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Jacque Attali in 2009: Hopefully, A Pandemic Will Bring About World Government

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Alex Jones cites a supposed quote from Jacques Attali.

A number of social and print media outlets are running with the same quote.

Poynter says the text that social media cites is fraudulent or a wild misinterpretation.  Now I accept that social media might be running disinformation on this, but I am pretty much 100 percent sure that Poynter is.

The text is from a book that is now unavailable and out of print so we have to take the word of third parties who claim to have copies of it.

As for Attali, as he is a plagiarist and liar, I am not really interested in anything he has to say.

I found this, via Poynter, from Attali’s  blog in l’Expres in 2009.

History teaches us that humanity only evolves significantly when it is really afraid: it then first sets up defense mechanisms; sometimes intolerable (scapegoats and totalitarianisms); sometimes futile (distraction); sometimes effective (therapeutics, discarding if necessary all previous moral principles). Then, once the crisis is over, it transforms these mechanisms to make them compatible with individual freedom, and to inscribe them in a democratic health policy.

The pandemic that is beginning could trigger one of these structuring fears.

If it is not more serious than the two previous fears linked to a risk of pandemic (the mad cow crisis of 2001 in Great Britain and the bird flu crisis of 2003 in China), it will first have significant economic consequences (fall in air transport, fall in tourism and the price of oil); it will cost about 2 million dollars per contaminated person and will make the stock markets fall by about 15%; its impact will be very brief (China’s growth rate fell only in the second quarter of 2003, only to explode in the third quarter); it will also have organizational consequences (in 2003, very rigorous police measures were taken throughout Asia; the World Health Organization set up global alert procedures; and some countries, particularly France and Japan, stockpiled considerable quantities of drugs and masks).

If it is a little more serious, which is possible, since it is transmissible by humans, it will have truly planetary consequences: economic ( models suggest that it could lead to a loss of 3 trillion dollars, that is to say a drop of 5% of the world’s GDP) and political ( because of the risks of contagion, the countries of the North will have an interest in the countries of the South not being sick and they will have to ensure that the poorest have access to the medicines that are currently stocked only for the richest); a major pandemic will then bring out, better than any humanitarian or ecological discourse, the awareness of the need for altruism, which is, at the very least, self-serving.

And, even if, as we must obviously hope, this crisis is not very serious, we must not forget, as with the economic crisis, to draw lessons from it, so that before the next, inevitable one, prevention and control mechanisms and logistical processes for the equitable distribution of medicines and vaccines are put in place. To do this, we will have to set up a world police force, a world stockpile and therefore a world tax system. We will then come, much more quickly than would have been possible on economic grounds alone, to set up the foundations of a true world government. It was through the hospital that the establishment of a real state began in France in the 17th century.

In the meantime, we could at least hope for the implementation of a real European policy on the subject. But here again, as on so many other subjects, Brussels is silent.

j@attali.com

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

I also ran into this explanation from dailyhunt.in:

Attali, a former adviser to late French president François Mitterrand, has written numerous books. However, none of them were called “The Future of Life”.

“Future Life”, published in 1981 in French as “L’Avenir du Futur” and later translated into English, was written by Michel Salomon and features an interview with Attali in which he answers the question “Is it possible and desirable to live 120 years?”

The book’s publisher, Seghers, sent AFP a copy of the passage in which Attali is quoted.


Excerpt featuring Attali’s interview in the original French version of “Future Life”

At one point in the interview, Attali says: “...as soon as a person gets to be older than sixty or sixty-five, and his productivity and profitability begin to slip, he costs society dearly.” And later: “Actually, from the viewpoint of the cost to society, it is much preferable that the human machine abruptly stop functioning than that it deteriorate very gradually.”

Which is considerably more sinister than the article that Poynter pulled up, which obscures Attali’s real position.

Racist Western Elites In Denial That Russia Has Military Superiority

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Andrei Martyanov:

 It is really an old truism, when your sparring partners are 7-year old kids from the sand-box you are bound to lose qualifications and skills. When it is aggravated by the blind and illiterate geopolitical planning and doctrine-mongering–it becomes a recipe for the loss of situational awareness and a disaster. The United States may not have produced world-class strategists with the exception of Mahan, but operationally, come on–everyone uses Boyd’s OODA Loop, Net- Centric Warfare is a routine today in Russian Armed Forces, so why such a catastrophic failure to learn from themselves, forget about learning it from those who defeated time after time best fighting forces in history? 

