THE CRISIS OF THE LEFT: PART 3

THE SPLIT LEFT

    As we have seen in the previous parts the global left is now split between those who support Globalisation and those who oppose it. There is a similar split on the right, which makes it an interesting era of politics as pro Globalisation left and right are often in union against anti Globalisation left and right. 

    Since we saw insurgent left wing movements gaining momentum in Europe, against Globalisation and specifically the EU, we have noticed an interesting phenomenon. Faux leftists, who are clearly of the pro Globalisation faction have sold themselves as being rebel or renegade leftists who garner much support from the activist left, when a simple analysis of their policies shows that they are anything but this.  These agents often have fawning support among Western leftists, whilst in the Third World they are despised. Indeed the foreign policies of the alt right politicians tend to be much more popular in the third world, given the economic nationalism they represent is much less dispossessing of those populations. 

    This is a strange phenomenon, as the western left claims to hold the ‘woke’ mantle of supporting the masses of ‘people of colour’ yet they consistently support these pro globalisation politicians, whose policies destroy those people time and again. As the Chinese centre of this empire is strengthened we are seeing this phenomenon more and more. 

  We see people singing the praises of people such as Macron in France, Merkel in Germany, Trudeau in Canada, Biden and Obama in the United States and Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand. A serious analysis of their positions shows that they do not represent what the traditional activist left used to support. Many of the problems that the activist left correctly highlights; ravaging climate change, a destroyed security in the world order leading to more and more refugees by the month and escalating warfare around the world, the exploitation of third world labor, are all fixed by pushing forward with an Economic Nationalist agenda.

    Decentralising the world, disengaging from the large, centralised, corrupted bodies of power in the UN and far away capitals, shortening the global supply lines, increasing local production for local consumption, returning the power bases that control regions to as close to their population as possible. All these things are solutions to the problems highlighted by the left. The left should have welcomed events like Brexit, as a relieving sign that the era of building large global empires of European colonialism was on the decline. Yet despite this the faux left continues to attack all the groups offering these policies as ‘racists and neo Nazis’ and strangely now throw their support completely behind the globalist policies that are exacerbating the problems they stand against.

    A good analysis of one of these fake ‘rebel’ leftists is the case of Jacinda Ardern in our region. Simply because she mouths a few empty woke mantras the progressive left in the region fawns over her. The story is told that she is some working class DJ, who rose up the ranks and made it to the top by the grit of her own achievements. However a quick look into her family history shows us that her father, His Excellency Ross Ardern, is definitely from the gentry’s class. 

    He was a lifelong police officer who was then made the High Commissioner to Niue. He is currently the New Zealand Administrator of Tokelau. As we can see he perpetuates the New Zealand colonial posture in the Pacific. Now of course it may be that Jacinda is a true radical, rebelling against her parents, yet we have seen no evidence of this. In fact it was after her election that Ross was made the Administrator of Tokelau. 

    Yet all those who would cry “Defund the Police” or “Shift the world into a post colonial era” are at the same time saying how much they love Jacinda, despite the fact she obviously stands against any of their policy positions. She is unashamedly a Blairite leftist; indeed she literally worked for Blair choosing to do so even after he had just committed his war crime spree in the Middle East. 

    When Jacinda Ardern won her second term in a landslide one of the first people to contact her and offer his congratulations was the openly pro Globalisation Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. We will get a better idea of just how into the Globalisation surge Jacinda is in the coming weeks, if she chooses to sign New Zealand up to the Belt and Road initiative with China, as she has been suggesting she will. She is not a panacea to the world’s problems and is in fact one of the causes of those problems given her policy posture.

    Another clue as to the fake nature of Jacinda’s status is the fawning adoration she receives from the mainstream media. That is despite the Murdoch media providing some hits on her. The Murdoch media has been an interesting one to watch. Clearly in the early 2000’s the Murdoch dynasty was all in on the Globalisation push and with his wife Wendy Deng one would have imagined he was supportive of the China shift. Yet since he was attacked by the British Establishment for his phone hacking and has divorced Wendy it seems he is all in on the Economic Nationalist approach of the Brexiteers and Trumpists. His media empire now completely attacks globalisation regularly, which is an interesting phenomenon to watch.

   Despite this the pro Globalisation media adores Jacinda. Compare this to how the media went into hysterics when Jeremy Corbyn took power of the British Labor party. It was a near constant barrage accusing him of being an anti Semite who would eat babies and destroy the labor party forever. Indeed it was this constant assault that left him unable to support Brexit, as he was known to want.  He was forced to support a soft Remain position at the last election and it destroyed him completely. Now we have a literal LORD in charge of the British Labor party. An actual aristocrat is in charge of the supposed party of the working class. This shows how much infiltration has gone on among the working class organisations. 

    It also gives a clear indication that Jacinda is not a rebel in the same vein as Corbyn or Trump were. Indeed in the current Covid madness we now have Jacinda locking up her own country in a vicious police state on behalf of the Chinese Covid maneuver, whilst Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers is regularly arrested on the streets of London leading giant anti-lockdown protests. This shows us clearly how the new poles of politics are no longer along a traditional left and right axis. 

