The imposition of the nationwide lockdowns required elite consensus. There’s no way that a project of that magnitude could have been carried out absent the nearly universal support of establishment elites and their lackeys in the political class. There must have also been a fairly-detailed media strategy that excluded the voices of lockdown opponents while– at the same time– promoting an extremely dubious theory of universal quarantine that had no basis in science, no historical precedent, and no chance of preventing the long-term spread of the infection. All of this suggests that the lockdowns were not a spontaneous overreaction to a fairly-mild virus that kills roughly 1 in 500 mainly-older and infirm victims, but a comprehensive and thoroughly-vetted plan to impose “shock therapy” on the US economy in order to achieve the long-term strategic ambitions of ruling class elites. As one sardonic official opined, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
It was clear from the beginning, that the lockdowns were going to have a catastrophic effect on the economy, and so they have. As of today, 30 million people have lost their jobs, tens of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses have been shuttered, second quarter GDP has plunged to an eye watering -45.5 percent (Atlanta Fed), and the economy has experienced its greatest shock in history. Even so, pundits in the mainstream media, remain steadfast in their opposition to lifting the lockdowns or modifying the medical martial law edicts that have been arbitrarily imposed by mainly-liberal governors across the country. Why? Why would the so-called “experts throw their weight behind such a sketchy policy when they knew how much suffering it was going to cause for ordinary working people? And why has the media continued to attack countries like Sweden who merely settled on a more conventional approach instead of imposing a full-blown lockdown? Swedish leaders and epidemiologists were unaware that adopting their own policy would be seen as a sign of defiance by their global overlords, but it was. Elites have decided that there can be no challenge to their idiotic lockdown model which is why Sweden had to be punished, ridiculed, and dragged through the mud. The treatment of Sweden further underscores the fact that the lockdown policy (and the destruction of the US economy) was not a random and impulsive act, but one part of a broader plan to restructure the economy to better serve the interests of elites. That’s what’s really going on. The lockdowns are being used to “reset” the economy and impose a new social order.
But why would corporate mandarins agree to a plan that would shrink their earnings and eviscerate short-term profitability?
Why? Because of the the stock market, that’s why. The recycling of earnings into financial assets has replaced product sales as the primary driver of profits. As you may have noticed, both the Fed and the US Treasury have taken unprecedented steps to ensure that stock prices will only go higher. To date, the Fed and Treasury have committed $8 trillion dollars to backstopping the weaker areas of the market in an effort to flood the market with liquidity. “Backstopping” is an innocuous-sounding term that analysts use to conceal what is really going on, which is, the Fed is “price fixing”, buying up trillions of dollars of corporate debt, ETF’s, MBS, and US Treasuries to keep prices artificially high in order to reward the investor class it secretly serves. This is why the corporations and Tech giants are not concerned about the vast devastation that has been inflicted on the economy. They’ll still be raking hefty profits via the stock market while the real economy slips deeper into a long-term coma. Besides, when the lockdowns are finally lifted, these same corporations will see a surge of consolidation brought on by the destruction of so many Mom and Pop industries that couldn’t survive the downturn. No doubt, the expansion of America’s tenacious monopolies factored heavily into the calculation to blow up the economy. Meanwhile, the deepening slump will undoubtedly create a permanent underclass that will eagerly work for a pittance of what they earned before the crash. So, there you have it: Profitability, consolidation and cheap labor. Why wouldn’t corporate bosses love the idea of crashing the economy? It’s a win-win situation for them.
We should have seen this coming. It’s been clear since the Russiagate fiasco that elites had settled on a more aggressive form of social control via nonstop disinformation presented as headline news based on spurious accusations from anonymous sources, none of who were were ever identified, and none of whose claims could ever be verified. The media continued this “breathless” saturation campaign without pause and without the slightest hesitation even after its central claims were exposed as lies. If you are a liberal who watches the liberal cable channels or reads the New York Times, you might still be unaware that the central claim that the emails were stolen from the DNC by Russia (or anyone else for that matter) has not only been disproved, but also, that Mueller, Comey, Clapper etc knew the story was false way back in 2017. Let that sink in for a minute. They all knew it was a lie after the cyber security team (Crowdstrike) that inspected the DNC computers testified that there was no evidence that the emails had been “exfiltrated”. In other words, there was no proof the emails were stolen. There was no justification for the Mueller investigation because there was no evidence that the DNC emails had been hacked, downloaded or pilfered. The whole thing was a hoax from the get go.