The answer is clear as a day: Wehrmacht couldn’t conceive that Slavic subhumans can produce T-34 and excellent fighter-planes, not to speak of a superb artillery. They also miscalculated with the level of education and adaptability of the Red Army, and in terms of Soviet industry. The US repeats here Nazi Germany’s path–US “elites” are afflicted by the genocidal, racial hatred towards Russians and they cannot conceive, especially through the “labor” of Soviet and Russian dissidents who sold BS about USSR and Russia for decades, that the US simply doesn’t know or understand Russia. That what it “knows” about her and her people is a complete bunk conceived in the dark recesses of ideological imperatives of the Cold War 1.0. “

EMPIRE OF LIES: Some Nazis More Equal Than Others Says ADL

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This is official and has the Anti-Defamation League’s stamp on it.

[A very big h/t to  LRC for this one.]

In an article titled, “Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of Nazis?” the ADL interviewed David Fishman, professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary, to explain why Ukraine’s neo-Nazis aren’t so bad.

“There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the U.S., and in Russia for that matter. But they are a very marginal group with no political influence and who don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine,” Fishman said.

It seems some Nazis are better than others.

And wearing the Swastika and carrying SS paraphernalia is apparently fine, so long as you don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions. And so long as Israeli billionaires are financing your Nazism.

That’s right. Absolutely the only thing wrong with the Nazis, according to the ADL, is that they persecuted Jews and Jewish institutions.

Now, I don’t in any way downplay or minimize that genocide…but the holocaust was not the only crime committed by the Nazis.

Has the ADL forgotten the disabled and elderly people the Nazis killed?

Or the culling of untermenschen such as political dissidents and “inferior” races.

What about Lebensborn, their breeding experiments that turned women into brood-mares and entailed the kidnapping and execution of infants?

What about medical experimentation on people in concentration camps?

Are we supposed to forget the racially-motivated  murder of Roma people and Slavs?

Is there nothing wrong in the supremacist  adoration of the Nordic or Aryan type and the creation of a whole false history and science of racial hierarchy to validate it?

What about the persecution of homosexuals?

What about leading the German people down the path to the destruction of the entire country?

To the death of a generation of young men, the rape of millions of women, the dismantling of the economy, the destruction of  their cultural heritage, the monumental reparations they had to pay, and the shame and humiliation they  bore for generations.

If people are allowed to rehabilitate Nazi symbols as long as they stick to less powerful victims,  would the ADL also argue that Southerners can dress up in hoods and burn crosses, just so long as they only frighten swarthy immigrants without political clout, but not American blacks?

 

Senile Puppet Biden Pouring Oil On Ukraine Fire

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So useful to have as president an elderly man in dire need of cognitive rehabilitation. Whenever Biden manages to get his tongue around his handlers’ more incendiary prompts and there is an outcry,  it can be explained away and the public can blame it on the president’s failing brain.

There is no brain failure in these verbal bombs someone’s feeding the president.

They are deliberate provocations.

The world is on the brink of nuclear war over a NATO proxy state in eastern Europe and the only way out is for NATO to back off and give Russia a reason to negotiate.

Instead, the slavering wolves driving this war throw their heads back and bay louder, escalating tension and making the possibility of an accident or a paranoid  reaction even greater.

March 17: Biden calls Putin a “war criminal.”

March 18: Biden calls Putin a “murderous dictator,” a “pure thug.”

March 23: Biden claims that Russia is planning a chemical attack.

The claim is contradicted by US intelligence and is a diversion from the official confirmation of US biological labs in Ukraine.

The Grayzone has deconstructed the British psyops operative, who has resurfaced from the Syrian war to make the same inflammatory and conjectural accusations in Ukraine.

March 25: Biden tells US troops in Poland that they will be in Ukraine.

March 26:  Biden calls Putin a “butcher.”

March 26: Biden says Putin “cannot remain in power.”

