Daniel McAdams returns to discuss the Ukraine crisis. Media coverage of the situation is absolutely abysmal and cartoonish, taking the role of stenographers for the intelligence community. The current crisis was precipitated by U.S. interventionism in the form of the 2014 Orange color revolution. Russia has a right to be concerned about existential issues and having Ukraine in NATO would objectively raise a serious concern for Moscow, especially in light of an openly hostile West. Blinken did his best Colin Powell presentation at the UN (e.g. Iraq WMDs) and there is a huge danger a false flag could lead to hostilities. This could be the beginning of the end for NATO. We're seeing the tail end of the U.S. Empire.

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Geopolitics & Empire:

The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast is joined once again by Daniel McAdams, who is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. We'll be talking foreign policy in US, Russia, Ukraine, World War III. It's been about two years since we last spoke, how is the new normal life in Texas?

Daniel McAdams:

Well, thanks again for having me, by the way, it's great to be back on your great program. And Texas, we had a few bad months but the governor here looked over to Florida and realized that he actually could find a little bit of courage and so it's basically been normal here for quite a long time. There are certainly some messages of the old regime with masks and people being nervous but basically you wouldn't notice anything here, I think, these days.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, I've escaped to Mexico. I know a lot of people are escaping to Mexico but I do have a plan B or C that I've thought about going back to the US and the only places that I would go would be somewhere like Texas or Florida or similar such states. So to talk about Ukraine and Russia, so where was the invasion of Ukraine by Russia?

Daniel McAdams:

Well, it hasn't happened as it was scheduled. In fact, somebody I think it was Garland Nixon posted a funny little tweet saying that, "Now the US is going to sanction Russia for not invading on the right schedule." So that may well be what happens, it hasn't invaded on their schedule. In fact, off camera, we were talking about a tweet that you retweeted from a guy I studied when I was in grad school, Edward Luttwak, who made the great point that the US intelligence community is claiming that Russia is about to have a full scale invasion of not just Eastern Ukraine but Ukraine and Kiev. And he said that the reckless gambling would go against the entire history of Putin's behavior that we've seen so far and he says, "I'm not buying it." So when someone of his stature, who's not in anyone's real camp says something like that, I think it's time to listen to him. And that was a welcome tweet, I think.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, I've also studied Luttwak in graduate school and that's someone to take his opinion. The situation in Ukraine is complicated and there are a lot of variables at play, the ones that stick out for me include the existential threat posed to Russia of Ukraine joining NATO, putting in their nuclear missiles and stationing them. And that's a clear red line for Russia. Then we have energy and pipeline games and there's a whole host of issues, there are irredentist issues regarding the breakaway republics. For you, what are some key geopolitical points here to understand that are driving the Ukraine crisis?

Daniel McAdams:

Well, there're a couple of very important things I think, and most people paying attention will recognize the first, which is the media once again is absolutely abysmal. The mainstream media in the US and most of Europe is abysmal. It's essentially the US media is taking the role of stenographers from the intelligence community, they're not checking anything that's reported, they're doing the exact same things they did in the run up to war with Iraq, which is just repeating the most outlandish statements of people in the administration and in the think tank world in DC. So they've done an absolutely abysmal job and in fact Matt Taibbi has a good piece on his Substack today, just blasting the media for its behavior, for its performance.

So I think that's important but the one thing that we try to talk about on the Ron Paul Liberty Report every day, which is something that the media would never tell you. And that is that the current crisis in Ukraine, Russia, Eastern Ukraine was precipitated by US interventionism. They don't want to admit this, they don't want to talk about it but as the kids say, "We've got the receipts." We've got the video of then Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland in the middle of the Maidan Square, handing out food to people who were intent on overthrowing the government.

And on this is a point I made once on the Liberty Report, imagine if January 6th in America really was an insurrection and not just some goofy guys with Buffalo horns on their heads. Imagine it really was an insurrection and a senior Russian government official was down there, handing out food, egging them on and even as we know from the telephone call that was intercepted, even deciding who would run America after the insurrectionists were successful. Imagine how Americans would react to that? Yet this is exactly what happened in Ukraine in 2014 and you just never hear about it.

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Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, that's a key point. The Orange Color Revolution, I wrote my thesis on color revolutions back in Geneva. And what about the issue of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO? I think I heard some of Ukrainian officials backpedaling saying they might rethink that. Because that would create, I've heard, a first strike capability for the US where Russia wouldn't be able to defend itself because at that point, NATO and the West could virtually take out all of Russia's military installations and they'd have no way to defend themselves. That's one thing I think about, what are some other key issues regarding Ukraine, NATO, US and Russia?

