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States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check Paperback – February 1, 2022

by Kees van der Pijl (Author)

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Ever since large parts of the world were placed in lockdown in March 2020 in the name of public health, there has been a growing public suspicion that some sort of global seizure of power and social transformation is being implemented under guise of the extraordinary suspension of democracy and unprecedented restrictions of basic freedoms occurring in so many countries at the same time.

This book contends that since the financial collapse of 2008, populations in many countries have become restive in the face of extreme inequality and diminishing life chances. In a digital economy, one to two billion people will soon be superfluous, but they are not likely to remain sitting on their hands; in many parts of the world their resistance has begun. The Western capitalist elites have lost the capacity to engage their respective peoples in an equitable social contract and have resorted to stoking fear -- from the terrorism scare and the Russian threat to the COVID infliction, with more variants coming on line -- as a formula for curtailing protest and maintaining power.

It analyses the social forces driving this process: the US national security state and its intelligence apparatus, the IT giants spun off from it, and the large media conglomerates that have joined forces to create a comprehensive surveillance system of Orwellian dimensions The production of disease threats is amplified by the Gates Foundation and other public international organizations including the WHO, along with the pharmaceutical industries, foresee unprecedented profit in plans to inoculate the world population with experimental gene therapies sold as vaccines. Ideas on using a pandemic to initiate a worldwide state of siege have matured until the need for collective intervention -- the threat of a new financial meltdown and the need to remove Trump -- prompted global elites to seize the day.

The virus threat may not be an idle one, given the Pentagon's biowarfare infrastructure which for decades has been producing gain-of-function viruses in laboratories the world over, as have a wide range of countries.

The book is the first to offer an extensively documented, comprehensive analysis of all aspects of this real and embellished threat that is already ushering in a global transformation. Yet it ends on a note of hope, arguing that the very IT revolution that enabled the siege holds out the promise of a deepening democracy as the global public surges past the gatekeepers, online and off.

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"Brilliantly researched, impeccably sourced, the story is told in an engaging style and with great analytical acuity. Here is a dire warning against the slide into authoritarianism..." -- WILLIAM I. ROBINSON, Distinguished Prof. of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara

“Kees van der Pijl, an author of distinction, writes that the global ruling class or oligarchy used Covid-19 to seize power by declaring a state of global emergency. He explains that the Information Technology revolution, by creating a global information and communication system, was ushering in a social transformation inimical to the oligarchy’s hegemony over society. In order to stop this transformation, the global elite used lockdowns, mandates, censorship and controlled narratives to seize control over populations... Van der Pijl makes a cogent argument. He shows that the ‘pandemic’ is a political emergency, not a medical one. Its purpose was to suppress populations and transition to an authoritarian state and social structure..." -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

"Derailing these nefarious agendas is without doubt the most urgent task facing humanity today and States of Emergency provides a powerful, thought provoking and critical starting point on the road to awareness and resistance." -- DR. PIERS ROBINSON, Organisation for Propaganda Studies

"This is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order, and to read it closely and with an open mind one can’t help but be convinced of its essential truth... This book should be read by anyone who cares about our world. It is brilliant and extremely timely." --EDWARD CURTIN, author of Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies

"This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but
shake one’s head in outrage at the longplanned nature of the wealthy global elite’s
seizure of power under the guise of a germ
emergency and the revolutionary crisis it has
created... Meticulously sourced and noted, this is a work of genuine scholarship of the highest order." Paradigm Explorer

"While Van der Pijl sailes close to a wind that sober academics might find implausible, or even fantastic, the bibliographic backdrop to this book should pause that immediate response. Similarly, the somewhat immoderate modulations in his prose ought not to give us an excuse to dismiss any unpleasant implications in what turns out to be a sustained analytical expose." JOHN WELSH, Population Studies

About the Author

Kees van der Pijl (1947) taught at the University of Amsterdam and was professor at the University of Sussex, UK, from 2000. He made his name with The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class (1984, reprint 2012) and was awarded with the 2008 Deutscher Prize 2008 for Nomads, Empires, State, Vol. I of a trilogy on Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy (2007-2014). He also wrote novels and edited a number of works, most recently The Militarization of the European Union (2021). His previous monograph, Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War (2018) has been translated into 4 other languages

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Society as we know it―global capitalism with its home base in the West―has entered a revolutionary crisis. After years of preparation, the ruling oligarchy, which today exercises power across the globe, has seized on the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the respiratory disease attributed to it, Covid-19, to declare a global state of emergency in early 2020. This seizure of power is intended to prevent the Information Technology revolution (hereafter: IT revolution), the impact of which can be compared to that of the coming of the printing press at the end of the Middle Ages, from ushering in a democratic transformation.
In 2008 the capitalist speculation machine unleashed twenty years earlier came to a crashing halt. The casino was reopened after a short time with mainly water damage, or so it seemed; yet in the meantime, unprecedented unrest has arisen among the global population. Unlike the eve of World War I, the mass discontent this time has no clear-cut political orientation, as the IT revolution did not bring forth, as the Industrial Revolution had done, an organized revolutionary force such as the socialist labor movement, drawing its power from an industrial working class. With the decline of industrial production in the West, and concomitantly of unions, the unrest that arose after 2008 went in all directions―the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests in France, and so on. Strikes, riots and anti-government demonstrations, as well as mass migration and drug abuse since then have broken all existing records―until the World Health Organization proclaimed the Covid outbeak a pandemic. Governments across the globe swiftly followed by imposing states of emergency, which paradoxically were then tightened as the virus subsided and henceforth followed an obviously political calendar.
This book aims to address and dispel the psychosis of fear into which the world has been plunged. In the process of research and writing, I found that the 'pandemic' is not a simple, one-off fraud, or a grand scheme cooked up by Klaus Schwab, the oracle of Davos, and obediently executed by national governments. Rather, it is a complex, historical crisis, giving rise to a seizure of power by the global ruling class that has been initiated from different starting positions.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarity Press (February 1, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949762483
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949762488
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches

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Hrvoje M.