There’s no way to overstate the importance these recent findings, in fact, our understanding of Russiagate must be applied to the lockdowns, the Black Lives Matter protests and other psychological operations still in the making. What’s critical to grasp is not simply that the allegations were based on false claims, (which they were) but that a large number of senior-level officials in law enforcement (FBI), intel agencies, media and the White House knew with absolute certainty that the claims were false (from 2017 and on) but continued to propagate fake stories, spy on members of the new administration and use whatever tools they had at their disposal to overthrow an elected president. The guilty parties in this ruse have never admitted their guilt nor have they changed their fictitious storyline which still routinely appears in the media to this day. What we can glean from this incident, is that there is a vast secret state operating within the government, media and the DNC, that does not accept our system of government, does not accept the results of elections and will lie, cheat and steal to achieve their nefarious objectives. . That’s the lesson of Russiagate that has to be applied to both the lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter protests. They are just the next phase of the ongoing war on the American people.
The lockdowns are an Americanized version of the “Shock Doctrine”, that is, the country has been thrust into a severe crisis that will result in the implementing of neoliberal economic policies such as privatization, deregulation and cuts to social services. Already many of the liberal governors have driven their states into bankruptcy ensuring that budgets will have to be slashed, more jobs will be lost, funding for education and vital infrastructure will shrink, and assistance to the poor and needy will be sharply reduced. Shutting down the US economy, will create a catastrophe unlike anything we have ever seen in the United States. US Treasuries will likely loose their risk-free status while the dollar’s as days as the “world’s reserve currency” are probably numbered. That “exorbitant privilege” is based on confidence, and confidence in US leadership is at its lowest point in history.
It’s not surprising that the Black Lives Matter protests took place at the same time as the lockdowns. The looting, rioting and desecration of statues provided the perfect one-two punch for those who see some tactical advantage in intensifying public anxiety by exacerbating racial tensions and splitting the country into two warring camps. Divide and conquer remains the modus operandi of imperialists everywhere. That same rule applies here. Here’s more background from an article at the Off-Guardian:
“It is no coincidence that another Soros funded activism group Black Lives Matter has diverted the spotlight away from the lockdown’s broader impact on the fundamental human rights of billions of people, using the reliable methods of divide and rule, to highlight the plight of specific strata’s of society, and not all.
It’s worth pointing out that BLM’s activity spikes every four years. Always prior to the elections in the US, as African Americans make up an important social segment of Democrat votes. The same Democrats who play both sides like any smart gambler would. The Clintons, for example, are investors into BLM”s partner, the anti-fascist ANTIFA. While Hilary Clinton’s mentor (and best friend) was former KKK leader Robert Byrd.
BLM is a massively hyped, TV-made, politicized event, that panders to the populist and escapist appetite of the people. Blinding them from their true call to arms in defense of the universal rights of everyone. Cashing in on the youths pent-up aggression …. And weaponising the tiger locked in a rattled cage for 3-months, and unleashed by puppet masters as the mob…
As a general rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that if a social movement has the backing of big industry, big philanthropy or big politics, then its ideals run contrary to citizen empowerment.” (“The Co-opting of Activism by the State“, Off-Guardian)
Black Lives Matter protests provide another significant diversion from the massive destruction of the US economy. This basic plan has been used effectively many times in the past, most notably in the year following the invasion of Iraq. Some readers will remember how Iraqis militants fought US occupation forces following the invasion in 2003. The escalating violence and rising death-toll created a public relations nightmare for the Bush team that finally settled on a plan for crushing the resistance by arming and training Shia death squads. But the Bushies wanted to confuse the public about what they were really up to, so they concocted a narrative about a “sectarian war” that was intended to divert attention from the attacks on American soldiers.
In order to make the narrative more believable, US intel agents devised a plan to blow up the Shia’s most sacred religious site, the Golden Dome Mosque of Samarra, and blame it on Sunni extremists. The incident was then used to convince the American people that what was taking place in Iraq was not a war over foreign occupation, but a bitter sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shia in which the US was just an impartial referee. The killing of George Floyd has been used in much the same way as the implosion of the mosque. It creates a credible narrative for a massive and coordinated protests that have less to do with racial injustice than they do with diverting attention from the destruction of the economy and sowing division among the American people. This is a classic example of how elites use myth and media to conceal their trouble-making and escape any accountability for their actions.
