“FLATTENED ECONOMY"

Who will pay the costs of the economic breakdown?

By Charles H. Slim

It goes without saying that after you get out of this state of "isolation" that has destroyed the production systems of most countries on earth, there will come a black and more conflictive time in which the strongest and most Pressure resources will be able to impose their conditions (including total control) to try to revive their own economies without scruple of having to satiate themselves with the natural and strategic resources of other countries.

The North American case is from a book. No one can deny that in the last thirty years up to this part, the US as a nation state and in association with private corporations from various fields of the economy (Defense, Oil, Construction, Services, etc.) have fattened their profits and monopolized resources energy from third countries due to brutal armed interventions against their sovereignties and the consequent result of misery, instability and death of the intervened settlers.

Although his "Think Tanks" make laudable argumentative efforts to try to revive some of the old glories of American politics, his own miseries are so many that they cover those attempts. It should not be forgotten that neither Democrats nor Republicans have given the world something with nothing in return. The Americans did not free Europe from the "Nazi threat" alone. Nor did they help the Europeans to rebuild their cities without a juicy and even usurious consideration (Marshall Plan) and the claim that they "defeated Communism" is also highly debatable, that is false. Closer in time, its invasions based on fraudulent information were not motivated by "spreading democracy" or "freeing the peoples from the threat of terrorism"; just go to those places and see what they have left.

That is why in the current crisis, the US will not do anything if there is no reward behind that serves to try to reactivate the catastrophic economic-financial situation that lies behind the pandemic.

While governments subordinate to the directives of this other government of virologists and epidemiologists who perpetuate the crisis with their reports of panic, the centers of power prepare their structures (especially the AI) to change the paradigm of social life, free movement of citizens, long-distance travel and production that is framed by a gigantic, extensive and sophisticated control system.

Now, in the midst of this gigantic health crisis that is causing human casualties in its own territory as no war has ever done before and destroying its production and trade system like no enemy bombardment has ever done within borders, what do you think will happen when bureaucrats in Washington need more resources to rebuild their already fictitious economy that has stopped more than 25 million workers? Are Trump and his supporters within the Establishment planning a new war?

Michigan armed people

The miniature example of what will happen has already been seen in the state of Michigan, where hundreds of men and women armed with semi-automatic assault rifles (of all calibers and brands) took the state legislature demanding that the quarantine be lifted. prevents working. For Donald Trump it was about "good people who love their country"; for the critics of these expressions, "one more sample of what the US has inside its own house." For those who do not know. White supremacist armed gangs and extreme right-wing extremists linked to ultramontane sects have a long and bloody history within the country. Does anyone remember what happened in Oklahoma in 1995? 

iraqis people in Faluja 2004

The images were not far from those we saw in Iraq when the resistance was taking over buildings from the invaders.

This at the same time feeds back the excuses of the argumentators of the need to strengthen internal security with the establishment of programs to intervene invasive communications of privacy, checkpoints of the National Guard and the army so that "the Constitution is respected." Undoubtedly, it is part of the sinister game that the American political institutions have used to the point of exhaustion and that is now emerging within borders.

Despite the massive media terror campaign that is spreading globally -and very particularly in Argentina- many have strongly criticized that the real deaths caused by COVID-19 are not what the media has been spreading.

Even that the statistics shown are manipulated to achieve that effect of fear among the population. One of the critical voices that support these positions comes from the American doctor Annie Bukacek who has bluntly denounced that the figures have been deliberately inflated.

The sanitary measures suggested by the WHO and which have caused the abrupt brake on the global economy pose between choosing "get infected and die from COVID-19" or "lose your job". The dilemma offered by this discourse and which is amplified by the media is certainly misleading and its first intention is to discipline the population masses, even at the cost of their rights.

But the controversy does not come only from adverse political sectors to continue with this hidden state of exception. The reasons for not believing in this "catastrophism" so well amplified by television screens are supported by broad sectors of the scientific and medical field that have obviously been silenced by the Western Establishment.

There is a pleiad of doctors and infectologists who have been ignored and vetoed from the mass media for criticizing and even labeling the measures being taken as "Dangerous and grotesque". The case of Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology, professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and director of the Institute for Microbiology and Medical Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in the history of Germany, has pointed out measures against the COVID-19 as: "grotesque, absurd and very dangerous ... The life expectancy of millions is being shortened," he assured.

Similarly, Dr. Wolgfam Wodarg, a specialist in pulmonology, politician and former president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, went further and has denounced the avidity of some scientists and laboratories to make money with fear, along with the complacency of sectors of politics.

These testimonies and many others reveal a deliberate creation of this state of terror that guarantees productive immobility, the state of collective suspicion that dissociates relations between people and that will lead to the breakdown of the global economy that at the same time will undoubtedly bring, the establishment of a new Status Quo by the hand of a group of financial powers who will condition the lives of citizens with the implementation of new and extraordinary measures.

In the case of the Southern Cone, some governments have taken extreme paths and have ignored the existence of the Coronavirus causing a massive spread of infections that does not automatically mean the death of the infected person. The case of Brazil is central and despite the fact that President Bolsonaro resisted from the beginning quarantining the entire population (which entailed stopping the country), the pressure of the productive sectors and the same need of the inhabitants of the lower class led for an important part of its population to lean towards supporting the production process as much as possible.

From the media -like the Argentines without knowing that reality- it did not take long to question and blame these resolutions. When Bolsonaro could not be ridiculed further, they passed the crude and direct injury that certainly does not affect the mood of the Rio de Janeiro president, coincidentally and with regard to Argentina, he is on the opposite side of this position. His government has been an attached and self-sacrificing compliance with each of the measures that have come down from the WHO and that are interpreted and mediated by sensationalist doctors and journalists dedicated to maintaining the catastrophic atmosphere that so many rating points give.

The obsequence for these places reaches such a point that the Alberto Fernández government would be monitoring communications and network posts to combat the "fake News", something credible after the installation during the Macri era of listening and interception equipment on Israeli line. Perhaps the real concern is about the abusive and inconsistent policies being seen with the increases in the subsistence allowances of its officials, the creation of more taxes and the imposition of priceless fines for citizens who do not have a job ... what a democracy!

But, if we pay attention to what virologists and dissident experts have pointed out about the policy of a permanent quarantine, it is not understood why policies of a selective quarantine have not been adopted that protect vulnerable subjects (elderly, young people with heart problems, etc. ) and promote the continuity of the production chain that, in addition to supporting the economy, will maintain the mental health of those who are immobilized.

It is clear that the measures suggested by virologists such as Ferguson and that the WHO adopted as an indisputable word, will destroy the economy of many countries and with it, other tragedies will be unleashed that will undoubtedly cause many more deaths and in a cruel way, driven by survival.

Undoubtedly, this is a new chapter of the plan to establish a global Control of the entire population, which under the excuses of this oversized situation, would be much more invaded by the state as it had been tolerating it since 2001 with the argument of the fight against Terrorism.