    In Victoria we can see a similar split now brewing in the Labor party here. The working class, especially among the many ethnic minorities, in Victoria is by and large sick of the destructive nature of the lockdowns. The upper middle class has wagged their fingers at them telling them they are all selfish for not wanting to go along with the obvious self-destruction of the lockdown policies. Instead of acknowledging that the middle class themselves have selfishly sought to protect themselves and their wealthy grandparents, against a perceived threat, at the expense of the Victorian working class. Indeed it has been at the expense of the poor around the world, who are now plunged into famines, unrest and war as a result of the sudden shock of unwinding the global supply lines, with no solid plan as to what they were to be replaced with. Other than they can now be gobbled up by Chinese capital for pennies on the dollar.  

    Daniel Andrews is another one of these strange ‘leftists’. His cosying up to the new super Capitalism of China is no hidden secret. He brags about it himself. Also it is strange that we have a self-professed devout Catholic in charge of the ‘hard left’ faction of the Labor party. Of course a persons freedom of religion is paramount however a traditional Marxist would normally reject organised religion. It again shows that individuals are attaching themselves to ideological wings, of various political movements, which they clearly are not fully in accordance with themselves.

    All these faux leftists have gone lock step along with the CCP’s alleged Covid assault on the world. It does not take too much digging into the historical record to show that we have never used such extremist lockdown policies to deal with an epidemiological event. Not even in the last SARS pandemic in 2003. Yet any attempt to point this out and question why we are using this pathogen as an excuse to legislate into existence a global police state, is met with an onslaught from the corrupted and bought off academia and press.

    Where this has left the global working class is in a dire predicament. Currently in the United States election they have to hope that Donald Trump and his faction win the election there. The Trump faction is clearly aware of the psychological warfare nature of the alleged Covid attack. Indeed in recent weeks we have seen Trump launch an operation of his own to counter it. He claimed he and a number of his staff had the virus; only to all pull a miraculous recovery all around to lessen the fear of the infection that the hysterical media has built over the past months. 

    Just as the Chinese clearly picked Wuhan for its psychological importance to the Chinese, it being the home of the 1911 Chinese revolution, Trump was clever with his counter attack. Trump announced on the 1st of October 2020 that he had been exposed to Covid 19. (1) This is of course the same date that Mao Zedong used in 1949 to declare the arrival of the People’s Republic of China. (2) Again we can see the fingerprints of the psychological warfare officers all over this Covid phenomenon.

    Of course simply getting Trump to win the American election is not a panacea for the left. There are indeed some very unsavoury hard right groups that do exist on the fringes of his base. If the global left wishes to finally constrain the rise of these forces then they have to start co-opting the policies of the anti Globalisation core of the populist movement. This should not be distasteful for the global left as most of these policies were our policies to begin with, when we were fighting in the streets at the Battle of Seattle or the S11 Melbourne uprising.

    We need to build a new centre in the left that stands for Economic Nationalism and protectionism again. That unwinds the environmentally destructive global supply lines and replaces them wherever possible with local production chains for local consumption. This will also seek to ease the exploitation of the working class in the ‘third world’, as we will no longer be making use of their slave labor conditions for our products. 

    We must also stop believing in the siren song that we must all sign up to Global Organisations as our only hope to solve climate change. As we have seen these global organisations just end up being infiltrated and co-opted by one great power or another. Local solutions and local power should be the left’s call moving forward. In short we must return to our Anti-Globalisation roots. With policies such as this we will start to beat the populist right once again at the ballot boxes. 

(S11 Protests Melbourne 2000)

    To achieve this here in Victoria we need to defeat the Daniel Andrews scourge in the Labor party. If we cannot get him into a jail cell for the crimes he has committed, bringing in a Chinese police state to Victoria these past months, then at least we need to ensure he loses the next election. Not because the Liberal party will be anything other than their usual mean spirited selves, whilst in power, but at least the shock of the loss will allow us to unleash a purge in the left of all the pro Globalisation, and pro CCP factions, which have infiltrated our Labor party and indeed our academia here in Victoria. 

FOOTNOTES

(1) https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/01/president-trump-quarantine-process-top-aide-gets-covid-19/

(2) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mao-zedong-proclaims-peoples-republic-of-china

THE CRISIS OF THE LEFT: PART 2

THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE ALLEGED COVID ATTACK

    Since the start of 2020 it has become increasingly clear that the world war we have been in for the past 20 years has taken a decidedly brutal turn. A rising Chinese power in the East is causing the left of Western politics a great crisis in its own ranks. There are those who are completely supporting this pivot and there are those who are completely against it. This will lead to a severe split in left wing parties across the west into Pro CCP and Anti CCP stances, in much the same way as we saw the pro and anti Stalin factions battle it out in the 1950’s and 60’s. 

    The author of this piece is firmly in the Anti CCP faction for the reasons that will be given below. Many in the left no doubt are under the illusion that China is some anti imperialist Maoist political entity. This cannot be further from the truth. If Mao were alive today he would no doubt be shocked by the state that exists in his aftermath. What we seem to be seeing is that since the arrival of the great interrupter in the West, namely the Trump revolution and the rise of the ‘populist’ parties, there was actually a serious move taking place to dismantle the Atlantic Empire. Brexit was a result of this, the rise of Anti EU parties across Europe are a result of this and a series of pivots in the way middle east warfare was being conducted are a result of this.

