Internal documents from Google, which owns YouTube, reveal that the Biden White House pressured the company to censor Americans spreading alleged "misinformation" related to COVID-19 and vaccinations, according to House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) - who's holding a live hearing on social media censorship today. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youtube-files-biden-white-house-dictated-censorship-demands-under-misinformation-canard
Forgive me I am tired, hostile, frustrated, and recognizing the Pandemic hysteria folly is insurmountable and this too ties back to election 2020 in which my position was then as now the American public likes the way their politics works out because they believe in some sort of invisible hand manipulating election outcomes for the best for time out of mind.
Thus aside from the political comedy there is now a new comedy, the unending Deja Vu All Over Again comedy. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12809869/us-child-pneumonia-outbreak-extremely-high-cases.html
China is sick. China allows international travel Visa free. Shit for all I know they pay hotel visits too. I just do not care. China’s sickness is now thought to be here. Now MASSACHUSETTS says it's being hit by wave of 'white lung' pneumonia in children as Ohio county issues similar warning - after China and Europe saw surge in cases and hospitalizations
County said that the spike in cases meets their definition of an outbreak
Spread raised fears of an American outbreak of a disease tearing through China
Congress demands CDC hands over its data on China outbreak.
Pathetic. The situation is very pathetic. A coup in 2020 and no willingness to call it so. Woke revolutionaries are delighted. Only an X factor, common traditions in a common language, common currency, social mobility to an extent, common laws to an extent, keep this exploding mutation alive. And when the States decide, if ever, that Federalism is a very, very, very, bad solution to keeping the peace at home I doubt the situation betters.
How can it? We are now in the thickening of the Covid catastrophe. The deaths mount. Vaccine injuries create weak immune systems. Pfizer and Moderna are embedded in the PR of the CDC. The Armed Farces ginned up the mass US death option with their death contracts for vaccines.
Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His recent work includes Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2015, with Heiko Feldner) and Crisi di valore: Lacan, Marx e il crepuscolo della società del lavoro (Mimesis 2018). https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/author/fabiovighi/He writes-in 2022-
By turning defence into attack, the oligarchs are escorting humanity into a potentially totalitarian nightmare camouflaged as humanitarian interventionism.
They do so in the name of the blind capitalist drive for profit-making, which they duly represent. As demonstrated by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, when affected by terminal sickness most societies tend to intensify rather than de-escalate the very practices that cause their implosion. This is currently happening to capitalist modernity, the ‘form of life’ that began with the exploitation of wage labour and is now imploding through compulsive financialization and a tyrannical agenda cynically peddled as ethical or ecological innovation. Rather than confronting its objective implosion, then, capitalist modernity mummifies into bio-technological despotism. The “pandemic” was unleashed as an accelerator of capitalist predatory violence aimed at the preservation of the financial sector and attendant hierarchies of power. It has thrown into sharp relief how, after a long series of ineffective neo-liberal or neo-Keynesian endeavours to resurrect our moribund mode of production, the extrema ratio of global emergencies (followed by lockdowns and a plan for monetary control via digital transition) is now regarded as the only viable way forward.
We are therefore in the midst of a global geo-financial and geo-political mutation, one of those watershed moments that very rarely occur during one’s lifetime. In this respect, economic implosion and the exercise of biopower should be regarded as two sides of the same coin. The ongoing narrative based on cases and variants works as a smokescreen hatched by the perverse imagination of the elites and their behavioural psychology advisors. Their aim now is to normalise the state of exception in the hope that the people will accept their servitude spontaneously.
At the moment, the asymmetric warfare by Virus is still the most effective tool in the hands of those presiding over our future. If, however, the pandemic bubble should continue to deflate, other politically expendable alibis will be made available by the emergency industry, from financial greenwashing sold as climate change policy to new microbiological threats like the Marburg virus recently publicised by the WHO. Without resistance, the pandemic coup will be remembered as one of many global emergencies used to drill us into willing obedience.
Those who are resisting mass propaganda and media hypnosis have long realised that the Covid Pass is of no use against Virus. They know, rather, that Virus is very useful for the rolling out of the digital health passport, as stressed by Giorgio Agamben in his recent address to the Italian Senate. They know that if even our bodies succumb to fully digitised capitalism, there will be no turning back: there will be no limit to what power can demand of us with the emergency® pretext. Defending the right to refuse a health treatment that is not only clearly useless (just read the data), but also a potentially dangerous biotechnological treatment capable of manipulating gene expression, is now a priority for anyone who still cares about the future generations.
At present, it appears that (privately controlled) Central Banks are giving governments their marching orders so that mandatory digital IDs are implemented as the foundation of the locked-in society, where, as the well-known World Economic Forum slogan has it, we (not them) will ‘own nothing and be happy’. Italy, a country where staying in employment is now dependent on vaccination compliance, is at the forefront of this global authoritarian project, whose aims are no longer even concealed. Not only are Governments and Central Banks openly communicating their plans to move to digital currencies, but they are telling us that they will have mechanisms in place to control the use of digital cash. Monetary slavery seems to be their end game. However, blaming the financial puppeteers is not enough, as it remains a hysterical gesture. Rather, we must organise rational resistance against the ongoing blackmail while also beginning to rethink society beyond the bottlenecks of terminal capitalism.
The current Virus-dependence is of the order of perversion: through SARS-CoV-2, the systemic breakdown of the world ruled by capital continues to be ignored. In psychoanalysis, the pervert is the one who, through fetish attachment, chooses not to see the impotence of the Other, pretending that things work despite overwhelming evidence of the contrary. In this respect, the following passage from a 1961 interview with Aldous Huxley seems highly relevant today:
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
Interview with Aldous Huxley, 1961
The last sentence should serve as warning: getting out of a techno-scientific dictatorship based on the fear of Virus, and on centrally controlled digital cards regulating access to society, is even more complicated than getting out of a military dictatorship. In addition to the gene therapies, digital IDs will be able to record the “virtuousness” of our behaviour, both in health and, more broadly, socioeconomic terms. All our activities, already largely conditioned by “economic rationality”, will be further regulated by the use of technology – no doubt in the name of ‘the Common Good’, as always claimed by humanity’s worst enemies. The purpose of the health passport is to pioneer Universal Digital Identity, a pillar of the Great Reset promoted by the Davos clique and, at least since 2016, by the ID2020 alliance.
The elementary reason for the current dystopian acceleration is that wage labour, the pillar of the capitalist mode of production and its social ontology, has grown obsolete. The exponential increase in technological automation has progressively eroded capital’s capacity to generate surplus-value (and therefore wealth) through the exploitation of labour. Since the third industrial revolution in the 1980s, capital invested in the real economy has experienced a dramatic loss of profitability, as the employment of increasingly sophisticated machines has continued to eliminate wage labour well beyond the system’s capacity to reabsorb it.
The most obvious symptom of the sickness of societies founded on profiting from human labour is its monstrous indebtedness. I am referring to an economy crippled by an ever-rising global debt that today is closing in on $300 trillion. The financing of this mountain of debt is now entirely dependent on a regime of monetary expansion with interest rates nailed to near-zero levels. Even a small interference with this precarious balance is guaranteed to cause pandemonium. From the point of view of capital, the artificial inflation of the financial balloon is the only escape route available, but only viable through the covering fire of global emergencies ushering in the authoritarian administration of life. Perhaps there is no better contemporary example of what Hannah Arendt meant by ‘banality of evil’ than the technocratic compliance of today’s inept and opportunistic global political class.
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