Daniel McAdams:

Well, the funny thing about Washington's foreign-policy establishment, aside from them being virtually wrong at every single turn, is the fact that in their mind, the only country that has a right to have security interests, to be concerned about existential issues, as you mentioned earlier, is the United States, no one else's security matters at all except for ours. And that would be fine but you have to realize that other countries face the same issues and as you point out, having Ukraine in NATO would raise objectively a very serious security concern for Russia. Particularly considering the [belacos 00:07:26] statements coming out of Washington for how long, since the reset back under Hilary Clinton, I would say since the end of the Cold War. So you have an openly hostile west denying any kind of validity to Russia security concerns, it's a recipe for disaster.

As far as Ukraine joining NATO. Well, technically that shouldn't be allowed according to NATO's charter because the country has a border of dispute with Russia in the

Michael Rectenwald returns to discuss the ESG Index or "woke capitalism" as a selection mechanism or demarcation device to delineate which businesses are onboard with The Great Reset and punish those who are not compliant. It is effectively a Social Credit System for companies, feeding investments toward the compliant while starving dissident firms, competition, and industries. This sets up the possibility for doing to companies what is being done to individuals in Canada right now, de-banking them and freezing their assets, and is totalitarian in nature. This global government combines the worst of both systems (capitalism and communism). We discuss the WEF Young Global Leaders program, the threat posed by the people who don't see COVID1984 for what it is, resistance, and parallel structures.

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Geopolitics & Empire:

Are you ready to get rekt? Because the Rectenwald returns to Geopolitics & Empire. Michael Rectenwald is former NYU professor and author of 11 books including Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom. You best get this book and read it because judging by events in Canada, the hunger games have officially commenced and we are now in thick of the Google Archipelago where you can have your bank account frozen for donating money to truckers. Michael, how are you doing? And how are you enjoying the Google Archipelago?

Michael Rectenwald:

I'm hanging in there very well. It's great to be back. So yeah, I'm looking forward to our talk.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. I think you were ill for a while now and you recovered?

Michael Rectenwald:

Oh, yes. I had COVID and went in twice to the hospital. The first time was for COVID itself, but then really, I left the hospital and then the medications they gave me made me sicker than anything. I was given some anticoagulants that ended up causing me to have intestinal bleeding, which almost killed me. So the second time I went into the hospital, I was under respiratory failure. I couldn't breathe at all. So they had to put me on a ventilator. I was completely unconscious.

They put me on a ventilator and everybody that knew me thought this is a 50-50 chance to survive once you're on the ventilator. I was on that for three days, but I didn't know that. I woke up and I was in the ICU and just said, "Well, how long have I been here?" And they said, "Three days." I was like, "What? I had lost them completely." So I was in 12 days in the ICU in a couple more days in the regular hospital bed. And oh boy, I couldn't walk when I got out. I couldn't do anything. I mean, I was so weak. I lost 50 pounds. It was intense.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. I was shocked when I saw you posting that on Facebook and Twitter and your social media. I was like I couldn't believe it, but glad that you recovered.

Michael Rectenwald:

Thank you.

Geopolitics & Empire:

In our previous interview, I think it was eight, nine months ago, which people should go back and watch, you laid the foundation for the great reset, Google Marxism, as you call it. This one world monopoly of government or global socialism.

Today, will be maybe a bit more of like a graduate level course where we dig deeper into more of the technical aspect such as the Environmental, Social and Governance Index, ESG, which is a Chinese style, social credit score for rating corporations. Your latest piece on mises.org details this. Incredibly, there are still many people who have no idea what ESG means that they gave me blank faces. And even still some who don't understand the social credit system. So maybe we can start with the ESG.

Michael Rectenwald:

Yeah. So the ESG, the Environmental, Social, and Governance Index is an index on the stock exchanges, of course. And it is a means by which corporations are rated along these criteria. So environmental of course has to do with their carbon footprint and their sustainability practices. Social really comes down to social justice precepts. How well are they abiding by social justice precepts in terms of how many... What's the constitution identity wise of their board members of their management, of their staff, and so on and so forth.

So it's kind of like the diversity, equity, and inclusion element. And then governance really refers to what's their corporate governance like but also how well do they interact with the state? How well do they abide by state law and policy? So what it's doing is I've been reading some people. Even a Marxist. I just read a Marxist who argues that wokeness in effect is a means for differentiating between the elite and the others.

