COVID 9-11: Shock Doctrine

The nw global-fascist technocracy we see emerging around us is the natural result of the historical process of capitalism. As human social relations have become more complex down through the ages, so power has devolved from the magisterial to the functionary; from kings and queens to parliaments to boards of directors of multinational corporations.

The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) was the inspiration of the first Amsterdam based investment bank, the Company for Far Lands, created in 1595. It was chartered in 1602 as a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies in which Dutch businessmen could buy and sell shares and gamble in futures markets, speculating on the prices of commodities such as silk, cotton, porcelain, and textiles.

“Your Honours should know by experience that trade in Asia must be driven and maintained under the protection and favour of Your Honours’ own weapons, and that the weapons must be paid for by the profits from the trade; so that we cannot carry on trade without war, nor war without trade.” - Jan Pieterszoon Coen (Stephen R. Bown, Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 . Macmillan, 2010, p.7.)

With the power to hire its own labour, to strike its own coins, to punish and execute criminals, to create new colonies, and to wage war, the VOC was its own virtual sovereign nation; a state outside a state. Between 1602 and 1663 this power was used to make war on Spanish and Portuguese settlements in Chile, Brazil, East and West Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China and the Philippines.

Private capital backed up by state violence is not a new thing. Robber barons have always operated under an umbrella of national sovereignty.

In the early 1970s the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (ITT) exercised its influence over the US congress to protect its billion dollar investment in Chilean copper mining, which had been majority controlled by two of its subsidiaries, Anaconda Copper and Kennecott Copper. Chile’s plans to nationalise its mining operations had commenced under the government of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in 1970 and were completed during the government of President Salvador Allende.

 Then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made the US' position clear:

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

And so on the morning of September 11, 1973, the government of Chile was ousted by a US-backed military coup d’etat. Allende himself was killed during the bombing of his presidential palace, La Moneda, while thousands of Chileans were either murdered, “disappeared”, imprisoned, or coerced to emigrate or live in exile. 

Chile's 9-11 coup was the staging point for for the rollout of neoliberal globalisastion. "Make the economy scream", were Nixons orders to the CIA. And that’s precisely what they did. Macro-economic reforms were used as an instrument of social repression. Subsidies on basic food items were removed. Price controls dropped. Free healthcare suspended. A devalued currency sent prices soaring. Real wages fell by 60%. The price of fuel and basic necessities skyrocketed. Living standards collapsed and the population were plunged into crushing poverty. All of this was done in the name of ‘economic reform’ and the ‘opening up’ of the economy. Literacy, life expectancy and personal purchasing power were traded off for 'economic growth'. Milton Friedman declared it a miracle. The Chilean model would become the template for Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Brazil, eventually making its way to Egypt in 2013, and finally coming home to roost with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since we first learned about the SARS 2 coronavirus it has infected 2 million people worldwide and claimed just north of 100 thousand lives. Not to downplay the seriousness of the disease which could still be in its early stages, but it is clearly not the doomsday pathogen which Bill Gates' predictive modelling suggested would kill 65 million people within the first 6 months.

So why the economic vandalism?

The IMF is already calling this the biggest economic meltdown in history, surpassing the great depression. But was the decision to shut down 30% of the global economy and plunge the world into recession really based on the threat of a viral pandemic? Or was the pandemic the pretext for a tectonic power shift? Is COVID-19 just a patsy for an economic collapse which was already baked in? Or are we seeing the "Miracle of Chile" aka economic shock therapy rolled out globally under the cover of a medical emergency?

So far we've seen governments declare states of emergency. Police have been given extraordinary powers. Democracy has been suspended. Elections cancelled. We are now living in a state of internal siege, with military-medical-technocratic juntas replacing elected governments, everywhere. 

 "capitalism's downfall will largely be due to capitalism undermining where it gets its wealth from, the consumer." 

We should not be surprised by any of this. This is capitalism's natural response to a crisis, ie, a falling rate of profit. Neoclassical economic theory describes it as a systemic risk. Marxist economic theory calls it an internal contradiction. But those predicting the imminent collapse of the capitalist system should not be so optimistic. Capitalism's primary function is the extraction of profit, and appeasements for the sake of maintaining the social order were never guaranteed.

The social contract is a 17th century theory concerning the legitimacy of the authority of the state. It posits that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their rights and freedoms and submit to authority (either that of the ruler, or of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights and freedoms. It is these remaining rights and freedoms which are now being stripped from us, thanks to the COVID-9-11 false flag terror attack. 

Just like the twin towers, the current economic collapse has been pre-wired and remote detonated while the public is distracted by a theatre show. In 2001 the threat posed by so-called Islamic extremism gifted us the Patriot Act, airport pat-downs and a series of theatre wars across the Middle East and North Africa. Today the threat of a deadly pandemic disease is being used to bring online the foundational elements of the fourth industrial estate; enhanced surveillance, digital identity, and geo-fencing (contact tracing).

For Enlightenment scholars, a system which imposes its will on the individual in violation of our natural rights can have no political legitimacy. Something to think about while we're being force vaccinated and micro-chipped and sent off to work in the data mines of the new information age.