Check out this excerpt from a paper by Carlo Caduff, an academic at King’s College London, in a journal called Medical Anthropology Quarterly. It’s entitled “What Went Wrong: Corona and the World After the Full Stop”:
“Across the world, the pandemic unleashed authoritarian longings in democratic societies allowing governments to seize the opportunity, create states of exception and push political agendas. Commentators have presented the pandemic as a chance for the West to learn authoritarianism from the East. This pandemic risks teaching people to love power and call for its meticulous application. As a result of the unforeseeable social, political and economic consequences of today’s sweeping measures, governments across the world have launched record “stimulus” bills costing trillions of dollars, pounds, pesos, rand and rupees…. The trillions that governments are spending now as “stimulus” packages surpass even those of the 2008 financial crisis and will need to be paid for somehow. ... If austerity policies of the past are at the root of the current crisis with overwhelmed healthcare systems in some countries, the rapidly rising public debt is creating the perfect conditions for more austerity in the future. The pandemic response will have major implications for the public funding of education, welfare, social security, environment and health in the future.” (Lockdownskeptics.org)
This is precisely right. The country has been deliberately plunged into another Great Depression with the clear intention of imposing harsh austerity measures that will eviscerate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and any other social safteynet programs that benefit ordinary working people, retirees, or anyone else for that matter. None of it is random, spontaneous or spur-of-the-moment policymaking. It’s all drawn from a centuries-old Imperial Playbook that’s being used by scheming elites to implement their final plan for America: Tear down the statues, destroy the icons and symbols, rewrite the history, crush the populist resistance, create a permanent underclass that will work for pennies on the dollar, pit one group against the other by inciting racial hatred, political polarization and fratricidal warfare, promote the vandals who burn and loot our cities, attack anyone who speaks the truth, and offer unlimited support to the party that has aligned itself with the corrupt Intel agencies, the traitorous media, the sinister deep state, and the tyrannical elites who are determined to control the all the levers of state power and crush anyone who gets in their way.
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» L’activiste a ainsi longuement détaillé le danger que fait peser selon lui sur sa cause le fait de s'allier à une gauche qui n'entend que récupérer le combat des Noirs pour ses propres intérêts : “On ne se reconnaît pas dans les forces néolibérales de gauche, ou de prétendue extrême gauche, qui disent vouloir accompagner notre communauté. Nous en avons marre de ce paternalisme exacerbé, de cette gauche qui pendant des années nous a fait croire qu'elle était notre amie, alors qu'en réalité elle était toujours là pour nous manipuler, et pour qu'on soit leurs ‘tirailleurs’ vis-à-vis de leurs intérêts.”
Les choses étant donc catastrophiquement ce qu’elles sont, avec un État réduit aux acquêts de son aveuglement et de sa lâcheté, il importe impérativement d’en tenir très-grand compte, par pur souci tactique de la réalité et quoi qu’il en soit de ce qu’on en pense tristement. Dans ce cadre, effectivement, nous répétons que l’intervention de Seba a tout son sens, toute sa logique et même sa sagesse, et elle nous invite à envisager des hypothèses prospectives qui valent pour les pays du bloc-BAO confrontés aux troubles de type-BLM, et la France par conséquent puisqu’elle y est inscrite et membre actif du club comme si elle avait besoin de dépendre d’une identité collective (?). 
Extraits de Z. Marcas, petite nouvelle méconnue, prodigieuse. On commence par la chambre de bonne :
Comme Stendhal, Chateaubriand et même Toussenel, Balzac sera un nostalgique de Charles X :
Il y a une vingtaine d’années j’avais rappelé à Philippe Muray que chez Hermann Broch comme chez Musil (génie juif plus connu mais moins passionnant) il y avait une dénonciation de la dimension carnavalesque dans l’écroulement austro-hongrois.
Puis Balzac explique l’homme moderne, électeur, citoyen, consommateur, politicard, et « ce que Marcas appelait les stratagèmes de la bêtise : on frappe sur un homme, il paraît convaincu, il hoche la tête, tout va s’arranger ; le lendemain, cette gomme élastique, un moment comprimée, a repris pendant la nuit sa consistance, elle s’est même gonflée, et tout est à recommencer ; vous retravaillez jusqu’à ce que vous ayez reconnu que vous n’avez pas affaire à un homme, mais à du mastic qui se sèche au soleil. »
Né à Marseille le 10 juin 1932, Marc Fumaroli a passé son enfance et son adolescence à Fès. Sa mère fut sa première institutrice. Études secondaires et baccalauréat de lettres au lycée de Fès Ville-Nouvelle. Études supérieures au lycée Thiers à Marseille, à l’université d’Aix-en-Provence et à la Sorbonne. Agrégation de lettres classiques en 1958. Service militaire à l’École militaire interarmes de Coëtquidan et dans le VIe Régiment d’artillerie à Colbert, dans le Constantinois, entre septembre 1958 et janvier 1961. Pensionnaire de la Fondation Thiers de septembre 1963 à août 1966. Élu assistant à la Faculté de lettres de Lille à la rentrée 1965. Docteur ès lettres à Paris IV-Sorbonne en juin 1976. Le même mois il est élu maître de conférences à Paris IV-Sorbonne à la succession du professeur Raymond Picard. Directeur de la revue XVIIe siècle (1976-1986) et membre du conseil de rédaction de la revue Commentaire (1978-2010), dirigée par Raymond Aron jusqu’à sa mort en 1983 et depuis par Jean-Claude Casanova.