 

Russian Stooge Checklist From Friendly Neighborhood Thought-Police

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Came across this checklist on a site called Propornot, which purports to identify Russian disinformation sites.

Apparently that label fits a whole swathe of  dissident blogs/sites that are generally against the endless printing of money, against banker crimes and corruption, and against war without end:

3) Check to see whether the social-media account/commenter/outlet has a history of generally echoing the Russian propaganda “line” by using themes, arguments, talking points, images, and other content similar to those used by obvious Russian propaganda outlets. These themes include:

  • How wonderful, powerful, innocent, and righteous Russia and Russia’s friends are: Putin, Donald Trump, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Iran, China, radical political parties in the US and Europe, etc. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “russia”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com russia”, and seeing what comes up.
  • How terrible, weak, aggressive, and corrupt the the opponents of Russia and their friends are: The US, Obama, Hillary Clinton, the EU, Angela Merkel, NATO, Ukraine, Jewish people, US allies, the “mainstream media”, and democrats, the center-right or center-left, and moderates of all stripes. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “NATO”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com NATO” and seeing what comes up.
  • An obvious bias towards Russia and Russian-backed policy in foreign affairs, including:
    • How fantastic Brexit and Ukrainian/Georgian separatism is, but how terrible Chechen separatists are,
    • How advanced Russian technology is, and how dangerous Western technology is,
    • How great it is when Western secrets get exposed, but how terrible it is when Russian ones do,
    • How militarily powerful Russia and their friends are, and how weak and craven Russia’s enemies and their friends are, etc.
  • How dangerous standing up to Russia would be: It would inevitably result in “World War 3”, nuclear devastation, etc, and regardless of who shot first or is bombing civilians where now, would be the West’s fault. Russian propaganda never suggests it would just result in a Cold War 2 and Russia’s eventual peaceful defeat, like the last time.
  • Pre-emptive discouragement of critical analysis: Assertions about them “having the truth”, or the need to “wake up the sheeple”, or how the “mainstream media” can’t be trusted.
  • Hyperbolic alarmism, anti-Western conspiracist insinuations, “Eurasianism”, racism, gold-standard nuttery and attacks on the US dollar, 9/11-trutherism, anti-Semitism, anti-“globalism”, anti-vax/anti-GMO paranoia, and generally ridiculous over-the-top assertions, which cites Russian propaganda outlets as “evidence”.

Really?That’s quite a lot of dissenting opinion to fit into one tent.

If I don’t like GMO foods that’s a RUSSIAN position?

Anti-globalism is RUSSIAN?

9/11 research is RUSSIAN?

The gold standard is RUSSIAN?

Look, bring back the Elders of ADL please. They were easy to figure out.

This is too, but in case it isn’t, here’s my totally free public service announcement:

Say your world-wide conspiracy to implement a totalitarian dictatorship using the pretext of a global pandemic ran into strong headwinds when everyone figured out who EXACTLY was pulling that scam by tracing their ideological, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, their business relationships and networks.….and  found they were NOT lizards….

Say the unwashed masses opened their eyes and said, yes, Virginia, there is a New World Order and it’s run by elite secret societies, Jewish banking families, Jesuits, European aristocrats, Nazis, Zionists, Fascists, and Communists who maybe were always the same thing, only we got fooled by the language….

THEN MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, it makes sense to switch our language around.

I mean, think about it.

If you keep shouting ANTI-SEMITE! at everyone, the proles start asking what’s a Semite? and next thing you know people are googling Khazaria, checking out mitochondrial DNA research, and liking Klaus Schwab threads on Twitter.

… Instead, what if the powers-that-be backed up and changed the binary to WEST versus RUSSIA?

That is, amazingly, the same switch that Big Bad Vlad pulled off in Russia, substituting a traditional anti-Western discourse for pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist anti-Semitism, to pull Russians together.

You’d think that would earn him some brownie points from our overlords.

But apparently not.

 

“Russian Disinformation” Is The New “Racism”

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Revolver News [h/t LRC] explains why, with the refusal of the media establishment to admit that it blatantly and concertedly lied about the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop and dismissed it as Russian propaganda,  the “Russian disinformation” label has replaced “racism” or “sexism” as the state-of-the-art term in cancel culture…

Why? Revolver argues it is because national security is a reason that allows the harshest repressive measures.