It's a selection mechanism. Similarly, the ESG, which is wokeness in capitalism, this is woke capitalism is a mechanism by which you differentiate between woke corporations and non-woke. It's a selection mechanism. It's a demarcation device in order to separate out the non-compliant from the compliant. And then it effectively feeds investments toward the compliant and away from the non-compliant. As I see it, it's a way of starving off competition, starving off industries and starving off players within industries who are non-abiding, who are not compliant with the agenda.

In my way of thinking, it establishes kind of a woke cartel or a set of woke cartels. I mean, if you look at the major investment asset managers, all of them are totally down with this. All 10 of the top 10, especially BlackRock, and Vanguard, and State Street and UBS, they're completely down with this. I mean, Larry Fink of BlackRock puts out these letters every year. He put one on in January 18th. And it's basically, he throws down the stakeholder or the ESG gauntlet. If you do not abide by these precepts, you will be starved out of capital. You will not survive. Competitors will come and replace you.

He puts it exactly like that. You'll be replaced. So it's a kind of cancellation. Just as in the social realm, individuals are canceled. They're canceling corporations in the same way. And interestingly, they're differentially diverting funds to China, Chinese companies. So it's a really unbelievable development. I was reading the UN. There's a ton of UN programs that are all about this.

There's the principles of banking, principles of asset management and principles of insurance. They have 4,700 investment firms, banks, and asset managers signed on to this. 4,700. And the World Economic Forum is a major player in pushing it. I've been looking into this for a while. I think that Klaus Schwab is actually the inventor of this idea of stakeholder capitalism, which is to benefit stakeholders as opposed to, or in addition to shareholders.

Stakeholder capitalism is the premise for the ESG. It's the guiding principle for the ESG of which is the mechanism for enforcing stakeholder capitalism. It goes back to 1971 and Schwab's first book, which title sort of eludes me, but it was published in '71 when he founded the precursor to the World Economic Forum. He's been pushing this stakeholder. He and the WEF have been pushing this stakeholder idea for decades.

So now it's completely embedded and infiltrated. All corporate America and corporations broadly across the world, all the entire banking industry. So this is the premise that sets up the possibility for doing to companies what is being done to individuals in Canada right now, de-banking them, defunding them, freezing their assets. This is all part of the same campaign. It is wokeness writ large. And wokeness is not some sort of a funny, silly ideology that's just for making fights on Twitter. This really a major demarcation device in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, the wheat being them. In their case, that's how they think of it. The chaff being everybody who is not on board.

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Tessa Lena discusses her foray into writing about The Great Reset via her popular Substack which is also featured on prominent websites such as Mercola.com. She never imagined the dystopian future would come so soon. In an attempt to explain what's going on today, she examines the Great Resets of the past, from Russian serfdom, to the Russian Revolution (Lenin's "Great Reset"), and growing up during the collapse of the Soviet Union. She talks about "disease blackmail" and how she's skeptical on putting much weight on "isms", but the ideology of Davos communism is what the Bolsheviks were using. She talks about rock stars going "Covid Central," what the Algorithm Ghetto might look like, and how we all have an inner technocrat. Tessa doesn't think Davos will get what it wants because it's just too crazy.

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About Tessa Lena

Tessa Lena is a strongly opinionated musician living in New York. She is a classically trained pianist and singer, born and raised in Moscow.

As a teenager, Tessa had the honor of performing her own composition at the Moscow Conservatory, and wanted to be a geneticist.

As her interests expanded to Tibetan music and language, she headed to Lhasa with a backpack to do a field study in linguistics and enthomusicology.

After being attacked by a sex trafficker in Southern China and successfully fighting him off, Tessa settled in Chicago.

In Chicago, she started a band working with her hero Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner, and drummer Alan Lake, who has played and recorded with Madonna, Brian Ferry, Julian Lennon, Ministry, Brian Wilson and Sam Moore from Sam And Dave.

After a few years in Chicago, Tessa moved to New York and started a new band, Tessa Makes Love, along with occasional collaborations by Ian McDonald.

In 2013, her music video “Spente Le Stelle” received over a million very useful views on YouTube although the jury is still out on how many people realized that the video was a satire. Alas, the world keeps spinning, and it is still imperfect!

In 2016, Tessa started Coalition for Artistic Dignity and organized a conference in Brooklyn dedicated to artistic dignity, social power and corporate responsibility.

In early 2017, she released an album titled ‘Tessa Fights Robots,’ you can listen and buy it here.

Since the English language only has so many words, this blog is also called ‘Tessa Fights Robots.’

