while in the pillory? And we are supposed to believe that? And

while in prison for publishing without a license, he wrote and published two more books? Yeah, I bet

he did. You can see why he is a hero of Coleman.

Robert Peel is #40. You remember him from the cover of Sgt. Pepper's. He was Home Secretary,

secret head of Intelligence, and later Prime Minister. I doubt any real revolutionaries or Robin Hoods

have him on their heroes lists. I don't.

I hadn't meant to out Coleman coming in, but it was too easy to pass up.

But let's return to Icke. The first thing I noticed is how fat he has gotten. This is an ex-athlete, my

friends, who now looks like he has swallowed a beach ball. You will say he is getting old, but he is

only 11 years older than I am. He isn't even 70. But again, this is how the Phoenicians age. The lying

projects don't agree with them, health-wise or looks-wise.

The mainstream is using Icke and QAnon supporters to blackwash the Covid protests, so we have to

ask who invited these people? You don't have to be invited to be in the crowd, of course, but you do

have to be invited to make it on the stage to speak, or to stand behind the speakers on the stage with a

banner or mask/costume. So again, who managed all that? After the fact, it is pretty clear it was all

staged, and we should have known going in that it would be. So here is my suggestion to those who

aren't happy about it:

Don't put up with it! At the next similar big protest, make your own plans going in. Gather a few

dozen very noisy people, preferably women with high loud voices, flanked by some big guys as

muscle, and park it near the stage. Then heckle, boo, and throw (non dangerous) things at the planted

speakers. Bring your own bullhorns and drown them out. You have just as much right to speak as they

do, or actually more, since you are a real person, not a hired actor. Refuse to let these protests be

coopted and run by mainstream media whores and plants.

During Icke's speech, it was clear they had packed the crowd near the stage with their own cheering

goonsquad. So if you feel outnumbered, there are other things you can do. Like bring some crates and

a plank and set up your own stage at the opposite end of the crowd. Bring your own speakers and

bullhorns, and tell more truth than the bozos on the big stage. It shouldn't be hard. Put your most

charismatic people forward. The main stage had very little beauty, charisma, or panache, so it

shouldn't be hard to beat. Beat them at their own game. Put on a better show. Put animals and

children on your stage. Put on jugglers and acrobats, singers and poets, real doctors and scientists. All

these people were already in the crowd—there was talent wasted, as usual. The only thing lacking was

coordination. But that is what the internet is for. Use their tools against them.

The bottom line: you don't have to let them coordinate and infiltrate everything, even protests. It would

take very little work to walk around them. But you have to want to do it. You have to take control,

instead of letting them have it. And you have to be prepared to filter. No matter what you do, they will

try to infiltrate it. As soon as you start planning something, the spooks will show up, so be on the

lookout for them. Don't be afraid to finger them and tell them to take a hike. If you don't they will turn

everything you try to do into crud.

In Icke's little speech, he compares himself to Huxley and Orwell, who, like him, were able to predict

what is now happening. What he forgets to tell you is what else he and those guys have in common:

they are all agents. Icke tells the audience Covid is fake, then asks why it was faked. Does he give you

the answer I have? No. He doesn't tell you it acted as a cover for the present multi-trilliondollar/pound theft from worldwide treasuries. Instead, he keeps your eyes on the future and off the

present and recent past: it is about something they have planned, some longterm goal that is just now

coming to fruition. But it isn't. Fascism isn't a danger. It isn't something that might happen if you

don't act now. You have been living under heavy fascism all your life, and this Covid thing is just the

current hoax in a long line of similar hoaxes.

The Matrix isn't in the future. Totalitarianism isn't in the future or in some other country. It is where

we have all been living for centuries. There is no coming apocalypse, no end times, nothing worse to

fear in the future. This is it. You have been living in a tiny cage your entire life, and you have been

taught to be your own jailor. This is why you will go to a protest, and even there you will watch these

people control you, without doing anything about it. Even at a protest, you are a passive observer.

