Submitted by Steve Brown…
According to Investopedia a Black Swan event “is an unpredictable event that is beyond what is normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence that they were obvious in hindsight.”
In the twentieth century, the financial market crash of 1929 was a black swan event. While Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 is sometimes attributed the same, World War 2 was partly the result of an existential power vacuum subsequent to the Great War and thus an extension of it. 911 looked like such an unpredictable surprise event but the imperial arrogance and hubris that afflicted the West for at least fifty years prior rendered the potential for 911 Blowback predictable and foretold.*
The “Great Recession” of 2008-2009 was spawned with reckless abandon by corrupt banks criminally endorsed by Congressional legislation. Pillars of financial debauchery like Goldman Sachs were shorting their own subprime products anticipating the crash. Based on such engineered systemic financial fraud the crash of ten years ago does not qualify as a black swan event.
Except for the financial collapse of 1929, all the foregoing resulted in some immediate plan of action to confront the particular crisis. This time the magnitude is exponentially greater when authorities have scant idea about how to respond and media scare tactics rule the day. The result is to place the global economy in a self-induced coma. Searching for answers, the New World Order has none.
The great philosophers Epictetus, Socrates, and Aristotle viewed logic and science as the foundation for civilization in opposition to irrational belief systems, superstition, and religion. The great philosophers believed that learning from humanity’s past mistakes and anticipating future events – with intent to avoid mistakes of the past — would greatly advance prospects for civilized societies. One highly advanced civilization of the ancient world, the Etruscans, considered past cycles as indicative of future events.
Recognizing a singular relationship in years with regard to life and death, Etruscans defined their theory of Saeculum. Saeculum posited that major cataclysmic events engendered by humans will follow a pattern of ninety-year cycles. So, people living through a catastrophe in one age will have fully died out by the next. For example we have the crash of 1929 and the advent of Covid-19 in 2019…. precisely ninety years apart.
The Etruscan’s 90-year black swan cycle may be a bizarre coincidence, but defining COVID19 as such an event helps when confronting its ramifications. We previously identified a unique confluence of geopolitical events threatening the western-led Warfare State. And now a severe global health crisis – which promises to shut down the world economy — leverages this geopolitical mix to an even greater extent. So, in what context may this current COVID cataclysm be viewed?
Putting aside the health factor for one moment this pandemic provides enormous cover for the far less than one percent along very broad lines:
- Financial
- Military
- Socially
- Politically
Essentially the political class now has carte blanche for:
- Government bail-outs
- Corporate bail-outs
- Wall Street bail-outs
- Control of a growing restive populace
- Suppression of individual liberty
- Increased militarization / powers for law enforcement
- Political cover
As in 911, the Empire’s excuse is fear. Perhaps not duct tape this time. But if Elites view this pandemic as an opportunity for draconian population control then the policy carries incredible risk… and not just for the people. Should this disease ease and the controls remain, an already highly stressed populace may lash out. Note that in the financial sector some passive investment firms have already failed. If oil markets cannot be stabilized then the world economy is at risk.
Meanwhile, it’s likely that $1200 monthly payments to the US populace will keep folks quiet. But what if the Fed, International Monetary Fund, and Bank of International Settlements can’t pay for the ponzi? Perhaps China will bail – indications are that China already has. China is swapping for dollars, but not purchasing US Treasury debt. That’s a big problem and a Big Risk for the US money masters.
Now there is no intent to make light of the serious health hazard posed by COVID19. Or to disrespect anyone who has become ill or died from the disease. COVID19 is a deadly and serious illness. Of that there is no doubt. The intent here is to heighten awareness that there may be a bigger picture for the too big to jail to exploit. That picture is of a teetering New World Order mired in its own criminal system of usury and theft which hopes for a way out of the pickle it created (since 2009) at the expense of working people. It’s just possible that those who wish to enslave us will attempt to do so using the prospect of their own demise to create an environment of escalating fear.
As this author has written for many years, when this system fails it will fail by its own hand and not by any fifth column or external enemy. Until then, Elites may yet accomplish what Huxley and Orwell could not quite agree upon: that their vision of the future might ultimately coalesce and coexist. So will this monetary system fail? Probably not. But if the pain is deep enough, it must reinvent itself.
Contrarily, in this crisis the law of unintended consequences may yet backfire on Elites. For now, they seem very confident. But any hole in the COVID major media narrative or tear in the Elite’s agitprop universe will be carefully examined and amplified. If a COVID-analogous ‘Building 7’ scenario arises it will not be ignored this time. That’s because we’ve known for far more than twenty years that those who rule us in the west are largely debauched liars, perverts, and thieves. Under their control, we should expect nothing less.
*John O’Neill’s career history and death is a remarkable indictment of all US intelligence services.
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