>A website specializing in data visuals offered a helpful graphic on global inflation, 2020-2025, with no other comment about how or why this happened. The results are eye-popping and amazing, and a reminder that hardly anyone has fully come to terms with what transpired over five years.
Most currencies in the world took a 25-35 percent haircut, Far East excepted.
That’s a technical description that obscures what actually happened. The measures by which most people in the world hold the liquid part of their worldly possessions – the money they earned through hard work and saving – was robbed by a quarter and more.
Where did it go? After all, the wealth didn’t sink in the ocean. It was transferred from one group to another. It went from the poor and middle class to the elites in well-connected industries and government. It was simply sucked away from one sector to another, achieving in a matter of a few years what would have been impossible in normal times.
The forced transfer of wealth went from small business to large, from physical enterprise to digital, from store fronts to online, from citizens to government-connected contractors, from workers to leveraged capital, from families to corporations, from savers to a deeply indebted government, and so on.
You are perfectly free to believe that this was all a mistake. Just bad policy. The world panicked because of a pathogen, and central banks ran the printing presses. Out of compassion for our suffering, legislators rained fresh paper on the population which we used to buy hardware and digital gadgetry, while fostering addiction to online entertainment.
Regrettably and mistakenly, governments criminalized small businesses and subsidized large ones. Inadvertently our communities and extended families were divided and then shattered and replaced with the only technology around, Zooming and TikToking while awaiting artificial intelligence to replace the intelligence lost during school and college closures.
Sadly, the shots that everyone thought would save us made us sicker than ever – surely an earnest attempt gone wrong – while a depressed population got hooked on weed and liquor from shops that remained open, and availed themselves to psych drugs newly available through liberalized access via telehealth. The population in the developed world lost three years of lifespan expectation.
You can believe all of this befell people all over the world at the same time via a series of pathetic misjudgments.
Or you could be more realistic and see that this was not a mistake at all. It was entirely intentional, the unfolding of a dark scheme hatched by an indescribably sadistic ruling class. Indeed, if this had all been an accident, we surely would have heard someone apologize by now.
There is also the planning involved. There was Event 201, the lesser-known Crimson Contagion, and many others. They are usually described in the mainstream press as rehearsals for unplanned contingencies, like resiliency training. Absurd. This was plotted far in advance. We have all the receipts. To realize this and connect the dots does not make you a conspiracy theorist. It makes you a person with the capacity to think.
To deny nefarious motives and schemes makes you impossibly naive to the point of sedation. At best, it makes you ill-read in history.
After five years, what can we say was the plan and purpose of this calamity? We all have our views. Certainly within Brownstone ranks, there are many opinions. We argue among ourselves all the time. Coming up with a clean and clear explanation is not easy because there are so many moving parts and so many industrial opportunists who took advantage of the crisis to cash out.
So we all have our own judgments. Mine is as follows. There were three primary motivations and purposes for destroying the world as we knew it: Political, Industrial, and Pharmaceutical.
Political
In the years before the Covid response, the deep state in all nations was being put through a wrenching crisis of public plebiscites that were not going their way. This movement was dubbed and denounced as populist, meaning that actual people were using democratic means to voice their opinions. All this happened between 2010 and 2020 – you can date it decades earlier too – culminating in the lockdowns of 195 countries, which was the turning point as a hammer blow against all these populist movements.
In the UK, the voters had approved Brexit, which was a deep wound on the European Union scheme that dates back decades. The chosen leader in the UK was of course Boris Johnson who later found himself humiliated to have to lead the Covid lockdown campaign. The same was happening in Brazil with the rise and challenge to the establishment by Jair Bolsonaro.
In Italy, there was Matteo Salvini as Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister who led an Italy First movement, Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Rally in French politics, Viktor Orbán of Hungary who broke with euro-centralism, Geert Wilders of The Netherlands who headed the Party for Freedom, Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines with populist appeal, Andrzej Duda of Poland who promoted nationalist policies, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey who was aligned with anti-globalist trends.
You don’t have to regard all these people as “good guys” to recognize how terrifying they are to the neo-liberal consensus, the phrase we use to mean permanent government by the administrative state backed by an entrenched industrial elite in finance, pharma, and elsewhere.
Above all else, there was Donald Trump in the US, who won in 2016 despite every conceivable effort and expectation that he would lose. This was the shock of a century of US history, a sure signal that the system set up since before the Great War to rig American electoral outcomes had broken. What was the fear? It was that he was an outsider who might respond to voter wishes and common sense. That much the establishment could not bear.
So the plot was on. It was the media, the financial establishment, the administrative state, all hands on deck. The election was declared invalid because of Russian interference and years of reporting and investigation commenced, which in the end produced absolutely nothing. It just so happened that the American people elected the man to disrupt a system that had been gamed for the better part of their lives.
With all other options failing, they finally played the pandemic card. The action unfolded from the fall of 2019 (the lab leak) through the spring of 2020, when Trump, surrounded on all sides, and after much resistance, finally greenlighted the lockdowns that wrecked the growing economy he had tried to foster.
The promise was that a shot would arrive in time for the election but the release kept being delayed through the summer and fall during which time he only inhibited the office of presidency, but was otherwise ignored and finally deleted from all social media. Nothing could stop the disaster they tried to prevent: he was reelected.
The rest of the history you know: the Russia scam, the impeachments, the wild media attacks, and the later assassination attempts.