Hands-Down Absolute Must-Read!!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2022

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One of THE most important books of the year! Kees van der Pijl cuts right to the heart of the matter: the ruling oligarchy has seized on the virus outbreak, having manufactured it essentially, to declare a state of emergency in order to put the brakes on the IT revolution from ushering in democratic transformation, like the printing press did in the Middle Ages. They form an internationalized global state dominated by international capital which has been preparing for economic collapse and 1848-style revolutions. The oligarchy is formed by an Intelligence-IT-Media bloc.

The IT Revolution has given them the ability to evade a physical war against the population via the alternative of permanent surveillance and information warfare. This panopticon is the model for our form of late capitalism, the surveillance society organized and operated by the IT industry.

Another fascinating quote from the book: “shortly after taking office, Kofi Annan signed an agreement with the WEF in Davos linking the UN Secretariat to an electronic communications system, WELCOM, that put him and his staff in direct contact with a number of government leaders and with the directors of the World Bank and other international financial institutions. The UN system was now largely subordinated to the Western bloc and transnational corporations.”

He also discusses “one of the most uncertain factors in the Covid crisis," that of "the relationship between the West, and the United States in particular, and China.”

Do yourself a favor and GET THIS BOOK NOW!

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Tenma13

Solid analysis, Albeit without a the energy component

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2022

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A very well researched book, incomplete without the most important aspect the end of cheap energy that advanced industrial societies need to function. Capital, in and of itself has no intrinsic value as
say a barrel of oil does. Much of the ruling classes wealth is in paper assets anr abstractions, although the shot callers, eg Buffet, have heen transitioning into hard assets at least since 2008. Without the foundational aspect of modern society the book feels significantly incomplete.

One simple example, what are the energy requirements of the panopticon?, and how does that system function, at $100, so $200 a barrel of oil ? Include Natural gas at current prices , etc and quite quickly the system becomes non-viable. Much like the concord transnational flight.

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bossaboy

Brilliant meta-analysis of our collective plight. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022

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A tremendously well researched and argued book. Fascinating that the price went from $28.95 when I ordered my copy a few weeks ago, to today's price of $49.95. A person might be tempted to suspect efforts to suppress this book to prevent it from reaching a wider audience, much as the earlier book by Udo Ulfkotte about CIA influence in media was suppressed.

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Jeff H.

Fantastic eye opener

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2022

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The author did his fact checking. Some speculation based on information at the time. Its a good book and filled with intrigue.

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Dachshund

Great, but even more questioning of assumptions would be greater !

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022

The author does a good job of summarizing a plethora of more or less interconnected events, and relates the pandemic's timeline to the BLM fiasco and the take-down of Trump, which he handles very fairly in my opinion. However I would have liked to have seen a little more skepticism from him about certain historical narratives which have been maintained for nearly a century by those who control publishing and media and which are still used today to oppress the European population. I would suggest that at least in part it is the very breakdown of this repression of the flow of information, courtesy of the uncensored internet, which has precipitated the institution of the new highly flexible yet opaque tyranny under which we now find ourselves.

He is evidently no fan of the British Empire, accusing the selfish British of not interbreeding with native populations as did the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch, and apparently pursuing a policy of 'ethnic cleansing'. That doesn't seem quite right based on my travels through the former Empire, where one finds plenty of mixed-race people and in most places a number of indigenous folk greater than when the British arrived. As we should all know the idea that you wouldn't enslave, dispossess or kill enemies defeated in war is a very modern one which is still oft forgotten. Nevertheless it is arguable that the Anglo-American Empire has been the chief instrument by which the Globalist plan has been largely achieved.

The most disappointing aspect of the book is the final chapter where Van der Pijl outlines his alternative to Globalist tyranny which turns out to be a sort of fully automated luxury communism - a classless society where everyone is an artist profiting from cultural (and presumably racial) diversity. This is pure fantasy and it's not what all those Trump voters ( the second-greatest number ever) were hoping for. They wanted their country and their culture back and there are plenty of others around the world whom I suspect feel exactly the same. Despite what they're telling us none of this craziness is inevitable.

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Reader #1

As important as Kennedy's Dr Fauci book; even more long-range implications

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022

Essential reading about how Covid is being used to create the New Normal. Civil liberties are vanishing. A global elite more powerful than any government is using the pandemic to digitize and control humanity. One of the two most important books of the year, quite readable and written by a European leftist scholar.

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Steve Lewko

Thorough but unengaging writing style

Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2022

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Some great information that pieces together how population control is achieved via the manufacture of emergencies such as pandemics. I found my mind wandering while reading, however, because of the author's dry and unengaging writing style.

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