An intriguing snippet of information dropped into our hands in January 2023, while we were researching a story about the global chemical and tobacco industries.
We wrote: “It appears that virtually everything, everywhere, is owned by an interlocking knot of funds and holding companies centred around BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard”.
And this turned out even to be true of a company owned by “communist” China.
“China Tobacco is owned by the Chinese state, operated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, enjoys a virtual monopoly in China, which accounts for roughly 40% of the world’s total consumption of cigarettes, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of tobacco products measured by revenues.
“But top institutional shareholders in its Hong Kong entity, China Tobacco International (HK) Company Limited, include no fewer than three manifestations of Vanguard!”
Our July 2023 article on BRICS provided some historical background on China’s connections to the arch-globalist Rothschild empire.
“The dynasty’s obvious power in Chinese affairs was such that when the British magazine The Period published, in 1870, a cartoon depicting Lionel Rothschild as ‘The Modern Croesus’, a new Rothschild ‘king’ upon his throne of cash and bonds, one of the lesser rulers he was shown lording it over was the Emperor of China.
“In the light of today’s talk of a ‘multi-polar’ world order, it is interesting to read [Niall] Ferguson’s comment that the Rothschilds favoured ‘co-operation between the European powers’ in China and that they generally preferred ‘what might be called multinational imperialism’”.
Turning to the current situation, we noted that, in 2022, WEF founder Klaus Schwab told Chinese state media that the country was a “role model” for other nations and praised its “tremendous” economic achievements over the last 40 years.
When China reinvented itself as a ‘socialist market economy’ in the late 20th century, it first opened up the country to foreign investment and then privatized and contracted out much state-owned industry.
Addressing the WEF’s 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, in June 2023, Chinese premier Li Qiang said: “China is committed to building world peace, promoting global development and upholding the international order.
“Today, the Chinese economy is deeply integrated into the world economy. China has developed itself by embracing globalization, and grown into a most staunch force for globalization”.
https://winteroak.org.uk/2023/11/01/the-acorn-88/#1
Revisiting the "Catalyst"—Postmodern Tyranny: States of Deception from 9/11 to Covid-19
William Hawes
Dissident Voice
Mon, 28 Aug 2023
The parallels between government reactions to 9/11 and the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic are uncanny. Prior to 9/11, a sizable chunk of US citizens would not have put up with domestic mass surveillance. Similarly, prior to the health crisis of 2020, populations would have been very skeptical of mandatory lockdowns, absurd masking rules, and coercive vaccine mandates and propaganda; as well as blocking off access to travel, public spaces, and businesses with vaccine passports. Most interpret this as government exploiting a crisis, rather than governments' prior knowledge and pre-planning of the events. However, from the start, the ready-made, manufactured hysteria and propaganda suggests a collusion of military-intelligence, industrial, financial, and medical forces of industry and government.
The economic indicators had been blinking red for months before even January of 2020, going back to the repo crisis of September 2019. Quoting an investor in CNBC from March 2020:
'The virus was the catalyst but it's not the cause,' said Christopher Whalen, founder of Whalen Global Advisors. 'Both bonds and equities were inflated rather dramatically by our friends at the Fed. You're seeing the end game for monetary policy here, which is at a certain point you have to stop. Otherwise you get grotesque asset bubbles like we saw, and the engine just runs out of fuel.' [Emphasis mine]
Reuters concurs, with a major figure at the Fed blurting the quiet part out loud: "Pandemic aid was also 'banking bailout'". The liberal/left site The Intercept sums up the game quite well, explaining that the CARES Act of March 2020 allows for:
Direct purchases of corporate debt — the first nongovernment bond-buying in the Fed's history — would now be allowed. Companies have swelled their borrowing in recent years, and experts have identified this as a source of serious economic risk. A sudden shock like the pandemic that wiped out revenues would not only cause bankruptcies, but also accelerate bond defaults, broadening stress throughout the financial system.
Further on in the piece, the author notes how the CARES Act calls for an "Exchange Stabilization Fund". Worth 454 billion, the money is leveraged just like a major bank, allowing for:
A $4.5 trillion slush fund would be created, equity markets ballooned. The total value of the stock market cratered to 103 percent of GDP, about $21.8 trillion, on March 23. By April 30 it was back to 136.3 percent of GDP, or $28.9 trillion. By that metric, $7.1 trillion in stock market wealth has been created in that period.
In other words, the US saw the writing on the wall coming from China: the economic slowdown and shuttering of factories which began in January 2020 was finally affecting the US stock market, which had cratered by mid-March 2020. Only the exaggeration of a pandemic, a sloughing off of millions of jobs, and new spigots opening for the banking sector, would allow for corporations to maintain profitability. Debt restructuring was inevitable and the only way to accomplish this was to railroad legislation through Congress, not a difficult task considering our lawmakers are essentially lobbyists for major multinational corporations. Large companies got billions in aid while workers and small businesses fell into ruin.
Once the medical agenda was set, panic set in, and it turns out overcrowding nursing homes, firing one million medical workers and 40 million total US workers, blaring apocalyptic propaganda non-stop, censoring any talk of vitamin and supplement use, imposing stressful lockdowns, and turning patients away from doctors can have an effect on worldwide mortality. Hardly anyone in the medical community was willing to confront those inconvenient truths, and those that did were censored further.
It was known very soon after March 2020 what the infection fatality rate would be: a very low percentage, perhaps twice the rate from seasonal influenza. World elites did not care- they had an agenda in hand. Regardless of the seriousness, capitalist elites wouldn't have put 40 million Americans out of work and imploded the economy without a plan. And they had one ready-made: a 5 trillion dollar plan. Later on, US elites would not have advocated for coercive vaccine mandates - get the shot or lose your job - unless the word came down from the very highest echelons of the elite, and although many, if not most, of the establishment bought it wholesale, it's clear that the federal government was not going to leave states to make decisions based off the inputs of local county and state health officials. The word came down from on high; there certainly was obvious collusion to centralize and organize the Covid dogma, yes, a "conspiracy", because asking the public to "trust the science" only takes you so far when conflicting and contradictory data about the danger of the virus is staring them right in the face.
Given the unreliability of the initial tests for Sars-CoV-2, the deliberate use of too many PCR cycles per test, and the simple fact that it's quite probable that multiple benign strains and variants of coronaviruses resulted in positive tests, it's easy to see how a global pandemic was manufactured at the outset. From the very beginning, government propaganda emanating from the medical, military, and intelligence establishments were obviously coordinated, centralized, and directed to coerce and cow citizens into submission to a globalized, medical cult. Local and national news all parroted the same line, and a global groupthink biosecurity agenda was pushed to the forefront of society. It's important to remember that before the declared emergency, to "quarantine" involved restricting access to the sick, not the whole of society.