{"id":53153,"date":"2020-05-10T16:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53153"},"modified":"2020-05-10T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T21:57:08","slug":"this-is-not-a-conspiracy-it-is-a-terrifying-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53153","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/05\/08\/this-is-not-a-conspiracy-it-is-a-terrifying-opportunity\/\">This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2020\/05\/vol-27-no-1-cover-500x631-1.jpg 413w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2020\/05\/vol-27-no-1-cover-500x631-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2020\/05\/vol-27-no-1-cover-500x631-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cTo create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a \u2018thirdworlding of human societies\u2019, representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the terminal empire\u201d.<\/p><p>\u2013 Paul Virilio,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1845203585\/counterpunchmaga\">City of Panic<\/a>, 2005<\/p><p>\u201cThere will be in the next generation or so a method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.\u201d<\/p><p>\u2013 Aldous Huxley, From a speech for the Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every catastrophe and crisis are followed by a litany of conspiracy theories. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved no exception. From tales concerning transmission of some lethal agent through 5G infrastructure, to grand theories concerning a mastermind plot to destabilise the world, the fantastical and the absurd have spread almost as quickly as the virus. While the early culprits ranged from the Bill Gates to the Iranians, George Soros to the Eco-fascists, it\u2019s becoming more and more common to suggest either some orchestrated Chinese plot or a planned pandemic (yes, the Plandemic) to begin a massive vaccination program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plandemonium, along with the alleged death of Kim Jong-un which had socialists the world over speculating about the prospect of a feminine authoritarian (as if Thatcher never walked the earth) aside, Steve Bannon and then even President Trump got in on the act, peddling narratives about a Chinese lab experiment, despite the absence of any evidence and even contradicting his own \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity \u201cTo create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a \u2018thirdworlding of human societies\u2019, representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the terminal empire\u201d. \u2013 Paul Virilio,&nbsp;City of Panic, 2005 \u201cThere will be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[29676,158,855],"class_list":["post-53153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-brad-evans","tag-conspiracy","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53154,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53153\/revisions\/53154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}