    As a consequence we are seeing many of the pro Globalisation forces fleeing America and taking up in China. This is a very similar phenomenon that we saw at the end of the Bolshevik revolution when a number of Tsarists and White Russians fled to America and joined their political and strategic institutions and began to advise them on policy with the east. To this day their legacy is felt in the vicious anti Russian policies that seem to continue, no matter what ideology is in control of the Kremlin.  Now we seem to have more and more of this pro Globalisation faction purged from the West and taking up shop in China. As a result China is now a welcome guest among the elites and oligarchs of Davos in Switzerland. 

  This shows that China is anything but a workers paradise. It is not even a case of one empire is falling and a new one is rising. It is more the case that the SAME Empire is just shifting its base of operations. For anyone who was part of the anti globalisation movement of the 90’s and early 2000’s this means that if one is true to ones resistance to this empire then China is now also on the list of oppositional forces. The fact that China currently has a slew of billionaires and slave labor camps in its western states is probably also a clue that something has gone awry with the Marxism of the current Chinese state.

    One need not feel that one is betraying leftwing tenants by going against this shining beacon of ‘Maoism’. The suddenly expansionist China is getting its marching orders from the very same collective of elite who used to be based in the New York and London power arcs. The same people who brought us the invasion of Iraq and the collapse of the welfare state, in the 2008 banking crisis, are now driving the engines of the ‘emergent’ China. They have simply had to abandon their ship in the West as they were driven out by an increasingly hostile public and for whatever reason Xi Jiping has decided to welcome them with open arms.

    The most egregious crime that this new hybrid Global China has given us is the alleged biological warfare attack known as Covid 19. That in itself has been a disgraceful move on their part that should sharpen all minds into dealing with this threat. Now there is of course a case that could be made that the Covid 19 attack was in fact a false flag, which the current United States powers launched against China to discredit them and win the trade war. Indeed China itself spread propaganda suggesting just that in the early days of the Covid 19 pandemic. However if we apply the classic analysis of ‘who benefits’ so far China has benefited massively, and indeed the opposition parties to China in the United States have taken a massive hit, as a result of this attack. It would seem that this does in fact allegedly originate from the Chinese Military Intelligence apparatus.

    In many parts of the world we are seeing left wing parties throw their support BEHIND China despite this alleged attack. This is where we will see new splits begin to form in the left. In Australia and New Zealand especially we have seen a strong pro Beijing faction rise in the Labor parties of both those countries. And of course the Democrats have chosen to run Jo Biden, who could easily be called Beijing Biden by his detractors, given his family’s ties to the CCP. In Australia and New Zealand this blind support of China will lead to serious fractures in the Labor parties there.

    How the Chinese carried out the alleged attack is of great interest. It shows that due to the nature of the Nuclear balance of power conventional warfare is still very much hampered. So China and its backers are going forward now with alleged hybrid warfare.  They did this by first establishing what was known as the Thousand Talents Program. (1) This was a program where the CCP got numerous university professors and researchers onto their payroll. Much has been written and debated about the risks of the Thousand Talents Program harvesting information OUT of nations, back to Beijing. But what no one considered was the possibility for Disinformation to be fed back along those same networks, to throw the world into confusion, when they launched their alleged attack.

    Early in 2020 they allegedly released their biological weapon from a weapons laboratory in Wuhan, as attested by various whistle blowers. (2) (3) It is probably no accident they chose Wuhan as the city to launch the alleged operation from, given that it was in Wuhan that Sun Yat Sen began the Chinese revolution in 1911 an event that is held important by all Chinese, both nationalist and communist, as the starting point for the modern Chinese states. 

    They then allegedly launched large-scale social media campaigns and produced drastically inaccurate models about the potential severity of the disease, to accompany the somewhat dangerous though not devastating bioweapon, and as a result terrorised countries into economy destroying lockdowns. (4) Since then they have allegedly used all the media outlets they are heavily invested in, to go after anyone who has suggested that herd immunity is a possibility or that other strategies, besides economy collapsing lockdowns, are possible. In Victoria they spread their alleged disinformation through several of the major University and private sector bodies responsible for the ‘science’ of the pandemic. (5) Both the major bodies being used in Victoria have strong ties to the CCP. (6) (7) One of these institutions is even linked to the first nationalist Chinese University ever established. (8) Using their modelling, and their alleged misinformation campaigns about how one deals with a pandemic outbreak, they allegedly terrorised the state into collapsing its economy, even as the Chinese economy continued to grow. (9) (10) 

    Their alleged social media psychological warfare continued to push the narrative that hard lockdowns end the pandemic as they showed off huge pool parties in Wuhan only a few months later. (11) Yet no one thought to ask that if they had indeed released a bio weapon, then they would already have a vaccine themselves. As any biological weapons officer would attest you would not release something you didn’t have the antidote to yourself. No one thought to ask ‘what if they already just vaccinated a lot of China and that is why the infection is not really there anymore’.  Only an Indian Doctor has even thought to ask something close to that question. (12) Meanwhile China continues on as normal while the rest of the world keeps failing at getting lockdowns to work, or going for longer and longer lockdowns, trying to replicate a virus response in China that more than likely never really happened to begin with. 