Both the album and the blog are about being human in the world of technology, big data, and machine-like people.​

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James Corbett discusses where his head is at after all these years of doing what he's been doing and what's most pressing on his mind at the moment. He agrees that the COVID1984 biosecurity state is one of the central problems facing humanity today. The Digital ID system is being implemented in the very near-term and will then be forwarded through social credit scores and CBDCs. James warns against hopium and that although we've won some battles, we are not winning the war. He discusses how he views the elite global power structure and their visions of the future such as eugenics, transhumanism, and technocracy. He gives his thoughts on the prospects of future war, how to think about deep politics, as well as solutions.

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Geopolitics & Empire:

The Geopolitics & Empire podcast is joined by James Corbett. The man, the myth, the legend. Señor Santiago or Jaime, as we would call you here in México. How is the Great Reset going in Japan?

James Corbett:

As well as can be expected. In fact, actually given what is happening in other parts of the world, it's going extremely well here in Japan, which is not something I would've predicted beforehand.

But before we start, let me just give a little plug for your podcast. I've been enjoying it quite a bit recently. I appreciate the fact that you're bringing in a lot of different people with, from a lot of different perspectives.

Some of whom I agree with, some of whom I slightly agree with, some of whom I violently disagree with, but I do appreciate that you do get a broad range of opinions on.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, thanks for that. You know, I was just going to say, it's kind of funny that here we are two, I guess former English teachers turn podcasters, content creators, whatever you want to call it. And the Geopolitics & Empire can't hold a candle to the prolific work of corporate report, but it's funny.

I had you actually on my future guest list and then the friend of mind pointed out that recently you had actually mentioned me in your Kazakhstan Episode, which I thought was flattering. And I thought it was a good time now than to shoot you a mail.

But you've had quite the ride over the past decade, plus putting out a huge library of important work and meeting so many interesting people. I'm just curious now, how has the ride been for you? How does it feel? Has your work ethic changed much? How have you changed or stayed the same through all of these years?

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James Corbett:

Well, I guess on the personal level or on the work level, I don't think that my work ethic has changed. I have just always been particularly self-motivated, which is a good thing when you're basically doing this for yourself and by yourself and with yourself.

Just talking to a screen most days, if you're not self motivated to get out of bed and start doing things, it's probably going to be a problem. But luckily that's never been a problem for me. So in that sense, I don't think anything's changed.

In fact, the one thing that has changed is when I started, of course, I was just doing this as you say, kind of as a hobby. But it was essentially a second full-time job after my full-time job of teaching.

But luckily after four years, I was able to mass enough of an audience and support in order to start doing it full-time. So now I don't have that burden. But now I also have a family, which is obviously a demand on my time as a stay-at-home father. So I juggle a lot of balls, but luckily I'm able to do that.

However, in terms of what I've... the way I've changed in my operation or the way I think about things or the way I approach things, I think I've been consistent in some of my core principles and things, but I have certainly changed on certain topics and certain ideas.

And obviously, I'd like to think that as my research, as I've done more research, I've come to a more nuanced understanding of various things. Probably the biggest change that has occurred in the demonstrable in the time since I started to now would be my conversion from statism to some flavor of anarchism. I think that's a pretty big change to make politically speaking.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. Speaking of anarchism, I was just going to ask you, by the way. I think... Have you been to Mexico for Anarchapulco?

James Corbett:

I've been there twice. Yeah.

Geopolitics & Empire:

How did you enjoy Mexico? Is it someplace... A lot of people are fleeing to Mexico. Is it a place you'd recommend?

James Corbett:

I recommend... Actually, I have a questions for COVID on this specifically, I think it's called, where should we run to? I think it was number 74, but don't hold me to that. Anyway, you can find it on my site. Where I address that question, because I get that question a lot from people at least a couple of week, every single week.

I want to move. Where should I... What country should I move to? I cannot and will not answer that question for anyone because it's such a personal question dependent on a thousand different personal context sort of things.

So, for some people, I'm sure Mexico is a great place to go. For others, I'm sure it is not. And I wouldn't presume to say either way. For me personally, what is the secret stew that made it so that when I got to Japan, and was planning to stay here for one year, I've stayed here for 18 years.

What is it about Japan that drew me to it and I felt comfortable? At this point, I feel more at home in Japan than I would in Canada. So why is that? I don't know. That's a million different personal things that go to that.

But people always ask me, why did you go to Japan? Like, as if it was some sort of big political decision that I made or some sort of calculation or strategic thing. No, I was a young, dumb, single, carefree was just looking for a way to kill a year and make some money. So I'll go teach English in Asia. And it turns out I really liked it in Japan. That's the long and short of it.

As it turns out, that was actually, I think very beneficial for me in a number of ways. One of which is that because I was not fluent Japanese speaker in Japan at in early 2000s. My lifeline, the sort of the thing that I was getting information and news and things from was online.