Well, that has always been true.

Some twenty years ago, political dissidents or even just free-thinkers were labeled “domestic terrorists,” a label which also invoked national security.  Then there was the War on Terror and dissidents got called “Jihadis” or “Islamofascists”.

So  the “Russian disinfo” label is NOT some new line being crossed. It’s the same old tired ploy….and actually not nearly as effective as “public health hazard” which can get you into quarantine camp, have you forcibly injected with poisons, and hospitalized against your will. I’ll take jail over that.

Anyway, Revolver recommends the following:

[with my comments on each recommendation below]

1. Never believe the “disinformation” scam ever again, for any reason. The intelligence services have entirely forfeited any and all public trust on this topic. At this very moment, hundreds of Republican lawmakers, pundits, and D.C. creatures are being herded like cattle into supporting greater censorship of Russia, China, or anyone “supporting” them. This is a grievous blunder. Indeed, lower-level establishment flunkies and stooges will only have themselves to blame when these new powers are turned back against them. Of course, the ability to wield these tools like a weapon over a cowed populace is exactly the real purpose of expanding such powers in the first place.

[Lila: Now, hmmmm.  Whom would that help? Never is too strong. Do you mean to say no other country or power will ever utilize disinformation against us?  What if the WEF or the EU employs disinformation, may we say so? Baby, bathwater, etc.]

2. Take the news out of the press’ hands. In hindsight, it was clearly a mistake for Rudy Giuliani to try and carefully release the laptop’s contents through press outlets. The story trickled out too slowly, and it was too easy for the press and Big Tech to unite in simply shutting out the New York Post entirely. If the laptop’s entire contents had simply been uploaded online for anybody to read, a la Wikileaks, suppressing the story would have been much harder, verging on impossible.

[Lila: And if you do upload it online, who do you suppose allows visibility on the net? The material could lie there and not be read by anyone. Actually,  a couple of videos of Hunter were uploaded online and that’s where I saw them. That doesn’t seem to have made a difference. The point is the general public still assesses the credibility of information based on who puts it out: how credentialed or well-regarded or prestigious, not on the merits. Wikileaks itself was initially promoted via a massive concerted effort of all the major media organs….just search Wikileaks on this blog.]

3. Defund the intelligence state. America’s intelligence agencies have essentially gone rogue. They spied on the Trump campaign in 2016 and sabotaged President Trump internally from 2017 onward. They constantly deliver preposterous lies in the guise of “expertise”, which is then used to justify mass censorship and the stripping of Americans’ rights. Oh, and they’re the same group behind warrantless espionage and the Iraq War and so much else. The intelligence agencies have become one of the chief impediments to American liberty, and they have declared American nationalists, populists, and conservatives a de facto enemy class. Breaking the power of these agencies should be the primary political goal of all decent Americans in the years to come. A good blueprint for a future Republican presidency? Declassify everything, so agencies can no longer conceal their blunders, lies, and outright crimes under the cloak of “national security.”

[Lila: Now, this I can fully endorse. Knowing the past is the best way to handle the future.]

Elite Witchcraft-Tool J. K. Rowling Side-Steps Vlad’s Bear Hug

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J.K. Rowling, the overhyped author of the block-buster witchcraft-made-wholesome-for-your-kids Harry Potter series, which I have never read and never intend to, based on the TV scenes I’ve occasionally had to sit through, decides that she doesn’t want Putin in her fan club.

All to the good.

Putin’s need to show he is a good liberal and Judeophile at all times needs a little ribbing.

Look, he wouldn’t be anywhere near where he is if he really were the anti-Semitic Stalinist thug the West makes him out to be. That propaganda is strictly for idiots.

Putin, like Trump, would not have come to power if he had not made his deals with the Zionist/Jewish elites that rule us.

That’s a cold fact. Whether he establishes his own power center and a viable cultural and economic alternative to the current world order is the issue.

That he is beholden to that order was probably never in serious doubt.

West’s Hybrid War On Ethiopia Via WHO/UN Agencies Intended To Contain China, Russia

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Andrew Korybko, an American analyst in Moscow, describes the role of the West in destabilizing Ethiopia by uncritically supporting the Tigre Rebels [TPLF] – a former leader of which is the current WHO chief and Gates/Clinton Foundation front Tedros, who has promoted the Tigre rebels even while in office .