    As the world was plunged into chaos from this alleged attack we have seen an associated amount of conventional troop movement that has gone along with it. We have seen a massive push into the pacific by China, we have seen China and India coming to outright fighting for the first time in decades and we see Central Asia descending into chaos, as the new reality of the shifting poles of global power accelerates the already damaged security situation around the world. 

    In Victoria Daniel Andrews has gone completely along with this plan. He has taken the opportunity to sign up to the One Belt One Road during the chaos and he has surrounded himself with CCP propaganda experts and made sure the institutions running the Pandemic response are all ones that claim to be in deep associations with China. (13) This is why there must be a push from the left to have him imprisoned for what he has done to our state. It will not be enough to just vote him out of power for his crimes, just as it was not enough to just vote John Howard out of office for his many war crimes. The fact that there is never any consequence for the crimes of our political class means that someone else will do just as much, if not worse, in the future. Daniel Andrews must go to jail for the part he played in this hybrid warfare attack on his own country. 

    What is amazing is that Dan claims to represent the Socialist wing of the Labor party, yet he is supporting the Blairite positions when it comes to what is going on right now. This Blairite position has always been in support of Globalisation and the Empire. Astonishingly many of the same Blairite people who swore black and blue just a few years ago that Syrian president Bashar Assad was gassing his own people, despite dubious evidence, now reject outright the much stronger evidence that China has used biological warfare. The same groups that howled at the need to immediately invade Iraq, after the weapons inspectors were told to leave, seem to have absolutely no issues with China preventing the WHO from investigating the bioweapons lab they maintain in Wuhan.

    The turn to technocracy that we have seen across the global left, during this pandemic, has left them totally exposed to the manipulation that such an attack operates on. How can we trust our ‘experts’ when they are on the payroll of foreign states, they literally BRAG about it themselves, during a time that those states would be considered hostile enemies?  

    To be fair the Chinese military establishment is just copying the same devious plays that the Atlantic Empire used for so many years to maintain itself. China’s infiltration and manipulation of the WHO, at the United Nations, mirrors what we saw in recent history when the OPCW was sent in to investigate charges of Chemical Warfare crimes in Syria. Thankfully we now know, thanks to Wikileaks that that institution had been heavily corrupted and stacked with pro NATO operatives who made sure the findings conformed to what the Western Empire wanted. (14) We saw similar mischief with the JIT taskforce that was tasked to investigate the shooting down of the MH 17 plane over the Ukrainian conflict.

    During the past 8 months of the pandemic the anti Globalisation faction has swung into gear and has managed to finally start stacking some of the WHO with their own agents. So now we get weekly garbled, countermanding directives, from this institution on how we should be handling the crisis as it is in complete internal warfare between pro and anti CCP factions.

    This leaves us with the worrying question. With so many of our supposedly neutral institutions being co-opted and militarised, as a function of the escalating world war we have been in since 911, how can we trust what is coming out of any of these experts?  The answer of course is we cant. And many on the political right understand this and are taking actions now to contest this. But we need some on the left to take this stance as well. This is why we need a left wing resistance to Dan Andrews and his pro CCP party in Victoria, lest we lose elections for a long time to come to a resurgent right, or worse we lose the state entirely to a hostile foreign power. 

    The consequence of this new split in the left between those who would ‘Stand With Dan’ and his ilk and those who must now push to defeat these people from bringing us into the new global, still capitalist as ever, empire will be dealt with in the next part of this piece.

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FOOTNOTES

(1) https://theconversation.com/the-thousand-talents-plan-is-part-of-chinas-long-quest-to-become-the-global-scientific-leader-145100

(2) https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/doctor-who-fled-china-to-reveal-virus-truth/news-story/0ebf5993691da3ffb612438ecf8bd6c3

(3) https://meaww.com/covid-19-unrestricted-bioweapon-chinese-virologist-dr-li-meng-yan-report-virus-china-genomic-sequence

(4) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda  

(5) https://burnet.edu.au/news/1302_burnet_modelling_informs_victoria_s_covid_roadmap

(6) https://www.doherty.edu.au/our-work/where-we-work/chn

(7) https://www.burnet.edu.au/news/472_china_ties_strengthened

(8) https://www.fudan.edu.cn/en/About/main.htm 

(9) https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/recession-2020-everything-you-need-to-know-204323390.html 

(10) https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-economy-grows-4-9-as-rest-of-world-struggles-with-coronavirus-11603073857

(11) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-19/wuhan-pool-party-shows-a-city-in-full-swing-after-coronavirus/12573980

(12) https://theprint.in/theprint-otc/china-secret-explain-covid-barely-spread-wuhan-says-apollo-chief-prathap-reddy/461870/

(13) https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/daniel-andrews-staffer-nancy-yang-did-chinese-communist-propaganda-course/news-story/eb49801365855bda4904c1a25a85650d

(14) https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma-whistleblowers/

THE CRISIS OF THE LEFT: PART 1

 THE NEW ATLANTIC CENTURY

    The global left is fast approaching a crisis in its own ranks, the likes of which we have not seen since the rise of the “New Left” in France in the 1950’s. Indeed the move towards an anti Stalinist left, which we saw grow around the world in the 1950’s and 1960’s, is the closest analogy that we are living through currently for almost exactly the same reasons. 