And so, I was a very early adopter of podcasts and what have you, because it was just a very easy way for me to stay in touch with what was going on back home in Canada. And as a result of that, I think I was early on the wave of things like podcasting and other things, which helped me out in the long run.

And, also, I think it is easier to do this work that I do from a remove. I talk a lot about Canada and the US and other places. But it's good to have that actual distance, so I can sort of see things from afar and get a different perspective on them.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. My story is the same. I thought I'd go to Mexico just for a year or two. I became a Mexican. I've been here for 10 years and even Mexicans ask me, why'd you come here? And I'm like, "I'm still trying to figure out the question... the answer to that question," so that's just life. You know, life happens.

And as you say, I agree when people ask me, should I go to Russia or Mexico or Latin America? And I often tell them, it might be better just to stay put where you are. So I wanted to get your thoughts on what's most pressing you at the moment?

There's a lot of questions I can ask you....

Ron Unz provides his analysis on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. He discusses the possibility of it being deliberate biowarfare by the United States against China and Iran, given it appeared at the peak of America's global confrontation with China. As a moderately lethal but highly contagious pathogen, it was designed to be an "anti-economy" bioweapon, and the national security state apparatus which carried out the attack likely believed there would be minimal blowback.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Ron Unz: COVID-19 Was an 'Anti-Economy' Bioweapon by the U.S. Against China #257

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Major Covid/Biowarfare Articles https://www.unz.com/page/covid-biowarfare-articles

American Pravda: Anne Frank, Sirhan Sirhan, and AIDS https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-anne-frank-sirhan-sirhan-and-aids

Covid Deaths and Vaxxing Deaths https://www.unz.com/runz/covid-deaths-and-vaxxing-deaths

Covid-19 False Flag? w/Ron Unz, Kevin Barrett, Barry Kissin, Meryl Nass, Thomas Willcuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mFFcKo-gLY

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TRANSCRIPT

Geopolitics & Empire:

The Geopolitics & Empire podcast is joined by Ron Unz. He is a theoretical physicist by training, has worked in the financial services software industry, and became involved in politics and public policy activities. He founded The Unz Review in, I believe, 2013, which garners a lot of traffic, is widely read. Welcome to Geopolitics & Empire, Mr. Unz.

Ron Unz:

Hey, great to be here.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, good to have you. And just a few quick announcements before we begin. Tomorrow, actually, I am released from YouTube prison as my second first strike in a row will expire. I'm not sure if I will post this controversial interview with Ron in full on Pentagon too, but listeners know they can find it on all podcast platforms and now the five video platforms of Odyssey, Rumble, Rokfin, BitChute and Brighteon. The brand new website for Geopolitics & Empire has just gone live. You can find it at geopoliticsandempire.com. There's a new membership option there to help support the podcast and get access to my new brief weekly podcast, commentary, monthly newsletter, private Telegram, and monthly group call with members. All of this, both in English and Spanish.

Now, back to Mr. Unz who will be discussing his take on the origins of the pandemic, how deadly he deems the pandemic to be the efficacy of the vaccines, the new cold war with China and so forth. Just real quick. My view is that there is no way any of this to me was natural or accidental or spontaneous given all the evidence we have seen the past few years. I can only interpret the pandemic as a planned event. For me, the question then becomes planned by who, what is the nature exactly of the pandemic and to what end?

I initially viewed it as a biological warfare attacked by the west against the east. I also entertained the idea that it could be a biological attacked by the east against the west. But given the global coordination we've been seeing lately by all nations against their own peoples, I'm starting to view it as an attack by ruling elites around the globe on their own populations as George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I tend to believe that we are not in a pandemic by definition. I question whether there is a virus at all, and that it's possible many events were manufactured. But I'm still not sure, and I'm of course, open to the idea that there was a gain-of-function, a virus. I view the vaccines as dangerous and possibly as a bio weapon as some people have said such as Francis Boyle. But more importantly for me, I'm afraid that it created a pretext for the installation of a Chinese style, social credit, digital passport kind of system.

So those are my 2 cents. I know on the Unz Review, you have given platform to a wide range of views on the matter, which is fantastic and how media should be. Mike Whitney has been a prolific commentator in your site but you disagree with him on many points. So we're ready for your take on COVID 19. I believe you believe it was a bio warfare by the west against China and Iran among others, that the pandemic health threat is serious, and that there is little evidence demonstrating the vaccines are harmful. I'm not really here to debate, but just for you to give us your data dump. So maybe we can start with the bio warfare aspect. Give us your take, Mr. Unz.

