The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State — 28 September, 2022
by Simon Elmer
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Description
With the lifting of the thousands of regulations by which our lives were ruled for two long years there has been an understandable desire to believe that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ is over and we will return to something like an albeit new normal. But as new crises have sprung up to take its place — war in the Ukraine, the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ and the return of the environmental crisis — it’s increasingly difficult not to look back on ‘lockdown’ as the first campaign in a war that has not been declared by any government but is no less real for that.
The willingness of our governments to use the forces of the state against their own populations on the justification of protecting us from ourselves signals a new level of authoritarianism — and something like the return of fascism — to the governmental, juridical and cultural forms of the formerly neoliberal democracies of the West, and one of the aims of this book is to examine the validity of this thesis. Its purpose in doing so, however, is not to contribute to an academic debate about the meaning of the term ‘fascism’, but rather to interrogate how and why the general and widespread moral collapse in the West over the past two-and-a-half years has been effected with such rapidity and ease, and to examine to what ends that collapse is being used.
The more deliberate is the immiseration of the populations of Western democracies, the clearer it becomes that the war started by COVID-19 is not between nation states but a civil war waged against our institutions of democratic governance and the division of powers between executive, legislature and judiciary. Insofar as these institutions and this division are being dismantled and replaced by the rule of international technocracies that, under the cloak of the ‘pandemic’, have assumed increasing power over our lives since March 2020, this war represents a revolution in Western capitalism from the neoliberalism under which we have lived for the past forty years. Where it is heading with ever greater speed and finality, and which The Road to Fascism sets out to demonstrate, is the new totalitarianism of the Global Biosecurity State.
List of Contents
Preface | 1. The Return of Fascism | 2. Eternal Fascism | 3. The Fascist State and Human Rights | 4. Fascism and the Decay of Capitalism | 5. The Psychological Structure of Fascism | 6. The Aesthetics of Totalitarianism | 7. Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Left | 8. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the State | 9. The New Totalitarianism | 10. Humanity in Dark Times | Conclusion | Appendix: Laws for the Protection of People and State | Bibliography
About the Author
Simon Elmer was born in London. In 2002 he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Colour of the Sacred: Georges Bataille and the Image of Sacrifice (2007); COVID-19: Implementing the UK Biosecurity State (2020); Brave New World: Expanding the UK Biosecurity State through the Winter of 2020-2021 (2021); Virtue and Terror: Resisting the UK Biosecurity State (2021); and with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).
Publication Details
Publisher: Architects for Social Housing (September 2022)
Printed and bound by Lulu Press, UK
Language: English
Hardback and paperback: 318 pages
ISBN 978-1-4710-6819-5 (clothbound)
ISBN 978-1-4716-0172-9 (paperbound)
Dimensions: 15.87 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 15.24 x 1.94 x 22.86 cm
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Please note, it took me 8 months to write this book and another 18 months of research before that, so please don’t share this E-book. For obvious reasons, I don’t have a publisher for a book that contradicts everything we’ve been told over the past two-and-a-half years, and this is the only way I can make some financial return on my work. Thank you. Otherwise, whatever format you purchase, I hope you find my book informative, interesting and useful.
Simon Elmer
Architects for Social Housing
A Communist in Hong Kong 
Thank you for your reply, I will look at your new book and at the others you have written.
Just because everything seems hopeless we must carry on. They seem to be acting like they are immune to cobsequences but in the days of instant pictures and videoing they will come a cropper and then they will start selling each other out, I just hope it happens soon. We save tge world one person at a time.
Eileen
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I remember someone saying two years ago, a few months after this coup, that people are deceived en masse and all at once, while enlightnment happens slowly and one by one.
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Hello, I just purchased E-Book and followed instructions by clicking pay by credit card, it took me to PayPal where I filled my info with note specifying donation is for ebook. I did not receive email with link to download ebook. Please let me know what I should do.
Great podcast on Delingpole. Thank You. Have a very good day.
Amy Banuelos
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Hello Amy, thank you for buying the e-book. I’ve sent it to you this morning (UK time). I hope it’s useful to you. Best wishes, Simon.
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Dear Simon
I heard your interview with James and it reminded me of your Damned Lies article and how it important it was at the time to me. Thank you.