    Then we saw the “New Left” rise in the liberal democracies of the west, as they began to realise the serious abuses of human rights that Stalin was committing in the Soviet Union, especially along ethnic and racial lines to the many different groups of people that lived within its borders at the time.  This laid bare a lie that the Soviets were in fact workers utopias, as the politburo had become yet another entrenched oligarchy that enriched itself from the working class, in much the same way the recently deposed Monarchists had across Europe. 

    The ‘New Left’ sought to retain some Marxist economic models whilst avoiding the wholesale dictatorship that Stalin was forging across the East at the time. Sadly this dictatorship did much disrepute to the Left and reactionary right-wingers to this day are able to dubiously cast doubt upon all of Marxism by holding up the Soviet Union as an example.

    Today we are faced with a new bugbear of the left. That of the growing might of China. For many on the left they are reflexively supporting China, as they believe it is the inheritor of a Maoist state and it stands in opposition to the classical imperialism of the European block. However this lie is very easily exposed, as we will attempt to do in this piece.                                                                                                       To start we must acknowledge that the global left has been struggling now for some time, since the dawn of the new millennium. This rot set in when the Blairist model was installed firmly in the United Kingdom. Coming off the back of the previous decades of Thatcherism it is astonishing that the British public stood for such a thing. The Blair model was just the exact same Neo-Liberal model that Thatcher espoused, with a few softer social service parameters thrown in. 

    But by and large Blair brought the global left firmly into a new alliance with the Neo-Conservative right and formed the basis of a new Western Empire. As a part of this he brought many Labor parties around the world into support for the preeminent act of Western Imperialism of the 21st Century: the invasion and destruction of the Baathist state of Iraq.  Astonishingly this Blairite left found itself supporting the annihilation of a secular Marxist state, in preference for a land of religious theocracies. It turned on its head the normal orientation of support that one would have seen during the cold war. 

    The stated goal of this new empire was to bring in a century of Globalisation and a completely integrated world in every nation. This new world empires power base was to be located in the Atlantic region, a term used to describe the NATO alliance that had brought together the nations on both sides of the Atlantic in North America and Europe. Neo-Conservative strategists in the United States famously laid out the military plan to achieve this goal, in the ill-fated Project For A New American Century’s manifesto.

    As a result of the massive amounts of money spent on transnational organisations, designed to stitch this empire together, a vast bureaucratic deep state formed, whose allegiance was mainly to this new empire and not necessarily to the nation states that hosted them.

    This gave many across the west the feeling that democracy had been severely strangled. There was only the option of voting for pro Global Empire parties and anyone who wished to oppose imperialism was derided and made to feel like an enemy of the state. You got some slight variation in choice between candidates at elections but you were essentially voting for Right Wing Neo-Liberalism or Left Wing Neo-Liberalism. There was no other option on the table.  And any time an option tried to present itself, antidemocratic forces of the deep state prevented them from having a fair hearing at the ballot boxes.

    The hard left however for a time held the main title to being against this empire. They had rioted in 1999 in the city of Seattle against the rise of the World Trade Organisation, one of the pre-eminent transnational institutions being formed to manage this empire. They had lead three years of violent protests against the World Economic Forum and the World Trade Organisation across Europe and the Americas. Most in the labor union movement rightly saw that this empire offered nothing to the working class of the world. It was not a controversial position to hold, in many quarters of the activist left at the time, to say you were against globalisation and the institutions that under pinned it, such as NATO, the WEF, the WTO, the IMF or the World Bank.

    This position was confirmed for many as the failure of the neo-liberal model underpinning the empire soon became drastically apparent, as the disastrous invasion of Iraq did not end in a cohesive Middle-East spanning arc of control, under the guidance of the Atlantacist's Empire. Further evidence that the model was a bunk came in 2008, when the now dramatically integrated world economic system, proved that such heavy centralisation could only lead to total collapse. The world financial system promptly shat its pants and has not been able to restore any equilibrium since that point.

    This caused a curious evolution to occur in Western politics. Rather than just being about traditional Left Vs. Right economic models we now had two new poles forming. Those who supported a globe spanning Empire and those who realised a sustainable model could only exist if we restored the concept of the sovereign nation state and the smaller, localised, body politic. We now saw insurgents appear on both sides of politics in Western countries and the political support for them was too high for the deep state to contain them any longer.

    Infamously, on the right wing of politics, we saw the Trump revolution rise to the top in America. What was surprising about this rise was that in many ways Trump was talking about exactly the anti imperial talking points that the activist left had always held for themselves. He attacked NATO, he attacked free trade, he attacked the big banks and he vowed to purge the pro Globalisation bureaucracy. But for some reason, because of some hysteria around him, the left decided to suddenly go against anything Trump said, despite his ideology being largely the ideology of a late 1990’s activist leftist. 

    This lead to astonishing scenes of activist leftists rioting as hard as they had in 1999 against the WTO, now turning their rage against one of the WTO’s biggest detractors and indeed they now seemed to increasingly be rioting in SUPPORT of many of these institutions across America. The activist left now merged with the Blairite left of the Democratic Party, in the United States, and became a strange parody of itself as it spent the next four years attacking every position that they used to hold dear themselves. 

    In the United Kingdom similar forces were now taking over both sides of politics. The pro Brexit move caused chaos in the ranks of the Conservative parties who had traditionally been huge supporters of the integration of the European Union. They could no longer resist the Alt-Right in their own ranks now as it increasingly sounded like the late 1990’s left, as the collapsing global empire more and more disenfranchised the working class.