Ron Unz:

Okay. Well, I mean, my views in some ways probably are much more conventional and closer to the mainstream than some of the issues that you've raised. When the epidemic obviously first began, it suddenly appeared in the city of Wuhan, China. And then at first, really nobody knew what was behind it. So obviously after a few months, the conventional wisdom, the establishment opinion settled in it being a natural virus. And that was basically supported by articles that came out in Nature Medicine and science. And the entire media shifted over to that perspective.

So in other words, really for about a year, the establishment position in the media was that it was a natural virus that unfortunately leaked into the human population and was devastating the world for that reason. Now, that certainly was possible. But a few months ago, there's suddenly that, what I guess could be called almost a propaganda bubble ended up bursting. Particularly, a long time science journalist named Nick Wade, who had been editor, science editor at the New York Times and spent decades there came out with a very long and detailed analysis pointing to the fact that there's very little evidence that's a natural virus.

And if it's not a natural virus, he argued that the obvious alternative was that it was an artificial virus produced ina laboratory that leaked out of Wuhan, China. Those are the two possibilities that have been widely debated in the media over the last six or eight months, either a natural virus, which was the previous conventional opinion or a lab leak, an artificial virus that leaked out of Wuhan, China. It seems to me, the interesting thing about the debate is that there's an obvious third possibility, which just as you say has been discussed in fringe areas of the internet from the beginning, but has really been confined to those fringe areas.

And the third possibility is that it was a deliberate bio warfare attack. In other words, the virus was biologically engineered to be moderately lethal, but extremely, extremely contagious. So in effect, it was designed to be an anti-economy bioweapon, not an anti-personnel bioweapon and that with the fatality rate of about 0.5 to 1%, obviously it wouldn't wipe out a population, but it would kill a sufficiently large fraction of the population, and it was so extremely contagious that countries that were infected with it would have to take drastic measures that would disrupt their economy to control it. And that's exactly what happened in China.

In other words, when you're looking at the details of the original incident in China, the virus appeared in Wuhan, China, according to all of the best estimates towards the end of October or towards the beginning of November. That was patient zero. Now, that would've allowed exactly right amount of time for the virus to become an unstoppable epidemic around the time of the Lunar New Year travels in China.

In other words, the Lunar New Year is a tremendously important holiday in China. It's the equivalent of Christmas, New Year's, and number of other things put together with 450 million Chinese traveling. Wuhan is a key transit hub. So to the extent that the virus became widespread in Wuhan invisibly before the government noticed what was happening and during the lunar New York travels, it would've infected the entire country and had a devastating impact in China's economy.

Now, the virus appeared exactly at the peak of America's global confrontation with China. And the suspicion that the two events connected is really a fairly obvious one. Furthermore, when you look at some of the details of what had been happening in China, the previous two years, in 2018, there was a mysterious viral epidemic that had devastated China's poultry industry.

In 2019, there was a mysterious viral epidemic that appeared in China and destroyed 40% of China's pig herds, its primary meat source. So we're talking about a virus appearing in 2018, attacking its food supply. A virus appearing in 2019 attacking another source of food supply, and then a virus appearing at the end of 2019 that could have devastated China's economy in exactly that sort of way.

Now, as it happens, when we look at some of the other events that really would make anybody very suspicious, in 2017, before these viral epidemics began, a man named Robert Kadlec was brought into the Trump administration. For decades, he'd been one of America's leading bio warfare experts, an advocate of bio warfare as being a very useful and plausibly deniable means of damaging or severely disrupting international adversaries.

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Geopolitics & Empire · Jeff Nyquist: Fall of Communism Was Staged, We're On The Road To East-West Convergence #256

Jeff Nyquist discusses the work of KGB defectors such as Anatoly Golitsyn and Yuri Bezmenov who warned that the Communists in the East (e.g. Russia and China) were playing a strategic long-game against the West, where they would feign collapse, and ultimately come back to destroy Europe and the United States. The 1920s Soviet counter-intelligence Operation Trust was an early example of this. The Sino-Soviet split had been faked. The Soviets had infiltrated the major opposing intelligence services and fed them false information. 94% of Golitsyn's predictions came true, including his forecast that China and Russia would emerge stronger than the West and change the military balance. He views the pandemic as a biological attack on the West, which is destroying the economy. Golitsyn ultimately believed that there would be convergence between the East and West into one global and universal Marxist-type system. In this new world, China would take control of the United States, which includes extermination of the native population. He believes the Russian takeover of Ukraine has been long planned and that what happened in Kazakhstan was Russia securing their rear in advance of their advance West. The U.S. and NATO don't have the capacity to defend Ukraine, the West is weak and must avoid war.