Your analysis of the situation as outlined in your interview is precisely what I have come to. One nit I have concerns the definition of capitalism. Since 1688 we have had a central bank with state conferred monopolistic privilege to print the notes of the realm and monetise debt. The “central” gives the game away. The heart of modern “capitalism” is monetary communism.
The interest rate is not purely a monetary decision. By altering the rate of interest in society (the core of human decision making) these central planners of money pick the winners and losers better than any law conferring privilege. My field, the mining industry, has offered a unique window seat to what you have noticed in housing I think. International technocrats deciding on global resource policy that can over-ride a nation states legal framework is one thing. Distorting development decisions in a capital intensive industry by lowering interest rates has favoured overbuilding and the growth of mega companies much like subsidised agriculture and cheap money creates large corporate farms. Hope to chat with you about this.
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Thank you Simon. Purchased a copy. Didn’t use PayPal since I closed my account following their shoddy treatment of the UsForThem group.
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Thank you, Tim, and I agree. Unfortunately, PayPal is the only way Lulu, the printers of my book, pay authors royalties; but we’re looking into a new online payment platform for donations to ASH. Bear with us, and I hope you find the book interesting.
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Sure Simon, understood. I didn’t mean it to sound like a criticism of Lulu or anyone else (folks can do what they wish and have to do what is practical). It just felt good to make my first move away from using services like PP.
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How can I buy this book? I have never had a PayPal account (I saw the Long March coming a long time ago) but can pay by credit card. Is there an alternative?
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Hi, I’d like to buy this as well but I won’t use PayPal. I’m surprised they haven’t kicked this out.
Is there another way of buying it?
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Although it is possible to pay for my book using PayPal, I’d prefer (and I hope you do too) you use your credit card. PayPal is a partner of the World Economic Forum, and has demonstrated itself to be an instrument of censorship and theft for the Global Biosecurity State.
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I was able to use my debit card on the Lulu order page when I ordered. PayPal was one option, but certainly at the time I used the form there was the choice to use a bank card also.
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Thanks, Tim. That’s useful to know.
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I’ve tried but couldn’t see how, unfortunately.
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I have just now walked through the Lulu order process again up to the payment options to check the steps required. For me, UK-based admittedly, I ignored the express purchase option of the PayPal button on the first page of the order process and just started filling my details. I then clicked on to the shipping details step and confirmed the details there. Then there comes the payment step and it was here that card payment options are offered. At least this was my experience (I noted ‘gbp’ on the page urls so perhaps it’s currency-specific?).
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Great. I will do that too.
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I’ve just read your excellent Twitter thread on the financial crisis and have bought the book on the basis of this.
Thank you for the work you do.
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Thank you, Paul. I hope you find the book interesting and useful.
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Hi Simon,
I just donated 10 for the book via Paypal but it did not give me the option to leave a note to that effect… lemme know what we can do.
very bets regards
Daragh McCarthy
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Hello Daragh, I received notification of your payment and have sent you the e-book. Thank you, and I hope you find it interesting and helpful. Simon
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Hi Simon, I really enjoyed your conversation with James Delingpole that I listened to yesterday. I’ve purchased your book and I am waiting on its arrival. I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Good luck with spreading your thoughts and data far and wide. Cheers. G.
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Hi Simon, I really enjoyed your conversation with James Delingpole yesterday. I’ve ordered your book and I’m waiting on its arrival. Good luck with spreading your thoughts and data on this rise of autocratic technocracy. Very concerning times ahead and we must resist.
All the best,
G
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Cheers, Grant, it was good craic. Thank you for buying my book. I hope it’s useful to you. Simon
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Hello Simon, I watched you on Delingpod last night and found it a great conversation. I’ve bought a paperback copy to join my growing dissident’s library. People like you and James give us hope.
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Thank you, Iain. James is a good interviewer and I enjoyed talking with him. I hope you find my book interesting and useful. Best wishes, Simon.
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Simon I have just finished listening to your chat with James Delingpole; it sounds rather weird to say I ‘enjoyed’ it as plainly we have much to be concerned about, but it was as always heartening to be in the company of like-minded souls who see the direction of travel…like so many of us there are days when one feels either quite bonkers to be thinking as one does or quite alone…happily we are not! Book ordered and determined to share it around. Good luck and keep speaking out! Best wishes, Sarah
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Thanks for writing back to me, Sarah. As I said in the discussion with James, it’s important that we continue to speak about what has happened since March 2020 and is about to happen in the near future, and in particular with those who have made you and millions of others feel alone or mad for not believing the lies they chose to believe. I hope you find my book interesting and useful. Best wishes, Simon.