    On the left we finally got an insurgent leader who really stood for classical Marxist concepts in the form of Jeremy Corbyn. The Blairite left by this point largely controlled the media in the United Kingdom and they went into a hysterical overdrive painting him as some form of new neo Nazi as a result of his successes.  He too could have begun a serious push for nationalist decentralised visions for the global system, in order to contend with the failures of the integrated world empire. Alas he was hard balled by the Blairites still present in his own party and forced to go against his own principles of supporting Brexit. He famously had campaigned against Britain entering the EU to begin with all the way back at the start in the 70’s.                                                                                                                                         He too correctly understood that integrated imperial structures, such as the EU, would never benefit the working classes of any parts of the world. Now in the Brexit campaign he was forced to go against his beliefs and support the EU. A halfhearted effort that was never going to be believed by the general public of Britain and it inevitably destroyed him as a party leader in the UK Labor party. That last election had become a referendum on Brexit and the only position any working class person was ever going to take was in support of Brexit, lest they be completely dispossessed, as had been the case over the past decades of the Empire. 

    Then we arrived at the dawn of 2020 and we began to see that because of Trump’s continued purge of pro Globalisation forces across the Western world a new plan was being cooked up. To shift the base of the empire out of its traditional Washington, New York, London arc and move it over too Shanghai, Beijing and eventually Hong Kong. That brings us to our discussion for part two. The Rise of China and the serious conflict it poses for the left in the western world.

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What Have We Learned After Lockdown Month 4

Now we are into month four of the lockdowns we are seeing an amazing and outrageous shift in how we as societies view health care. Somehow the World Health Organisation and its insane policies have managed to completely invert how we view health care with potentially apocalyptic outcomes for our society as a whole.

They have managed to take the fundamental principles of health care being one of duty to care for the sick, attempt to find treatments and responsibility to nurture and heal the sick, into a dystopian nightmare of bullying, blaming, shaming and terrorising the public in an attempt to prevent illness from ever occurring in the first place. A stunning and dramatic inversion of everything we have known to this point.

We have even seen the outrage of some Doctors publicly opining that maybe people who have been out protesting for their rights should not be offered health care if they should become sick with Covid 19. This is an egregious breach of the Hippocratic Oath. There is a reason battlefield Doctors are not allowed to carry firearms on them and shoot enemy combatants in the head. Even the ENEMY troops they have a duty to treat. The fact we have reached such astronomical partisan heights that a trained Doctor would even put such an idea on paper is drastically dangerous and raises questions whether the physician class is tumbling into a similar spiral of fascism that it did in 1930's Germany with all its attendant horrors.

As part of the program we have seen Governments around the world shift their health care responses into ones of hard law enforcement. Since when has health care ever been an issue of law enforcement? Well we can point to only one obvious case in recent history, that of the equally misguided “War on Drugs”. This policy has proven to be such a catastrophic failure it’s amazing they would now be rolling this same model out onto the rest of the health care system.

They will, and ARE, finding that using such a model to deal with an outbreak of respiratory disease is having an equally catastrophic failure rate. Especially in the more open societies whose entire raison de'tre is to NOT be like the more closed societies of Asia, where many of these policies were first experimented with during previous respiratory outbreaks.

The failure of the academic class to see that their policies are radically failing, and choosing instead to double down on the failed policies rather than work on alternatives, is also a text book example of Einstein’s famous edict “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  I have no doubt that given the hard jack boot approach, recently launched in Victoria, we are going to see a massive wave of the virus unchecked through the state now, as a result.

The shifting of health care into a bullying and shaming operation has deeply destructive consequences going forward for our community. They are destroying trust and faith in the Doctors and Nurses, who are supposed to be there to help people, with these acts. What began as a general piling on of the current accepted ‘other group we are allowed to hate’, namely those ‘dodgy right wing white people’, who were asking for the very clear right to continue on with their daily lives once steps had been put in place to deal with the outbreak, rapidly and inevitably shifted to the total terrorisation of the most marginal in our society, the refugees and ethnic minorities in our public housing system.

It is an inevitable road that one takes if one allows to start removing rights and attacking one segment of society that it rapidly piles up into a general social collapse, with the most vulnerable being the worst victims in the end. I am already aware of refugees who are exhibiting symptoms who refuse to get tested, as they are so terrified of what the outcomes will be since the operations at the Commission Flats were launched. And I will not pick on them for having this mistrust, as it was the people whose responsibility it is to maintain trust who squandered it. It is not the fault of already traumatised people that they have now had their faith in the health care system damaged.

It is unbelievable that we have let this institution unleash such damaging policies on our society without questioning them or holding any inquiry. One cannot just worship at the altar that ‘the experts must know what they are doing’ when one can see the failures of policy in front of ones own eyes.

The fact that we shifted the concept of disease control into one of blaming people for it is also so dangerous and just as ridiculous a stance to have in general. Disease comes into our society. It always has and it always will. It is actually no ones fault. It is not even Daniel Andrews fault. Daniel Andrews is at fault for being a racist, fascist nazocommie, for his destructive and ill thought through lockdown policies, but he is NOT at fault for there being a disease in our community.

