The drought of posts to this blog over the course of the year is quite startling:
Monday, 24 October 2022
Heading Where?
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Chinese Covid Vaccines
This article from The New York Times really woke me up to the fact that China is not using an mRNA vaccine against Covid-19.
To quote from the article: "Unlike traditional vaccines that use an inactivated virus to trigger a response by the immune system, mRNA vaccines use a genetic molecule that assists cells to make proteins that can set off an immune response in the body. This response creates antibodies that are then used to fight the virus."
It's clear from the article that this is a deliberate policy. The government has had the opportunity to manufacture them but have not done so. Again, to quote, "It wasn’t that long ago that China appeared ready to introduce an mRNA vaccine for Covid-19. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, BioNTech’s Chinese partner, told investors last year that regulators would approve its mRNA vaccine for use in China by July 2021. The company, which had conducted clinical trials in late 2020, said that it could make as many as a billion doses a year. That optimism has since faded. Chinese authorities now say they are still reviewing documents in order to “make a final decision on the approval of our vaccine,” a spokeswoman for BioNTech said."
The above graphic and this article from July 30th 2021 is informative as to what other countries are using the Chinese vaccines:
Malaysia and Thailand announced this month that they were phasing out the vaccine. While the former will switch to Pfizer and give out its remaining Chinese shots as second immunizations, the latter is going one step further by offering mix and match vaccines with AstraZeneca to those which are still awaiting their second Sinovac shot. Both Thailand and Indonesia have said they will offer a third booster shot to those who have received the Sinovac vaccine. Both will use a different vaccine than Sinovac for this program. Singapore meanwhile does not count Sinovac recipients – many of them healthcare workers - in vaccination statistics anymore and does not exempt them from being tested, for example when attending events ... Sinovac has been widely used in Asia and countries like Cambodia and the Philippines are sticking to it so far despite some protests. Sinovac and another Chinese vaccine, Sinopharm, are also in use in South America, Mexico and the Middle East. Several countries in Africa have also authorized one or more Chinese shots, according to Our World in Data.
Saturday, 21 May 2022
State of Play
I’ve not made an alternative news post for quite some time, mainly out profound disillusionment with the state of the world. However, it’s time to take stock and assess the state of play in the world today. Brendon O’Connell, whom I follow on YouTube, feels that the tide has turned and that the USA is finally asserting itself and confronting the forces that seek to undermine it. Brendon thinks that Putin was lured into attacking Ukraine in the expectation that the country would offer little resistance. However, with NATO and United States support, Ukraine has pushed back and Putin’s plan to take the country has been thwarted. I don’t see it that way at all.
In my mind, Putin was very much following a script he had been given. If he had really wanted to take over Ukraine, he could have done so easily but instead he dithered on the border for quite some time before attacking and even then only half-heartedly. The purpose of the invasion was to disrupt the supply of grain to the outside world and to drive up the price of natural gas. The Chinese lockdowns had already seriously disrupted the world’s supply chains and so the Ukraine invasion exacerbated an already bad situation. Russia and China have adequate food but not so the rest of the world.
Rising prices of all commodities around the world are driving more individuals and small businesses into bankruptcy and this is very much in line with Agenda 2030 where individuals are envisaged as owning nothing and being happy. More and more wealth will flow to the already wealthy while the 99% sink into neofeudalism. Russia and China are playing the long game. The former has become a global pariah and the latter seems to be shooting itself in the foot with its lockdowns and incessant testing but both countries can ride out the storm that will engulf the world and, with ample gold reserves, are well-positioned to benefit from the new global currency that will replace the ailing US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
I think both Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi are both doing what the City of London and the European banking cartel have instructed them to do. Their actions are bringing the world to its knees but in the long term their countries will emerge stronger and part of a trading block that will include Iran and Pakistan and perhaps other countries. Putin must have known that his invasion of Ukraine would drive countries like Finland and Sweden into the arms of NATO. That is the intention of the global elite who are playing this chess game. Tension between Russia and its European neighbours and between China and its southeast Asian neigbours is vital to maintain arms sales and keep global citizens in a state of apprehension.
Organisations such as the WHO and WEF will dominate nation states, dictating policies that all nation states must follow or suffer the consequences. In the next year or so, as the economies of more countries implode, the level of indebtness to the IMF and World Bank will soar and economic independence will plummet. Even more so than now, politicians will simple follow instructions issued by their overlords and individuals will suffer helplessly as each country’s police enforce the implementation of these instructions. For example, the WHO may declare another pandemic and issue instructions regarding vaccines, lockdowns etc. that the politicians in each country must implement, having signed the pandemic treaty.
