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States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check Paperback – February 1, 2022
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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.
- Print length348 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherClarity Press
- Publication dateFebruary 1, 2022
- Dimensions6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101949762483
- ISBN-13978-1949762488
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“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
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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
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- Dimensions : 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
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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.”
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Hence, the Covid crisis was a planned public health emergency whose aim was to impose tyranny. As it turns out, public health is a most effective justification to achieve that without having to call it tyranny. Bioterrorism (i.e., the virus is the terrorist) is an ideal threat because it only takes one person to cause a disaster. And, a biological agent cannot provide alternative information to refute an organized opposition.
This also helps to explain why BigPharma played an integral role in the implementation of the panopticon for whereas a smartphone may get lost or be used by others, the human body cannot, and vaccination provides a way into it. This, then, is more than control but neurological remote control. Accordingly, I found Chapter 6, “The ‘Pandemic As Disaster Capitalism” very intriguing because it goes into the pathophysiology of how SARS-CoV-2 was found to cause damage to the frontal lobe of the human brain. The frontal lobe is where a specific form of dementia occurs, which (among other things) leads to automatic obedience.
The final chapter of this book provides much-needed hope because in many ways, the ‘pandemic’ was the great equalizer. It revealed to the global population that the oligarchy’s attempt to seize more power was based on lies. If all people face disempowerment, all will long for freedom. This desire, as the author posits, for a liveable world for everyone suggests that a better world is within reach.
I highly recommend that you read this book, free your mind from ideological tyranny and begin to become an educated, independent thinker who is not consumed by fear but energized by hope. Your hope is that in being fully aware of what happened, you will be protected in what is to come. Evil may sleep for a time, but it never dies; the same monsters who tried this before will soon return.
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.