Just as it is not your neighbour’s fault if your Grandparents happen to die from this disease. It is not the Muslim’s fault for having a cultural need to hold gatherings at a certain time. It is not the Africans fault, it is not the Jews fault. It is a DISEASE. It is not the Governments job to stop us from getting sick. It IS the Governments job to ensure we have a robust, well funded and well equipped health care system to look after us if and when we DO get sick.

It is not Trumps fault people are sick in the US, its not Boris’s fault people are sick in Britain, its not Bolsanaro’s fault in Brazil. Diseases happen we are not Gods. In fact the only way we could apportion any blame on any of this to a human agent is if you believe that it was released from a laboratory. But then that is the culpability of the people in that lab and not the various Governments around the world.

We have never treated the arrival of a new disease in our midst with such damaging reactions. Imagine where our society would be today if, when HIV first arrived on our shores, we decided to round up all the gay community and shove them in internment camps in order to try and stop the spread of the disease. I don’t remember the scenes of cops kicking in the doors of bath houses at that time either and demanding that they be shut down in order to prevent ‘unclean’ cultural practices that were accelerating the death toll in that particular pandemic.

We didn’t blame gay men en mass when they got sick with HIV either. Well one portion of society did and we would classify them as right wing extremist neo Nazis. Somehow the WHO has mainstreamed that approach to disease this time around. The Muslim community is now feeling extremely vulnerable, in countries where it was already suffering historic levels of pressure since 911, as a result of this Operation Shame that is coming along with the WHO’s response to Covid 19. 

We didn’t even really blame the Government that much at the time. Ironically the only people who really took a hit on criticism about handling of the AIDS pandemic were the SAME public health officials, such as Fauci, now in control of the Covid operation. That is a pause for thought. Yes I realise HIV is a harder disease to spread but that is the reality we have to face. Some of us are going to get sick. Freedom isn’t Free as they say.

The WHO must immediately begin a process of dialing back its destructive and punitive policies and seek an alternative route to deal with this current pandemic. Yes people are going to die. That is an unfortunate fact of life. But we cannot destroy our very society in an attempt to save some lives, lest any of the Covid survivors will have nothing left to live for anyway.

The Myth of the Second Wave of Covid 19

There is no SECOND WAVE of Coronavirus, we are still in the first wave which a bunch of idiots didn’t allow to run its course, by locking everyone in their houses like a pack of fascist lunatics. The virus wasn’t going to magically disappear just because everyone cowered in their homes like terrified mice. 

The whole point to the ORIGINAL plan we were sold was that we lock everything down for a couple of weeks and get all our health systems set up and ready. Then after two or three weeks we would release everyone in spurts back into the wild, so that the infection spread through the community in a slow, measured and controllable manner.  After a couple of months everything would have phased back into normal and the wave would have run its course. This was the “Flatten the Curve” model which, as you can see from the below graph, means the same number of infections would still have occurred just over a longer period of time.

(Source WSJ)

Instead a bunch of lunatics decided that “Total Elimination” was the goal, with no consultation with society at large and they pushed for harder and more extreme lockdowns until everything blew up, they lost total control, and now we are facing the ORIGINAL wave, in the same chaotic fashion we would have anyway, ON TOP of all the economic collapse and civil unrest. 

We could have just stayed open and dealt with the virus chaos without the associated meltdown of society OR stuck to the original plan and done a limited lockdown with the intent to slowly infect the community. The “Flatten The Curve” they kept telling us about. Now we have allowed a bunch of pin heads turn a crisis into a catastrophe. The Swedish university system is obviously one of the last on the planet that still pumps out sensible people. There needs to be a serious reckoning for the political establishment, across the world, which has driven us off a cliff like this.

What Have We Learned After Lockdown Week 1

So after our first week in lockdown what have we learned?

1) The Western Empire’s supply lines are total shit. Absolute trash. Thank goodness we DIDN’T ever get into a serious war with Russia or China these past years. We would have run out of everything we need inside a week and had our asses handed to us inside a fortnight. 

This from the civilization that held the entire Pacific basin against the Japanese in World War 2. What a disgraceful self-destruction of a nation, through the abject greed of its political and wealthy class. Globalised supply chains clearly DON’T work and should never be trusted again. Especially in the case of China, a nation we were daily being told we had to prepare for war against, we would have for the first time in history been engaging in an attack on our own manufacturing base. It would have been instant suicide and one of the shortest wars in history. This would have been a madness historians would have had a great deal of trouble explaining, to any surviving future generations.

2) The neo-liberal economy is the most fragile and hollowed out bit of fluff ever. An economy should have been able to handle a slow down, or even a full shut down, for a few months without the instantaneous careening off a cliff into massive economic crisis, and risking full civilization breakdown that we have witnessed in the past week. 

Imagine if we had been in ancient Rome and the Emperor, on a whim, suddenly declared an entire month a holiday in honour of Jupiter. Rome never collapsed due to any of these types of whims. The debt-based economy is totally unsustainable. 

The endless hollowing out of workers rights and casualisation of workers is not just an attack on the working class, but actually a suicidal destruction of the very economy that sustains the supposed capital wielding class. Even if you don’t have issues with classical Adam Smith Capitalism this system is far from that, and is in fact a threat to the entire of civilization due to its wildly unsustainable nature.  