Brendon seems to have succumbed to a Q-Anon type of delusion, wherein he anticipates that the United States will be great again and live up to the ideals of its founding fathers. He sees the country as the only one with a real committment to individual freedom and, if it loses its superpower status, we are all doomed to live in smart city gulags under constant surveillance and our freedom of movement dependent on our social credit score. He hopes that the United States has realised that it has been compromised by a foreign power (Israel) and take appropriated action, including occupation of Palestine. This to me seems unrealistic.
However, there is an growing awareness within the United States that its partnership with Israel has benefited only the latter. Whether it generates enough momentum to cause a foreign policy reassessment is doubtful. It seems that the US is breaking apart and that the goal of Israel, to weaken the country and promote migration of wealthy or talented Jews to Israel, is well underway.
Saturday, 6 April 2019
China and Israel
The Third Reich and the People's Republic share a virulent racism, in China politely referred to as "Han chauvinism." The Han category, which is said to include about 92% of the population of the People's Republic, is in truth the amalgamation of related ethnic groups.
Chinese mythology holds that all Chinese are descendants of the Yellow Emperor, who is thought to have ruled in the third millennium BCE. The Chinese consider themselves to be a branch of humanity separate from the rest of the world, a view reinforced by indoctrination in schools, among other means.
Chinese scholars support this notion of Chinese separateness with the "Peking Man" theory of evolution, which holds the Chinese do not share a common African ancestor with the remainder of humankind. This theory of the unique evolution of the Chinese has, not surprisingly, reinforced racist views.
This reminded me of Bibi's portrayal of Israelis as also being very special in terms of their entrepreneurial skills and technological prowess. Some Jews do regard themselves as belonging to God's chosen people and believe that the Jewish people are destined to rule the world. Of course, not all people who identify as Jews believe this, just as many Chinese do not believe that they are superior to the rest of humanity. Let's agree though that there is a streak of superiority running through the culture in both countries. Both would like to see themselves as the centre of the world. Additionally, both Israel and China have, in proportion to their respective populations, large diaspora communities and reputation as as entrepreneurs.As a result of racism, many in China, including officials believe themselves to be categorically different from and, by implication, superior to the rest of humankind, says Fei-Ling Wang, author of The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power.
Both countries are technocracies and major players on the international stage. The totalitarian nature of China's technocracy has enabled it to become a testing ground for social engineering experiments that the governments of most other countries could not inflict on their populations without provoking revolution. Nonetheless, the technocrats outside of China secretly look on admiringly at the extent of China's control over its population. It's useful for these same technocrats to have China remain a totalitarian technocracy so that their own implementation of technocracy appears benevolent and moderate by comparison. In truth however, they will not be all that different and the populations of technocracies outside China will enjoy only a semblance of freedom. In most respects they will be identical, with individuals having every movement and financial transaction monitored.
After Winnie's departure, whether due to death by natural causes or some sort of coup, the Chinese technocrats will never allow another dictator like him (and Mao before him) to arise. They will have learned their lesson and a more moderate technocracy will emerge, at least overtly, that will blend in more easily with the worldwide model. There is really no need to curtail religious liberties and any other perceived liberties once full technocratic control has been established. Such control is being made possible by technology and specifically the Internet of Things. Any cults that might evolve and pose a threat to the established order will be snuffed out before they become serious threats. A strong, omnipresent police force is essential to enforce control and such a force needs not even be human given the progress being made in the development of robots and artificial intelligence. An international intelligence agency, with staff overseen by a supervising elite who are themselves only a tier below the ultimate ruling elite, will be the critical means of keeping control.Dictators represent a threat to technocracy because their whims can disrupt the existing systems that are in place. Systems are at the heart of technocracy and they need to run smoothly. Dictators can prove useful in the earlier stages of establishing a worldwide technocracy, just as Xi Jinping is proving at the moment. Once they have outlived their usefulness, they will be removed. The technocracy that is China today only came into existence in the 1970's because of intervention by Western technocrats after Mao's demise. It is a Western invention that has morphed into the current totalitarian variant thanks to Mao's legacy in the nation's consciousness. This seems to be what Winnie has been possessed or obsessed by. Prior to his rise, the 19 members of the Politburo represented the technocratic rulership with the seven member Politburo Standing Committee holding the real power. Now all the power is concentrated in Winnie with the remaining committee members subservient to him.