This is why Huxley and Orwell and Icke were able to “predict” what is going on now: there was never

any prediction involved. We were living in basically the same Matrix back then as we are now, so

Huxley and Orwell weren't telling you what might happen in the future. They were telling you what

was already happening in the present, but setting it in the future, as a stunt. Remember, we have been

through this whole Covid thing before: it was called the Spanish flu back then, but it was the exact

same script, down to the masks. And it was used for the same reason: cover. The Spanish flu covered

the end of WWI in 1918, preventing anyone from asking questions about that managed war. They

couldn't have people noticing how staged the whole collapse of Germany on Halloween was, with

kings abdicating for no reason and Jewish socialists magically installing themselves as leaders and so

on, so they invented this scary pandemic to keep everyone's eyes and minds occupied for over a year.

They faked and inflated numbers, assigning all deaths in that period to Spanish flu: same thing they are

doing now. By the end of that year, everyone had “moved on”. Everyone was so relieved to have

survived that pandemic, they didn't think of looking back, at WWI or anything else. And most people

will treat Covid the same way: they will be so grateful to have survived this “horrible pandemic”, they

won't think of questioning anything else that happened in 2020, including the massive thefts from the

treasuries, the fake rioting, the fake BLM events, or anything else. They will move on as fast as

possible, no questions asked.

As a controller of the opposition, Icke does tell a lot of truth. He has to, because his audience already

knows some things. He has to mirror those things back to them to gain their ears. He is professional

speaker: he has been yakking all his life, so he knows how to read an audience. What he read in

London was this: these people in the audience are only half-woke, if that. They know Covid is fake,

but they have no clue as to the bigger or longer picture. And most of them don't want to know. They

have no stomach for a revolution, for if they did they would be rushing the stage and throwing Icke and

the rest of those people into garbage cans. These crowds were large, but they weren't scary large.

More people show up for rock concerts, which means what these people want most is normalcy. They

just want the government to quit doing what it is currently doing, in a very limited sense. But Icke read

no threat of an actual uprising. If he had, the police would have come in and shut the whole thing

down.

For that reason, Icke knew very few in the audience were there for a further education. They weren't

there to learn anything. A small percentage might have welcomed someone like me to tell them some

things they didn't already know, but the majority would have shown me the exit in short order. So Icke

knew all he had to do is waddle around for a few minutes repeating what had already been said a

thousand times, while pretending to be a revolutionary. He knew he could count on his comrades in the

media to later either spin him hard positive or hard negative, as the case may be, so all he had to do is

show up and avoid falling down.

All he had to do is flatter the audience by quoting Shelley, telling him they were many and their leaders

were few. As if it was a contest of numbers. All they had to do was show up with a sign and be

counted. That is what a revolution now consists of, apparently. Except that the few know otherwise.

The few have hired many, and they are willing to work everyday maintaining their hegemony. They

are willing to lie and cheat and steal all the livelong day, year after year and decade after decade. If

they suffer a small reversal, they keep coming back, like cockroaches. They never quit.

The few plan ahead: probably between 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 in that London crowd was planted by British

Intelligence, to monitor the event and control it. So what are you, the many, willing to do? The few

are organized. Are you? The few are relentless. Are you? The few are entrenched in all the positions

of power all over the world. Yes, you could dislodge them, but you won't do it by holding up signs or

standing around listening to David Icke speak. These people are serious, and they have you buried

deep. So you had better buy a large shovel, locate the direction up, and be prepared for a long dig.

While you are digging, you can continue to wake up. It may take a while, because I think you will find

you are far from woke. Revolution is possible, but not until the awakening progresses far beyond

where it already is. The level of wokeness currently on display is not enough to worry anyone, which

is exactly what the speakers in London and Berlin counted on. It is what the Governors in the US

counted on, knowing they could bluff most people into doing what they were told without a single law

being passed. And it is what Bill Gates and the other managers of this entire project expected to find

when they ran this latest test. There had been some flickers in the Matrix recently, and they needed to

see how deep those flickers ran.

Unfortunately, their test was only able to measure how wide those flickers ran, not how deep. I can tell

you what they think they have seen. They have seen that the flickers are far wider and more numerous

than in the 1950s, but still not very wide and not very numerous. Most people are still policing

themselves admirably. But I remind them that fissures in a rock are not measured that way. It isn't the

number of fissures or the width of the fissures that matters. It is the depth of the main fissure. One

deep fissure can crack the entire rock in half, at which point it simply falls to the side from its own INERTIA.