3) The War machine CAN actually be paused completely. Whilst a few skirmishes still rage here and there, this is to be expected after such a long war has been raging for the past 20 years. But by and large a massive shut down of the war effort, and troop movements, has occurred in the past week. 

As long as the political will is there this WAS ALWAYS POSSIBLE. Never let the war hawks forget this moment again. If anyone tells you we have to maintain endless war ever again remind them of this moment in history.

4) Whilst we are on the topic of the war machine we also learned that sometimes, massive Government intervention, causes more harm than good. The huge lockdowns we have seen around the world have sent millions plunging below the poverty line and facing potential mass starvation around the world. All this pain to try and save thousands from dying from the virus.  

Whether this was done on purpose or by accident is irrelevant. It shows how one part of the system can make a proposition to help people, which leads another part of the system to inflict massively more pain than the original problem would cause. As Trump said “The cure is worse than the disease”. 

Remember this social dynamic next time someone tells you we have a RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT, when they say we need to invade other countries to ‘save’ their populations. To ‘save’ the Syrians, to ‘save’ the Iraqis, to ‘save’ the Serbians, we need to plunge into epically violent conflicts that kill millions more than any supposed local despot ever would have. We must rethink how we triage the needs of some over even greater needs. 

5) The locking down of borders to human traffic is finally beginning to be followed with the locking down of borders to capital flight. This is the only way to maintain a future world, where we have massive deglobalisation under way. 

Part of the reason we have such a huge refugee crisis right now is because the wealthy countries were setting up harvesting systems, which sucked the flow of capital out of the developing world back to the European and American centers of ‘finance’. The millions of people flooding around the world trying to cross borders were simply chasing this dwindling capital from their home nations, and were trying to catch back up to it in the nations it arrived in. 

This was always a massively unsustainable system that could not be allowed to continue. Decentralised capital leads to decentralised communities able to sustain and support themselves, leads to way less flows of human labour attempting to move around the world. The concept of the entire globes labour force being in competition with itself, rather than firewalled into localised economies, could never survive. 

This shock to the system has proven this to be exactly the case. Now we see huge restrictions on people’s movements and FINALLY Capital controls are being put into place. This marks the true end of Globalisation. The future will be Nationalistic. Steve Bannon was correct when he said the future is Economic Nationalism. This need not be conflated with any hysterical racial superiority theories, as so many on all sides of politics have been attempting to do of late. It’s just a simple function of sustainability and mathematics. 

6) On the note of Nationalism we are also seeing in the time of great crisis that privatisation was the complete scam many thought it was. The myth that centralised industries could ever offer true competition is laid bare. 

As we know privatization never lead to the promised lowering of prices anyway. Any gains in tax cuts, due to entire sectors no longer being funded by the Government, were instantly lost to the massive price gouging these companies engaged in anyway. Now, in the face of this emergency, huge sections of the private sector are being nationalised anyway. We are seeing the private hospital systems immediately caving under the stress and being nationalised. We are seeing public transport in some sectors already renationalised. And as the economic crisis gets worse we will see the Utilities being nationalized. 

Already in Iran, relief on the economic front, is being delivered through the utilities as it was ALREADY still nationally held. Energy will be renationalised before the end. We should even call for telecommunications to be renationlised in Australia. Maybe Internet and Mobile telephony can stay in private hands, as luxuries, but the need for a nationalised, old style, copper landline network to be reinstalled has been shown to be massive in this summer of crisis. ONLY such a network could withstand disasters such as major fire, hurricane or nuclear war and be used as part of the emergency response.

7) Forcing the retirement savings of everyone to be invested in a stock market, which cyclically completely wipes itself out, has also been shown to be a strange and demented idea at providing a stable future for people to retire on. Much like the nationalisation wave we are seeing so many people are going to zero on their super that we are going to be back to just having most of the population on a retirement pension anyway. Yet again the promises of the neo-liberals were exposed as malfeasant lies.

8) The larger nation states, with big central Federal organs, have proven the most incapable of dealing with the speed of the crisis. The United States, the UK, the E.U, Iran and Australia are all shattering in their Federal centers, under the sudden stress of the crisis. Their ability to project power from the center into the regions they occupy has dramatically plunged. 

In the case of the E.U the whole myth of European Solidarity has been laid bare, as countries desperately restrict the flow of medical goods internally between the member states, as they realise their lack of local production has left them hugely vulnerable. Even the megalith that is China is showing that it is cracking at the seams as regionalism and provincialism massively rises overnight in this crisis. 

Some may argue that Russia is the exception to this rule however with no serious outbreaks in Yakutia or Siberia we have not yet seen the dynamic to prove what will happen to Moscow should the regions begin to suffer. The smaller nations have been fairing MUCH better with consistent policies that adhere across the population. As this blog has been arguing for a decade we MUST break up the large nation states into smaller nations for a sustainable future.

So that is quite a lot that we learned in just one week. The speed with which we are now all learning things can be a bit overwhelming but finally these truths are being exposed. One can only imagine what we are going to learn in the COMING weeks.

At some point people are going to learn that in fractional reserve banking much of the money they believe is in banks is not actually really there. That is going to be a very fun learning curve to watch occur. If you thought panic buying toilet paper was the most fun you have had in a decade we haven’t seen nuthin yet. Enjoy the ride everyone and stay safe.