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Simon – I have just listened to your Delingpod. Sombre stuff. But I have been waiting to find a book to send to family and friends to try and do my bit to alert them. Two brothers in law are architects – so you never know, their interest may be piqued by yours. I am ordering this morning so I can read it before giving it to people. I really am desperate at how deaf so many are. Cannot believe it is now well over two years since my first march and still people are going along with it all. Apologies for the essay!
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Thank you, Caroline. People are deceived en masse, but they are enlightened (or disabused of their illusions) one by one. Keep educating and enlightening, especially those who wish for neither. I hope my book will help you in your efforts. Best wishes, Simon.
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Hi Simon,
Unfortunately I went ahead with ordering the ebook and paying by PayPal without reading the instructions – d’oh!
How can I receive the ebook now?
I made the payment via PayPal about an hour ago.
Thank you
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Thank you, Frank. I’ve just sent it to you. I hope you find it useful. Simon
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Thank you Simon, I just finished listening to your excellent interview on James Delingpole’s Delingpod, and had to get your book. Looking forward to reading it.
Best of Luck,
Cheers,
Frank
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Cheers, Frank. Hope its useful to you. Simon
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Honestly, I don’t think it really matters whether you pay by PayPal or credit card if not supporting the WEF or self-appointed elites and their agenda is your concern. All financial institutions are in this and tightly connected to Digital ID and the CBDC plans.
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just purchased your book after watching you on the delingpod all the best, paid by debit card. as soon as they asked us to go outside and bang our pots and pans in march 2020 i thought that was like hypnosis, something fishy going on
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Thank you, Kenneth. I write about those spectacles of compliance under lockdown in my book. I hope you find it interesting. Best wishes, Simon.
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I bought this book and Brave New World from Lulu with a Debit Card. Well done on the Delingpole podcast. I was at UCL as an undergraduate at the same time as you were finishing up.
The mainstream reporting was clearly a ‘psy-op’ using the very best and worst of applied psychology, NLP and other tactics. Some of the opposition to it was infiltrated by spooks and half-truthers – and probably still is.
The statistics – or at least the mainstream reporting of them – was fiddled, to the point where I’d ignore reports about them: I was so sure that they were fiddled, I did not think it worth spending too much time working out how they did it.
Dr Andrew Moulden’s work more than a decade ago on ‘injectables’ was persuasive: if they produce any one (or more) of a wildly varied cluster of negative effects in different people to different degrees, and this varied cluster consequently resists classification into the highly specific categories of Allopathic medicine, and anyway could be argued to have had any number of other causes, then how can one blame ‘injectables’ for anything ever? See the trick that they pulled. One would think that next they’ll make it a legal misdemeanour to attempt to attribute such blame!
Esoteric coding in the press headlines: such as ‘injectables’ being approved on the ‘European’ 9/11 date; and UK lockdown announced on 22nd March – that is 322 (Skull & Bones Society number) reversed; other famous 322s (backwards) can be looked up on wikepedia; charity work raising EXACTLY 33 million at one point in time; and ‘selfish’ and ‘vaccination’ having the value of ‘666’ in Sumeria and Reverse Sumerian Gematria.
Why are so very few people seeing all of this? Is it because they still have just a little trust in some media source or another, or trust in some branch of Allopathic medicine? How are those of us who can see it supposed to make an honest and valuable contribution in a system dominated by those who can’t see, as well as run-of-the-mill thieves, idiots and psychopaths?
What I also want to know is who gains and how they are gaining – hopefully those two purchases will go some way to answering that. More reading on the interest rate swaps may be useful.
Thanks again for your work!
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Thank you, RF. Something I didn’t say in the podcast was that the fear of what people have injected into their veins and the veins of their children is a huge incentive for them not to ask what it might contain or question the justifications on which they complied, and I can understand that. I hope my book will help answer your questions. Best wishes, Simon.
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I purchased the book with a credit card earlier today but haven’t received it yet. The podcast was fascinating listening.