Of course given that psychopaths comprise arguably 4% (or maybe 6%) of the population globally, it's inevitable that some will be attracted to and aspire to become technocrats because that is where the power resides in a technocracy. In their climb to the upper rungs of the ladder, they are very successful given their ruthlessness and complete absence of any sense of morality. This means that in a technocracy they will comprise far more than 4% of the technocratic population. They will always pose a threat to the smooth running of a technocracy because they have no belief in it or allegiance to it. Psychopaths are only interested in themselves. Winnie certainly looks the part of the smiling psychopath but whether he is one or not I don't know. In a way, technocracies themselves are inherently psychopathic, just as many corporations are, because the smooth running of both becomes the most important consideration and not their impact on human beings. Thus technocracies and psychopaths are a good fit but psychopaths don't like to share and thus cosy arrangements like the Politburo Standing Committee with its rotating leadership work well until one of the psychopaths within claims all the pie. No more sharing.Israel and China are playing their parts in the move toward a worldwide technocracy to which nation states will be subservient. Israel has destabilised the Middle East, effectively and cleverly destroying any chance of Arab or Islamic unity. For a technocracy to be effective, individuals need be compliant and not able to band together into coherent groups that might challenge its imposition. A strong sense of identity, forged by identification with a religion, an ethnicity or a nation, needs to be undermined so that a sense of disconnectedness arises. This is being done while at the same time the opposite is happening with Israel. Jews all over the world are being encouraged to move to Israel to make it greater (and more populous). However, the rank and file Jews who choose to return or who are currently resident in Israel are merely part of a much larger, global game just as European Jews were in World War 2. The global elite care little for the rank and file whether they be Jewish or non-Jewish. It serves their interests to strengthen Israel at the moment.
China is the testing ground for the technologies and social engineering that will characterise the full flowering of technocracy. China's power will wane as its population shrinks and the power of the city state grows. For technocracy to fully take hold, people must be herded into cities where they can be effectively monitored and controlled. Urbanisation must continue until the countryside is effectively depopulated and dominated by huge conglomerates whose workers, whether human or robotic, are used to supply fruit, vegetables and meat to the cities. The process is well underway. Thus the notion of a nation state will be steadily eroded and replaced by a sense of belonging to a city state. People may journey to the countryside for holidays but they will not live or work there, simply because it won't be financially viable to do so. The few renegades who decide to abandon the cities and roam about the countryside will be easily monitored and committed to mental institutions if they prove too troublesome.
The ruling elite certainly don't envisage a planet will be a population of many billions of people as exists now and it has been working doggedly to reduce the number of humans over the decades, using a variety of approaches (more on that later). An ideal global population of around 500 million people is envisaged. There are 4416 cities in the world with a population of over 150,000. The number 4416 divided into 500,000,000 gives an average of 113,224. Cities will become far more homogenous than they are now and birthrates will be closely controlled so that city populations are maintained at approved levels so that the half billion target in sustained. Cities of between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitants are much easier to keep supplied with electricity, food and water than some current cities that are 10 and even 100 times more populous. See my earlier blog on Smart Cities for more information on this topic.
Thursday, 12 April 2018
The Russian Diaspora
Israel is leading the march from a US dominated unipolar world order to a Russia-China dominated multipolar world order. Over the past thirty years we’ve seen a shift in the nature of Jewish power that drives London (the global finance capital), the United States (the dominant global military superpower), and Israel (the top global cyber and technology superpower) by Russian Jews, and even Russian gentiles as is the case with Israel.This quote from the beginning of an article titled Talpiot and the Multipolar Word Order alerted me to how influential expatriate Russian Jews have become since the breakup of the Soviet Union. The gentile reference alludes to the fact that the proper criteria for being classified as Jewish has not been met by many of the immigrants. The article goes on to quote from a 2011 story in The Guardian:
Jews in the former Soviet Union were largely banned from making aliya – migrating to Israel – before the collapse of the empire. But from 1990 onwards they came in their thousands, and they now constitute around 15% of Israel’s 7.7 million population.Actually, The Guardian ran a story on March 17th 2018 about the high life that Russian oligarchs are leading in Britain but it has since been taken down. Clearly, pressure was brought to bear. However, the story has been retrieved from the Internet archive and makes for interesting reading: link.
Israel's virtual control of the United States is well-established but its close connections with Russia and China have been less clear. A 2017 article from the Jerusalem Post reminds us that this little country's influence now extends far beyond the United States:
Israel is positioned to guard the world’s Internet. Everything today is traded, controlled and administered online. And Israel is emerging as the world’s number one guardian of the worldwide web. That means, regardless of being a few miles offtrack from China’s Land and Maritime Roads, it is positioned to be the centre of both belts.Some would say that it's gained this influence in large degree because of its special relationship with the United States. This has provided Israel with access to advanced technology that it has often been sold on to Russia and China.