Selectively focusing on one humanitarian crisis in the area while ignoring others preceding it for strategic and political reasons is the same modus operandi the West has used  in  Ukraine.

Ethiopia has come under unprecedented pressure from the U.S. ever since it commenced a military operation in its northern Tigray Region last November. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered the armed forces to respond to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which used to be the most powerful faction of the former ruling party, after it attacked a military barracks. Addis Ababa now officially considers the TPLF to be a terrorist group. It fell out with PM Abiy after initially facilitating his rise to power as a result of disagreements over his fast-moving socio-political reforms……..

….The U.S. and its allies claim that Ethiopia is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, which Addis Ababa, of course, denies. This set the basis upon which the U.S. began to sanction the country. The first sanctions were imposed in late May to target Ethiopian officials as well as some of their Eritrean allies who, the U.S. claimed, were supporting them in their military campaign. The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) pulled out of Tigray a month later in June, claiming that this unilateral move would facilitate the international community’s relief efforts in the war-torn region that had attracted so much global attention.

The conflict did not end, however, but actually expanded. The TPLF felt emboldened to invade the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, parts of which it continues to occupy. Addis Ababa suspected that the group was receiving various equipment and other forms of support under the cover of UN aid shipments. It also accused the TPLF of manipulating international perceptions about the region’s humanitarian crisis in order to generate more support and increase pressure on the Ethiopian government. PM Abiy published an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden last month, urging him to reconsider his country’s policy towards the conflict…….

This American hybrid war on Ethiopia is waged in various ways that deserve further study. They closely resemble the American hybrid war on Syria in the sense that the U.S. is using humanitarian pretexts to justify meddling in the country’s internal affairs. Its motivations to backstab its regional ally are entirely self-interested and zero-sum. The U.S. is uncomfortable with PM Abiy’s geopolitical balancing between Washington and Beijing. Although the former TPLF-led government was also close to China, the U.S. likely expected PM Abiy to distance Ethiopia from it, considering the pressure that Washington exerts upon its partners to do so…….

This leads to the next motivation for the American Hybrid War on Ethiopia, which is to return the TPLF to power there, if not in a national capacity, then at least in its home region….

…..The U.S. “humanitarian imperialism”, as one can now call its policy against Ethiopia, is very pernicious. It focuses solely on the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray Region while ignoring the ones that the TPLF caused in the neighboring Afar and Amhara regions. This policy also manipulates perceptions about the situation in Tigray in order to delegitimize PM Abiy, the ENDF and the political cause of national unity that they are fighting for. The purpose is to encourage more members of the international community to pressure Ethiopia to the point where it finally feels compelled to politically capitulate. This policy, however, has proven to be counterproductive.”

From Andalou Agency.com:

“The Tigray conflict has motivated the West to exert pressure and thereby control Ethiopia that aspires and have been pursuing an independent foreign policy,” he said.

He said the US and Europe are concerned about the growing influence of China and that looks like the reason behind pressuring Ethiopia.

“Chinese direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia had reached US$4 billion and bilateral trade had grown to $5.4 billion,” he added.

At the UNSC, Beijing vetoed the US and European resolution aimed at sanctioning and condemning Ethiopia over the Tigray crisis.

He said both countries (China and Ethiopia) were well aware of the motive and have been now upgrading their political relations by conducting a higher-level political meeting.

“The pressure is pushing Ethiopia to find trustworthy friends in the form of China, Russia, and other developing nations. Africa must embrace the new world order and resist humiliating western demands,” said Wuhibegzer.”

 

WWW III Alert: NATO Activates Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defenses

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From Global News

NATO has activated its “chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence elements” amid fears Russia could launch a biological strike in Ukraine.

Following an emergency summit of the military alliance on Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels the decision comes as the allies move to equip Ukraine with its own biological defences.

“Our top military commander … has activated NATO’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence elements,” he said.

“And allies are deploying additional chemical and biological and nuclear defences to reinforce our existing and new battlegroups, so we are taking measures both to support Ukraine and also to defend ourselves.”