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Hello Margaret, I’ve just sent you a different version of the e-book, as well as a pdf. Let me know how you get on opening the files. Thanks for purchasing my book. Simon
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Thank you for this much needed book, hope the message gets to enough people….
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Thank you, Janine. I hope so too.
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Hi Simon.
Great interview with the Dellingpod, good to have been introduced to your work.
I bought the eBook (I’m a bit skint atm!) last night and look forward to receiving it – I shan’t share it.
I think that the paperback would make a great Christmas present for some intelligent souls in my life, but souls who have not yet been able to see the bigger picture.
Do you offer some small discount for say 5, 7 or 10 copies ordered at once?
Thanks for reading,
Will.
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Hi Simon
Really enjoyed the chat with James as it confirms I’m not mad even though the whole topic is very worrying.
Regards the book, I think I did the PayPal bit correctly but I haven’t received the eBook yet? Sorry to be impatient.
Thanks
Mark
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Hello Mark, I sent you a copy of the e-book yesterday evening. Hope you find it useful.
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I thought I sent a £10 “donation” (for the e-book) via credit card, but I received a PayPal notification. What went wrong?
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Hello Peter, I sent you a copy of the e-book this morning. Hopeyou find it useful.
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Yes, I received it today, and I have installed an “epub” reader. I look forward to reading it, as I’ve been a dissenter from day 1 of this “pandemic”.
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hi Simon,
after discovering you on the Delingpod, I donated £10 (on 31 Oct) along with a note indicating that the donation was for the ebook with ePub desired. the receipt didn’t include the note, so perhaps you didn’t get it.
please send me the epub when you get a chance!
best regards,
John
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Hello John, I’m sorry about that. I’ve had a look, and I haven’t received any notification of payment. If you write to me at info@architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk with some indication, I’ll send you the e-book direct. Best wishes, and thank you for purchasing my book. Simon
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I would love to buy your ebook with Bitcoin. Can you send me an address?
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Although I know what Bitcoin is, I don’t know how to use it. So unless you want to give me a detailed lesson in crypto currency, I’d prefer you use a debit card.
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No need for a detailed lesson to start using Bitcoin but if you want to learn more about it I can happily share some knowledge about the subject.
If you ever feel like it, you can simply download Muun wallet on any smartphone, tap “Receive” and copy the address displayed. You can send it to me via email.
I’ll send you the Bitcoin and as soon as you receive them you can send me the ebook.
Cheers!
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I’m sorry if that comment turns up multiple times. I seem to be encountering problems with posting.
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I didn’t get your comment, George.
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I just wanted to express my gratitude at this book in which you have given what seems to me to be the most eloquent and comprehensive account of the scarcely believeable fascist takeover of the last 2+years. I read it on the net and have now the “hard copy” which I am re-reading.
The World Socialist Web Site which was always my “go to” site up till the spring of covid has utterly disgraced itself by not only failing to comprehend what is happening but in shamelessly shilling for covid. They have recently published an article on the “threat of fascism” which, as usual, they present as something darkly hovering in the wings whilst they themselves are serving its cause.
I feel that your new book here will be an invaluable resource for providing the initial starting points for the necessary engagements to come.
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Thank you, George. I appreciated your comments on the online versions of these chapters, at a time when my readership had largely disappeared in the wake of the lifting of restrictions and everyone was looking back with a mix of anger and relief. Unfortunately, now my predictions of where we are heading next are coming true with terrifying speed and finality, that readership has returned. I’m glad you got a hard copy of my book. I hope you find it useful. Best wishes, Simon.
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If you view this whole ‘pandemic’ situation through the lens of health, safety, science and saving lives, then most of it makes little sense. If you view it through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, then all of it makes perfect sense.
Covid is not an epidemiological story. Covid is a crime story.
Covid-19 is the biggest money laundering scheme in the history of the world.
The lockdowns, mandatory muzzles, anti-social distancing and the other measures did nothing to protect or improve public health- they were never designed to do so. They were all designed to deliberately break the global economy (and crush competition, especially small businesses) as well as break people’s minds, will and the social fabric, in order to “build back better”, according to the diabolical and dystopian visions of the psychopaths waging this class war, which is essentially a billionaires utopia, in which they own the planet like a techno-feudal fiefdom, and oversee the drastically reduced population of digitally branded humanity like cattle in a super-surveilled technocracy.