Il a été visiting professor à All Souls College, Oxford, en 1983, et visiting fellow à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton en 1984. Il a enseigné ou donné des conférences dans de nombreuses universités des États-Unis (notamment New York University, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, Houston, Los Angeles). Invité par le professeur Allan Bloom, il a prononcé une série de conférences dans le cadre du Committee for Social Thought de Chicago dont il est devenu membre, avec le statut de professeur at large de l'Université, où il a enseigné deux mois par an jusqu’en 2006. Il a été aussi invité à prononcer des conférences dans le cadre du Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts de la National Gallery de Washington, notamment dans le cadre de sa Fifteenth Anniversary Lecture Series. Il y est revenu en mars-avril 2000 pour prononcer les six Mellon Lectures de cette année-là. Il a prononcé la Cassal Lecture à l’université de Londres et la Zaharoff Lecture à l'université d’Oxford en 1991. Il donne chaque année en mai une série de conférences à l’Istituto di Studi Filosofici fondé et dirigé par M. Gerardo Marotta, et participe fréquemment aux congrès de la Fondation Cini à Venise. Il a été invité dans la plupart des universités italiennes. Il a été nommé docteur honoris causa de l'université de Naples (Federigo Secondo) en 1994, de l'université de Bologne en 1999, de l'université de Gênes en 2004, de l'université Complutense de Madrid en 2005 et son enseignement au Collège de France a été donné par deux fois dans des institutions italiennes : université de Rome en 1995-1996, École normale supérieure de Pise en 1999-2000. Il considère, depuis sa jeunesse, l’Italie comme sa seconde patrie, et il est fier d’y compter d’innombrables amis, au premier rang desquels le professeur Tullio Gregory, directeur honoraire de l’Istituto di storia della filosofia de l’université de Rome-La Sapienza. Il est membre de nombreuses sociétés savantes françaises et étrangères. Membre correspondant de la British Academy, membre de l'American Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, membre de l'American Philosophical Society de Philadelphie, membre de l'Accademia dei Lincei depuis 1997, il est président de la Société d’histoire littéraire de la France, succédant à René Pomeau. Il fait partie du conseil de rédaction de la Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, et il collabore fréquemment à la Revue. Il donne régulièrement des articles à des quotidiens et des hebdomadaires français et étrangers. Il a reçu en 1982 le prix Monseigneur Marcel de l’Académie française et, en 1992, son prix de la Critique. Il a reçu le prix Balzan en septembre 2001, le prix du Mémorial et le prix Combourg en 2004.
L’Académie française l’a élu le 2 mars 1995, dans son 6e fauteuil où il succédait à Eugène Ionesco, où il a été reçu le 25 janvier 1996 par Jean-Denis Bredin. Il a été élu, en 1998, à l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres au fauteuil laissé par Georges Duby.
2004 Chateaubriand. Poésie et Terreur - Traduction italienne paru en 2006
The Antifa Manual spells it out:
L’historien des idées, Zeev Sternhell, qui vient de mourir, emportera-t-il avec lui la polémique sur le « fascisme français » ? Ce rescapé des deux pires totalitarismes du XXe siècle (stalinisme et nazisme), a consacré une grande partie de ses travaux à la question du fascisme dont il voulait voir à tout prix l’origine dans notre pays. Il a eu le mérite de montrer, dès sa thèse sur Maurice Barrès et le nationalisme français (1969), que le fascisme est une idéologie « ni droite ni gauche » qui ne peut s’expliquer, comme le voulait la vulgate marxiste, simplement par les contradictions du capitalisme et de la pensée conservatrice. Le fascisme puise en effet beaucoup dans la praxis révolutionnaire et les haines « socialistes » à l’encontre de l’argent, voire des Juifs (l’un des plus grands antisémites, Alphonse Toussenel, auteur de Les Juifs, rois de l’époque : histoire de la féodalité financière, était un militant de gauche, disciple de Fourier). 
Or, s’il y eut de véritables penseurs fascisants (comme le néosocialiste Déat ou l’ancien communiste Doriot), ces thèses ne sont pas nées en France et n’y prospérèrent pas, les partis ouvertement fascistes, comme le Faisceau de Marcel Bucard, restant très marginaux. Sternhell a exagéré l’importance de groupuscules marginaux (comme le cercle Proudhon), et minoré l’impact de la Première Guerre mondiale, décisive dans l’émergence du fascisme. Vichy, malgré sa législation antisémite, prise dès 1940, et sa dérive vers une répression sanglante, a du mal à se laisser réduire à un « fascisme français » tant il relève d’influences contradictoires (nationalisme, monarchisme, technocratisme, pacifisme, etc.). Il n’y a jamais eu de parti unique à Vichy, à l’inverse des vrais États totalitaires, et le régime de Pétain se veut du reste « pacifiste », à la différence des véritables fascismes. 