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Jeff Nyquist discusses the work of KGB defectors such as Anatoly Golitsyn and Yuri Bezmenov who warned that the Communists in the East (e.g. Russia and China) were playing a strategic long-game against the West, where they would feign collapse, and ultimately come back to destroy Europe and the United States. The 1920s Soviet counter-intelligence Operation Trust was an early example of this. The Sino-Soviet split had been faked. The Soviets had infiltrated the major opposing intelligence services and fed them false information. 94% of Golitsyn's predictions came true, including his forecast that China and Russia would emerge stronger than the West and change the military balance. He views the pandemic as a biological attack on the West, which is destroying the economy. Golitsyn ultimately believed that there would be convergence between the East and West into one global and universal Marxist-type system. In this new world, China would take control of the United States, which includes extermination of the native population. He believes the Russian takeover of Ukraine has been long planned and that what happened in Kazakhstan was Russia securing their rear in advance of their advance West. The U.S. and NATO don't have the capacity to defend Ukraine, the West is weak and must avoid war.



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Professor Kees van der Pijl discusses his new book which explains how the virus crisis is a fraud and cover for political seizure of power. The medical emergency is just a pretext for digital identity passport systems. He discusses the players behind this ruling oligarchy whose concentration is unprecedented in history. Elites are using a strategy of tension to subjugate an otherwise unruly global populace which has been on the verge of 1848-style revolution. The medical phase of the coup can turn toward war (e.g. Russia) as another means of consolidating rule. The ruling class believes they have a small window of time to cement their power on the heels of the historic AI revolution. He explains the mechanisms by which the oligarchy is able to impose worldwide regulatory processes on entire continents and how China is cooperating in this 'ultra-imperialism' with the West. He's optimistic that the political project that is Covid can't go on for much longer, will fall apart, and that they do not yet possess the technology required to roll out a total digital control system. A core group of society is also increasingly rejecting their insane vision of the future.



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Geopolitics & Empire:

The Geopolitics & Empire podcast is joined by Dutch political economist, Dr. Kees van der Pijl. He taught at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Sussex. He is the author of numerous books, but today we'll be talking about his new absolutely must-read book, States OF Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check. Welcome Kees. How is the state of emergency going over there in the Netherlands?

Kees van der Pijl:

Well, it's pretty bleak. And you may have seen that I dedicated the book to the young, because in my view, the children and the student age are really bearing the brunt of this. Because for somebody of my age, I now find that two years is nothing. Entirely speaking for myself and my wife, for us it was an interesting time, politically interesting and so on, but if I see what happens to my children+ and to all the children here and to students, we're looking at a drama, because for them, two years is a lifetime if you're developing. So in that sense, I'm really very gloomy, and of course we are subject now to the rollout of an EU project of a digital identity, and that's what it's all about. The whole medical thing is just a pretext to get us used to taking vaccinations.

Everything is in a very incomplete state, so it will probably end in a disaster and chaos anyway, but that in itself is not a promising prospect. Now, Holland is unrecognizable, I would say, except if you compare it to the second world war and the occupation in which the Dutch population already gave a taste of a very peculiar attitude which can only be compared with some Eastern European countries. For instance, we... Well, I wasn't there of course, but the generation of my parents and grandparents, they basically let the Jews of Holland being abducted, never to return, whereas the rest of Western Europe on average had a better attitude, hiding people to a greater degree. It happened here in Holland as well, but anyway, that's the comparison that keeps popping up.

This is the first time since the second world war that we had a curfew, that we had a lockdown, that we had police brutality to a degree not seen in this country in my whole lifetime. And everything is being denied, and I'm not telling you anything that you didn't know already, but it's grim. And it's not grim for me because I'm sitting here and functioning, but it's grim for the children. I just heard today that neither of my small grandchildren want to go to school any longer because they have to wear masks in the corridor, and kids get nervous of that because they don't know why that would be.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you as well. And I feel the exact same way, the fear is not for myself, but for the youth and my children. I can deal with these things. I've lived a good enough life until now, so I don't care about myself. And I also think it's a fair comparison what you bring up. I've been saying this from the beginning. And I was in Central Asia in 2020, and I actually had planned to move back to Europe to my homeland of Croatia, but as soon as I discovered what was really going on behind the state of emergency, in early 2020, I decided to flee back to Latin America where I thought we would have more freedoms for a bit longer, which has been proving to be the case so far. And I think it's-

Kees van der Pijl:

In Mexico, huh?

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah, in Mexico. They just activated also vaccine certificates here a week ago, so it's a battle. 500 people have filed an injunction against the governor because it's anti-constitutional. But also your comparison with World War II, there's a Croatian MEP who recently-

Kees van der Pijl:

I saw him.