What we are in the midst of is a planned total economic collapse. This economic collapse was inevitable, Western governments are putting the security infrastructure into place, trying to proactively control the inevitable social disorder which will result from this collapse. To be followed by a global financial reset, after a period of hyperinflation, which destroys both the value of debt and the corresponding paper claims.
There is not now nor has there ever been an epidemiological or viral emergency event of any sort anywhere in the world in the year 2020. The manufactured perception that there was such an event is an artifact of mass media manipulation, behavioral conditioning techniques and social engineering. All of this has been made possible through institutional programming and accelerated media messaging disallowing basic cognitive processes and eliminating critical thinking possibilities.
The collapse started in 2008 and attempts to salvage this corrupt economic system only delayed the inevitable. In the Fall of 2019 the crisis began to rapidly unravel again.
There was a dramatic decrease in industrial production which showed up in the banking crisis of August of 2019- the so-called Repo crisis when suddenly banks started to refuse US sovereign debt instruments as collateral of overnight loans forcing the Federal Reserve to step in and basically print money to cover this massive shortage.
The Repo market is where banks borrow money each day so that they have 10% liquid assets at the end of each day. If they do not have 10% liquid assets they are not allowed to open the next day. Around the middle of September the Fed started pumping $20 billion per day into the Repo market to keep interest rates down so banks could borrow the money to stay in business. By the end of December the Fed was pumping over $100 billion per day into the Repo market and it was not enough.
Simply everyone on Wall Street was loaded with enormous debt and was holding on to US cash to be able to service it refusing to finance purchases of foreign currencies and then US currency as Repo Market froze at 10% interest on overnight Repo loans as US treasury bonds and even US bills were rejected as collateral for Repos.
What happened in March 2020 was just the spread of the liquidity crisis from primary dealers markets (TBTF banks and Hedge funds were actually bailed out in September) toward all other stock, commodities, bonds CLOs, MBS etc, as well to Ponzi schemes called today ETF funds, not to mention structured derivative products traded on proprietary platforms nominally representing up to several thousands of $$$ trillions.
When US treasury bonds and even USTB became illiquid due to exponential growth of public (but most of all private) dollar debt while the FED was sucking up cash from financial markets by tempering QE (called QT) between 2017 and 2019 reduced FED balance sheet from over $5 T to $3.9T by selling assets, all hell broke loose. Something drastic had to be done.
And hence the FED started to “buy all worthless shit for double the price”, Gates’s and Silicon Valley gang took over the media, and Orwellian shrinks and doctor Fauci-Mengeles came to the “rescue” unleashing operation COVID.
COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system. The COVID fraud timing became necessary as the world markets were faced with an emergency debt crisis that popped up in formerly mostly liquid markets: Repo markets, money markets and FX markets.
The entire House of Cards was falling for six months and could not be stopped so COVID hysteria was manufactured to cover up what amounts today to $11 trillion of FED bailout in cash, stock boost via POMO and guarantees of value of collateral used in structured derivatives. The end game is that the central banks (Fed) will buy all the toxic, worthless debt from the hedge funds and banks, including the 1.5 quad trillion of derivatives, and then transfer the debt to the treasury as sovereign debt. Then print money to infinity to service the fictitious debt to sink the dollar via hyperinflation and then foreclose on the US and everyone else holding debt in worthless dollars.
That’s the coup. There will be global hyperinflation to vaporize the assets of the masses and the states- as soon as the ruling class mops up the last properties. What this means is the ruling class have limitless claims on everything in the world. Simply put, the seasonal coronavirus was rebranded as Covid 19 on the back of a redefinition of what a ‘pandemic’ was by the WHO at the bequest of its financiers. This unlocked access to financial incentive programs that were large enough to bail out every failing economy.
Covid 19 is the final heist to strip all value out of the world in an effort by the creditors to consolidate what they believe they’re owed.
These governments know full well that “Covid” is being used as cover for crashing the economies in the Western world. There is not now and never has been a “pandemic”- that is all Kabuki theater to disguise the reality of the rapid economic decline brought on by the Ponzi Schemes of financial institutions over the past few decades.
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