Yes Sir No Sir

 

The opening chapter of ‘Dissolving Illusions’ by Dr Suzanne Humphries is called ‘The not so good ol’ days’. In it she describes the squalor and filth of major cities across Europe and America in the 1800s, where open sewers were commonplace and where there was no clean drinking water. Waves of disease swept through the overcrowded and filthy tenements and the death cart was a frequent sight. Her second chapter ‘Suffer Little Children’ points to the use of child labour to support the coal mining operations needed to fuel the industrial revolution. Malnourished children, often under ten, worked long hours in the mines hauling coal carts along narrow passages and carrying hods up ladders between levels. Daylight for the workers was a rare treat. It is widely believed that the saying ‘Yes Sir, No Sir, Three bags full Sir’ originated in these times when a typical target was for a child to fill three hundredweight bags of coal during a shift.

Beginning in the 18^th century ‘Inclosure Acts’ were passed throughout England and Wales that led to the displacement of peasant farmers from the land previously held in common. Thousands left their rural homes in search of employment in the rapidly growing cities. Instead of scratching out an existence in the countryside with fresh vegetables and daylight, they filled slums around the mills and filled their bellies with rotten scraps and sausages of diseased meat. Yes, life for the underclass was brutal and short. Against that backdrop, the slaughter of the Somme seems almost tolerable.

Humphries wants us to understand the appalling conditions afflicting the common man and the miraculous transformation brought about by the building of proper systems of sanitation and water supply. Her description of the early experimentation undertaken into vaccination against smallpox using pus from milkmaids afflicted with cowpox is quite nauseating. One standard method involved taking scabs from several sores, adding water and shaking together. The resulting liquid was then injected into healthy patients as a prophylactic treatment. It was soon realized however that this process actually increased transmission rates and caused shedding of pathogens from those newly inoculated. Pioneer investigators like Jenner are lauded today but their early experiments were far from scientific. Ethical considerations and safety trials were considered, then as now, as an unnecessary inconvenience potentially delaying a ‘cure’.

Arguably the provision of good sanitation and clean water became essential to the masters of the day charged with increasing output during the heady days of the Industrial Revolution. It so disrupts production when your workers die. (Maybe in the future we’ll have ‘mechanical men’ to do the work and vast machines to do the organizing and planning). With these overdue introductions life expectancy increased rapidly, disease epidemics stopped and mortality levels fell naturally. But Jenner and the medical professionals of the day had grown accustomed to the extra money extracted from a terrified population. They needed to claim that it was the effectiveness of their pus potions and the new science of vaccination that had led to the eradication of disease. They pulled it off. Eventually the mantra ‘Safe and Effective’ was so deeply ingrained that the new science was beyond reproach.

Klaus Schwab’s book ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’ (WEF, July 2020, Forum publishing) is truly chilling. In it he sets out his vision for how mankind must change its relationship with the world and the complex ecosystems within it. Covid-19 is presented as a much needed catalyst for this change and talking heads around the world echo his words urging us to seize this opportunity to ‘Build Back Better’. Pass me the bucket – Quickly!

So let’s extrapolate for a moment. What if we could create a new virus to terrorise the world,  destroy our economies, create debt entrapment and lose a few million ‘Useless Eaters’ with a reprise of the ever popular ‘safe and effective’ medical mantra? Perhaps at the same time we could load up these injections with technological goodies that would allow humanity to be catalogued and tracked, controlled and disciplined. Since the mRNA technology would modify us at the genetic level we could then become the property of those clever corporations that so wisely invested in the technology. Well done Klaus, (and Bill) isn’t this what you spoke about in your 2017 book ‘The 4^th Industrial Revolution’? Now in the 21^st century our ‘Sleight of needle’ trick will be much easier to achieve than building waterworks and sewerage systems. Quids-in all round; high five!

Sick for sure, but it is brilliant.

 

The Queen's Gambit

Like many others, I had an occasional watch-fest on Netflix during 2020. Amongst the gratuitous sex and violence famously attributed to James Bond there are some jewels and chess pieces telling a deeper story and inviting us to think. The Queen’s Gambit is surely one of these. 

It contains all the classic elements of The Hero’s Journey – Origin, Conditioning and Learning; Mistrusting and Falling before awakening to Self Realisation. Along the way our heroine, Beth Harmon, has her own ‘Dark Night of The Soul’. It is a journey we all make in our own way. The more seemingly insurmountable the challenge, the greater the achievement. Beyond Bond’s gratuitous behaviour we trust that the good guy will always solve the puzzle in time to save the world.

In an interesting twist on this time-honoured meme, the coronavirus crisis presents a seemingly insurmountable challenge to humanity. This time, instead of dispatching 007 to sort it out, we are called to an awakening of our Oneness so that collectively we can prevail against this peril. It seems that mastery of Spock’s 3-dimensional chess would probably be an asset in being able to thwart this enemy, but in truth the solution may be as simple as the child laughing at the Emperor with no clothes. 

Unusual in a democracy we are living in a time when all our media consumption is carefully controlled so that only one-sided presentations are made by the ‘experts’. Contrary views are censored lest they incite thought or debate and risk harming the innocent. This is nanny-state gone nuts. Even when career professionals like Gupta, Kulldorff and Bhattacharya present the highly credible alternative of ‘Focused Protection’ of vulnerable communities our Secretary of State for Health and Social Care lambasts them at Westminster for daring to speak truth to power. 

But what if the blatant lies were merely a ruse to draw our attention from the several pronged attack that every great chess-player plans? What if Catherine Austin-Fitts has nailed it? She points to the seemingly unrelated 5G installations and Cloud developments by Telecomms companies, the ‘Injections’ being prepared by Big Pharma, Operation Warp Speed being undertaken by the military – (20,000 geostationary satellites for global surveillance), constant propaganda barrage from Mainstream Media and Crypto-Currency developments being introduced by the Bankers to usher in the ‘Cashless Society’. 

Like every Grand Master’s game the trap is set move by move. During 2020 the world walked into it, but the door has not yet closed. Grand Masters know their game and it’s unlikely they could be defeated in a head on encounter. Our best strategy is simply not to play their game. Rather we might ‘row past the rock of the sirens’ as in Homer’s Orpheus story as we follow a sweeter song and choose to create a world of opportunity, love and fairness, rich in culture, freedom and respect. It won’t give the ultimate victory sought by the globalist elites but with a new rulebook the 99% can lead a decent life. We need 3.5 Billion Jane and James Bonds to save us. This is a suspenseful cliffhanger of a world. 

Beth Harmon is a fictional character but chess is a real game; calculating and cold at the top. Never have the stakes been higher. Matt Hancock has been quick to learn the rules of fiction:- ‘Give your lies stupendous proportions and never let the facts get in the way of a good story’.