Geopolitics & Empire:

Yeah. He yelled at Macron and von der Leyen, and comparing what is happening now to the Nazi occupation, so you're not alone. But let's get through your book. There's so much here. I highly recommend this book. I think it's on sale actually at Clarity Press, 40% off, people can go there now. But there's so much information in it, and it's hard to pick a place to start, but you [inaudible 00:05:01] that the ruling oligarchy has seized on the virus outbreak, having manufactured it essentially to declare a state of emergency in order to put the breaks on the IT revolution from ushering in a democratic transformation, like the printing press did in the middle ages. You talk about an internationalized global state dominated by international capital which has been preparing for economic collapse and 1848 style revolutions. You also call this oligarchy the intelligence IT media block. So maybe to start, people will always ask, who are they, and how would you describe this ruling oligarchy?

Kees van der Pijl:

Well, the first thing from a theoretical viewpoint is that you should never fix it as an existing entity which doesn't change. The title of my doctoral dissertation somewhere decades and decades ago had class formation, and I think when you think of a ruling class and any other class in society, you always should think of class formation that is within society like a magnetic field. There occurs a certain sense of direction in a particular way. When you mentioned this triangle that I sketch in the book, the intelligence services, IT giants and the media, they constitute a core that leads this process of class formation in the current period. That will be my thesis.

And of course that doesn't exhaust the other components or fractions of a ruling class. They also must become involved in that process of class formation, because they can't take time enough off and wait for better times or whatever. So even the banks who are now being disciplined in my view have to be on board and want to be on board. The pharmaceutical companies join the process because, almost unexpectedly for them at least in the longer view, they become very important. If you think back of the war on terror, for instance, the pharmaceutical industry of course was somewhere at the end of the line, they had no particular role to play.

Suddenly, they found themselves in the forefront, because the medical pretext for the whole politics of fear that is being rolled out now is of a different kind. So in that sense, class transformation takes a different turn. You always have to compare it to the war on terror, because that was basically at an international level at least the first time that a comprehensive politics of fear was rolled out, some people say, to deal with the Seattle explosion, with the sudden explosion against the extreme free trade that was in the works.

There are many other elements that enter into that, but in that case, you still had a different... Well, not necessarily a triangle, but you had a different block of forces leading the process of transformation, and this has now switched to the triangle that I just described and that I explain in the book, which is pretty self-evident. Of course if it's an IT revolution, then the revolutionaries must include the people who created this IT world, which is basically a state-driven invention process which was then privatized after 1990, because after 1990, capital no longer tolerated any sort of public constraint imposed on it. So in that sense, after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the state socialist episode, everything has to be privatized by the logic of the system, and it's that process which created the oligarchy in its present form.

But we shouldn't forget that, even in the crisis itself,...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts discusses US-Russia tensions and corona tyranny. He doesn't see how events in Kazakhstan could've been anything else but an attempted color revolution. While prior U.S. administrations in the 20th century worked to defuse tensions with Russia, Washington today is removing safeguards, not taking security talks seriously, and is expanding NATO and military installations. Russians feel they are threatened and are taking actions to ensure their security. These developments are extremely discouraging. At the start of the pandemic, he had no reason to question the CDC and NIH. However, over time he began to see holes in the narrative. He fears many people will be injured as a result of mass experimental vaccination and we may see social collapse. He believes there must be some sort of conspiracy and can't fathom the level of global coordination going on. The lockdowns have created inflation which has created serious problems for the U.S. dollar. We don't know what else they may release. There's a tremendous amount of evil at play. If things don't clear up this year, it may very well be the end of the world.

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Professor Luca Anceschi discusses recent events in Kazakhstan. We will never know if it was a revolution because the violence that ensued stopped the natural organic evolution of the protest movement into something that could have changed the political system. It's been a good week for Putin and a watershed moment for Kazakh-Russia relations. We're going to see a structural change where multi-vectorism will become a thing of the past, as Nursultan moves closer to Moscow and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which Putin views as an instrument of geopolitical domination. He believes what occurred was a result of a domestic coup or elite rivalry situation, as in the past it was discovered President Tokayev's phone was being surveilled using Pegasus spyware. We discuss Nazarbayev's cult of personality, what consequences there might be for the region, and the road ahead.

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Show Notes

Kazakhstan: Secrets, Lies, and Foreign Troops https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/86172

Why Kazakhstan will not be returning to Russia’s fold https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/13/why-kazakhstan-will-not-be-returning-russias-fold

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Luca Anceschi is professor of Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow, where he is also the editor of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.

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